John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett in 1981 By Canada Jack aka Jeremy Gilbert (Own work) or GFDL ], via Wikimedia Commons Hooray! At last, Steve Does Top of the Pops creates its last-ev...
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Bing Crosby in 1942, (Public Domain) via Commons Wikimedia . For one whose heart is as hard as mine, Christmas is always horrific. But it's just got worse - because I now have to review two...
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Bing Crosby in 1942, (Public Domain) via Commons Wikimedia . Christmas is currently working its magic at Chez Steve - and that means that, thanks to real-life holiday goings-on getting in t...
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Mull of Kintyre lighthouse by Steve Partridge ], via Wikimedia Commons This is it. I have my bagpipes plugged in, my sporran in my hand and I'm all revved up for what I believe is set ...
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Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music. By AVRO (Beeld En Geluid Wiki - Gallerie: Toppop 1973) ], via Wikimedia Commons This week, to avoid the reception difficulties that so plague me whenever I d...
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The Carpenters in 1972. White House photo by Knudsen, Robert L. , via Wikimedia Commons A new face joins us for this week's show. It's Perky Peter Powell, surely the world's cheeriest l...
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David Bowie was supposed to be on tonight's show but, thanks to the Dave Lee Travis thing, wasn't. Poor David. He must be wondering if he'll ever get to appear on Top of the Pops. Meanwhi...
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Yes in concert, in 1977 by Rick Dikeman (Own work) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons Those who follow me on Twitter know that, over the last few days, I've become increasingly ob...
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Golden Earring in 1974 By AVRO (Beeld En Geluid Wiki - Gallerie: Toppop 1974) ], via Wikimedia Commons For the most part, today's proven to be a battle with the madness of modern techn...
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The Boomtown Rats' Bob Geldof by Helge Øverås (Own work) ], via Wikimedia Commons Thanks to circumstances in the dim and distant future, the show may have hit rocky waters in recent we...
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Yvonne Elliman in 1975; by Matt Gibbons (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ultomatt/120599196/) ], via Wikimedia Commons Last week brought something of a conceptual break-through into our m...
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The Boomtown Rats in 1981. Author unknown; Photo courtesy Orange County Archives , via Wikimedia Commons A little bird tells me that tonight's show sees the Top of the Pops debuts of two...
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I can't find a decent Free-Use pic of any of tonight's acts, so here's a lovely photo of Fingal's Cave in Staffa, Scotland. By Velela (Public Domain). Never one to waste time, Dave Lee ...
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Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott; by Helge Øverås (Own work) ], via Wikimedia Commons As the nights start to draw in and we begin to say goodbye to the summer, we plunge straight into the sunse...
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Rita Coolidge, 2002 By Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA; crop by Jmabel (Rita Coolidge, 2002Uploaded by Jmabel) ], via Wikimedia Commons It's that magical time of week aga...
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In the absence of any decent Free-Use images of any of tonight's acts, here's a lovely picture of Stonehenge, which has no doubt been the venue for much rock music over the years. By Gue...
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Dave Edmunds by Canada Jack aka Jeremy Gilbert (Own work) , via Wikimedia Commons Like Usain Bolt on speed, the nation's favourite music show flings itself into action and we launch strai...
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Boney M by TROS (Beeld en Geluidwiki - Gallery: Showbizzquiz) , via Wikimedia Commons Last Friday night's Olympic opening ceremony magnificently proved to me the UK has a musical heritag...
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Brian May of Queen. By Thomas Steffan by using Olympus Camedia C700 (Own work) , CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC-BY-SA-2.5 ], via Wikimedia Commons Yet again the BBC fails in its attempts to confus...
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The Brotherhood of Man - Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (ANEFO), 1945-1989 - negatiefstroken zwart/wit, nummer toegang 2.24...
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Olivia Newton-John by Larry D. Moore (Nv8200p on en.wikipedia) using a Minolta SRT-101 camera. (© 1988 Larry D. Moore) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons This week there's be...
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The usual problems finding a decent free-use image of any of tonight's acts, so here's Tomb Raider and Alexander sex-bomb Angelia Jolie. Almost uniquely, Angelina Jolie has no valid lin...
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Who'd have thought it'd be so hard to find a Free-Use image of Twiggy? In its place, here's one of former Hollywood wild-child Drew Barrymore. Michael Barrymore's catchphrase was, "Aw...
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In the absence of a free-use image of any of tonight's acts, here's a photo of Twilight sexpot Kristen Stewart at Wondercon 2012. Kristen Stewart has a very large chin. Nicky Chinn has�...
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Rod Stewart by Helge Øverås (Own work) , via Wikimedia Commons The Olympic Torch may be wending its way through the streets of this land even as we speak but there's only one beacon to b...
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