“Hi folks, welcome to this week’s edition of Top of the Pops, it is jam packed with good music!” Peter Powell there, rudely jabbing his finger into your face to emphasise just how jam packed the show is. As well as being the first “proper” edition of TOTP in the clattering-drums-swooshing-synths-and-flying-records era after last week‘s nostalgia fest, it was the first “new era” show in the BBC Four run, where the non-appearance of the last of the old editions and the first of the new meant that the dawning of the new age appeared to have gone completely unremarked upon, as if you’d just imagined it. Not everything is new though, as there are a couple of repeats left over from the dark days of two weeks ago and Powell is wearing one of the TOTP T-shirts that were shamelessly advertised on the show as far back as last October, which seems like the Dark Ages compared to this.
See the full top 75 for this week on the Official Charts Website.
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