What Top of the Pops list would you like to see next? 🤔

@AtheistOrphan

2 жыл бұрын

Top 10 Pan’s People/Legs & Co performances.

@GaryCrew437

Жыл бұрын

Top 10 2000-2006 Performances

As John Lydon once said "we all knew what that cigar muncher was up to"

@betlea8070

2 жыл бұрын

And Lydon was crucified for that comment! If only they'd listened eh!? Where would we be now?

@FalkSinss

2 жыл бұрын

👏🤘 Oi 🤘👏

@helvete983

2 жыл бұрын

@@betlea8070 Didn't they ban him for life or something? But yeah it's not that they didn't listen, they all knew. There are a lot of people complicit in what Saville did and continued to do.

@Teapot-Dave

2 жыл бұрын

"..and the others.." I often wonder what he knows but has so far been unable to say in public.

@chrisolive464

2 жыл бұрын

I am afraid it seems it wasnt just cigars he was munching 🤔 the bbc has a lot to answer for for letting everything happen the way it did. The amount of people that were aware and did nothing is absolutely horrific.

One of the tragedies abut the whole Jimmy Saville scandal was that John Lydon tried to draw attention to Saville's behaviour way back in 1979 and nobody did anything about it, such was culture back then. Absolutely shocking. Regarding the whole miming thing, it wasn't exactly all that surprising bands were doing it as many music format shows worldwide also did the same thing. Some bands didn't mind miming as that was how the 7 inch single version they were trying to get the public to buy sounded. Some bands however felt insulted by it (watch the movie Bohemian Rhapsody for example). I remember seeing a very drunk Rick Parfitt falling into the drum kit when Status Quo were on TOTP showing it was obviously mimed. Having said that I also remember Nigel Planer (aka Neil from The Young Ones) quite obviously performing 'Hole in my Shoe' live on TOTP in 1984. Finally, regarding Frankie goes t Hollywood. The BBC were the best thing that happened to their career after the publicity they got when 'Relax' was temporarily banned after one of the DJ's called it "filth". It wasn't the first time a song got massive sales after a BBC ban (Sex Pistols 'God Save the Queen' in 1977 and 'Je Taime' by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin in 1969, so getting banned from TOTP is a gamble that can pay off in some cases..

Frankie and Culture Club weren't the only openly LGBT artists back then, Bronski Beat, The Communards, Tom Robinson, Marilyn, Pete Burns, Freddie Mercury and let's not forget David Bowie, probably the biggest gender bending, openly bisexual artist ever, ok his more androgynous stuff was 70's but he was still having massive hits in the 80s and was an inspiration for many of the other LGBT artists.

@shooklizard9039

2 жыл бұрын

Most of them didn't admit to the public their sexualilty though

@luvstellauk

2 жыл бұрын

@@shooklizard9039 Bronski Beat and Communards were definitely out, pretty sure Freddie was by the mid 80s, Boy George was in a very public relationship with one of his band members, Tom Robinson was openly bisexual and a gay rights activist, he even had a song out called 'Sing If You're Glad To Be Gay' Marilyn was trans and Bowie came out as bisexual in the mid 70s

@jon-paulfilkins7820

2 жыл бұрын

Freddie did not come out until very shortly before his death. Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks never really hid it, but never flaunted it either so slipped through. Well, until he released his classic solo single "Homesapian"

@staringcorgi6475

Жыл бұрын

@@jon-paulfilkins7820 he never said he was gay actually and and his sexuality more lines up with bisexual

@jessrosefawkes2721

11 ай бұрын

Bowie was bisexual. I must of been living under a rock cos never knew that. I just thought he was eccentric. Love bronski beat, small town boy is one of my fave songs x

That shot of Savile and Rolf Harris

@richard7645

Жыл бұрын

Watchmojo has got no moral compass

Misses the one where Brian Adams is performing " That " song that was no 1 for three months and he misses his cue to come back in after the instrumental guitar solo .He is just standing there while the track still plays

Too easy to blame the show for the problems caused by Saville. The show was good it had issues with some presenters but then so did the tube and many other 70's shows. Certainly Thames Teddington studios has some very interesting characters about the place.

When I first started watching ToTP in the late 70s I was older than I had every been before, but now looking back I was quite young, age is an amazing thing, like butter or self tapping screws.

Not sure it was on TOTP, but there's a video of Fairport Convention performing their song Angel Delight and I remarked on how Simon Nicol could have been doing the rhythm and lead parts at the same time (overdubbed on the record, presumably, as this was after Richard Thompson had left). Someone replied that the answer lay on drummer Dave Mattacks's T-shirt, which had the word "miming" on it.

I was at boarding school from 71-72 when it closed, we were allowed to watch tv twice a week TOTP on Thursday tv off when finished and Saturday afternoon till supper that was it.

Just seeing Savile in the thumbnail makes me enraged. 😡😤 The Netflix documentary about Savile is compelling, though.

@markwilliamwestonwilson1503

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta agree dude

@Betty_Virago

2 жыл бұрын

I loved how in leeds we tried to erase him from the city. In the library we have a huge tapestry of leeds and famous Loiners (folk from leeds) and saviles embroidered figure was just yanked from the cloth and his name crossed out with a sharpie. But yeah, I hate seeing his face pop up on screen.

@PeterPumpkinEater75

2 жыл бұрын

Jimmy getting too much coverage rn

@FalkSinss

2 жыл бұрын

There is another GREAT documentary....."Jimmy Savile: The People Who Knew". DEFINITELY worth the watch

@FalkSinss

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeterPumpkinEater75 Yeah, for being a sick Pedo. There are people that STILL love this guy (especially the older people) unknowing to the horrors and pain he has created and caused! They DESTROYED the monumental gravestone in rememberance of him.....AFTER this disgusting shit was made public! I would want to know if there is a sick pervert pedophile, ANYwhere.....and i SURE as hell want to know if this celebrity was ANYwhere near ANY vulnerable and helpless human being! If it wasn't for the strong humans that started to come out and report, then NONE OF US would EVER know what REALLY happened. I prefer being fully informed. Because.....it REALLY doesn't matter whether monsters get lots of press or not.....there will ALWAYS be people that idolize sick fucks for their crimes, just like ANY other sick fetish. It doesn't matter if you are Charles Manson or Chris Watts, there will ALWAYS be fans and groupies writing, supporting you, and even wanting to marry you.

Madness got banned, from time to time, by the producers from performing on stage, because they refused to mine properly, sending the whole thing up, so often their videos were shown instead. But they weren't the only band to make fun of miming. The BBC has a whole history of people like Saville, there was also Rolf Harris, Gary Glitter and others including a sculpture who designed statues for one of their buildings, being ignored and allowed to prey on others.

@apemoon1731

2 жыл бұрын

Rolf Harris worked for lots of TV stations across the globe. He was Australian, remember. Gary Glitter appeared on lots of TV stations too. He didn't work for the BBC.

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

@@apemoon1731 But the BBC ignored anything they did and they had staff of their own who did things, like Stuart Hall who worked on It's A Knockout.

@apemoon1731

2 жыл бұрын

@@julianaylor4351 in that case, so did the other TV stations. I'm no fan of the BBC, I can assure you, but trying to blame them for anything and everything is a bit ridiculous.

@julianaylor4351

2 жыл бұрын

@@apemoon1731 I'm not blaming them, they just didn't seem to care. Mind you they are ruthless when it comes to cancelling shows, people actually like, just so they put a new pet project in their place.

@apemoon1731

2 жыл бұрын

@@julianaylor4351 'cancelling' seems to be quite fashionable of late. I hate what the BBC has become, but I draw the line at having a dig at TOTP.

The performance of Culture Club's debut single (and chart-topper) wasn't Boy George's first time on TOTP. A year before, he was one of those dancing.

We who actually watched the programme every week enjoyed it and didn’t notice anything wrong.

@ChloeFletcher-gk1fo

7 ай бұрын

My uncle as a kid in England

As a fan of 60s rock and pop I was trying the other day to watch 60s TOTP episodes here in youtube and it is terrible that Saville is always the presenter. At least I am glad they don´t have him for the 80s shows since I have been also enjoying 80s TOTP performances and episodes from the decade of my childhood. From other controversies in this video it seems things were very questionable in general back in the 60s and 70s in TOTP and perhaps they were able to handle things better in the 80s

@gilgameshofuruk4060

2 жыл бұрын

By the eighties the worst ones were too old to present the show.

@krishnan-resurrection714

2 жыл бұрын

...SO YOU THINK BOY GEORGE WAS UP TO THE SAME THING .......

@Glenn1967ful

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of clips from the show's golden era will have Savile introducing the acts, Apart from his appalling crimes, he was a rubbish presenter who thought he was bigger than the show.

I didn't know that Smashing Pumpkins got banned over James Bulger

I was darkly amused by the fact that when I skipped on from this to the next 'mojo video, about disturbing Jimmy Savile TV appearances, I was presented with an advert for Shudder.

Surprised that Sunset Strippers 2005 performance of "Falling Stars" (sampling the late 1980s hit "Waiting for a star to fall" by Boy Meets Girl) didn't even get an honourable mention, given the number of complaints the BBC got for showing strippers in what was very much a pre-watershed family show

@thetid8852

5 ай бұрын

Not only that, but the original Pans People routine to Typically Tropical's "BArbados" from 1975 has disappeared without trace. They started in full airline stewardess outfits, then during the song gradually stripped down to their bikinis!

Top Of The Pops started in Manchester on New Years Day 1964 From Studio A On Dickenson Road Rusholme but moved to London in 1966 when it became popular sadly Jimmy Saville was the first presenter and last presenter of the show it still shocks me how he got away with so much from the 40s until his death and no one did anything to stop him you could tell just by looking at him something wasn't right with him

@theblitz9

2 жыл бұрын

As viewers we sort of saw something slightly off. Seeing him with all the young girls was weird. What people forget is that it was a different age. Things like he did simply weren't talked about. Anyone who said anything was automatically accused of being a liar. You can't compare the times. Remember, there was no internet. No way of sharing that didn't go through MSM.

Soul II Soul were due to perform Back to life on TOTP but they were told they had to mime even though they performed Keep on Moving Life so they all walked out and they had to show the video and they never came back to perform the song again

@garyhunt8067

2 жыл бұрын

Don't blame them

@sarahblunden4372

2 жыл бұрын

@@garyhunt8067 no me neither

@Agnethatheredhairkid

2 жыл бұрын

@ Sarah Blunden: I hate the song but respect to them for that.

Hmmmm I wonder what number one is gonna be...

New Order couldn't have really been that much of a problem for the BBC seeing that they were invited to play at the Corporation's Maida Vale studios - a place where only a selected few really get to go. In 2015, Sumner and co plus La Roux but minus an estranged Peter Hook by that time performed some new material including the song Tutti Frutti. Sumner and Hook had always had different opinions about what direction and style of music the band should pursue. Sumner wanted the more electronic, synthesizer style whereas Hook was much more old style and traditional guitar orientated. But after many years Hook quit New Order.

2:36 - Kurt's not intending to annoy here. It's now been well documented that he had laryngitis and as nothing was working to fix it, he decided to sing in a lower octave rather than mime. Please, a little research goes a long way.

@r4h4al

2 жыл бұрын

He's lucky he was able to sing at all with laryngitis.

@superflyjimmysnucka9068

2 жыл бұрын

It was a homage to Morrissey! I've heard him say this in an interview!

I didn't know that the BBC actually banned relax, I thought DJ Mike Reed actually banned it from his playlist..

@racheljackson4428

2 жыл бұрын

@Mark Nobes thanks for the details.

@thetid8852

5 ай бұрын

Yes, Mike Reed initially banned it from his show, then later the Beeb banned it too, but only from Radio 1 daytime playlists - I believe it could still be played in the evenings?

Love the videos but u need to sort ur volume out as ur very quite which means u gotta turn up the volume to hear u on KZread or turn ur mic up

What was the clip of Sailor about? Who did they upset, or did I miss something?

A very interesting (and sometimes disturbing) selection. However, I simply cannot believe that a 'TOTP controversies' top 10 would miss out the All About Eve fiasco! (where the band couldn't hear anything on their monitors and so sat perfectly still & waiting while the audience could hear the record playing).

Miming and Molestation: The Sorded History Of Top Of The Pops.

@johnwilliams2479

2 жыл бұрын

And Witchcraft Occultist with Uncle Jimmy

@davejackson5741

Жыл бұрын

@@johnwilliams2479 Witchcraft Occultist?!😂😂😂

Boy George….10 years too late in controversy after Bowie and the sweet had beaten them to it in 71/72

2.30 NIRVANA did the exact same thing on the Jonathan Ross Show They were supposed to play Lithium but they played Teraltorial Pissings instead😀😀😀

Going heavy on the Savile stuff atm

@krishnan-resurrection714

2 жыл бұрын

its a Ghoulish Hex .....

I think we all know what number one is.

jimmy saville is a monsterious human being.

@stepheng8779

2 жыл бұрын

Monsterious?

@B10HAZARD.

2 жыл бұрын

*was Satan has him as his bitch now.

@jayburton1743

2 жыл бұрын

*was

The Cigar was his magic wand, pushing negative energy away, and waving positive energy towards him,

@davejackson5741

Жыл бұрын

There's no Positive energy in Paedophilia.

@ChloeFletcher-gk1fo

7 ай бұрын

That’s what he wanted you to think

@johnwilliams2479

7 ай бұрын

@@ChloeFletcher-gk1fo You have done no research on the dark arts, don't show your ignorance please

according to a recent TOTP documentary, Cobain had a seriously sore voice and threatened to quit, so he had to do it in a lower key

@sayyamzahid505

2 жыл бұрын

I live in Karachi Pakistan I like your comments

@stepheng8779

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah right 😂

@lewisb85

2 жыл бұрын

So he did the Morrissey impression?

I worked for iron maiden back in the day and they was asked to play again on the show but once again they said it had to be live and maiden never played on top of the pops again

@helvete983

2 жыл бұрын

They've played Man on the Edge and The Wicker Man on TOTP

@dark108x

2 жыл бұрын

Soul II Soul were allowed to also perform live on their fist appearance, but were told to mime only when they returned again with Back To Life. They refused to mime, and TOTP had to settle with playing the video when it spent a month at number one.

Don't forget Jonathan King, Rolf Harris and Gary Glitter

This is one of the poorest instalments in the series.

Kurt cobain one like he Trolling with his voice

@WatchMojoUK

2 жыл бұрын

funniest TOP moment ever

Could we have a WatchMojoUK edition of the the channel's top ten abuses of the English language? Why is it spoken in 'Merkin with a British accent?

KZread and other medias should distroy all tapes and photoes of Saville

@betlea8070

2 жыл бұрын

No. Its like war. You need the historical evidence to prevent it ever happening again. I'm Gen X and came up through the ranks on TOTP and JFI. I've seen in Germany, how destroying evidence and denial is extremely dangerous 😔

@apemoon1731

2 жыл бұрын

Don't be ridiculous.

@johnnypocknee2842

2 жыл бұрын

@@betlea8070 I meant all the show biz like interducing the Stones in 64 that sort of thing thanks for your comment

@stepheng8779

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnnypocknee2842 no

@johnnypocknee2842

2 жыл бұрын

@@stepheng8779 why not who wants to know about him or even see him

I saw Nirvana in London back when they first came to the UK. I thought they were crap.

1:42 - what artist is this ??

@gary1961

2 жыл бұрын

I think that is Leif Garrett, an American singer, likely singing his one and only UK hit, I Was Made For Dancing.

The band was... Showaddywaddy

Heck, Jimmy Savile was even groping a young woman on camera at Top of the Pops.

I'm a bit younge to remember this show but dam it had a lot of things wrong with it from what I can see

@antoniajane5442

2 жыл бұрын

We would all watch Top of the Pops on a Thursday - it was the one programme all teenagers watched!

@apemoon1731

2 жыл бұрын

No,it didn't. Don't believe the hysteria in some if these comments.

@sayyamzahid505

2 жыл бұрын

Melbourne Australia deport deceased tooba shehryar

Haha Nirvana is on every one of these lists that this channel puts out. Good job Kurt 😂

When I was a child Jim fixed it for me to milk a cow whilst wearing a blindfold.

@johnwilliams2479

2 жыл бұрын

He was a Witch

@mewesquirrel6720

2 жыл бұрын

@67psych3 why is making fun of incidents involving children funny to you

We already knew the #1 😂

Smashing pumpkins weren't allowed to play, shows clip of them playing

Torrp orrf therr Porrps. Not arf pop pickers 😂😂

Gee iron maiden 1980 fuck it's old

Go Maiden!!!

Wait! How were the pumpkins banned??? Tonight was years after disarm so basically that’s a bullshit statement.

@DerekHartley

Жыл бұрын

It literally says just the song Disarm was banned, not the band.

Mime

In England y'all call lip syncing, miming? Wild

@AtheistOrphan

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, we do.

@alicialuxxx6088

2 жыл бұрын

I was very confused because I'm from Canada and my dumb ass was expecting white faced mimes 🤣

@dannyx2197

2 жыл бұрын

When there is no live voice what's the point ? sync or mime it's all a bit fake ? Wild thing would be people actually singing with a band on stage maybe ....

@spacecat3198

2 жыл бұрын

British here. I’ve mainly heard it called it lip syncing. Miming does sound familiar to me for some reason. In any case lip synching is ridiculous.

@blacksunshine7485

2 жыл бұрын

@@alicialuxxx6088 Looking good Alicia

Sorry, can you say "aforementioned" again, please? 😄

Who else thought Boy George was a girl as a kid?

Nah I swear this was uploaded like 2 months ago

@mgthestrange9098

2 жыл бұрын

I thought so too buts some of the entries are different. This one is more focussed on the abuse stuff. 😬

Frankie goes to Hollywood were never on Top Of the Pops while it was in the charts as it was banned by the BBC. If it was banned how could be on Top of the Pops. The clip you show is from a Top Of the Pops 20th anniversary edition later on in the year when Relax had been out the charts for weeks, So this performance didn't make them mega stars. they already were by this time. You need to more research as usual

*coughs loudly* Manics, anyone?

It’s not contra-versity; it’s con-trov-ersy.

you forget the police…

@trevorbrown6654

Жыл бұрын

The Ghost in the machine album that song came from is generally quite a dark album anyway. 'Every little thing she does is magic" is one of the more upbeat tracks on it. It's also the first album I ever bought and brings back some great memories of starting secondary school. My god the 1980s were a depressing time 🤣

Wow wow wow meatloaf was on the top of pops

@krishnan-resurrection714

2 жыл бұрын

ANOTHER SAVILE MAN ....

@jaynesheehy5237

2 жыл бұрын

And you have proof........?????

@tomcarpenter1801

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaynesheehy5237 2:00 in