The Seventies Danny Baker Rocks... A Bit

Welcome to the '70s.

To British rock and a collection of phenomenal performances.

You know, it's tricky doing music compilation shows these days,

because, well, thanks a lot, YouTube.

But we've tried to be nimble and surprising,

and the next half hour is really not bad.

How's that for selling it?

First up, the mighty Who and Join Together.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg - son of Orson Welles, you know -

had directed the band on Ready Steady Go!

and it seems it was this anarchic spirit he wanted to recapture

when the cameras rolled at London Weekend Television

one Sunday afternoon in June, 1972.

# When you hear the sound a-comin'

# Hear the drums drumming

# I wanted to join together with the band

# We don't move in any particular direction

# And we don't make no collections

# I want you to join together with the band

# Do you really think I care

# What you read or what you wear?

# I wanted to join together with the band

# There's a million ways to laugh

# And every one's a path

# Come on and join together with the band

# Everybody join together

# I want you to join together

# Come on and join together with the band

# We need you to join together

# Come on and join together

# Come on and join together with the band

# You don't have to play

# You can follow or lead the way

# I want you to join together with the band

# We don't know where we're going

# But the season's right for knowing

# I want you to join together with the band

# It's the singer, not the song

# That makes the music move along

# I want you to join together with the band

# This is the biggest band you'll find

# It's as deep as it is wide

# Come on and join together with the band

-# Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

-Join together

# Everybody come on and join

# Join together with the band

# We need you to join together

-# Everybody come on

-Join together

# Hey, hey, hey Join together with the band... #

And those are the studios, viewers, where they now film the X Factor.

When Brian Eno left Roxy Music in 1973,

he apparently enjoyed a brief career as a pop star.

Now, there was no film evidence of this,

so it was widely believed that Brian had just, well, made that up.

But we have now tracked down a clip of him on the Dutch

television show TopPop, which has never been shown on TV here before.

And yeah, there's Brian -

real name, of course, Edson Arantes do Nascimento Pele Phil Manzanera -

slightly self-consciously miming to his Scandipop hitlet,

the Seven Deadly Finns.

# Oh, the French girls with the strings of pearls

# Think it's such a burning shame

# That the local boys with their country joys

# Never make them daisy chains

# They're swapping disappointing incidents

# While at the docks another ship pulls in

-# And suddenly the door breaks down

-Ooh, la, la

# It's the seven deadly Finns

# Oh, oh, oh, soldiers and sailors

# Have all been here before

# Gigolos and governments

# Have tumbled through that door

# Because they need those French girls with all their kiss curls

# And powder in their guns

# And the seven Finns with their deadly grins

# Tend to measure beauty in tuns

# The first is a freak with a masochistic streak

# And the second is a kitten up a tree

# The third is a flirt with an awful print skirt

# And the fourth is pretending to be me

# The fifth wears a mac and never turns his back

# And the sixth never shows his eyes

# But the seventh deadly Finn is so tall and slim

# He should've never been with those guys

# Although variety's the spice of life

# A steady rhythm is the source

# Simplicity's the crucial thing

# Systemically of course

# So when those French girls say to you, would you like your ashes piped?

# You'll have to take their word for it

# It's the only thing to take

# Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh Oh-oh, oh-oh...

HE YODELS

# Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh Oh-oh, oh-oh... #

HE YODELS

And for those of you who enjoy preposterous European pop shows,

stay tuned for our show on the '80s.

Kate Bush only ever toured once and that was in 1979.

There then emerged all kinds of theories as to why

she never wanted to do it again. However, anyone who has ever

smelled a tour bus on its second week will totally understand.

But just to prove it did actually happen, here she is, live,

at the reeking old Hammersmith Odeon.

-# Rolling the ball

-Rolling

-# Rolling the ball

-Rolling

# Rolling the ball to me

-# Rolling the ball

-Rolling

-# Rolling the ball

-Rolling

# Rolling the ball to me

# They arrived at an inconvenient time

# I was hiding in a room in my mind

# They made me look at myself

# I saw it well

# I'd shut the people out of my life

# So now I take the opportunities

# Wonderful teachers ready to teach me

# I must work on my mind

# For now I realise

# Everyone of us has a heaven inside

# Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot

# Them heavy people help me

# Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot

-# Rolling the ball

-Rolling

-# Rolling the ball

-Rolling

# Rolling the ball to me

-# Rolling the ball

-Rolling

-# Rolling the ball

-Rolling

# Rolling the ball to me

# They open doorways that I thought were shut for good

# They read me Gurdjieff and Jesu

# They build up my body Break me emotionally

# It's nearly killing me but what a lovely feeling

# I love the whirling of the dervishes

# I love the beauty of their innocence

# Don't need no crystal ball Don't fall for a magic wand

# We humans got it all We perform the miracles

# Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot

# Them heavy people help me

# Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot

# Rolling the, rolling the Rolling the, rolling the

# Heavy people hit me in a soft spot

# Them heavy people help me

# Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot

# Rolling the, rolling the Ro-oh-oh-oh

# Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot

# Them heavy people help me

# Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot

Rolling the, rolling the Ro-oh-oh-oh

# Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot

# Them heavy people help me

# Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot

# Rolling the, rolling the Ro-oh-oh-oh

# Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot

# Them heavy people hit me help me

# Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot

-# Rolling the ball

-Rolling

-# Rolling in the ball

-Rolling

# Rolling the ball to me

-# Rolling the ball

-Rolling

# Rolling the ball... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Technical note -

the pioneering hands-free wireless mic seen there was specially made

for Kate by her engineer from an old wire coat hanger.

This is Genesis's fabulous Selling England By The Pound album -

their best record.

As you can see from the cover illustration,

lawn mowers loom large.

The key song being, of course, I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe).

The mower was actually added to the existing painting only after

that song was written.

Filmed at Shepperton Studios in '73,

here's Peter Gabriel a heartbeat away from embracing world music

but here content to be mucking about in the old West Country sod.

And now we're going to take you a little further westward,

agriculturally speaking.

To where the sweet smell of freshly mown grass pervades

our hairy nostrils.

APPLAUSE

It's knocking-off time for the cosmic lawn mower.

It's one o'clock. Time for lunch.

Dum-dee-dum, dee-day.

When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench,

I can always hear them talk.

# There's always been Ethel

# Jacob, wake up! You've got to tidy your room now

# And then Mr Lewis

# Isn't it time that he was out on his own?

# Over the garden wall, two little lovebirds coo-coo to you!

# Keep them mowing blades sharp

# I know what I like

# And I like what I know

# Getting better in your wardrobe

# Stepping one beyond your show

# The show

# Na-na-na, na, na, na, na

# Na-na-na, na, na, na

# Na-na-na, na, na, na, na

# Na-na-na, na, na, na

# Sunday night, Mr Farmer called

# Said, "Listen, son You're wasting time

# "There's a future for you

# "In the fire escape trade

# "Come up to town!"

# But I remembered a voice from the past

# "Gambling only pays when you're winning"

# I had to thank old Miss Mort for schooling a failure

# Keep them mowing blades sharp

# I know what I like

# And I like what I know

# Getting better in your wardrobe

# Stepping one beyond your show

# Na, na-na, na, na-na-na-na

# Yeah!

# I know what I like

# And I like what I know

# Getting better in your wardrobe

# Stepping one beyond the show

# When the sun beats down

# And I lie on the bench

# I can always hear them talk

# Me, I'm just a lawn mower

# You can tell me by the way I walk... #

PLAYS FLUTE OUTRO

You know, now I'm thinking about

other gardening implements in rock music.

I don't think there are any.

Oh, not hose. Come on, we're better than that.

I'm not going to let this show pass without Vivian Stanshall.

For a while, he truly was the greatest living Englishman,

his life one long denial of the norm.

His records were great, but his life was greater.

So here, then, just the briefest snapshot of a magnificent existence

played out for pleasure alone.

What about the pop scene today -

do you find them rather dull, or exciting,

the tricks they get up to?

You seem to be much more original

than the sort of things that one sees on the television nowadays.

Um, I think it's...

I think it is to a formula, if you...

They're all predictable?

Mmm. Yes.

INSTRUMENT NOTES SCREECH

I really didn't mean to be quite that brutal and bonzo dogmatic.

And I don't think Radio 1 would be quite as wonderful

if it sounded like this.

INSTRUMENT NOTES CONTINUE TO SCREECH

Mark you, groovers and poopers -

if I put it out through a synthesiser,

send it at 5,000 watts with a bit of bass

and "bup bup shewaddy",

sequins optional, well...?

Hello. This is my workshop.

This is an Edwardian parlour instrument

called the phonofiddle, or strohviol.

In the hands of an accomplished performer such as myself,

you can hear that it has an almost mellifluous voice-like quality.

Very exciting.

Part of the reason I went to see Michael Lynch last Wednesday...

Get down, nostril. ..was to pick up this.

It's a ukelele in the shape of a flying duck.

I haven't yet painted it. It's just got the primer down there.

I can't play you any of that, because the strings are still stretching.

It sounds dreadful.

I was trying to get one in the shape of a flying Peter Scott,

but unfortunately, that proved too difficult to make.

Good idea, though.

Another interesting instrument here.

I don't know what this is called, but it's got priapic overtones.

It sounds divine.

OFFKEY NOTES

Sends a shiver down the spine, doesn't it?

Viv Stanshall.

Afterlife, aftershave - he didn't hold with any of them.

Oddly enough, Stanshall once recorded with our next turns,

The Dammed.

But here, Dave, Rat, Brian and the Captain

are performing what is held to be the first UK punk single

ever to be released -

that soothing melody divine, New Rose.

Is she really going out with him?

DRUM INTRO

Uh!

# I gotta a feelin' inside of me

# It's kinda strange Like a stormy sea

# I don't know why, I don't know why

# I guess these things have gotta be

# I got a new rose

# I got her good

# Guess I knew that I always would

# I can't stop to mess around

# Like a brand-new rose in town

# See the sun, see the sun, it shines

# Don't get too close or it'll burn your eyes

# Don't you run away that way

# You can come back another day

# I got a new rose I got her good

# Guess I knew that I always would

# I can't stop to mess around

# Like a brand-new rose in town

# I never thought this could happen to me

# I feel so strange

# Why should it be?

# I don't deserve somebody this great

# Ohhh

# I'd better go

# Or it'll be too late

# Ah!

No!

# Ahhh, I gotta a feelin' inside of me

# It's kinda strange Like a stormy sea

# I don't know why, I don't know why

# I guess these things have gotta be

# I got a new rose

# I got her good

# Guess I knew that I always would

# I can't stop to mess around

# Like a brand-new rose in town

# No, no, no! #

Wow. Are you watching, Simon Cowell?

Are you watching, Simon Cowell?

New Rose was produced by Nick Lowe,

a man now happily restored to junior status after years of hiding,

producing hits for others, such as Elvis Costello,

The Pretenders, Dr Feelgood.

He was, of course, briefly toppermost of the poppermost himself,

with hits like I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass.

And here it is, backed by Graham Parker's Rumour on Top Of The Pops.

# I love the sound of breaking glass

# Especially when I'm lonely

# I need the noises of destruction

# When there's nothing new

# Ohhh, nothing new

# Sound of breaking glass

# I love the sound of breaking glass

# Deep into the night

# I love the sound of its condition

# Flyin' all around

# Oh, all around

# Sound of breaking glass

# Nothin' new

# Sound of breaking glass... #

PIANO SOLO

# Oh, all around

# Sound of breaking glass

# Nothin' new

# Sound of breaking glass

# Safe at last

# Sound of breaking glass

# I love the sound of breaking glass

# Deep into the night

# I love the work only it can do

# Oh, a change of mind

# Oh, change of mind

# Sound of breaking glass

# All around Sound of breaking glass

# Nothin' new Sound of breaking glass

# Breaking glass Sound of breaking glass

# Sound of breaking glass

# Sound of breaking glass

# Sound of breaking glass

# Sound of breaking glass. #

Nick Lowe, whose last five albums, at least, represent for me

the greatest unbroken run of magnificence

since Stevie Wonder's heyday -

although I still have a huge soft spot

for when he used to be an out-and-out rocker,

you know...

# I knew the bride Da-da, da-da-da-da. #

And the other one, the hit. Oh!

# Cruel to be nice Ah, la-la, la-la. #

Nick, don't be a recluse. If you're out there, get in touch.

We could do a whole programme on you, buddy.

So let's end with a good old '70s stage invasion.

Who's good for that? The Specials.

I hope you found our trawl tonight peppy and worthwhile,

because we had a go, didn't we?

Good night.

I want all you skinheads...

rude boys, to get up on your feet.

Put your braces together and your boots on your feet

and give me some of that old moonstomping.

Are you ready?

Start stomping!

# Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# L-L-Lunar

# Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... #

TEMPO INCREASES

# Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. #

All right.

Rude boy.

Moonstomp.

You remember it?

# Cruel to be nice Da, ba-ba-ba, bah-bah. #

-It was a huge hit.

-No, no, no. Not like that. It went...

# Cruel to be nice

# Doo, doo-doo, doo, doo... #

That's all right, but, seriously, think about the way I'm doing it.

It'll work for you.