News of the World Tour The Houston concert is considered one of their best bootlegs. In the book "The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience", novelist Tracy Chevalier recalls attending one of this tour's concerts at the age of 15: Robert Hilburn of the "Los Angeles Times" called this concert tour the band's "most spectacularly staged and finely honed show yet". "We arrived in Las Vegas on Monday," recalled "Old Grey Whistle Test" presenter Bob Harris, who was travelling with the band for a filmed piece, "and the band weren't playing until Thursday, so we had three days to
The Old Grey Whistle Test the glam metal scene of the 1980s. The show became the template for many successive "serious" British music programmes, such as the BBC's "Later... with Jools Holland" and "From the Basement" as well as OGWT's independent television rivals Alright Now", "Revolver" and "The Tube". In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted for by industry professionals, "The Old Grey Whistle Test" was placed 33rd. The Arctic Monkeys referenced the show in the track Four Out of Five, from their 2018 release "Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino". A parody