Thanks to Drew Huge for spotting this classic clip of Rock Around The Clock, a hip-hop event broadcast on UK TV in 1986 featuring performances from Word of Mouth and DJ Cheese, Mantronix, T La Rock and local lads Phaze One, with commentary from Morgan Khan, Dave Pierce and John Peel (who was able to squeeze in a quick appearance in-between bedding underage school girls). There’s also some break dancing and graffiti action going on, but I pity the fool who would rather watch someone doing a headspin on a chair than witness the microphone techniques of the great Terry La Rock backed-up by Kurtis on the decks!
That would be ‘Dangerous’ Dave Pearce and as for the shot at John Peel, don’t speak ill of the dead. One of the biggest peados in England in the 80’s was that fucking Aussie nonce Rolf Harris.
Kurtis looks like it’s his first time on a pair of turntables, which can’t be true. I agree wholeheartedly with Sonny7.
@sonny7: So because Peel is dead and Harris isn’t he gets a pass? Not in my book.
Whenever I look at old Mantronik videos I’m always impressed by how prescient they are in terms of style and fashion. Nowadays he looks like an airbrushed wax sculpture of Henry Rollins. http://streetsoundsevents.com/Kurtis_0071_400px.png
Try not to speak ill of Peel, or Stalin, or Hitler either for that matter, very disrespectful. They were a great bunch of lads, what with them being dead and all.
No he doesn’t automatically get a pass because he’s dead. He isn’t here to defend himself, if he was still alive you wouldn’t have said shit and you know you wouldn’t. If you’re committed to calling out people in the music industry who’ve slept with underage girls, how about you start with some of these emcees you jock? No I didn’t think so!
And comparing Peel with Hitler & Stalin? C’mon now!!
@sonny7: I wasn’t trying to disrespect the man, just making a quip about something he himself admitted to while he was alive. I would do the same for any rapper that made similar revelations.
Ok I understand. It’s just that in the UK at the moment there is a Paedophile hysteria about celebrities from that era and certain publications are trying to make John Peel out to have been a lifelong sexual predator like Jimmy Saville or Gary Glitter.
blimey, it’s all getting a bit tense in here, meanwhile I still want that adidas cyclone top Cheese is rocking.