Not since The Rubettes appeared on Top of Pops will you have seen miming to a backing track done quite so well as this. It makes you thank the Great Beardy Being up above that the boys in the following video are defending us in the Gulf of Somewhere, not representing us in the Eurovision song contest.
All good fun though.
You don’t often see miming anymore. The audience of pop shows are too discerning, and anyway, you don’t see shows like TOTP any more, decent shows having been replaced by Omnibus episodes of Location Location Location Location Location, Come Snore with Me or Fuck It! . Stakes are high in the music industry nowadays. One dodgy performance could mean billions of lost downloads.
T’were simpler times, back in 1974.
The Sharp Single 
Brilliant! Gary Tank Commander also did I nice line these videos:
Mick
I tell you something, if the nutters were trying to blow me up each and every night, I might wanna take my mind off it by doing something like that. AND I’d have my own ready-made costumes to0.