#OnThisDay 1960: "I think it'll be a hit, mainly because I think it's terrible" Blue Angel, Roy Orbison's follow-up to Only the Lonely, got rather short shrift on Juke Box Jury. | BBC Archive

Continuing our Top Ten of 2024, at number 2... Johnny Rotten on Juke Box Jury in 1979, hosted by Noel Edmunds. It went, well, sort of how you might imagine. | BBC Archive

#OTD 1959: Juke Box Jury first aired. Each week David Jacobs played a selection of 7" singles on a large juke box to a panel of four celebrities. We don't seem to have the inaugural episode so here's a clip from 1960 instead. | BBC Archive

#OTD 1959: Juke Box Jury was broadcast for the first time hosted by David Jacobs. This clip is from a 1960 episode. It would run in this format until December 1967 and was revived in 1979 and again in 1989/90. | BBC Archive

#OTD 1959: Juke Box Jury first aired. Err...we don't seem to have that episode, here's a clip from 1960 instead. Connie Francis fans might want to give this a wide berth. | BBC Archive

On This Day 1979 📺 'Juke Box Jury' It's 'Juke Box Jury' and snotty punkster Johnny Rotten is put alongside three guests who all could easily be stereotyped by him as part of the "establishment". Just to set the mood music, this short clip misses out the review of the first record by Showaddywaddy, 'Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller', which the panel unanimously declared would be a 'Miss'. The second record "Bad Girls" by Donna Summer is again declared a 'Miss', as is Abba's 'Angeleyes'. All wrong! O

When John Lydon walked off the set of Juke Box Jury after Alan Freeman told him to "shut up"... and Lydon was the only one talking any sense... Notice the panel are drinking and smoking... such dangerous times to be alive in 1979! | Radio BC 33