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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!
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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Daphne And Celeste "ooh stick you"
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Charming...
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Talk about light entertainment:
B-Babylon's Burning Babylon's Burning With Anxiety B-Babylon's Burning, Babylon's Burning! The Ruts |
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Life-Lucky...
Never been able to look at a chocolate cake since fella.. Malcolm was a star... |
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Why is number 11 in the OP's top 10 in black and white iyo please?
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Into The Valley - The Skids
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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!  For me, they're the best band there's ever been! |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICSw3x3Hbjc
That is me second left.. |
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The Beatles--Hey Jude.They insisted on doing it live
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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.... |
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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 |
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not the best by a long way but possibly one of the most controversial - chuck berry "my ding a ling" in the early 70s
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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 |
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Virginia Plain, shocking omission.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neuu0aZmMAU |
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stewarts rise
21 Jun 15 13:19 Joined: 22 Apr 04 | Topic/replies: 9,936 | Blogger: stewarts rise's blog 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! |
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Hawkwind - Silver Machine
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David Bowie -- Starman inspires thousands of young gay ToTP viewers in 1972.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v342TST9tFw |
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Used to love singing this to Gordon McQueen with the Spurs fans at old Trafford, deafening!
http://youtu.be/zbnPfDa4yhE |
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Some of my favs
Manics - Revol The Exploited -Dead Cities Faith No More - Digging The Grave Metallica - St Anger Black Sabbath - Never Say Die |
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Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody. Otherwise it has to be Pans People.
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Ready Steady Go (1963-1966) different grade.
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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.
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ98WjFfFWM |
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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.
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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
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the unforgettable Sabrina "boys boys boys" think she had a couple of big hits.
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"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 They thrived on being unpredictable & confusing the media. |
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I rather liked The Stranglers. Have 3 or 4 albums of theirs. Still like the first one a lot. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQvN8GoP_wc |
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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
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That's a classic Al...yet another of those anonymous album tracks that'd be a high-point of any other group's career!
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I still play my vinyl now and again. Don't buy any more 'new' vinyl though. Strictly CD, and almost no downloading.
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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  Why don't you download anything...are you even more upright & principled than you seem on here? |
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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.
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Whilst on the subject. The Stranglers
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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
For all you pervs out there...feast on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRBuEYiIt3o |
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Oh yes. we all remember that event.
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The Stranglers: 'Walk on By' Top of the Pops 1978
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music from thor (god of thunder)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kdu2GoagU0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYFwN-l46r8 |
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secretariat at Belmont best performance ever.
though very taken with harbinger's last run too. |
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foster and allen bunch of thyme fantastic performance by tony allen on the accordeon..
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