Pop at the pictures: Ruby Murray

Jon Savage is trawling the archives of British Pathe newsreels to find forgotten pop cultural gems. Here he looks at an era on the point of disappearance, when Ruby Murray, once the hottest thing in British music, would soon be swept away by rock'n'rollSometimes you see a piece of footage and think, "Oh that's why pop music exploded then". A perfect example is the series of Top of the Pops shows from 1976 currently being shown on BBC4: they are collectively so nauseating – badly shot, terrible...

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