Saturday night TV when it really, really mattered….and probably the most important thing I ever saw on live telly in my entire life…40 years ago

It was Mic Calder who reminded me of the 1969 Lulu show, in which, inconceivably, the Jimi Hendrix Experience was allowed over nine minutes on peak-time Saturday BBC TV to demonstrate to the entire UK why our lives and our music needed to be entirely different.

I remember the blue carpet, Brownie the dog, Stewart Howard, Jim McClurg and David Cowan being there…my mum being utterly shocked….and the bit you don’t see in this clip, a truly flustered Lulu trying to get the show back on track…I was 13.

And listen to the sweetness of that solo…

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5 responses to “Saturday night TV when it really, really mattered….and probably the most important thing I ever saw on live telly in my entire life…40 years ago”

  1. Mic Calder Avatar
    Mic Calder

    I never saw it originally. I guess I was sent to bed with my Ribena by then. And no, they don’t make TV like that anymore. Mind you they don’t make TVs like that anymore – remember? You had to go to the front of the thing and grab the big cooker type knob and turn it to change channels – to no good purpose, since there weren’t any other channels to turn it to…

  2. Gordon Avatar
    Gordon

    Just fantastic – they don’t make TV like that anymore.

  3. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    I remember this!!! . . I was 15 I was staying at my Gran’s in Dunfermline . . (I remember her tutting a lot) . . I didn’t remember that it was on Lulu’s show either though . . i just remember him playing and being in raptures. . val

  4. Brian C Avatar
    Brian C

    Only Alex Harvey doing Delihlah on the OGWT in ’75 comes close.Speechless.

  5. EyeOnDubai Avatar
    EyeOnDubai

    Is that Mic Calder a cheil I knew from Thurso High?

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