TOTP 29-04-1971 Intro - Charts - Outro

Hotpants galore!

[@ronwhitfield8872]

Man I loved being a teenager in the 70’s. What a time it was!

[@maxowl9550]

Good God what beautiful girls ( and boys) we all were back then! Would give anything for a time machine to go back and stay forever in those days. All of us 70 somethings were lucky to have lived in those times, life was simpler, less complicated and more fun. How clean and fresh we all looked, no tattoos, piercings or flab. God how I hate 2021!

[@jimmyraythomason1]

I remember those days. I was 18 in 1971. Driving a hot car and dating a cheerleader. Good times, great music!

[@ianbentley7276]

great post, i concur, aged 72.

[@Daisy-tl2lh]

2024 believe me its even worse!

[@roops2939]

Wait till you get to 2024! Especially 4th July onwards, fun, fun, fun...

[@michaeligoe3935]

And a mostly heterogenous happy dancers.

[@mostynf]

I love seeing the audiences on old TOTP episodes, I think it reveals more about what those times were like than seeing the actual musicians.

[@debbieharry387]

I agree. And people in general were more simple and unworldy, they didn t have amillion and one different agendas to cope with and the rules thatPolitical correctness has brought.

[@zeddeka]

@@debbieharry387 no, they had the world where the likes of Jimmy Saville could run riot. Where sleazy men could be as sexist as they wanted and treat women like rubbish. Where racism and homophobia were rife. Where pubs closed early and people drank themselves into early graves and the world was grey and derelict. You can keep that era. I thank God it's half a century into the past and is never coming back.

[@debbieharry387]

Yes, actually youre quite right.I m probably seeing it all through rose tinted spectacles as i was only a child in the 70s.@@zeddeka

[@nazaholicable]

The fashions were all so welcomlng and colourful esp for the new age of colour TV.

[@mikeoglen6848]

@@zeddeka Makes me glad to be living in this beautiful and utopian world of 2021...

[@alisonwunderland9900]

Fab! I loved 1971 and wish I could go back to there and then...

[@annecohen8927]

Nothing is ever good in the year 2000. We should have been warned in 1990’s.

[@cathygiuliana9089]

It was the beginning of the end of my life! If only I knew back then what I know now! Oh life, give me one more chance! I promise not to mess this one up! Oh life!🙏🏻😔💔

[@smokeycat6954]

Nice to see everyone having a great time, no judging each other or posing, saying look at meeeee! Best of times, and I had the privilege of living through it!

[@michaelholmes4374]

So did I great days when we was young

[@johnsurrey7426]

Me too! Mind you, we didn’t know about certain DJs or pop stars then…

[@leeenglandland2978]

Who's watching this today (29/4/21) exactly 50 year's later to the day?

[@paulblatch01]

The best and happiest decade of my life the 70’s 😀👍🏻

[@redflag8970]

Ye same grew up in the 70s was always happy

[@redflag8970]

@Pamela Beggs ace

[@darrenplumpton8900]

The 1970's(70-78) had.... The BEST music. The BEST television programmes The BEST radio(Radio One was at it's very best and ILR Independent Local Radio/Commercial Radio) launched with the second ILR station Capital Radio.) The BEST Christmas programmes.

[@GGG-sd9ei]

Paul B : Me too and it went too fast......

[@martm216]

Me too.

[@ysgol3]

1971 pop was fantastic, like 72 and 73, still my favourite years.

[@uyauabing]

A time when acts as diverse as Deep Purple, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, Waldo de Los Rios, The Stones, The Jackson 5, & Diana Ross shared the charts.

[@thetessellater9163]

And Dave and Ansell (not as spelled here as Ansil) Collins, 'Double Barrel' They were two-hit wonders; 'Monkey Spanner', their only other offering, making only number 7 in the 'charts', or was it still generally called 'The Hit Parade'.

[@kimgrant3879]

@@thetessellater9163 still brilliant songs though

[@colinglass1342]

Wasn't sacarin Jonathan king

[@Seeker7100]

Everything stopped for Top of the Pops on a Thursday night! What wonderful memories!

[@nicholaswiltshire6356]

And the whole family watched.

[@AJames-mh2dp]

The first ten seconds of the intro is awesome. Very MTV-like, which is remarkable considering MTV's creation was still a full decade in the future.

[@SheilaNeedham]

you should see them go once the bar has been open for a couple of hours !!! bless em all , much better times to be young than nowadays.

[@1800astra]

The sense of excitement simply about being young, on telly, dancing to fab tracks with your mates is palpable in his clip.. and even 40 odd years on, we can still look and say, yeah, she's lovely, and she's lovely too. What happened to our youth? The likes of Jimmy Savile and others ruined everything.

[@misterteaification]

Jonathan King as well - who was the person behind the version of 'Sugar Sugar' heard here, for which he used a one-off fake group name as he always did, here 'Sakkarin'.

[@MATTYHOUGH100]

i was a new born baby tomorrow, im 48 on monday!

[@zeddeka]

It's also called "getting old". It has happened to every human generation who ever lived, and yet still we seem bewildered by it.

[@hugebartlett1884]

Tony still has his radio programme on Fridays at 7pm,Radio 2. Well worth listening to,great records,funny quips,and fond memories.

[@Forlogson]

I have just fallen head-over-heels in love with the girl at 2:02 - the problem is she's probably now in her late 60s and somebody's Gran! Oh the relentless march of time . . .

[@fodsaks]

Yes, she's a beaut isn't she. To be honest, there's a fantastic choice of lovely looking girls.

[@paulmanly3694]

She's now a man.

[@smitbar11]

👍👍

[@flagwanker6346]

She would be a proper GILF though

[@alisonwunderland9900]

@Joris Bohnson You couldn't get on TOTP if you were that young...

[@Candolad]

Sugar Sugar" by Saccharin was actually Jonathan King. He covered quite a few songs in the 1970s including "Una Paloma Blanca" as White Dove, originally by George Baker Selection.

[@Cool2BCeltic]

Tony Blackburn, a good presenter of TOTP without a dark side.

[@melgrant7404]

Well I don't know about that.wasnt there a girl who committed suicide over him.

[@SluttChops]

Apart from all of those dead hookers buried in his back garden.

[@vordman]

He's a terrible presenter. Nervous and unsure of himself. Shy around girls. And how many times did he say "lovely" in that opening. Distinct lack of vocabulary.

[@micktranter7722]

nice guy i went to his wedding 44 yr ago my gf was his wifes pal

[@youngsteph1]

The girl who committed suicide was to do with Saville. BBC cover up.

[@AnnetteRead-m4k]

Yay!! Hot pants, loved wearing mine. Lovely innocent days with everything to look forward to, where have they gone? I know one shouldn’t but I spend my days remembering these times and I want to go back “if only”. 😢

[@hunga224]

They're students and it was rag week at their college that week, which is what the t-shirts were for. The 'SC' stands for Slough College, so 'SCRAG 71' means Slough College RAG week 1971. They also took part in a beauty contest, which Tony mentions, with the girl on the right being the apparent winner.

[@shawnrsd]

Ahh slough college no longer there

[@margies735]

An unfortunate letter combination, lm sure they were all well brought up young ladies!😁

[@johntudorhallelujah2976]

Thank you for the information.

[@blastfromthepast8344]

"Lovely... lovely ti.......tee shirts!" Good recovery there, Tony!

[@Marlondurran]

Well spotted LoL 👍

[@tallandhandsome29]

Hot pants and knee high boots....my favourite! Don’t see it nowadays, mores the pity.

[@janicebarthram6759]

tallandhandsome29 hot pants and boots don't look good on fat people......it's bad enough seeing them in leggings. Not many fat people in 1970s

[@GGG-sd9ei]

I loved my hot pants and white lace up boots. I thought I was groovy!!

[@johndean4765]

White knee high boots that were popular then were very sexy.

[@mick6370]

Birds🐦 without tattoos much more attractive 😉

[@debbieharry387]

Hhaha showing your age. I doubt if anybody unedr 50 would refer to a girl as "a bird" now!!!!!

[@mick6370]

@@debbieharry387 OK sweetheart I'll give you that 💋

[@simonright1507]

@@debbieharry387 who cares they still looked better, .

[@generalyellor8188]

The most cliched Sour Old Goat comment you'll find after every single vintage song or dance video on KZbin.

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

Fascinating clip of audience! What's so great about TOTP is the diversity and varied artists and music! Compare that to today's chart,which has little variety and same production!! Thanks for the video

[@kdp8133]

Most of the 'dolly dancers' were underage and plied with booze. No wonder Saville was able to operate as he did. Plus Blackburn was linked to the suicide of one of them, aged just 15. Died just a month before this was filmed.

[@grahamd5418]

Sad to think that all those hot girls are today's grannies and some are probably now getting around in mobility scooters. Enjoy yourselves whilst you are young and beautiful. It doesn't last forever.

[@stewartmackay539]

I wonder if any of them see this. I wonder where they are now.

[@kdp8133]

And the hot men of course! Oh wait....there aren't any lol ; )

[@sanchoodell6789]

@@bluegrass5752 Well, it was the Cold Cold Cold Packed Faced BBC that made this show but it WAS *THE* PLACE to be seen at that time as there were no suitable night clubs to be 'cool' in!

[@johnpenny5638]

That girl at 3:07 ! Cor... I was coming up to 18 and hideously shy, seeing her I think she would be about the same age so about mid-60's now. Where are you I wonder?

[@greasy465]

the girl in the red and white print dress at 2:04 is probably the cutest girl I have ever seen...and now about 70....sigh

[@Shell6424]

I loved the fashion back then - I wore hot pants and mini skirts - both with long boots.

[@nicholaswiltshire6356]

And I bet you were "wow"!

[@alisonbongo3287]

Tony is an absolute gentleman

[@stewartbrown4802]

TOTP brilliant every Thursday night loved it and the proper charts good times 🎵🎵🎼🎼🎤🎩

[@garrywood8836]

What a great chart. Great variations of music and stars

[@lovexlove-bh4xq]

Woow this was like 100s years ago Great footage so clear

[@jimsimpson1006]

lovexlove 1998 you're not far wrong, it WAS half a hundred years ago!

[@fntime]

Things have gotten better since then, NOT!

[@stephendines1936]

Most of those dancing would be 70+ years old now.

[@jimsimpson1006]

Stephen Dines Can you imagine if they all somehow got together for a TOTP 1971 reunion! Would it be funny or sad?

[@mikeoglen6848]

The good news is Tony Blackburn is still going strong...

[@peterpandaluki6663]

Mid 60s 🙂

[@thetessellater9163]

@@jimsimpson1006 - it would probably be quite empty, actually. Bloody youngsters; have some respect !

[@thetessellater9163]

@@mikeoglen6848 - a lot of his mates went to prison....

[@TomorrowKnocks]

The 2:28 girl is as beautiful as an ancient melody lost forever!

[@Beatlefan67]

@Torero Both, but 3:08 deffo wins!

[@1970groupie]

@@Beatlefan67 Yep!

[@garrywood5345]

A fabulous top 30....Such diversity, sadly a lot of the artists have now departed

[@bazlh]

Tony Blackburn was so smooth and professional and no doubt still is! :)

[@mr-wx3lv]

Proper gorgeous ladies in those days...

[@jamsheadaziz3999]

And not plastered in bloody tattoo's 😬😬😬

[@ladytron9188]

Not a fatty in sight and no hideous tattoos either.Good old Thursday nights the highlight of the week as a teenager.

[@philipbonner6486]

So true women then looked beautiful, now nope

[@rg2027x]

Yup..That was long before HFC + Aspartame were placed in the food supply (toxic addictive fattening agents) & people were dumbed down & mind control-programmed by Hollywood & the TV set to embrace superficial mediocre bullshit trends so they can appear "edgier" than the next person. "Political correctness" didn't exist either..killing art, free expression, uniqueness, individuality and creativity. But humanoids have been expertly conditioned over generation to embrace that BS like everything else. This world has far gone to _garbage_ since then...People, music, culture, most everything... Except cats 😺

[@markofsaltburn]

シ This isn’t “art”! 😀

[@joedredd9979]

@@markofsaltburn yes it is

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

シ those agents in the food supply are responsible for new stomach diseases appearing on the scene like helicobacter pylori, A & E centres are full of people being admitted with this disease throwing up in agony, I have been one of these unfortunates. All down to processed foods.

[@MrAlwaysBlue]

My Mum was a similar age to those girls then. She is still going strong at 71 now.

[@alexanderheath2765]

Good variety of music in the charts back then!

[@thereunionparty]

Interesting to see that one year after the Beatles' break up Ringo, John and Paul have entries in the Top 30. I wonder if all four ever appeared together in the charts as solo artists?

[@simonmason8582]

Yes they did in 1971.

[@steveoshow4832]

Without realising it then the audience were as much part of that show as the artists themselves reflecting the styles, trends, fashion and dancing. 1971 was a great year for music although this particular chart didn’t quite reflect that.

[@Multi1628]

Fantastic history, great Archies cover featured & fascinating top 30 - thank you for posting - Cheers, DAVEDJ

[@TheBudgie29]

2:32 This Guys like WOW! I got In Yeh!. 2:01 Every Girl I went with Looked like this. Beautiful not a Tramp Stamp, Phone, In sight. I would like to Thank Every Single One for the Good Times and Hope they got what They Wanted In life.

[@smitbar11]

👍👍

[@larry930legend]

What an amazing incredible array of legendary performers. Olivia Newton John,Andy Williams,T Rex, Sweet, not to mention Elvis, John,Paul and Ringo. Super psychedelic of Sugar Sugar.

[@sidewaysid]

All those lovely girls will now be in their mid 60's like me...wow freaky isn't it.

[@philiphalpenny9761]

Saville, prowling around the corridors of the beeb , at that time is much more freaky, to be fair...

[@unmea69l8er]

@@philiphalpenny9761 Not really, Savile is dead whereas Phil Clark isn't.

[@ellenr.3409]

Yeahhhhh! Deep Purple No. 30, The Sweet No. 14, The Rolling Stones No. 04, T-Rex No. 02

[@CIMAmotor]

Cliff at 25!

[@misterteaification]

Never mind that shit, listen to Sakkarin ;)

[@SuperNevile]

Yes, the days when there was one main chart and you knew where they (and you) were.... so much has been lost......

[@25ghr]

Hot pants boots and tights 70s heaven,,

[@mjc4462]

And what were the women wearing!?..🤣

[@vespadavidson2315]

Sweaty.

[@andyj639]

The 70s totp theme music was class

[@paulkavanaghk]

The CCS version as intro and was a very good cover of original.

[@whi5tler_1337]

5:36 Girl in T-shirt and knickers, and frig all else... Such great days 👍👍👍

[@smitbar11]

👍👍

[@gwangi64]

3:46 Geoffrey from Rainbow seems to be enjoying himself.

[@dannylewington2605]

thats just made me LOL

[@steviebrora6861]

Great spot! No sign of Rod Jane or Freddie though.

[@juliephillipsithanks2770]

Danny Lewington km

[@meerkatandpug]

That wasn't him.

[@IThinkYouLookLarvely]

Yes, obviously not him :P He would have been late twenties at this time, so I'm guessing it's his kid brother.

[@nickboyuk]

memories 18 and travelling the Far East in the Royal Navy. 71 great year.

[@polecat119]

No fatty's or inked up girls them days ...... just down to earth natural looking girls .....beautiful , I remember them days well

[@sawleyram7405]

All the best ones picked for prime TV viewing of course!

[@zeddeka]

That sounds like something Jimmy Saville would say

[@sawleyram7405]

@@zeddeka Meh, best just to stop going on about him to be honest -- he died ten years ago now let's just let his memory die too and enjoy the music!

[@rg2027x]

@@sawleyram7405 condescending chump certainly has an odd obsessive fascination with 'Jimmy Saville' for some weird reason! evoking his name every other post.. Maybe he ran off with his boyfriend or something 🤣

[@memyselfandi286]

Polecat 119 . How sad are you stereo typing !!

[@WOODR52]

I graduated in 71, Girls were simply beautiful then, I married my sweetheart in 71, Thin, athletic demure, sweet, Looked liked Karen Carpenters twin. We both watch these old videos, .. Thanks bro--

[@MrMjp58]

Great to be able to see [even fragments of] TOTP from the early 70's. The BBC seem to revel in trawling through the punk and post-punk years of this great programme.... Not my scene man..

[@jayzee6617]

I think the problem tends to be the naughty BBC decided to erase tapes for re-use which meant that an awful lot of the 1964-1974 period has been lost forever...There are limited full episodes which often had to be reclaimed from foreign countries who had transmitted then actually saved the tapes. The most obvious efforts today to try to find all this lost treasure seem to be from the Doctor Who fan-base though there are collectors who jealously guard their 1971 episodes of TOTP which they recorded on their very expensive VCRs in those days. The BBC has had a lot of episodes returned too but a lot are hidden in archives and never shown..The stated reason being copyright concerns..Imagine the audience for a run of 1970-71 TOTP shows with the likes of Bowie et al....

[@ravilockyer6573]

incredible line up of musical talent

[@jaggass]

Back when Tony Balckburn's hair was alive.

[@jennytalia226]

My wardrobe flashed by before my very eyes ! The 70's were way better than the 60's.

[@robertcook2572]

The '60s were just knocking at the door of fashion. In the '70s, the floodgates were opened...

[@britbyname3620]

@@robertcook2572 Dont agree , there was more class in the 60.s

[@glendagobstoppa3033]

So many pretty girls and no tattoos, pure heaven. I was lucky enough to marry one in '71.

[@mikesaunders4775]

Modest young girls not trying to look cool,and a sprinkling of self-conscious technicians padding it out for the cameras.Not a narcissist in sight.Golden years.

[@jimcameron4672]

Saville & Glitter have been airbrushed from the early 70s Top of the Pops , for anyone too young to remember they were hardly ever off it in reality, especially Glitter.

[@papapabs175]

Well too be fair both of them were bloody awful.

[@DizzyKizzy64]

Both gave me creepy vibes as a kid boy was I right.

[@michaelbrandt5416]

Would be cool to get that fuzzy pedal guitar version of "sugar sugar". Thanks to youtube, older geezers like me can enjoy past greatness just as this.

[@NathanChisholm041]

You know which Fuzz pedal was used?

[@stuartwebster4955]

The halcyon days of the seventies! Gorgeous girls, no mobile phones or Internet,no political correctness, just great days

[@colbangers6336]

Stuart Webster Overflowing bins, dog shit everywhere, power cuts and miner strikes. Great times.

[@stuartwebster4955]

@@colbangers6336 thats right speaking personally great times for myself, fast forward to 2020 erm covid 19, economy In meltdown, this little island is over run with every asylum seeker on the planet, every sad bastard is glued to a mobile phone, still dog shit still around, bin men never had it so bleeding easy, we could do with a few fucking power cuts, the stress it would cause, no Internet fucking bliss

[@zeddeka]

@@stuartwebster4955 everybody who ever lived thinks the time they were young was best. There's nothing special about that. The difference with you though now is that you sound like a grumpy, nasty old dinosaur who hates the modern world. It makes you wonder what went wrong for you, because not everyone your age is so bitter and tetchy.

[@stuartwebster4955]

@@zeddekaobviously hit a raw nerve with you! Your Arrogance is amusing and i had great pleasure discussing your reply with a number of my work colleagues, you no nothing about me yet have the nerve to call me a bastard, I shall reiterate again the halcyon days of the seventies you cannot beat them, take away your fuckin mobile phones etc and you go into meltdown, so GO FUCK YOURSELF. 😂😂😂

[@redflag8970]

@@stuartwebster4955 well said

[@alonenjersey]

Perry Como made it up to #24? Oh my beloved Mom (R.I.P.) would have been so happy.

[@grahamandrew907]

Same here, my mum also absolutely loved him.

[@shanef8728]

one of my favourite totp scenes this, though I used really love watching the early 1980s programmes from 1982 onwards when they had a dazzling array of studio lighting which was well before its time!

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

I’d like to see this clip with Pulp’s ‘Common People’ on the soundtrack, with great respect to the everyday people enjoying themselves 50 years ago!

[@zeddeka]

It's amazing what being young does to your perceptions - everything is fresh and new and exciting, even the completely banal. You can see from the comments section below what an emotional resonance this video has for people who were young then. To people not from that generation, it looks like the manifestation of the fairly dull, grey, dirty industrial Britain of that period. It's the same for pretty much anything in any period. Show it to someone who wasn't young at the time, and it's very, very hard to see what the attraction is. I think that kind of giddy, emotional state of mind you're in when you're young is why pretty much every generation who has ever lived thinks that the period in which they were young was the best time ever to live in.

[@callookghia]

Well said TH ! But i see todays youth staring at their phones for ten hours a day and i despair. Todays kids culture is social media , not music... nobody dances anymore. People have danced since the beginning of time, what went wrong ??????????

[@zeddeka]

@@callookghia kids these days do dance. You just stopped going to places like that so you don't see it. Also, if technology like mobile phones had been around in the early 70s then things would have been little different than they are now. It's one of those things that humans seem unable to get their heads round - society never stands still and things fade and change very quickly. Technology changes everything, and what one generation loves, the next may not. In another 50 year's time, society will be totally different again. Then in another 50 year's time it'll be totally different after that. We'll all be dead and the people alive then will be looking at this kind of stuff in bafflement, if they have any interest at all.

[@ivorscrotumic3556]

There's nothing quite like young, white Brits dancing in their 70's gear, to make you smile. :-)

[@repo136]

Such great quality. Really sharp!

[@michaellomax843]

Liking how some go nuts when the camera is on them ie. the guy waving his arms about. Mind you, the precursor to rave lol I love this though...

[@lenkapenka6976]

Beauty contest.... oh dear... that wouldn't be on the agenda today!

[@videogold708]

Fantastic picture quality! Oh and I still dance like that......

[@stevealexR1]

Video Gold 625 line PAL CRT TV was always able to produce fantastic natural looking pictures without anywhere near as much processing as current “LCD (LED backlit)” and, to a lesser extent OLED flat panel TVs. The lack of resolution only became noticeable once screen size went larger than approximately 30”.

[@regionalmoderator8125]

Back when I was my own social media

[@kennybuchholz8079]

I have now decided on my first choice for a lifelike VR or Holosuite experience!

[@ChadElk88]

Beautiful, clean, white British youth. What a beautiful time in history.

[@jimsimpson1006]

Chad Elkins careful what you say, friend. The Ministry Of Truth have ears.

[@maxowl9550]

F@#k the Ministry of Truth!

[@flashtheoriginal]

I like Tony's intro "heres a song were going to DANCE to right now". Nice and a sign of more innocent and fun times. When England was allowed to be English

[@Whyskerz]

To rock an edgy look in '71 you wore hot pants, kinky boots and a Julie Driscoll hairdo ...and that was just the guys LOL

[@honestopinion253]

No mobile phones,heaven

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

allan jarvis when women had natural beauty unlike today’s females who are buried in tattoos and piercings.

[@carl55953]

or tattoos on the ladies

[@youngsteph1]

Mostly the lower classes.

[@melgrant7404]

@@youngsteph1 ooo snob!

[@shirleywilliams3831]

@@Eleventhearlofmars men have them so what's the difference in women having them.

[@josephinerimmer6888]

Ah the days of hot pants, loved strutting my stuff in those.

[@andrewdock7288]

Awesomeness!

[@vespadavidson2315]

Brilliant name!

[@mikeymc3094]

Josephine Rimmer Now your grandkids buy you cardigans and thermal vest for Christmas. I don’t care Josie I reckon you’d still look cool in your hot pants an knee length boots

[@josephinerimmer6888]

Michael Mc Flattery will get you everywhere Michael. No cardigans or thermals for me, not in this life. Never! X

[@mikeymc3094]

Josephine Rimmer Haha go ‘head girl. Old age is for boring people. I know OAPs in their twenties an I know younguns in their eighties. Never get boring Jose X

[@sambda]

The girl at 5:38 doesn't even have any hotpants on - just a t-shirt and knickers!

[@BenjaminNavillus]

I'm surprised more people haven't commented on that - yeah, she basically turned up in her pants. The older generation must have been horrified. Well, the mums would have been. The dads would have dropped the pipe from their gawping mouths.

[@repo136]

A certain _Mr Savile_ must've been cursing that week's scheduling!

[@normanscenic]

YEA..missed that one at 5,38

[@southlondon86]

Why the living hell are you complaining mate?!

[@badmattam]

A gorgeous hippie chick dancing in T-shirt and knickers...what's not to like!?!

[@kezadrone]

Loved this, fascinating to watch I was born in 1977 so this is pretty alien to me, but the folk there, no bad attitudes and I expect well behaved, rare thing these days for sure, something really nice about this clip.

[@zeddeka]

How do you know they didn't have a bad attitude? For all you know know, they may have had a punch up afterwards. This clip is no different from any other top of the pops clip in that it just shows people dancing and smiling. You can't take anything whatsoever about the society of the time from that. If anything, the Britain of the 70s was a pretty unpleasant place. We'd be pretty shocked at the casual aggression, whether it be racism, sexism, homophobia, football hooliganism, the level of drunkenness, and acceptance of sleaziness and casual violence that there was. In many ways it was a grey unpleasant time. This was part of the period that Jimmy Saville was running riot.

[@jayzee6617]

@@zeddeka Some good points..Nostalgia has a habit of erasing the bad and enhancing the good...

[@jasonwhitehurst4508]

The girl at 3:06 is absolutely stunning.

[@tallandhandsome29]

jason whitehurst Agree. A real beauty. Lovely smile too.

[@michaeljenkins24]

Oh definitely a looker she's gorgeous .

[@regantoomer6074]

@@michaeljenkins24 My gran.

[@michaeljenkins24]

@@regantoomer6074 Its hard to imagine that one day she would be a Grandmother , like myself im a Grandfather .

[@regantoomer6074]

@@michaeljenkins24 We're luck to get there!

[@Edruezzi]

Once upon a time people thought this was the coolest thing on TV.

[@JairoAgama777]

Edruezzi 200 thousand before

[@jamessmith-ow1bf]

Once upon a time it was the coolest thing on TV.

[@tracybuckley3198]

Edruezzi better than today’s shite

[@barney8953]

It was "cool" in its prime days. About the only time you could see a good group/artist in your own living room. Plus the free music.

[@zeddeka]

@@tracybuckley3198 there speaks a grumpy old lady. I'm sure quite a lot of people who were your age in 1971 thought top of the pops was a load of shite too.

[@philipswain4122]

All that gorgeous crumpet.

[@CIMAmotor]

Phwoooaaaaar!

[@albertsmith1048]

Hard to imagine all these gorgeous ladies in 2019, all grandma's now.

[@shanef8728]

hard to believe this is 50 years old this year

[@nazaholicable]

Totally agree, esp 1970 - 1974. TV became more nasty from 1975 onwards. A good example of this being private eye Frank Marker being beaten up and jostled by the police in 1975, whereas before that the show had charm. Then along came 'The Sweeney', 'Target' and 'Z cars' toughened up. Mary Whitehouse was right about a lot of things.

[@annecohen8927]

Well it’s great to see how people took care of their health before the fast food and obesity became such a huge issue. These people had a great time and this is the first time I’ve seen this unedited, original version. It’s sad to see how diabetes 2 became such an epidemic as well as heart disease. Because being active and eating healthy can improve people’s life span.

[@user-yn9os7uc1v]

these people smoked 40 cigarettes a day, didn't wear sunscreen or even seatbelts...

[@annach7914]

Some of those girls are hard to believe they’re from 1971:) so ahead of time and modern-looking.💖 certainly very different from audiences you would see in the 60s totp episodes… looks more « relaxed » here…

[@travismaxwell9805]

The early 70’s are a weird time in music. Raw Stevens to all the post brocken up Beatles.

[@Kevynuk]

A proto-punk at 1.29 - five years ahead of her time!

[@lucluc9541]

T.REX N -2 ! Glam is coming !

[@IThinkYouLookLarvely]

@Philip Robinson Yes, I've also noticed there were often slightly out-of-date photos on single record sleeves at the time.

[@spakoerz]

Remember your culture, I remember mine, because now there is none... Sad for today's sheeple

[@smithy2882]

Great post mendez

[@zeddeka]

"your culture"? That's hilarious. You sound like a nasty bitter old man who can't get his head round the fact that the world changes for everyone and we all get old. Your youth is gone and is never coming back. Stop blaming others for it.

[@spakoerz]

@@zeddeka Nice........ 😉

[@redflag8970]

@@zeddeka your the sad bitter one your all over this dishing out stick to people who are reminiscing a time gone by with fondness.

[@Problembeing]

And at number one... EXTREME AWKWARDNESS!

[@antonyrandell4984]

I was about 14 I remember this at the Christmas school disco happy days

[@gazriley624]

can't stop laughing at this it looks like a spoof something off "Look around you" but it was real i miss 1971 that was my heyday

[@johnnyrvf]

Blimey! Deep Purple mK 2 in the charts!

[@shanef8728]

on my 9th birthday as well! hot looking babes but some truly ghastly looking outfits!

[@josypereira5682]

Imagem perfeita essa gravação desse programa de época da pra ter uma ideia.

[@franrowe8696]

Thank god I missed the 70's😂

[@brianmcd9492]

Congratulations to all in this great music video now in their pension/get your money year🙂

[@foleyartist62]

Wow everything looks so cool with brilliant music tracks compared to the cheesy fake cabaret atmos of TOTP in the early and mid 80s. Some of the girls here look hip and natural unlike the professional show off dancers employed by producers in 82.

[@roflized]

Well said .

[@brucedowney9164]

No 1 Double Barrel ✅