Ridgeway
Veteran
- Location
- Lausanne, Switzerland
The Dutch national TDF anthem, know it well having been camped on many HC cols and having it played all night.
There is no current C4 theme tune for the Tour. ITV have had it for 20 years now!I like the current C4 theme tune but this one is in another league, just classic early 80's electro pop.
Shelley is no longer alive. His family gave permission after Mitch Docker did some detective work. The story is in one of the early LITP episodes, which I think was repeated early in its TCP run.I was listening to The Cycling Podcast at lunch - they recently got permission to use this version on their Life In The Peloton series. I think Shelley is a friend of someone on the program. Google Mitch Docker (who presents it)
For the first few years, coverage was on itv 2 (which was then a mixed drama/entertainment channel rather than its current low-brow mix) and repeated late nights on itv 1 for people who hadn't yet switched to digital (a repeat that still happens, allowing non-hub/Sky viewers to get it in HD). I think it moved to the recently-launched itv4 for the 2006 tour and has been there ever since.Did coverage go from C4 to ITV, and then to ITV4? (in my mind ITV4 is still a new channel :P ) And did they steal much of the C4 presenting/production team?