Video: '70s Dutch pop music show revived online

BB reader Branko Collin says,


TopPop, a Dutch hit music show from the seventies and eighties, has opened its archives last month. They were big on the eve of the video clip, when artists who wanted to market their face and not just their music had to make live appearances on local TV shows throughout the world. TopPop was special because of their funky backgrounds (think: Blondie standing on a tin foil mountain); the fact that if an artist was unable to appear, the show would replace them by a ballet (think: dancing to the theme of Star Wars); and because of its slightly goofy looking presenter Ad Visser, who also wrote the science fiction novel-with-soundtrack Sobrietas.

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