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

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

abba song head and shoulders above everything else on the show. the dundass thing, very much like those manhatten transfer and bom followups - very similar, only twice as bad...

(nice handle btw snoball)

Thanks. It was going to be 'Cheggers Plays Poop' but my last two display names were poop related so I thought I'd better come up with something else.

annnnnnnnnnnd on topic...
When are we going to see some/any punk? Marc Bolan and Boz Scaggs have been the last couple of acts approaching anything near excitement in the last few weeks.

I could tell you, but that'd be cheating...

If I had known it was going to be from David "Diddy" Hamilton's "personal collection" I would have watched.

It's still on iplayer.

lol at the guy in the patterned tank top walking away disgustedly through the crowd as the camera pans into Showaddywaddy

Has "Sound and Vision" been on yet? On the last one I saw it was straight in at 3, but ignored in favour of the usual dreck

It's been the end credits playout music, twice.

Yesterday it was Legs & Co interpreting Maxine Nightingale's "Love Hit Me" in a boxing ring.

I don't remember it ever being on TOTP beyond that.

legs and co the highlight yesterday, along with said playout music where they just turned the camera, with some kind of hexagonal lens, at the studio lights for a couple of minutes.

where they just turned the camera, with some kind of hexagonal lens, at the studio lights for a couple of minutes.

The BBC must have hours and hours of this kind of footage, just gathering dust somewhere. They don't realise that there is a very dedicated audience, on their very doorstep in Shepherd's Bush, and I'm sure he would love a DVD release.

Who the fuck is this Brendon guy who keeps appearing in the chart rundown?

oh here he is

He looks like a cross between Kevin Keagan and Mick Robertson.

some rampant inflation going on in that stylistics track.