Moon vs. Harty 2nd best TV rock interview

[Brian Cady]

>From Evening Standard at:
http://tinyurl.com/f2j2t

Look made best ever rock interview 
By Alexa Baracaia, Evening Standard 
11 August 2006

Staring intently into one another's eyes, Paula Yates
and Michael Hutchence had no idea of the tragedy ahead
when they first met on live TV in 1986.


Another 10 years would pass before Yates would leave
Bob Geldof and go public with her passionate love for
the INXS singer. 

But this now portentous moment from Channel 4's The
Tube, shows the instant spark of attraction when the
ill-fated pair met. 

But this was the moment that really set the affair in
motion, and experts at film and TV archive service ITN
Source have just voted it most momentous British rock
'n' roll interview in their collection. 

The clip shows the pair flirting wildly - in the same
year that Yates wed Bob Geldof. She said later: "He
was so heartbreakingly beautiful it made me feel quite
feeble. 

"I mainly interviewed Michael's crotch and at the end
he asked me back to his hotel room. I said, 'Crikey,
no, I've got a baby'." 

The meeting was eight years before Yates's famous
Channel 4 interview with Hutchence on the Big
Breakfast bed - the moment many had taken to be the
start of their attraction. 

In 1997, three years after the couple got together,
Hutchence was found dead in mysterious circumstancesin
a hotel room in Sydney. Yates died of an accidental
overdose three years later. 

The second most notorious TV interview features
Russell Harty and Keith Moon in 1973. The Who's
drummer is seen giving a stream of nonsensical
answers, calling Harty's "bachelor" status into
question, performing a strip and trying to rip the
sleeve from the chat show host's suit. 

In third place, Johnny Rotten vents his spleen on TV
host Chris Cowey in Check It Out in 1979 - storming
off after being asked if he had "sold out". Bill
Grundy's notorious encounter with the Sex Pistols is
not on the list as ITN do not own the rights to the
footage. 

In fourth place is Happy Mondays frontman Shaun
Ryder's appearance on TFI Friday in 1995 when he
repeatedly swore. 

Also in the list is the surreal meeting of haircuts
between the Beatles and Ken Dodd, on 1963 evening show
Scene At 6.30.


-Brian in Atlanta
The Who This Month!
http://www.thewhothismonth.com

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