TOTP BBC4 80s

Blue Maverick

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Bloody hell it makes me feel old 1988 currently on with Sabrina she had some great assets. Pure pop nostalgia. I’d joined the RAF the year before was in the Falklands in Sept 88 and Lockerbie happened!
 
Didn't realise they still showed the 80s. Before it always showed 20 years since the actual TOTP was shown.

I stopped watching when they started showing the 90s...

Good to hear they're showing the older stuff again.
 
Bloody hell it makes me feel old 1988 currently on with Sabrina she had some great assets. Pure pop nostalgia. I’d joined the RAF the year before was in the Falklands in Sept 88 and Lockerbie happened!
Some great songs in the 80’s for certain. All I recall about Sabrina is going in work the next day and a lad in work going on about her bikini falling off in the swimming pool. Of course then, it was a bit of a thing on the telly:)
 
Secret Garden, absolute tune. Never realised how skinny Carol Decker was
Went to see Brian Adams at the NEC where T'Pau were the support act
T'Pau were that good I booked tickets to see them at the Apollo a couple of months later and in-between they had the number 1, China in your hands hit, so the gig sold out, but i had really good seats
The girl friend of the time commented on how thin Carol Decker was

On a different subject
I'm in Spain on holiday and on the radio earlier was played Pretty Vacant
Fuck me, that's close to 50 years old
 
I bet half the presenters are cut off from introducing the acts!
I think the totp2 reshows used to skip the episodes with nonces presenting. A real shame actually as for all it's current faults the beeb is a fantastic archive of pop history. Also, I think not showing saville hiding in plain sight is a lot more about sparing the blushes of those that facilitated him rather than his victims.
 
I didn't like the 88 one but thought the 76 one had a few crackers, with Heatwave, Sherbet and Wild Cherry, plus of course Sue from Legs and Co who is always worth it. It was worth watching to see Diddy David Hamilton's jacket alone, what on earth was that !?
 
I didn't like the 88 one but thought the 76 one had a few crackers, with Heatwave, Sherbet and Wild Cherry, plus of course Sue from Legs and Co who is always worth it. It was worth watching to see Diddy David Hamilton's jacket alone, what on earth was that !?
Sherbert sounded like it was live? Really good effort imo. I quite enjoyed J.A.L.N. Band at 100 mph. Sue goes without saying but wasn't it Ruby Flipper on this one? I preferred the all girl line ups to mixed.
 
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We watch TOTP most Fridays. It's fascinating. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes terrible. Love the 80s episodes. The 70s can be pretty bizarre sometimes.

It tends to be number 1 trending on X (twitter) while it's on and some of the comments are hilarious.
 
Sherbert sounded like it was live? Really good effort imo. I quite enjoyed J.A.L.N. Band at 100 mph. Sue goes without saying but wasn't it Ruby Flipper on this one? I preferred the all girl line ups to mixed.
Ha yes it was Ruby Flipper. I agree, preferred Legs and Co with Sue and Rosie, by jove Mrs ! Sherbet was live and thought they did it well wonder if they flew over from Australia to perform their only hit !
 
I didn't like the 88 one but thought the 76 one had a few crackers, with Heatwave, Sherbet and Wild Cherry, plus of course Sue from Legs and Co who is always worth it. It was worth watching to see Diddy David Hamilton's jacket alone, what on earth was that !?
PS it was Tavares rather than Heatwave sorry!
 

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