Featuring an appearance by my girlfriend standing behind Tony Blackburn for half a second! And no new live performances! And a rather embarrassed air all round!
It wasn't really up to much, was it? I mean, perhaps the fact that it was so important is shown by just how overfamiliar almost all of the archive footage was - "Starman" must have been incredible to watch at the time, and was great to see for the first time on I Love the 1970s or whatever, but for the 100th? And the compromise between wanting to show whole performances and to cover every popular musical movement ever got a bit awkward at times. Gnarls Barkley's performance of "Crazy" was actually one of the highlights - a little fresh in the memory but not yet dulled by being endlessly carted out. The Arcade Fire and Guillemots' appearances in the past year also immediately spring to mind as far more exciting than seeing any of the older clips. Even the ones after I'd actually started watching the show, which may have been a factor in this I suppose - the idea was maybe to get everyone who hadn't watched it for twenty years to settle in for just another nostalgia programme?
If you ask me, though, the perfect tribute would really have been to leave the repeats to UKG2 and to run a show (with Jimmy Saville and Dave Lee Travis and all the other past presenters, if you really like) featuring live performances of the six or seven biggest new hits of the week like it should be, and was before Andi Peters and Tim Kash got involved. That would have been awesome.
edit: heh, I just remembered that I never actually saw the Guillemots performance on TV. Maybe that proves all the internet as the enemy points, but I say that if I had known for sure that they'd be on because they'd just reached the top 30 I would have been watching, France vs South Korea or not!
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