Roxy Music Hall

1976 was a very good year for me, at least: my father took a sabbatical from his University of Maryland faculty position to study at Rothamsted agricultural experimental station in Harpenden, Herts., UK [and took the family along, in case that wasn't clear in the original post].  Being steeped in a culture that shares a language but little else with my own was an exhilarating experience, and our six months in England was over all too quickly.  One of our weekly rituals was watching Top of the Pops, the costumed lipsynching extravaganza.  I've been revisiting some of those performances over the last couple weeks.  One that is particularly striking, but that I don't remember seeing, is "A Glass of Champagne" by Sailor; striking because of its obvious debt to Roxy Music's "Virginia Plain," spiced up even further with some music-hall antics (specifically, the pianist beating the bass drum):

I think "Roxy Music Hall" pretty much sums that up.  I do remember seeing Sailor "perform" "Girls, Girls, Girls," though I did not remember until browsing on YouTube just now that that's who did it:

Sailor frontman Georg Kajanus would go on to form synthpop band Data, whom I bought records by in the 80s unaware of his Sailor past. 

More recently Kajanus was half of the synthpop duo Noir with Tim Dry:

Tim Dry, now primarily a photographer, used to be better known as Tik of Tik and Tok, an 80s synthpop duo who were also a robotic mime duo!

And finally, Tik and Tok started out in Robert Pereno's synthpop music & dance troupe Shock, who had a minor hit with their cover of the Glitter Band's "Angel Face"--

That's where the video trail ends.  Pereno and Shock chanteuse LA Richards went on to form Pleasure and the Beast after Shock's breakup, for which only audio is available.  But it's been fun connecting the dots!