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@SPQRomantic This seems to have been largely true of the forces the Americans were up against. It's largely acknowledged that the British, Canadians and Poles fought tougher opponents.

Fantastic footage.

'...the bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey ...'

It's perfection, in its way.

@TRUExSIGHTS He must have thought it was worth the gamble, and that there'd be winnings even if the final objective wasn't reached. Yeah, it fits the pattern.

@robertkrosl I might have known it - the Nazis invented skateboarding: now it all falls into place ...

The guy knew exactly what kind of sound he wanted for his comeback, didn't he? 'I'm going to make it sound as though those old records were made yesterday.'

A great performance. At the Albert Hall?

Wow that's a fantastic England side ... such a loss that injuries broke them up very shortly after.

the 2nd SS Panzer division? Now that's something to leave off your CV.

Sounds like they amplified the audience instead of the band

It's just really groovy!

Saw this on transmission. Amazing what you can occasionally get on British national TV.

@kix7711therealone No, Babylon is a term used by Rastafarians to mean an oppressive state (it's part of their identification with somehow being a tribe of Israel, or something like that). The Ruts were big reggae fans.

Blimey, was that Top of the Pops? I never saw that edition, but if it kept the standard of that running order up it would have been the coolest TV music show ever.

just really started following the bassline for the first time.

It's a great album!

Lots of people have said how surprisingly American it sounds for a British band ... but it's another British twist on an American idiom. It has a grittiness and honesty that you just don't get from American bands of that period. Little Feat et al were just too hedonistic. No wonder that the no...

Did CBB only ever play live on TV? Remarkable for the time.

How were they allowed to play live on TOTP? Was their ability to reproduce the record? Very few groups were. A tribute to their talent, perhaps.

It's like he suspended the laws of physics.

Lovely stuff ... just a shame about the occasional penalty miss.

"Bill Haydon was up country" ho ho.

To tell the story the series didn't need to show Prideau's plight ... the establishing scenes however really help us get inside the man and understand why he does what he eventually does ... the back story is like a huge unspoken undercurrent which we can only imagine.

An odd observation I know, but I really like Peter Guillam's coat!

Makes him look like a mixture of Messi and Johnny Rep

Great, the way that the pressure is ratcheted up on Esterhase: 'babysitter', 'can't take the chance', 'official', 'bastard', 'sealed packets', 'Mendel', 'lying' ...

@picard714 Esterhaze is saying that he's in a bind, and is following the route that promises what he wants ...

Yeah, Jim fills up at a BP garage.

this must be set just before Testify

It's a good job the stairs don't creak in this place.

Guinness gives such a brilliant performance in this - what comes close?

sorry, the M3