Top 10 Greatest Top of the Pops Performances of All Time

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Where were YOU when Blur and Oasis went head-to-head? For this list, WatchMojoUK counts down the most memorable, unique and iconic performances in "Top of the Pops" history. Featuring the likes of Oasis, David Bowie, Kate Bush, John Lennon, and many more!
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@WatchMojoUK Год назад

Top 10 WTF Top Of The Pops Performances ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SRCf0mS6GWo.html

@user-zf9en2lt4m Год назад

Annoying voice, annoying video. Bad puns. Avoid.

@jerry2357 2 года назад

The Top of the Pops performance that really sticks in my mind, nearly 50 years later, is Sparks: This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us.

@1171karl 2 года назад

Ron Mael used to make me hide behind the sofa. Took some years for me to realise its a great song!

@mangelwurzel476 2 года назад

My stand out performance too - first single I ever bought!

@SIRDKA 2 года назад

Absolutely unforgettable.

@dellafenton2417 2 года назад

Unforgettable!

@colinpumpernickel2605 Год назад

Me too, Jerry.

@tomraffell1923 2 года назад

Bowie didn't die, Earth was just a stop on his tour.

@ArtbyPaulClark 2 года назад

Couldn’t agree more with Starman ….. life changing moment for me.

@kevinruddy448 2 года назад

Then you'd be better off changing your underwear sunshine 😂

@benjack8477 2 года назад

Space Odyssey was a game changer

@michaelmckenna7109 2 года назад

Seeing Debbie Harry with Blondie 1978 for the first time singing Denis.

@Matt_McGlone 2 года назад

Kate Bush is a STAR. Absolutely unique. Before Gaga. Before Madonna. Stunning talent.

@myalfie 2 года назад

And she was only 19 years of age, unbelievable really and her song writing was outstanding to say the least.

@raven_ous2585 2 года назад

She's absolutely brilliant 👍👌

@MrMusicbyMartin 2 года назад

She predated artists like Bjork, the Cocteau Twins and Joanna Newsom, and her songwriting always avoided the formulaic and the familiar.

@minigrande1939 2 года назад

Totally insult her bye comparing her to music promoted artist created by a management team. Kate Bush was pure talent no million dollar videos and costume. When would you ever see the preproduced nonsense you mention wear a simple black dress on stage

@minigrande1939 2 года назад

@@MrMusicbyMartin. Thank you someone mentioning real talent not maddonna and lady gaga wtf?

@aprendizdebrujo100 2 года назад

Sparks - this town ain't big enough for the both of us (1974)

@SheptonDavies Год назад

I was glued to TOTP when Alice Cooper sang School's Out

@hashtwo8885 2 года назад

Roxy Music Virginia Plain should have been on the list, that was a game changer.,

@adamatherton8562 Год назад

I don't think young people today could ever grasp the gigantic impact of that first performance of Gary Numan. I remember being at my friends house after school when Numan came on and we were all stood motionless mesmerised.

@trinaq 2 года назад

I remember always being excited for "Top of the Pops" each week, I couldn't wait to see which band or celebrity would be performing that night!

@franklingoodwin 2 года назад

It was appointment viewing. Every Thursday night at 7.30pm in its heyday

@vixxxenfoxxx3660 2 года назад

Sounds like a pretty awesome show, unfortunately, I'm in the U.S so I missed out.

@ewantaylor483 2 года назад

Until you discovered Ready Steady Go , when they had to play live

@santorini8423 2 года назад

Brings back memories of watching with my late older sis, and also listening to the Sunday charts when they were deemed a must

@imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580 2 года назад

Required viewing for anybody aged between 5 & 25 back then.... Thursday nights 7.30, I remember Tomorrow's world being on right after it.

@mattshaw6674 2 года назад

Spot on with the number 1! Bowie was amazing in ‘72! And SO pleased to see Slade in this list - such an underrated band, but one of the most successful artists of the 70’s (with many number one singles and albums).

@feargal2433 2 года назад

Well said and let us remember Sweet, another under rated band from the same era.

@turokforever007 Год назад

UK radio hated slade for some reason

@DeanJuvenal Год назад

Bowie was a nasty, xenophobic racist. It was in reaction to his, and Clapton’s, outbursts that RAR was formed (Rock Against Racism). I’m pleased to say that I was one of the 100s who booed him off the stage over his racist remarks at the “Babylonian Mouthpiece Show” hosted by John Peel.

@siypic Год назад

Yep! spot on with Starman on TOTP in 72, August /September I think it was...... never forget seeing it .....

@simoncurtis2827 Год назад

Who the hell ever underrated Slade!

@julianaylor4351 2 года назад

Seeing David Bowie on TOTP was like Boy George a decade later, amazing and very different. My favourite TOTP performances The Jam playing In The City and the banned possibly deleted Ian Dury and The Blockheads playing I Want To Be Straight dressed as police officers.

@sdw1106 Год назад

Jam all around the world is the performance that changed my life. Can't argue with that Bowie performance as no.1 though.

@brianford741 Год назад

Without a doubt that performance of Starman was always gonna go down in history. We woke up in a Bowie/Ziggy world The next day in school everybody including the teachers were talking about it

@williamgeorgefraser 2 года назад

Jilted John should have been on the list. The hand-dancer really was something special.

@paulelliott7493 Год назад

Bowie deserves his#1........i saw him live spring 73.....unless you were there you cannot imagine the power he had over the audience....1 minute into the show and he owned us for life.

@paulturner5339 2 года назад

Bowie's performance of Jean Genie was also a great performance and should have been mentioned and was, AFAIK, performed live with Bowie paying homage to The Beatles with the mouth harp solo.

@22448824 Год назад

Agreed. “Feel the raw power of David Bowie” was so accurate.

@shaunpierce4174 2 года назад

One of the most memorable for me was when Tenpole Tudor made their debut, we had no warning it was going to happen and I'd never heard of them before, but when they appeared to perform Swords of A Thousand Men I was blown away.

@kevinruddy448 2 года назад

I reckon you were a groupie for the wombles also sunshine 😂

@feargal2433 2 года назад

I remember it & yeah I had the same reaction.

@leopold7562 Год назад

It was Eddie Tudorpole’s athletic leaps that I remember most

@matoko123 Год назад

I recall it well.

@cherylthommo1 Год назад

I saw that moron being a complete nasty piece of work to the staff at KFC in Tottenham Court Road in 1980.

@vordman 2 года назад

I knew Bowie doing Starman would be No.1 but I was amazed Roxy Music doing Virginia Plain was not in the Top Ten. Not even an honourable mention 😮

@robin231176 2 года назад

Just what I was thinking!

@sysop224 2 года назад

Or Alice Cooper

@chrisoneill3999 2 года назад

A very gay-friendly selection. The Cis listing would be just as interesting.

@julianaylor4351 Год назад

Should have had a mention.

@philliphowell2179 2 года назад

Totally agree that Bowie performance in 72 completely 'freaked' me... I went out and bought Ziggy the next day....

@steveoshow4832 2 года назад

Here’s a bunch of classic 70s performances that are missing… Just saying… (Didn’t include Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols (77) as it wasn’t performed in the TOTP studios, ITV actually but….stands shoulder to shoulder) Killer Queen - Queen (74) Schools Out - Alice Cooper (72) Virginia Plain - Roxy Music (72) Get It On - T Rex (71) Blockbuster - Sweet (73) including Steve Priest in Nazi regalia! You Wear It Well - Rod Stewart (72) Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles (79)

@Zett76 Год назад

Agreed. I expected Killer Queen to be in the top ten.

@frithst Год назад

Yep all good choices, remember being struck by all of these appearances when aired except virignia plain - must have missed that episode.

@frankmoniz1467 2 года назад

Kate Bush and David Bowie, the goddess and the god of music. RIP, Mr. Bowie. You are missed.

@sage6336 2 года назад

Fat little man

@cristinaguerreiro3165 Год назад

Bowie! No one else could be nr. 1. That was an historic moment, if I ever saw one. What a genius!

@simontreal 2 года назад

Culture Club's first appearance made history.

@mbolan1 2 года назад

Marc Bolan and T.Rex should have been on here he started it all of in the early 70s

@markforster2794 2 года назад

Perhaps you should watch it again

@markharrisllb 2 года назад

According to a certain Mr David Bowie, he was the greatest loss to British music. Many Bolan Fans will never forgive Gloria Jones, I think that’s why Soft Cell strangled Tainted Love. You know he was on just before Bowie don’t you?

@johnmc3862 2 года назад

@@markforster2794 What?

@benjack8477 2 года назад

Bolan created glam Rock

@arnoldcorns8879 2 года назад

@@benjack8477 sry, thats b***sh*t. Actually it was bowie with the Hype. it happend to have a Guy called Marc f. In the audience...

@joethelion6016 Год назад

So glad the iconic Bowie and Ronson performance was in here, if it hadn't been I would've been outraged 🥰

@fifthof1795 2 года назад

I remember the Bowie and Starman, but mainly because i was living in Hull where the Spiders came from. I would have been ten. Happy days.

@donk1822 2 года назад

Hawkwind and Silver Machine. Hawkwind told the BBC they'd have to film them live, so they did. I think it's the only time you heard live music on TOTP?

@matoko123 Год назад

Deffo not the only live performance. Hawkwind ..... fantastic.

@catraoinekelly2879 2 года назад

Gary Numan is still a brilliant artist and Are Friends Electric still stands the test of time, in my opinion

@thespochanal2 2 года назад

yeah it was also on the soundtrack for need for speed carbon that came out in 2006 nearly 30 years since it was relesed still sounds fresh as it did then

@donbrashsux 2 года назад

His more recent re recording of are friends electric is epic

@kevinruddy448 2 года назад

Great times for screwing and party people 🎉🇬🇧😂👍

@brettbigham8420 Год назад

My iTunes used to have a counter and a list of the 25 top-played songs. Are Friends Electric was in my top 10. The counter disappeared years and years ago but I always thought it interesting to see what songs I played the most.

@CdEmm50 Год назад

That little **** copied a phase Bowie went through. Numan was a pound shop one trick pony.

@frankboyle2643 Год назад

I wonder what happened to the boy who is dancing behind Bowie and Ronson in the rainbow tank top? Little did he know he would be immortalised in the greatest moment in Top of the Pops history. He's got to be in his mid sixties by now

@rosevan5485 2 года назад

Lennon, Bowie, and Kate Bush… As a Canadian artist/ singer I wonder if everyone there were high or experiencing one of the best true blessing of music composed and given to our fucked up world to us hope for our future…. Love. From Quebec, Canada.

@llanelli14 2 года назад

This FGTH "Relax" performance was on the 20th Anniversary episode January 5th 1984. The record was banned by the BBC a week later. It was number one by the end of January and stayed in the chart for 48 weeks.

@frankschlanker 2 года назад

to think originally neither of them played on the track, only Holly sung!! Fair play to them though they learned it and smashed it

@llanelli14 2 года назад

@@frankschlanker it was a ‘viral campaign’ in an era before anyone could even dream of such a strategy.

@seawolf7218 2 года назад

Anything with the stranglers in it cause they are brilliant 😎👍

@favouritemoon4133 2 года назад

I started watching this thinking 'If they don't have David Bowie doing 'Starman' I'll go all 'Grrrr-ey'. Safe to say I was not disappointed!

@saxa21 2 года назад

The King Bolan.

@petesampras9613 Год назад

Clicked because of John Lennon... Stayed for him as well

@tz6414 Год назад

Looked like Ono cut his fringe with the blindfold on too.

@shyman99 2 года назад

Nothing from the 60s? You can always identify the age of the person performing the rankings.

@The_Republic_of_Ireland 2 года назад

I remember my mother used to tell me this programme was the bomb back in the day

@deletebilderberg Год назад

Imagine promoting a single and you send a band member to simply dance to it. Take a bow Jeffrey Daniel. 1982. Incredible!!

@mikeomolt4485 Год назад

Jeffrey says, Jody Watley was pregnant at that time. As Night To Remember began to climb, Jeffrey was sent on his own when Shalamar was asked do TOTP. The rest, as they say, is history.

@Mike-ir9fx Год назад

I still remember Bowie's performance, I thought it was a dream. Genius😱

@1171karl 2 года назад

I'm shocked by some of the omissions from here: Trex and Elton John doing Get it on(Bang a gong)... Queen doing Killer queen... Procul Harum doing Whiter shade... Sabrina's Boys Boys Boys was a pretty entertaining performance too 😲😆

@tartgreenapple 2 года назад

The purpose of Top lists is to motivate disillusionment. Then straight to commenting to reveal the omission. 👌👌👌

@irishmaninporto3510 Год назад

Surprised Sabrina wasnt in it also .. it was certainly memorable !!!😆

@Flappatackle 2 года назад

You lost me at The Spice Girls..

@vordman 2 года назад

Me too, they were manufactured crap and have left no lasting legacy.

@santorini8423 2 года назад

@@vordman they did inspire slappers…

@yurigabrilovich2190 Год назад

Utter garbage

@Tyler-uo7rf Год назад

@sabrina63 Год назад

Nobody cares when they lost you

@paulmarsh972 Год назад

The Bowie performance is one of the all time iconic music performances on television. Kudos as well for including Numan and Boy George, they were also seminal.

@PaGaNism 2 года назад

Withering heights.. FFS MOJO it's WUTHERING!

@andreweccles8130 2 года назад

Numans performance in 79 changed my life ! 🎤🎹🔺😊💖

@neilomac 2 года назад

Surprised Nirvana's 'performance' of Smells Like Teen Spirit didn't get at least an honourable mention. A fantastic bit of subversion.

@martinkulkarni3569 2 года назад

I believe the acts had to be on the TOTP stage to count. Otherwise, Bo Rhap would have been No.1. Besides, Nirvana (Yawn) stole the riff from Boston’s More Than A Feeling.

@durhamfox5271 2 года назад

@@martinkulkarni3569 They were on TOTP stage

@duncancurtis1758 2 года назад

What Kurt's anti drugs message?

@the_local_bigamist 2 года назад

@@martinkulkarni3569 lol Smells Like Teen Spirit does not have the same riff to that crappy Boston song. It may not be anywhere close to being Nirvana's best songs, but it is a unique chord progression. Not difficult or complex but clearly appealing enough to become a massive hit. The only similarity with More Than a Feeling is the strumming pattern, but that's only on the first few strums anyway.

@martinkulkarni3569 2 года назад

@@the_local_bigamist ‘crappy’ Boston song. 😂😂😂😂😂 Funny man! Is that the same ‘crappy’ song from the all time best selling ‘crappy’ debut album until the Guns ‘n Roses one? Don’t just take my word for it. It is well considered amongst many musicians to be extremely familiar to that drug-addled arseholes ‘noise’.

@VincentGavin 2 года назад

You mention Bowie and Ronson’s interaction on stage and then cut it out! Fire the editor 🤦🏻‍♂️

@rockingthemike 2 года назад

my honourable mention: kylie minogue & fischerspooner doing their remix of her hit "come into my world".

@thegouster6078 2 года назад

David Bowie and the spiders SO deserved the number 1 !

@renatab8293 2 года назад

The stranglers might be an honourable mention? And I thought that the Undertones Teenage Kicks would have been number one because it defined happy drumming.

@texasrattlesnake31637 Год назад

Great list!

@sebom141 Год назад

Thanks a lot really interesting video and topic! In France they have done a Top Of the Pop show at the beginning of 2000's but it didn't last! but we had Hit Machine and it was awesome!

@MilesBellas 2 года назад

Lennon = brilliant

@GenialHarryGrout 2 года назад

The turnaround in Frankie Goes Hollywood's song relax was mainly due to Radio 1 DJ Simon Bates or Mike Reid wanting the song banned. The Kate Bush appearance was one of those WOW! WTF have I just witnessed. She was what the music industry needed at that time

@1171karl 2 года назад

I could be wrong but I think the Frankie performance was after the ban was lifted

@JCesar-xf2bk 2 года назад

Mike Reid decided to boycott the song, so he instantly made people curious to hear the song. They ran out to buy the single, making it 1984's biggest selling single after Band Aid's ''Do They Know It's Christmas''

@richardharding8438 Год назад

@@1171karl Pretty sure it wasn't, my mate was one of the few people we knew who had a VCR at the time, he had that TOTP episode recorded and it was in high demand because they weren't on again because of the ban.

@McD5791 2 года назад

Sat here watching this video, expecting Jeffrey Daniel's performance to be overlooked. So happy to be proved wrong!

@ClarkyGuitar 2 года назад

What about Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us? Bizarre for 1974 but truly awesome!

@koekelmetperen 2 года назад

Most hits and performances at Top of the Pops; Status Quo!!!! Like it or not!

@woodysmodels6175 2 года назад

I was just about to say , no mention of status quo ? Most appearances on top of the pops 108 times i think

@matoko123 Год назад

Really? A great band, they deserve it.

@nutty784 2 года назад

Madness missing?..all of their performances where entertaining.they never disappointed.

@billslocum9819 2 года назад

Madness was one of the most creative mime bands. They clearly put thought in every performance.

@duncancurtis1758 2 года назад

Buster Bloodvessel in drag to Can Can 1980.

@LarsSomers 2 года назад

Or the performance of Ghost Town is also great!

@johnwaga3702 2 года назад

Bowie - simply awesome! RIP David.

@batgurrl 2 года назад

Great list. As an American, I only got to see what showed up on RU-vid. David Bowie @#1 is always a wise choice. When I searched for bands like XTC and Talking Heads at this venue they were ALWAYS top notch☮️

@kevinruddy448 2 года назад

Get some led zeppelin down yer, for fxxks sake sweetheart 🇬🇧🤣

@batgurrl 2 года назад

@@kevinruddy448 stairway to Heaven the most overrated song in the history of rock songs. For decades now it comes in number 1 of the annual top 1043 songs from NYC Q1043, now played nationally. Sorry, of the ‘British Invasion, I enjoy the Kinks a lot more’ But enjoy Zep more than The Who, they had about 4-5 great songs, the rest is average. Behind Blue Eyes🤢🤢

@batgurrl 2 года назад

@@kevinruddy448 there was The Beach Boys. I will never ever worship Zep

@saffronthurkettle6795 2 года назад

T-Rex wow that’s an interesting honourable mentions

@robinhazell6019 2 года назад

Motorhead playing 'Bomber' LIVE!

@Thermotom Год назад

I agree with many of your picks, especially the Bowie top vote. If you folks are looking for new material, I suggest a TOTP greatest top 10 dance performances of Legs & Co and Pan's People...upscaled to 4k for modern audiences and aging pervz like me.

@juliedurlak 2 года назад

Culture club, Bowie & Kate Bush were my faves! 👌🏼😎👌🏼😎👌🏼😎

@dellafenton2417 2 года назад

Kate Bush - so beautiful, so talented, so unique

@raven_ous2585 2 года назад

Absolutely 👍👌

@chrisplunkett2814 2 года назад

After all these years she still has the power to hypnotise me with stage presence that modern singers can only dream about having.

@pateris 2 года назад

Unique because it was a perfect storm of talent, nurtured by people who cared (her family was very supportive and she earned her mettle in her brother's band), then finding people who knew people (David Gilmour) who went on a limb, and were right to do so.

@West.Ham1964 2 года назад

Not really sure why the spice girls & blur were included and not Adam Ants appearance doing goody two shoes where they provided 3 separate stages for him and a number of dancing girls.

@clairewilliams197 Год назад

great!!!! request 20 top of the pops perfomances.

@luvstellauk 2 года назад

Trust WM to not do their research, in 1979 when Tubeway Army released Are Friends Electric, punk rock was on its way out and New Wave bands had been on the scene since 1977 at least, The Jam, The Stranglers, Boomtown Rats, The Police, Elvis Costello And The Attractions and Ian Dury And The Blockheads to name a few were all under the New Wave umbrella and all had big chart hits prior to 1979. Tubeway Army and Gary Numan in particular was the transition from New Wave to the synth bands of the early 80s

@SIRDKA 2 года назад

After that Slade performance, half of our class went and bought the single. I don't exaggerate.

@matoko123 Год назад

Still got my 45 :)

@abraham2174 Год назад

Every song of them sounds the same

@matoko123 Год назад

@@abraham2174 No way at all man. How about the amazing Far Far Away or How Does it Feel or Everyday and so on ....... \totally different from the likes of Gudbuy T'Jane.

@Hunter225 2 года назад

Awesome video

@Edin12n Год назад

Got this list pretty spot on

@tudvalstone 2 года назад

Wow, all of my favourite pop artists are in top 6 - Slade, John Lennon, Kate Bush, and David Bowie. I'd have included Rod Stewart and T Rex in the Top for sure, instead of Spice Girls and a couple of guys who I never heard of. My other favourites are all prog and metal bands, don't expect they ever made it to TOTP.

@DudeSilad 2 года назад

So many future stars were watching Starman and say it was a life changing moment. George Michael, Boy George and Ian McCulloch from Echo and the Bunnymen among a few who have spoken about it.

@coldercoronet6248 2 года назад

And Ian Curtis from Joy Division.

@eileengoehring6080 Год назад

George Michael !!!!!

@freddieellis8449 2 года назад

I loved the funny mistake when Dexy’s Midnight Runners performed Jackie Wilson Said but the studio put up a picture of darts player JOCKEY Wilson! 😂😂😂

@latoshawhite8495 Год назад

This is before my time and I love it

@troygaspard6732 2 года назад

So Kate Bush was the only one on the list that sang live. Showing the 'take no prisoners' approach that would define her records.

@Rjhs001 Год назад

Great list but sorry Ian Dury and The Blockheads with Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick isn't in there somewhere...it's immense.

@Pstephen Год назад

Robert Wyatt in a wheelchair doing I'm a Believer with Fred Frith on viola.

@tel99 2 года назад

Japan - Ghosts, that is all

@terrythekittieful 2 года назад

In Australia during the 70's and 80's there was a Top of the Pops equivalent known as Countdown and arguably the most infamous appearance on that show was from Iggy Pop and his over the top performance of 'I'm Bored'. If it had been on TOTP's it would definitely make the top ten, highly recommended.

@hovefactually7505 2 года назад

It was on the TOTPs.

@zapkvr 2 года назад

He was still miming

@rvegas81 2 года назад

In the US we had three or four different kinds: American Bandstand/ TRL, BET, a Saturday Morning l version, and Soul Train. All four went away by the early 2000s, which sucks. Miss those days.

@rvegas81 2 года назад

We also got TOTP here in the US. BBC programming shown quite a bit here lol!

@cliffyoung4612 Год назад

There was also an 'interview' with Mollie Meldrum after the performance !

@Agnethatheredhairkid 2 года назад

Amongst the kids influenced by David Bowie's performance was a 15 year old girl called Susan Dallion - better known as Siouxsie.

@Konsker 2 года назад

love this show

@lawrencejhutchinson 2 года назад

List should include Maria McKee's live performance of Show Me Heaven and Gladys Knight singing Midnight Train to Georgia live and pregnant in 1976.

@mr.y.mysterious.video1 2 года назад

Thing with top of the pops is it's only in its final phase that full live performances were possible. 70s had the top of the pops orchestra; 80s was almost all miming and the early 90s live vocals to backing tracks

@alanwhite7912 2 года назад

I can't believe Renee and Renato aren't on this list!

@1e0s Год назад

And The Cheeky Girls!

@AIBETTSYIA75 2 года назад

The Top of the Pops dancers were something else

@AtheistOrphan 2 года назад

Pan’s People and Legs & Co.

@carollopez1520 2 года назад

I love David ....😘

@robertcook2572 2 года назад

The Smiths - This Charming Man, 1983

@johnholt9399 2 года назад

Whams first performance on TOP should be on here.

@markfernandes9715 2 года назад

The Who July 1971 Won't Get Fooled Again. Starman July 1972. Also, the Christmas 1973 and 1979 editions are two of the best ever.

@tb8175 2 года назад

Love Gary numan still buying his music today

@markwilliamwestonwilson1503 2 года назад

We all missed out when TOTP went on strike it would have been during this time that Joy Division charted with Love will tear us apart and they were robbed of their 3 minutes or so

@mister3566 2 года назад

My favourite song

@yfarmerful 2 года назад

How can you forget to mention Mud with Tigerfeet when the roadies were dancing on stage? Such an energy.

@SIRDKA 2 года назад

Haha that was a 70's classic.

@mikedonoghues4018 Год назад

They were brilliant with the ventriloquist’s dummy on “Lonely This Christmas” on TOTP too!

@vassa1972 Год назад

Good stuff

@Awaitingonyouall 2 года назад

I AGREE WITH STARMAN BY BOWIE AS FIRST! I’m glad my dad showed me that video at an early age too!

@garyskinner2422 Год назад

Bowie, Kate Bush, T Rex the end!!

@mattiemclean9882 2 года назад

I love Blur, and The Spice Girls were good at what they did... but in the top ten??? eerrr no

@markjames8603 2 года назад

95% of the performances here are lip-synched and already number one hits, when TOTP changed to all live performances it became a different show, my personal favorite was The Hives 1st appearance, which unfortunately is not on RU-vid, in the stop-time when the band freezes and just the bassist is playing Pele introduces the band to the UK stating that the hives will be your new favorite band and you may not know it yet but it is inevitable, ladies and gentlemen of great Britain We are The Hives! Then he stands like Mussolini with arms folded like he's king of the world, their 2nd appearance is just as explosive, it's their "Hate to say I told you so" and you can find that here on the tube.

@Ihaveexactlysubscribers-tk3tb 2 года назад

Where's queen

@apemoon1731 2 года назад

Absolutely 👍🏻

@markjames8603 2 года назад

@@Ihaveexactlysubscribers-tk3tb exactly, but I would be hard pushed to remember a live performance by Queen on TOTP, as I recall Bohemian Rapsody was a massive no1 and that video got played for weeks so negating the need for a live performance?? I mean you tell me if I've not got that correct

@Ihaveexactlysubscribers-tk3tb 2 года назад

@@markjames8603 the killer queen was great totp

@johnparton2209 2 года назад

I thought Gary Glitter might have got a mention for never knowing the words when he was miming, got to agree with Bowie, Lennon, Slade, Bush,

@gregworden7538 Год назад

"the entire band seems to be at ease and confident with their pantomime" didn't Graham almost throw himself out of a window that night?

@LOrealHardly 2 года назад

This looks interesting, what we got first The Spice Girls! OH! Ok, who's next? Blur! WTF? Next up, Frankie. OP ..."The crowd are into it" What! you mean the paid dancers in that, godawful, early 80' TOTP shake up? Looks like I'm bailing soon...