Scientific research by way of watching Top of the Pops.

Lately, I have been watching (so that you don't have to) an awful lot of Top of the Pops 1976 on BBC Four. As they move in to 1977, I thought it worth a few lines in retrospect:

1. Punk couldn't come quickly enough. Which moves me to point 2:
2. Paul Nicholas can wave that cane and dip that hat as much as he likes, as he winks like a man with a rancid sty, but nothing he does will ever stop me from believing him to be a vapid little man with very little talent. Musical theatre's gain was pop music's gain.
3. Abba were, and always will be, sh*t. And not in a post modern, ironic way, but in a very real sh*t way.
4.  Pussycat prove the point that no good music has ever come out of the Netherlands. Ever.
5. Even by January 1st 1977, pop music had improved 100% from December 31st 1976.

In conclusion, I was six in 1977.