10/02/1983 Top of the Pops

APPLAUSE

Hello, good evening, and welcome to Top Of The Pops.

We're going to have a great time tonight, aren't we, Pat?

We certainly are, Janice, and kicking us off at number three,

here's the Belle Stars and Sign Of The Times.

# As I lie here

# Thinking of you

# I realise that nothing is new

# Lying in my bed thinking of you

# I realise nothing is new

# You say you love me

# But want success

# I say you're lying

# Nothing has changed

# This is a sign of the times

# Piece of more to come

# This is a sign of the times

# Time to be alone

# This is a sign of the times

# Piece of more to come

# This is a sign of the times

# Time to be alone

# We're strong in bed

# You're weak in love

# You give me nothing

# More than a shove

# I walk alone now

# Thinking of you

# I realise now

# Nothing is new

# This is a sign of the times

# Piece of more to come

# This is a sign of the times

# Time to be alone

# This is a sign of the times

# Piece of more to come

# This is a sign of the times

# Time to be alone... #

Why do we go on with this useless love affair

When it seems to me that you don't really care?

I realise now nothing is new

Time to live my life without you.

# I sit alone now

# Wondering about you

# I'm living my life

# What do you do?

# You say you want me

# But need success

# I want your love, boy

# Want nothing less

# This is a sign of the times

# Piece of more to come

# This is a sign of the times

# Time to be alone

# This is a sign of the times

# Piece of more to come

# This is a sign of the times

# Time to be alone

# This is a sign of the times

# Piece of more to come

# This is a sign of the times

# Time to be alone

# This is a sign of the times

# Piece of more to come

# This is a sign of the times

# Time to be alone

# This is a sign of the times

# Piece of more to come... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

The Belle Stars really enjoying themselves.

There's a great movie doing the rounds at the moment,

An Officer And A Gentleman.

The song from it is doing pretty well too.

It's at number seven in our charts for Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes,

Up Where We Belong.

# Who knows what tomorrow brings

# In a world few hearts survive

# All I know is the way I feel

# When it's real, I keep it alive

# The road

# Is long

# There are mountains in our way

# But we climb a step every day

-BOTH:

-# Love lift us up where we belong

# Where the eagles cry

# On a mountain high

# Love lift us up where we belong

# Far from the world we know

# Where the clear winds blow

# Some hang on to used to be

# Live their lives looking behind

# All we have is here and now

# All our life's out there to find

# The road is long

# There are mountains in our way

# But we climb a step every day

# Love lift us up where we belong

# Where the eagles cry

# On a mountain high

# Love lift us up where we belong

# Far from the world we know

# Where the clear winds blow

# Time goes by

# No time to cry

# Life's you and I

# A life today

# Love lift us up where we belong

# Where the eagles cry

# On a mountain high

# Love lift us up where we belong

# Far from the world we know

# Where the clear winds blow. #

APPLAUSE

Our next act are about to make

their first ever appearance on Top Of The Pops.

They used to be a seven-piece band, now they're a three-piece.

Will you welcome the Thompson Twins and Love On Your Side.

# I hear you laughing in some other room

# And it makes me feel locked out

# You say my passion often stifles you

# And you need to move about

# I was taught that boys need girls and girls need boys

# You say that's not true

# You would rather fool around than be alone with me

# Well, that's all right for you

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# I bought you sentimental roses

# But you gave them all away

# I played you all my favourite records

# Then we spent the night in talking, talking all the time

# You sent me home

# I was so surprised to find that after all

# It doesn't hurt to be alone

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# Well, all the things you say make perfect sense to me

# Somehow I'm still unsure

# Then I catch myself going through the same old rhapsody

# Rap, boy, rap!

# I don't understand just what I'm doing to myself

# I guess that's nothing new

# Cos when you meet someone who doesn't follow all the rules

# It changes everything you do

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# Cos you've got love, love, love on your side

# Cos you've got love... #

CHEERING

Great stuff. Next up, a band who've made the charts

with every single record they've ever released.

Getting the balance right once again,

just outside the 30, here's Depeche Mode.

# There's more besides joyrides

# Little house in the countryside

# Understand, learn to demand

# Compromise, sometimes lie

# Get the balance right

# Get the balance right

# Be responsible, respectable

# Stable but gullible

# Concerned and caring Help the helpless

# But always remain ultimately selfish

# Get the balance right

# Get the balance right

# You've really got a hold of it all

# You haven't got a hold at all

# When you reach the top get ready to drop

# Prepare yourself for the fall

# You're gonna fall

# It's almost predictable

# Oh-oh

# Don't take this way Don't take that way

# Straight down the middle until next Thursday

# Push to the left then back to the right

# Twist and turn till you've got it right

# Get the balance right

# Get the balance right

# Get the balance right

# Get the balance right

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Get the balance right. #

CHEERING

Look forward to the album, fellas.

This lot have had loads of success in America,

and they're doing great things over here too.

They're in our charts this week at number 19 with a song about Africa.

It's Toto.

# I hear the drums echoing tonight

# But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation

# She's coming in, 12.30 flight

# Her moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me

# Towards salvation

# I stopped an old man along the way

# Hoping to find some old forgotten words

# Or ancient melodies

# He turned to me as if to say

# Hurry, boy It's waiting there for you

# It's going to take a lot to drag me away from you

# There's nothing that 100 men or more could ever do

# I bless the rains down in Africa

# Going to take some time to do the things we never had

# The wild dogs cry out in the night

# As they grow restless longing for some solitary company

# I know that I must do what's right

# Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus

# Above the Serengeti

# I seek to cure what's deep inside

# Frightened of this thing that I've become

# It's going to take a lot to drag me away from you

# There's nothing that 100 men or more could ever do

# I bless the rains down in Africa

# Going to take some time to do the things we never had

# Hurry, boy She's waiting there for you

# It's going to take a lot to drag me away from you

# There's nothing that 100 men or more could ever do

# I bless the rains down in Africa

-# I bless the rains down in Africa

-I bless the rains

-# I bless the rains down in Africa

-I bless the rains

# I bless the rains down in Africa... #

APPLAUSE

Right, question time for you now. If you take number 24,

and turn it around, you get number 42.

In this case, Level 42!

# Take a journey back in time

# Leave the western world behind

# Cross the mountains to Peking

# Where the paper lanterns gently swing

# The Chinese way

# Who knows what they know?

# The Chinese legend grows

# The Chinese way

# Who knows what they know?

# The Chinese legend grows

# My eyes wide open

# I feel a breeze

# Words softly spoken

# In Cantonese

# Standing at the master's side

# Then with patience he confides

# Secret knowledge, sacred ways

# Pearls of wisdom from the dragon days

# I could never lie

# For honour I would die

# Following the Chinese way

# So many years ago heroes ruled the world

# Some died for love

# They were the only ones in a cruel world

# I could never lie

# For honour I would die

# Following the Chinese way

# From the mountains to Peking

# Where the paper lanterns gently swing

# The Chinese way

# Who knows what they know

# The Chinese legend grows

# The Chinese way... #

APPLAUSE

Apparently, everyone wants to work with Michael Jackson these days,

but he's decided to do it all by himself and it's the first chance

we in Britain get to see this video on Top Of The Pops.

He's at number 17. Michael Jackson, Billie Jean.

# She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene

# I said, don't mind but what do you mean

# I am the one

# Who will dance on the floor in the round

# She said I am the one

# Who will dance on the floor in the round

# She told me her name was Billie Jean, as she caused a scene

# Then every head turned with eyes that dreamed of being the one

# Who will dance on the floor in the round

# People always told me Be careful of what you do

# And don't go around breaking young girls' hearts

# And mother always told me Be careful of who you love

# And be careful of what you do

# Cos the lie becomes the truth

# Hey, hey! Billie Jean is not my lover

# She's just a girl who claims that I am the one

# But the kid is not my son

# She says I am the one

# But the kid is not my son

# For 40 days and for 40 nights the law was on her side

# But who can stand, when she's in demand, her schemes and plans

# Cos we danced on the floor in the round

# So take my strong advice

# Just remember to always think twice

# Don't think twice Don't think twice

# She told my baby we'd danced till three

# Then she looked at me

# Then showed a photo

# My baby cried His eyes were like mine

# Cos we danced on the floor in the round, baby

# People always told me Be careful of what you do

# And don't go around breaking young girls' hearts

# She came and stood right by me

# Just the smell of sweet perfume

# This happened much too soon

# She called me to her room

# Hey, hey! Billie Jean is not my lover

# She's just a girl who claims that I am the one

# But the kid is not my son No, no, no!

# Billie Jean is not my lover

# She's just a girl who claims that I am the one

# But the kid is not my son

# No!

# She says I am the one

# But the kid is not my son. #

APPLAUSE

That's Michael Jackson from his great new LP, Thriller,

and Billie Jean. Janice.

Now the moment that you've all been waiting for.

A look at the charts and we'll start at number 30.

At number 30, The Harder They Come from Rockers Revenge.

It's a chart entry at number 29 for Elvis Presley with Jailhouse Rock

and at 23, Shiny, Shiny from Haysi Fantayzee.

Love On Your Side from the Thompson Twins is a new entry at number 27.

And straight in at 26, Tunnel Of Love from the Fun Boy Three.

At 25, a new entry for the Prince and 1999.

And at number 24, The Chinese Way from Level 42.

The Maisonettes are at number 23 with Heartache Avenue.

And The Jam are Going Underground. They're at number 22.

And at 21, a song that was performed by Nat King Cole...

..and George Benson. It's Central Line and, over there, Nature Boy!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# There was a boy

# A very strange, enchanted boy

# They said he wandered very far, very far

# Over land and sea

# A little shy

# And sad of eye

# Very wise

# Very wise was he

-# And then one day

-Then one day

# One magic day he passed my way

-# And while we spoke of many things

-Many things

-# Fools and kings

-Fools and kings

# This he said to me

# The greatest thing

# You could ever learn

# Is just to love

# And be loved in return

# To be loved

# In return

# To be loved

# In return

# And then one day

# Then one day

# One magic day he passed my way

-# And while we spoke of many things

-Many things

-# Fools and kings

-Fools and kings

# This he said to me

# The greatest thing

# You, you could ever learn

# Is just to love

# Show your love

# In return

# To be loved

# In return

-# To be loved

-To be loved

-# In return

-In return

# To be loved

# It's your nature You know it's your nature

# Nature boy

# It's your nature You know it's your nature

# Nature boy

# It's your nature You know it's your nature

# Nature boy

# It's your nature You know it's your nature

# Nature boy

# It's your nature

# Nature boy

# It's your nature You know it's your nature

# Nature boy

# It's your nature You know it's your nature

# Nature boy... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Central Line at number 21.

Now let's take a look at the middle part of the chart.

And at number 20, Billy Griffin and Hold Me Tighter In The Rain.

Number 19, a new entry for Toto and Africa.

At 18, up for Christian, China Crisis.

Up at 17, Michael Jackson and Billie Jean.

Number 16, Steppin' Out from Joe Jackson.

And at 15, Dire Straits and Twisting By The Pool.

Number 14, Last Night A DJ Saved My Life. That's Indeep.

And at 13, New Year's Day by U2.

Number 12, Wah! and The Story Of The Blues.

And at 11, The Cutter. That's Echo & The Bunnymen.

But now it's back to number 18, with a beautiful song

from the album Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms,

it's China Crisis and Christian.

APPLAUSE

# This is emotion

# Emotionless war

# A torn shirt and a And a long-dead cause

# I can't sleep

# This kind of thing gets me down

# Don't say walk

# I may lose my fear

# I could lose myself in this honesty

# I could lose myself in this honesty

# I read all sorts of things

# There's so much to learn

# I've seen the hand that rushes in

# As they rush over you

# I could lose myself in this honesty

# I could lose myself in this honesty

# Honesty

# I could lose myself in this honesty

# I could lose myself in this honesty... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

OK, it's back to the chart time, and we'll have a look at the top ten.

And it's Fleetwood Mac who are at number ten, with Oh Diane.

Wham are at number nine, with Wham Rap.

And at number eight, You Can't Hurry Love from Phil Collins.

Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes are at number seven with

Up Where We Belong.

And still at number six, Gloria from Laura Brannigan.

A rise for Tears For Fears with Change. They're at number five.

And Eddy Grant is at number four with Electric Avenue.

At number three, Sign Of The Times from the Belle Stars.

And at number two, Too Shy from Kajagoogoo.

And Britain's number one for the third consecutive week...

..it's Men At Work and Down Under!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Travelling in a fried-out combi

# On a hippie trail Head full of zombie

# I met a strange lady She made me nervous

# She took me in and gave me breakfast

# And she said

# Do you come from a land down under

# Where women glow and men plunder?

# Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?

# You'd better run You'd better take cover

# Buying bread from a man in Brussels

# He was six foot four and full of muscle

# I said, do you speak-a my language?

# And he just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich

# And he said

# I come from a land down under

# Where beer does flow and men chunder

# Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?

# You'd better run You'd better take cover

# Yeah-ah

# Lying in a den in Bombay

# With a slack jaw and not much to say

# I said to the man Are you trying to tempt me

# Because I come from the land of plenty?

# And he said

# Oh! Do you come from a land down under

# Ooh, yeah, yeah

# Where women glow and men plunder?

# Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?

# Ah-ah

# You'd better run, You'd better take cover

# Cos we are living in a land down under

# Where women glow and men plunder Yeah

# Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?

# Thunder

# You'd better run You'd better take cover

# Living in a land down under

# Where women glow and men plunder... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

There you go, Men At Work, still at number one with Down Under.

And next week's Top Of The Pops will be presented by Peter Powell

-and Gary Davies.

-Meanwhile, look after yourselves.

It's Elvis and Jailhouse Rock. Bye.

Have a nice night. Bye-bye.

# ..and the joint began to swing

# You shoulda heard them knocked-out jailbirds sing

# Let's rock

# Everybody, let's rock

# Everybody in the whole cell block

# Was dancing to the jailhouse rock

# Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone

# Little Joe was blowing on the slide trombone

# The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang

# The whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang

# Let's rock

# Everybody, let's rock

# Everybody in the whole cell block

# Was dancing to the jailhouse rock

# Number 47 said to number 3

# Why, you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see

# I sure would be delighted with your company

# Come on and do the jailhouse rock with me

# Let's rock

# Everybody, let's rock

# Everybody in the whole cell block

# Was dancing to the jailhouse rock

# Rock, rock, rock... #