The jury failed to reach a verdict on two charges so he may yet face a retrial on those counts. A decision is due by Feb 24.

 

 

Yes, sorry, hadn't read that when I posted. Not quite over yet then. The judge can just dismiss those charges now though if he sees fit.

The jury failed to reach a verdict on two charges so he may yet face a retrial on those counts. A decision is due by Feb 24.

 

My first contribution on here for a while, thanks to all who keep posting on this thread.

 

Would be great if we could get the DLT programmes back again, and he is now the second celebrity in the space of a few weeks to be cleared, or almost cleared, of all charges.

 

Makes you wonder whether Savile was ever guilty in the first place...................

Edited February 16, 201411 yr by blackcat

My first contribution on here for a while, thanks to all who keep posting on this thread.

 

Would be great if we could get the DLT programmes back again, and he is now the second celebrity in the space of a few weeks to be cleared, or almost cleared, of all charges.

 

Makes you wonder whether Savile was ever guilty in the first place...................

 

pretty sure Savile WAS, though the police and BBC reactions to him was SO pathetic theyve decided to pout and say "I'll show you then" by taking celebrities to trial on proven dubious charges, according to the Juries. One would have thought those in power would know what constitutes a reasonable chance of conviction, other than vague 40-year-old inconsistent accusations about stuff that wasn't regarded as being particularly trauma-inducing at the time (even if it were true). I, as a man, have been groped and on the scale of things in life, found them not at all traumatising as opposed to being beaten up or threatened with violence, which was.

This may sound stupid, maybe it would be worth having a court case for Saville - even though he's dead...I soppose it would be upto his family members to defend him if it were to happen.

Edited February 18, 201411 yr by fiesta

Tonight February 15, 1979.

 

Full Show.

 

15-2-79: Presenter: Peter Powell

 

(7) THE BEE GEES – Tragedy (and charts)

(54) THE DOOLEYS – Honey I’m Lost

(11) GENERATION X – King Rocker ®

(6) EDWIN STARR – Contact (danced to by Legs & Co)

(39) ALAN PRICE – Baby Of Mine

(30) PEACHES & HERB – Shake Your Groove Thing (video)

(46) THE PRETENDERS – Stop Your Sobbing

(21) GLORIA GAYNOR – I Will Survive (video)

(62) LENE LOVICH – Lucky Number

(3) THE THREE DEGREES – Woman In Love (video)

(50) THE SKIDS – Into The Valley

(1) BLONDIE – Heart Of Glass (video)

(17) THIRD WORLD – Cool Meditation (and credits)

 

BBC Radio 1 Sunday Chart Presenter: Simon Bates

 

The Chart

 

Week Ending 17 February 1979

 

1 ( 1 ) Blondie - HEART OF GLASS ( 4 Wks )

2 ( 2 ) Abba - CHIQUITITA ( 3 Wks )

3 ( 3 ) Three Degrees - WOMAN IN LOVE ( 6 Wks )

4 ( 7 ) Leif Garrett - I WAS MADE FOR DANCIN' ( 5 Wks )

5 ( 5 ) Shadows - DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA ( 10 Wks )

6 ( 11 ) Edwin Starr - CONTACT ( 4 Wks )

7 ( NEW ) Bee Gees - TRAGEDY ( 1 Wk )

8 ( 4 ) Ian Dury And The Blockheads - HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICK ( 11 Wks )

9 ( 13 ) Dr Feelgood - MILK AND ALCOHOL ( 5 Wks )

10 ( 9 ) Driver 67 - CAR 67 ( 9 Wks )

11 ( 16 ) Generation X - KING ROCKER ( 5 Wks )

12 ( 12 ) Billy Joel - MY LIFE ( 12 Wks )

13 ( 45 ) Elvis Costello And The Attractions - OLIVER'S ARMY ( 2 Wks )

14 ( 8 ) Earth Wind And Fire - SEPTEMBER ( 11 Wks )

15 ( 20 ) Judas Priest - TAKE ON THE WORLD ( 5 Wks )

16 ( 10 ) Olivia Newton John - A LITTLE MORE LOVE ( 10 Wks )

17 ( 18 ) Third World - COOL MEDITATION ( 7 Wks )

18 ( 14 ) Barry White - JUST THE WAY YOU ARE ( 10 Wks )

19 ( 29 ) Rod Stewart - AIN'T LOVE A BITCH ( 3 Wks )

20 ( 17 ) Dan Hartman - THIS IS IT ( 6 Wks )

21 ( 32 ) Gloria Gaynor - I WILL SURVIVE ( 3 Wks )

22 ( 21 ) Gene Chandler - GET DOWN ( 3 Wks )

23 ( 6 ) Village People - YMCA ( 13 Wks )

24 ( 27 ) Anne Murray - YOU NEEDED ME ( 11 Wks )

25 ( 23 ) Members - SOUND OF THE SUBURBS ( 3 Wks )

26 ( 24 ) Sally Oldfield - MIRRORS ( 11 Wks )

27 ( 50 ) Darts - GET IT ( 2 Wks )

28 ( 25 ) Barry Manilow - COULD IT BE MAGIC ( 9 Wks )

29 ( 31 ) Shalamar - TAKE THAT TO THE BANK ( 11 Wks )

30 ( 34 ) Peaches And Herb - SHAKE YOUR GROOVE THING ( 5 Wks )

31 ( 36 ) Nazareth - MAY THE SUN SHINE ( 4 Wks )

32 ( 38 ) Andy Gibb - (OUR LOVE) DON'T THROW IT ALL AWAY ( 4 Wks )

33 ( 19 ) Racey - LAY YOUR LOVE ON ME ( 13 Wks )

34 ( 15 ) Paul Evans - HELLO THIS IS JOANNE ( 10 Wks )

35 ( 41 ) UFO - DOCTOR DOCTOR ( 4 Wks )

36 ( 28 ) Chic - LE FREAK ( 14 Wks )

37 ( 35 ) Meat Loaf - BAT OUT OF HELL ( 2 Wks )

38 ( 44 ) Queen - DON'T STOP ME NOW ( 2 Wks )

39 ( NEW ) Alan Price - BABY OF MINE / JUST FOR YOU ( 1 Wk )

40 ( 33 ) Doll - DESIRE ME ( 6 Wks )

So we’re back after a week’s break to see what delights were served up for us on 15 February 1979.

 

Bee Gees over the chart rundown. Not one of their best which makes it really bad. Very much late 70s Bee Gees by numbers.

 

The Dooleys as the first performers. Don’t remember it and hope to forget it again soon. One of the Rubettes seems to have joined them with his hat.

 

Generation X again to provide the first quality performance of the night.

 

The quality plummets again for Legs & Co “dancing” to Edwin Starr. Awful.

 

Alan Price next. Sadly his best days were long behind him.

 

Peaches & Herb next all very sparkly. This wasn’t a big hit but they soon reunited and reached the top ten. Shame they bothered really.

 

Ah, now for some real class with The Pretenders’ first TOTP appearance doing a Kinks cover.

 

Gloria Gaynor with her signature song. Somehow this is treated as a gay anthem by some despite her homophobic remarks. Let’s just file it under R for rubbish.

 

This week’s WTF slot comes from Lena Lovich. Something of a Marmite song but I rather liked it and it still sounds good. Lena Lovich subsequently changed her name to Liteks Lovech and became a Bulgarian football team.

 

The Skids to wake us from our slumbers. That Rubettes hat is back again. It’s doing the rounds tonight.

 

And Blondie remain at number one. Make the most of it. The next show is missing and they had left the top spot by the following week.

 

Third World to play us out before we jump ahead five years and watch Ever Decreasing Circles.

This week’s show was first broadcast on the day of the Scottish devolution referendum. They voted in favour of devolution but the threshold of 40% of the electorate was not reached so it failed. The SNP withdrew their support for the Labour government in the subsequent confidence vote thereby paving the way for a General Election won by that deradful woman.

 

Cars over the chart so that’s a decent start.

 

The quality is maintained - goes up even - with The Skids.

 

Gloria Gaynor again. The quality couldn’t last and it hasn’t.

 

On to Thin Lizzy. I once worked with someone who played a leading part in the campaign to get a Phil Lynott statue in Dublin. She was even interviewed on RTE.

 

My response to seeing Gary’s Gang in the chart was “Who?” Now that I’ve heard it, I still don’t remember it but I suspect I didn’t like it at the time. Awful rubbish. Unlike another Gary he didn’t ask Do You Wanna Be In My Gang?

 

Ah, this is better. Some vintage Queen. It wasn’t particularly cool to like Queen at the time but I still did.

 

Chic sounding just like a Nile Rodgers outfit. Funny that.

 

Violinski (an ELO off-shoot) and Lene Lovich cut from the short version.

 

Boney M next. This song only just reached the top ten proving that even Boney M couldn’t have a major hit with any old rubbish.

 

David Essex not with one of his best tunes.

 

And it’s a tragic number one for the Bee Gees. A year earlier they were in the charts with Stayin’ Alive and this week Bruce Springsteen started a show in Australia with a cover version! It’s actually quite a relief that they are not in a position to return the compliment.

 

And we finish with the Sex Pistols doing Eddie Cochran. Hmmm.

 

Ah I loved them all at the time, and mostly still do B-)

 

So, the SNP showed the Scottish people what for with their dreadful pouty "I'll show you then" threw out their toys from the pram and subjected the entire nation to a decade of misery? Thanks guys!

 

Cars. Fab. Skids, Fab. Gloria. Classic. Lizzy. Great. Gary's Gang. Err, of it's time. Queen. Bigger now than then, both the record and the band. Chic/ Nile Rodgers. Bigger than ever in 2014 (and fab). Boney M. Love the frozen dancing and the electric guitar on the track. David Essex. Marching dramatic military appeal. Bee Gees. Classic. Sex Pistols. Hilarious. Well, at least until the end of the year. Not quite so funny then....

 

Springsteen recognises quality music, then. Good for him B-) As Barry Gibb is actually touring shortly, I'm sure you can look forward to the favour returned now you've put the idea out there. I know I'd pay to hear him do a cover of Hungry Heart Bee Gees stylee, it would SO work :lol:

 

 

 

 

So, the SNP showed the Scottish people what for with their dreadful pouty "I'll show you then" threw out their toys from the pram and subjected the entire nation to a decade of misery? Thanks guys!

 

Ha! Callaghan would have had to call an election by October 1979 anyway wouldn't he? Mind you, looking at the 1979 returns, my constituency returned a Tory that year...must have been a lot of poor, misguided fools up here looking for "a change".

Good show this week, even enjoyed Boney M strangely enough.

 

Teaser Question: what unusual thing do both Garys Gang and Dave Clark Five have in common?

Edited February 28, 201411 yr by fiesta

Good show this week, even enjoyed Boney M strangely enough.

 

Teaser Question: what unusual thing do both Garys Gang and Dave Clark Five have in common?

 

now there's a good question I dont know the answer to!

 

The only connection I can think of is if they are both named after the drummer...?

now there's a good question I dont know the answer to!

 

The only connection I can think of is if they are both named after the drummer...?

 

 

You do know the answer, well done! :)

now there's a good question I dont know the answer to!

 

The only connection I can think of is if they are both named after the drummer...?

You beat me to it! Based on knowledge of the Dave Clark Five that would have been my guess too :lol:

You beat me to it! Based on knowledge of the Dave Clark Five that would have been my guess too :lol:

 

It certainly wasn't a guess based on my knowledge of Gary's Gang for me either :lol:

And so off we go with another edition of Top of the Pops.

 

Herbie Hancock over the chart.

 

And the first performers are Inner Circle whoever they were. They were quite big at the time. Actually, let’s be blunt. They were fat. And not very good.

 

Ah now, this is much better. One of Elvis Costello’s best singles.

 

On to the Sex Pistols and Legs & Co. Yes, Legs & Co dancing to the Pistols doing Eddie Cochran. Bizarre hardly begins to describe it.

 

Buzzcocks next. We’ve had Everything Is Great and now Everybody’s Happy Nowadays. Well this is no Everything Is Awesome and for that we should be for ever grateful.

 

Dennis Brown with some reggae(ish). His biggest link with Bob Marley is that they are both dead.

 

The Late Show or the poor man’s Showaddywaddy. Apparently The Bristol Stomp was written by the pair who wrote Let’s Twist Again.

 

The Real Thing sounding just as bad as I remembered.

 

Cliff, The Dooleys and Motorhead cut from the short version despite what the continuity announcer said before the programme.

 

And it’s time for the Leyton Buzzards who won a Radio 1 competition. Better than The Real Thing (as Bono wrote) but still pretty poor. Two of them went on to form Modern Romance. They weren’t much good either.

 

A second and final week at the top for the Bee Gees. And another Legs & Co routine. Good grief.

 

And the return of Gary’s Gang over the credits. Please make it stop.

I didnt know the Leyton Buzzards were Modern Romance. That explains quite a lot, in both cases.

 

Inner Circle were bigger in the 90's, quite literally, and they had a problem with Sweat (a la la la long), cos they were also Bad Boys.

 

Buzzcocks, oh so catchy and oh so fab, still love it.

 

If that chopped Motorhead is Overkill, I shall be peeved, as it was faboolous.

 

The Bristol Stomp was popular (in it's original version) on the 50's revival scene going on at this time, to be fair the main scene in mansfield. I thought it was jolly good fun. I recall The Pretenders playing Mansfield Leisure Centre (original classic line-up) in 1981, and it was half-bloody empty. I think Chrissie or someone referred to it in a book, quite rightly. Everything Is Awesome (about them live!) and the locals preferred Teddy music.

 

The appeal of Chris Amoo in the Real Thing shouldn't be under-estimated, not to mention his cute younger brother Eddie B-) Can You Feel The Force? Not 'alf pop-pickers!

 

 

 

 

I didnt know the Leyton Buzzards were Modern Romance. That explains quite a lot, in both cases.

 

Inner Circle were bigger in the 90's, quite literally, and they had a problem with Sweat (a la la la long), cos they were also Bad Boys.

 

Buzzcocks, oh so catchy and oh so fab, still love it.

 

If that chopped Motorhead is Overkill, I shall be peeved, as it was faboolous.

 

The Bristol Stomp was popular (in it's original version) on the 50's revival scene going on at this time, to be fair the main scene in mansfield. I thought it was jolly good fun. I recall The Pretenders playing Mansfield Leisure Centre (original classic line-up) in 1981, and it was half-bloody empty. I think Chrissie or someone referred to it in a book, quite rightly. Everything Is Awesome (about them live!) and the locals preferred Teddy music.

 

The appeal of Chris Amoo in the Real Thing shouldn't be under-estimated, not to mention his cute younger brother Eddie B-) Can You Feel The Force? Not 'alf pop-pickers!

The Motorhead track will have been Overkill as it was in the chart at the time. It will be on the repeat at half past midnight.

 

I saw The Pretenders at the Poole Arts Centre as it then was :D It must have been the same tour as your date in Mansfield but at least Poole was more enthusiastic than Mansfield.

Darnit, we switched it on while The Late Show were on, looks like we missed some crackers just before that. Must watch the repeat as 'Everybody's Happy Nowadays' is easily my favourite Buzzcocks song...and Legs & Co doing the Sex Pistols...that's gotta be good!

 

And, yeah, we really enjoyed The Real Thing too...guilty.

 

As for Gary's Gang - how can you not love the Moog solo? It made me smile.

Edited March 7, 201411 yr by richie

Another good show for me, the quality of the music has been much better than most of the previous shows.

 

Bristol Stomp was a big American hit for The Dovells in 1961, the band included Len Barry of 123 fame.

 

 

Pop Quiz Question this week. Sex Pistols were on with a Eddie Cochran song, so which successful songwriter links both Eddie Cochran and Phil Everly?

So, after a break last week we return with the programme first broadcast on my mother’s 44th birthday and the day Nicolas Anelka was born. He threw his first strop within about 20 minutes.

 

Players Association over the chart. Time to turn the music down.

 

A vast improvement with The Jam as the first proper act. And somebody is playing with their new special effects gadget.

 

Lena Lovich up next. Yes, again but it’s worth it.

 

On to Dorothy’s dog or Toto as they were generally known. Fairly typical American soft rock.

 

Continuing the American soft rock theme, it’s The Cars. They had used up their one big hit for such a band so this was low top twenty. Live Aid eventually saw them break that one big hit quota.

 

A change of style now with Chic. A change for the programme that is. It is still very much standard Chic.

 

They missed out Violinski a couple programmes ago. Listening to it now that was probably a wise move. Not exactly the best ELO side project ever.

 

The Skids cut from the short version.

 

Herbie Hancock enjoying his brief moment in the limelight.

 

Black Lace (yes, the Agadoo people) with their Eurovision entry. It didn’t win. What would we have thought then if we were told this would be nowhere near their worst song?

 

Gloria Gaynor at number one for the first week. She beat Elvis Costello and so should never be forgiven.

 

And we play out with some Queen. Don’t Stop Me Now? They just did.