seminal music programme that in the days before the internet, mtv and pop soaked kids programmes was the difinitive music show for pop.

 

we allways watched it dispite criticising it! lol, but it was only as good as the music of the day.

 

i remember millie singing 'my boy lolipop' and handing out lolipops to the audience, i think it was the first totp.

 

which was yours?

I remember seeing the videos for ABBA's Knowing Me Knowing You and Take A Chance On Me.

 

My favourite TOTP moments, though...

 

Sandie Shaw writhing barefoot with The Smiths for Hand In Glove

Morrissey in a hearing aid, gladiolis dangling from his back pocket with Marry Me scrawled on his bare chest

Bananarama with hunks in cycling shorts... risque at the time I remember.

The Orb playing chess on a glass board

Kate Bush looking positively beautiful for Hounds Of Love

Siouxsie in a top hat camping it up for Peek-a-Boo

I do remember Bohemian Rhapsody in 75 and I am pretty sure I can remember Bowie doing Rebel Rebel but that might have been another program.

 

My favourite moments are the one I was on, dancing like a prat behind Cyndi Lauper, the Mondays/Roses show in 89 and The Smiths everytime they managed to get on.

 

Oh and Peely slating George Michael on the duet with Aretha Franklin.

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Oh and Peely slating George Michael on the duet with Aretha Franklin.

 

oh yea, I remember that vaguely - what was it he said again?

 

John Peel was always the best presenter because of his sneering, waspish sarcasm. What a great guy he was - for anyone who hasn't read it - Margrave of the Marshes, the book written half by him, half by his family, is pretty essential.

My first really vivid memory of TOTP was probably the Boomtown Rats vid for "I Don't Like Mondays".... And of course Bowie's marvellous "Ashes To Ashes"....

 

Siouxsie Sioux's appearance on TOTP (cant remember which song it was, all I really remember was the absolute Goddess on the screen in front of me...) made me fall in love for the first time..... :wub: And Deborah Harry's was the second time I fell in love.....

 

The legendary Morrissey/The Smiths appearance for "William, It Was Really Nothing" actually made me start questioning my sexuality...... :lol: :lol:

The first TOTP I remember was when they showed the video for Adam and the Ants' Prince Charming. I didn't know this was a pop show or a pop video and thought Adam Ant was some kind of superhero who could change shape. I loved it when he swang on the chandelier.

 

I was four years old, ok?

oh yea, I remember that vaguely - what was it he said again?

 

John Peel was always the best presenter because of his sneering, waspish sarcasm. What a great guy he was - for anyone who hasn't read it - Margrave of the Marshes, the book written half by him, half by his family, is petty essential.

 

It was something along the lines of:

 

Well Aretha Franklin can make any old rubbish sound good and I think she just has.

The first TOTP I remember was when they showed the video for Adam and the Ants' Prince Charming. I didn't know this was a pop show or a pop video and thought Adam Ant was some kind of superhero who could change shape. I loved it when he swang on the chandelier.

 

I was four years old, ok?

 

Yep, Remember that one too.... I thought Adam And was the coolest muthafukka ever when I was about 8 or 9..... :lol: :lol:

 

Then later, moving out to LA, getting into drugs and getting busted with an illegal concealed firearm.... Oh dear....... :o

 

Yep, Remember that one too.... I thought Adam And was the coolest muthafukka ever when I was about 8 or 9..... :lol: :lol:

 

Then later, moving out to LA, getting into drugs and getting busted with an illegal concealed firearm.... Oh dear....... :o

 

Well he does suffer from a bipolar disorder - remember him chucking a car battery through a pub window in London.

 

 

Earliest TOTP memories :

 

Fox - "S-S-S-Single Bed"

Cliff Richard - "Devil Woman"

Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots - "Disco Duck"

 

All 1976.

It was something along the lines of:

 

Well Aretha Franklin can make any old rubbish sound good and I think she just has.

 

that was it, yea .... John Peel - what a guy he was. The aforementioned books is crammed with his witty sarcasm.... it's a great, funny read.

Earliest TOTP memories around November/December 1980:

 

I'm sure the breakthrough hits by

 

Adam & The Ants - Dog Eat Dog

Madness - Embarrassment

 

&

 

Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short

 

were on the same show.

 

The rest is history as I quickly got into Popular Music.

The greatest ever TOTP performance?

 

For me it has to be this subversive performance:

 

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

 

Featuring Kurt Cobain doing his Morrissey impersonation & changing the opening lines from "Load up on guns, bring your friends" to "Load up on drugs, kill your friends".

 

Legend! B)