{"id":343,"date":"2009-12-23T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T12:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ofah.webhostingireland.ie\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2017-02-08T13:44:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:44:24","slug":"its-only-rock-n-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/its-only-rock-n-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Only Rock N Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d7386eeb5bdcd2f43c1295b58ceaf130\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: right; margin:5px 0 5px 5px;\">\n<amp-auto-ads type=\"adsense\"\r\n              data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\">\r\n<\/amp-auto-ads>\n<\/div>\n<h2>It&#8217;s Only Rock\u00a0N Roll Episode Review<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Brief:<\/strong> Rodney is the drumless drummer in Mental Micky&#8217;s  band, &#8216;A Bunch Of Wallies&#8217;. Delboy takes on the job of manager, getting them an  abortive St Paddy&#8217;s night gig at The Shamrock Club. Will they be a hit or miss?  Thursday nights Top of the Pops will reveal all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transmitted: 14.03.1985<br \/>\nDuration: 30 minutes<br \/>\nViewing Figures:\u00a013.6 million<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p><div class=\"d7386eeb5bdcd2f43c1295b58ceaf130\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ofah2-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5593259115\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Rodney has joined a new band, and Del immediately capitalises on this by  booking them into The Shamrock Club to play for the St Patrick&#8217;s night  festivities.<\/div>\n<div>Taking his place as the band&#8217;s manager, Del winces his way through their  rehearsals, and when the Shamrock gig results in a fight, the band are forced to  leg it, leaving the instruments behind them.<\/div>\n<div>When Rodney finds out the musical equipment has vanished, he contacts the  police and helps them with their enquiries. When tell sees Rodney with the  constable, he quickly distracts the officer and pulls Rodney aside. It turns out  that Del had the instruments on sale or return, and he&#8217;d taken them back because  their band was so bad.<\/div>\n<div>Rodney&#8217;s dreams of showbiz fame have been shattered, but he goes ballistic  when he sees his group performing their old hit single on Top of the Pops and  realises that without Del&#8217;s interference he might have made it to number  one.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/rockand.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/rockand1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/rockand3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/images\/rockand2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Episode Observations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In It&#8217;s Only Rock and Roll, At the end when Del is on the phone half his  shirt is open at the top and he goes out like that. On a personal note i dont  normally spend time looking at blokes chests, just to clear it up.<\/li>\n<li>In It&#8217;s Only Rock and Roll, When Del and Rodney are chatting in the  garage, Del says that he understood Rodney having a dream of becoming a rock  star so he &#8220;could have the Capri Ghia&#8230;all that!&#8221; If Del thought a Capri Ghia  was such a posh motor, he must have been over the moon when Boycie sold him the  Prattmobile a few years later!<\/li>\n<li>In It&#8217;s Only Rock and Roll, Del tells Monkey he&#8217;s had the dolls for a  week, shortly before seeing A Bunch Of Wallies on Top of the Pops. On the day he  bought the dolls, Rodney was still in the band and another member said later he  reckoned his mate&#8217;s cousin could get them a contract. So in the space of one  week, the group have played the Shamrock Club, parted company with Rodney, found  a new drummer, got some instruments of their own (which they never had  previously), gained a contract, recorded a single and appeared on Top of the  Pops! How likely is that?<\/li>\n<li>In It&#8217;s Only Rock and Roll, how did Rodney manage to tell Uncle Albert  that he&#8217;d organised a date for him at the old folks beano AND start watching Top  of the Pops in Albert&#8217;s room in just five seconds? That was the gap between  Rodney entering the room and Albert leaving it!<\/li>\n<li>In It&#8217;s Only Rock and Roll, Del switches off Top of the Pops just before  Rodney tells him that he&#8217;s organised Albert to take the woman from the  Laundromat on the old folks beano &#8220;on Thursday&#8221;. But as Top of the Pops, until  recently, was ALWAYS broadcast on Thursdays, surely he would have said &#8220;NEXT  Thursday&#8221; to avoid confusion?<\/li>\n<li>In It&#8217;s Only Rock and Roll, the garage is far larger and faces a wall  unlike the garage seen in &#8220;Time on Our Handsl&#8221;, there it has a other garages  opposite and is much smaller.<\/li>\n<li>In It&#8217;s Only Rock and Roll, when Del&#8217;s on the phone to Liam at the  Shamrock Club, he starts playing Dianne by the Bachelors. However, when he puts  the phone down, and turn the volume up, it jumps to a different point of the  song!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>It&#8217;s Only Rock\u00a0N Roll Script<\/h2>\n<div>The script will be downloadable from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/files\/It&#039;s%20Only%20Rock%20And%20Roll.txt\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Did You Know?<\/h2>\n<p>Did you know that Ex Radio1 DJ Mike Read appeared in this episode. He is\u00a0on  the TV presenting the group on Top of The Pops.<\/p>\n<p>Mike had forgotten all about this appearance in the top sitcom. Mike was  recently watching an episode at home with his family\u00a0and suddenly realised that  he was watching himself\u00a0!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/its-only-rock-n-roll\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" src=\"\" class=\"alignright wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>It&#8217;s Only Rock\u00a0N Roll Episode Review Brief: Rodney is the drumless drummer in Mental Micky&#8217;s band, &#8216;A Bunch Of Wallies&#8217;. Delboy takes on the job of manager, getting them an abortive St Paddy&#8217;s night gig at The Shamrock Club. Will they be a hit or miss? Thursday nights Top of the Pops will reveal all. 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