The Rolling "Top of the Pops" BBC4 Revival thread.

Would have been better if the rhythm guitarist had a) not worn just his pajamas, and b) not been taking the piss out of Marc behind his back.

I think Wogan played 'Mississippi' a lot. Certainly remember hearing it a lot when my mother had the radio on in the mornings.

#oldfart

This Manhattans song has the consistency of microwave porridge.

Paul Nicholas, the Mika of '76.

manhattans, if nothing else, were mixing 4 different camera angles.

mississippi very familiar, yes. musically lacking though.

not sure i'd heard that trex song before.

and the bloke in the yellow suit was dancing to beats that only he could hear.

Bolan looking like Siouxie!

Oh look it's Frankie Cockhoser lookalike David Essex.

i'm going to buy a satin jacket and write HOWZAT on the back in marker pen.

http://www.handbag.com/cm/handbaguk/images/Iu/or_jim-top-of-the-pops.jpg.jpg

goodness gracious guys n gals

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/29/world/europe/uk-dj-jimmy-savile-dead/

Ed Stewart, king of tossbags

Steve Harley somehow managing a bowlcut and a proto-mullet at the same time.

The obligatory DJ/teenage girls crepe-o moment.

Rod Stewart is clearly hungover in this video, and the very last thing he wants to do is walk around a blustery Portsmouth.

Climax Blues apparently playing live?

can on this one? 76? just saw their name pop up at the beginning.

ah think they were just on the charts bit at the beginning. damn.

I'm going to enter the contest and to name this as yet un-named dancing group. I think I'll call them... let's see... 'Pan's People' Nobody steal that, OK?

Oh and they're dancing to the Jaws theme. 'Pan's People in rubber' turning out to be not quite what the dads wanted.

My boy thought that routine was an exercise in Derren Brown-like thought control.

LEGS.... LEGS.... you will fetch your pencil and your postcard.... and you will write.... LEGS...,

oh that's right, they're going to be called Legs & Co, not Pan's People, duh me

sharks were hilarious though

'77 gets off to a ropey start tonight with Pussycat, Barry Biggs, Liverpool Express, David Parton, Gallagher & Lyle and Status Quo.

there's been one already this year, a couple of weeks ago - the chart hadn't changed from the christmas episode but they had choosen different acts.

Just realised that someone I used to work with looked like Leo Sayer without the hair.

search for 'pops' doesn't find this thread because of the quotes 8(

surprised to see that the extra track on the longer saturday repeat was Gary Glitter.

They've 'apologised' for cutting him and JKing out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBsLy5ayHU4

would watch

xp lol

Rose Royce represented in this week's chart countdown by a picture of a Ford Granada in a car wash.

uh oh, Glitter Alert

Picture of innocence, obv.

Thin Lizzy were good though.

Boz Scaggs would have been better if he'd had more musicians on stage with him...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gary-glitter-to-receive-royalties-for-broadcast-188903

iow: "We heard he's on this programme, we all had a guess as to which song, we could have looked it up buy we cbb"

Hang on, in that Youtube spoof, is 'Raoul Gummidge' gr8080?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLKp5oj2NAo

What is it with BBC4 and detective shows with larger than life main characters?

that Mr Big record was a new low
got the 1977 TOTP annual in a charity shop the other day for £2!

Contains spoilers

Edmonds interviewing a very awkward sounding Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice - a precision nuclear strike could have solved so many of the world's woes in 1977.

Brotherhood of Man not trying to look like ABBA at all. Or sound like them for this particular single.

Kid Jensen looking like a bizarre genetic cross between Noel Edmonds and Keith Chegwin.

Graham Parker was displaying a distinct narrowness of trouser this week, in marked contrast to the massed loons of Brotherhood of Man and Smokie.

The times were changing a bit.

t rex. something i'd not heard before.

this week's episode appears to have been recorded on one of those cheap vhs tapes you get from supermarkets.

Sort-of..

It was up until 2 weeks ago, assumed lost.

Then it was found and supplied out of "Diddy" David Hamilton's personal collection

I imagine that he has a lot of other videos recorded on cheap supermarket VHS tapes in his 'personal collection'.

that 'tracksuit top over turtleneck sweater' look was just bleargh