After one day of filming, Fripp and Michael Giles stayed up past midnight to figure out what the band needed to break through. It was the last-ever gathering of Giles, Giles and Fripp.
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Thanks to the lobbying efforts of Peter Giles, they’d finagled a full thirty-minute episode all to themselves, “when people like the Hollies were doing half a program with somebody else.” The Saturday night audience would hear eight tracks from an album almost nobody had bought, one of them – the spoken-word fairy tale “Elephant Song” – given its own animation. That same day, Giles, Giles and Fripp were filming their Colour Me Pop debut.
Spooky Tooth got slotted in at the end of August the Nice’s set aired on November 16, as their fame was cresting. The answer on that first Friday was the increasingly progressive Manfred Mann. A “cool” bass line and drumroll played under psychedelically retouched photos of Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, and Frank Zappa, as if asking who’d be next to join the pantheon. So Colour Me Pop debuted on June 14, 1968, with a credit sequence that proudly embraced cliché. Pepper, would be given thirty minutes each Saturday to prove themselves. The surplus of new bands, any of which might produce the next Sgt. The BBC had been booking acts across its other, stodgier shows, but the London scene was cranking out hits and idols faster than the press could cover it. From the summer of 1968 to the summer of 1969, a British fan of the new music who couldn’t catch live bands could settle for Colour Me Pop.
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