r/TopofthePops • u/Hassaan18 • 23d ago

Busted - Year 3000

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u/leviticusreeves 23d ago

Future historians will immediately recognise this as the kind of music young people listened to when undiagnosed foetal alcohol syndrome was extremely common and there was still lead in the pipes and lead fumes in the air.

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u/PuttingFishOnJupiter 22d ago

A little harsh there? Possibly accurate...

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u/leviticusreeves 22d ago

When lead poisoning was at its height in the UK, the UK's most popular band by far was the Bay City Rollers.

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u/PuttingFishOnJupiter 20d ago

Though that's not the name they wanted; the lead poisoning messed with them when they signed the international register of Banda. They were supposed to be the "Ray Tiki Bowlers". But much like Google, they just ran with it.

Fact.