“Lady Madonna” is broadcast on Top Of The Pops

On February 11, 1968, The Beatles were filmed at EMI Studios on Abbey Road, recording “Hey Bulldog.” This footage was repurposed to create a promotional film for “Lady Madonna.”

From this footage, three versions of the “Lady Madonna” clip were produced, incorporating special effects like filters and double exposures, along with additional material from Cilla Black’s “Step Inside Love” session in November 1967.

“Lady Madonna” debuted on British television through BBC’s “Top Of The Pops” on March 14, 1968. It is still uncertain whether this broadcast featured Version 1 or Version 2.

From Wikipedia:

In Britain, Parlophone issued “Lady Madonna” backed by “The Inner Light” on 15 March 1968, with the catalogue number R 5675. The single was released three days later in the United States, as Capitol 2138. One of the promo clips was aired by the BBC on the 14 March edition of Top of the Pops and then on Alan Freeman’s All Systems Freeman the following day, and in the US on ABC-TV’s The Hollywood Palace on 30 March. In Everett’s description, the single was “at the forefront of a spring–summer 1968 rock-and-roll revival in the United Kingdom”, which included UK-exclusive reissues of singles by Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and Little Richard.

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