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Topic History of: Pick Of The Pops - Jubilee Week, 1977 Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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JK2006
Eric the Frog pops into my latest novel Death Flies, Missing Girls and Brigitte Bardot.
dixie
NCS wrote: On a "best selling hits" TV documentary not long ago Eric Hall, Promotions Chief at EMI in 1977, said he knew the sales figures for both records and that Rod genuinely outsold the Pistols that week.
You can see how that would be the case, the record buying public nearly always chose safe, comfortable music over anything edgy. Witness Engelbert's 'The Last Waltz' outselling The Beatles 'Strawberry Fields Forever' ten years before.
How would Eric Hall know the Sales Figures? The only organisation collating such data was BMRB. Shops didn't have EPoS in those days. Ship out figures wouldn't account for any unsold stock, and anyhow, Rod was shipped by WEA and my recollection is that CBS were distributing Virgin at the time - So EMI wouldn't even have access to the figures.
JK2006
This very old thread from over 6 years ago, now revived, has had over 55,000 views in its long and prosperous life. Isn't The Net a weird yet wonderful thing?
giles2008
Tokyo Joe?? I remember Tony Blackburn not liking that one very much.
He flipped it over and played the other side, a cover of "Shes Leaving Home" which was from the OST to "All This And World War 2".
NCS
On a "best selling hits" TV documentary not long ago Eric Hall, Promotions Chief at EMI in 1977, said he knew the sales figures for both records and that Rod genuinely outsold the Pistols that week.
You can see how that would be the case, the record buying public nearly always chose safe, comfortable music over anything edgy. Witness Engelbert's 'The Last Waltz' outselling The Beatles 'Strawberry Fields Forever' ten years before.
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