:00:03. > :00:09.gentlemen, welcome to Top Of The Pops. Oh! He was a pop pioneer.
:00:09. > :00:16.about that then? And a multimillion pound charity
:00:16. > :00:26.fundraiser. He made us belt up in the 70s. Chunk, click, every trip.
:00:26. > :00:34.And fixed it for thousands of kids' dreams to come true. For 60 years,
:00:34. > :00:41.Jimmy Savile has been part of our lives, a great British eccentric.
:00:41. > :00:47.He was crazy. Now then. Is it visible to smoke while you are
:00:47. > :00:52.exercising? No. This is the story of Jimmy's remarkable life, As It
:00:52. > :00:57.Happened, now then, now then. came through the lens and grabbed
:00:57. > :01:07.you. A riddle wrapped inside a mystery, inside a gold lame
:01:07. > :01:14.tracksuit! Here is Sir Jimmy filmed enjoying
:01:14. > :01:18.one of his favourite past times, just a few days before he died.
:01:18. > :01:21.have gotten to be nearly 100 right now, with nothing really basically
:01:22. > :01:27.wrong with me at all, apart from being a bit odd. But I have been a
:01:27. > :01:34.bit odd all my life. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to
:01:34. > :01:40.Top Of The Pops. # For goodness sake
:01:41. > :01:45.Jim burst on to our screens and into our lives in the 60s, as the
:01:46. > :01:52.first-ever host of Top Of The Pops. I will tell you what we will do now
:01:52. > :02:00.ladies and gentlemen. Top Of The Pops to everybody.
:02:00. > :02:03.Wednesday January 1th 1964, Saturday evening, live, first band,
:02:03. > :02:08.The Rolling Stones. We might have been watching in
:02:08. > :02:12.black and white, but his flamboyant and colourful character shone right
:02:12. > :02:18.through. The programme and Jimmy were a
:02:18. > :02:24.smash hit, and soon he was as famous as the big-name acts he
:02:24. > :02:30.introduced. How about Mr Cliff Richard. The Rolling Stones. The
:02:30. > :02:37.one and only Lulu. # Some people live within the world,
:02:37. > :02:41.# Some people live without it Of The Pops was unbelievable, not
:02:41. > :02:49.only were you in the charts, but you were heating and hanging out
:02:49. > :02:53.with everybody else in the charts. Jimmy was a huge part of that.
:02:53. > :02:57.One of those mad nights tonight, ladies and gentlemen. I have been
:02:57. > :03:05.in the music business for 40 years, I have worked with some quite
:03:06. > :03:10.challenging people, van Morrison, Shane McKeown, and others, there
:03:10. > :03:16.was no-one like Savile, he was a complete creation of his own,
:03:16. > :03:20.unique. I think Jimmy enjoyed the attention from the crowd, the way
:03:21. > :03:27.all the young bands Z he felt like he was the same, you know, and he
:03:27. > :03:35.was pretty famous, he was huge. knee everybody, he toured up with
:03:35. > :03:39.the Rolling Stones, The Beatle, all these types of people.
:03:39. > :03:45.Fortune soon followed fame, but Jimmy as millionaire lifestyle was
:03:45. > :03:50.a long way from his humble beginnings.
:03:50. > :03:56.James Wilson Vincent Savile, was born in Leeds on the 3 1sf October,
:03:56. > :04:01.1926, and grew up here -- 31st October 1926, and grew up here in
:04:01. > :04:06.Woodhouse, a stone's throw from the city centre. He was the youngest of
:04:06. > :04:11.seven children, of Vince Savile, a bookmaker's clerk, and his wife,
:04:11. > :04:15.Agnes. He survived a bout of childhood pneumonia, and life for
:04:15. > :04:23.the young Jimmy, growing up in 1920s Leeds was certainly hard. As
:04:23. > :04:26.he often recalled, to his best mate, Howard Silverman. We grew up in
:04:26. > :04:33.Consort Terrace, he was the youngest of seven. He always used
:04:33. > :04:38.to tell me that his nickname was Mr Hand -Down, he was the last to be
:04:38. > :04:43.handed down clothes from the eldest kids. They had nothing, really.
:04:43. > :04:48.Times were about to get tougher. The outbreak of the Second World
:04:48. > :04:57.War saw a teenage Jimmy sent down the coal mine, rather than called
:04:57. > :05:02.up to the frontline. Even in those days he was quite an extrovert lad.
:05:02. > :05:08.He went down the hole thinking he knew it all, and he was going to be
:05:08. > :05:12.fine. He said to me afterwards, he got into this black hole, and
:05:13. > :05:20.wondered what on earth had he let himself in for. It was while down
:05:20. > :05:26.the pit that Jimmy suffered a serious injury. They had a roof
:05:26. > :05:32.fall in, part of it fell on him and injured his spine. He spent the
:05:32. > :05:40.next three years or so walking round on crutches. As he recovered
:05:40. > :05:45.from his injuries, Jimmy stumbled into the music business.
:05:45. > :05:52.History has it that I was the very, very first, in the whole world, to
:05:52. > :05:56.run a dance to records. When Jimmy Savile started getting involved in
:05:56. > :06:00.clubs, people went to clubs to listen to live music, and Jimmy
:06:00. > :06:04.Savile changed that. His vision was that people would go to clubs and
:06:05. > :06:14.listen to prerecorded music, what he called disc-only nights,
:06:14. > :06:20.listening to DJs. Jimmy's first Dis-o night, took
:06:20. > :06:24.part in this building, then the Loyal Order of Shepherds Hall in
:06:24. > :06:31.Leeds. Rock'n'roll had ray riefd, and armed with a borrowed record --
:06:31. > :06:34.arrived, and armed with a few rowed record players, Jimmy had arrived.
:06:34. > :06:44.I thought it was marvellous that you could put a record on and this
:06:44. > :06:48.band came out of the sound. I got cards and wrote "grand record dance,
:06:48. > :06:53.1s" and lo and behold I sold 12 wickets.
:06:53. > :07:00.From humble beginnings, the injured miner, turned music impresario, was
:07:00. > :07:04.soon managing some of Britain's biggest dance halls. What Jimmy was
:07:04. > :07:10.table to do was he was able to key into that new generation at the end
:07:10. > :07:13.of the 50s, who wanted something flamboyant, who wanted a bit of
:07:13. > :07:18.rock'n'roll. He understood that generation probably better than
:07:18. > :07:25.anyone else working in clubland in Britain.
:07:25. > :07:28.My places were packed, packed. A guy walked in last night and said
:07:28. > :07:35.he had never seen records played like that before, and would you
:07:35. > :07:39.like a job on radio Luxembourg, I said, why not. I got a telegram,
:07:39. > :07:44.your Radio Luxembourg programme starts next Thursday.
:07:44. > :07:48.Radio Luxembourg, your station of the stars. It was Jimmy's big break,
:07:48. > :07:52.he spent the next decade spinning discs and hanging out with
:07:52. > :07:56.rock'n'roll's biggest stars. That only continued when TV came
:07:56. > :08:05.knocking at Jimmy's door. Good evening ladies and gentlemen,
:08:05. > :08:11.welcome to Top Of The Pops. Hosting Top Of The Pops had made him a
:08:11. > :08:16.household name, wum the 70s, his public perzone -- come the 1970s
:08:17. > :08:22.his public persona would be as flamboyant as those worn by the
:08:22. > :08:25.bands. Those who appeared in the show alongside never forgot the
:08:25. > :08:29.experience. He brought colour, excitement, he was a flamboyant
:08:29. > :08:33.personality. He was just wonderful, in fact, that is what Top Of The
:08:33. > :08:37.Pops was all about, it was all about this wonder cornucopia of
:08:37. > :08:43.colours. And Jimmy was the centre piece. See you again, too much, too
:08:43. > :08:49.much. I think in those days anything went,
:08:49. > :08:54.and it was such a Greg gairous time. Everybody thought of him as a one-
:08:54. > :09:03.off. What should we have now, should we have the number 1, Elton
:09:03. > :09:08.John, Kiki Dee Don't Go Breaking My Heart. I so wanted to be on Top Of
:09:08. > :09:14.The Pops, and eventually I got on there. # Don't go breaking my
:09:14. > :09:19.heart? # I couldn't if I tried. Jimmy, I met him, he was a very
:09:19. > :09:27.professional host, and full of life, and excitement, and great performer,
:09:27. > :09:31.actually, great showman. Top Of The Pops had provided Jim with a
:09:31. > :09:41.platform, now the whole world was his stage. Savile could be utterly
:09:41. > :09:42.
:09:42. > :09:50.outrageous, because he didn't give a toss.
:09:50. > :09:55.There's nothing he liked more than making a fashion statement. Jimmy
:09:55. > :10:02.Savile was a total eccentric. was a psycadelic experience! That
:10:02. > :10:07.is what I would say about Jimmy. Psycadelic, in Yorkshire, we have
:10:07. > :10:13.had psycadelic sheep for years. How about that then?
:10:13. > :10:22.You look at him and you would go, what? What is this? You could say
:10:22. > :10:28.he was the first glam rocker. had a Jaguar, and the upholstery
:10:28. > :10:38.was zeb bra skin, he wrote to Jaguar for some material to make a
:10:38. > :10:39.
:10:39. > :10:44.jacket out of it. My outfit and delivery suited the people who
:10:44. > :10:51.themselves were discovering themselves. There was one
:10:51. > :11:00.particular look he would make his own. Yes indeed. I'm trying to
:11:00. > :11:03.think of a time when I didn't see Jim in tracksuit? It is not easy.
:11:04. > :11:11.It was extraordinary seeing this man in the 70s, on television, in a
:11:11. > :11:19.tracksuit. He broke all the rules. He just got into that comfort thing,
:11:19. > :11:28.it was easy, taky and bad taste, but it created his own image.
:11:28. > :11:34.did, however, manage to smarten up to receive an OBE. REPORTER: How do
:11:35. > :11:38.you feel about the medal? Fantastic. Can you see my heart beating.
:11:38. > :11:42.Buckingham Palace was a different world from where Jimmy came from,
:11:42. > :11:52.but he would never forget his roots. Jimmy's home would always be in
:11:52. > :11:54.
:11:54. > :12:04.Leeds. Although a Penthouse had now replaced the humble terrace. Inside,
:12:04. > :12:06.
:12:06. > :12:11.Jimmy surrounded himself with souvenirs from his life. There are
:12:12. > :12:18.the wrestling posters from early semi-professional bouts, and the
:12:18. > :12:25.racing bike he completed the 1951 Race of Britain on. But it is the
:12:25. > :12:35.walls that reveal the true extent of Jimmy's fame. From pictures with
:12:35. > :12:36.
:12:36. > :12:38.The King. The Princess. Even the Pope.
:12:38. > :12:42.Jimmy's relationship with the Royal Family, most notably, Prince
:12:42. > :12:48.Charles, was more than passing acquaintance.
:12:48. > :12:52.I once picked up a phone fall, and Jimmy was in one of the other rooms,
:12:52. > :12:57.and he said to me, answer the phone for me, would you. I picked it up,
:12:57. > :13:01.and the voice on the other end of the phone, "could I speak to Sir
:13:01. > :13:10.Jimmy, please". It suddenly dawned on me I was speaking to Prince
:13:10. > :13:16.Charles. You finished the marathon with
:13:16. > :13:20.Jimmy and quarter of an hour later you were at Buckingham Palace
:13:20. > :13:27.having tea. It wasn't case of getting changed, it was in your
:13:27. > :13:30.shorts and still weighting with your medal. Not many people do that.
:13:30. > :13:38.The working-class lad from Leeds ended up becoming a firm favourite
:13:38. > :13:46.of the establishment. You can knock on the door.
:13:46. > :13:51.Hello, welcome. Come in. I remember turning to Prince Andrew and going,
:13:51. > :13:54."right, boss". I thought it was great. I bet he was with members of
:13:54. > :14:00.the Royal Family and Prince Charles, to whom he was close, and Mrs
:14:00. > :14:07.Thatcher, I think it was a little window into Jimmy's world. He would
:14:07. > :14:16.probably say that to the Queen. Alongside Top Of The Pops, another
:14:16. > :14:22.prime time hit show would cement Jimmy's status as a TV legend.
:14:22. > :14:28.Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome indeed to Jim Will Fix It.
:14:29. > :14:35.Jim Will Fix It was just a superb programme for Jim, for you know,
:14:35. > :14:38.the kids that came on there and everything.
:14:38. > :14:44.I used to watch Jim Will Fix It every Saturday, I used to love T I
:14:44. > :14:50.wrote, I asked him if I could meet the Leeds United team of the early
:14:50. > :14:57.70s, my absolute heros, I heard nothing. I don't hold it against
:14:57. > :15:00.him. We got a letter from the 2nd St Mary's Cub Scouts, how about a
:15:00. > :15:10.new place to eat our lunch, they said. Are you sure you want to eat
:15:10. > :15:14.
:15:14. > :15:20.The show received over 20,000 letters a week, from kids hoping
:15:20. > :15:30.Jim could fix it for them. From stock sport, "dear Jim can you
:15:30. > :15:31.
:15:31. > :15:35.fix it for me to drive a 125 high- speed train, I'm six, Robert ." I
:15:35. > :15:39.wrote a letter, and in my best handwriting, and sent it off to the
:15:39. > :15:43.producers. A lot of my friends wrote off as well. It was amazing
:15:43. > :15:48.to get a response, once to say thank you for the letter, and when
:15:48. > :15:53.to say, come and do it. I was so excited, it was untrue. What we did,
:15:53. > :15:59.we sorted it out, just like this. First, Jim fixed for Rob to travel
:15:59. > :16:05.back in time to the golden era of steam. It brings back a few
:16:05. > :16:11.memories standing up here, I remember shuffling coal into the
:16:11. > :16:14.fire box. Then he experienced the age of the train, on an Inter City
:16:14. > :16:19.125. I was only six, it was the best thing in the world, I couldn't
:16:19. > :16:25.believe it was happening to me. Thank you. For Rob, just as
:16:25. > :16:29.exciting was his chance to meet Jimmy. Was it good? Yes, very much.
:16:29. > :16:34.Smashing? Yes. I was massively awe struck, I had
:16:34. > :16:38.seen him a lot of times on Jim Will Fix It and Top Of The Pops, to meet
:16:38. > :16:43.him in real life, I was ready to faint. It was just amazing. We have
:16:43. > :16:46.had a special high-speed Jim Will Fix It badge, will you fix that on
:16:46. > :16:53.his high-speed head now, everything he has to do is high-speed, he has
:16:53. > :17:01.to have his breakfast at high-speed, and his dinner at high-speed, and a
:17:01. > :17:07.high-speed Jim Will Fix It badge. Look at that.
:17:07. > :17:12.There you go, Jim Fixed It For Me. It has pride of place at home,
:17:12. > :17:16.thousands of kids wanted this, and I'm the lucky person who has one.
:17:16. > :17:26.Jim Will Fix It went for almost 20 years and made the dreams of almost
:17:26. > :17:28.
:17:28. > :17:33.1300 kids come true. But these luck yie youngs -- lucky
:17:33. > :17:41.youngsters weren't the only people to benefit thanks to Jimmy. Always
:17:41. > :17:45.the formidable amateur athlete, from cycling races, to over 100
:17:45. > :17:52.wrestling bouts. Do you do wrestling in this part of the
:17:52. > :17:58.country? If you have half an hour I can show you. I'm busy but do you
:17:58. > :18:02.have any. Jim was soon to become synonymous with sponsored marathon
:18:02. > :18:06.running. He realised he could exploit his popularity with the
:18:06. > :18:12.press and public to help raise millions for good causes. I think
:18:12. > :18:16.Jimmy was a pioneer in many ways, for me he was the first non-running
:18:16. > :18:20.celebrity to seem to be interested in running events. Ladies and
:18:20. > :18:25.gentlemen, the London Marathon, a very serious and spectacular event.
:18:25. > :18:27.He was really ahead of his time in that sense. Now so many celebrities
:18:28. > :18:31.want to run the London Marathon, the Great North Run, et cetera,
:18:31. > :18:35.they have followed in his footsteps, and the millions raised for charity.
:18:35. > :18:41.People shouldn't forget, that he had a massive role to play in
:18:41. > :18:46.what's now become very common practice.
:18:46. > :18:51.A The man who calls finshes this race, is Jimmy Savile, running
:18:51. > :18:54.today his 156th half marathon or marathon. Everything was a joy, you
:18:54. > :18:59.hated everyone, because it was a love-hate relationship, when you
:18:59. > :19:05.cross the line, you think, terrible, when's the next one! Amazingly Sir
:19:05. > :19:12.Jim ran more than 200 marathons and helped raise a staggering �45
:19:12. > :19:16.million for various charities. Including raising �20 million to
:19:16. > :19:22.rebuild Stoke Mandeville's Spinal Injuries Unit, a cause close to his
:19:22. > :19:26.heart following his war time mining accident. He even got a couple of
:19:26. > :19:32.pals to open it. I didn't like to ask you, because you're always here
:19:32. > :19:37.and you do such a lot for us. didn't know how to ask me, I'm very
:19:37. > :19:43.hurt now. Jimmy knew that giving his personal time was just as
:19:43. > :19:49.important as donating cash. For over 20 years he worked with
:19:49. > :19:54.patients at Broadmoor Secure Hospital. Despite his celebrity, it
:19:55. > :19:59.wasn't unusual to see Jimmy working as an unpaid hospital porter at
:19:59. > :20:05.Leeds infirmary. He was very proud of the fact that he was the only
:20:05. > :20:11.porter at the infirmary driving a Rolls-Royce. I said you may be the
:20:11. > :20:16.only one driving a roller, but don't par park it in the
:20:16. > :20:26.consultant's car park! Jimmy was the real deal. Five minutes in a
:20:26. > :20:27.
:20:27. > :20:36.hospital is ag imm-- gimmick, five years not a gimmick.
:20:36. > :20:43.He gave back, and I think he got pleasure from giving back. He had
:20:43. > :20:47.this tremendous gift of making people feel good. I watched
:20:47. > :20:57.people's faces light up as soon as he was around them. That's a memory
:20:57. > :21:03.that I will never forget, and never lose. Hello ladies and gentlemen,
:21:03. > :21:07.welcome to Top Of The Pops, here we go with the charts and music of
:21:07. > :21:11.Leon Hayward. Throughout the 80s and 90s, Jimmy remained a familiar
:21:11. > :21:19.face on our screens. Welcome to the Christmas Top Of The Pops.
:21:19. > :21:23.signature voice on national radio. The day I joined Radio 1, in 1987,
:21:23. > :21:26.I spent a couple of hours with him doing a photocall, I was completely
:21:26. > :21:30.overawed, this was Jimmy Savile. Thinking about it now it was
:21:30. > :21:35.terrifying, but wonderful. He was very friendly, very accommodating,
:21:35. > :21:42.very Jim. He took me to one side, and he said, this is when I kind of
:21:43. > :21:47.got a little bit of the real Jim, he took me to one side and he went,
:21:47. > :21:51.young man, you have just obtained the keys to open the Bank of
:21:51. > :21:56.England. I thought well that's quite interesting.
:21:56. > :22:03.Jimmy was evolving into a true national treasure sure. He appeared
:22:03. > :22:09.on the most popular chat shows. Give us a touch of your knee!
:22:09. > :22:13.us inexpensive train travel. Away day is an offpeak ticket. And found
:22:13. > :22:16.himself back at Buckingham Palace to add a Knighthood to the OBE.
:22:16. > :22:21.is mine, I'm telling you, tell him, it's mine.
:22:21. > :22:26.And of course, he continued to be, one of Britain's most impersonated
:22:26. > :22:32.celebrities. How about that then, if you please.
:22:32. > :22:38.So it's James, is it? Jimmy, Mr Savile, OBE, call it what you like.
:22:38. > :22:42.What do you do? I used to be on television, young lady. His voice
:22:42. > :22:48.was so recoginsable, any impressionist knew if they did
:22:48. > :22:51.Jimmy people would know t he was so warm, people would like to hear the
:22:51. > :22:57.voice done. To do Jimmy Saville, you have to get the Leeds accent,
:22:57. > :23:04.then the phrases, now then, Goodness Gracious Me, love,ly,
:23:04. > :23:09.lovely, jewellery, lots of hesitation, lots of stucato rhythm,
:23:09. > :23:14.then very wide mouth, then at the end, a lovely little look down the
:23:14. > :23:20.camera, how's that. I have been off these good people's screens now for
:23:20. > :23:24.long enough, to become interesting again, haven't I. People watch Huw
:23:24. > :23:27.Edwards reading the news and they don't know him. But Jimmy came
:23:27. > :23:32.through the lens and grabbed you. Goodness gracious. Ladies and
:23:32. > :23:36.gentlemen, good morning, Top Of The Pops to one and all. While his
:23:36. > :23:41.public persona was there for all to see, a documentary by Louis Theroux,
:23:41. > :23:48.attempted to discover if there was another side to Jim.
:23:48. > :23:52.Is Jimmy there, please? Is that the Spice Girls? Yes it is. Go away.
:23:52. > :23:57.When Louis Met Jimmy, they are they are tried to get behind Jimmy's
:23:57. > :24:01.flamboyant facade. How are you feeling? Regularly, how are you.
:24:01. > :24:05.I'm like a butcher's dog, as it happens. The resulting film seemed
:24:05. > :24:13.to suggest Jimmy was complex, lonely and fixated with his late
:24:13. > :24:17.mother. When I come in, I always go, all right darling. Which is a
:24:17. > :24:23.greeting as I walk past the door. It is a friendly thing, it is not
:24:23. > :24:27.morbid or anything like that. It is totally friendly. He was close to
:24:27. > :24:32.his mum, basically because he loved his mum. He kept a lot of her
:24:32. > :24:36.things. All this gear was gear she wore. Instead of slinging it away,
:24:36. > :24:42.I thought I would hang on to it, these are better souvenirs than
:24:42. > :24:46.photographs. He was just devoted to his mother, and devastated when she
:24:46. > :24:51.died. Again, they all seemed to try to make this big thing about the
:24:51. > :24:55.fact that he had never thrown away his mum's clothes and stuff. But we
:24:55. > :24:58.all keep photographs of our mums and dads who have died, and
:24:58. > :25:05.pictures and Mel memorabilia, what was the difference, he could afford
:25:05. > :25:09.it. He just left it as it was. have you said in interviews you
:25:09. > :25:16.don't have emotions? Because it is easier. The truth is, I'm very good
:25:16. > :25:20.at masking them. I have often heard people say that
:25:20. > :25:28.no-one really knew the real Jimmy. That is not true. Jimmy allowed
:25:28. > :25:32.people he wanted to get to know him, to get to know him. He was
:25:32. > :25:40.eccentric, everybody knows he was eccentric, of course he was. But he
:25:40. > :25:44.wasn't a loner. He was just an ordinary guy. All I hope is, maybe,
:25:44. > :25:51.some young person somewhere sees all this and says, hey, I thought I
:25:51. > :26:01.had no chance, but if Jim did it, can I do it. Makes it well
:26:01. > :26:07.
:26:07. > :26:13.worthwhile then. Maybe it's a bit too yuky for them! Even at 80 years
:26:13. > :26:22.old, Jimmy continued to light up our TV screens. Hello, and welcome
:26:22. > :26:28.to the very last Top Of The Pops. Closing the show, that he opened 42
:26:28. > :26:35.years earlier, and that made him a household name. Don't forget, it is
:26:35. > :26:39.number one, it is still Top Of The Pops.
:26:39. > :26:47.Who else could they possibly choose to switch off the lights at the BBC
:26:47. > :26:53.Top Of The Pops studios, it had to be Jimmy.
:26:53. > :27:02.For six decades, Sir Jimmy Savile was part of the fabric of British
:27:02. > :27:07.life. He was about the brightest thread that there was. Wow, there's
:27:07. > :27:17.someone who has really lived. Had really the best time he could
:27:17. > :27:18.
:27:18. > :27:21.probably have, and you can't really ask for more than that. He was a
:27:21. > :27:29.complete one-off. There was really nobody like him, never had been,
:27:29. > :27:36.and never will be again, really. He literally lit up a room when he
:27:36. > :27:43.came into it. That was him, that was Jimmy, that was the real person.
:27:43. > :27:47.Now, Sir Jimmy has gone. But undoubtedly his legend will live on.
:27:47. > :27:54.Yes indeed. Now then, now then guys and girls
:27:54. > :27:59.as it happens. Now then, now then, now then. As it happens, as it
:28:00. > :28:08.happens. How's about that. That is like right good. Now then, now then,
:28:08. > :28:12.how's about that then? Time to go now, it is a happens.