BBC Perfect Day promo

The award-winning cover of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day", commissioned to celebrate 75 years of the BBC and featuring a plethora of big names from the music industry including Tom Jones and the man himself. The entire 4-minute video is presented here. Despite the massive popularity of this promotion it seems not everyone liked it. BBC2 tended to show Perfect Day at weekends in the gap between the end of main programmes and the start of the overnight Learning Zone – taking five minutes out of the time available for Pages from Ceefax. In those days when the Ceefax minidiscs lasted longer than the downtime slots, this was not a popular move!