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Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006. It was traditionally shown every Thursday evening on BBC1, except for a short period on Fridays in mid-1973 before being again moved to Fridays in 1996, and then to Sundays on BBC Two in 2005. Each weekly programme consisted of performances from some of that week's best-selling popular music artists, with a rundown of that week's singles chart. Additionally, there was a special edition of the programme on Christmas Day (and usually, until 1984, a second such edition a few days after Christmas), featuring some of the best-selling singles of the year.
Although the weekly show was cancelled in 2006, the Christmas special has continued. It also survives as Top of the Pops 2, which began in 1994 and features vintage performances from the Top of the Pops archives.
In the 1990s, the show's format was sold to several foreign broadcasters in the form of a franchise package, and at one point various versions of the show were shown in nearly 100 countries. Editions of the programme from the 1970s (and now 1980s) are being repeated on most Thursdays on BBC Four.
New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980, currently consisting of founding members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert, alongside Phil Cunningham and Tom Chapman. The band was formed in 1980 by Sumner (vocals, guitars, keyboards and synthesisers), ex member Peter Hook (bass and vocals) and Morris (drums, electronic drums, keyboards and synthesizers) – the remaining members of post-punk group Joy Division, following the suicide of vocalist Ian Curtis – with the addition of Gilbert (keyboards, synthesizers and guitars).
By combining post-punk with an increasing influence from electronic dance music, New Order became one of the most critically acclaimed and influential bands of the 1980s. Though the band's early years were shadowed by the legacy and basic sound of Joy Division, their experience of the early 1980s New York City club scene increased their knowledge of dance music and helped them incorporate elements of that style into their work. The band's 1983 hit "Blue Monday", the best-selling 12-inch single of all time, is one example of how the band's sound became increasingly upbeat and electronic.
Steps - Tragedy (Live @ TOTP)
TOP OF THE POPS TOTP 25 05 1989
Dancer gets censored. Sugar Sugar - The Archies. TOTP famous outtake. 1969.
David Bowie - The Jean Genie (TOTP: 4th January 1973)
TOTP 81-83 titles - how they were made
New Order - Blue Monday (TOTP Performance)
Kylie Minogue - The Minogue Medley (Live TOTP Christmas 25-12-2004) HD
TOP OF THE POPS ( THE STORY OF 1981 )
Blondie - Sunday Girl / Dreaming (TOTP 1979)
All Saints - Never Ever TOTP HQ
Despite the camerman's best efforts I understand the censor won the day and this ended up on the cutting room floor. Famous Top of the Pops outtake.
New Order perform their legendary single on Top Of The Pops on 31st March 1983. Taken from the DVD "New Order Story". *NOTE* This is the highest quality and longest version you will find on YouTube
Kylie Minogue - The Minogue Medley (Live TOTP Christmas 25-12-2004) HD Navidad. Step Back In Time, Shocked, Better The Devil You Know, What Do I Have To Do
All Saints - Never Ever on Christmas Top of the Pops 1997.
[Chorus:]
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Dear John [?]
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If I hear about a [?]
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And I'm a need a [?] cause my whip is [?]
[Chorus:]
10 summaz, 10 sumaz,
I'll be getting to the money [?] 10 summaz.
My money loan like 10 [?]
That nigger full of shit, somebody call the plumber
A nigger hot like 10 summaz,
10 chains [?] ain't walking on the [?]
My money loan like 10 [?]
I'll be getting to the money that's ten [?]
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She fell in love with my [?]
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Let that [?]
Get you [?]
Just soot your ass [?]
You know I got the streets [?]
Six [?] but you make it [?]
It's simple math, yeah we got to yell [?]
Twenty millions strong [?]
[Chorus:]
10 summaz, 10 sumaz,
I'll be getting to the money [?] 10 summaz.
My money loan like 10 [?]
That nigger full of shit, somebody call the plumber
A nigger hot like 10 summaz,
10 chains [?] ain't walking on the [?]
My money loan like 10 [?]
I'll be getting to the money that's ten [?]
Ten summaz, ten baby mommas,
Yeah I got my baby girl [?]
Ten thousand [?]
I got a bag of pills, who wanna play the x game?
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I'm inside of my column like a laptop.
I'm outside of my column like a [?]
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[?] let me put my stick up on your match box,
I'm a [?] you might pass out!
Got your girls smoking loud [?]
You're getting [?]
[Chorus:]
10 summaz, 10 sumaz,
I'll be getting to the money [?] 10 summaz.
My money loan like 10 [?]
That nigger full of shit, somebody call the plumber!
A nigger hot like 10 summaz,
10 chains [?] ain't walking on the [?]
My money loan like 10 [?]