30-417: Ready Steady Go may refer to: Television [ edit ] Ready Steady Go! , a 1963–1966 British music TV programme Ready Steady Go (Pakistani TV series) , a 2017–2020 sitcom Music [ edit ] Ready, Steady, Go! (album) , by Drake Bell, 2014 "Ready Steady Go" (L'Arc-en-Ciel song) , 2004 "Ready Steady Go", a song by Nami Tamaki from
60-464: A particular following among the mod youth subculture of the 1960s. In late 1966, when the "beat boom" was fading, the show was cancelled, despite its popularity. Compilations were broadcast on Channel 4 in the 1990s and VHS videos included a Beatles live special and The Sounds of Motown special edition. In 1989 the show was seen for the first time in the US, on Disney Channel . During that time, Disney
90-698: A popular name for babies in the 1960s. Andrew Loog Oldham , former manager of the Rolling Stones , said of the band's early success as rivals to the Beatles: "If the Beatles ever looked over their shoulders, it was not the Stones they saw. They saw the Dave Clark 5 or Herman's Hermits ." The band broke up in 1970, and Clark stopped drumming in 1972 after he broke four knuckles in a tobogganing accident. Clark later wrote
120-466: A science fiction stage musical , Time , which debuted in 1986. It played for two years in London's West End , starring Cliff Richard (replaced later by David Cassidy ). The musical also launched a concept album, likewise titled Time , which featured Richard, Freddie Mercury , Leo Sayer , Stevie Wonder and Dionne Warwick . Two million copies were sold and it spun off several hit singles. Clark
150-566: A television production, Hold On, It's the Dave Clark Five . In the 1980s he acquired the rights to the 1960s UK music show Ready Steady Go! . On the release of a Dave Clark Five British hits album in the mid-1970s, Clark resided in the US for a year, thus avoiding paying UK taxes in Britain on the proceeds of that release. The British government challenged this but lost the case in court. In 1993, Clark released remastered versions of all
180-454: Is also the possibility that The Who's " Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere " was used as the theme music for a short period. It was more youth-orientated and informal than its BBC rival (from 1964), Top of the Pops . It was notable for featuring the audience as dancers, and for the interaction of artists and audience. Artists appeared on different mini-stages, sometimes on studio gantries and stairs, or on
210-635: Is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and entrepreneur. Clark was the leader, drummer and manager of the 1960s beat group the Dave Clark Five , the first British Invasion band to follow the Beatles to the United States in 1964. In 2008, Clark and his band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . Clark was born in Tottenham , then lived in Middlesex . He left school without qualifications at
240-501: Is an entrepreneur and a multi-millionaire. He owns a £ 12 million house in West London . From the outset, Clark owned the rights to all the Dave Clark Five music masters. It is claimed that other songwriters in the band were required to give copyright ownership of their tunes to Clark, even if he did not co-write them. In the late 1960s, in addition to managing his band, Clark began directing and producing for television. In 1968 he made
270-407: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ready Steady Go! Ready Steady Go! (or RSG! ) was a British rock/pop music television programme broadcast every Friday evening from 9 August 1963 until 23 December 1966. It was conceived by Elkan Allan , head of Rediffusion TV. Allan wanted a light entertainment programme different from
300-776: The Small Faces , the Shirelles , James Brown & the Famous Flames , the Yardbirds , Them , Jim Reeves and the Four Pennies . During the 4 October 1963 episode – The Beatles' first appearance – Paul McCartney judged four teenage girls miming to Brenda Lee 's " Let's Jump the Broomstick " (the group had opened for Lee before becoming famous), choosing 14-year-old Melanie Coe as winner. Three years later, after Coe's disappearance made
330-612: The 1980s Dave Clark of the Dave Clark Five acquired the rights to the 1960s UK music show and bought the rights to the surviving recordings. On 10 January 2018, BMG Rights Management announced that it had acquired the ancillary rights to Ready, Steady, Go! The show went out early on Friday evenings with the line "The weekend starts here!", and was introduced by the Surfaris ' " Wipe Out ", later by Manfred Mann 's " 5-4-3-2-1 ", then Manfred Mann's "Hubble Bubble (Toil and Trouble)", and finally The Rolling Stones ' " Goin' Home ". There
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#1732854683489360-455: The 2006 album Speciality "Ready Steady Go", a 1978 song by Generation X, from the 1978 album Generation X "Southern Sun"/"Ready Steady Go" , by Oakenfold, 2002 See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Ready Steady Go "Ready Steady Goa", a song by Half Man Half Biscuit from the 1998 album Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral Topics referred to by
390-488: The Dave Clark Five singles on a CD, Glad All Over Again . Companies House lists him as director of several companies. Clark was a close friend of Freddie Mercury , whom he had known since 1976. He was by Mercury's bedside when the Queen singer died on 24 November 1991. In 2008, marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the band, the Dave Clark Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . Clark, making
420-976: The Fortunes , Helen Shapiro , P.J. Proby , Otis Redding , Freddie and the Dreamers , the Dave Clark Five, Bobby Vee , the Animals ,The Crickets, Cilla Black , Gulliver's People, the Searchers , Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames , Billy Fury , Lulu , Marvin Gaye , Gene Pitney and the Beach Boys (who made their first appearance on British television on the show ). It also featured Sandie Shaw , Burt Bacharach , Jerry Lee Lewis , Paul Simon (who would later cite his appearance as his worst experience while living in England), Kenny Lynch ,
450-926: The Rolling Stones to other people's records, including "I Got You Babe". It featured most successful artists of the era, among them the Who , the Beatles , the Hollies , the Merseybeats , the Zombies , Dusty Springfield , the Supremes , the Temptations , the Walker Brothers , the Kinks , Paul Butterfield Blues Band , Gerry & the Pacemakers , the Fourmost , the Rolling Stones , Donovan ,
480-758: The Supremes , Stevie Wonder , the Miracles and Martha and the Vandellas , which was a VHS video in the 1980s. The Supremes performed their " Stop! In the Name of Love " dance routine for the first time on the show...and The Miracles closed the show with their hit, " Mickey's Monkey ". The Who proved particularly popular, making the most appearances of any artist – a total of 18 between January 1965 and December 1966. The band had an episode to themselves entitled Ready Steady Who , broadcast in October 1966. The band also released an EP of
510-662: The UK. They unseated the Beatles ' " I Want to Hold Your Hand " from its number one spot in the UK singles charts in January 1964 with " Glad All Over ". The British press, briefly, called them the Beatles' "most serious threat". The Dave Clark Five were the first British Invasion band to follow the Beatles to the United States in 1964, where they achieved 14 top 20 hits, eight of which were consecutive. They also appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show more times than any other English group. Dave Clark became
540-542: The age of 15 and claims to have become a film stuntman , performing in over 40 films (although IMDB only gives him four pre-fame film credits). In the late 1950s he bought a set of drums, taught himself how to play them, and formed a skiffle band to raise funds so that his football team could travel to the Netherlands . The skiffle band grew into the Dave Clark Five , with Clark their leader, co-songwriter, manager and producer. The Dave Clark Five grew in popularity in
570-443: The company had bigger facilities at Wembley in the west of the capital, it was easier to attract stars and audiences to central London. As the studios were compact it was not possible to hide cameras. The ever-present cameras, which were large with rotating lens turrets rather than zooms, were sometimes incorporated into the action, including in a Manfred Mann performance of "Machines", which ended with Paul Jones singing crouched on
600-523: The floor surrounded by cameras. RSG was originally from Studio 9 in Kingsway when artists mimed; it later moved to Studio 5 at Wembley, enabling artists to perform live. Artists' own recorded backing tracks were not allowed by the Musicians' Union so the whole of Studio 5 (normally divided into 5a and 5b) was used so an orchestra could perform the backing live. The show was popular among young people. It had
630-573: The front page of the Daily Mirror , McCartney used the article as the basis for " She's Leaving Home ". Jimi Hendrix made his first television appearance in Britain on RSG! with " Hey Joe ", performing live. After this, his club tour sold out and he was added to a nationwide tour by the Walker Brothers . Dusty Springfield devised and introduced the RSG Motown Special in April 1965, featuring
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#1732854683489660-473: The low-brow style of light entertainment transmitted by ATV . The programme was produced without scenery or costumes and with a minimum of choreography and make-up. Allan recruited a fellow journalist, Francis Hitching , as producer. Hitching became a major figure in light entertainment in the 1960s. Robert Fleming was the first director, followed by the documentary director Rollo Gamble, then Michael Lindsay-Hogg , Daphne Shadwell and Peter Croft. The programme
690-420: The main floor for solo artists, closely surrounded by the audience. The producers chose the audience in London clubs, picking out the best or the most fashionably dressed dancers. This ensured a hip audience in tune with the artists. Owing to scheduling of local news in parts of the UK, several ITV regions joined the show part-way through. Initially, RSG! artists mimed but by late 1964 some performed live and
720-560: The same name; despite the title all of the tracks were studio recordings which had been made previously. The Walker Brothers were also popular and had a live edition in 1966 but the tape was wiped , although extracts surfaced on YouTube in 2009. On 20 March 2020, BBC Four broadcast a documentary about Ready Steady Go! , with original clips, plus interviews with Martha Reeves, Mary Wilson, Paul Jones, Chris Farlowe, Vicki Wickham, Annie Nightingale and Michael Lindsay Hogg. Dave Clark (musician) David Clark (born 15 December 1939)
750-427: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ready Steady Go . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ready_Steady_Go&oldid=1041061768 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
780-547: The show switched to all-live performances in April 1965. It was noted for allowing artists to perform the full version of songs rather than short versions demanded by other shows. The programme was never broadcast in the United States, perhaps because it was in black and white when ABC , CBS and NBC were converting to full colour. The show was recorded at small studios in Rediffusion's headquarters in Kingsway , London. Although
810-584: The way from Sheffield on a Tuesday no less. I expect you'll be eager to go home and get back to work, what with the weekend coming up and all.' John Varney, Sheffield 'Ace Face' replied 'are you kidding mate - the weekend starts here' and the slogan was born. Over the next three years, Pete Stringfellow and the Sheffield Mojo crowd were regulars on the now renamed 'Ready Steady Go'. The best known presenters were Keith Fordyce and Cathy McGowan , though early shows were introduced by Dusty Springfield . The show
840-474: Was a pay channel aimed at adults at night. Ready steady go" was released as a limited edition dvd set by kaleidoscope home entertainment in 2023 (with performances by the Beatles removed due to licensing problems) copies can be found (at inflated prices) on auction sites. After the recording of the pilot episode on Tuesday 16 July 1963, Keith Fordyce approached a group of Mods who had travelled from Sheffield's King Mojo club and asked 'so you chaps have come all
870-460: Was occasionally presented by David Gell and Michael Aldred . Both McGowan and Aldred joined after answering an advertisement for "a typical teenager" as adviser. They found themselves presenting the show, and McGowan's status as a fan was evident in her style; stumbling over lines and losing her cool, her inexperience made her more rather than less popular, and by the end she was presenting alone. She also joined in fun and games, including miming with
900-401: Was produced by Associated-Rediffusion , the weekday ITV contractor for London , called Rediffusion-London after 1964. The live show was eventually networked nationally. The show gained its highest ratings on 20 March 1964 when it featured the Beatles being interviewed and performing " It Won't Be Long ", " You Can't Do That " and " Can't Buy Me Love " – the last being a hit at the time. In
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