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Type.................: TV Series
Part Size............: 50,000,000
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Posted by............: johncymru
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Posted on............: 20140920
Original Air Date....: 20140103
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mpphw
1979 was a unique year for Top of the Pops, which saw the show record its
highest audience of 19 million viewers and in which physical format singles
sales hit an all-time high of 79 million. 1979 is maybe the most diverse year
ever for acts on Top of the Pops with disco at its peak, new wave, 2 Tone,
reggae, rock, folk and electro records all making the top five.
Original interviews with Gary Numan, Nile Rodgers, Woody from Madness, Jah
Wobble, Chas and Dave, Janet Kay, Linda Nolan, Jim Dooley, Secret Affair, the
Ruts, Legs and Co and many others tell the story of an exceptional year.
In the year that the 'winter of discontent' saw continuing strikes black out
ITV and TOTP reduced during a technicians strike to a narrator introducing
videos, the show also found itself the site of conflict backstage. TOTP's old
guard of 70s MOR acts had their feathers continually ruffled by new wave bands,
as the Skids spat at the Nolan Sisters backstage and Generation X urinated off
the roof onto the Dooleys.
Elsewhere in the corridors of TV Centre, in preparation for playing their
single Death Disco, Public Image Ltd demanded their teeth were blacked out in
make-up to appear ugly while Gary Numan remembers the overbearing union
presence which prevented TOTP artists moving their own microphones without a
union technician and the Musicians Union trying to ban him from the show for
his use of synthesizers.
The most popular musical styles of 1979 were 2 Tone, reggae and disco. The
latter saw Nile Rodgers, the man of the year, score four hits with Chic as well
as writing and producing a further four hits with Sister Sledge, Sheila B
Devotion and Sugarhill Gang, who appeared with what would prove to be the first
ever rap hit.
Jamaican and UK reggae artists scored continual hits through the year and then
watched as the Police notched up three hits with white reggae and the label 2
Tone revived the 60s reggae style known as ska. In November, in what is
remembered as the 2 Tone edition, all three of the label's new acts - Madness,
Specials and Selecter - appeared on one historic night and took the show by
storm, with Madness capping off their performance of One Step Beyond by leading
a 'nutty train' conga through the studio.
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