Top Of The Pops 1978 - BBC4

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  • alcockellalcockell Posts: 25,160
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    Oh dear... Love Don't Live Here Anymore... more memories of slow dancing and snogs in the front room...

    (Girls didn't like the records I brought round)

    Boo-B-B-Boo B-Boo Boooo
    Wasn't this another example of the most incongruous song to be played out during an Erection Section?
  • GulftasticGulftastic Posts: 127,194
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    Another Boney M classic!
  • Rich Tea.Rich Tea. Posts: 22,048
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    Eraserhead wrote: »
    I feel sorry for kids these days. Artists like Rihanna would give their right arm for a song as classy as this.

    Surely this stuff should inspire modern artists. God only knows who inspires Rihanna apart from the accountant.
  • alcockellalcockell Posts: 25,160
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    And to finish off - we have Rasputin...
  • maninthequeuemaninthequeue Posts: 2,479
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    Russia's greatest love machine.
  • EraserheadEraserhead Posts: 22,016
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    Gulftastic wrote: »
    Another Boney M classic!

    Moving seamlessly from Belfast to tsarist Russia :)
  • GulftasticGulftastic Posts: 127,194
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    Oh...those Russians....
  • SillyBoyBlueSillyBoyBlue Posts: 3,233
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    ...and so they shot him. Till he was DEAD.
  • StuntyStunty Posts: 45,685
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    The guy in Boney M always seemed to play the fool!! I seem to remember that he has now passed away. :(
  • alcockellalcockell Posts: 25,160
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    Stands up 30 years after...
  • maninthequeuemaninthequeue Posts: 2,479
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    Stunty wrote: »
    The guy in Boney M always seemed to play the fool!! I seem to remember that he has now passed away. :(

    Well he was the proto-Milli Vanilli.
  • GulftasticGulftastic Posts: 127,194
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    That was fantastic. Can't wait for the proper repeats to start.
  • Phoenix LazarusPhoenix Lazarus Posts: 17,305
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    alcockell wrote: »
    Stands up 30 years after...

    Or even 35 years after...
  • StuntyStunty Posts: 45,685
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    Well he was the proto-Milli Vanilli.

    You have a very good point there.
  • Rich Tea.Rich Tea. Posts: 22,048
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    Stunty wrote: »
    The guy in Boney M always seemed to play the fool!! I seem to remember that he has now passed away. :(

    Passed away....in Russia on 30th December 2010, and on the same date as Rasputin! :eek:

    He never actually sang on these hits did he? It was Frank Farian. He was the 1970's Milli Vanilli.
  • darnall42darnall42 Posts: 4,080
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    Great stuff tonight,DLT in the documentry and Jilted John played uncut-Perhaps BBC Four have some balls after all :)
  • Phoenix LazarusPhoenix Lazarus Posts: 17,305
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    darnall42 wrote: »
    Jilted John played uncut-Perhaps BBC Four have some balls after all :)

    What did you think would be cut-the words 'slag' and '****'?
  • alcockellalcockell Posts: 25,160
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    What did you think would be cut-the words 'slag' and '****'?
    They were on a recent TOTP2 package containing the song.
  • StuntyStunty Posts: 45,685
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    Great days back in 1978. :)


    1979 was another good year, looking forward to the next programme.


    Not sure I could sit through a whole programme on 2012 though!!! :eek: :D
  • alcockellalcockell Posts: 25,160
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    Rich Tea. wrote: »
    Passed away....in Russia on 30th December 2010, and on the same date as Rasputin! :eek:

    He never actually sang on these hits did he? It was Frank Farian. He was the 1970's Milli Vanilli.
    Considering we heard him live on Daddy Cool back at the top of 1977.
  • faversham saintfaversham saint Posts: 2,535
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    Stunty wrote: »
    Who was the guy who said he hoped he would meet Legs and Co but they were more interested in Showaddywaddy and Dave Van Day?? :confused:

    I thought it was Richard Jobson but I could be mistaken (this is like 'Screen Test' :D)
  • Rich Tea.Rich Tea. Posts: 22,048
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    darnall42 wrote: »
    Great stuff tonight,DLT in the documentry and Jilted John played uncut-Perhaps BBC Four have some balls after all :)

    It was sure intriguing in the recent context of his missing episodes and his yet to answer bail. I'm not sure how to read it in all honesty. As far as Savile was concerned, no surprises there, but even if none of his behaviour had emerged I am not sure he would have featured at all in a 1978 inspired TOTP anyway, as he was on the decline in presenting terms by then, and nothing near as relevent as just a couple of years earlier in '76 when the repeats began.
  • UrsulaUUrsulaU Posts: 7,239
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    Good 2 shows! - 1978 - Just how I remember it! - Great songs - something for everyone! :)
    - You see BBC - it wasn't too hard to edit out Jimmy Savile was it?? ;)
  • ServalanServalan Posts: 10,167
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    I thought it was Richard Jobson but I could be mistaken (this is like 'Screen Test' :D)

    Wasn't that Chris Difford from Squeeze?
  • Rich Tea.Rich Tea. Posts: 22,048
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    I thought it was Richard Jobson but I could be mistaken (this is like 'Screen Test' :D)

    Yes, it was Squeeze's Chris Difford.
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