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#7290

JK2006

Top of the Pops; final show recorded and I wasn't invited! 17 Years, 9 Months ago
Despite being the very first act booked for the first London show. Despite being on the show in every decade until this one (perhaps that's why this decade has seen its death). Why on earth wasn't I requested, one wonders. Oh no. one doesn't wonder at all! Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#7291

Martin K

Re:Top of the Pops; final show recorded and I wasn't invited! 17 Years, 9 Months ago
....you just can`t trust the post to arrive on time these days, I guess. Interesting to have the review before the show this week though. Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#7294

In The Know

Re:Top of the Pops; final show recorded and I wasn't invited! 17 Years, 9 Months ago
I read somewhere that Status Quo actually made the most appearances on TOTP, but I would have thought that you JK would be up there somewhere close (in all your various disguises / pseudonyms) Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#7295

In The Know

Re:Top of the Pops; final show recorded and I wasn't invited! 17 Years, 9 Months ago

<<< Interesting to have the review before the show this week though. >>>

Not really - just a method of plugging the show to get the numbers up.

Have you noticed how they even trail programme "plugs" as part of the news these days (eg the story about the corrupt police in the Stephen Lawrence case ... featured in the News but merely to plug the forthcoming TV show).

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#7298

Martin K

Re:Top of the Pops; final show recorded and I wasn't invited! 17 Years, 9 Months ago
....which neatly brings us to the question? Will this be the most watched TOTP ever or the least? Certainly the most academic... Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#7305

Bemuso

Re:Top of the Pops; final show recorded and I wasn't invited! 17 Years, 9 Months ago
I think it'll be neither one thing or the other... ...which is fitting. Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#7306

Real Mark Up

Re:Top of the Pops; final show recorded and I wasn't invited! 17 Years, 9 Months ago

I was at the last ever Pops and I have to tell you there were no live acts. They wheeled out a posse of old djs
Savile, Blackburn, Travis, Janis Long, Pat Sharpe and some of the younger breed also...

They did a series of links to old footage and that was that.

It's #1, It's Top Of The Pops...It's dead.

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#7309

DJones

A question about the charts used by TOTP in the 60s 17 Years, 9 Months ago
Is it true that TOTP compiled a special charts from the charts of the four music weeklys in the 60s (before they used the one from Record Retailer)? If so, are there any books / web sites with these special charts Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#7315

dixie

Re:A question about the charts used by TOTP in the 60s 17 Years, 9 Months ago

This is a question I have previously asked. "The Official Charts" are basically based on the NME Chart between 1952 and 1969, and then the Record Retailer Chart onwards. The Record Retailer Chart was compiled by BMRB, and subsequently by Gallup and Millward Brown. Record Retailer handing over the responsibility to compile to the BPI and Music Week and in the late 1980's to CIN (who turned into OCC).

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#7320

andrew

Re:Top of the Pops; final show recorded and I wasn't invited! 17 Years, 9 Months ago
1. pure arrogance 2. Perhaps they don't want old musicians and song writers today; music is now targeted for age groups. 3. Too many songs to play - about 150 Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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