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on Top of the Pops:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/aug/05/jump-the-shark-top-of-the-pops
A lot of the shows were like that.
The video below was a truly live performance, recorded for a film Marc Bolan was doing with Ringo. Tony Visconti used the Rolling Stones' mobile studio to record it:
Editing to add some info on the truck/studio Tony Visconti used. I was going to type up that paragraph of his biography, but I noticed he called it a "mobile recording truck" and I was pretty sure I'd heard it called a mobile studio, as I typed above. So I googled
Rolling Stones mobile studio
and found a Wikipedia article on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stones_Mobile_Studio
Ringo's film crew did the filming.
Tony said the truck had both 8-track and 16-track tape recorders. There was concern about tape running out in the middle of a performance, so they planned the concert with a short acoustic set in the middle, and Tony recorded the band in 16-track and the acoustic set Marc did in 8-track so he could switch the 16-track reels during the acoustic set.
After the show they had trouble getting Marc safely out to the ambulance they had waiting as transportation for him, after the band had left in limousines that they'd hoped would distract the fans. But some of the fans spotted him before he could get to the ambulance and nearly tore him apart. Tony had to help a former Beatles roadie get Marc through a crowd of about 500 screaming girls who were kicking them and scratching them as they tried to get past Tony and the roadie to Marc, and the fans tore some of Marc's hair out and ripped his clothes. The roadie was terrified, but Marc was laughing about it when they got him into the ambulance. He loved being idolized.
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