04/12/1980 Top of the Pops

MUSIC: I Like (What You're Doing To Me) by Young and Co

Welcome to another edition of Top Of The Pops.

You're very welcome, as always, on a Thursday.

Got a great show, not only musically,

but also one or two personalities popping in. But for starters,

let's just take a look at some of the personalities on the show tonight.

It ain't noise pollution, it's AC/DC!

And on Top Of The Pops tonight, The Boomtown Rats.

But that's not all, just stay with us.

APPLAUSE

For starters, one for our audience to dance to and enjoy, I hope.

In at nine at the moment. It's Eddy Grant and Do you Feel My Love?

# You left me with a problem

# Now I know what it's all about

# You took my heart and split it up

# Now you know what it's all about

# How do you feel my love?

# Do you feel it as I walk away?

# How do you feel my love?

# Do you feel it as I walk away?

# Who knows what kind of pity for

# Excuse you from yourself?

# To justify the misery

# That you put yourself within

# How do you feel my love?

# Do you feel it as I walk away?

# How do you feel my love?

# Do you feel it as I walk away?

# Need to find myself

# All that I've got left

# Used up, ooh, I'm used up

# Need to cry but still

# Got to show my will

# Been used too much

# How do you feel my love?

# Oh, child, do you feel it as I walk away?

# How do you feel my love?

# Oh, oh, oh, child

# Do you feel it as I walk away?

# Need to find myself

# All that I've got left

# Used up, ooh, I'm used up

# Need to cry but still

# Got to show my will

# I've been used too much

# How do you feel my love?

# Ho, mama, ho, mama, ho

# Do you feel it as I walk away?

# How do you feel my love?

# Oh, mama, ho, mama, ho

# Do you feel it as I walk away?

# How do you feel my love?

# Do you, do you, do you, do you feel my love

# As I walk away? #

APPLAUSE

# How do you feel my love? Uh-do you, uh-do you... #

Eddy Grant, and Do You Feel My Love?

As I say, guests keep on popping into the show nowadays, which is

good news, and my great pleasure to welcome

Maurice and Verdine White of Earth, Wind and Fire!

CHEERING

-Two of the nine, I think, isn't it?

-How are you?

-Nice to see you.

Thank you for coming in.

Erm, so, your album, Faces, has just gone silver, is that right?

-Right, right. Today.

-Excellent news.

-And the single, Back On The Road, is taking off?

-Yes, very good right now.

We enjoyed all your concerts when you were over here.

-When do we hope to see you back again?

-Some time in August '81.

Obviously, when you take a show on the road, you really do it in style.

There's an enormous entourage with you.

It's quite an expensive occupation.

Where have you been over the last few months?

Went to South America, all through that.

We just got home about two weeks ago.

-We wish you luck, and we look forward to August 1981.

-That's right.

-Confirmed date.

-Confirmed.

-Magic. Excellent.

Maurice and Verdine, congratulations with the silver disc

for the album Faces, and also good luck with the single,

-and thanks for popping in.

-Thank you.

Earth, Wind and Fire, ladies and gentlemen. Right.

Oh. Don't go, because I want you to listen to a single which

we confidently predict is going to be an absolute smash at Christmas.

Number 15 at the moment. It's by a band called Jona Lewie.

The man's called Jona Lewie, he's got a band with him,

and you might recognise one or two faces in the band.

Just get a load of this. It's called Stop The Cavalry.

# Hey, Mr Churchill comes over here

# To say we're doing splendidly

# But it's very cold out here in the snow

# Marching to and from the enemy

# Oh, I say, it's tough

# I have had enough

# Can you stop the cavalry?

# I have had to fight almost every night

# Down throughout these centuries

# That is when I say, oh, yes, yet again

# Can you stop the cavalry?

# Mary Bradley waits at home

# In the nuclear fallout zone

# Wish I could be dancing now

# In the arms of the girl I love

# Dub-i-dub-i-dum-dum

# Dub-i-dub-i-dum

# Dub-i-dum-dum-dub-i-dum

# Dub-i-dub-i-dum

# Dub-i-dub-i-dum-dum

# Dub-i-dub-i-dum

# Dub-i-dum-dum-dub-i-dum

# Dub-i-dub-i-dum

# Wish I was at home

# For Christmas

# Bang goes another bomb on another town

# While the Czar and Jim have tea

# If I get home, live to tell the tale

# I'll run for all presidencies

# If I get elected I'll stop

# I will stop the cavalry

# Dub-i-dub-i-dum-dum

# Dub-i-dub-i-dum

# Dub-i-dum-dum-dub-i-dum

# Dub-i-dub-i-dum

# Dub-i-dub-i-dum-dum

# Dub-i-dub-i-dum

# Dub-i-dum-dum-dub-i-dum

# Dub-i-dub-i-dum

# Wish I was at home

# For Christmas

# Wish I could be dancing now

# In the arms of the girl I love

# Mary Bradley waits at home

# She's been waiting two years long

# Wish I was at home

# For Christmas. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Absolute smash, that. Jona Lewie, number 15 at the moment -

could you see our twin in the band then I wonder - and Stop The Calvary.

All right, as you know, Top Of The Pops is about charts,

and here come the charts, starting at 30.

With a new entry at 30, Queen and Flash.

At 29, it's Barry Manilow, Lonely Together.

At 28, Dog Eat Dog from Adam And The Ants,

and Neil Diamond, Love On The Rocks at 27.

At 26, Enola Gay, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark,

and Bad Manners, Special Brew, at 25.

At 24, it's Same Old Scene from Roxy Music,

and new entry at 23, Runaway Boys, Stray Cats.

And at 22, Kenny Rogers, Lady. Here's Legs and Co.

SONG BEGINS

# Lady

# I'm your knight in shining armour

# And I love you

# You have made me what I am

# And...

# I am yours

# My love

# There's so many ways I want to say

# I love you

# Let me hold you in my arms for...

# Ever more

# You have gone

# And made me such a fool

# I'm so lost

# In your love

# And oh

# We belong together

# Won't you believe in my song?

# Lady

# Your love's the only love I need

# And beside me

# Is where

# I want you to be

# Cos, my love

# There's something I want you to know

# You're the love of my life

# You're my lady. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That's Legs and Co dancing to Kenny Rogers's hit called Lady.

That's really tasty. Right, the charts, and number 21.

Let's see what's there now.

At 21, Don't Walk Away from ELO.

At 20, I Like What You're Doing To Me, that's Young and Co.

Rod Stewart and Passion is at 19,

and at 18, Ace Of Spades, that's Motorhead.

And at 17, Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution. Here's AC/DC.

All right!

BRIAN JOHNSON CHUCKLES

# Hey there, all you middle men

# Throw away your fancy clothes

# And while you're out there sitting on the fence

# So, get off your ass and come down here

# Cos rock 'n' roll ain't no riddle, man

# To me it makes

# Good, good sense!

# Good sense, yes, Lord

# Ow!

# Ohhh, yes!

# Heavy decibels are playing on my guitar

# We got vibrations coming up from the floor

# We're just listening to the rock

# That's giving too much noise

# Are you deaf?

# You want to hear some more?

# We're just talking about the future

# Forget about the past

# It'll always be with us

# It's never going to die

# Never going to die

# Rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution

# Rock 'n' roll ain't going to die

# Rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution

# Rock 'n' roll, it will survive

# Yes, it will, ha, ha!

# I took a look inside your bedroom door

# You looked so good lying on your bed

# Well, I asked you if you wanted any rhythm and love

# You said you want to rock 'n' roll instead

# We're just talking about the future

# Forget about the past

# It'll always be with us

# It's never going to die

# Never going to die

# Rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution

# Rock 'n' roll ain't going to die

# Rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution

# Rock 'n' roll is just rock 'n' roll

# Ah!

# Rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution

# Rock 'n' roll ain't going to die

# Rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution

# Rock 'n' rolling will survive

# Rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution... #

APPLAUSE

Certainly one of the loudest bands in the world.

AC/DC - they're metal at its best. Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution.

To continue on the chart, we take a look at this week's 16.

At 16, There's No-One Quite Like Grandma

from St Winifred's School Choir.

Jona Lewie, Stop The Cavalry, at 15,

and at 14, Woman In Love from Barbara Streisand.

At 13, I'm Coming Out from Diana Bowie,

with David Bowie and Fashion at 12.

At 11, Earth Dies Screaming / Dream A Lie, it's UB40.

APPLAUSE

Let's go back to 16, though, and take a school choir,

St Winifred's School Choir.

They've got a song called There's No-One Quite Like Grandma,

and at Christmas all sorts of things happen in the British charts,

and this has proved they're so versatile, I guess.

With the little lady in the front who's only eight years of age,

St Winifred's School Choir.

SONG BEGINS

# Grandma, we love you

# Grandma, we do

# Though you may be far away

# We think of you

# There's no-one quite like Grandma

# And I know you will agree

# She always is a friend to you

# And she's a friend to me

# There's no-one quite like Grandma

# She's there in times of need

# Before it's bedtime, on her knee

# To us a book she'll read

# Grandma, we love you

# Grandma, we do

# Though you may be far away

# We think of you

# And one day when we're older

# We'll look back and say

# There's no-one quite like Grandma

# She has helped us on our way

# Grandma, we love you

# Grandma, we do

# Grandma, we love you

# Grandma, we do

# There's no-one quite like Grandma

# A love we always share

# At party time and Christmas, too

# We know that she'll be there

# There's no-one quite like Grandma

# She always has a smile

# She never hurries us along

# But stays a little while

# Grandma, we love you

# Grandma, we do

# Though you may be far away

# We think of you

# And one day when we're older

# We'll look back and say

# There's no-one quite like Grandma

# She has helped us on our way

# Grandma, we love you

# Grandma, we do

# Grandma, we love you

# And we know you love us, too. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

There's No-One Quite Like Grandma, going to be an absolute

smash for Christmas, and that's from St Winifred's School Choir.

I told you we've got a lot of guests popping into the studio.

Indeed, another one is with me right now. Mike Oldfield. Welcome, Mike.

-Good evening.

-A lot of confusion about your singles,

because I was enjoying playing Arrival a short while ago,

the cover of the ABBA hit, and also Sheba is out at the moment,

which is one side. There's another side to your single, which is also

-an A-side.

-Well, I had two good tracks. I had Sheba

and Wonderful Land, and I couldn't make up my mind which was

the better, so I decided to release a double C-side.

-C-side.

-A-side, sorry.

Actually, talking about seaside, you do a lot of travelling.

Tours, for instance. Where have you been, where are you going?

Well, I've been mostly in Europe.

I had an offer the other day to go to Israel,

which I'm going to take up, and possibly Greece, Australia,

maybe the North Pole and possibly Mars.

-Don't you favour flying, I think?

-I love flying.

Helicopters is my favourite form of transport, cos I love hovering.

-Hovering is really good fun.

-Or a guitar?

-You don't have many of those around, do you?

-Well, I've got about 25.

PETER CHUCKLES

Just 25. Any record in the chart at the moment

-which you particularly like?

-Hm.

-Well, I like my one, but it's not in the chart, that's the trouble.

-Yeah.

I notice our next band is The Boomtown Rats,

-one of my favourite bands.

-Don't plug them any longer, please.

You mean we've got to hear them?

Number three. Banana Republic. Go on, lads.

# Banana Republic

# Septic isle

# Screaming in the suffering sea

# It sounds like crying

# Everywhere I go, yeah

# Everywhere I see-hee-hee-hee-hee

# Black and blue uniforms

# Police and priests

# And I wonder, do you wonder

# While you're sleeping with your whore?

# Sharing beds with history

# Is like a-licking running sores

# 40 shades of green, yeah

# 60 shades of red

# Heroes going cheap these days

# Price - a bullet in the head

# Banana Republic

# Septic isle

# Suffer in the screaming sea

# Sounds like dying

# Everywhere I go, yeah

# Everywhere I see

# The black and blue uniforms

# Police and priests

# Take your hand and lead you

# Up a garden path

# Let me stand aside here

# And watch you pass

# Striking up a soldier's song

# I know that tune

# It begs too many questions

# And answers, too

# Banana Republic

# Septic isle

# Suffer in the screaming sea

# Sounds like dying

# Everywhere I go, yeah

# Everywhere I see

# The black and blue uniforms

# Police and priests

# The purple and the pinstripe

# They mutely shake their heads

# At silent, shrieking volumes

# Violence worse than they condemn

# Stab you in the back, yeah

# Laughing in your face

# Glad to see the place again

# It's a pity nothing's changed

# Banana Republic

# Septic isle

# Suffer in the screaming sea

# Sounds like dying

# Everywhere I go, yeah

# Everywhere I see

# The black and blue uniforms

# Police and priests

# Banana Republic

# Septic isle

# Suffering in the screaming sea

# Sounds like dying

# Everywhere I go, yeah

# Everywhere I see... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That was The Boomtown Rats, Banana Republic, hit three.

I'm sure I've seen that somewhere before.

Can't think where for the life of me.

Anyway, let's move on and take a look at this all-important

this week's top ten. Here it comes.

# ..Again, it'll be... #

Down two, at ten, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Starting Over.

# Do you feel my love? #

Up six to this week's nine, it's Eddy Grant and Do You Feel My Love.

# Walk away

# How do you feel my love?

# Do you, do you, do you, do you feel my love?

# Celebration... #

Celebrating on one hand because they've been together so long,

Kool And The Gang, but now down, I'm afraid, one to this week's eight.

# Open my eyes

# Cos I never... #

And down three to seven, Never Knew Love Like This Before.

Stephanie Mills.

# What a surprise. #

# There ain't nothing you can hide... #

And down three at six, Dennis Waterman

I Could Be So Good For You.

# I could be so good for you. #

# Heat upon heat... #

And up six at five, Spandau Ballet.

As they say, To Cut A Long Story Short.

# No commitment, you're an embarrassment... #

Up eight at four, that's the title for Madness, too. Embarrassment.

# The intention that you have booked

# Was an intention that was overlooked. #

# Banana Republic... #

And the all-important top three.

Going up six to get there, it's The Boomtown Rats.

# ..screaming seas

# Sounds like dying. #

# Tide is high but I'm... #

And no change at number two for Blondie. The Tide Is High.

# Be your number one

# Num... #

Or she THINKS she is.

But we've got other news.

# Super Trouper

# Beams are going to blind me

# But I won't feel blue

# Like I always do

# Cos somewhere in the crowd there's you. #

Because at number one, with a hit album and single, too,

it's ABBA and Super Trouper.

# I was sick and tired of everything

# When I called you last night from Glasgow

# All I do is eat and sleep and sing

# Wishing every show was the last show

# So, imagine I was glad to hear you're coming

# Suddenly I feel all right

# And suddenly it's going to be

# And it's going be so different when I'm on the stage tonight

# Tonight the Super Trouper

# Lights are going to find me

# Shining like the sun

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per

# Smiling, having fun

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per

# Feeling like a number one

# Tonight the Super Trouper

# Beams are going to blind me

# But I won't feel blue

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per

# Like I always do

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per

# Cos somewhere in the crowd there's you

# Facing 20,000 of your friends

# How can anyone be so lonely?

# Part of a success that never ends

# Still I'm thinking about you only

# There are moments when I think I'm going crazy

# But it's going to be all right

# You'll soon be changing everything

# Everything will be so different

# When I'm on the stage tonight

# Tonight the Super Trouper

# Lights are going to find me

# Shining like the sun

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per

# Smiling, having fun

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per

# Feeling like a number one

# Tonight the Super Trouper

# Beams are going to blind me

# But I won't feel blue

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per

# Like I always do

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per

# Cos somewhere in the crowd there's you

# So, I'll be there

# When you arrive

# The sight of you will prove to me I'm still alive

# And when you take me in your arms

# And hold me tight

# I know it's going to mean so much tonight

# Tonight the Super Trouper

# Lights are going to find me

# Shining like the sun

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per

# Smiling, having fun

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per

# Feeling like a number one

# Tonight the Super Trouper

# Beams are going to blind me

# But I won't feel blue

# Su-p-per Troup-p-per

# Like I always do

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per

# Cos somewhere in the crowd there's you

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per

# Lights are going to find me

# Shining like the sun

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per

# Smiling, having fun

# Sup-p-per Troup-p-per... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And so, ABBA stay at number one until this time next week

when we find out what the new chart is. Thank you to all the artists who

appeared on the show, thanks to my special guest Mike Oldfield, and also

two parts of Earth, Wind And Fire.

Thanks most of all to you back at home watching.

Join us next week for another edition of Top Of The Pops.

Till then, goodbye, everybody. Goodbye.

CHEERING

MUSIC: I'm Coming Out by Diana Ross

# I'll make it through

# The time has come for me to break out of the shell

# I have to shout

# That I am coming out

# I'm coming out

# I want the world to know

# I got to let it show

# I'm coming!

-# I'm...

-# Coming out

-# Coming!

-# I want the world to know

-# Out

-# Got to let it show

# I've got to show the world

# All that I want to be

# And all my abilities

# There's so much more to me

# Somehow, I have to make them

# Just understand

# I got it well in hand

# And, oh, how I have planned

# I'm spreading love

# There is no need to fear

# And I just feel so good

# Every time I hear

-# I'm...

-# Coming out

-# Coming!

-# I want the world to know

-# Out

-# Got to let it show

# I'm coming out

# I want the world to know... #