I really wasn't imagining this BBC lewdness from 1991!

[Colophon]

I was searching for a thread I’d contributed to and came across this 5-year-old one about misheard lyrics (it wasn’t the one I was after, but that’s not important right now.)

The thread mentioned a song called I Touch Myself by the Divinyls, and I posted:

I still remember seeing this song on Top of the Pops - you know, the relatively staid and august BBC pop-music show. Well, this was in the days when they’d just got a whizzy new computer-graphics system, so the title of artist and track wouldn’t just appear on the screen, it would zoom on, assemble itself in some kind of flashy way, spin about a bit and fly off. Well, when the title for this song came onto the bottom of the screen, the words reassembled into a stick-figure, the arm of which them moved to its crotch and rubbed up and down before the words flew apart again.

I was like “Uh, no, I did not just see that!”, but I swear it’s true.

Now, thanks to YouTube, I can prove it. Filth! Filth, I tell you! Jimmy Savile was just the tip of the iceberg…

[ftg]

Warning: if you click on the YouTube like it will show you one of the worst song miming performances ever. Just the singer and guitarist core members. No other backing band or vocalists. And the guitarist is just goofing around, not even pretending to play in sync with the song. Good old Top of the Pops.