I've done it again! Completely forgot TOTP 1982 was on tonight. From the comments it doesn't seem like I missed much though...
Top Of The Pops 1982 - BBC4
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Originally Posted by UrsulaU:
“Well Guys & Girls - a disappointing double edition of the last TOTP episodes from 1982! Roll on 1983 - the last great chart year in popular music!!
See y'all on that thread! 
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“Well Guys & Girls - a disappointing double edition of the last TOTP episodes from 1982! Roll on 1983 - the last great chart year in popular music!!
See y'all on that thread! ”
Yes, Ursula, me and you most definitely think alike!
Originally Posted by highlander1969:
“That's my fave Cliffmas song. We won't be seeing that on BBC4.”
“That's my fave Cliffmas song. We won't be seeing that on BBC4.”
We should be together at Chistmas (Ronnie Kray remix) is the one I remember
https://postimg.org/image/sjvyyl3ix/
Originally Posted by UrsulaU:
“Well Guys & Girls - a disappointing double edition of the last TOTP episodes from 1982! Roll on 1983 - the last great chart year in popular music!! See y'all on that thread! ”
“Well Guys & Girls - a disappointing double edition of the last TOTP episodes from 1982! Roll on 1983 - the last great chart year in popular music!!
See y'all on that thread! ”
Behave Ursula!
1984 & 85 much better!
Originally Posted by Jedikiah:
“Yes, Ursula, me and you most definitely think alike!”
“Yes, Ursula, me and you most definitely think alike!”
Originally Posted by UrsulaU:
“I know!!
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“I know!!
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A pair of dinosaurs!
Cant help but love the bowie Crosby song, still sounds good. Abba reworked Under Attack to make Just like That, an amazing song which they really should have released instead. Under attack is poor by their standards. A rushed track to add on to their best of album
Originally Posted by UrsulaU:
“Can't believe a show as cool as The Tube had a group like Wham! on it!!
That's like putting a French Fancy cake on a plate full of steak & chips!!”
“Can't believe a show as cool as The Tube had a group like Wham! on it!!
That's like putting a French Fancy cake on a plate full of steak & chips!!”
You don't like a group with an exclamation mark after their name !!
Originally Posted by AnthonyC:
“Was that Peter Duncan and Simon Groom in the audience?”
“Was that Peter Duncan and Simon Groom in the audience?”
I thought Carol Vorderman was standing next to Simon Bates as he introduced Shalamar at the start of his show.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...-pops-09121982
As has been noted, Simon Groom was in the audience watching Shaky. Wonder if that's where he got the inspiration for his own infamous attempt at singing Elvis...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xEjYI_y-a0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xEjYI_y-a0
I'd forgotten just how little Radcliffe's sneering commentary added to these compilations. He really is just a ****.
Originally Posted by Straker:
“I'd forgotten just how little Radcliffe's sneering commentary added to these compilations. He really is just a ****.”
“I'd forgotten just how little Radcliffe's sneering commentary added to these compilations. He really is just a ****.”
Did he need to talk over the vocals at the beginning of each song? By all means talk over the songs intro but once the singing starts SHUT UP!!
George Michael never looked more handsome especially during The Edge Of Heaven performance
What a talent he was
Originally Posted by Straker:
“I'd forgotten just how little Radcliffe's sneering commentary added to these compilations. He really is just a ****.”
“I'd forgotten just how little Radcliffe's sneering commentary added to these compilations. He really is just a ****.”
Originally Posted by faversham saint:
“The songs are often well into the first verse by the time Radcliffe stops prattling on.”
“The songs are often well into the first verse by the time Radcliffe stops prattling on.”
For once I 100% agree with Straker. Radcliffe couldn't even tell the difference between Pepsi and Dee.
Originally Posted by Brummy Girl:
“Did he need to talk over the vocals at the beginning of each song? By all means talk over the songs intro but once the singing starts SHUT UP!!
George Michael never looked more handsome especially during The Edge Of Heaven performance
What a talent he was”
“Did he need to talk over the vocals at the beginning of each song? By all means talk over the songs intro but once the singing starts SHUT UP!!
George Michael never looked more handsome especially during The Edge Of Heaven performance
What a talent he was
”
He also never seemed more happy than during the Wham! days.
Originally Posted by Boz_Lowdownl:
“He also never seemed more happy than during the Wham! days.”
“He also never seemed more happy than during the Wham! days.”
Agreed. He became quite serious as a solo artist but in the Wham! days it was him and his best mate larking about with the two girls with synchronised dance routines
Originally Posted by Brummy Girl:
“Agreed. He became quite serious as a solo artist but in the Wham! days it was him and his best mate larking about with the two girls with synchronised dance routines”
“Agreed. He became quite serious as a solo artist but in the Wham! days it was him and his best mate larking about with the two girls with synchronised dance routines”
Looking at recent photos of George Michael http://img.soy-chile.cl/Fotos/2015/0...0708123717.jpg
and his "best mate" https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/lf...ey-picture.jpg brings home just how much water has passed under the bridge since those Wham! performances first went to air. 
I just had to comment and agree with many others that the TOTP'S 2 Wham special was completely ruined by Mark Radcliffe's 'commentary'. Was it meant to be funny? He was still waffling on by the time George got to the first chorus of 'Club Tropicana'.
And the researcher on the show should have been taken out and shot. The online info. suggested that the 'Young Guns...' performance was from July 1981!
They showed 'Wake Me Up...' on the week it was No.1 and suggested it was from July 1984 but it had been knocked off No.1 in June.
Really disappointed.
And the researcher on the show should have been taken out and shot. The online info. suggested that the 'Young Guns...' performance was from July 1981!
They showed 'Wake Me Up...' on the week it was No.1 and suggested it was from July 1984 but it had been knocked off No.1 in June.
Really disappointed.
Originally Posted by Straker:
“I'd forgotten just how little Radcliffe's sneering commentary added to these compilations. He really is just a ****.”
“I'd forgotten just how little Radcliffe's sneering commentary added to these compilations. He really is just a ****.”
He's worse than a ****, he's a total ****** and has no business taking the piss out of anyone with talent.
Stupid ******* ****
Have to say that the abuse which 'Cacharpaya' underwent on this forum was predictable. It's pure quality.
Ple
Ple
Originally Posted by koantemplation:
“Oh no not pan pipe music. I thought that came in in the 90s.”
“Oh no not pan pipe music. I thought that came in in the 90s.”
Yes it did with North Atlantic's 'I know' However Cacharpaya preceded it by almost a decade. I could have predicted the abuse Cacharpaya would get on this forum - and the posters did not let me down.
For every yin there is a yan.
I loved it , bought it and still listen to it to this day.
Surely someone else out there also can appreciate this wonderfully original piece of music? Then again...
Originally Posted by Scott_Whitton:
“It's the Mexican buskers from The Fast Show.”
“It's the Mexican buskers from The Fast Show.”
Hardly. I think the group is called Incantation.
One hit wonders though.
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