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I've seen the episode after that. We're right in the verge of the novelty single influx. With Whitney, Madonna and Pet Shop Boys in the top 40, the late 1980s really has started.
 
I'm guessing the infamous All About Eve performance is coming in the next few months. I assume we'll get it in all it's glory presuming it's not a Mike Smith episode
 
I see this period as more consolidation of the mid 80s. For me the late 80s really kicks in with SAW rising to domination in 87, together with more dance music (Jack Your Body, Pump Up The Volume) really beginning to strengthen its hold on the chart.
 
I'm guessing the infamous All About Eve performance is coming in the next few months. I assume we'll get it in all it's glory presuming it's not a Mike Smith episode
Mike Smith had left Top Of The Pops by the time All About Eve appeared on the show. But it's more than a few months before we see them - the song was in the charts in 1988! So it's only another 18 months or so before they turn up...
 
Mike Smith had left Top Of The Pops by the time All About Eve appeared on the show. But it's more than a few months before we see them - the song was in the charts in 1988! So it's only another 18 months or so before they turn up...
1988?! In my head it was a 1986 kinda hit.
 
I think their first records were issued in '86 and they were scuttling around the lower regions of the charts at about the same time as The Mission. Could be wrong, was never a massive fan.
 
Just catching up with a few episodes now, and noticed that the 'Story of 1986' episode is on at 8pm tonight. I know our series link never picks those up.
 
Finally getting a bit more The Crowd. What a load of shit. Don't think I recognised anyone there.
 
I turned it on right at that point and thought WHAT THE FUCK

Oh God WE ARE THE WORLD was so terrible
 
Finally getting a bit more The Crowd. What a load of shit. Don't think I recognised anyone there.

Apparently

The band members included: Bruce Forsyth, Denny Laine, Jim Diamond, Tony Christie, Rick Wakeman, John Conteh, The Barron Knights, Jess Conrad, Kiki Dee, the Foxes, Rolf Harris, Graham Gouldman, Kenny Lynch, Rick Wild of The Overlanders, Keith Chegwin, Tony Hicks, Colin Blunstone, Tim Hinkley, Johnny Logan, Zak Starkey, Girlschool, Black Lace, John Otway, Gary Holton, Nigel Holton, Hank Hancocks, Peter Cook, the Nolans, John Entwistle of The Who, Motörhead, Karen Clark, Dave Lee Travis, Graham Dene, Ed Stewart, Phil Lynott, Smokie, Joe Fagin, Eddie Hardin, Gerard Kenny, Chris Robinson, Tim Healy, Kin Kelly, John Verity, Rose Marie, David Shilling, Chris Norman, Pete Spencer, Bernie Winters, Robert Heaton, and Frank Allen of The Searchers.

It's like Celebrity Foo Bump was never invented.
 
I can't even with SAVING ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU. Against my better instincts I went to the THIRD YEAR CHRISTMAS SCHOOL DISCO and had to DANCE WITH A GIRL TO IT

*scarred*
 
Does Sarah Greene's embargo only apply to the main repeats rather than documentaries including clips from it, then?
 
Sinitta's famous TIMEBENDING skills also manage to make So Macho sound like a seven week number two :disco:
 
It was obviously an anti-LGBT PRIDE CONSPIRACY

I don't care what you QUEENS say I still maintain that FIVE STAR were FUCKING SHIT

This number feels about 20 minutes long :boring:
 
I think Five Star have got a solid half (nearly) of a Greatest Hits, but beyond that, no thanks.
 
I do remember getting Luxury Of Life on cassette from the library with a peculiar fondness, though.
 
Time for a catch-up...."Take On Me" has aged pretty well, I think...
 
I'll tell you what, EVERYONE was wearing those scraggy leather wristbands in 1986 and it was totally Morten Harket's fault.
 
Had forgotten exactly how shit The Far Corporation were. Absolutely terrible, put me off listening to Led Zep until, ooh, what was it, 1990?
 
Did Steve Wright just call Madonna a sleazebag???? What a cunt.
 

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