CD
Wow, a polite troll. Me is well impressed.
@ngel posted:
summer holidays?
if i'm old enough to get into top of the pops i'm old enough not to be in school thank you
if i'm old enough to get into top of the pops i'm old enough not to be in school thank you
Wow, a polite troll. Me is well impressed.
CD
who's blink? your next mutliple username?
No silly, blink and you'll miss a few hundred new users signing up to torment us.
Hymagumba posted:
lolo posted:
Give it up, for blink's sake
who's blink? your next mutliple username?
No silly, blink and you'll miss a few hundred new users signing up to torment us.
CD
From the BBC News site:
Fans prepare for TOTP's swansong
Veteran disc jockey Sir Jimmy Savile will co-host the show, to be broadcast on BBC Two on 30 July.
Other former Top Of The Pops presenters such as Janice Long, Tony Blackburn and Mike Read are also due to return for the long-running programme's swansong.
The final show will feature celebrity tributes and archive footage. The last live edition was broadcast on 23 July.
According to a BBC spokesperson, the show will end with "a celebration of the programme's glorious history featuring many of the greatest performances".
The Spice Girls, Wham, Madonna, Beyonce Knowles and Robbie Williams will feature in the show alongside the Rolling Stones - the very first band to appear on Top of the Pops.
As is customary, the show will conclude with this week's number one single.
This could pose a problem, however, as the programme is being recorded in advance and there is no clear contender for the top slot.
"It's actually quite bunched up," says HMV spokesman Genarro Castaldo, adding that only a couple of hundred sales separated the top five singles.
Among the potential number one artists are Rhianna, Lily Allen, Shakira and Kasabian.
"At the moment Shakira looks like she's nudged back up to number one," said Mr Castaldo, "but there could be a swing at the weekend.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Sir Jimmy, 79, said it was "terrific" to be hosting the show's final broadcast.
"Most shows don't last 42 days - we lasted 42 years," he said. "You can only feel incredibly proud."
He said the last edition would be "a one-hour spectacular" featuring "high spots" from the past four decades.
DJ Dave Lee Travis, who hosted the show between 1972 and 1984, will also attend Wednesday's studio recording.
The so-called "Hairy Cornflake" attributed the show's demise after 42 years to its failure to keep up with its target audience.
"If you look at your average kid who might be interested in Top of the Pops, they'll have their iPod in one hand, a mobile phone in the other, they'll be playing a computer with their feet and have a Wi-Fi aerial sticking on the top of their head.
"There's just too much stuff out there," he continued. "Everything's becoming marginalised."
Top of the Pops was first broadcast on New Year's Day 1964, from a converted church in Manchester.
The first show, presented by Sir Jimmy, featured the Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, the Dave Clark Five and the Beatles.
During the programme's 1970s heyday, it would regularly attract 15 million viewers.
But in recent years the show saw a marked decline in viewing figures in the face of plummeting singles sales and the growth of 24-hour music channels.
Fans prepare for TOTP's swansong
Veteran disc jockey Sir Jimmy Savile will co-host the show, to be broadcast on BBC Two on 30 July.
Other former Top Of The Pops presenters such as Janice Long, Tony Blackburn and Mike Read are also due to return for the long-running programme's swansong.
The final show will feature celebrity tributes and archive footage. The last live edition was broadcast on 23 July.
According to a BBC spokesperson, the show will end with "a celebration of the programme's glorious history featuring many of the greatest performances".
The Spice Girls, Wham, Madonna, Beyonce Knowles and Robbie Williams will feature in the show alongside the Rolling Stones - the very first band to appear on Top of the Pops.
As is customary, the show will conclude with this week's number one single.
This could pose a problem, however, as the programme is being recorded in advance and there is no clear contender for the top slot.
"It's actually quite bunched up," says HMV spokesman Genarro Castaldo, adding that only a couple of hundred sales separated the top five singles.
Among the potential number one artists are Rhianna, Lily Allen, Shakira and Kasabian.
"At the moment Shakira looks like she's nudged back up to number one," said Mr Castaldo, "but there could be a swing at the weekend.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Sir Jimmy, 79, said it was "terrific" to be hosting the show's final broadcast.
"Most shows don't last 42 days - we lasted 42 years," he said. "You can only feel incredibly proud."
He said the last edition would be "a one-hour spectacular" featuring "high spots" from the past four decades.
DJ Dave Lee Travis, who hosted the show between 1972 and 1984, will also attend Wednesday's studio recording.
The so-called "Hairy Cornflake" attributed the show's demise after 42 years to its failure to keep up with its target audience.
"If you look at your average kid who might be interested in Top of the Pops, they'll have their iPod in one hand, a mobile phone in the other, they'll be playing a computer with their feet and have a Wi-Fi aerial sticking on the top of their head.
"There's just too much stuff out there," he continued. "Everything's becoming marginalised."
Top of the Pops was first broadcast on New Year's Day 1964, from a converted church in Manchester.
The first show, presented by Sir Jimmy, featured the Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, the Dave Clark Five and the Beatles.
During the programme's 1970s heyday, it would regularly attract 15 million viewers.
But in recent years the show saw a marked decline in viewing figures in the face of plummeting singles sales and the growth of 24-hour music channels.
TC
Hi All
Just arrived home from the Television Centre after attending tonights show. I've done so many interviews at TV Centre tonight, my head is swimming.
No acts are in the studio for this final edition - it was purely archive footage presented by Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Rufus Hound, Reggie Yates, Edith Bowman, Mike Reid, DLT, Pat Sharp and the lovely Janice Long (whom I chatted to for ages)
Jimmy is wearing a gold over the top spangley suit (!) and seemed to be getting quite tired I noticed - he went early - so we recorded the end link early - all the predictable archive clips are there...
The end is quite sad. The show will end with a time lapse piece of footage of the audience leaving and then Jimmy turns out the lights until complete darkness descends (he recorded this little section of turning out the lights right at the start!)
They had a wonderful neon logo of the "classic" TOTP circular sign as well as most of the shows logos dotted around the studio - even a mock up of one of the eighties "bridges" - albeit rather cheap looking!!!!
Still, excellent time and then I had to go straight to BBC News 24 and do a live interview about it - did anyone catch this????
Cheers
Paul
Just arrived home from the Television Centre after attending tonights show. I've done so many interviews at TV Centre tonight, my head is swimming.
No acts are in the studio for this final edition - it was purely archive footage presented by Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Rufus Hound, Reggie Yates, Edith Bowman, Mike Reid, DLT, Pat Sharp and the lovely Janice Long (whom I chatted to for ages)
Jimmy is wearing a gold over the top spangley suit (!) and seemed to be getting quite tired I noticed - he went early - so we recorded the end link early - all the predictable archive clips are there...
The end is quite sad. The show will end with a time lapse piece of footage of the audience leaving and then Jimmy turns out the lights until complete darkness descends (he recorded this little section of turning out the lights right at the start!)
They had a wonderful neon logo of the "classic" TOTP circular sign as well as most of the shows logos dotted around the studio - even a mock up of one of the eighties "bridges" - albeit rather cheap looking!!!!
Still, excellent time and then I had to go straight to BBC News 24 and do a live interview about it - did anyone catch this????
Cheers
Paul
CD
Thanks very much for the write-up Paul, glad to hear you had a good time even if it wasn't as star studded as one could have hoped for. The ending with all the lights being turned off has been done quite a lot with shows in recent years, but it does capture the emotion and put things to rest. Like the time lapse idea. Didn't see you live on News 24, but maybe you'll make into a report on the last show tomorrow 