I think it happened as shown - I'm sure something similar came up on Chart Music, I don't think it was this exact episode they were reviewing but there was a case where TOTP didn't have a Michael Jackson video to show.
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April 1971 had all four in. Would have been a good EP:
https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...19710411/7501/Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 23-05-2019, 23:42.
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I think that that may well have been a unique occurrence.
December 1973 saw three of them simultaneously in the charts (Ringo, Paul, John): however, after Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) in May of that year, George went exactly eight years without a Top 30 hit in the UK. By which time, of course, John had snuffed it.
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- Mar 2008
- 3386
- at the edge of the sea
- Plymouth Argyle, Plymouth Gladiators, Seattle Mariners
- cream crackers spread with nutella
I'm sure I read in one of his books that he'd totally disowned that 'Stutter Rap' shite, but a quick peek at his website sees it sit second on the list of his musical achievements, so yeah, he's still living off it and wanting to take the credit.
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He can disown it all he likes, it was utterly vile. I'm surprised ii was ok'd to be aired tonight.
Like most offensive humour, it was totally devoid of any talent that would rise it above the cheap shots it took at people with speech impediments. The verse about spluttering saliva was phenomenally offensive.
F*ck him, his fridge and his career
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I know there's the argument that the shows reflect the tastes and standards of the era, but even so I was surprised they left it in. Particularly given that they chopped the whole Mel and Kim video on Thursday night as it contains a passing reference to Rolf Harris.
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Add me to the list of the unhappy with MM. The odd thing is that it begins as quite a convincing pastiche of 1987 Beasties before zigzagging off into unpleasantness and weak musical in-jokes.
The Belinda Carlisle video saved the episode from being a complete bust. It's a great song, even if the guy that she was tapping off with had a haircut more commonly seen on Jessica's accident prone nephews in Murder, She Wrote.
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Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View Post
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The charts really were full of absolute dross at that point - Milli Vanilli, Sinitta, Sabrina, etc, plus a bunch of low-grade covers/reissues. I'll maybe spare Kim Wilde's NTAS, which was one of her better efforts, as was Tanita Tikaram's single.
(A girl I knew had one of TT's albums, which had a 'this album belongs to...' fill-in section in the sleevenotes. I kind of felt that if you're putting that kind of stuff on your records, then perhaps the music biz isn't for you. Bit tight of me, perhaps - but so it proved...)
Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostMaybe this is the place to ask, but I was somewhat stunned to discover that A little respect was released in 1988, but also that, er, it only reached no.4 in the charts. Does anyone know what the three songs that kept it off the top spot were?
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No idea what D-Mob are up to these days, but Gary Haisman died a year or so back.
Miles behind on the repeats myself, but been having a bit of a catch up this week. Last episode I watched was the debut of an earnest Mark Goodier congratulating Vanessa Paradis on her Canadian number one.
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Fair enough, but that song is one of the best pop songs of the 80's. A little respect is the song that everyone else in that chart wishes they had written instead. teardrops by Womack and womack is another one of those songs that has really stood the test of time. The bit where they go into the refrain is so beautiful. The video is an interesting 80's time capsule. That bass player! Also what does what I presume to be the Womack I actually bring to the party?
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