Top of the Pops - 17th March 1983 Full episode

[@nickylee1408]

I was 15,now 56,still love these 80s tunes.

[@melgrant7404]

Same.

[@bougeac]

Such happier, carefree times!

[@CatPiss-ls4zb]

It all went down hill when stock Aitken and Waterman saturated the charts with all their sound alike artists and songs. Then that wanker cowell introduced xfactor shite

[@mrnobody1067]

I was at the Den most Saturdays watching football then we'd go up West to The Empire The Hypodrome Browns Samanthas the list is endless great mems and fantastic days . Kids today don't have a clue THE SHIT GOVERNMENT AND IMIGRANTS WON'T LET THEM ! 😠🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@janec1489]

Me too!

[@Pironi28]

Karen from Bananarama My Crush ! The 80's was absolutely the best decade ever !

[@trawlerboyjay]

I was 18. Absolutely loved this time. Wish I could go back

[@spanishpeaches2930]

We all do : )

[@ajs41]

Early 1983 was the best period for pop music ever in my opinion.

[@richardtrow2751]

I was 16 absolutely loved the 80s best time , oh to go back with the knowledge i have now would be great .

[@DSM9]

A great year for me. I was 20. 61 now. Those years went too quickly!

[@williamhughes934]

In 1983 I was 15 I'm now 56 and still a huge fan of everything in The 80s. Especially The Movies, TV and Music. Favourite bands The Human League, Duran Duran, Bananarama, Spandau Ballet, Buck's Fizz and T'pau. I also loved my Movie Soundtracks throughout the 80s too. The 80s Were just the best years to be alive and will live on forever 😎🎬📺🎤🎸

[@janec1489]

And me!

[@NAIVADA]

In your dreams Billy

[@brucedanton-f1b]

I am the same age as you now as then and I agree with you fully there too?! Great times indeed there too and why not?!

[@AngelaTaylor-b9f]

I'd just began secondary school 11 years old, and this song from Baanarama was played at every school disco 😊

[@terrykemp1876]

As an Aussie who never saw any TOTP, I love KZbin

[@colinlock-lv9vv]

SORRY TO HEAR THAT. AT LEAST YOU CAN WATCH THEM NOW,EVERY THURSDAY IN BRITAIN FOR YEARS, NOW SADLY GONE.

[@childrensorg856]

​@@colinlock-lv9vvI'm Aussie also, wish we got episodes of Top of the pops, instead we got boring old "solid Gold" from USA. We had countdown but that went downhill after 1983:till it stopped in 1987.

[@johnh539]

Look for "Old grey whistle Test" or/and the "Joules Holland" show I guarantee you will discover new stuff.

[@andrewreed1329]

yeah me too, different to countdown

[@ianc3293]

I was 17 and got introduced to chasing the dragon, thankfully I got clean by the age of 19, still smoked weed and occasional snort coke till aged 42, 58 now fit and healthy god willing, 2 lovely daughters and 6 grandkids to keep me going ❤

[@markparsons5549]

When I die I want to live 1983 on repeat again,10 years old,the never ever summer of bmx bikes and Roland rat

[@somethingnewbespokewedding405]

Doesn't sound like a bad place at all I think Ill join you

[@andyg208]

But please don’t let Timmy Mallet out again.

[@timmyjoe9669]

The 80s music was the best decade of them all 👍👍👍

[@SalimKhan-cm7gw]

I was 12 and going to Lordship Lane Junior school in 1983. I loved everything about this period. Wish I could go back.

[@christianblake3997]

I was one year older than you. I wish we could go back to that time well least I do, just for a day would be nice.😢

[@toomuchinformation]

Is that in Tottenham?

[@gordon9549]

I love watching old music programs from the 70s/80s/90s - especially overseas ones (I'm from Australia). There is always lost treasure - something that wasn't released here, or wasn't a hit, or for one reason or another seems to have been forgotten. This time, it's Louise Tucker's "Midnight Blue. Completely unknown (to me) until today, but I want to hear more. ❤

[@JohnJohnson-tw8qk]

I was 12 back them and had a crush on Bananarama especially keren all still beautiful gorgeous as ever xxx and what great music it was and still is ❤️

[@theloverzofdance]

Wow, aired the day after my 18th birthday, thank you.

[@trucker4272]

U can't beat the 80's

[@nighthawwwk]

I was 17. The sound of my youth. I miss the 80s

[@joannedwyer-bc5py]

Was 14 an loved totp. It was a must watch every thursday.

[@julianhawkins9423]

I was 16/17 amazing times. Home with my mum and dad lovely

[@Havanacuba1985]

I watched this the evening it was broadcast most of these were on the pub jukebox I was 15 , I’d ditched School for the last year & was waiting to start YTS in the summer

[@Mcfads999]

I was 16 That was one of the best days of my life It was a heat wave that year ❤

[@charlesbuchan8873]

Was 20 then now 61 I wish I could go back to the eighties carefree days unlike now.

[@easystar123]

Same here too. Now 61 also. The music and the bands were great. The memories live on. Cheers.

[@charlesbuchan8873]

@@easystar123 ur welcome if only we could go back.

[@zippyoffrainbow8174]

Time flys.. quite depressing really 😔

[@datingsignals8851]

@@easystar123 I try and explain to this generation what it was like, but they don't get it. The music had meaning back then. Every song had an emotion whether it was happy or sad....we don't get that anymore.

[@colinlock-lv9vv]

STYLE COUNCIL,LOVE IT

[@chris.dalton]

I was 20, living in London, with the freedom of the city and a few years of being where the music was made behind me. I remember seeing Bananarama performing as a support act for the Jam (believe it or not) just before they hit it big and started being on ToTP. Weller played at our free rock festival (for YCND) with the Style Council in May 83, a couple of months after this broadcast. A little while later I met one of the Bananarama trio, but was too shy to ask her out…

[@jeremyhaines4481]

This is excellent music 🎶 🎵 from The 80s

[@roger5159]

The jumper/pullover/sweater that Paul Weller is wearing in the video was from C & A. As a fan at the time; went straight out and bought one together with matching bowling shoes lol! 😊

[@Mistysmudge1]

Sad that there's no sound on Bucks Fizz :(

[@CatPiss-ls4zb]

Thank fuck

[@viviennebolger739]

I thought my buds were broken😂

[@ewaf88]

It's good to see that Mezzoforte played live. I thought that Johnathan King was Alan Partridge in Paris for a moment

[@lunes-1]

💕 lovely times 😊

[@janemasini356]

Wow I was 13 when this was out😮 I remember watching this top of the pops brings back memories 😢

[@darren-q5n]

I was 12 carnt say i rember but i rember the tunes

[@eileenmoore1269]

Ultravox were in a league of their own.

[@Blokey-l5b]

Yes, the Sunday morning Armitage Shanks Toilet Bowl league.

[@tumslucks9781]

​@@Blokey-l5b Stop talking crap. Ultra did make some great songs. 'Reap The Wild Wind' was about flatulence.

[@Charlietwice]

Try the early stuff. Awesome

[@myopenmind527]

Joan Armitrading ❤️. Such a striping voice and energy. She’s amazing.

[@kevint8887]

Just hilarious how of all the songs, Bucks bloody fizz needs muting for copyright reasons 😅

[@zippyoffrainbow8174]

Apparently the one guy from the band is a right tosser..

[@MacStoker]

something about Tony Blackburns squinting smile that just makes me feel at ease...

[@Chanesmyname]

This ran into 1984 a terrible year for me and was in 1983 I could see it heading my way like a thunder cloud in the distance.

[@andrejutel9110]

The only time when jazz funk could cut it along with Bananrama! Wonderfully 80's. Nice to see Iceland's finest giving it large (Mezzoforte) Those were the days when there was something for everyone

[@nibsvkh]

Bananarama are using invisible microphones! I don’t care…love looking at all 3 girls!❤

[@gaskellr44]

I recommend Specsavers.

[@richardikin]

Apparently I still know every word of Visions In Blue after all these years 😊

[@VonL]

I believe that this was the last bit of tv I saw the night before I was remanded for the next 19 years. The music during that time was shite. I didn’t miss out on anything.

[@brucedanton-f1b]

Joan Armatrading there with Drop The Pilot was so good there then too?!

[@garyshilton9502]

Those two are still on the radio in 2024

[@jimmyoconnell6167]

I was 20 yrs old in the British army back in 1983 remember all these numbers

[@markymark272]

I was in osnabrück then 🇬🇧🇬🇧🎯😊

[@jimmyoconnell6167]

@markymark272 west Germany done a few excises over there I was in the paras

[@sarahdalhousie1813]

'Nanananaheyheygoodbye,..' 😉❤😂❤😊 Xxxx

[@johnhastings7841]

Tony Blackburn would have played the original version of Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye in 1969 (a UK Top 10 hit by the American group Steam).

[@TheGodParticle]

I never knew that, thanks for the info. Cheers

[@josephryan362]

I going to have to watch this edition of top of the pops because It is prosented by my favourite top of the pops prosented Garry Davis and it is prosented by the amazing Tony Blackburn and it has got some good act in the studio for this edition of top of the pops and bannaram and and bucks fizz and bonnie Tyler and nena and the charts and the amazing yellow pearl which is my second favourite top of the pops theme and Ultravox and frrois with rock the boat

[@kevint8887]

Interesting to see Nena in the European chart section. Was another 10 months before it reached no. 1 in the UK.

[@hsbrockman]

Someone shouting "Let's see your k - gs off" at 0:52 and 2:25: he couldn't get away with that today! And Jonathan King ... oh dear. Instead of just mentioning their chart position, wish they could have had Tears For Fears playing "Change;" and "Rip it Up" by Orange Juice too; but glad they played Joan Armatrading's Drop the Pilot - I still have that record somewhere.

[@SalimKhan-cm7gw]

Near Tottenham, Woodgreen n22.

[@MrJeepsters]

FR David faisait partie des VARIATIONS, bon groupe français du début 70.

[@CAquas]

I think this is the first time UK listeners would have heard Nena and 99 Luftballons which became a No. 1 hit in the UK the following year when it was released with English lyrics.

[@kevint8887]

Seems like yesterday. The Style Council's debut song. Had a crush on Tracie Young.

[@tonygray7804]

Who didn’t?

[@johndiablo68]

Midnight blue was based on Beethoven Pathetique Sonata mvmnt 2

[@johnbrees22]

Correct

[@peterfranks6243]

Happy St Patrick's Day

[@markhylton157]

41 year go I was 14 and now I am 55 go no to 56 Very soon. And I love the 80s version the best is 90s

[@snapperjw]

Jonathan King 😮 whoops!!

[@roylec]

Bucks Fizz!! Seriously, of all the talented, world class acts in this show, Bucks Fizz threw the copyright strike. Why? When TOTP and their audience, -this- audience tbh, literally made their career from nothing. Without TOTP, nobody would’ve even heard of Bucks Fizz. Seriously? Get over yourselves.

[@Antpeople1]

Why no sound for Bucks Fizz?

[@jasonsmith4888]

Copyright, the rest will catch up soon.

[@daveborder7751]

Never heard them sound so good.

[@ajs41]

What happened to Major Tom? Copyright I assume.

[@HarryPratt-d3c]

80s forever 🎉

[@scooter2501]

Bananaramas choreo always looked like theyd learned in their Nans kitchen 3 hours before the show

[@karenprice8699]

70's was far far better than the 80's ... by miles!!!

[@brucedanton-f1b]

Of course this was just before Duran Duran went straight in at number one with Is There Something I Should Know so too? But of course not featured here though too anyway?!

[@MarkPMus]

Wonder why the following week was on a Wednesday? Also, why didn’t they play number 1?

[@teesman61]

There's only Joan I enjoyed listening to.

[@juleerowley9706]

I was 21...where did the years go 😢

[@tinofiori4380]

Da mettere a posto l audio

[@gaskellr44]

Well 80s was my era, but out of this selection, the only one worth listening too was Joan Armatrading (Drop the Pilot, great song). The rest of the songs can be used to fertilise garden flowers(Dross).

[@maximoo9861]

Totally agree Joan Armatrading the only class act the rest was shite

[@andrewreed1329]

yep rubbish 80s music, but fun watching the crowd😂

[@zerox1715]

Quality control.

[@UncleMort]

I have never seen Joan Armatrading move on stage before.

[@b54321ish]

10.06.. Tony Blackburn saying "let's join a gay Johnathan king in Paris"...was he trying to tell us something?..

[@vincentbrowne8639]

Jaysus, what a wallop

[@nigellacey559]

Whenever I think of top of the pops I always think of the term "sexual predator" for some reason.

[@mintywebb]

And lo and behold Jonathan King appeared.

[@davidterry2038]

What happened to the audio on Bucks Fizz and the whole of Bonnie Tyler?????

[@rumbarumba1]

Jonathan Aaaaaah aaaah aaah aaah hooked on a feeling

[@fishinaboxful]

No bucks fizz audio wtf

[@DarrenEvans-wz8kb]

Back in the 80's, I always thought Bananarama were shit. And guess what, they were.

[@peachyllama722]

1983 ❤

[@coolmacatrain9434]

I still to this day have no idea what weller was trying to do/say with the style council ? vacuous, song by numbers blah!

[@toomuchinformation]

I think he was better once he became a proper solo artist. I agree with you about the Style Council.

[@President44259]

Jonathan King the nonce.

[@juleerowley9706]

Yep

[@melgrant7404]

Thought 99 red balloons was 1984.

[@MrJeepsters]

Ce titre date de mon service militaire, 1983.

[@Havanacuba1985]

The original release was earlier The German version got loads of play on the radio

[@garywhittaker6915]

So no sound on Bucks Fizz and No Bonnie Tyler. Hardly a full episode.

[@Charlietwice]

Result 😊

[@zerox1715]

Quality control

[@topcat4643]

Bananrama….couldn’t sing a note, just like 3 school girls singing into there hairbrushes behind the bike sheds….but somehow made a fortune in record sales,..😮😮😮😂😂

[@mbourne3538]

Yep and it was great

[@1969gawa]

18:53 Foster and bleedin' Allen.

[@spleeeen4it]

no sound on the fizz

[@darren-q5n]

mse forte was the best act on that show nice little jazz funk groove

[@mauricerevelle8451]

Paul Wellers jumper was definitely “Style Cancelled”

[@Havanacuba1985]

Not when he was king of the Mods he’d not long split from the Jam & got together with ex Merton Parkas Mick Talbot on Keyboards to form The Style council

[@colinlock-lv9vv]

I WAS 11 NOW 52, BANANARAMA SONG USED WORDS MANY TIMES IN WWF/WWE.NAH NAH HEY HEY GOODBYE

[@paul6925]

That Iceland band sounds like the hold music they always played when I worked at a call centre 😂

[@marti2474]

That's not Mezzoforte on stage. They area stunningly brilliant live band. You could do a lot worse with hold music by playing Adele or Radiohead. You would reduce waiting times.

[@paul6925]

@@marti2474 In fairness it was a few years back so the call centres have probably switched to Adele or Radiohead, you're right!

[@manuelcarvalho4550]

❤

[@MrBrutal33]

Proof that for every 80s classic there was a ton of shit to wade through

[@Mancheguache]

That Ultravox song hasn't aged well lol - mind you, neither have I in the 40 years since bwaaa

[@cuedotfilms4427]

And I'm watching this in Iceland, and they now earn more money than people in the UK. How times change, aren't we lucky to live in Iceland. 😊

[@annoyingbstard9407]

They?

[@cuedotfilms4427]

@@annoyingbstard9407 Icelanders.

[@goldenbrown0]

Well its far too cold in Iceland for the 3rd world invasion, so yes lucky lucky you

[@annoyingbstard9407]

@@cuedotfilms4427 I only know two Icelanders. One sleeps in a doorway. The other is unemployed.

[@paolovolpi4921]

Grande annata .

[@amandabott2279]

Ok the Bucks Fizz song was on mute -looked like they were dancing to Make your Mind up !! Also looked like 4 desperate adults trying to reinvent themselves - clearly didn't work

[@Nigel-ef2ft]

Joan Armour Plating indeed.

[@johnoleary8751]

Speak like a child bet Paul Weller hated that song

[@toomuchinformation]

Would be sideyed these days.

[@christianblake3997]

Someone doesn’t like Bonnie Tyler or Bucks fizz😂😂😂

[@antispindr8613]

Seems that the Tories are not that keen on The Garden Party. For are they Midnight Blue?

[@rb7007]

Mezzoforte weren’t British? Wow! After 40 years, I’m just knowing that. 🙈🤣

[@chriswaring5565]

LEN FAIRCLOUGH FROM CORONATION STREET COULD OF DONE THAT SONG BY ICE HOUSE HEY LITTLE GIRL

[@nuwache]

Сейчас шоу мертвые, синтетические. А это - живое, натуральное.