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Poll Question: What is your favourite, pop pickers?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
8 [12.50%]
2 [3.13%]
2 [3.13%]
6 [9.38%]
9 [14.06%]
2 [3.13%]
7 [10.94%]
9 [14.06%]
6 [9.38%]
5 [7.81%]
2 [3.13%]
2 [3.13%]
4 [6.25%]
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    Posted: July 09 2020 at 03:00
Prog rarely bothered the singles charts in the UK - but what was your favourite moment when prog heroes suddenly appeared on TV on Thursday nights?
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Renaissance' Northern Lights is the Top of the Pops appearance that really stands out in the memory for me.
 
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Fantastic selection, but I have to double down on Jethro Tull's The Witches Promise. I absolutely love that Benefit/Living in the Past era, Ian had a great voice and stage presence, everyone was so young and involved, and the song itself is just pure eargasm Cool
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I voted for the only one that I'd seen -- Robert Wyatt's "I'm A Believer".

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As I recall, the producers didn't want the wheelchair to be visible, and instead maybe put him in a chair of the non wheel variety, thinking that it would/might make audience members uncomfortable. Wyatt insisted that the wheelchair be visible. For any who might not know perusing this poll topic, Wyatt had an accident, a fall which left him a paraplegic. It's quite the line-up playing with him., Fred Frith, Andy Summers, Richard Sinclair, Nick Mason, Dave Macrae.
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Good poll. Proggy stuff was not unknown in the UK charts in the 70s with Argent, Curved Air, Focus, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Procol Harum and Gordon Giltrap also having hits. I was tempted by Tull but in the end opted for my favourites ELP. Ian Anderson gave a great mugging performance when they did Witches Promise on TOTP:
ELP gave a less than stellar performance of All I Want is You on Top of the Pops in 1978, remember Greg Lake was chewing gum.
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^ I didn't want to crowd the poll out but yes, what is it with Greg Lake and chewing gum?  He did that all the way through California Jam.  Perhaps to try and cut back on the fags?
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You could tell there were problems in the ELP camp when they did that performance of All I Want Is You. I remember thinking "Come on lads, make an effort!"
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Tough choice, it could be Yes, Tull or Renaissance and Question is a cracker of a song. Now if Hocus Pocus had been there it might have been easier.
 
I wouldn't have Steely Dan there, good songs but neither very proggy.
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Genesis - FYFM
Welcome to the middle of the film.
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Some good music here, but the Silver Machine destroys them all...
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It's between The Moody Blues and ELP, but I'll give the Moodies the vote, as they're more likely to need it.
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Back then it would have been silver machine but now in my more mature years it's Northern Lights.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Tough choice, it could be Yes, Tull or Renaissance and Question is a cracker of a song. Now if Hocus Pocus had been there it might have been easier.
 
I wouldn't have Steely Dan there, good songs but neither very proggy.
It could have been an all-British poll if it wasn't for Steely Dan being included. Smile
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Strawbs: The Hangman And The Papist in which Rick Wakeman breaks out a paint roller to play the solo on his organ!
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Tough choice, it could be Yes, Tull or Renaissance and Question is a cracker of a song. Now if Hocus Pocus had been there it might have been easier.
 
I wouldn't have Steely Dan there, good songs but neither very proggy.
It could have been an all-British poll if it wasn't for Steely Dan being included. Smile
Good point. I'm now wondering if Steely Dan actually appeared in the studio or was it a video?
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Strawbs: The Hangman And The Papist in which Rick Wakeman breaks out a paint roller to play the solo on his organ!
 
I'd completely forgotten that Rick Wakeman used to be a member of the Strawbs in 1970. Smile
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Ok, seriously, Northern Lights! Smile
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Great poll--very evenly matched--until you started listing Steely Dan songs. 

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I would have voted for Focus (Hocus Pocus or Sylvia) if they were included.
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OK Focus - serious omission (I knew I had missed something...)

Steely Dan - always considered them progressive in the broadest sense (I am from the prog school of thought that jazz needs to be in there somewhere...)  No apologies for their inclusion
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