And while we're waiting for #TOTP, here's the Tomorrow's World Christmas Quiz from 1988.
Can you do better than Sylvester McCoy?
Hm… I found the Tomorrow's World clip.
It's not the one I was thinking of. Rather, it's a piece from a couple of years before the band released "Einstein a Go-Go," whereas I'm pretty sure that what I'm remembering was a demonstration by John L. Walters of the Lyricon shortly after it appeared so prominently on that single.
Still, here's the brief clip from Tomorrow's World in 1979, featuring some very unexpected wah-wah trombone:
My occasional hunt for an old TV clip continues, with the discovery that a lapse of memory has been making it harder than it should be: Back in the early 1980s I saw John Walters of the band Landscape on Blue Peter, explaining and demonstrating the electronic Lyricon wind instrument. Can't find the clip online anywhere.
One reason for that may be because he appeared on Tomorrow's World and not on Blue Peter.
Unfortunately I still haven't found the clip anywhere, but at least I'm now looking for the right thing…
A marvellous extract from Wikipedia's page about the old BBC technology programme "Tomorrow's World":
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