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GEORGE.B
21 Jun 15 18:27
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1. Buzzc0cks - Ever Fallin In Love (1978)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=terg_LPT3X0

It's all rather camp, if you ask me!

2. Rolling Stones - Let's Spend The Night Together (1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L-FadiElio

Huh, no thanks, Mick, but lol at Bill trying to play it cool but can't help a cheeky grin at Mick's dancing!

3. T-Rex - Get It On (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XspsJACj8WY

Hang on a tick, is that Reg Dwight (with hair) playing piano?!

4. John Lennon - Instant Karma (1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f5P5nQXlgw

Yoko does her knitting, blindfolded, while Lennon performs arguably his finest solo effort!

5. The Jam - Going Underground (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMGQC05_nSE

Oh  my days, Paul Weller looks like he's come straight from baking some cakes!

6.  Free - Alright Now (1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg2Nc178JIo

Mesmerising stuff from guitarist Paul Kossoff.

7. Stevie Wonder  - Uptight (Everything's Alright) (1966)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZK5tH7J_0g

One of the best intro's of all time, imo

8. Thin Lizzy - Boys Are Back In Town (1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quyB8PMTD3o

Call me an old cynic, but you know, I'm not convinced Thin Lizzy and the studio audience were in the same studio!

9. Tom Jones - She's A Lady (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eua_d4NcGkM

I reckon if this had been on The Voice, they wudda turned around for him!

10. Bill Hayley  - Rock Around The Clock (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKoPZ-0Gkds

Bill and his band turn back the clock. Great stuff from the dude on the sax, btw!

11. Olivia Newton John - Take Me Home Country Road (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ycg5c9xE9Y

The studio audience look a little apprehensive to start with, but they 're loving it  by the end! Some lovely backing vocals, btw.


I'm sure you will agree,  a thoroughly well researched, flawless Top 10, with no shocking emissions!
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Report .Fidway. June 21, 2015 6:30 PM BST
Daphne And Celeste "ooh stick you"
Report GEORGE.B June 21, 2015 6:31 PM BST
Charming...
Report Life-Lucky June 21, 2015 6:39 PM BST
Talk about light entertainment:

B-Babylon's Burning Babylon's Burning

With Anxiety

B-Babylon's Burning, Babylon's Burning!

The Ruts
Report homefortea June 21, 2015 7:02 PM BST
Life-Lucky...

Never been able to look at a chocolate cake since fella..

Malcolm was a star...
Report Ramruma June 21, 2015 7:13 PM BST
Why is number 11 in the OP's top 10 in black and white iyo please?
Report SlippyBlue June 21, 2015 7:17 PM BST
Into The Valley - The Skids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhuxmLf_uPI
Report Navel-Gazer June 21, 2015 7:29 PM BST
Go Buddy Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_JJiaAwqk

They were taking the piss by swapping guitars.

And when No More Heroes was on the Dutch version JJ mimed to Hugh's lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUhtEyS6sBw


There was another song they mimed to on some foreign music channel and they all swapped instruments...JJ on drums, Hugh on keyboards, Jet on lead guitar & Greenfield on bass! Laugh

For me, they're the best band there's ever been!
Report homefortea June 21, 2015 7:30 PM BST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICSw3x3Hbjc

That is me second left..
Report HarmonicaPhil June 21, 2015 7:53 PM BST
The Beatles--Hey Jude.They insisted on doing it live
Report homefortea June 21, 2015 7:58 PM BST
The Beatles..

Feck me I could write all of their songs in a day if only I was 30 years younger..

Talk about first in...

Luckiest bunch ever..

However hats off to them....
Report GEORGE.B June 21, 2015 8:01 PM BST
Wasn't that on the Frost Report, Phil?

Frost introduced the Beatles as the 'greatest tea room orchestra in the world'.

In colour this one with audience participation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvHsTQUA2SE
Report geordie1956 June 21, 2015 8:07 PM BST
not the best by a long way but possibly one of the most controversial - chuck berry "my ding a ling" in the early 70s
Report GEORGE.B June 21, 2015 8:14 PM BST
Disgusting!

Rather remember Chuck this way - Face The Public on French telly from 1965, 30 mins of his best known songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2pVlTzXkXA
Report Mikael D'Haguenet June 21, 2015 8:41 PM BST
Virginia Plain, shocking omission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neuu0aZmMAU
Report stewarts rise June 21, 2015 9:02 PM BST
stewarts rise
21 Jun 15 13:19
Joined: 22 Apr 04
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If you think these were classics you should have seen BBC4 at 7.00pm last night. Showed the Beat Room from about 65. 1st on Tom Jones with his backing group and original nose, followed by The Kinks(You really got me), The Rolling Stones(Get off my Cloud)with Bryan Jones and the original Moody Blues(Go Now), doesn't get more classic than that imo!
Report geordie1956 June 21, 2015 9:02 PM BST
Hawkwind - Silver Machine
Report Ramruma June 21, 2015 9:03 PM BST
David Bowie -- Starman inspires thousands of young gay ToTP viewers in 1972.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v342TST9tFw
Report JBNAY June 21, 2015 9:17 PM BST
Used to love singing this to Gordon McQueen with the Spurs fans at old Trafford, deafening!

http://youtu.be/zbnPfDa4yhE
Report sixtwosix June 21, 2015 9:28 PM BST
Some of my favs

Manics - Revol
The Exploited -Dead Cities
Faith No More - Digging The Grave
Metallica - St Anger
Black Sabbath - Never Say Die
Report sageform June 21, 2015 9:36 PM BST
Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody. Otherwise it has to be Pans People.
Report checker June 22, 2015 10:21 AM BST
Ready Steady Go (1963-1966) different grade.
Report alun2005 June 22, 2015 10:58 AM BST
Readers with long memories will recall The Who performing "5:15" on the TOTP 500th Edition in 1973, generally going berserk and smashing up their instruments.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ98WjFfFWM
Report alun2005 June 22, 2015 11:00 AM BST
And as ANY self-respecting Beatles fan will tell you, the famous 'Hey Jude' TV studio performance was NOT recorded at TOTP but for a David Frost show. I watched it at the time, spellbound.
Report grendel June 22, 2015 11:15 AM BST
Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap is a shocking ommission .... the one where they just got to number one and tore up a defaced pic of John Travolta and ONJ who they ousted from no.1
Report knuckles June 22, 2015 11:32 AM BST
the unforgettable Sabrina "boys boys boys" think she had a couple of big hits.
Report Navel-Gazer June 22, 2015 1:48 PM BST
"Alun - The Who performing "5:15" on the TOTP 500th Edition in 1973, generally going berserk and smashing up their instruments"


Alun, all that violence & aggression became very tedious after the first few thousand sheep were at it - when The Stranglers were due to make their TOTP debut (with Go Buddy Go) BBC staff were apparently shítting their pants, fearful of their reputation...only to be confronted by them requesting some disinfectant, air-freshener, cloths, scourers & a hoover - they spruced the arse out of the place instead Laugh

They thrived on being unpredictable & confusing the media.
Report alun2005 June 22, 2015 2:05 PM BST
Laugh

I rather liked The Stranglers. Have 3 or 4 albums of theirs. Still like the first one a lot.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQvN8GoP_wc
Report Navel-Gazer June 22, 2015 2:08 PM BST
Somehow I'm not surprised at you being a vinyl man...I thought I was stuck in a time-warp but at least I've still managed to inch my way along the evolutionary scale a tad MischiefGrin
Report Navel-Gazer June 22, 2015 2:09 PM BST
That's a classic Al...yet another of those anonymous album tracks that'd be a high-point of any other group's career!
Report alun2005 June 22, 2015 4:36 PM BST
I still play my vinyl now and again. Don't buy any more 'new' vinyl though. Strictly CD, and almost no downloading.
Report Navel-Gazer June 22, 2015 4:43 PM BST
I must've spent a fortune on vinyl & CDs over 25 years so since the internet started, it's payback time for me as I download
EVERYTHING - I say fcuk 'em all...it's MY turn now Devil

Why don't you download anything...are you even more upright & principled than you seem on here?
Report alun2005 June 22, 2015 4:51 PM BST
Not really. I buy so few new CDs my outlay on music is small to say the least. Tend to get old stuff at ludicrously low prices on CD.
Report Shanelee1966 June 22, 2015 5:00 PM BST
Whilst on the subject. The Stranglers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYqllpnyWrY
Report Navel-Gazer June 22, 2015 5:07 PM BST
Shane - that's not one of the better ones for me though unsurprisingly, as a lascivious savage permanently foaming at the gills, I did enjoy the live version Grin

For all you pervs out there...feast on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRBuEYiIt3o
Report alun2005 June 22, 2015 5:08 PM BST
Oh yes. we all remember that event.
Report halcyon days June 22, 2015 8:18 PM BST
The Stranglers: 'Walk on By' Top of the Pops 1978     Cool
Report tommo1000 June 22, 2015 8:31 PM BST
music from thor (god of thunder)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kdu2GoagU0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYFwN-l46r8
Report maleuk01. June 22, 2015 8:46 PM BST
secretariat at Belmont best performance ever.

though very taken with harbinger's last run too.

Laugh
Report kavvie June 22, 2015 8:50 PM BST
foster and allen  bunch of thyme    fantastic performance  by tony allen on the accordeon..
Report Shanelee1966 June 22, 2015 10:02 PM BST
Navel, I knew what it would be before I looked LaughLaugh
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