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

It's a pretty fine looking show, actually.

The one after it, however..

Yes, a lack of rock bands was a definite plus in 1976

EXCITEMENT!!!

(courtesy of Eddie & The Hot Rods)

'Punk' t-shirt!

Oh Hot Rods, what UTTER joy. If a little sartorially confused.

So, anyway, thanks to the "Popscene" board that has all the shows listed, I was passing through to find more 'punk styled' tracks for my DVD save, and it's pretty slim pickings for the rest of the year.

The other Eddie/Hotrods performance "Teenage Depression" is wiped/lost, and there's nothing on the horizon until April 1977 when they are back on again "I might be lying".

I guess I'll have to close up 1976 with T-Rex and "Laser Love"...

Rod clocks in another entry for 'Men who looks like old lesbians'.

These guys may be revved up like douches, but the keyboard played has an ARP Odyssey which partially compensates.

the last twice that was on the ARP was a minimoog.

dire this week, i thought. i blame tony blackburn.

Almost a carbon copy of last week's. But for Disco Duck it would have been crap.

Randy who?

T-Rex on tonight.

A repeat of Can was slotted into the start last week's, presumably as padding; completely unacknowledged by the Hairy Cornf.

Yes, that was a weird one; Can were already down to #29, as I recall. It kinda compensates for their omission in the previous edited-down show, though.

Even by the standards of TOTP '76 the backing band of Jesse Green (that was the name, right?) were beyond weird. 1976 was weird.

BOLAN!

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.