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Ready to Roll - two openings
Television (Excerpts) – 1975
The opening sequence of music show Ready to Roll is imprinted on the eyes and ears of many Kiwi music fans. The show jumped directly from the opening graphics to a quick rundown of the week's top 20 singles. Here are two of RTR's beloved openings: the late 1970s version is scored to 1974 Commmodores instrumental 'Machine Gun'. In the mid 80s, Peter Blake composed a synthesizer opening. The new colours favoured electric neon, and the graphics owed a debt to the arcade computer games that followed Space Invaders. The week's featured acts were listed next, then the countdown.
Key Cast & Crew
Peter Blake
Mike Peebles
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