Paper Lace - Billy Don't Be A Hero (Promo Video, January 1974)

Paper Lace are one of FIFTY artists and groups from the ‘70s that are profiled in my book 'LOOK WOT THEY DUN! (The Ultimate Guide to UK Glam Rock on TV in The ‘70s)'. Also featured is a lengthy bonus chapter on Pan’s People’s TOTP appearances, along with a foreword by PP legend Dee Dee Wilde.
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1. T. Rex
2. David Bowie
3. The Kinks
4. The Move
5. Elton John
6. The Sweet
7. The Rolling Stones
8. Slade
9. Middle Of The Road
10. The Faces
11. Rod Stewart
12. Chicory Tip
13. Gary Glitter
14. The Electric Light Orchestra
15. Mott The Hoople
16. 10cc
17. Blackfoot Sue
18. Roxy Music
19. Lieutenant Pigeon
20. Geordie
21. Wizzard
22. Mud
23. Suzi Quatro
24. Barry Blue
25. David Essex
26. Alvin Stardust
27. Cozy Powell
28. Leo Sayer
29. The Bay City Rollers
30. Paper Lace
31. Mick Ronson
32. Queen
33. The Glitter Band
34. Sparks
35. The Rubettes
36. Paul Da Vinci
37. Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
38. Showaddywaddy
39. The Arrows
40. The Heavy Metal Kids
41. Pilot
42. Hello
43. Kenny
44. Fox
45. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
46. Chris Spedding
47. Sailor
48. Be-Bop Deluxe
49. Bilbo Baggins
50. Slik
Pan’s People (BONUS CHAPTER)

[@peterchecksfield1031]

New book out now: 'TOP OF THE POPS: The Lost Years Rediscovered 1964-1975'! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09H995H6R Featuring exclusive contributions from: Frank Allen (The Searchers) Peter Asher (Peter and Gordon) Russ Ballard (The Roulettes/Argent) Peter Bartholomew (The Overlanders) Eric Bell (Thin Lizzy) Bev Bevan (The Move/The Electric Light Orchestra) Mick Box (Uriah Heep) John Cameron (C.C.S.) William Campbell Jnr. (Marmalade + solo) Jeff Christie (Christie) Frank Collins (Arrival) Peter Daltrey (Fairfield Parlour) David Van Day (Guys ‘n’ Dolls) Kiki Dee Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) Ralph Ellis (The Swinging Blue Jeans) Steve Ellis (Love Affair) Ray Ennis (The Swinging Blue Jeans) Nigel Fletcher (Lieutenant Pigeon) Graham Gouldman (10cc) Julie Hammersley (The Angelettes) Anita Harris Murray Head Catherine Howe Spencer James (The First Class) Steve Jameson (Nosmo King) Georg Kajanus (Sailor) Jonathan King Sonja Kristina (Curved Air) Mick Liber (Python Lee Jackson/Ashton, Gardner and Dyke) Jim McClusky (Wigan’s Ovation) Ian McCredie (Middle Of The Road) Jacqui McShee (Pentangle) Peter Oakman (Harley Quinne) Bill Oddie (The Goodies) Dave Pegg (Fairport Convention) Mike Pender (The Searchers) Brian Poole (The Tremeloes) P.J. Proby Suzi Quatro Milton Reame-James (Cockney Rebel) Steve Rowland (Family Dogg) Chris Sandford (Yin and Yan) Roger Ruskin Spear (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) John Sebastian (The Lovin’ Spoonful) Rodney Slater (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) “Legs” Larry Smith (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) John Springate (The Glitter Band) Livingston Taylor (singer-songwriter brother of James Taylor) Barbara Thompson (sax-playing wife of late drummer Jon Hiseman from Colosseum) Sylvia Vrethammar (Swedish singer of ‘Y Viva España’ fame) Alan Whitehead (Marmalade) Dee Dee Wilde (Pan’s People legend) Robert Woodward (Lieutenant Pigeon) Philip Wright (Paper Lace)

[@laurabarlow3812]

Reminds me of my big sister when she used to babysit us. Years later, I went into the Air Force, and sadly, a few years after that, she passed away from cancer. I was 9 when both versions were popular. RIP Karen

[@johnb30021]

Sorry ! 🙏🏼♥️🤗She’s in Heaven ! Bless You !! 💕🌹

[@Steve-yo4ld]

Like it was yesterday, we were young and innocent with our whole life ahead of us, where has the time gone!?😢

[@user-wj9gu7kj6g]

I know that feeling

[@jeanlow129]

Brings back childhood memories 😊

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

Me too because I am a qualified lesbian 😊

[@michaelrosenow4393]

"LEGENDARY" The Legacy of the "60's-70" , "KEEP IT ALIVE" ...

[@robinshankland3499]

All the 'story songs' from the 70s. I was so little but could sing all of them...we all could. Most were harmless...

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

This is an anti war song

[@davidmarshall5596]

Bloody great nostalgia what a terrific song 🎵 😊🎉

[@genevievegelatto8447]

I never realized that Paper Lace did this song first! I only knew of the Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods version. Great song.

[@MrBabyBoa]

Same here!

[@dalekriescher7462]

A nother song that i miss from the 70 s wow 😢😢😢

[@kerryeastlake8812]

Loved this song growing up

[@carriebautch9382]

Dear god, someone went into my 70's life to play this one. Love love love it❤!

[@duradim1]

It's been decades since I've heard this.

[@stevensheldon4655]

A simple song but unbelievably sang + produced!🤩♥️♥️👍

[@justme6767]

Still.know all the words love this song

[@fabianernestopacheco]

Wow, it's a beautiful song!

[@YouTubeChannel-qk9rk]

Always searching for purely original live videos, such as this most favorite one of my boyhood. Good & clear video with all of its originality from Paperlace.

[@djangiebaby]

classic tune i loved it 💖

[@mariaestherromero1265]

Muchas pero muchas gracias ala persona que puso está joya de canción al fin la escuché después de tantos años se lo agradezco muchos abrazos

[@johnpatterson4272]

I remember this tune upon its initial release from Paper Lace on AM radio. I got a K-Tel compilation record with the same song on it, thinking it was the Paper Lace version, it wasn't although to my 10 year old self it sounded very similar. I prefer the Paper Lace version.

[@vonniedemers5683]

I used to be able to whitsle all the way through.. One if my favorites.

[@chrislaney7141]

The first record I ever brought, absolutely brilliant

[@pamelajordan2890]

Paper Lace were actually Historians. Told a lot of truths ❤❤

[@stefankaziuk7285]

Super !!!

[@Bjowolf2]

Now I am going to be whistling that marching part for several days - thank you 🙄😂

[@hughiedavies6069]

I remember this from being a kid. Now over 60 , I listen to the lyrics I can't believe people bought this kind of ridiculous thing, but they did 😂

[@dja69]

The lsst time I seen this promo here in Australia was around 1976 and in color if memory serves me well.

[@SisterDogmata]

1st record I ever bought! The flip side was called Celia I think.

[@RodneyBrook-xz6tc]

Such a classic legendary Powerful song love it so much it reminds me of growing up in the 70s such a very beautiful time in my life 💓🇬🇧🎸🎸🎸😎

[@user-vx4ry1si4r]

Reminds 1975 I was Twelve we be picking cucumbers My brother Manuel Jr strap a transiter radio on his belt we heard all the hits on WTTO T oledo Ohio We were Mi grants

[@billyjoyner7796]

New song means a lot to me

[@alfredoduran1635]

Awesome song!❤

[@anthonyrichards7730]

they had 3 big hits this one the black eyes boys on the bus stop record label from the 70s🎶👍

[@spacerazer]

Being a Canadian this is the version they played on the radio instead of Bo.

[@korky5214]

1st June 2024 listening to this in Cape Town.

[@acornsucks2111]

Giving us a history lesson we ignored.

[@effiemcfarland6735]

One of my favorite songs

[@federicoaaguirresalazar8163]

Lastima q ya no ayga grupos como estos

[@krislulofs]

Nice song of the seventies.Nice song from paper lace😎

[@sharonlunday]

One of the best

[@nbenefiel]

So many of the kids I went to school with never came home from Vietnam.

[@brucemattson4399]

That’s so sad

[@ElvarMasson]

You're too dramatic. This song has nothing to do with anything here in the real world

[@nbenefiel]

@@ElvarMasson This song came out during the height of the Vietnam war, the height of the draft. We all lost people we loved.

[@nbenefiel]

@@ElvarMasson May I take it that you are too young to remember Vietnam or the draft?

[@garybrockwell2031]

Every day i hear this??? And the Ted's take over😳🤑🤔🧐🤫😱☠️💰💪

[@szaszjanosne8821]

Imádom nagyon klassz!

[@LuisRomero-uq1zw]

Classic remembered song

[@wandson5410]

Oh great song

[@Pauleyh2]

Best version

[@marianlucas2947]

Believe this song is a cover. First performed my Bo Donaldson and The Heywood's

[@DraigBlackCat]

No, this is the original. Written by 2 British song writers and Paper Lace took it to No 1 here on 16th March 1974.

[@iainborland5402]

It was Paper Lace that had the original. Bo did a version and fooled the US it was his hit

[@kennethpack1963]

Wish I was 34 again , fun times...

[@terrygarcia897]

This is the only reason why I have a computer phone. Texas

[@timbrown8038]

Don't be a fool with your life. Timeless advice.

[@user-st1fg9iv8w]

❤love it 2:56

[@christiecooper1479]

5/2023🙂

[@shotsatwhitetails3289]

Didn't Jenny tell Forest the same thing before shipping out to Vietnam!

[@Bjowolf2]

ALF ( the space alien ) to his host dad Willie Tanner: "Willie, don't be a hero - don't be a fool with your life!" WT is about to let a couple of FBI agents into the house, who are looking for a missing colleague - ALF has knocked the FBI agent out and captured him thinking he was a burglar, when he was snooping around in the garden 😂

[@robertpolnicky7702]

I thought it was bo Donaldson and the heywoods that made that a hit.

[@user-xi4ok5cq3l]

В Союзе их любили❤

[@janicehumphrey4450]

Though this was Bonaldson and the heroes did this Song how did you claim it I actually know them and was there when I came out so WTF

[@octavio9657]

La otra canción, que tuvo menos exito, era mejor. "The night Chicago died"

[@mikefitz6957]

Yes, was going to say that.

[@jrnumex9286]

paper mace, what the heck did the usa versions have over ours? why billies GF not on screen singing?

[@frankb7271]

The bassist just recently died.

[@danielshade710]

Horrible music

[@talon1706]

Lol.

[@johnb30021]

Is your middle name ADD HOLE 🕳️ 🥹🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Steve-yo4ld]

​@John K Always has to be that one on YT, never fails! You know those like him have had a miserable life!✌️

[@drwisdom1]

@@Steve-yo4ld I grew up back then and this is the kind of pop song that would make me change the radio station rather than enduring it. But 50 years later it is fun to suffer it.

[@alfredbenedek3398]

A very nice, patriotic mentality & faithfulness of helping one another, what was killed out of today's generations. Oh no, patriotism isn't just waving the f;lag, the Archie Bunker style, yet being a smart Alac, = Ask not what your cointry can do for you, ask, what can you do, for your country. = Hey, wait a minute? Isn't that a Democrat slogan, of a famous, good Democrat president? Yeahh? Practice the patriotism, regardless of party member ship?!! 💯 + ✌/ ☮ = 🗽

[@rustybooker]

Terrible….just awful

[@alfredbenedek3398]

Can you erite, perform, publish & take the responsibility for a better song? I don't think you could!