Top of the Pops 24 Sept 1987

[@DuchessDubai]

Should bring something like this back. Used to love seeing all the groups perform. Loved the 80s best music.

[@sliderdriver1]

Totp2 gets aired still. Nothing worth watching after the 80's.

[@joannesmith3991]

anyone still watching this 2024 i loved watching totp back in the day

[@De-beuker]

Ofcourse

[@trakker77]

Amazing young memories!!.. wish life was still the same 😢

[@charliekane135]

Same here. I was in my 20's right through the 80's 🎉🥳🍾🎈👯

[@RichardUpton]

I know what you mean. The trick is to enjoy the time now and look bad fondly on your past

[@rickiehoxton]

Thank you for uploading this! I found myself standing next to Gary Davis!!

[@RichardUpton]

In this episode!? Lucky you and shows the production team must have liked you

[@MetalDetectingWithBart]

??at what point in the clip

[@oliveskinboy]

Oh how I love 1987!! 15 year old me clinging to my Smash Hits and taping every episode of TOTP!! Had Johnny Hates Jazz, ABC, Madonna posters (well mostly print ads from Smash Hits and No.1 Magazine!) all over me room! What joy!

[@RichardUpton]

What lovely memories to share and I also had posters from Smash Hits, a few years earlier

[@ClareDSummer24]

Agreed great decade of music bring the 80s I was 13 miss those yrs 🤍🤍🤍

[@armandoreyes2293]

When music was nice to everyone, no insults, no bad words. 80´s was a good time to live. I miss it.

[@RichardUpton]

The music was great, and probably my favourite era, although I enjoy all types of popular music from 1950s onwards

[@JulianHBurchill]

That's not how I remember it.

[@ferrylad]

You obviously weren't there mate,,the 80s was a bitch of a decade, and no, the music wasn't better, most chart songs were crap.case in point Johnny Hates Jazz

[@Lee-iy6ey]

2 Live Crew, NWA, all of Glam Metal was misogynistic

[@RetroReminiscing]

exactly , everything went, everyone was different and unique and it didnt matter how different you looked from someone else

[@nickylee1408]

I was 19 loving life snd 80s,56 now still 80s mad

[@JoanneColbourne-ef2jh]

Absolutely beautiful love the 80s so much good times l remember watching top of the pops really injoyed it 😅😅❤❤

[@RichardUpton]

Me too - loved Top of the Pops, especially in the early to mid 1980s. Wonderful memories

[@Paul-cw5hn]

I had left school a couple of months before this...life was so easy then.. still miss the 80's now...thanks for the great memories!!

[@RichardUpton]

@@Paul-cw5hn I know what you mean and you are more than welcome

[@glennoc8585]

Was it though? I remember jobs were hard to get and pay was dismal

[@amandab9962]

Brilliant 80s,wow the music, fashion and nightclubs. ABC amazing! Being 21 🙂🥳and loved life, fabulous memories 💕💕💕

[@RichardUpton]

That’s what it’s all about Amanda, remembering those happy days of your youth. I was a mere 17 😊

[@amandab9962]

@@RichardUpton Those memories keeps me going,and keeping sane in these strange times,we were diverse back in the day so we thought but now it's another level, some good some bad???🤔

[@RichardUpton]

@@amandab9962 it’s a funny one, isn’t it - but no harm in remembering your youth fondly

[@vitorabuzin6274]

Just can't beleive that we really lived with this kind of music Everything is just like some kind of dream , like never happened

[@jansenwilder1335]

Jan Hammer was the stand out... classic synth track with guitars .

[@RichardUpton]

It’s a wonderful instrumental track

[@systemaddict4032]

Feels like yesterday 😢 take me back !

[@sergiyivanov4619]

Golden 80's . 🥲

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

Probably my favourite year of the 80s. Although, I do love every year of that decade, lol. I started getting into bands like Def leppard, motley, bon Jovi and whitesnake in 87.

[@RichardUpton]

My girlfriends sister was watching Motley Crue and Whitesnake at Wembley a couple of weeks ago!

[@amandab9962]

I did too, they were gorgeous 🥰

[@Dalabombana]

Ah growing up in the 80’s, good old Totp (and recording the top 40 on the radio every Sunday).

[@derekmacdougall3011]

Brilliant, recording the charts on your stereo on a Sunday,pause,hold down record and play ,lol

[@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb]

@@derekmacdougall3011 DJ would deliberately talk over the beginning to ruin it.

[@soundseeker63]

Crockett's Theme..... proof that electronica most definitely CAN have soul! What a haunting, memorable and atmospheric track that defines the sound of that era beautifully.

[@CelticGlasgowCHAMPIONS]

Only decent tune on 24th September 87s show 😂

[@RichardUpton]

It’s an absolutely wonderful track

[@Lofote]

Yeah, guys like Hammer or Jarre show that. Beautiful sound and very organic.

[@iaindysart-gp5gt]

This reminds us of times when there were tunes! I was a 3rd year uni student in 1987. And while of course people had problems, life seemed so much simpler than now.

[@janemooney3153]

❤ this song they had some good hits also I use to watch top of the pops every week

[@Pr3ppie]

To me personally, 1987 is the best of the 1980s for pop music

[@RetroReminiscing]

Love your duran duran image on your logo 😁👌

[@davidbates1896]

Definitely

[@RetroReminiscing]

@Paul I get and agree with that 👌

[@maratfever2048]

For me, 1984 and 1989.

[@garycambridge5513]

Definitely agree - my fave artists all peaked that year - MJ was bad , Prince was sign of the times and Madonna still riding high on true blue and who’s that girl tour is still my fave tour

[@Intake33]

Great edition. Much better than the mid 70s when I was growing up

[@derekmacdougall3011]

Nice one Richard, glad you posted this, really good vibes as I watch some of the music that shaped me into a decent person...loads of positive stuff✌️

[@RichardUpton]

You’re welcome Derek and I’m glad that this bought back some good memories

[@СимаБарсукова]

Я про эти песни узнавала из программ Севы Новгородцева на русской службе BBС!!! Больше в совке узнавать было негде!

[@damienwells6728]

I can’t put my finger on it but hearing crocketts theme takes me back

[@RichardUpton]

Love that track, personally

[@sg-zd8eb]

It was used on a Bank commercial which was why it was released as a single.

[@themadmonk100]

Thanks for posting these x

[@RichardUpton]

You’re absolutely welcome, Nichola x

[@bluebear1985]

The song that Mick Jagger did here was the first one broadcast on the US premiere of this show on CBS. The way that version worked is that they had American singer and actress Nia Peeples host from Los Angeles, while Gary Davies obviously did the parts from London. The show was broadcast on Friday nights at 11:30pm, but it only lasted about a year. It didn't help that they had to directly compete in that time slot with Johnny Carson, who was still pretty much the king of late night at the time.

[@MetalDetectingWithBart]

very interesting. Not one of his best songs either? Didn't do anything for me.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

Man, I haven't heard Crocketts theme in eons. I'd forgotten how good that sounds.

[@RichardUpton]

It’s a wonderful track isn’t it

[@douglastaggart9360]

I remember having hair like Martin fry sadly not anymore. When I was a care free 21 year old .

[@RichardUpton]

I hear you as mine was more of a Wicksey. Still have mine but just a bit thinner these days

[@originalindiechick7999]

The song by Jan Hammer is one of the most beautiful songs of all time 😍

[@RichardUpton]

Agreed and I also loved the Miami Vice theme that he did

[@originalindiechick7999]

@@RichardUpton I didn’t realise he wrote that! It’s ace

[@RichardUpton]

@@originalindiechick7999 it’s fantastic isn’t it - played the single to death at the time 😊

[@victoriaharbach5968]

for me theme music for netwest bank ads in 90s

[@originalindiechick7999]

@@victoriaharbach5968 it’s not all work work work 😅👍🏻

[@burtpanasonic]

Great music. Pop on Richard! ✌

[@RichardUpton]

You’re most welcome 😊

[@scottiedog4236]

Top of the ops 80s was great !! BBC breaking artists !! WOW

[@RichardUpton]

scottiedog4236 it was a great show in those days ☺️

[@josephryan362]

Great edition of top of the pops with Jonny hates jazz and Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger and Madonna and Jan hammer and Gary Newman and the amazing ABC and the amazing song the night you meander love and rick Astley and jan hammer

[@Emily-vs9ju]

Jan Hammer…didn’t realise he looked just like our I.T support guy

[@RichardUpton]

I’m old to remember him 😂

[@trevorshields7347]

Its frightening how this was 40 years ago

[@RichardUpton]

@@trevorshields7347 I know - unbelievable, really

[@KennethSorling]

This episode ended with a Rickroll. LOL!

[@EW00AW04]

Considering there was no KZbin back then; So if you wanted to watch a music video or your favourite song this was one of the only ways!

[@RichardUpton]

Amazing uk think that once the song was out of the charts you’d never see or hear it again!

[@amandab9962]

And Madonna ect are still going strong! 🥰

[@RichardUpton]

Would never have imagined this in 1987

[@MusicZeroOne]

@@RichardUpton Exactly, people said she was a flash in the pan. Long flash!

[@Forgoodnesssakeendha]

The same was said about Kylie too.😅

[@damienwells6728]

The best year for music

[@RichardUpton]

Not for me but it’s all ably opinions and no right or wrong answer

[@Garcelle1987]

Madonna was on fine form singing causing a commotion live

[@RichardUpton]

She certainly was

[@jacksugden8190]

1987 (35) long years ago, where has the time gone, liked the first two groups, didn’t like the Madonna track, after watching a doc of Stoke, Aitken, Waterman and their former PLW company, great to see their music with Rick Astly at the end, all in all, great performances with some artists no longer with us.

[@RichardUpton]

Great stuff and I’m glad that you enjoyed the episode and have some great memories from it

[@PerryCJamesUK]

I recorded the sound on my little tape recorder in front of the telly. Had to have that exclusive Madonna performance.

[@RichardUpton]

I used to do that a few years earlier to this episode as didn’t have a video recorder at this time

[@cmddelete2169]

I liked it when MC Hammer played synthesizers and was the future. Those were better days.

[@RichardUpton]

I absolutely hear you and it was Jan Hammer 😊

[@mikemnemonic311]

Bugger! Just Rick rolled myself.

[@Leeroy6572]

Considering jagger had been at it 25ish yrs in 87 he's great n still is😊🇬🇧

[@RichardUpton]

Completely agree and saw that he was out in Putney the other night

[@Leeroy6572]

@@RichardUpton brilliant, good for him 😊👍🇬🇧

[@glennoc8585]

Yeah but he wasn't that old in 87 but seemed older

[@OlafProt]

Jan Hammer. Everyone's favourite office clerk pop star.

[@jerrygil1965]

#80sForever💜

[@bendover9663]

This was a very '80s' 80s top of the pops if you know what i mean🤭😉👌

[@RetroReminiscing]

yes 👌😁

[@petsifakis]

Pet shop boys and Dusty...❤️

[@taufik-hsb]

Penampilan mick Jagger penuh energy...

[@OlafProt]

We weren't saturated with media back then (4 channels) so there were so many more shared viewing experiences across the population. There was such value in that, collective memories. Some might say we really didn't need 100s of channels pumping 100% guaranteed crap 24/7. 4 channel were enough.

[@hansreiser9057]

ABC amazing, the great def leppard

[@Fatpig-fq3vb]

Rumour is that this edition of top of the pops had everybody cloned and that they are still stuck in 1987 in a recording studio dancing away completely unchanged or aged .............

[@gilesrush1703]

Thats a negative reality inversion

[@TheRedDevil_NC]

Everyone made fun of me for playing Rick Astley non stop all over the college dorm back in 87/88. I feel kind of vindicated with the passage of time.

[@RichardUpton]

He is almost cool 😎 now!

[@sg-zd8eb]

Good thing is he’s 53 now but is looking good on it, which he apparently puts down to a stress-free life as possible.

[@RichardUpton]

@@sg-zd8eb good for him, I say, and no one seems to have a bad word to say about him

[@welshie1979]

Rick Astley was 1987!

[@jamieharrison6048]

I've had the ABC single for something like 12 years and this is the first time I have heard it. Wasn't expecting much but was pleasantly surprised and personally, I think it deserved better than stalling at 31.

[@RichardUpton]

Yes it was a surprise that it didn’t get higher but I guess they weren’t as popular by 87 and didn’t get promoted as much as it shouldn’t have been?

[@schenken660]

Johnny Hates Jazz: Very similar, in parts, to Shalamar's "I Can Make You Feel Good".

[@RichardUpton]

I hadn’t noticed that before…

[@RetroReminiscing]

oh yes, i hear that! 👍😃

[@letmetellyousomething123]

Madonna had the moves back then and not surprised she's arthritic now.

[@RichardUpton]

She certainly did have some moves back then…

[@DRAINPIPE57]

Briillant Show Richard and with Mick Jagger live in the pops studio Tbanks as never daw tbese shows I was on honeymoon

[@RichardUpton]

DAVID MICHAEL PYPER I’ll watch this later on today and then 1 Oct from Totp Reloaded KZbin page

[@Hertfordshire247]

Smitty spot on their with the comment about Madonna.

[@rahultapase8480]

Not surprisingly Michael Jackson dominated the pop music scene. RIP MJ.

[@brianmarshall4753]

BBC four didn't show top of the pops on Thursday 24th September 1987 because Mike Smith refused to signed a contract

[@Mallymoore]

Slick ric from around the corner.

[@moosehak]

It's always been a wonder to me as to how Mick Jagger has pulled the wool over everyone's eyes for as long as he has. 😂😂😂

[@dazdaz105]

I was 19 years old 😳

[@Phil-1969]

I was 18 😢

[@RichardUpton]

@@dazdaz105 I was 17. Where does the time go?!

[@HeyButWhy]

My ninth birthday

[@alanfox7555]

Why is hclark detacher from Johnny hates jazz doing Frank Bruno impression I thought the only person to do shadow boxing was cliff Richard mick jagger song very catchy

[@roberttruman8444]

Jan Hammer looks like a composer from the Classic Period who was kidnapped by two teenagers in a time machine who needed him to help them pass their History exam.

[@Stu-SB]

Haha.. Micks right on it !

[@davidhealy4534]

And funnily enough.Ooh Gary uses Crockett's theme on sounds of the 80's as incidental music

[@lockers1965]

Bring back these happy non woke days

[@motelghost477]

26:35 So did I just get Rick-rolled or not. I can't tell anymore.

[@dissolutopunito0408]

El año de mi perdición. Cuando cumplí 18 y saqué mi cédula. Maravillosa fue esa década. Y privilegiados somos los que la vivimos a tope.

[@derekmacdougall3011]

I did,not catch the fact that Mick Jagger did quite a bit of solo stuff, obviously we all know,dancing in the streets,but always thought it was just that song and all the rolling stones hits,...I must have been busy in 87, or working when this was on...👍

[@RichardUpton]

It wasn’t a particularly big hit as I remember so not surprised that you don’t remember it

[@Mallymoore]

Almost 16 year's of age .back then

[@RichardUpton]

A year younger than me then 😊

[@MrJonno85]

The Gary Numan / Cars track sounds like the original, not the remix.

[@darrenbutcher6684]

Top year 😊

[@michaeljw3602]

Well I remembered it wrong . I thought Rick was 86

[@tommay8086]

Jagger’s song here is awful Thatcherite propaganda. Some good tunes though: Jan Hammer, LL Cool J...

[@Paul-dz7xi]

I think Mick would agree too. Question is, why'd he release such a shitty song?

[@mattfarina3840]

The bloke is entitled to his opinion, why does it matter if you agree with it or not? I bet you’ve never criticized the likes of billy Bragg

[@duncancurtis5971]

It was gone without trace within a week.

[@robertgemmell1485]

Yeah Thatcher paid Mick to release this ffs what a ridiculous comment.

[@tommay8086]

@@robertgemmell1485 Ok, so what's your alternative interpretation of it? :) For many with recollections of Tebbit's "he got on you bike and looked for work" and indeed any awareness of the long-term Tory prizing of the Protestant Work Ethic, it is hard not to feel that Jagger's lyrics reflect this overtly...

[@alexanderthomas542]

Oberheim and emu synths 😘

[@ferrylad]

What kind of a war would we be in if you had to send for Johnny Hates Jazz to be on the frontline ? I mean if you're sending for Johnny Hates Jazz as a last resort ,you'd be as well waving the white flag and surrendering

[@theculturedthug6609]

There's a reason no one has ever heard Jagger song

[@RichardUpton]

@@theculturedthug6609 it wasn’t the best…

[@theculturedthug6609]

@@RichardUpton Awful, you can tell he thinks it's brilliant😂

[@bristolgareth1]

Gary Davis the Barry manilow of BBC pop DJs

[@TanLay1]

11:40 was he suggesting Madonna wasn't singing in key?

[@davidhealy4534]

Ohhhh.Would he say it to her face?

[@aaronREfan]

Yep and he was right.

[@Hertfordshire247]

How did Mick Jagger get this on to TOTP, he was at 41?

[@RichardUpton]

At that point it was a bit of a stretch. In later years TOTP the chart position wouldn’t matter

[@jaydenrareproto]

Time travel is real.

[@RichardUpton]

I hope you enjoyed it 😊

[@Jane-yq6yq]

Johhny Hates Jazz...great lyrics

[@RichardUpton]

@@Jane-yq6yq and still playing now

[@outsidersongs2682]

Madonna seems to have a Bad Diana thing going on there that I never noticed before. I bet they met a few times.

[@scottiedog4236]

Uk 🇬🇧 80s great music We not racist in uk 🇬🇧 watching 2020. !!

[@traceysaunders4711]

I loved Johnny hates jazz

[@manuelwerro7242]

Jan Hammer ftw!

[@ohitsdanny]

Did we all just get Rick rolled?

[@sliderdriver1]

I wonder if any groups out there are capable of recording anything close to the 80's? They'd make a killing if they got it right!

[@RichardUpton]

@@sliderdriver1 groups are a dying breed in the charts these days - barely any to speak of now

[@elmeticheweb]

neber gona guibyú op neber gona letyú dawn neber gona tel a lai an jértyúuuuu

[@Forgoodnesssakeendha]

Waited 26 minutes to get rickrolled

[@gallitron7803]

Mike Smith 32 years old here. Gary Davies 30.

[@ajs41]

@Leonard Ssenkindu 1957 I think, and Mike Smith 1955.

[@atalanta9353]

Jagger would have made a good Frank N Furter.

[@jodyburrows1253]

No politics just music

[@roylec]

Is this the ultimate Rick Roll?

[@MsPixi66]

Mick Jagger ewww....Rick Astley yum❤

[@MetalDetectingWithBart]

Great music except for Sir Mick lol IMHO

[@RichardUpton]

It wasn’t one of his or his groups best, was it?!

[@MetalDetectingWithBart]

@@RichardUptonnope lol can’t exactly remember the tune