The Royal Variety Performance 1977 (FULL SHOW) 

1977, what a year, i was 16, just left school, we had The Jam, The Sex Pistols, Northern Soul, Watneys Special Beer, Beautiful, all natural women, who didn't set off metal detectors, and dressed to show off their figure, not their tattoos.. And I saw Tommy Cooper in a midnight cabaret at Butlins a few months before this was recorded, absolutely brilliant live

The kind of show that will never be staged again. And how young they all were ...

Great to be able to enjoy this once again. The Royal Variety was a must watch and signalled that Christmas was fast approaching. Sadly, this also illustates how poor the vast majority of recent shows are.

"When Rudolph Nureyev leaps across the stage, his talent sticks out a mile !" - Hylda Baker

I was 7 years old then when this was broadcast .....and i ALLWAYS love watching the royal vareity performeances each year ( still do but they aint the same as they used to be now the headliner at the end performs one or two songs if its a singer ( the last one was only one song and a bit of a let down tbh for the so called headliner! ) i remember when they had a headliner on in past shows like this and they got a good 10 to 15 min to close the show in style! ) as for Tommy Cooper as some one mentioned i remeber this at 7 years old watching the silver jubille performance and SADLY remember watching live on TV the live from her majesty's show when i was 14 in 1984 and remember seeing him collapse etc and turned round to my mum and said "somethings not right" even i KNEW as a 14 yr old somthing was not right or gone wrong when he didn't get up ! R.I.P Tommy Cooper one of the great late comedians of the time ...they dont make em like that anymore ( even WHAT they call VARIETY has changed so much over the years!) Me as an individual was glad to grow up in the 70s and 80s when what i would call TRUE VARIETY still existed!

and I’ll sing once more🤩🤩🤩. Such a voice!

The act Tommy did was the one he did when he died on stage. RIP Tommy.

Little and Large ironically known as a comedy act.

There's a number missing from the Brotherhood of Man's act. I think it may have been Save Your Kisses for Me?

Fun fact: The same recording of “We Got Us” by the Muppets in this performance can also be heard on the second Muppet Show record.

The brilliant John Dankworth, John Williams with the lovely Cleo Laine, the great Tommy Cooper was always funny and the lovely Shirley always worth watching, and nice to see Bob Hope as the host.

Rich little, arguably the greatest impressionist ever...not sure what his act was tonight..his Englebert sounded pretty similar to Tom Jones

Tommy was one of our most loved and funny commedieans, but by this stage he was on the way down sadly.

This is absolute 24 Carat Gold.

Is it bad that I find Pam Ayres quite alluring❤️

Cloe Lane WOW 😊

Now I remember why I absolutely detested 'Little and Large' who were about as funny as an ingrowing toenail.

It's so dark it's unwatchable.

In the years when their were real stars.

BROTHERHOOD OF MAN....BRILLIANT. Shows we had it better than ABBA. But why not do highwayman which was the single at the time?

What no conveyor belt this week??

Shame it was so dark.

Bob Hopes comments re Anwar Sadat & the current crisis with Netanyahu now - 50 years later & it’s all happening again!