I'm biased as I hosted and wrote it in 1987 and produced it in 1990, 1991 and 1992.

But so far it couldn't be more predictable.

Is it just me or is Adele just Alison Moyet Part Two?

these mastercard ads are making me want to kill, yeah \rock and roll, 30% nterest and a life of debt, kasabian/cunts

Surpised how well Corden is doing. The non UK perfromers and participants are always going to win aren't they? Why bother showing up? At the end of the day its all about shifting units so who cares?

My attitude was that if it was better TV the increased ratings would shift more copies.

Well, to sum up - it was a decent enough show without one shred of imagination.

When I produced it we had the three night Wembley Great British Music shows before The Brits - giving three 3 minute chunks of live music in the show to inspire attendance and sales (dozens of artistes - some unsigned like Carter USM - headlined by Happy Mondays, Ozzy and The Cure). We had Maggie Thatcher crooning How Much Is That Doggy In The Window... my concept was originality and huge ratings - MTV were lined up to carry all the gigs in full in their global programming...

For me, it was boosting music and very different from a standard award show format.

Ratings were great; huge critical praise from NME, Melody Maker...

But the dull bigwigs at the majors wanted control back; so I quit and let them have it. Every year since you've had corporate TV.

But it's nice that not only did I produce it for three years but hosted it (in 1987) - I thought Corden was OK actually although snogging a 16 year old boy on national TV was something I would never have dared do.

And my hit Una Paloma Blanca won the Best Single of the Year Award in 1975 - I didn't bother to attend (I was in America) - Joe Loss collected on my behalf.

According to the BRITS website the first show was in 1979 and then there was a gap until 1982. Was there a BRITS show in 1975? Was this the first year or were there earlier shows?

I thought this years shows was one of the better ones from recent years. I don't know why the BRITS don't copy the Grammys and have a tribute segment with other superstar artists doing interpretations of the honorees songs.

Before the more official award ceremonies there were several - The Daily Mirror Rock and Pop Awards (catchy name) for example - with the Ivor Novello Awards (still going) being dominant - that was where I was given the Record of the Year prize in 1975.

The disaster year of 1989 (two years after I wrote and presented the show) with Sam Fox, Mick Fleetwood and numerous errors made the majors desperately shy away from it, so they begged me to take it over and promised me total control. I turned it into a huge ratings and critical success, so the majors then emerged like rats from a drain and demanded control back. So, in 1992, I resigned after the show and let them do it their way.

According to the BPI's wonderful coffee table book celebrating 25 years of the BRITS, (published 6 years ago), the TV ratings during "your 3 years" were between 8.2 million and 8.7 million, (your last show from Hammersmith Odeon) being the best. (The following year it lost 100k viewers!).

I was at the O2 last night, and I have to say it was one of the best shows in years. But being in a hospitality box, I felt I was just watching a show. In previous years I've been lucky enogh to be at a table, and I felt more involved in the evening. This year, I was just a viewer. But that might not be a bad thing. I just didn't see many old friends as in previous years.

Oh well; mere X Factor sized figures then. It felt far more!

The viewing figures must be very disappointing to David Joseph. I thought he delivered an interesting new show. I still think James Corden was a good choice of compare - much better than the “safe pair of hands” years 10 or so years ago. I thought it was good having Take That as the opening act. I thought that it was a wrong idea to drop “Lifetime Achievement”. A big established name would surely add viewers, and what’s wrong mixing old and new? With Roxy Music touring at the moment, I think not getting them involved was missing a trick.

But, I enjoyed the show, the venue, and the occasion.

David Joseph nice enough guy but dull and uninspired like the rest of the music industry.

I'd have involved iTunes, You Tube and Spotify. I'd have had live concerts like I did with the Great British Music Weekend. I'd have got Simon Cowell and Glee and other musical successes involved. I'd have had a contest for home interpretations of last year's hits, mimed as well as live. I'd have had drag queens trying to look like GaGa....

but then I do have imagination and enthusiasm; two qualities sadly missing in today's companies.

You could of gotten Jarvis to do a Michael Jackson tribute! Take it full circle.

"Beat It" perhaps.

Very sad - over 2000 views for this and the other Brits thread combined but so few actual posts whether agreeing, disagreeing or making comments - constructive or otherwise.

I see the Record of the Day site has less than half a dozen posts on it; and the Velvet Rope has only two - one of which was me!

This gradual process started after I began the Tip Sheet in the mid 90s; I noticed that fewer tipsters were genuinely enthusiastic about music other than their specific projects. I decided that, as most of us grow older, we let the practicalities of families and career take over and lose love of music. Then of course we get older and don't connect any more. Plan B is rather good though and Adele Moyet - oops - was good too.