Radio and TV appearances

This is a detailed listing of the radio and television appearances that I know of. Let me know if you can add others to this list!

I only have four Mr Big videos myself, but I will glady trade Lucky Man (Shang-A-Lang), For The Fun To Find (Supersonic), Romeo (Supersonic and Musikladen) for others I don't have!


TV and video:


unknown Mr Big song - Softly Softly Task Force (England, 1974)
Mr Big debuted on British TV with a spot in the police show Softly Softly Task Force (featuring Paul Nicholas).

unknown Mr Big song - Lift-off With Ashia (England, 1974)
Mr Big's second TV appearances was in Lift off with Ashia.

"Wonderful Creation" - unknown TV-show (England, 1975)
"Wonderful Creation" was performed on British TV. No details available.

"Lucky Man" - Shang-A-Lang (England, 1975)



In 1975, Mr Big guested on Bay City Rollers' TV-show "Shang-A-Lang" - performing "Lucky Man". This clip was included on a 1993 home-video called "The Best Of The Bay City Rollers - Shang-A-Lang", available in USA, UK and Japan. The other acts on the video were Gary Glitter, the Glitter Band, Alvin Stardust, Rubettes, Showaddywaddy, Slade, the Goodies and Lulu.

USA video: Castle Vision CMP 5097
UK video: Granada LWT CVI 1728
Japan video: Video Arts Music VAVZ-2124
Japan laser disc: Video Arts Music VALZ-2124

"Fun To Find" - Supersonic (England, 1975)
Supersonic was a popular show from London Weekend Television/ITV Network. Mr Big guested twice on this show - the first time with "Fun To Find" on show no 20: Sweet-The Lies In Your Eyes / Ozo-Listen To The Buddah / Mr Big-For The Fun To Find / Sutherland Brothers & Quiver-Arms of Mary / Rogue-Fallen Angel / Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel-White White Dove

unknown Mr Big song - Superpop (England, 1975)
Mr Big did at least one performance at Superpop.

"Romeo" - Top Of The Pops (England, 1977)
BBC's Top Of The Pop was perhaps the most popular British music show in the 70s. Mr Big's appearance helped push "Romeo" to #4 in the UK charts.

"Romeo" - Supersonic (England, 1977)
Mr Big second appearance on Supersonic was on show no 39: Leo Sayer-You Make Me Feel Like Dancing / Real Thing-You'll Never Know What You're Missing / Mr Big-Romeo / Andy Fairweather Low-Be Bop 'n' Holla / Real Thing-Hallelujah Man / Scrounger-Our Love / Leo Sayer-When I Need You

"Romeo" - Musikladen (Germany, 1977)
Mr Big travelled to Germany to perform "Romeo" for Musikladen, the successor to Beat Club - Germany's most popular TV-show.

Mr Big live in Boston - unknown TV-show (USA, 1977)
While touring the US in February, March and April 1977 with Tom Petty, Journey, Kansas and The Runaways, the band filmed 20 minutes live for a Boston TV station.

"Senora" - Top Of The Pops (England, 1978)
Mr Big's second (and final) Top Of The Pops appearance was to promote "Senora" - their last single.

"It's All Over" - unknown TV-shows (Germany, 1984)
In 1984 Dicken guested on several TV shows in Germany promoting his solo single "It's All Over". No information available.


Radio:


radio session (England, 1975)
Many British bands recorded sessions for the BBC, but sadly Mr Big never did. They did however record a session for another British radio station in 1975 - probably Capitol Radio. Four songs were recorded:


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