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post Aug 31 2019, 10:14 AM
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Top of the Pops 5/5/1988 Presented by Bruno Brooke's & Adrian John

Interesting they considered New Orders highest NE a RE at 10! Were the sales combined with the 1983 version?

I didn't notice that. In those days,you could only buy a single if it was in the shops. I doubt if any of the shops whose sales counted towards the chart would have had the 1983 version on their shelves so that chart position would have been the remix only.
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post Aug 31 2019, 07:48 PM
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I think it was counted - didn't it have the original version as part of the CD single? I certainly have a CD edition containing all of the versions. Checks: yes 700,000 the original 12" version, so the subsequent multi-versions took over a million combined, it says on wikipedia.

That edition of TOTP had 3 absolutely awful tracks, oops! Plus 4 classics.... Talk about extreme!
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post Sep 7 2019, 10:45 PM
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Top of the Pops 12/5/1988 Presented by Mike Read & Simon Mayo

Harry Enfield Loadsa Money £££ No4
Prince Alphabet Street (Video) No9
The Adventures Broken Land No23
Narada Divine Emotions No16

Breakers **Liverpool FC Anfield Rap (Video) No13 NE
Breakers **Belinda Carlisle Circle in the Sand (Video) No31 NE
Breakers **Derek B Bad Young Brother (Video) No26
Breakers **Prefab Spout The King Of Rock N Roll (Video) No28

Starturn on 45 Pints Pump Up The Bitter No12
Wet Wet Wet & Billy Bragg With A Little Help From My Friends No5 NE

***No1 Fairground Attraction Perfect No1***
Kylie Minogue Got To Be Certain (Video) No15 NE




That was a decent episode. Some of my highlights were obviously the fantastic new no1 from the wonderful Fairground Attraction, an absolute classic that still gets played to this day. Pity Simon Mayo wasn't 100% accurate saying they won't be 1 hit wonders - they only got one more top 40 hit and 2 top 75 hits which for the talent of the lead singer seems not a lot. The other great songs were Prefab Sprout & The Adventures. I'd never heard of either bands but heard both songs a lot which is a good sign and why I watch the old totps.

Haven't heard the new Kylie there thought her next one was Locamotion.


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Broken Land by The Adventures is a fantastic song. It would be their only top 40 hit. The King Of Rock'n' Roll is a good one as well and Prefab Sprout's biggest hit single. I think the next Kylie single after this one will be The Locomotion.
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post Sep 8 2019, 10:07 AM
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QUOTE(Steve201 @ Aug 31 2019, 01:48 AM) *
Interesting they considered New Orders highest NE a RE at 10! Were the sales combined with the 1983 version?


They were combined- it's the only way it's position on the Gallup end of decade chart can be explained. It was actually always available and a consistent seller in the intervening years- it was the 391st best seller of 1985, 425th the year after and 451st in 1987 though we're only talking around 15k a year for those positions.
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Hi '80s friends,

Anyone of you have TOTP june 05, 11, 25 1987 in original quality to trade? I was traveling overseas last march ;/

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Top of the Pops 19/5/1988 Presented by Simon Bates & Gary Davies

Prefab Sprout The King of Rock n Roll No 13
Kylie Minogue Got To Be Certain (Video) No 4
Derek B Bad Young Brother No 16

Breakers **Heart What About Love (Video) No 19
Breakers **Ofra Haza Im nin' alu (Video) No 25
Breakers **Hothouse Flowers Don't Go (Video) No 22 NE
Breakers **Debbie Gibson Out of the Blue (Video) No 27

Aztec Camera Somewhere in my Heart No 17
Belinda Carlisle Circle in the Sand (Video) No 13
***No 1 Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey She's Leaving Home/Wet Wet Wet With A Little Help From My Friends No 1***
Liverpool FC The Anfield Rap (Video) No 3




Another enjoyable episode here - good to here Prefab Sprout live in the studio and the Aztec Camera song is fab and an absolute classic - made for radio wondefulness lol. Scritti Politi return to the top 40 again and this episode made me take notice of the 3 mentioned bands and the fact they had been having hits since the start of he decade but we're having their biggest hit this late in the decade all of a sudden for me anyway. Poor no1 but always good to see Billy Bragg do well.


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Top of the Pops 26/5/1988 Presented by Steve Wright & Mark Goodier

Debbie Gibson Out of the Blue no19
LA Mix Check This Out (Video) No13
Ofra Haza Im Nin 'Alu No15

Breakers **Climie Fisher This Is Me (Video) No22
Breakers **Aswad Give A Little Love (Video) NE No25
Breakers **The Style Council Life At A Top People's Health Farm (Video) NE No28

Hot House Flowers Don't Go No11
Mica Paris My One Temptations No17
Scritti Politti Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy) No16
***No1 Billy Bragg & Cara Tivey She's Leaving Home/Wet Wet Wet With A Little Help From My Friends No1***
Heart What About Love (Video) No14



Really like the Heart power ballad, a classic now isn't it?! Also good to see Scritti Politti back for the first time in a while and Hot House Flowers is a good record!


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post Sep 21 2019, 10:13 AM
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The Scritti Politti song is great,their best single I think. I also like the Ofra Haza song.
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Last week BBC4 showed the episodes for 9th and 16th June. This week they are showing 30th June and 7th July. What happened to the one for 23rd June? It was presented by Nicky Campbell and Mark Goodier. There's no one dodgy on the list of performers so why isn't it being shown?
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I wonder why that is? Must tweet them?!!

Is tonights Janice Longs final episode? She hasn't Presented in ages, maybe since 1987!?
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post Sep 27 2019, 07:19 PM
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Just checked there on the twitter feed myself and a few others on here follow and they said it was skipped because the quality of the archive footage wasn't good enough quality to broadcast live(audio issues).

There's some clips online by all accounts.


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OK,I'll look for the performances on youtube. UB40 & Chrissie Hynde and Eurythmics were both in the studio that week.

Janice Long will be back on 4th August but I can't see her listed beyond that.
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Sad to see Janice going and by the end of this year Peter Powell and Simon Bates as well - all long running legends on the show making way for the 90s crew.

Didn't think we would have the Eurythmics back on totp as they were past their peak by 1988!
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Top of the Pops 2/6/1988 Presented by Peter Powell & Nicky Campbell

Aswad Give A Little Love (Video) No15
Desireless Voyage Voyage (Video) No14
Tiffany I Saw Him Standing There (Video) No23

Breakers **Timelords Doctorin The Tardis (Video) No22
Breakers **Voice of the Beehive Don't Call and Baby (Video) No27 NE
Breakers **Five Star Another Weekend (Video) No25 NE

Aztec Camera Somewhere in my Heart No5
Rod Stewart Lost in You (Video) No21

***No1 Wet Wet Wet With A Little Help From My Friends/Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey She's Leaving Home ***No1
Belinda Carlisle Circles in the Sand (Video) No4




This episode was shot in a corridor showing old clips and videos due to an asbestos scare just in case you were wondering why Nicky Campbell looks a bit scared and Peter Powell has responded to the situation by being so cold he wears a cricket jumper in mid June. He took it off later anyway!

Not much of note this week apart from the wonderful Aztec Camera song which gets better with each play. Anyone notice the future famous face in the Voyage Voyage video?


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I was wondering why the studio wasn't used for that episode.

I've had another look at the video for Voyage Voyage. There is no one obvious I can spot. Two of them look like Mark Benton and Nadia Sawalha.
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QUOTE(King Rollo @ Sep 28 2019, 11:11 AM) *
I was wondering why the studio wasn't used for that episode.

I've had another look at the video for Voyage Voyage. There is no one obvious I can spot. Two of them look like Mark Benton and Nadia Sawalha.


It was the guy who would star in NCIS a few decades later!

David Caruso!


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Top of the Pops 9/6/1988 Presented by Peter Powell & Simon Mayo

The Timelords Doctorin The Tardis No4
Five Star Another Weekend (Video) No18
Voice Of The Beehive Don't Call Me Baby No23
Mica Paris My One Temptation No7

**Breakers Fields of the Nephilim Moonchild (Video) No28
**Breakers Sabrina Boys(Summertime) (Video) No24 NE
**Breakers James Brown I'm Real (Video) No31

Maxi Priest Wild World No15
Morrissey Everyday Is Like Sunday No12
***No1 Wet Wet Wet With A Little Help From My Friends/Billy Bragg & Cara Tivey She's Leaving Home ***No1 4th Week
Erasure Chains of Love (Video) No19



Decent episode that - the wonderful performance in studio by Morrissey and Maxi Priest are the clear highlights. Also that first chart breaker was a bit dire!!

Feels like Wet Wet Wet have been no1 for ever and I've a bad feeling the awful Doctorin the Tardis will replace it....


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Top of the Pops 16/6/1988 Presented by Mike Read & Gary Davies

Sabrina Boys No4
Erasure Chains of Love No11
The Sisters of Mercy Lucretia My Reflection No20 NE

**Breakers Fat Boys/Chubbie Checker The Twist (Video) No19 NE
**Breakers Eurythmics You Have a Place to Chill In My Heart (Video) No25
**Breakers A-Ha The Blood That Moves The Body (Video) No26 NE
**Breakers Sade Paradise (Video) No29

Matt Bianco Don't Blame it on that Girl No21
Bros I Owe You Nothing No2 NE
***No1 The Timelords Doctorin The Tardis No1***
The Pasadenas Tribute (Right On) (Video) No16




Terrible No1 the original soundtrack sounds a lot better than this House make up!! Suppose it's all a bit of fun and I've learned that every year in the 70s/80s there's a novelty record in the middle of the year that lands at the top spot, not just at Xmas like nowadays. Good show though overall - we got to see that performance of 'I Owe You Nothing by Bros and The Sisters of Mercy & Erasure were nice additions!!


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