The show was initially presented by David Jensen and Kevin Sharkey. The first edition was transmitted across the ITV network on Tuesday 9 June 1987, introducing Erasure performing "Victim of Love". Subtitled as The Network Chart Show, The Roxy was based on the weekly chart compiled for Independent Local Radio which was broadcast on Sunday afternoons across ILR stations every Sunday afternoon from 5pm, in competition with BBC Radio 1's own chart show.
In January 1988 the programme was retitled Roxy The Network Chart Show along with a new studio set which included a large 20 ft multicoloured sign spelling ROXY (This fell over at the end of the final edition using a flashpot effect & slow motion video and using the song "Leader of the Pack" by The Shangri-Las which played after the sign fell over) also along with the revamp of the set David Jensen was just a voiceover reading the charts each week but he returned to presenting duties for the final edition & Kevin Sharkey was the main presenter where he was joined by Paul Nolan and later Pat Sharp as co-hosts.
The programme suffered from not having a fixed network timeslot and for a short time, an industrial dispute which affected live studio performances. After just ten months on air, The Roxy aired its final edition on Tuesday 5 April 1988. By this point, some regional stations aired the programme around midnight like Anglia, Grampian, STV, TVS, Thames and Yorkshire.
The programme had three different theme tunes during its run. The first, written and performed by Simon May, was used for the first 29 episodes; the second, performed by 4's Company, was only used for episode 30; and the third, called "Amnesia", written and performed by Stock Aitken Waterman, was used for episodes 31 through 43.
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The Roxy is a British music television programme broadcast on the ITV network from June 1987 to April 1988. It was produced by Tyne Tees Television, shortly after its more successful Channel 4 music show, The Tube, was decommissioned.
The programme also suffered from not having a fixed network timeslot and for a short time, an industrial dispute which affected live studio performances. After just ten months on air, The Roxy aired its final edition on Tuesday 5 April 1988. By this point, some regional stations aired the programme around midnight like TVS and Thames while Anglia, Grampian, Scottish, Yorkshire and UTV opted out entirely.
The Fall had just performed on The Roxy; it had been broadcast the previous evening. The Roxy was a short-lived music show presented by Kid Jensen first transmitted across the ITV network on Tuesday 9 June 1987; it ended then months later.
In November 1987, I took the bus up to Prestwich to interview Mark E Smith, searching for his views on \u2018Hit the North\u2019, rap music, and the next album. He told me about black pudding, antique shops in Cologne, the trouble with guitarists, and why he wouldn\u2019t live in Swindon
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The interview first appeared in my fanzine \u2018Debris\u2019. The photograph above by Stephen Wright was from a specially commissioned shoot for the \u2018Debris\u2019 interview. The photos were mostly taken in and around Manchester Town Hall. Is it me or was Mark a little Richard-Madeley-esque at this point?
Just to give you a flavour of what else was in that issue of the fanzine - an advert for the new \u2018Zumbar\u2019 night at the Ha\u00E7ienda (Laurent Garnier\u2019s first DJ residency), and also one for Geese Clothing (who were then opening a new shop on the first floor of the Royal Exchange). Contents included an extended Jayne Anne Philips Fast Lanes book review; Ian and John from the Stone Roses interviewed just two singles into their career; Marc Riley reviewing Madonna at Roundhay Park; and a chart declaring the Single of the Year to be \u2018Rebel Without A Pause\u2019 by Public Enemy.
\u2018Hit the North\u2019 has a dual meaning; punish it or go there. When we did the video in Blackpool we were in a Yates\u2019s Wine Lodge and all these rugby teams were going \u2018Hit the North? What\u2019s that mean then?\u2019 \u2013 and this girl behind the bar was great, she said \u2018In America they say \u2018Let\u2019s hit L.A\u2019 meaning let\u2019s go there\u2019. Eventually all the old dears joined in and everyone was having a big rap about what it meant.
My basic attitude is that I\u2019d rather live here than in the South and it always has been. I don\u2019t really care where anybody lives, though, and I think the North/South divide is nonsense. I don\u2019t envy anyone who lives in Reading, Swindon, or Northampton; they\u2019re horrible towns and the people are spiritually dead down there.
I was in Germany, Cologne, out shopping for a present for a relation. Cologne is incredible; everybody seems stinking rich and the streets are packed with BMWs and everywhere you get strapping bronzed kids. And there are all these antique shops the size of Woolworths with complete lounges in them. I ended up in a Czarist shop full of original Russian icons. I went looking for the cheapest thing in the shop basically, and they had all these paintings of Russian Orthodox saints and all this Czarist stuff. Anyway, I bought this little thing, and the woman behind the counter asked me where I was from. When I told her, she said \u2018I\u2019m so sorry, it\u2019s so sad for the people of Manchester, it was all so vibrant and now they\u2019re all out of work and they have no food\u2019. She was genuinely concerned.
The Roxy was a short lived alternative to legendary BBC show Top Of The Pops and ran on rival channel ITV from June 1987 until April 1988. Featuring an almost identical format of playback performances, video clips and chart run downs.
This and other UK TV performances and interviews were the introduction to the band for many UK fans at the time. And yes, Def Leppard have indeed shared a stage with Wet Wet Wet, the late Errol Brown (of Hot Chocolate fame) and Samantha Fox.
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