Here's a clip that Suefan requested, and Carl sent me: it's Maureen from Zoo dancing to Derek & the Dominos' Layla on Top of the Pops, 18the March 1982.
Notice the early eighties freeze-frame video effects: back them this must have been the height of high-tech cool. Nowadays, when most of us are used to watching video on various phones, computers, laptops, pads, and TVs, transient still frames like this in a video don't mean "cool video effect" any more. These days they say: "connection too slow", "hardware not powerful enough" or "stupid machine not working". How times have changed.
Thanks to carl for the clip.
4 comments:
Thanks guys, much appreciated as I do like the occasional solo.
Very nice solo and love the outfit. Can someone who knows better than me answer a question? Are those lasers and were they added effects or live? Also would this be one of the earliest use of lasers on TOTP?
I think Maureen does a good job here and she smiles which helps as it is good when a dancer looks like they are enjoying themselves! Not sure about the lasers and effects Doc but I will look itno it.
Yes PattiforPM, they are lasers
and for me, this confirms what i
suspected, that FCs best work was behind her. The music is a classic
the use of lasers new, but heavy
padding like this fails to hide the rather samey tired routine, and
having a black dancer doesn't make
this fresh.
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