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Top Of The Pops Christmas 1985 - Boxing Day on Five - Are you going to watch it?
Markjuk
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The Top of the Pops "Christmas Party" 1985 - from 25 years ago!
Boxing Day @ 6.40pm
Presenters include:
John Peel & Janice Long
Steve Wright
Gary Davies
Dixie Peach
and.....
Jonathan King :mad:
Lineup includes:
King – “Love & Pride”
Sister Sledge – “Frankie” (video clip)
Madonna – “Into The Groove” (video clip)
Colonel Abrams – “Trapped”
Phyllis Nelson – “Move Closer” (clip from 04/04/85)
Midge Ure – “If I Was” (video clip)
Alison Moyet – “That Ole Devil Called Love” WATCH
Eurythmics – “There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)” (video clip)
Paul Hardcastle – “19” (remix - video clip)
Dead Or Alive – “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)”
Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – “Easy Lover” (video clip)
David Bowie & Mick Jagger – “Dancing In The Street” (video clip)
Baltimora – “Tarzan Boy” WATCH
The Crowd – “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (video clip)
USA For Africa – “We Are The World” (video clip)
Band Aid – “Do They Know It’s Christmas” (video clip)
Billy Ocean – “Suddenly”
Foreigner – “I Want To Know What Love Is” (video clip)
UB40 & Chrissie Hynde – “I Got You Babe” (video clip)
Feargal Sharkey – “A Good Heart”
Jonathan King – US chart rundown
Madonna – “Crazy For You” (video clip)
Tears For Fears – “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” (video clip)
George Michael – “Careless Whisper” (video clip)
Paul Young – “Everytime You Go Away”
Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson – “I Know Him So Well” (video clip)
Jennifer Rush – “The Power Of Love” (video clip)
Wham! – “I’m Your Man” (video)
Whitney Houston – “Saving All My Love For You” (video)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – “Welcome To The Pleasure Dome” (audience dancing/credits)
Back in the days when TOTP was good! It would also be interesting to know what viewing figures this gets, as it would seriously strengthen the case for further repeats of TOTP if high enough.
Boxing Day @ 6.40pm
Presenters include:
John Peel & Janice Long
Steve Wright
Gary Davies
Dixie Peach
and.....
Jonathan King :mad:
Lineup includes:
King – “Love & Pride”
Sister Sledge – “Frankie” (video clip)
Madonna – “Into The Groove” (video clip)
Colonel Abrams – “Trapped”
Phyllis Nelson – “Move Closer” (clip from 04/04/85)
Midge Ure – “If I Was” (video clip)
Alison Moyet – “That Ole Devil Called Love” WATCH
Eurythmics – “There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)” (video clip)
Paul Hardcastle – “19” (remix - video clip)
Dead Or Alive – “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)”
Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – “Easy Lover” (video clip)
David Bowie & Mick Jagger – “Dancing In The Street” (video clip)
Baltimora – “Tarzan Boy” WATCH
The Crowd – “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (video clip)
USA For Africa – “We Are The World” (video clip)
Band Aid – “Do They Know It’s Christmas” (video clip)
Billy Ocean – “Suddenly”
Foreigner – “I Want To Know What Love Is” (video clip)
UB40 & Chrissie Hynde – “I Got You Babe” (video clip)
Feargal Sharkey – “A Good Heart”
Jonathan King – US chart rundown
Madonna – “Crazy For You” (video clip)
Tears For Fears – “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” (video clip)
George Michael – “Careless Whisper” (video clip)
Paul Young – “Everytime You Go Away”
Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson – “I Know Him So Well” (video clip)
Jennifer Rush – “The Power Of Love” (video clip)
Wham! – “I’m Your Man” (video)
Whitney Houston – “Saving All My Love For You” (video)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – “Welcome To The Pleasure Dome” (audience dancing/credits)
Back in the days when TOTP was good! It would also be interesting to know what viewing figures this gets, as it would seriously strengthen the case for further repeats of TOTP if high enough.
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God, that line up makes me feel ancient! Xmas '85, I'd just done my first term in sixth form! Barely seems five minutes ago-and it was a quarter of a century!
Old git!
Saying that I was around in 1985 and I watched this when it was first broadcast! So I guess that makes me an old git too!
In 1984 the Christmas day edition was introduced by the acts themselves (first time they had dropped DJs from the Christmas show) then the second edition was shown on the 27th December 84 by Lenny Henry..this is the last time to my knowledge they had two Christmas editions of TOTP..(of course apart from last year and I think 2008?)
I have 27th Decemeber 1984 and it was hosted by Lenny Henry. The 25th December 1984 edition was hosted by the bands themselves. Must of been a cost cutting year
It was not always Xmas Day and Boxing Day.
It was usually Xmas Day and then a day closer to the New Year .
Thanks to German tv we've had some this year (and last) and for 1974 the second show was on the 27th but in 1976 we had shows on the 23rd , 25th and 26th December:eek:
Did you work on TOTP as some of your postings on other threads indicate that you once did! "Supplying David "diddy" Hamilton with copies"
The organisation behind music royalties is so backward! Do they not realise that by allowing old music shows such as TOTP to be repeated would mean their memebers could benefit financially thriough increased sales? rather than try to make it as difficult as possible to repeat music shows they should help to make it easier!
That list of songs is, with very few exceptions, awful
I'd take that line-up of songs over any 90s/00s/10s line-up anyday-although I agree with you on Dead or Alive: You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)!
But I was lucky to know the 60s and 70s:D
It's probably been mentioned before that this may well have been the only Christmas TOTP that didn't include the Christmas No1 because it was stupidly made in November of that year.
It will be interesting how the computer system makes a complete horlicks by chopping songs etc:D
They should show this and Some Mothers.. without ads but they won't!
Since Dickie Desmond took over ownership the placing of adverts is worse
If Five (Christmas 1985) and minor player Digital channel Watch (Xmas 2009) can do it I cannot see why BBC Four can't.
Its because the PRS/MCPS alliance that are blocking BBC4 from doing it furthermore most of the shows from the 60's & 70.' were wiped or are such poor quality in fact I understand the first edition from 1964 has been lost forever
The 70's clips on TOTP2 looked okay though.
US No. 1?
I don't watch Five that often; do they usually have their logo in the corner throughout the show?
King drummer getting into the spirit of things with his tinseled-up drumsticks