Annie Nightingale the early 1980s she presented a Friday night show and the non-music-based "Radio 1 Mailbag" and "Talkabout". In 1978, Nightingale became the main presenter of "The Old Grey Whistle Test" on BBC2 as a replacement for long-time host Bob Harris. During her tenure, the show moved away from its traditional bias under Harris towards country music, blues rock and progressive rock and embraced popular modern styles such as punk rock and new wave. She left the series in 1982. She had begun "The Sunday Request Show" in September 1975, originally on Sunday afternoons until the end of 1979. It began
American Girl (Tom Petty song) the song on the BBC2 television show "The Old Grey Whistle Test" in 1978. The song has been featured in several Hollywood films and television shows, most notably "FM" (1978), "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1982), "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), The Sopranos (1999), Scrubs (TV series) (2001), "Chasing Liberty" (2004), Parks and Recreation (2009), "Ricki and the Flash" (2015) and "The Handmaid's Tale" (2017). Its use in "The Silence of the Lambs" made the list of Top 11 Uses of Classic Rock in Cinema at UGO. According to Tom Petty, The Strokes have admitted to taking the riff