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Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Meh, it's no 'Three Lions'

That looked like a blatant British Airways advert!

But the Falklands War was on so nobody cared.

Where's the Northern Ireland 1982 World Cup song on this show? Bloody English bias again.

I suspect he wrote this one in about 15 seconds ...


https://twitter.com/TOTPFacts/status/781925038832353281?lang=en

Hello, there's another one of that Peoples History of Pop Series this week. I didn't really like the last one but sure at least its new. The companion show is a Boy George Doc about Life in the 70s.

TOTP skips a week because of DLT presenting it, but if you really want to see it, here you go https://vimeo.com/155177946




Thursday
10pm Film: The Sapphires (2012) (3e)
An Irish music manager discovers four Aboriginal Australian singers in a remote mission in the 1960s, and plans to turn them into their country's answer to the Supremes. The naive girls face a challenging journey to stardom when they are sent to entertain American troops in the Vietnam War. Drama, starring Deborah Mailman and Chris O'Dowd

2am Totally 60s Pscyhadelic Rock at the BBC
A compilation of the genre from programmes such as Colour Me Pop, How It Is, Top of the Pops and Once More with Felix. Performers include Status Quo, the Incredible String Band, Donovan, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger and the Trinity, the Moody Blues, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Joe Cocker, the Move, Procol Harum, Cream, Jimi Hendrix and the Who



Friday
7.30pm & Midnight Top Of The Pops 1981 #17
Peter Powell hosts an edition first broadcast on May 20 1982, featuring appearances by Adam Ant, Rocky Sharpe and the Replays, Madness, ABC, Iron Maiden, Ph.D, Tight Fit, Nicole and Patrice Rushen. Plus, a dance performance by Zoo. (The later version is slightly extended)

9pm & 12.35am People's History of Pop: 1976-1985 New!
1976-1985, Tribal Gatherings Pauline Black looks at the years 1976 to 1985, when music got involved in passionate protest and the high street filled with colourful factions of music lovers. After a lot of big hair and big rock stars, punks brought pop back down to earth, and out of that music lovers shattered into an array of pop tribes who posed with passion. The programme features an Asian punk band whose members were inspired by the music to shout for what they believed in, and includes some precious material that offers an insight into the thinking of the Clash's lead singer, Joe Strummer. Part of an occasional series being shown during 2016

10pm & 1.35am Classic Albums: Bob Marley and The Wailers - Catch a Fire
The making of the 1973 Wailers album, which brought international recognition to Bob Marley and allowed his reputation to go global beyond his native Jamaica. The programme takes a track-by-track look at the record, with producer Chris Blackwell and original engineer Tony Platt commenting on the original multi-tracks of Slave Driver, Concrete Jungle, Stir It Up, Rock It Baby and others

11pm & 2.35am Island at The BBC
Archive performances by artists associated with the Island record label during its 50 years. Tracks include Cat Stevens' Father and Son, Roxy Music's Do the Strand and Bob Marley and the Wailers' Stir It Up. The programme also features Steel Pulse, U2, PJ Harvey, Bob Marley, Amy Winehouse and Baaba Maal

11.05pm Later with Jools Holland (BBC2)
Extended edition of the music programme. Glasgow rock band Twin Atlantic make their debut on the show, following the recent release of their fourth album GLA. Irish singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow bares his soul and his unique falsetto, while Southern rock courtesy of Georgia's Blackberry Smoke, who are about to release their fifth album. Also performing are French-American chanteuse Madeleine Peyroux, Keane frontman Tom Chaplin and soul-rooted R'n'B singer-songwriter Tony Momrelle



Saturday
9.30pm Boy George's 1970s: Save Me from Suburbia New!
The BBC's My Generation season continues as Boy George revisits his teenage years. While history may remember the 1970s as being marked by strikes, poverty and civil discord, the singer reveals that - for the young George O'Dowd - the decade was the beginning of his musical, social and sexual coming-of-age. He discusses how sexual repression and disenfranchisement, along with the advent of glam rock, disco and punk, gave rise to the flamboyant persona he would later unleash on the world, via Culture Club's memorable first appearance on Top of the Pops in 1982

10.30pm & 2.05am It's Only Rock n Roll: Rock n Roll at the BBC
A compilation of classic rock 'n' roll artists and songs in celebration of the musical genre, Including performances by Jerry Lee Lewis, Dion, Dick Dale and Neil Sedaka. Plus, a selection of songs with rock 'n' roll in the title, such as Tom Petty's Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll, Joan Jett's I love Rock 'n' Roll and Oasis's Rock 'n' Roll Star

11.30pm Totally British: 70s Rock n Roll (Part 1)
Part one of two. A collection of archive performances by artists including David Bowie, Free, Status Quo, Mott the Hoople, the Faces, Humble Pie, Babe Ruth and Thin Lizzy from TV shows such as The Old Grey Whistle Test and Top of the Pops

12.30am Totally British: 70s Rock n Roll (Part 2)
Part two of two. A collection of archive performances by artists including Graham Parker and the Rumour, Dr Feelgood, Ducks Deluxe, Elvis Costello, the Motors, Steve Gibbons Band and Dire Straits from TV shows such as The Old Grey Whistle Test and Top of the Pops

1.30am Top Of The Pops 1982 #17
Same as Friday



Sunday
8pm Junior Eurovision (TG4)
New series. The search for an Irish candidate for the 2016 song contest in Malta, with Pauline Scanlon, Fiachna O Braonain and Jedward making up the judging panel

10.30pm Pop Goes Northern Ireland (BBC2 NI)
1985 - We're on the Road to Nowhere A look back at events in the province in 1985, including the Anglo-Irish agreement and the Ulster Says No campaign. With a soundtrack of pop hits from the time



Sky Arts has The Rolling Stones on Friday, McCartney and Lennon on Saturday, and The Who on Sunday.

True Movies seems to have abandoned the cheesey Music Biopics in favour of Christmas Films (Bah, Humbug!) so here's a link to one of the classics of the genre, Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story! With bonus Portugese Subtitles, for some reason