December 21, 20159 yr Top of the Pops 2 - 2015 is repeated on Wednesday night at 11pm. Didn't realize it was on earlier this month until I read this topic this morning.
December 22, 20159 yr Cool thanks! I'm looking forward to the 1975 Xmas specials!! Me too. There's just one though, on Xmas Day, followed by the 1979 one repeated.
December 22, 20159 yr Estimated sales for the last sales week of 1980 1- THERE’S NO-ONE QUITE LIKE GRANDMA- St Winifred’s School Choir (252,000) 2- (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER- John Lennon & Yoko Ono (231,000) 3- STOP THE CALVARY- Jona Lewie (183,000) 4- HAPPY CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER)- John Lennon (122,000) 5- SUPER TROUPER- Abba (86,000) 6- DE DO DO DO, DE DA DA DA- The Police (83,000) 7- ANTMUSIC- Adam & The Ants (77,000) 8- EMBARRASSMENT- Madness (71,000) 9- IMAGINE- John Lennon (59,000) 10- RUNAWAY BOYS- Stray Cats (58,000)
December 23, 20159 yr Author Is BBC 4 moving to online only in 2016? :( BBC3 is becoming online only. The future of BBC4 is still uncertain.
December 26, 20159 yr Taped the 1975 Xmas day TOTPs going to watch it today. Have they shown this before? I know it was 1976 that the repeats started with?
January 4, 20169 yr The songs that we won't see in TOTP 1981 re-runs due to them being on yewtreed editions. Although we may see some on the 1981 compilation show this week. The only Human League song that isn't on a yewtreed edition is Don't You Want Me and we will miss U2's debut on TOTP with Fire. Light of the World - I Shot the Sheriff Stevie Wonder - I Ain't Gonna Stand For It (Legs and Co) UFO - Lonely Heart Mac Davis - It's Hard to be Humble Level 42 - Love Games Matchbox - Babes In The Wood Roger Taylor - Future Management Barry Manilow - Bermuda Triangle (Legs and Co) Freeez - Flying High Madness - Grey Day (video) Quincy Jones - Ai No Corrida (Legs and Co) The Teardrop Explodes - Treason (It's Just A Story) The Beat - All Out To Get You Human League - Sound of the Crowd Duran Duran - Careless Memories Bucks Fizz - Piece of the Action Landscape - Norman Bates Ultravox - All Stood Still Quincy Jones - Razzamatazz (Legs and Co) Barry Biggs - Wide Awake in a Dream Rainbow - Can't Happen Here (video) Tenpole Tudor - Wunderbar Lobo - The Caribbean Disco Show Human League - Love Action (I believe in Love) Enigma - I Love Music U2 - Fire Siouxsie and the Banshees - Arabian Knights Randy Crawford - Rainy Night in Georgia The Hollies - Holliedaze Barry Manilow - Let's Hang On Shakin Stevens - It's Raining Elvis Costello - A Good Year For the Roses (video) Tight Fit - Back to the Sixties part 2 Human League - Open Your Heart This Year's Blonde - Platinum Pop Gillan - Nightmare (video) The Jam - Absolute Beginners Showaddywaddy - Footsteps Ken Dodd - Hold My Hand The following performances will not be shown either, however the videos to the songs will be shown on other editions. Toyah - I Want to be Free Enigma - Ain't No Stopping Ultravox - The Voice Madness - Shut Up Kool and the Gang - Steppin Out Edited January 4, 20169 yr by Mark.
January 4, 20169 yr How many episodes are we missing in this run again? I assume there are 52/53 altogether each year?
January 9, 20169 yr So did anyone watch The Story of 1981? The question I've been asking for ages - Legs and co give their last performance in the summer of 1981, they were replaced with ridiculous looking fire eaters and dancers in the audience for some reason that November. Some great tracks tho with Human League, Ultra Vox, Kim Wilde & Adam and the Ants all being huge and videos becoming more unique and common!
January 9, 20169 yr Great show tonight, both The Story Of 1981 and the compilation afterwards. 2 editions next week, Thursday and Friday night. Trending on Twitter too, been a good night, some great tweets. https://twitter.com/hashtag/TOTP81?src=tren
January 14, 20169 yr Taped the 1975 Xmas day TOTPs going to watch it today. Have they shown this before? I know it was 1976 that the repeats started with? I don't think it's been on since, well, 1975.
January 14, 20169 yr Taped the 1975 Xmas day TOTPs going to watch it today. Have they shown this before? I know it was 1976 that the repeats started with? I don't think it's been on since, well, 1975.
January 14, 20169 yr Taped the 1975 Xmas day TOTPs going to watch it today. Have they shown this before? I know it was 1976 that the repeats started with? I don't think it's been on since, well, 1975.
January 14, 20169 yr Author The TOTP repeats are back, and we’re into 1981. Thankfully, we have been spared the week (two if you include the frozen chart) where that terrible choir topped the chart. They are safely down to number six. Richard Skinner is our host this week. The show was followed by a David Attenborough film. He would then have been around the age that I am now. The pointless preview of what is to come has been dropped and we go straight into the first song. The 1981 compilation shown over Christmas contained a lot of very good stuff. Racey’s version of Runaround Sue was not included in the programme. A gold star to the person who made that decision. It’s a pretty awful start to the fist show of the year. After inflicting Racey on us, Adam And The Ants have been cut. This isn’t going well. The Look next with their only top forty hit. The single only ended when you took the needle off the record. It carried obn into the run-off groove endlessly repeating Beat, Beat ad infinitum. Oh dear, Barry Manilow and Legs & Co. What a combination. That compilation programme had so much promise. This is far from Manilow’s best, which makes it exceptionally dire. Into the first part if the chart rundown - the blue period. We’ve had I Am The Beat, so here are The Beat. On to Sad Cafe with yet another reminder that they had more than one hit. This is the last of their four top forty hits. Another chance to see Matchbox for anyone who really wanted that. That’s some nose he’s got there. Almost Manilow-esque. On to the chart rundown’s purple patch. Some people liked Chas and Dave. I didn’t. I still don’t. The Specials have been cut, as have the Nolans. That’s one bad decision and one good one. No prizes for guessing which way round. Does anyone remember this Bad Manners song? Buster Bloodvessel as Henry VIII. What did Keith Michel think? The last bit of the chart rundown, the big top ten. It’s a multi-coloured swapshop for this bit. John Lennon moves up to number one with his most famous song. He is also at numbers two (climbing with Happy Christmas War Is Over) and five. Somehow, that sounds familiar. 35 years on, we are mourning the loss of another all-time great. He returned to the singles chart the following week with Scary Monsters And Super Creeps. That show is Yewtreed. Whether he made it onto TOTP that week or the following week may be revealed tomorrow. For now at least, we are getting two shows each week. Another Bowie link for the final song from Queen. Gordon’s ALI-I-I-VE!!!!! Oh, they missed that bit. Ah well, don’t forget there’s another show tomorrow.
January 14, 20169 yr ooh ta for the friday tip, I didnt know. I can't condone any Ant Specials chopping, not when there is Manilow Chas n Dave available. Not a classic episode, the post-xmas chart went a bit limp, apart from John Lennon dominating. I have to support The Nolans - not a huge fan actually, but their latter singles were way better than Manilow, Chas n Dave, Racey, and the Sad Cafe track. Prob also Bad Manners, which I do recall well (I reviewed their gig in Lincoln for Record Mirror in early '81, and have the Greatest Hits) though Lorraine not their best single by any means...
January 15, 20169 yr Why are there 2 shows a week now again? From the review of the year ahead show, it's clear that 1981 was the start of the real 80s and by 1982 it didn't look anything like the 70s any longer with the dress sense and the whole look of the show and its artists! Edited January 15, 20169 yr by Steve201
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