Old TOTP (BBC4)

I don't remember Aurra at all. Not a sliver of this anywhere in my memory, even the cheesy spoken stuff.
 
Ah, The Cure. Who, by this time, wouldn't even let Lol Tolhurst mime the drums for a song on which he actually played the drums.
 
These 1986 episodes are a bit of a struggle. Some real shite to be waded through.
 
You know I can't even think how DOCTOR AND THE MEDICS even happened. A pedestrian cover of an old HIPPY TUNE that wasn't all that to begin with. The only good thing about them was the ANADIN BROTHERS and only then because they were shit
 
Simon Bates: 'Owen Paul - his first hit but it won't be his last.' :D

Those BBC boys were quite bewitched by Owen.
 
Midnight Star are one of the worst mimers I've seen on the show for the while.
 
I assume The Real Roxanne is the first female rapper ever on TOTP (Debbie Harry aside!).
 
I see Sarah Greene was happy enough to be on the Blue Peter 60th Birthday show. They should have told her to fuck off if she is still stopping Mike Smith's TOTPs being repeated.
 
Another edition of TOTP that's been skipped. A Mike Smith hosted edition from 17 July 1986

Steve Winwood – “Higher Love” (14)
UB40 – “Sing Our Own Song” (6) (video)
Chris De Burgh – “The Lady In Red” (10)
Cock Robin – “The Promise You Made” (31) (breaker)
Robert Palmer – “I Didn’t Mean To Turn You On” (30) (breaker)
Hollywood Beyond – “What’s The Colour Of Money?” (24) (breaker)
Stan Ridgway – “Camouflage” (17) + brief interview
Madonna – “Papa Don’t Preach” (1) (video)
Sly Fox – “Let’s Go All The Way” (3) (video/credits)

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/e9ae90bb3e857b78be2494cc6258253520181019140549/5a3150

^ graob it quick as the file will be deleted at some point in the next 24 hours.
 
The edition that is on BBC4 tonight is a live edition from Wednesday 23 July 1986. It was broadcast live as the following evening saw the opening cermony of the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Wednesday 23 July 1986 was also a Royal Wedding Day - Andy and Fergie. I'm not sure if it was a public holiday but my office (in the Civil Sevice) was closed that day. I certainly didn't watch the wedding though, I had no interest in it.
 
1986 is throwing up a lot of FORGOTTEN stuff or at least acts I've never heard of. I mean Hollywood Beyond has a top 10 hit? I don't know them.
 
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1986 is throwing up a lot of FORGOTTEN stuff or at least acts I've never heard of. I mean Hollywood Beyond has a top 10 hit? I don't know them.
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I had this record! On a 7" which came with a free cassette single. The 80''s were weird when it came to marketing.

They had different b-sides mind you. The cassette had a piece of hard-hitting political commentary called "South Africa". "Let the people go", sang Mr Beyond. And thus, it was done. Or somesuch.
 
I'll be honest, I'm finding 1986 a slog. Log in to iPlayer to catch up and who's looking at me? Simply Bastard Fucking Red. UGH.
 
I'm trying to remember what prompted the reissue of "Rock Lobster" especially given that the video was unquestionably cut from a video for a different song...
 
UGH at Gary Davies on the Robert Palmer video: "Never mind him, just look at those girls!". What a cunt.
 
The outright weirdness of Spitting Image's parody of Agadoo being more successful than Agadoo has been lost over the years. I'd forgotten they'd done a "live" TOTP...maybe it was the trauma of Thatcher's lengthened tongue.
 
Yaas Peel!

Bloody hell, Dr and The Medics. I'd forgotten how bloody odd they looked. Cracking record tho', albeit a carbon copy of the original.
 
Peel: "That was Robert Palmer and how nice to see he's turned his back on all that sexist muck". Oh, the contrast. Oh, how I miss ye John, how I miss ye.
 
I have no memory of Cashflow whatsoever. I'd have thought the incredibly shit name would have stuck in my head.
 
I could post anything right now and no-one would notice. Philip Green nonced me in the Kirkcaldy branch of Evans in 1984.
 
Peel: "...and if that doesn't get to Number 1, I'm going to come and break wind in yer kitchen". Outstanding.

And mentions for The Very Things and Bogshed at the end. Legend.
 
This episode is shite apart from Pet Shop Boys and even then, Neil Tennant is dressed like a shady cricket umpire and Chris Lowe's turn on the drums ain't his most inspiring.
 
I remember Bucks Fizz's "real music" phase pretty well but 4 drummers is seriously over-egging the pud.
 
Hang on, wasn't there about 12 members of Amazulu last time? Tory cuts no doubt.
 
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