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8. Jan. 2016 · Top of the Pops: The Story of 1981: Directed by Matt O'Casey. With Mel Giedroyc, John Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Sheryl Garratt. A look at the Top of the Pops show in 1981 when it embraced 80's 'New Pop' with a new theme tune and titles and, as Legs and Co leave, invite a swathe of club kids and cheerleaders in to create a permanent 80s ...
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- Matt O'Casey
- 2016-01-08
8. Jan. 2016 · The Story of 1981 is narrated by Mel Giedroyc and looks at the year that the 80s really took flight. This was the year that youngsters from a burgeoning national club scene fashioned a...
Top of the Pops (TOTP) is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006. The programme was the world's longest-running weekly music show. For most of its history, it was broadcast on Thursday evenings on BBC One.
Britain is torn between rioting, unemployment and the royal wedding, a mood captured in the Specials' Ghost Town, which the band perform on Top of the Pops, and then promptly split up in their dressing room at Television Centre. With Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, the Human League, Kim Wilde, Midge Ure, Jerry Dammers (the Specials), Leee John ...
- Duran Duran – Girls on Film
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Hooked on Classics
- Soft Cell – Tainted Love
- Kim Wilde – Water on Glass
- Bill Wyman –
- Startrax – Startrax Club Disco
- Aneka – Japanese Boy
- Electric Light Orchestra – Hold on Tight
- Shakin’ Stevens – Green Door
Hello sailor! The stripy shirt look with which the band had experimented on their previous TOTP appearance is still very much in evidence, at least as far as Simon and John are concerned. This is Duran’s first ever week in the top ten, so one can forgive Le Bon for an even more animated performance, leaping up and down on the spot and clapping alon...
“Now then, time to give Beethoven a gentle kick and drag him up to 1981!” A gentle kick, Simes, what areyou on about? Thankfully Limbs Etc aren’t involved this week (they’re needed for other purposes later in the show) but we still can’t fit the entire RPO in the studio, so here’s a montage of black and white stock film cut together with little or ...
“That is an amazing piece of film!” gushes Simes. Indeed it is, but not in a good way. “Over my shoulder, a couple of guys from Leeds, Marc and David who call themselves Soft Cell!” Yes, it’s a TOTP début for a bona fide ’80s classic and one of the most influential acts of the era. Marc Almond is a natural, working the camera right from the outset,...
Time to catch your breath from all this exciting new content as we repeat a couple of performances from two weeks ago, or last week if you’re watching on BBC Four. Still, Simes gamely attempts to keep your attention with a short quiz: “Now, who’s at number 13? I’ll tell you who after I’ve mentioned that it’s glass and water, and a combination that ...
If you’re a collector of convoluted links, you’re in for a treat here as Simes burbles enthusiastically about the next song. “There’s a record we’ve been going with for quite some time, by Bill Wyman, that we’ve been playing on Radio 1, and is wonderful – I wouldn’t gossip, but on the other hand I have an idea you might imagine that the lady who he...
A very peculiar shot now, with Simes addressing the camera through one of the gaps in the hastily assembled lighting gantry which has been installed for the next song. “This, if you remember it, is a disco!” Like Bates has ever been in a disco. Anyway, the medley craze rumbles on as anyone with a British Hit Singles entry more than an inch high has...
On with the chart then, including a curious situation whereby the number 28 position has been cancelled, with the aforementioned Startrax and their gods Star Sound sharing the number 27 slot. The Official Charts Website contradicts this, listing Startrax at 28 and Star Sound at 27, so maybe Star Sound won on penalties. Bates also cheerfully announc...
“She’s about the tallest Japanese lady I’ve ever seen, she’s also got a Scottish accent!” See, even Simes has seen through your web of lies, Ms so-called “Aneka”. More charts next, including Bad Manners’ “former number one” Can Can which, of course, only got to number 3. Bates is in danger of having his pop licence revoked if he doesn’t pull his so...
Back to the chart for the top eight countup which Simes manages to get through without incident, before a new performance of Shakin’ Stevens’ second number 1 hit, a performance strikingly similar to the previous one except that Legs & Co have been roped in and there’s a giant Simon Bates head leering down from the video screen in the background. In...
Synopsis. A look at the Top of the Pops show in 1981 when it embraced 80's 'New Pop' with a new theme tune and titles and, as Legs and Co leave, invite a swathe of club kids and...
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