16/07/1981 Top of the Pops

CHEERING

Hi, folks. Welcome to this week's edition of Top of the Pops.

It is jam-packed with good music. And to start, there's no better way

than Saxon, Never Surrender!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

INSTRUMENTAL PLAYS

# I was born on the back streets

# On the rotten side of town

# I never had me nothin'

# Just people puttin' me down

# Living on the dark side

# Across the railroad track

# Leaving wasn't easy

# But I'm never going back

# Never surrender!

# When you're up against the world

# Never surrender!

# Stand up, fight them all

# Never surrender!

# When you're up against the world

# Never surrender!

# Stand up, fight them all

# I'm sticking in the fast lane

# I never wanna quit

# I'm taking all my chances

# I'm gonna take 'em quick

# I started from the bottom

# But I'm heading to the top

# Ain't nobody gonna help me

# Cos I'm never gonna stop

# Never surrender!

# When you're up against the world

# Never surrender!

# Stand up, fight them all

# Never surrender!

# When you're up against the world

# Never surrender!

# Stand up, fight them all

# I was born on the back streets

# On the rotten side of town

# I never had me nothin'

# Just people puttin' me down

# I'm living on the dark side

# Across the railroad track

# Leaving wasn't easy

# But I'm never going back

# Never surrender!

# When you're up against the world

# Never surrender!

# Stand up, fight them all... #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

A great way to open the show, I think.

That's Saxon and Never Surrender.

They've got an LP coming out pretty soon, so look out for that.

Hit 12 on the chart on Top Of The Pops is Third World

and this track is called Dancing On The Floor.

# Love's got me dancing on the floor

# Love's got me crying out for more

# I'ma, I'ma, I'ma, I'ma

# I'ma hooked on love for sure

# Woke up this morning with a burning fever

# Like the rising sun My temperature gets higher

# This fire is out of control, yeah

# It's burning my heart, yeah

# Burning my soul, oh

# Love's got me dancing on the floor

# Love's got me crying out for more

# I'ma, I'ma, I'ma, I'ma

# I'ma hooked on love for sure

# Hey, sister

# Why do you look so confused?

# Sometimes you win

# Sometimes you lose

# It's a life you've got to get used to

# Don't give up now

# Love is at your rescue, come on

# Love's got me dancing on the floor

# Love's got me crying out for more

# I'ma, I'ma, I'ma, I'ma

# I'ma hooked on love

# I'ma, I'ma, I'ma, I'ma

# I'ma hooked on love

# I'ma, I'ma, I'ma, I'ma

# I'ma hooked on love for sure

# Sweet love

# Sweet love is rising

# Ooh!

# So surprising

# Higher than the cost of living

# So you, you, you, you and you

# Oh, you better start giving your l-l-l-l-love

# Yeah, love's got me, oh!

# Love's got me crying out for more... #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

That's the way to sing a bit of reggae down by the sea.

That's Third World, Dancing On The Floor.

I remember a single called Dreaming Of Me

from a band called Depeche Mode.

Now they've come back with something so strong, it a smash hit.

This is Depeche Mode right behind me, you will see.

New Life.

INSTRUMENTAL

# I stand still stepping on the shady streets

# And I watched that man to a stranger

# You think you only know me when you turn on the light

# Now the room is lit, red danger

# Complicating, circulating

# New life, new life

# Operating, generating

# New life, new life

# Transitions to another place

# So the time will pass more slowly

# Features fuse and your shadow's red

# Like a film I've seen now show me

# Complicating, circulating

# New life, new life

# Operating, generating

# New life, new life

# Your face is hidden and we're out of sight

# And the road just leads to nowhere

# The stranger in the door is the same as before

# So the question answers nowhere

# Complicating, circulating

# New life, new life

# Operating, generating

# New life, new life

# I stand still stepping on the shady streets

# And I watched that man to a stranger

# You think you only know me when you turn on the light

# Now the room is lit, red danger

# Complicating, circulating

# New life, new life

# Operating, generating

# New life, new life

# Oh

# Oh

# Oh

# Oh! #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

That is a good band. That's Depeche Mode with a song called New Life.

We like to try and keep you

as active as we can on a Thursday night.

Here's Legs & Co to do just that -

Walk Right Now. It is the Jacksons!

MAN SHOUTS

INSTRUMENTAL

# Here, when all my work is done

# Babe

# She calls

# And she says dear, can I come?

# I say to her that you know our love has gone

# Yeah, yeah

# But aggressive heart

# No, really not the one

# She comes to the door

# Crying at my feet

# Guilt shines in her eyes

# As she slowly sinks in deep

# You know our love couldn't last for ever

# Persuade your way but you ain't clever

# I close the door and I say never

-#

-I don't care

-What you're saying

-#

-Walk right now

-I ain't playing

-#

-Love elsewhere

-For you I'm praying

-#

-Don't look back

-You ain't staying

# Ooh!

# Here, I'm crying I can't sleep

# I sigh

# Cos I thought this would never be

# Yeah, yeah

-# I say ooh

-Ooh!

# I'm screaming out for someone

# Oh, oh!

# And now she's knockin' on the door for me

# She just won't leave me alone

# Hee-hee

-# She wants to speak with me

-Speak with me

# And persuade me in her arms

# Hee-hee-hee

# And now she's calling on the phone for me

# Oh, just won't leave me alone

# Deep down inside she's trying to be clever

# To love once more then leave me for ever

# I close the door and I say never

-#

-I don't care

-What you're saying

-#

-Walk right now

-I ain't playing

-#

-Love elsewhere

-For you I'm praying

-#

-Don't look back

-You ain't staying

-#

-I don't care

-What you're saying

-#

-Walk right now

# What you're doing to me

-#

-Love elsewhere

# What you're doing to me

-#

-Don't look back

# Wooo! #

INSTRUMENTAL

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Legs and Co!

And Walk Right Now from The Jacksons.

OK. If you want action, then you've got it,

cos Dexy's Midnight Runners are back,

with this new single, Show Me!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

INSTRUMENTAL

# Show me them now

# Those wild little boys

# The ones that spelled trouble and stole all their toys

# Young boys with contempt

# Dreams and schemes in their eyes

# Strong, rich in spirit, milk stains on their ties

# A little while later

-# The first ones to smoke

-Show me now

# I just stood there in awe laughing loud at their jokes

# Tinny transistors

# Hong Kong made, this week's parade!

# If they'd accept me I'd give anything

# Show me them now

# Let me look and see how they've grown up now

# Show me them now

# Let me look and see how they've grown up now

# Show me them now, show me them now!

# Stolen wristwatches and big studded rings

# Tall tales of girls and all that kind of thing

# Ah, they just had something

-# You know what I mean

-Show me now

# Wisdom and style like I'd never seen

# Show me now

# They helped me get older

# Pulled me through each bad phase

# Show me them now

# Show me them now, those boys from those days!

# Show me them now

# Let me look and see how they've grown up now

# Show me them now

# Let me look and see how they've grown up now

# Show me them now

# Let me look and see how they've grown up now

# Show me them now!

# Show me them

# Show me them

# Show me them, sh-show me them. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Great!

That's Dexy's Midnight Runners, they're well and truly back.

And a cracking single, too. It's called Show Me.

Woo! The pace is hitting us. You can relax just a touch.

And listen to the brand-new single from Kate Bush.

It's called Sat In Your Lap.

DRUMMING

INSTRUMENTAL

# I see the people working

# And see it working for them

# And so I want to join in

# But then I find it hurt me

# Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap

# Some say that knowledge is something that you never have

# I see the people happy

# So can it happen for me?

# Cos when I am unhappy

# There's nothing that can move me

# Some say that knowledge is something that you never have

# Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap

# Some say that heaven is hell

# Some say that hell is heaven

# I must admit

-# Just when I think I'm king

-I just begin

# Just when I think I'm king

-# I must admit

-I just begin

-# Just when I think I'm king!

-I just begin

# I've been doing it for years

# My goal is moving near

# It says look, I'm over here

# Then it up and disappears

# Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap

# Some say that knowledge is oh-ho-ho-ho

# I want to be a lawyer

# I want to be a scholar

# But I really can't be bothered

# Ooh, just gimme it quick, gimme it, gimme gimme gimme gimme!

# Some say that knowledge is oh-ho-ho

# Some say that knowledge is oh-ho-ho

# Some say that heaven is hell

# Some say that hell is heaven

# I must admit

-# Just when I think I'm king,

-I just begin

# Just when I think I'm king

-# I must admit

-I just begin

# Just when I think everything's going great

-#

-I just begin

# I get the break

# Hey, I'm gonna take it all

-#

-I just begin

# When I'm king

-#

-Just begin

# In my dome of ivory... #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

The choreography is so strong on her singles.

And look at her there. She looks terrific,

Kate Bush and Sat In Your Lap.

It's the charts. Number 30 we start with.

At this week's 30, it's

The Jacksons and Walk Right Now.

At 29, More Than In Love,

Kate Robbins & Beyond.

At 28, How 'Bout Us from Champaign.

At 27, Being With You

from Smokey Robinson.

At 26, Never Surrender from Saxon.

At 25, Visage from Visage.

At 24, All Stood Still

from Ultravox.

At 23, Wikka Wrap, The Evasions.

At 22, Throw Away The Key from Linx.

And at 21, Sheena Easton,

For Your Eyes Only.

But right now we go right up the chart.

This week's number three.

And can you can the Can with Bad Manners?!

MUSIC: Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach

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Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh!

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AUDIENCE "SINGS" ALONG

HE VOCALISES

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Great. That epitomises what pop business is all about.

That's Bad Manners, this week's number 3 and Can Can.

OK. Talking about the charts, which we were,

let's go back from this week's 20.

At 20, Can't Happen Here from Rainbow.

At 19, New Life from Depeche Mode.

At 18, chart number ones

Spandau Ballet.

At 17, Lay All Your Love On Me

from ABBA.

At 16, Piece of The Action

from Bucks Fizz.

At 15, Sat In Your Lap, Kate Bush.

At 14, There's A Guy,

Kirsty MacColl.

At 13, Razzamatazz, Quincy Jones.

At 12, Dancing on the Floor,

Third World.

At 11, You Might Need Somebody

from Randy Crawford.

But we go to one of our high new entries.

This week, at 18, it's Spandau Ballet,

chart number one, I Don't Need This Pressure On.

INSTRUMENTAL

# I checked the time

# It was almost time

# A curious smell

# An intangible crime

# I'm washing my clothes

# But the stain still grows

# Cover your eyes

# The stain still shows

# I feel the graze against my skin

# I feel the graze against my skin

# I know this feeling is a lie

# I know this feeling is a lie

# There's a guilt within my mind

# There's a guilt within my mind

# I know this feeling is a lie

# I know this feeling is a lie

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# Oh, I should question not ignore

# Oh, I should question not ignore

# Songs are always buried deep

# Songs are always buried deep

# There's a lion in my arms

# There's a motion in my arm

# Oh, I should question not ignore

# I should believe and not ignore

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

-#

-You go down, down, pass the talk of town

-#

-You go down Greek Street then it's underground

-#

-Well, it's Soho life for this mobile knife

-#

-It's the place to shoot Friday night beat route

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on

# I don't need this pressure on. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Spandau Ballet with Beggar and Co, their brass section,

and chart number one I Don't Need This Pressure On.

It's their brand-new single at number 18.

And that's it from us in the studio here.

But, back at home, very important - the top ten, the big number one.

Until next week's Top Of The Pops, goodnight.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Down three, at this week's number 10,

it's Elaine Paige and Memory.

# Has the moon lost her memory?

# She is smiling alone. #

# Zippin' up my boots... #

Down four, this week's 9 -

Odyssey, Goin' Back To My Roots.

# No woman, no cry... #

Up one at 8,

No Woman, No Cry, Bob Marley and The Wailers.

# No woman, no cry... #

INSTRUMENTAL

At three at 7,

Tom Tom Club Wordy Rappinghood.

# Can't get enough... #

Up eight at 6,

Motorhead Live, it's Motorhead.

# ..at Christmas

# Motorhead, remember me now

# Motorhead, all right? #

# One day in your life...#

And down three at this week's 5,

Michael Jackson, One Day In Your Life.

# ..always waiting

# For a love

# We used to share... #

# Body talk

# Body talk... #

Up two at 4,

it's Imagination and Body Talk.

# Body talk... #

MUSIC: Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach

And no change at 3

for Bad Manners and Can Can.

LAUGHTER AND CHEERING

# The stars on 45 keep on turning in your eye... #

Up two at 2,

Stars on 45, Volume Two's Starsound.

# You still don't tell me why

# And no reply... #

REGGAE INSTRUMENTAL

And this week, at number one, as last week,

The Specials and Ghost Town.

REGGAE INSTRUMENTAL

-# This town

-Town

# Is coming like a ghost town

-#

-All the clubs have been closed down

# This place is coming like a ghost town

-#

-Bands won't play no more

-#

-Too much fighting on the dance floor

THEY SING

ORGAN PLAYS

-#

-Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?

-#

-We danced and sang, and the music played in-a de boomtown

REGGAE INSTRUMENTAL

-# This town

-Town

# Is coming like a ghost town

-#

-Why must the youth fight against themselves?

-#

-Government leaving the youth on the shelf

-# This place

-Town

# Is coming like a ghost town

-#

-No job to be found in this country

-#

-Can't go on no more

-#

-The people getting angry

THEY SING

# This town is coming like a ghost town

SIREN WAILS IN SONG

# This town is coming like a ghost town

# This town is coming like a ghost town

# This town, is coming like a ghost town. #

SIREN WAILS IN SONG