13/08/1981 Top of the Pops

Welcome to the summer and the Top Of The Pops on a Thursday,

with Duran Duran and Girls On Film at number six, over there.

# See them walking hand in hand across the bridge at midnight

# Heads turning cos the lights flashing out are so bright

# Then walk right out to the fourline track

# There's a camera rolling on her back

# On her back

# And I sense the rhythm humming

# In a frenzy all the way down her spine

# Girls on film

# Girls on film

# Girls on film

# Girls on film

# Lipstick cherry all over the lens as she's falling

# In miles of sharp blue water coming in where she lies

# The diving man's coming up for air

# Cos the crowd all love pulling dolly by the hair

# By the hair

# And she wonders how she ever got here as she goes under again

# Girls on film

# Two minutes later

# Girls on film

# Girls on film

# Got your picture

# Girls on film

# Wider baby smiling you've just made a million

# Fuses pumping live heat twisting out on a wire

# Take one last glimpse into the night

# I'm touching close, I'm holding bright

# Holding tight

# Give me shudders in a whisper

# Take me up till I'm shooting a star

# Girls on film

# She's more than a lady

# Girls on film

# Girls on film

# Two minutes later

# Girls on film

# Girls on film

# See you together

# Girls on film. #

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Not bad going. That's Duran Duran and Girls On Film. Now then,

time to give Beethoven a gentle kick and drag him up to 1981,

with the RPO and Hooked On Classics.

MUSIC: Hooked On Classics by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

APPLAUSE

That is an amazing piece of film - the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

We'll give you a full chart rundown a little later on, on Top Of The Pops.

Over my shoulder, a couple of guys from Leeds, Marc and David, who call themselves Soft Cell.

# Sometimes I feel I've got to

# Run away, I've got to

# Get away

# From the pain you drive into the heart of me

# The love we share

# Seems to go nowhere

# And I've lost my light

# For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night

# Once I ran to you

# I ran

# Now I'll run from you

# This tainted love you've given

# I give you all a boy could give you

# Take my tears and that's not nearly all

-# Tainted love

-# Oh, oh-oh, oh

# Tainted love

# Now I know I've got to

# Run away, I've got to

# Get away

# You don't really want any more from me

# To make things right

# You need someone to hold you tight

# And you think love is to pray

# But I'm sorry I don't pray that way

# Once I ran to you

# I ran

# Now I run from you

# This tainted love you've given

# I give you all a boy could give you

# Take my tears and that's not nearly all

-# Tainted love

-# Oh, oh-oh, oh

# Tainted love

# Don't touch me, please

# I cannot stand the way you tease

# I love you though you hurt me so

# Now I'm gonna pack my things and go

-# Tainted love

-# Oh, oh-oh, oh

-# Tainted love

-# Oh, oh-oh, oh

-# Tainted love

-# Oh, oh-oh, oh

-# Tainted love

-# Oh, oh-oh, oh

# Touch me, baby, tainted love

# Touch me, baby, tainted love

-# Tainted love

-# Oh, oh-oh, oh

# Tainted love. #

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That is going to be a massive hit for Soft Cell.

It's called Tainted Love. Right now, who's at number 13?

I'll tell you who, after I've mentioned that it's glass and water,

and a combination that results in Kim Wilde.

# Cascading down there's a sound vaporising into vision

# It's a sound in my head that I feel and it shuts me in a prison

# Say it won't last

# Say it will pass

# Always the sound in my brain

# Can you hear it, can you hear it?

# Water on glass

# Running down again

# Water on glass

# That sound

# Water on glass

# Running round again

# Help me

# The sound of running water's coming down

# Dancing away

# Like the lights on a moving coloured river

# Sounds in my head seem to run

# And again I feel a shiver

# Say it won't last

# Pray it will pass

# Always that sound in my brain

# Can you hear it, can you hear it?

# Water on glass

# Running down again

# Water on glass

# That sound

# Water on glass

# Running round again

# Help me

# The sound of running water's coming down

# Cascading down there's a sound vaporising into vision

# It's a sound in my head that I feel and it shuts me in a prison

# Say it won't last

# Say it will pass

# Always the sound in my brain

# Can you hear it, can you hear it?

# Water on glass

# Running down again

# Water on glass

# That sound

# Water on glass

# Running round again

# Help me

# The sound of running water's coming...

# Water on glass

# Running down again

# That sound

# Running round again. #

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Water On Glass. Of course it's Kim Wilde.

There's record we've been going with for quite some time, by Bill Wyman,

that we've been playing on Radio 1, and is wonderful.

I wouldn't gossip but on the other hand, I have an idea

you might imagine that the lady who he's singing about could

just be Nicaraguan. Who can tell? Je Suis Un Rock Star.

# Said she come from Rio

# Lived on a mountain

# I met her in Trafalgar Square

# She was sitting in the fountain

# She took off her hat

# And she had lovely hair

# She was a disco dancer

# At the Coco Cabana there

# South American lady

# You've got that crazy beat

# Brazilian beauty

# With the flashing feet

# Danced to the music

# At the Mardi-Gras

# Then jumped on the Concorde

# You're so lah-di-dah

# Si, si

# Si, si

# Si, si

# Si, si

# Took her to a disco

# In Battersea

# I asked her to dance

# And then she danced with me

# Then I took a chance

# Come home with me today

# I live in France

# We can get there B-E-A

# Je suis un rock star

# Je avais un residence

# Je habiter la

# A la south de France

# Voulez vous

# Partir with me?

# And come and rester la

# With me in France

# But BEA's on strike

# There's no planes flying

# I could rent a motorbike

# At least I'm trying

# We could go on the hovercraft

# Across the water

# They'll think I'm your dad

# And you're my daughter

# Je suis un rock star

# Je avais un residence

# Je habiter la

# A la south de France

# Voulez vous

# Partir with me

# And come and rester la

# With me in France

# Je suis un rock star

# Je avais un residence

# Je habiter la

# A la south de France

# Voulez vous

# Partir with me?

# And come and rester la

# With me in France

# Je suis un rock star

# Je avais un residence

# Je habiter la

# A la south de France

# Voulez vous

# Partir with me

# And come and rester la

# With me in France. #

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That's wonderful. That's Bill Wyman, Je Suis Un Rock Star.

And this, if you remember it, is a disco,

with Legs & Co and a Bee Gees medley.

# Startrax Club disco

# Hey, are you ready

# Are you ready

# Let's go

# More than a woman

# More than a woman to me

# More than a woman

# More than a woman to me

# Listen to the ground

# There is movement all around

# There is something going down

# And I can feel it

# On the waves of the air

# There is dancing out there

# If it's something we can share

# We can steal it

# And that sweet city woman

# She moves through the light

# Controlling my mind and my soul

# When you reach out for me, girl

# And the feelin' is right

# I get night fever, night fever

# We know how to do it

# Gimme that night fever, night fever

# We know how to show it

# Tragedy

# When you lose control and you got no soul

# It's tragedy

# When the morning cries and you don't know why

# It's hard to bare

# With no-one beside you

# You're going nowhere

# Feel I'm going back to Massachusetts

# Something's telling me I must go home

# And the lights all went down in Massachusetts

# The day I left her standing on her own

# I know your eyes in the morning sun

# I feel you touch me in the pouring rain

# And the moment that you wander far from me

# I want to feel you in my arms again

# And you come to me on a summer breeze

# Keep me warm in your love then you softly leave

# And it's me you need to show

# How deep is your love?

# How deep is your love? How deep is your love?

# I really need to learn

# Cos we're living in a world of fools

# Breaking us down

# When they all should let us be

# We belong to you and me. #

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It always happens to other people and never to me. That's Legs & Co - Startrax.

Ooh, it's a bit hot around here.

I'll tell you what, let's have a look at the charts.

And down go Visage to number 30.

Kate Bush is on her way down as well, to number 29.

No 28, but at 27 equal places for Star Sound

and Startrax with Startrax Club Disco.

Soft Cell's Tainted Love is a new entry at 26.

Here come REO Speedwagon, same place at 25.

ABBA, Lay All Your Love On Me are down to 24.

And in come One In Ten for UB40 at 23.

Bill Wyman's Je Suis Un Rock Star - you've seen it, it's at 22.

Tenpole Tudor on their way down to number 21.

Imagination and Body Talk are at number 20.

And at number 19 a new entry taking the charts by storm -

Aneka and Japanese Boy.

# He said that he loved me

# He never would go

# Oh-oh

# Oh-oh

# Now I find I'm sitting

# Here on my own

# Oh-oh

# Oh-oh

# Was it something I said or done

# That made him pack his bags up and run?

# Could it be another he's found?

# He's breaking up the happy home

# Mister, can you tell me where my love has gone?

# He's a Japanese boy

# I woke up one morning and my love was gone

# Oh, my Japanese boy

# Ooh, I miss my Japanese boy

# People ask about him every day

# Oh-oh

# Oh-oh

# Don't know what to tell them

# What can I say

# Oh-oh

# Oh-oh

# If only he would write me or call

# A word of explanation, that's all

# It would stop me climbing the wall

# It's breaking up the happy home

# Mister, can you tell me where my love has gone?

# He's a Japanese boy

# I woke up one morning and my love was gone

# Oh, my Japanese boy

# Ooh, I miss my Japanese boy

# Was it something I've said or done

# That made him pack his bags up and run?

# Could it be another he's found?

# It's breaking up the happy home

# Mister, can you tell me where my love has gone?

# He's a Japanese boy

# I woke up one morning and my love was gone

# Oh, my Japanese boy

# Ooh-h-h-h

# Ah-h-h-h

# Mister, can you tell me where my love has gone?

# He's a Japanese boy

# I woke up one morning and my love was gone

# Ooh, my Japanese boy. #

APPLAUSE

That lady is Aneka, and Japanese Boy, and she's about the tallest Japanese lady I've ever seen.

She's also got a Scottish accent.

Right, on Top Of The Pops this Thursday evening it's back to the Top 30. At number 18...

Down go the new Dexys, to number 18, with Show Me.

Third World are at number 17 with Dancing On The Floor.

Bad Manners, a former number 1, Can Can's down to 16.

Depeche Mode at number 15 with New Life.

Lobo goes up with The Caribbean Disco Show at 14.

Kim Wilde's up with Water On Glass at 13.

Down go The Specials with Ghost Town at number 12.

And Beach Boy Gold climbs to number 11 for Gidea Park.

A bit of bondage at number 10 for Sheena Easton, For Your Eyes Only.

And here, at number 9, Hold On Tight from ELO.

# Mmm...

# Hold on tight to your dream

# Hey

# Hold on tight to your dream

# When you see your ship go sailing

# When you feel your heart is breaking

# Hold on tight to your dream

# Mmm...

# It's a long time to be gone

# Hold on, hold on

# Time just rolls on and on

# Hold on, hold on

# When you need a shoulder to cry on

# When you get so sick of trying, just

# Hold on tight to your dream

# When you get so down that you can't get up

# When you want so much but you're all out of luck

# When you're so down-hearted and misunderstood

# Just over and over and over you could

# Oh

# Accroches-toi a ton reve

# Accroches-toi a ton reve

# Quand tu vois ton bateau partir

# Quand tu sents ton coeur se briser

# Accroches-toi a ton reve

# When you get so down that you can't get up

# When you want so much but you're all out of luck

# When you're so down-hearted and misunderstood

# Just over and over and over you could

# Yeah, yeah

# Hold on tight to your dream

# Yeah

# Hold on tight to your dream

# Yeah

# When you see the shadows falling

# When you hear the cold wind calling

# Hold on tight to your dream

# Ooh, yeah

# Hold on tight to your dream

# Yeah, yeah

# Hold on tight

# To your dream. #

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It's the band that Brum gave to the world, the Electric Light Orchestra and Hold On Tight.

And now, back to the charts.

And down go The Jacksons to this week's number 8 with Walk Right Now.

Second biggest climber of the week The Human League, Love Action at number 7.

Girls on Film is up for Duran Duran to number 6.

Down goes Spandau Ballet, Chant Number 1 at 5.

Tight Fit are up with Back to The 60s at number 4.

Down goes Stevie Wonder, Happy Birthday's at number 3.

Louis Clark conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hooked On Classics

at this week's number 2.

Which means that Britain's number 1 must be Shakin' Stevens for the third week -

behind The Green Door.

# Midnight

# One more night without sleepin'

# Watchin'

# Till that morning comes creepin'

# Green door

# What's that secret you're keepin'?

# There's an old piano

# And they play it hot behind the green door

# The green door

# Don't know what they're doin'

# But they laugh a lot behind the green door

# Ooh, the green door

# Wish they'd let me in

# So I could find out what's behind the green door

# The green door

# Knocked once

# Tried to tell them I'd been there

# Door slammed

# Hospitality's thin there

# Wonderin'

# Just what's goin' on in there

# Saw an eyeball peepin'

# Through a smoky cloud behind the green door

# The green door

# When I said Joe sent me

# Someone laughed out loud behind the green door

# Ooh, the green door

# All I want to do

# Is join the happy crowd behind the green door

# The green door

# Midnight

# One more night without sleepin'

# Watchin'

# Till that morning comes creepin'

# Green door

# What's that secret you're keepin'?

# There's an old piano

# And they play it hot behind the green door

# Green door

# Don't know what they're doin'

# But they laugh a lot behind the green door

# Green door

# Wish they'd let me in

# So I could find out what's behind the green door

# Green door

# Saw an eyeball peepin'

# Through a smoky cloud behind the green door

# Green door

# When I said Joe sent me

# Someone laughed out loud behind the green door. #

Ha-ha-ha!

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Who can tell what next week's number 1 will be?

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Human League, Aneka, or maybe it'll be Shakey once again.

You'll have to watch Top Of The Pops to find out.

Here's UB40 to say goodnight for us.

# I am a one in ten

# A number on a list

# I am a one in ten

# Even though I don't exist

# Nobody knows me

# But I'm always there

# A statistic, a reminder

# Of a world that doesn't care

# My arms enfold the dole queue

# Malnutrition dulls my hair

# My eyes are black and lifeless

# With an underprivileged stare

# I'm the beggar on the corner

# Will no-one spare a dime

# I'm the child that never learns to read

# Cos no-one spared the time

# I am a one in ten

# A number on a list

# I am a one in ten

# Even though I don't exist

# Nobody knows me

# But I'm always there

# A statistic, a reminder

# Of a world that doesn't care

# I'm the murderer, the victim

# I'm the license with the gun

# I'm a sad and bruised old lady

# In an ally in a slum

# I'm a middle aged businessman

# With chronic heart-disease

# I'm another teenage suicide

# In a street that has no trees

# I am a one in ten

# A number on a list

# I am a one in ten

# Even though I don't exist

# Nobody knows me

# But I'm always there

# A statistic, a reminder

# Of a world that doesn't care

# I'm a starving third world mother

# A refugee without a home

# I'm a housewife hooked on Valium

# I'm a pensioner alone

# I'm a cancer-ridden spectre

# Discovering the earth

# I'm another hungry baby

# I'm an accident of birth

# I am a one in ten

# A number on a list

# I am a one in ten... #