Reply to: What's your best TOTP memory ?

[Phoenix]

That's the good news.

The bad news is that the rate is 4d three farthings per decade.

(That's fourpence in old pennies for the youngsters).

4d 3 farthings! I remember when you could get seats in the "stalls" at the pictures get 5 Park Drive and a box of strikes..A pint of Stout..2 penneth of chips..........

[DodgyAgent]

You will all be pleased to hear that Dixons, oops sorry "DSG", are now targeting people over 55. By targeting I dont mean "as in Logans Run" but to employ them. This should give you old gits something to do other than reminiscing over TOTP

[Fleetwood]

My fav TOTP memory is from 1970 watching John Lennon and Yoko playing INSTANT KARMA ..for those who catch it here is the link for the orignal performance ...
One for Fleet ... who is the Drummer?

The Thought Police won't let us play videos here, but IIRC, the drummer was Alan White, later of Yes, and the backing group was called "Elephant's Memory".
Am I right, Sir?

F in "Memory Man" mode

PS In answer to the original question : the Sweet doing "Ballroom Blitz" in 1973... thus...



and....



Are you ready, Steve? Aha.
Andy? Yeah! Mick? OK.
Alright, fellas, let's go!

Oh it's been getting so hard
Livin' with the things you do to me, aha
Oh my dreams are getting so strange
I'd like to tell you everything I see
Oh, I see a man at the back
As a matter of fact his eyes are red as the sun
And a girl in the corner let no one ignore her
'Cause she thinks she's the passionate one

Oh, yeah, it was like lightning, everybody was frightening
And the music was soothing, and they all started grooving

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
And the man at the back said
Everyone attack and it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said
Boy, I wanna warn ya, it'll turn into a ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz

I'm reaching out for something
Touching nothing's all I ever do
Oh, I softly call you over
When you appear there's nothing left of you, aha
Now the man in the back
Is ready to crack as he raises his hands to the sky
And the girl in the corner is ev'ryone's mourner
She could kill you with a wink of her eye

Oh yeah, it was electric, so frightfully hectic
And the band started leaving, 'cause they all stopped breathing

Chorus

Oh yeah, it was like lightning, everybody was frightening
And the music was soothing, and they all started grooving

Chorus

It's it's a ballroom blitz, it's it's a ballroom blitz
It's it's a ballroom blitz, yeah, it's a ballroom blitz

[Phoenix]

Back in the sixties Rumour has it that Jimi Hendrix was trying to mime to Purple Haze while an Alan Price record was actually playing.

Priceless?

[lORD lUCAN]

Neneh Cherry, WOW, I must have been around 13 at the time.
She awakwened senses I never knew I had. What a stunning woman.

[sparklelard]

Chris Eubank introducing

"at number thix thugs with ththelia"

[AlfredJPruffock]

My fav TOTP memory is from 1970 watching John Lennon and Yoko playing INSTANT KARMA ..for those who catch it here is the link for the orignal performance ...

One for Fleet ... who is the Drummer?

Ah , I was ten years old then ...

I was older then Im younger than that now ...

http://www.hiphopmusic.com/best_of_y...arma_1970.html

[Joe Black.]

Stone Roses playing with Ian brown holding the mic above his head, dancing with his mouth closed clearly not singing yet you could hear him perfectly. I think Liam Gallegher imitated him a few years later. I don't think ToTP were too impressed.

[MrsGoof]

Chris Eubank introducing

"at number thix thugs with ththelia"

[Xenophon]

Calling international rescue

[Xenophon]

Fuzzbox - XX Sex
Not the best lyrics ever.

XX sex
xx sex gets exploited
xx sex gets exploited

Maternity for eternity
????????

There's photography and pornography
See? Page 3?

xx sex gets ex-exploited

Get immunity
It's not an entity
Cookery
and hookery

Get a whore's resolution
there's no solution

xx sex gets ex-exploited

XY
Immediate possession
The ultimate right
XY
Beautiful woman in a short black drape
XY
They know what she wants
They know what she wants
Rape rape rape raaaaaape

Copyright 1985, Fuzzbox

[wc2]

That's "We've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it" to you.

Calling international rescue

[Emperor Dalek]

That's "We've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it" to you.

[Xenophon]

But to be serious for a moment, I think my best TOTP memory was all those "up-skirt" shots.

I am right with you Clownio. I recall a group of girls called Fuzzbox (who remembers them?) who came on TOTP with unfeasibly short skirts. Hmmmm... happy memories...

[PRC1964]

Nena - 99 Red Balloons


I loved her right up to the point when she raised her arms and showed off the jungle in her armpits.