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> "There was a national Saturday night pop music show called Countdown [1], that ran from 1974" ... which was surely inspired by the BBC's "Top Of The Pops", w
by Reason077 5y ago
> "There was a national Saturday night pop music show called Countdown [1], that ran from 1974"
... which was surely inspired by the BBC's "Top Of The Pops", which began in 1964:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_Pops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_Pops
- tomhoward 5y agoRight, and as another commenter pointed out, the UK artists shown at the start of MTV were also doing more artistic videos, whereas US acts tended to do more straight filmed performances.