TOPPOP: Matchbox - Rockabilly Rebel

Artist: Matchbox
Title: Rockabilly Rebel
Broadcast date: 6-6-1979
TV program: TopPop
Video rights: AVRO

TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.

World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.

PLEASE NOTE:

[whynotwhynot]

I am 56 now, and I bought this record in 1980, I wasn't old at that time.. THIS is music ✌🏽

[barryphillips]

Modern music will NEVER EVER EVER EVER be this

[daveshaw]

Love these rockabilly rebels . Time to bring back the rockabilly movement.

[juhatuominen]

I'm 58 years old, but rockabilly is always in my heart

[easystar]

This was my late father's favourite song. He never bought a record in his life except this one and I had to play it for him over and over again on the record player as he loved it so much. I was 16 when this song was released. Matchbox were a class act.

[austinmackie]

One of the best rockabilly songs ever, keep rockin

[robertglare]

Great fun loving song. Thank goodness all of these fantastic old clips are still around, I'd go crazy if I had to listen to todays crap

[joseywales]

I used to play this in my barrack room in the early 80s used to drive all the skinheads nuts……god bless em….keep on rockin

[_Ben]

The secret of this song & just how good it forever sounds must go to recording engineer Mike Shipley....He was an absolute genius, really understood how to make & record great sounds & had the most incredible career, from Matchbox & The Damned in the 70's thru' so many including Def Leppard, Faith Hill, Kelly Clarkson, Shania Twain & Alison Krauss before his sad passing away...

[IanMoon-zi]

17 when I got this I'm now 61 and still rockin still gigging and still buying vynil rock and roll forever❤

[haydoncooper]

Saw these guys gig in a Potato Shed top of Sutton Bank 43 years ago they were absolutely Brilliant.

[nathaliegrieves]

They don't make music like this now. 🙁

[wolfgangkluge]

Amazing for everybody who loved Rockabilly Songs 😊❤✌️

[charlesnelson]

Old music by far the best singers 1960s and 1970s and 1980s 👍

[petemaxwell]

I have loved Rockabilly and Rock n Roll since I was a little boy, im in my late 50s now and still love them just as much

[stevesmith-nxcn]

80s rockabilly bands matchbox / stray cats /jets /coast to coast / whirlwind just a few great times

[olafsalzmann]

Well done. I still feel like a teenager when I hear this song. Thank you for the music. Was the soundtrack of my live in these days. My father did not shoot pics of me because of my Teddaboy Haircut and so on... Sweet memories

[mattcollier]

I was with Graham Fenton the other day and were talking, remember seeing them at our local Rock N Roll club when i was in my late teens, was a Ted then, This is the tune that started the Rockabilly revival in the 80s, no doubt the signature tune. Im still Rockin to this day in my 50s, and will do until my last breath

[jimmywrangles]

I remember when this was a thing, I'm so old.

[peterfarrel]

this is the first group I seen live in 1979 at the Cheltenham town hall.