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There were several genre that didn't properly feature this evening, even though acts of that ilk had starred on OGWT back in the day. Instead, we got a very narrow view.

This prog could and should have been so good. Instead it was hijacked by a narrow minority view of music of Bob and his mates. Over so many hours, they could have packed with full length footage of a track each per plethora of legendary bands, interspersed with live bands playing a single...

I'm persevering in the hope that every 45 minutes or so they play someone I love. Remote control getting a hammering in channel surfing avoiding the shit. Good for me now The Smiths. Edit: they get just 10 seconds, whilst Bob's 70's hippy mates get epochs.

I now realise why I preferred TOTP as a kid. Variety. Plus at least acts you didn't like were over in 3 minutes.

Self indulgent at the moment, the producers letting their favourites dominate the evening with several songs each act. Zzzzzzzz You're right. At the time, unless a devout hippy rocker, we were lucky to get one or two other genre acts per programme. Youtube and nostalgia since has made OGWT...

As a teen liked much of the the music of Numan & similar, I had fairly broad tastes. At school and since, the people who seemed to really despise anything like that were into ACDC, Def Leppard, Led Zepp etc. As you say, varied tastes.

I could well imagine that hippies/heavy rockers weren't enamoured by pre-punk and punk upstarts coming along, upsetting their order of musical things. In contrast John Peel was open minded and went with the changes.

Bob was on radio5 today plugging it. The prog is going to include one of his all time greats, Bob Marley & de Wailors 1973. Loved the OGWT. Bands were given loads of time. Although too young at the time for much of it, have watched many videos since of the likes of Roxy Music, Talking Heads...