0:00:04 > 0:00:07Dancing is super fun. It's a form of expression and it's cool.
0:00:07 > 0:00:12Oh, I know this song. Let's do the routine to it. It brings everyone together. It's great.
0:00:12 > 0:00:16Having a dance craze gives us a chance to do something all together
0:00:16 > 0:00:19and all feel like we are one animal.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21There's been so many great dance crazes
0:00:21 > 0:00:23and I've partaken in most of them.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26It's fun, it's something that everyone can do.
0:00:26 > 0:00:27Oh, it's camp as Christmas.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Dance is a way to free the soul and ease the mind.
0:00:31 > 0:00:36The moment any of these songs start, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Better to slap on a smile and get stuck in, I reckon.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43Hello, I'm TV's Robert Webb
0:00:43 > 0:00:48and welcome to the finale of Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes.
0:00:48 > 0:00:53Tonight we find out, what are the craziest of all dance crazes?
0:00:56 > 0:00:59But who decides which dance crazes are best?
0:00:59 > 0:01:03Some know-it-all panel of so-called experts? Yes, actually.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07And together, these dance specialists have picked out
0:01:07 > 0:01:10the hippest, the sexiest, the quirkiest and, let's be honest,
0:01:10 > 0:01:13the gayest dance crazes from the last 40 years.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16So finish your drink, kick off your shoes and join me for a
0:01:16 > 0:01:23journey towards the craziest of all pop's great dance crazes. Hit it.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28# Yes! So crazy right now
0:01:28 > 0:01:31# Most incredibly Crazy right now... #
0:01:31 > 0:01:35Crazy In Love was definitely a breakthrough video for Beyonce.
0:01:35 > 0:01:40It was her first video coming into her solo career, outside of Destiny's Child.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42# Ready? #
0:01:43 > 0:01:48I remember watching the video and literally looking at the TV screen like this...
0:01:50 > 0:01:53She's walking, the hair's blowing and it's like, wow.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Like, you walk down the street like that?
0:01:56 > 0:01:59# I look and stare so deep in your eyes
0:01:59 > 0:02:02# I touch on you more and more every time... #
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Beyonce is queen.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06She walks down and struts. Oh, she's dropped on the floor!
0:02:06 > 0:02:08Why's she dropped on the floor? No, she hasn't.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11She's really popping and dancing around.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Everything Beyonce does, I love.
0:02:13 > 0:02:19She just looks so hot in the red high heels, the denim shorts, and they were short.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21You know, hello!
0:02:21 > 0:02:24# Got me lookin' so crazy right now Your touch got me... #
0:02:24 > 0:02:29She's just this woman who just wanted to dance and it was just like, wow.
0:02:29 > 0:02:30Wow, wow, wow.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33# Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh Oh, no, no... #
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Crazy In Love, you cannot forget the, "Uh-oh".
0:02:36 > 0:02:40And the moment the... # Uh-oh, uh-oh.... #
0:02:40 > 0:02:42It's just hot!
0:02:42 > 0:02:44The key move is the booty shake
0:02:44 > 0:02:47and it does help if you've got some junk in your trunk as well.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Can I show you my booty shake?
0:02:50 > 0:02:53I've been practising and this is my Beyonce.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56It turns out I have to start quite slow, like that.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59And then you have to really get going like that.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01# So crazy right now... #
0:03:01 > 0:03:04# Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh Oh, no, no... #
0:03:07 > 0:03:08Beyonce's all about the bum.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16I can't keep it going, I can't sustain.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19I'm quite knackered after that. How does she do it?
0:03:19 > 0:03:22All of that, without a bra on?
0:03:22 > 0:03:24# Young hov, y'all know when the flow is loco... #
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Everyone was doing the Beyonce, even boys were doing it and someone comes
0:03:27 > 0:03:30who wouldn't know the words, but he'd know how to do that, Uh-oh...
0:03:30 > 0:03:333-year-olds were doing it. 52-year-olds doing it.
0:03:33 > 0:03:38- 103-year-olds doing it. - # Got me looking
0:03:38 > 0:03:40# So crazy, my baby... #
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Where she kicked the fire extinguisher
0:03:42 > 0:03:47and she just starts to go all in the water and her hair's all wet.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50It's like, whoo! She means business.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52# Your love's got the best of me
0:03:52 > 0:03:54# And baby you're makin' a fool of me... #
0:03:54 > 0:03:58Crazy In Love, for me, it's just hot.
0:03:58 > 0:04:03It's the cheekiness of the walk and the nipple lick
0:04:03 > 0:04:06where she's kind of nipple licking
0:04:06 > 0:04:09and it's so cheeky and I absolutely love it.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13Lick your thumb and rub yourself and you've got yourself a Beyonce move.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16For some reason it's less sexy when a man is doing it
0:04:16 > 0:04:19and just slightly moistening a tiny bit of chest hair
0:04:19 > 0:04:24that they've got. When Beyonce does it down her cleavage, it's somehow sexy.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28She's also got a tiny bit of chest hair.
0:04:29 > 0:04:37I knew that one where she was like that, that way, head, that way, that way, up, down, spin around.
0:04:40 > 0:04:45I think people just love the fact that she's all woman.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48You know, she had something to shake and she shook it.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51I fully approved.
0:04:51 > 0:04:52Sorry.
0:04:55 > 0:04:59So, ooh, here we are, perched on the brink of the top 10
0:04:59 > 0:05:03and what can I say about the dance craze that's at Number 11?
0:05:03 > 0:05:07Well, that's easy, really. I just say what's written on the autocue.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Ever since I learned how to read last year, it's not really been a problem.
0:05:10 > 0:05:17Anyway, it says here that our Number 11 is none other than Can't Touch This, by MC Hammer.
0:05:17 > 0:05:18Here he is.
0:05:21 > 0:05:22# Can't touch this
0:05:25 > 0:05:27# Can't touch this
0:05:29 > 0:05:30# Can't touch this... #
0:05:30 > 0:05:33It came to me, I was doing it and I just say, you can't touch this.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36When it's time to do it, it's Hammertime.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38# My music hits me, so hard
0:05:38 > 0:05:39# Makes me say, oh, my Lord
0:05:39 > 0:05:43# Thank you, for blessing me... #
0:05:43 > 0:05:49When you think of MC Hammer, you think of dancing, having a good time, partying on the dance floor.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54I don't know anybody who doesn't know the MC Hammer dance.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58There's something about the way that geezer moves his feet.
0:05:58 > 0:06:03I've just never seen anybody do that side-to-side, jerky crab movement
0:06:03 > 0:06:05quite like the Hammer.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09# You got it like that and you know you want to dance... #
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Dance craze, MC Hammer.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14We want to show you how we get down. 5, 6, 7...
0:06:17 > 0:06:21# Why are you standing there, man? You can't touch this... #
0:06:21 > 0:06:22That's what I'm talking about.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24MC Hammer in the place.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Everybody would remember the running man from MC Hammer.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32I used to do that move at weddings and stuff.
0:06:32 > 0:06:37I'd be the first on the dance floor with my dad, we'd be in the middle, doing the running man.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39The running man is like this...
0:06:39 > 0:06:42You've just got to run on the spot, with a little bounce to it, you know?
0:06:44 > 0:06:45# Break it down... #
0:06:47 > 0:06:53You get your knees up, put your arms down and then some people take that to the side and go this way.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57Or this way... And then some people do some jumping
0:06:57 > 0:07:01and MC Hammer took it a bit further we had some of this.
0:07:01 > 0:07:06- Running man. - # So wave your hands in the air... #
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Forget about the music.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12It was all about the pants. I mean, the pants were amazing.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16MC Hammer's pants were brilliant.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18They've just been back in fashion, haven't they?
0:07:18 > 0:07:19We call them pooh catchers.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21# Look, man You can't touch this... #
0:07:21 > 0:07:24We all like to dance and when you're dancing, the baggy pants
0:07:24 > 0:07:31capture the wind, so all your movements are accentuated by having the nice loose-fitting pants.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33I used to try and wear the pants.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36I didn't know where to get them from, so gym pants, they're similar,
0:07:36 > 0:07:38like bodybuilder pants.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42I had a pair of those, really awkward colours, like purples and turquoise.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45I'm just grateful nobody's got photos of that stuff.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51People always say, "Hammer, I had the pants, I had the pants!"
0:07:51 > 0:07:59You know, from current adults to young kids, "When I was little, I had some Hammer pants".
0:07:59 > 0:08:01# You can't touch this... #
0:08:01 > 0:08:03MC Hammer, with that one dance, became a phenomenon.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07I mean, that bloke made an absolute fortune
0:08:07 > 0:08:12for being the biggest thing in the world for all of about six months.
0:08:12 > 0:08:18And that dance was pretty much why.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20# You can't touch this.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24We're in the top 10!
0:08:24 > 0:08:28So, "What's the 10th best dance craze of all time?" I hear you ask.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33What's the 10th best dance craze of all time?
0:08:33 > 0:08:36Thank you!
0:08:36 > 0:08:39The 10th best dance craze of all time is the Macarena.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43This staggeringly repetitive tune by the evil geniuses of Los Del Rio
0:08:43 > 0:08:48comes with a dance that's as simple as it is simple.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56The Macarena. Oh, Macarena!
0:08:56 > 0:08:59The Maca-flipping-rena!
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Those people should have been shot.
0:09:02 > 0:09:07Those men singing that song, they should have been put in a small room,
0:09:07 > 0:09:09and they should have been played that record
0:09:09 > 0:09:10for the rest of their natural lives.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13It was dreadful.
0:09:13 > 0:09:14Budda-budda-budda-budda...
0:09:14 > 0:09:16You never really know the words.
0:09:16 > 0:09:20You just know the bit that goes, # Hey, macarena! All right! #
0:09:20 > 0:09:23I love the Macarena.
0:09:23 > 0:09:29- The Macarena is just genius.- You all move the same, then you all turn around and do the same movements.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31It's just another form of line-dancing.
0:09:31 > 0:09:37Whether you loathe it or just hate it, nobody knew what it was actually about until right now.
0:09:37 > 0:09:42In 1992, Spanish lounge singers Los Del Rio saw a Venezuelan dancer
0:09:42 > 0:09:45who inspired them to write these poetic words.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50- TRANSLATION:- Give your body joy and good things.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54Because your body is meant to be given joy and good things.
0:09:55 > 0:10:02Their song about a flamenco-dancing floozie became a worldwide hit after a club remix was released in 1996.
0:10:02 > 0:10:07Souped up with a funky new video that taught everyone that groovy little dance.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10When you make up those kind of dances, you have to remember that
0:10:10 > 0:10:14you are appealing to people that maybe have no notions of dance.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17So it was like, let's do something easy.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23If you want to learn how to do the Macarena, all you have to do is follow me.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27You just go right arm out, left arm out. Then you turn your hand
0:10:27 > 0:10:30towards the ceiling, right and then left.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Then you cross on your shoulder, right and then left.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Put it behind your head, right then left.
0:10:35 > 0:10:39Then you cross on your hip, right, then on your left.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Then you go back on your booty on your right and then on your left.
0:10:42 > 0:10:48Then you go down, and you just rock it. To the right, to the left, to the right, to the left.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50And then you pop and jump to the side.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54Rock, you know, like a clock that's ticking.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57And don't forget your smile!
0:10:57 > 0:11:00It was like, let's do something that, if you make a mistake,
0:11:00 > 0:11:05it doesn't really matter because maybe you will be popping in front of someone else.
0:11:05 > 0:11:06They'd say it's funny.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11- TRANSLATION:- We wanted to show that the song is meant for the whole world.
0:11:11 > 0:11:16And that's why there's an Indian girl and one from the Netherlands, and an African girl.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19It was a beautiful thing and we loved it.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Oh, I see. World peace via the Macarena.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26The Macarena got massive attention.
0:11:26 > 0:11:30Everybody just got the virus of the Macarena.
0:11:30 > 0:11:35It was a pandemic, and all across the globe, people began dancing like simpletons.
0:11:35 > 0:11:40The single spent an astonishing 14 weeks at the top of the US charts.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44A crowd of 50,000 people danced the Macarena together at the New York Yankees stadium.
0:11:44 > 0:11:50And if you get 50,000 Americans to do anything, it must be straightforward.
0:11:50 > 0:11:55- TRANSLATION:- We never thought that they would be dancing to one of our songs in India, or in Chile,
0:11:55 > 0:11:58or in Italy, or in Japan.
0:11:58 > 0:12:04We knew it was out of hand when even US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
0:12:04 > 0:12:07was grooving with the minister for Botswana at the United Nations.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Yes, you heard me correctly. That's the UN.
0:12:10 > 0:12:16The minute the song would come on, people would actually freak.
0:12:16 > 0:12:21They would be hypnotised and just drawn to start doing it.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23I have done the Macarena,
0:12:23 > 0:12:26but only in the comfort of my own living room.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30I have danced it a few times in my life, I've got to say.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32I'm quite good at it, actually.
0:12:32 > 0:12:37Everybody could do it, and it was like, you needed to do it.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40And if you didn't participate, you look bad.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42This dance is cool!
0:12:42 > 0:12:43Everyone does it.
0:12:43 > 0:12:48Even the boyfriends at a party or at a wedding that don't want to dance,
0:12:48 > 0:12:50they go, "All right, we'll do this one.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53"We know this one, boys, come on, let's do this one."
0:12:53 > 0:12:58It's a song that's inviting everyone to have a laugh, have a dance.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02We're not being serious, everyone's smiling and having a good time.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04The dance is like a legend.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06It's a creature, and it goes on.
0:13:06 > 0:13:11It's a monster, and it goes on, you know, with or without me.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16# Hey, Macarena! #
0:13:19 > 0:13:25At number nine, it's his Royal Highness, Michael Jackson, the King of Pop.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29That's pop as in pop music, not pop as in fizzy drinks.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32Although, I'm told he did enjoy the feeling of Bubbles.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Oh, please!
0:13:35 > 0:13:40In the '80s, he bestrode the music scene like a slightly weedy-looking Goliath.
0:13:40 > 0:13:46And up there with his very best is this song about a person by the name of Billie Jean.
0:13:54 > 0:13:59Michael Jackson has to be one of the most influential dancers in history.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03# She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene... #
0:14:03 > 0:14:07When it comes to dancing, Michael is funky and he dances inside the music.
0:14:09 > 0:14:10He wasn't a trained dancer.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13You know, it's not like he went to ballet classes or jazz.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17He did all this... He had his own unique style.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20# I'm bad, I'm bad, chamone... #
0:14:20 > 0:14:23Michael Jackson was a self-taught dancer to start with.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28He learned from absolutely everyone.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30# Tell you once again, who's bad? #
0:14:30 > 0:14:33His stuff was very like a super hero.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36If a super hero was going to dance, he'd dance like Michael Jackson.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40Anything where it's like, bah-bah! A little, jigga-jigga-dah! Like that.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43And the spin, then grabbing his scrotum.
0:14:47 > 0:14:52He danced with a passion. And that's what made him unique and stand out.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55# Annie, are you OK? Will you tell us that you're OK? #
0:14:55 > 0:14:57He'll just...
0:14:57 > 0:15:00And just hold that for, like, a minute.
0:15:00 > 0:15:05Only Michael Jackson could get away with stuff like that. But he invented it.
0:15:06 > 0:15:07OK, friends!
0:15:07 > 0:15:11Michael Jackson, and one of the moves he patented that he does
0:15:11 > 0:15:14in his Smooth Criminal video, it's no problem for you, for me.
0:15:14 > 0:15:18Here he comes into the lean, grabbing it, there he goes. You can!
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Hold, you can... Hee-hee!
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Chamone. That's what I'm talking about.
0:15:25 > 0:15:30Michael also took a lot of influences from magicians.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33So he would take a move, say something like the lean,
0:15:33 > 0:15:35and you would have somebody maybe doing the cuffs.
0:15:35 > 0:15:40So the attention would be brought to the cuffs, where what was going on
0:15:40 > 0:15:44was the guys would hit their feet on the floor.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48The spikes would come out, and they would lean forward. And that is the trick.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52You know the move where you go on the level like that,
0:15:52 > 0:15:53your feet are like that?
0:15:53 > 0:15:56Tried it, tried it, boosh! Over.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58Bleeding, crying, teeth out.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01You've got to be a total showman.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03And Michael Jackson was an absolute showman.
0:16:04 > 0:16:10And never more so than at the 25 Years Of Motown concert when he first performed his signature move,
0:16:10 > 0:16:13the moonwalk, in a routine that shook the world.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21I remember feeling like I was right there,
0:16:21 > 0:16:25feeling like I was in the audience, watching it on TV.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Because everybody went completely mad.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31I was so excited and right away tried to do it on the carpet.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38But Michael Jackson did not actually invent the moonwalk.
0:16:38 > 0:16:44Body popper Jeffrey Daniel from Shalamar had performed his version of Top Of the Pops in 1982.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50And it was Jeffrey who taught Michael how to do the iconic step.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53We started showing Michael the backslide in 1980.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55It wasn't called the moonwalk yet.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57It wasn't just a backside, it's a series of dances.
0:16:57 > 0:17:03You're working on popping, working on dances that are in the clubs.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07Michael Jackson would take something, repolish it and do it even better.
0:17:07 > 0:17:12Look at the moonwalk which originally was a backslide that Jeffrey Daniel did.
0:17:12 > 0:17:17And then Michael Jackson took it, and gave it that kind of magic, made it his own,
0:17:17 > 0:17:20brought it to the world, and hey presto, it's a Michael Jackson move.
0:17:23 > 0:17:28I spent a long time trying to do the moonwalk.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32And I think I might have just done it once.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34It's weird. You suddenly think, I'm doing it!
0:17:34 > 0:17:36It's like riding a bike for the first time.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39The moment you realise you're doing it, you've stopped.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45I was lucky enough to meet Michael Jackson, I had dinner with him.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47He took me through the theory of the moonwalk,
0:17:47 > 0:17:51and it's actually opposite to what people think in their heads.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55If you want me to show you. You start with your forefoot on the floor.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58And then you keep it on the floor as long as you possibly can,
0:17:58 > 0:18:02and drag it all the way back until you have to start lifting your heel.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05You transfer your weight and repeat with the other foot.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08So it's actually heel-toe,
0:18:08 > 0:18:11and not toe-heel as a lot of people think.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18Anyone can do it. Simply purchase your very own rhinestone glove -
0:18:18 > 0:18:20maybe go halves on a pair with your friend.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24Resign from your job, practise just 10 hours a day for 200 days,
0:18:24 > 0:18:27and you too can impress your mates with a moonwalk like mine.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32There is not a single person that can do the moonwalk
0:18:32 > 0:18:36and not think of Michael Jackson or have somebody say, "Michael Jackson, yeah!"
0:18:36 > 0:18:41He's... One and the same, synonymous with him. The moonwalk.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45Michael Jackson, the legend lives on.
0:18:49 > 0:18:55Bill Medley might sound like the best bits from an ITV police drama but it's also the name of a man.
0:18:55 > 0:19:00And together with Jennifer Warnes, that man gave the world the song you're about to hear.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04Brackets - I've had - close brackets - The Time Of My Life.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06OK, guys. Let's do the lift! We're doing the lift!
0:19:06 > 0:19:08Yeah? Just like the film!
0:19:08 > 0:19:11It's a bit like the film, yeah?!
0:19:11 > 0:19:13# With my body and soul
0:19:13 > 0:19:18# I want you more than you'll ever know. #
0:19:18 > 0:19:20The plot of Dirty Dancing is really about
0:19:20 > 0:19:23the sexual awakening of a teenage girl.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29And also Patrick Swayze with his top off, yes!
0:19:31 > 0:19:35I think every woman's dream is to be taught how to dance
0:19:35 > 0:19:37by someone like Patrick Swayze.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Patrick Swayze was the alpha male of dance for a long time.
0:19:44 > 0:19:49He is the most sexiest dancer I think I've ever seen.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51Apart from when I've caught myself in the mirror.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55In the final, climactic scene of the film,
0:19:55 > 0:19:59Baby and Johnny perform a dance routine that reveals their secret love.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04When she's dancing her last dance with Johnny,
0:20:04 > 0:20:07just the lifting the arm up and the tickle down there,
0:20:07 > 0:20:09that is just brilliant.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14Basic move.
0:20:14 > 0:20:15# I've had the time of my life
0:20:15 > 0:20:18# No, I've never felt this way before
0:20:18 > 0:20:22# Yes, I swear... #
0:20:22 > 0:20:25The final dance, that's what the movie has been about.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28It's all about, is she going to do this lift?
0:20:28 > 0:20:31That lift is hard to do.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35It involves strength, a lot of balance and a lot of technique.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37And, done badly, could be quite catastrophic.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42It takes a bit of practice. You need a strong man.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45And I guess, it is all about the timing.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51That's a lift you attempt when you're drunk - probably the worst time to try it.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55If that Dirty Dancing song comes on and I have had enough to drink,
0:20:55 > 0:20:58I...usually try to jump.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00And hope someone catches you!
0:21:00 > 0:21:04So iconic as the lift become, that the routine is now a popular
0:21:04 > 0:21:07first dance for Swayze-loving brides around the world.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Ready, steady...catch the bride!
0:21:15 > 0:21:19I've seen a few of the wedding routines on the internet.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22I think it's hilarious the way it's turned into a craze
0:21:22 > 0:21:25and they've really reinvented the first dance.
0:21:25 > 0:21:31It's gone from being something where people are a bit embarrassed and maybe they just have a little smooch
0:21:31 > 0:21:34on the dance floor to actually, this is our wedding,
0:21:34 > 0:21:38this is our first dance, and it's something for everyone to remember.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43And this couple, Julia and James, danced their way to
0:21:43 > 0:21:48becoming an internet phenomenon with 8 million people watching their first dance on YouTube.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50It wasn't his idea! It was my idea.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54Let's be honest, every woman has the fantasy of doing that.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- It was my day, and...- YOUR day?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Sorry, OUR day! It was OUR day.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02The first thing that popped into my head when Julia said,
0:22:02 > 0:22:06"Let's do that dance from Dirty Dancing as our first dance," was the lift.
0:22:06 > 0:22:10We didn't go to a lake to practise, we went to my friend's back garden.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13So if we fell, we actually fell into his flowerbeds.
0:22:16 > 0:22:17There were 120 people there.
0:22:17 > 0:22:24And if I really screwed up badly, what they would remember was me dropping my bride on her face.
0:22:27 > 0:22:32We've had millions of people contacting us telling us that that dance made them cry.
0:22:32 > 0:22:37It just made them feel all warm and fantastic.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39- (SOBBING)- It's so beautiful!
0:22:41 > 0:22:46At number seven, it's the Time Warp from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50A musical all about... Actually, it doesn't matter.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52But why is the Time Warp so popular?
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Perhaps because the song contains instructions in the lyrics
0:22:55 > 0:22:58that explain how to do the dance as you go along.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01It's basically the hokey-cokey for transvestites.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08It's astounding.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Time is fleeting.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14What is the Time Warp about? It's not about anything. Should it be about anything?
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Most dances are just about getting people to move on the dance floor,
0:23:18 > 0:23:22encourage them to actually make fools of themselves,
0:23:22 > 0:23:23most of the time.
0:23:23 > 0:23:27# Let's do the time warp again... #
0:23:27 > 0:23:29This isn't a dance for intellectuals.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31This is a dance for people...
0:23:31 > 0:23:33You can have an IQ in single figures.
0:23:33 > 0:23:38# It's just a jump to the left And then a step to the right... #
0:23:38 > 0:23:41It's just a jump to the left.
0:23:41 > 0:23:46You see? Easy. And then a step to the right, two, three, four, one.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49With your hands on your hips.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52We all know where they are, don't we? There they are, yes, that's it.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54You bring your knees in tight.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Got it? # Then it's the pelvic thrust... #
0:23:57 > 0:23:59That's the sexy bit.
0:23:59 > 0:24:04# Really drives you insa-a-a-ane
0:24:04 > 0:24:07# Let's do the time warp again
0:24:07 > 0:24:10# Let's do the time warp again. #
0:24:10 > 0:24:12It's so simple.
0:24:12 > 0:24:18- It's just to jump to the left. - The Time Warp is the signature song from the Rocky Horror Show,
0:24:18 > 0:24:23the transgender-bending musical that brilliantly parodies science fiction and B-movie horror films.
0:24:23 > 0:24:31You've seen all kinds of movies, but you've never seen anything like the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34# Let's do the Time Warp again... #
0:24:34 > 0:24:36Bafflingly, the film is said to be
0:24:36 > 0:24:42the longest-running cinema release in history, and is still being shown in some cinemas 35 years later.
0:24:42 > 0:24:46- They're probably foreigners with ways different than our own. - It's fabulously freaky.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50It's a perfect opportunity for men to don a basque,
0:24:50 > 0:24:52seemingly for the sake of
0:24:52 > 0:24:56Rocky Horror, but actually just to satisfy a strange fetish they have.
0:24:56 > 0:25:01I think the British men have got an awful lot, deep down inside of them, that's dying to get out
0:25:01 > 0:25:07and any excuse that makes it look OK, Rocky Horror Show is there to supply that OKness.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09# Transvestite! #
0:25:09 > 0:25:12The Rocky Horror Show comes to town and you'll see your neighbour,
0:25:12 > 0:25:17Gerald and Sandra, dressed up in their S&M outfits.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20You're like, "Where are you off?" "Off to see the Rocky Horror Show."
0:25:20 > 0:25:22You're like, "Oh, this is awkward."
0:25:22 > 0:25:23Sandra's got Gerald on a lead.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26They never went that far in the Rocky Horror, but...
0:25:26 > 0:25:29Got him on a lead!
0:25:29 > 0:25:33# Let's do the Time Warp again... #
0:25:33 > 0:25:38The Time Warp encapsulates the freak show party atmosphere of Rocky Horror, and the dance that
0:25:38 > 0:25:45actually started out as a parody of Simon Says routines has become the very thing it was poking fun at.
0:25:45 > 0:25:50- It's just a jump to the left. - We've got a song where the instructions come in the lyrics.
0:25:50 > 0:25:56It was getting them up there to join in and do something collectively.
0:25:56 > 0:26:01It did, strangely, become accepted as a dance, and a big hit.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Let's do the Time Warp again.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09I'm a massive Rocky Horror fan and I don't like the Time Warp, it cheapens it.
0:26:09 > 0:26:14The Time Warp is now owned by drunkards just thrusting
0:26:14 > 0:26:19at you in night clubs, whereas the theatre and the film experience is actually way more than that.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21It's a little bit annoying, actually.
0:26:21 > 0:26:25# Let's do the Time Warp again. #
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Do-do-do-do. Wasn't that easy?
0:26:27 > 0:26:31Piece of cake. I'm not going to do it again. No, I'm not, I'm sorry.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35At number six, it's everyone's favourite
0:26:35 > 0:26:39Danish pop singer, Whigfield, with her 1994 song, Saturday Night.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42In her video, she doesn't seem to do the dance.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46I was once in a room with about 300 people all doing the dance.
0:26:46 > 0:26:51It was my first intimation of what it might like to be to attend a fascist rally,
0:26:51 > 0:26:55and I've been attending fascists rallies ever since. Here she comes.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Do be do be do noo. Whatever she said.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Dee de da la da da.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Noo me noo me na na.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08Dee dee na na na. Dee dee na na na.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12- I- never had rollers in on a Saturday night.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14Heated rollers went out in the '70s.
0:27:14 > 0:27:19# Saturday night, I feel the air is getting hot... #
0:27:19 > 0:27:25Saturday Night topped the charts for four weeks in 1994, and got a whole generation up and dancing.
0:27:25 > 0:27:32For me, it was the first dance craze that was of my generation, being in a pub, it coming on
0:27:32 > 0:27:37and it feeling important that you did know the moves, that you weren't being left out.
0:27:37 > 0:27:42# Da ba da dan dee dee dee da nee na na na
0:27:42 > 0:27:43# Be my baby... #
0:27:45 > 0:27:49It's just easy and it's fun, and it's drunk proof, isn't it?
0:27:49 > 0:27:52# Pretty baby... #
0:27:52 > 0:27:57The moves didn't originate in a dance studio, but on a Spanish beach.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01The aerobics instructor responsible has never stepped up to take credit,
0:28:01 > 0:28:03or maybe the blame, whichever way you look at it!
0:28:06 > 0:28:10Every time he'd do his classes on the beach, he'd play this track
0:28:10 > 0:28:12and do this dance to this song,
0:28:12 > 0:28:17and people went to clubs at night and heard the song, and it just moved around.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21# Saturday night, I feel the air is getting hot
0:28:22 > 0:28:25# Like you, baby... #
0:28:25 > 0:28:30The record labels around, they didn't believe in the song, they didn't like it very much.
0:28:30 > 0:28:34It was actually a song that was built up by the audience.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36By the public.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38# Viva Espana. #
0:28:38 > 0:28:45People just went on holiday in Spain and in Portugal and came back and requested the song.
0:28:45 > 0:28:50We go on holiday, two weeks out of the year, Costa Brava, Costa del Sol
0:28:50 > 0:28:55and we crave quite a rubbish song with a bit of a silly dance routine. What's that about?
0:28:58 > 0:29:00When you go there, it's contagious.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03You come back and you're like, "Guys..."
0:29:03 > 0:29:06I bet Whigfield loved doing that dance.
0:29:06 > 0:29:10I just saw people doing these moves, but it's not like, "Oh, I want to learn it too."
0:29:10 > 0:29:13Because it's not, "I'm going on stage, I've got to do the dance."
0:29:13 > 0:29:15I said, "I'll never do the dance,"
0:29:15 > 0:29:18- I don't want people to think it's something that we did, you know?- Oh.
0:29:18 > 0:29:23- Stop it, will you, hey?- He's just a bit, how do you say it in Danish?
0:29:23 > 0:29:25- Thick?- Yeah, thick, that's the word.
0:29:28 > 0:29:33You know, it's a rite of passage, is just one of those things when you get a bit older,
0:29:33 > 0:29:37it's on the list of things that are valid to look back and hate about yourself.
0:29:39 > 0:29:4717 years on, Whigfield is still making music, but a different kind of music - the kind you never hear.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49I used to be quite sick of this song.
0:29:49 > 0:29:54I think maybe after one, two, three years, I was fed up, I couldn't hear it.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57And now, it's part of me, you know?
0:29:57 > 0:29:59# Saturday night... #
0:29:59 > 0:30:01It's under my skin.
0:30:01 > 0:30:03Better get some ointment for that!
0:30:11 > 0:30:15It's 1978 and the world has gone disco crazy.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18Saturday Night Fever is in the cinemas and dance floors are
0:30:18 > 0:30:22full of hairy-chested men dancing like absolute idiots.
0:30:22 > 0:30:27Every man jack of them is trying to copy the sexy moves of Mr John Travolta.
0:30:27 > 0:30:33We just think of him now as a crazy Scientologist who makes often bad films, but in the 1970s,
0:30:33 > 0:30:38he was responsible for the dance craze that makes it to number five on our list.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41It's Night Fever, take it away, John.
0:30:49 > 0:30:52I think if you put Saturday Night Fever on, everyone
0:30:52 > 0:30:55starts to do the John Travolta, and you can't get away from that.
0:30:55 > 0:30:57# Night fever, night fever... #
0:30:57 > 0:31:02When you think about Saturday Night Fever, you think of the disco and the lights
0:31:02 > 0:31:06and the white suit and the moves, and people living for the weekend.
0:31:06 > 0:31:12Saturday Night Fever is a gritty portrayal of alcohol abuse and rape,
0:31:12 > 0:31:16but what people really remember is John Travolta doing this.
0:31:16 > 0:31:21It was the first time a normal person, who did a nine-to-five job,
0:31:21 > 0:31:28went to a disco on a Saturday night and became the star of that disco,
0:31:28 > 0:31:30the king of that disco.
0:31:30 > 0:31:32# Night fever, night fever... #
0:31:32 > 0:31:35Travolta really could bust some moves,
0:31:35 > 0:31:39but it took him five months' dance training to get ready for the role.
0:31:39 > 0:31:44It's kind of a squiggly move, and very weird, because you can roll the arms this way and this way.
0:31:44 > 0:31:48I met Travolta. Of course, John came walking in, strutting, you know.
0:31:48 > 0:31:52I said, "Can I see how you dance?" He goes, "I already know how to dance."
0:31:52 > 0:31:55I said, "Sit down," and I started doing the splits and all the points.
0:31:55 > 0:31:58He said, "That's it, that's what I want to learn."
0:31:59 > 0:32:03John particularly liked this step here, where he was stepping back.
0:32:03 > 0:32:04It was a step he could work with,
0:32:04 > 0:32:10and he'd do this, and turn like this, and he'd roll his hips and
0:32:10 > 0:32:12point out the women.
0:32:12 > 0:32:16Everybody knew that. It's like the roll...
0:32:16 > 0:32:20Down, up, down, up.
0:32:20 > 0:32:27Saturday Night Fever was a shock for the audience, when they saw guys giving it large. Amazing.
0:32:27 > 0:32:34Saturday Night Fever captured a way of life, and Travolta encapsulated the attitude and style of the era.
0:32:34 > 0:32:36People look at the wardrobe in the film
0:32:36 > 0:32:39- and they laugh at the polyester look.- He was a hunk, wasn't he?
0:32:39 > 0:32:43There was a bit porno about him.
0:32:43 > 0:32:45The clothes were a funny thing.
0:32:45 > 0:32:49The polyester, if you dropped cigarette ash on it, forget it, you had a big hole.
0:32:49 > 0:32:53# You can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man... #
0:32:53 > 0:32:57He was just so hot. It was the '70s and he came out with this little swagger.
0:32:57 > 0:33:01Your hair was perfect, the shirt was open and the chains...
0:33:01 > 0:33:05It was like the chest was up, and you had that walk.
0:33:05 > 0:33:09"Hi, how you doing?", "Hey, girls."
0:33:09 > 0:33:11# Stayin' alive, staying alive... #
0:33:11 > 0:33:14John originally wanted to wear black suits.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16I said, I think a white suit would be a lot better.
0:33:16 > 0:33:21He said, "No, no, it has to be black because black is cool."
0:33:21 > 0:33:25I said, "You know, I guess that will make Karen Lynn Gorney very happy."
0:33:25 > 0:33:28His leading lady. He said, "Why is that?"
0:33:28 > 0:33:32I said, "Because you won't be able to see you, all you'll see is Karen."
0:33:32 > 0:33:38He kind of glowered and went out, and the next thing I knew, he came back with two white suits.
0:33:38 > 0:33:44When one movie can dictate clothing trends, music trends, dance trends,
0:33:44 > 0:33:51how you talk, how you wear your hair, how much jewellery you wear, that's an incredible, phenomenal thing.
0:33:51 > 0:33:53# You should be dancin'... #
0:33:53 > 0:33:57The Bee Gees sold more than 15 million copies of their soundtrack,
0:33:57 > 0:34:02people lined up to learn the dance moves and DJs playing vinyl records replaced live bands.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05Disco, as we know it, was born.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08The whole nation in the '70s was doing Saturday Night Fever,
0:34:08 > 0:34:10everyone wanted to be John Travolta.
0:34:10 > 0:34:13A very popular one is called the roly-poly.
0:34:13 > 0:34:17Get your John Travolta thumb, roll the hands and mark the rhythm at the same time.
0:34:17 > 0:34:20And one, and two, one, and two.
0:34:20 > 0:34:26So many guys took dance lessons and all this stuff, just to be noticed.
0:34:26 > 0:34:32Dance clubs all over the world, and dance studios, were just jam-packed with people you'd never expect.
0:34:32 > 0:34:34People with two left feet, two right feet.
0:34:34 > 0:34:37Everyone wanted to dance. Like me at the family weddings...
0:34:37 > 0:34:40Before, I was just a solo boy on the floor.
0:34:40 > 0:34:44Soon as John Travolta started, that was it. Didn't have room for an elbow.
0:34:48 > 0:34:52It would start with one person, then someone else would join in,
0:34:52 > 0:34:56then someone else would join in, till the whole room is going mad, doing the same dance.
0:34:56 > 0:35:01It was mad, I loved that time.
0:35:01 > 0:35:04Never, ever, did I think it would become mainstream.
0:35:04 > 0:35:06And now it's found its place in history.
0:35:06 > 0:35:09You can go into clubs now and see a lot of sampling done
0:35:09 > 0:35:13of disco music, and they'll play straight disco, they'll play retro.
0:35:13 > 0:35:16So it's found its place in history as great dance music.
0:35:16 > 0:35:20# My woman keeps me warm... #
0:35:20 > 0:35:23Madonna is such an icon of pop music,
0:35:23 > 0:35:27it's sometimes hard to believe that she's now 83 years of age.
0:35:27 > 0:35:31In 1990, when Vogue was released, she was a mere slip of a gal
0:35:31 > 0:35:35in her early 60s, long before her arthritis started giving her all that gip.
0:35:35 > 0:35:39Back then, she was one heck of a dancer.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42# Shiny and new
0:35:42 > 0:35:45# Like a virgin
0:35:45 > 0:35:49# Touched for the very first time... #
0:35:49 > 0:35:54I love Madonna. Madonna was really of my time, when I was going to clubs
0:35:54 > 0:35:57and dancing, so her videos are always great.
0:35:57 > 0:35:58# Next to mine... #
0:35:58 > 0:36:02What's very powerful about Madonna is that she's always ahead of time,
0:36:02 > 0:36:06and she's actually inspired a lot of people.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09Madonna is one of those people that she'll see something
0:36:09 > 0:36:14on the street, and really study it, and bring it to the mainstream.
0:36:14 > 0:36:19# We are living in a material world and I am a material girl... #
0:36:19 > 0:36:23Madonna is someone who's shown us that she's not just a one-trick pony,
0:36:23 > 0:36:27she can turn herself to many different styles.
0:36:27 > 0:36:30I understand that Madonna had trained a lot as a dancer.
0:36:30 > 0:36:33She kept everybody in the world on their toes.
0:36:34 > 0:36:39And in 1990, the material girl with all the moves topped the UK charts
0:36:39 > 0:36:43with this iconic track that introduced Voguing to a global audience.
0:36:44 > 0:36:50When I first saw Madonna's Vogue, those moves were just amazing.
0:36:50 > 0:36:56Everybody was doing that dance in the clubs, including moi.
0:36:56 > 0:36:58Strike a pose.
0:36:58 > 0:37:02You can just do your thing, you know what I'm saying, you know?
0:37:03 > 0:37:06# Vogue... #
0:37:06 > 0:37:10When Vogue came out, that was enormous, darling.
0:37:10 > 0:37:17Everyone wanted to Vogue and it is, I have to say, one of the most technically difficult things to do.
0:37:17 > 0:37:19# Come on, Vogue
0:37:19 > 0:37:24# Let your body move to the music Hey, hey, hey... #
0:37:24 > 0:37:27Vogue comes from the actual magazine, Vogue,
0:37:27 > 0:37:33and portraying the images that you'd see in that magazine.
0:37:33 > 0:37:35# Come on, Vogue... #
0:37:35 > 0:37:39It's dance put into modelling shapes.
0:37:39 > 0:37:43You know, it'll be that, it'll be that, it'll be that.
0:37:43 > 0:37:45# All you need is your own imagination... #
0:37:45 > 0:37:48It's really about the attitude.
0:37:48 > 0:37:50Every movement should be photogenic.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54# It makes no difference if you're black or white
0:37:54 > 0:37:56# If you're a boy or a girl... #
0:37:56 > 0:37:59Then you do your poses, poses.
0:37:59 > 0:38:01# If the music's pumping It'll give you new life.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04Have you ever tried to dance with someone who's Voguing?
0:38:04 > 0:38:09It's like a barrier. "Get away from me, I'm Voguing."
0:38:09 > 0:38:11It's so elitist, isn't it?
0:38:13 > 0:38:14"I'm not trying to dance.
0:38:14 > 0:38:17"I'm just going to do it." That's Vogue.
0:38:17 > 0:38:21Vogue was Madonna's seventh UK number one and if you've
0:38:21 > 0:38:25ever struck a pose a la Madge, you might be surprised to learn that
0:38:25 > 0:38:30she pinched the dance from the New York gay scene that was strutting its stuff around Harlem in the '80s.
0:38:30 > 0:38:34Everyone thinks Madonna invented it, and of course, she didn't.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37It was happening in underground clubs all around New York.
0:38:37 > 0:38:43I first saw Vogue in New York in the mid-'80s. I was amazed.
0:38:43 > 0:38:46It was such a visual impact, seeing all these confident,
0:38:46 > 0:38:51flamboyant children, working the disco dance floor threadbare.
0:38:51 > 0:38:56Ghetto queens wanted to run competitions,
0:38:56 > 0:39:03and what they would have are houses, and each week they would compete against different boroughs.
0:39:03 > 0:39:06When you're competing with somebody, it's like...
0:39:06 > 0:39:10"I'm so much better than you."
0:39:10 > 0:39:15It's possibly one of the gayest dances ever, in the world.
0:39:18 > 0:39:22Madonna's very good at picking up whatever's current or happening underground
0:39:22 > 0:39:25at that moment, and making it more mainstream.
0:39:25 > 0:39:29- She has the power to popularise it. - # Let your body... #
0:39:29 > 0:39:34Even though it was, at that time, considered a dance craze
0:39:34 > 0:39:38for the masses, to us, it's not a dance craze, it's a way of life.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40# Vogue, Vogue, Vogue, Vogue. #
0:39:42 > 0:39:44I love Single Ladies.
0:39:44 > 0:39:48I mean, the song, Single Ladies, not ladies who are single. I can't be doing with them.
0:39:48 > 0:39:53At number three on our list, it's Beyonce, who's most certainly not a single lady.
0:39:53 > 0:39:58I get that, now, Beyonce, I'm fine with it, and I'm sorry about the e-mails...
0:39:59 > 0:40:02# All the single ladies All the single ladies
0:40:02 > 0:40:05# All the single ladies All the single ladies
0:40:05 > 0:40:08# All the single ladies All the single ladies
0:40:08 > 0:40:10# All the single ladies, Now put your hands up... #
0:40:10 > 0:40:13The Single Ladies message is saying to a man who isn't prepared
0:40:13 > 0:40:18to ask you to marry him, that you'll just go out and find someone else.
0:40:18 > 0:40:19Which...
0:40:19 > 0:40:21is a little bit 19th century.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24# He up on me Don't pay him any attention... #
0:40:24 > 0:40:29Single Ladies is basically that girl song for the clubs,
0:40:29 > 0:40:30to talk junk to the guys.
0:40:30 > 0:40:34It says, "Hey, you know, too late, you know, he looking at it now,
0:40:34 > 0:40:35"you can't get me."
0:40:35 > 0:40:37# Don't be mad once you seen That he want it... #
0:40:37 > 0:40:40The first time I watched Single Ladies, I said to myself,
0:40:40 > 0:40:44"Self, you need to learn this dance, because it's going to be big."
0:40:44 > 0:40:46# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh... #
0:40:46 > 0:40:52You had to know it from the beginning to the end, everything. All this bit, all this bit.
0:40:52 > 0:40:54# If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it... #
0:40:54 > 0:41:00Single Ladies is such an intricate routine but it still has a sense of being approachable.
0:41:00 > 0:41:04You can take it and you can make it your own.
0:41:04 > 0:41:09Beyonce's Single Ladies video, I really like, because she's all woman in that video.
0:41:09 > 0:41:12# If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it... #
0:41:12 > 0:41:17The iconic look of Single Ladies is definitely the ring dance,
0:41:17 > 0:41:22and people played with it. # Uh oh oh uh... # ta ta, click, hey.
0:41:24 > 0:41:29You're at a party and they put on Single Ladies, the first thing people start doing is the hand.
0:41:29 > 0:41:32# If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it... #
0:41:32 > 0:41:35I think my favourite was... I call it the choo-choo train.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40You can go around with it...
0:41:40 > 0:41:42a tee tee ta.
0:41:43 > 0:41:48It still had Beyonce's style and flavour and bounce and it was really quite original.
0:41:50 > 0:41:54Beyonce's video may look fresh but nothing is 100% original,
0:41:54 > 0:41:57and the Single Ladies dance routine is no exception.
0:41:57 > 0:42:02It was influenced by the moves of legendary Broadway choreographer Bob Fosse.
0:42:02 > 0:42:06Single Ladies was inspired by Bob Fosse and I don't think a lot of people know that.
0:42:06 > 0:42:13Fosse himself was a master of minimal movement, and making minimal movement extraordinary.
0:42:13 > 0:42:16And that's exactly what they did.
0:42:16 > 0:42:21They made it small, they contained it and they made it iconic.
0:42:22 > 0:42:26Going into Single Ladies, we knew Beyonce had this Bob Fosse reference
0:42:26 > 0:42:33and we knew that she wanted to create something iconic and fun and just funky.
0:42:33 > 0:42:37I think that's why people can relate to it so easily.
0:42:37 > 0:42:41# Don't treat me to the things of the world... #
0:42:41 > 0:42:45Beyonce's look was simple but striking, in her asymmetrical
0:42:45 > 0:42:48leotard, metallic glove, and of course, her high heels.
0:42:48 > 0:42:50# Here's a man that makes me... #
0:42:50 > 0:42:57The beautiful thing about that video was actually to get girls back in heels, dancing.
0:42:57 > 0:43:01Beyonce doesn't have little heels, she has HEELS.
0:43:01 > 0:43:03- # All the single ladies - All the single ladies
0:43:03 > 0:43:06- # All the single ladies - All the single ladies... #
0:43:06 > 0:43:12It's not easy, dancing in heels. It's more of an art form and I think it takes a lot of practice.
0:43:12 > 0:43:15# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh... #
0:43:15 > 0:43:19I've had to dance in high heels once and I don't know how women do it,
0:43:19 > 0:43:22because you feel it right in your shin, you're like a flamingo.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24It's horrible, it's very difficult.
0:43:24 > 0:43:27I hear you, girlfriend! No pain, no gain, that's what I say.
0:43:27 > 0:43:30But it's worth it if you end up looking like Ms Knowles.
0:43:30 > 0:43:34Hers was a dance craze that inspired thousands of imitations,
0:43:34 > 0:43:38including Katy Brand in Let's Dance For Sport Relief.
0:43:38 > 0:43:41The Single Ladies dance is really difficult.
0:43:41 > 0:43:45The steps don't follow a regular pattern of beats. I only refer to them as the punchy bit,
0:43:45 > 0:43:49the fally down bit, the hurty bit. I don't think...
0:43:49 > 0:43:52I'm not sure Beyonce referred to things like the hurty bit,
0:43:52 > 0:43:53or the groin strain bit.
0:43:53 > 0:43:55# ..then you should have put a ring on it... #
0:43:55 > 0:43:58People do copy moves from Single Ladies, and
0:43:58 > 0:44:03I've been at the concert and I watch them do the entire routine.
0:44:03 > 0:44:05I'm like...
0:44:05 > 0:44:08"Are you really going to do that full routine?
0:44:08 > 0:44:10"It's a long one and it's hard."
0:44:12 > 0:44:18If anyone's got about 47 consecutive hours that they can donate directly
0:44:18 > 0:44:22to learning to dance, then anyone can do the Single Ladies dance.
0:44:22 > 0:44:26# If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it Uh oh oh. #
0:44:35 > 0:44:39In second place, it's the Village People and Y-M-C-A.
0:44:39 > 0:44:45In this good-natured and uplifting anthem, well-built and highly sexed gay men sing...
0:44:45 > 0:44:47Hang on, who says they're highly sexed?
0:44:47 > 0:44:50And how do we know they're gay?
0:44:50 > 0:44:51They might be gay.
0:44:51 > 0:44:55Which is brilliant, I wish I was gay. Sometimes...
0:44:55 > 0:44:57Mainly when I watch this!
0:44:57 > 0:44:59Being gay looks amazing!
0:45:06 > 0:45:08# Young man... #
0:45:08 > 0:45:09Y-M-C-A
0:45:09 > 0:45:14is about spelling the letters of the alphabet, Y, M, C and A.
0:45:14 > 0:45:19# Y-M-C-A! It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A... #
0:45:19 > 0:45:24It's Y, M, C...
0:45:24 > 0:45:28It's Y, M, C, A?
0:45:28 > 0:45:34The routine was created to encourage audience participation when the Village People performed
0:45:34 > 0:45:38on Dick Clark's American Bandstand in January 1979.
0:45:39 > 0:45:41Dick Clark surprised us by announcing
0:45:41 > 0:45:44that the dancers on the show
0:45:44 > 0:45:46were going to show us a new dance step.
0:45:46 > 0:45:49# Y-M-C-A! #
0:45:49 > 0:45:52They introduced the arm movements.
0:45:52 > 0:45:54So, we liked it,
0:45:54 > 0:45:55we took it.
0:45:55 > 0:45:57Right?
0:45:58 > 0:46:00# Y-M-C-A... #
0:46:00 > 0:46:02Y, M, C, A.
0:46:02 > 0:46:04HE MOUTHS
0:46:08 > 0:46:10Y-M-C-A was really cool.
0:46:10 > 0:46:13I don't think it's cool now but it was cool at the time.
0:46:13 > 0:46:15It really brought people together.
0:46:15 > 0:46:17It was quite sensational, actually.
0:46:17 > 0:46:20# Y-M-C-A
0:46:20 > 0:46:23The band was the brainchild of a French disco producer
0:46:23 > 0:46:26who brought to public attention some of the colourful characters
0:46:26 > 0:46:28that lived in New York's Greenwich Village.
0:46:28 > 0:46:32This is Greenwich Village, centred in and around Christopher Street,
0:46:32 > 0:46:36on the west side of this traditionally bohemian district of Manhattan,
0:46:36 > 0:46:38is a vast community of gay men.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41We presented to America
0:46:41 > 0:46:44six young guys, good-looking,
0:46:44 > 0:46:47each one of them was one of the stereotype
0:46:47 > 0:46:50of the American male.
0:46:50 > 0:46:54It was like a comic strip or a bunch of superheroes to me.
0:46:54 > 0:47:00You have your policeman, your leather man, your cowboy and your construction worker.
0:47:01 > 0:47:04Everyone loves a bit of dress-up, don't they?
0:47:04 > 0:47:05# It's fun to stay at the... #
0:47:05 > 0:47:12I think the macho stereotypes are all the people that gay guys want to get off with, to be honest.
0:47:12 > 0:47:16You know, it's all the gay, iconic, porno stars, I suppose.
0:47:16 > 0:47:21I do remember thinking, "Oh, I quite like that."
0:47:21 > 0:47:25You know, I'd wear that. I knew that my dad wouldn't really wear something like that.
0:47:25 > 0:47:28I did think, "Maybe they're a bit more like me."
0:47:28 > 0:47:32# Together, we will go our way.. #
0:47:32 > 0:47:34Their unique look caught the public's imagination
0:47:34 > 0:47:39and back in the late '70s, when the gay community was still fighting to be out and proud,
0:47:39 > 0:47:44the Village People danced straight to the top of the charts and into the mainstream.
0:47:44 > 0:47:49If it was perceived as one of the first gay bands, good, I'm happy about it.
0:47:49 > 0:47:51# Tell our friends goodbye... #
0:47:51 > 0:47:55There was a huge moment, I think, in liberation, wasn't it, really.
0:47:55 > 0:47:58It did wave a sort of rainbow flag.
0:47:58 > 0:48:02# Go west! Life is peaceful there... #
0:48:02 > 0:48:06It got the message out there that it's all right to be out and proud.
0:48:08 > 0:48:12It was a gay anthem and the family audience loved it, too.
0:48:14 > 0:48:18But they had no idea it was about cruising for male company at a youth hostel.
0:48:18 > 0:48:23Everyone knew Y-M-C-A, didn't they? Your dad and your uncle and the whole football team.
0:48:23 > 0:48:25# Y-M-C-A... #
0:48:25 > 0:48:28The melody and the dance just made it very
0:48:28 > 0:48:31family friendly and you didn't really listen to the words.
0:48:31 > 0:48:37You didn't really look at it as being gay because it was so overt.
0:48:37 > 0:48:39So you thought, "No, it can't be."
0:48:39 > 0:48:41It confused me in the '70s.
0:48:41 > 0:48:45I thought, "Hold on, my uncle was a Y-M-C-A-er"
0:48:45 > 0:48:48and then my dad started and then I was like, "Whoa! This is all wrong."
0:48:48 > 0:48:53I don't think about the double entendre that there is in the lyrics.
0:48:53 > 0:48:59I think only of the fact that someone is getting fun in doing the Y-M-C-A, that's all.
0:48:59 > 0:49:04The original line-up may have changed a little but the Village People is still packing them in
0:49:04 > 0:49:10on the gay nostalgia circuit and three decades on, hapless punters are still getting the moves wrong.
0:49:10 > 0:49:11You've got to do a Y,
0:49:11 > 0:49:13a great big Y. It's easy enough
0:49:13 > 0:49:17but apparently it gets harder when we get to M, which is M -
0:49:17 > 0:49:19not the monkey thing.
0:49:19 > 0:49:22Is it possible to get Y, M, C, A wrong.
0:49:22 > 0:49:24Not the Joan Crawford thing.
0:49:24 > 0:49:29- Y, M, C, A.- Then we say C and they all do it the wrong way.
0:49:29 > 0:49:33- Is it that way, or that way. - Did I just get it different. Like, maybe.
0:49:33 > 0:49:34What do I do?
0:49:34 > 0:49:36Then the A.
0:49:36 > 0:49:38But you look out there...
0:49:38 > 0:49:40And you see all kinds of variety.
0:49:40 > 0:49:45So if you've been made to look an idiot when attempting the Y-M-C-A, you know who to blame.
0:49:45 > 0:49:47Sorry, y'all.
0:49:47 > 0:49:49A bit late for apologies.
0:49:50 > 0:49:53# Body moving, body moving, body moving
0:49:53 > 0:49:57# We be body moving Body moving, body moving... #
0:49:57 > 0:49:59Well, we've almost reached our dance craze destination.
0:49:59 > 0:50:01We've danced ourselves dizzy
0:50:01 > 0:50:05and now it's time to find out what is pop's greatest dance craze.
0:50:05 > 0:50:07So, it's over to me again.
0:50:08 > 0:50:11# Body moving, keep your body moving
0:50:11 > 0:50:14# Body moving, we be body moving... #
0:50:16 > 0:50:19And so we arrive at the top of the list.
0:50:19 > 0:50:23And the dance craze that is the craziest craze of all the crazes.
0:50:23 > 0:50:25Which could it be?
0:50:25 > 0:50:28It's Thriller by Michael Jackson.
0:50:28 > 0:50:33A man who sums up the twin themes of dance and crazy more than any popstar who ever lived.
0:50:33 > 0:50:36In this video he plays a zombie with eerie accuracy.
0:50:36 > 0:50:40Clearly, his odyssey into the depths of plastic surgery gave him
0:50:40 > 0:50:44a better understanding than most of how a zombie feels facially.
0:50:44 > 0:50:49The results, as you are about to see, are quite spectacular.
0:50:49 > 0:50:52I have something I want to tell you.
0:50:52 > 0:50:54Yes, Michael?
0:50:54 > 0:50:56I'm not like other guys.
0:50:56 > 0:51:00Of course not, that's why I love you.
0:51:00 > 0:51:02No, I mean, I'm different.
0:51:03 > 0:51:06In the beginning Michael's telling me that I'm not
0:51:06 > 0:51:08like everyone else and I'm like, I know you're not.
0:51:08 > 0:51:12He's like, no, I'm really not like anybody else.
0:51:14 > 0:51:17Michael called me and basically
0:51:17 > 0:51:19he'd seen American Werewolf In London
0:51:19 > 0:51:21and wanted to turn into a monster.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24Are you all right?
0:51:24 > 0:51:25Go away.
0:51:25 > 0:51:27Aaargh!
0:51:28 > 0:51:30It is quite an amazing transformation he does.
0:51:30 > 0:51:36The thing I used to really flinch at is when the claws come through the ends of his fingers.
0:51:36 > 0:51:38There's that noise, isn't there? Krrr.
0:51:40 > 0:51:45Released on December 2nd 1983 Thriller was a horror movie in a 13-minute music video.
0:51:45 > 0:51:50An epic with the biggest and best dance number we'd ever seen.
0:51:50 > 0:51:57Critics called it the greatest music video ever made and now we crown it Pop's Greatest Dance Craze.
0:51:57 > 0:52:02# Cos this is thriller, thriller night... #
0:52:02 > 0:52:07It was groundbreaking, you know, the video was incredible. The routine was brilliant.
0:52:07 > 0:52:10- Everybody knows a bit of Thriller. - # Thriller night... #
0:52:10 > 0:52:14It was amazing, absolutely amazing. When you say Thriller now, my shoulders are going.
0:52:14 > 0:52:18They're like zombies but they can dance.
0:52:18 > 0:52:21I've never seen zombies that can dance.
0:52:21 > 0:52:23They were cool dancing zombies.
0:52:24 > 0:52:29That took my breath away because it was so intricate and so unique
0:52:29 > 0:52:33and just these dancers, the way they executed it was just amazing.
0:52:35 > 0:52:39Michael Jackson was a hot zombie.
0:52:39 > 0:52:43You wouldn't care if his arm fell off. You would just, "Ooh, take me now."
0:52:46 > 0:52:50It was cool because there were all kinds of moves in that scene You know, the iconic stuff.
0:52:50 > 0:52:54There's no moves that you've ever seen that have been done again.
0:52:55 > 0:52:58You have this move that goes chung, chung.
0:52:58 > 0:53:01It's like everyone can do that.
0:53:01 > 0:53:04Just lift your arms up, grab an apple and there you have it.
0:53:08 > 0:53:13You've also got the one where he goes... The zombie.
0:53:22 > 0:53:25I said I demand that the dancers have two weeks' rehearsal.
0:53:25 > 0:53:27Rehearsal in a rock video is unheard of.
0:53:27 > 0:53:29You know, they learn it the day before.
0:53:29 > 0:53:34I said it's not quick cut, I want to do it like a dance number. Michael is a brilliant performer.
0:53:34 > 0:53:36# Cos this is thriller! #
0:53:36 > 0:53:41The video cost £800,000, an amount unheard of for a pop promo at the time.
0:53:41 > 0:53:46The production had the kind of costumes and make-up that you'd expect in a Hollywood feature film.
0:53:47 > 0:53:50Each individual dancer was in the make-up chair,
0:53:50 > 0:53:52for, I would say, three to four hours apiece.
0:53:52 > 0:53:57By the time you were finished, you looked in the mirror and it was really frightening.
0:53:57 > 0:54:01You had this hideous premonition of possibly what you'll look like
0:54:01 > 0:54:06after you've been in the ground for a period of time.
0:54:06 > 0:54:08I'm going to show you my Thriller teeth, OK?
0:54:08 > 0:54:10This is the bottom set.
0:54:10 > 0:54:12This is the top set.
0:54:12 > 0:54:20As you can see, just that alone, all of a sudden makes you somebody that you're not.
0:54:26 > 0:54:31In 2007, Philippine prisoners became synonymous with the Thriller dance
0:54:31 > 0:54:36after a video of 1,500 inmates went viral with 46 million recorded hits.
0:54:36 > 0:54:39Thriller worked absolutely everywhere.
0:54:39 > 0:54:44Look at the inmates in the Filipino jail. How fantastic is that?
0:54:44 > 0:54:48You can take our freedom but you'll never take the dance away from us.
0:54:48 > 0:54:53The theories of Michael Jackson are rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, rehearse
0:54:53 > 0:54:56and if you're doing 25 in jail, you've got time to
0:54:56 > 0:54:58rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.
0:54:58 > 0:55:01Ever since the '80s Michael's fan have wanted to be part
0:55:01 > 0:55:06of the Thriller experience by learning the routine.
0:55:06 > 0:55:12I bought a magazine and on each page had a perforated thing of a foot.
0:55:12 > 0:55:19Once you'd cut out these feet it had various diagrams where you could lay them out
0:55:19 > 0:55:24to show you how to do Michael Jackson's most iconic dances.
0:55:24 > 0:55:29That is like an Amish version of a dance mat, isn't it?
0:55:30 > 0:55:35The late king of pop may be infamous for many reasons but tonight we pay homage and remember him
0:55:35 > 0:55:41for his unparalleled ability to light up a dance floor and get us up and busting some moves.
0:55:41 > 0:55:46- Thanks, Jacko. - The whole world watched the dance.
0:55:46 > 0:55:50I remember watching it with my parents and to think everybody sat there and watched that
0:55:50 > 0:55:54and then the next day everyone's trying to get the dance.
0:55:54 > 0:55:59Everyone had done Thriller at some point.
0:55:59 > 0:56:04To be part of the Thriller dance was the greatest highlight of my career.
0:56:04 > 0:56:06EVIL LAUGHTER
0:56:11 > 0:56:15So! That's your lot. If, like me, you spent the whole show
0:56:15 > 0:56:19dancing along to each and every song, then, like me, you probably stink.
0:56:19 > 0:56:23Take a shower. Seriously, have a shower. Now.
0:56:24 > 0:56:26Goodbye!
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