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Off the top of my head, my favourite songs of 83 are:
Sign Of The Times - The Belle Stars Rip It Up - Orange Juice Let's Dance - David Bowie First Picture Of You - Lotus Eaters Long Hot Summer - Style Council |
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A third of the year expunged from history then? Even Stalin would've thought that was a piss-take!
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The Story of 1983 is provisionally scheduled for 9PM on Friday 6th January and Big Hits 1983 follows at 10 (repeats from 12.30).
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Confirmed today Story of & Big Hits 1983 Friday 6th Jan 2017 at 9 & 10pm, no regular edition that week due to 06/01/83 hosted by Mike Smith and won't be shown, guessing week after will be 13/01/83 with Jensen & Peel.
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My top 10 for 1983 would be:
Toto - Africa Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) Yazoo - Nobody's Diary Genesis - Mama Big Country - Chance Shakin' Stevens - Cry Just A Little Bit The Cure - The Love Cats Assembly - Never Never The Smiths - This Charming Man |
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I wonder if they will also do 1984 next year as well, I suggested they might do the double on the 81 thread last February due to missing episodes with 1982 being shown. So I'm going to predict that they will do double bills to take in 1984 next year as well or maybe even take it further with daily editions.
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I wonder if they will also do 1984 next year as well, I suggested they might do the double on the 81 thread last February due to missing episodes with 1982 being shown. So I'm going to predict that they will do double bills to take in 1984 next year as well or maybe even take it further with daily editions.
It'll kill him if its goes daily! |
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My faves from 1983 though I missed out on some really obscure ones.
![]() Heaven 17 Temptation New Order Blue Monday The Smiths Hand in glove Echo and the bunnymen The Cutter Fun boy three Our lips are sealed Flash and the pan Waiting for a train Altered Images Don't talk to me about love Grandmaster Flash White Lines The The Perfect Aztec Camera Oblivious The The This is the day Level 42 The sun goes down Tracey Ullman They don't know Cocteau Twins Sugar hiccup |
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Some info on The Story of 1983:
It's 1983, and Top of the Pops reaches a landmark - its 1,000th edition. A time to celebrate, perhaps, but there are signs that the show is going through something of a mid-life crisis. The aristocracy of British New Pop are in the ascendant - Culture Club, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Wham! - but the rise of the video starts to threaten the show's unique appeal, which is based on getting the top artists into the studio. So producer Michael Hurll tries out new features including the first regular female presenter and the Top Ten Video Countdown. In the year that Margaret Thatcher is re-elected with a landslide majority, the mood in the charts is escapism. But 1983 is also a year of musical reinvention. Alongside the rise of indie bands like New Order, and a memorable first appearance of The Smiths with Morrissey swinging his gladioli, other acts who've inhabited the backwaters for years now fine-tune their image and enter the mainstream in a bid for chart success. |
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And Big Hits 1983 as well:
As BBC Four's TOTP repeats move into 1983, a golden year in British pop, a compilation of some of the biggest hits of the year featuring soul, reggae, jazz, new wave and pop. The big hits are delivered by Wham!, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Police, Culture Club, Siouxsie and The Banshees, UB40, Duran Duran, The Beat and Bananarama amongst others. Big ballads are performed by Elton John and Bonnie Tyler, while Malcolm McLaren's Double Dutch completes the very best of '83. |
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As a huge Eurythmics fan, I'm very upset that Sweet Dreams isn't going to appear on the show at all since it was shown three times and Mike Smith or DLT were the presenters on all occasions.
The Sweet Dreams album is probably one of my top 5 albums of all time.
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Some info on The Story of 1983:
It's 1983, and Top of the Pops reaches a landmark - its 1,000th edition. A time to celebrate, perhaps, but there are signs that the show is going through something of a mid-life crisis. The aristocracy of British New Pop are in the ascendant - Culture Club, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Wham! - but the rise of the video starts to threaten the show's unique appeal, which is based on getting the top artists into the studio. So producer Michael Hurll tries out new features including the first regular female presenter and the Top Ten Video Countdown. In the year that Margaret Thatcher is re-elected with a landslide majority, the mood in the charts is escapism. But 1983 is also a year of musical reinvention. Alongside the rise of indie bands like New Order, and a memorable first appearance of The Smiths with Morrissey swinging his gladioli, other acts who've inhabited the backwaters for years now fine-tune their image and enter the mainstream in a bid for chart success. |
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As a huge Eurythmics fan, I'm very upset that Sweet Dreams isn't going to appear on the show at all since it was shown three times and Mike Smith or DLT were the presenters on all occasions.
The Sweet Dreams album is probably one of my top 5 albums of all time.However, there's a new Mary Berry cookery show set in a stately home to look forward to in the new Year to provide solace. Sweet Dreams are indeed made of this. |
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All Mike Smith episodes are definitely not being broadcast.
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I hope to have a few regular words to say about 1983 when it comes along on BBC4 in the new year. In the meantime I have about 2 months worth of reading to browse and catch up with from the previous year of 1982 and comments that might provoke some interest in the fullness of time on that one I'm sure.
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I hope to have a few regular words to say about 1983 when it comes along on BBC4 in the new year. In the meantime I have about 2 months worth of reading to browse and catch up with from the previous year of 1982 and comments that might provoke some interest in the fullness of time on that one I'm sure.
I have really missed your contribution these last few weeks. |
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I'd be struggling to pick a top 5 from 1982 as I can think of a lot of great songs, but not really five that stand out. 1983 is much easier. Start with
1. The First Picture Of You - The Lotus Eaters 2. This Charming Man - The Smiths 3. Sign Of The Times - Belle Stars 4. Love On Your Side - Thompson Twins with 1 more to be added as we go through the year. |
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I hope to have a few regular words to say about 1983 when it comes along on BBC4 in the new year. In the meantime I have about 2 months worth of reading to browse and catch up with from the previous year of 1982 and comments that might provoke some interest in the fullness of time on that one I'm sure.
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That is good!
I have really missed your contribution these last few weeks. Enjoying the Grand Tour though, the Flying Scotsman was right up my street but I didn't think much of the driver
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It looks like the first weekly one will be on Friday 13th (Thursday 12th is showing as The Sky at Night), this should be the edition from exactly 34 years previously.
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It looks like the first weekly one will be on Friday 13th (Thursday 12th is showing as The Sky at Night), this should be the edition from exactly 34 years previously.
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TOTP2 Christmas special now on GOLD
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Likely the first of many casualties we're going to come across throughout the Beeb's campaign of cultural vandalism, but hey-ho.
However, there's a new Mary Berry cookery show set in a stately home to look forward to in the new Year to provide solace. Sweet Dreams are indeed made of this. There is no justifiable reason for BBC Four not to show DLT editions. He is now technically a free man who has served his suspended sentence and is now suffering ongoing DISCRIMINATION by the BBC. Late 1982/early 1983 brought the lovely Janice Long into the TOTP fold. Can someone explain what the deal with Mike Smith editions is? I have somehow lost the reason why his editions are not being shown. |
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Can someone explain what the deal with Mike Smith editions is? I have somehow lost the reason why his editions are not being shown.
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He didn't sign an agreement which would have enabled shows he appeared in to be repeated (for reasons nobody fully knows) and his wife is unwilling to defy her late husband's wishes.
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He didn't sign an agreement which would have enabled shows he appeared in to be repeated (for reasons nobody fully knows) and his wife is unwilling to defy her late husband's wishes.
Mike Smith appears in six 1983 editions including the 1000th edition in May 1983 - this won't be repeated as it features Savile in it - and the 1983 Xmas special. Jimmy Saville appeared in five 1983 editions. DLT in seven. Total editions NOT being repeated in 1983 = 16 editions Surely with the Mike Smith issue, now would be a very good time to lift the DLT ban. Luckily the situation improves slightly in 1984..... |
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The Sweet Dreams album is probably one of my top 5 albums of all time.
