A mock concert featurette featuring pop stars from the mid-sixties British beat boom and hosted by DJ's Alan Freeman (Pick Of The Pops), Brian Matthew (Saturday Club) and TV personality Kent Walton (Discs A Go Go, Honey Hit Parade and Thank Your Lucky Stars).
For those of you who were there this will undoubtedly bring back memories and it will also delight music buffs since it is a useful time capsule of an important part in the history of popular music. There are many familiar acts like Brian Poole and The Tremeloes who perform their No.1 hit single 'Do You Love Me'. The Four Pennies do their chart topper, 'Juliet', while the Blue Beat craze of the time is represented by The Migil Five with their classic single 'Mockingbird Hill' and Millie with 'My Boy Lollipop.' The Merseybeats are also on hand with their Top 20 single 'Don't Turn Around'. Although the groups are clearly miming here as opposed to playing live, a slight disappointment, there is also the opportunity to see and hear more obscure artists such as The Cockneys with 'After Tomorrow' who are barely remembered today. Another plus is the fact that the one hit wonders who appear here are given the opportunity to demonstrate that there was more to them than simply one catchy hit. The Migil Five, for instance, get to do a Little Richard classic and beat era favourite, 'Long Tall Sally', from their stage act and one and only album, named after their hit 'Mockingbird Hill'; The Four Pennies do a creditable cover of Roy Orbison's 'Running Scared' while The Merseybeats also do Jerry Lee Lewis's country flavoured 'Fools Like Me', which was a highlight from their self-titled album. All in all, an unmissable treat.
For those of you who were there this will undoubtedly bring back memories and it will also delight music buffs since it is a useful time capsule of an important part in the history of popular music. There are many familiar acts like Brian Poole and The Tremeloes who perform their No.1 hit single 'Do You Love Me'. The Four Pennies do their chart topper, 'Juliet', while the Blue Beat craze of the time is represented by The Migil Five with their classic single 'Mockingbird Hill' and Millie with 'My Boy Lollipop.' The Merseybeats are also on hand with their Top 20 single 'Don't Turn Around'. Although the groups are clearly miming here as opposed to playing live, a slight disappointment, there is also the opportunity to see and hear more obscure artists such as The Cockneys with 'After Tomorrow' who are barely remembered today. Another plus is the fact that the one hit wonders who appear here are given the opportunity to demonstrate that there was more to them than simply one catchy hit. The Migil Five, for instance, get to do a Little Richard classic and beat era favourite, 'Long Tall Sally', from their stage act and one and only album, named after their hit 'Mockingbird Hill'; The Four Pennies do a creditable cover of Roy Orbison's 'Running Scared' while The Merseybeats also do Jerry Lee Lewis's country flavoured 'Fools Like Me', which was a highlight from their self-titled album. All in all, an unmissable treat.
