Words:
Chris Arnsby
Sybil
Ruscoe: “Good evening and welcome to Britain's best pop music show, in
brilliant stereo on lead-free Radio 1. Tonight we're making history.”
Jenny
Powell: “Yeah Sybil. We must be the only two girls to present Top of the Pops,
mustn't we? Well to start the show we've got Sydney Youngblood he's number four
with If Only I Could.”
[4] SYDNEY YOUNGBLOOD: if only i could. Lead-free? Sybil's topical reference refers to EU legislation which required unleaded petrol to be widely available from October 1989. And the week of 25 September to 1 October was named as National Lead-Free Petrol Week by CLEAR (the Campaign for LEad free AiR -who designed that acronym?). There was a lot of excitement and confusion about what this would mean for the man on the Clapham omnibus, besides lower levels of lead in his blood. The result was reports like this from Top Gear “on the mysteries of going green.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bngMZhYgYg.