Tuesday 7 August 2012

LINK: Bev Bevan Diaries: The Move were way ahead of MTV!

I have been pootling about the internet looking for stories about the folk on our latest batch of 'Lost Broadcasts' DVDs, and I found this...

THERE came a time in 1967 that The Move decided to make it in the movies. This was long before the advent of MTV, of course. That was still 14 years or so in the future. Music videos hadn't even been invented yet - and VHS tape recorders wouldn't be launched until the 1970s.

But we decided that we wanted to make a film to promote what would be our next single, I Can Hear The Grass Grow.

Read on...

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