Virtual C90 – March 2016
New music this month from Pet Shop Boys, Boy George, Sinitta, a-ha and Elton John, plus the usual mix of hits, misses, remixes and forgotten gems. Enjoy! read more
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“You’re all corrupt, you’re all depraved” – Top of the Pops, 12 March 1981
Up next on BBC1, another edition of Let’s Pretend Nothing’s Wrong And This Is Just A Normal Edition Of Top Of The Pops Even Though It’s Painfully Obvious That There’s Another Strike On And We’re Desperately Stringing Pre-Recorded Clips Together … read more
“Like some New Romantic looking for the TV sound” – Top of the Pops, 5 March 1981
Now then, here’s someone we haven’t seen since last September when he was playing second, in fact third fiddle to Leo Sayer and Russ Abbot. Now, six months later, Mike Read is Radio 1’s hottest property, having inherited the breakfast … read more
“There’s a new wave coming, I warn ya” – Top of the Pops, 26 February 1981
Never let it be said that this site doesn’t get results. After carping on for weeks about how this new look Top of the Pops needs an opening sequence instead of just crashing straight into the grinning host over the … read more
“Bless my cotton socks, I’m in the news” – Top of the Pops, 19 February 1981
Doesn’t time fly? We’re certainly powering through the run on BBC Four now they’ve started showing two editions every week, and as they’re still skipping the ones hosted by Dave Lee Travis it’s possible to get through a short month … read more
“Wriggle like a snake, waddle like a duck” – Top of the Pops, 12 February 1981
“You’re right, it’s Top of the Pops!” confirms knowledgeable Richard Skinner before anyone’s even had a chance to ask the question. This week it appears that Skinner is being remodeled, in an attempt to cast off his stuffy image and … read more
Virtual C90 – February 2016
This month we remember those we have lost in the past few weeks, including David Bowie, Lemmy from Motörhead, Colin Vearncombe from Black and John Bradbury of the Specials. There’s also new music from Megadeth and ABC and the usual … read more
“The sounds are too loud and there’s too much smoke” – Top of the Pops, 5 February 1981
February already, so let’s pause and take stock of how 1981 is going so far. The charts are currently dominated by John Lennon (who remains dead) and Adam Ant (who is still very much alive), but the New Romantics are … read more
“Imaginary playing heavy riffs, no diminisheds or fancy fifths” – Top of the Pops, 29 January 1981
Week two of the new supercharged BBC Four repeat run and it’s the end of January already; in all probability the 8 January show will have been the last time we weren’t way ahead of ourselves. Your host this week … read more
“Girls are foreign and strange to me” – Top of the Pops, 22 January 1981
Well, this is awkward. Keen to get 1981 over and done with as soon as possible, BBC Four have hit the turbo button and scheduled two editions per week for the foreseeable future, meaning that the idea of the show … read more
“I saw it with my own two eyes” – Top of the Pops, 15 January 1981
Two episodes into the 1981 run on BBC Four and everyone’s already confused. Since the repeats started with 1976 back in 2010 it’s been once a week, generally on Thursdays at 7:30 as it used to be in the old … read more
“Who made the zombies all tap their feet?” – Top of the Pops, 8 January 1981
Here we go then with the first proper Top of the Pops of 1981, and after last week’s review of the dregs of 1980 that didn’t make it onto the Christmas Day show, BBC Four’s usual Story of 1981 documentary … read more
