18/12/1980 Top of the Pops

Hello and welcome to Top of the Pops.

It's going to be a great night. We've got some great live acts.

We've got Gary Newman and stacks more

because it's the last Christmas Top of the Pops

before the Christmas Top of the Pops, if you see what I mean.

We'll also have the top three selling records in Britain today.

To kick us off with, here's The Beat. Over there!

MUSIC: Too Nice to Talk To by The Beat

# It's too late now, it's 20 past two

# I spent all night just watchin' you

# I watched you dance I watched you move

# Can't breath and still I watched you move away

# Now, I think quite a lot as I stare at my shoes

# About all these things that I put myself through

# There's nothing to say and there's nothing to do

# You're just too nice to talk to

# Too nice to talk to

# You're too nice to talk to

# You're too nice to talk to

# The right lines wouldn't come out for you

# I glance, but you just stared me through

# Felt such a fool I felt you knew

# But you might tell me to go away

# Now, I think quite a lot of my own point of view

# Is that all I have that's in common with you

# Your emotions so guarded My heart is retarded

# You're too nice to talk to

# You're too nice to talk to

# You're too nice to talk to

# You're too nice to talk to

# This evening hasn't gone like I planned

# Should I take the situation in hand?

# Can't go on, but I can't seem to dance

# You chain my feet I stamp and stamp and stamp

# Because nothing I do ever seems to be right

# The same dance of mine every Saturday night

# Out the window You might say I'm out of my mind

# But you're too nice to talk to

# Too nice to talk to

# You're too nice to talk to

# Too nice to talk to

# You're too nice to talk to

# Too nice! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Too Nice To Talk To. That's The Beat.

There's one more BBC Top 40 that's coming out before the end of Christmas.

Or the start of Christmas.

And the new number one might just be this.

It's St Winifred's School and a song about Granny.

# 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

# Her 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. #

Isn't that lovely? That's Grandma, it might be number one next week.

You'll have to tune in to find out.

There's a band that produces a single every Christmas

sure as faith, they have a hit with it.

And their name is the Barren Nights

and they are here live with Never Mind The Presents. Gentlemen?

# Christmas turkey, you can stuff it

# Roast potatoes, sprouts and all

# Who's this geezer, Father Christmas?

# He got stoned and lost control

-# Hey, Santa

-What?

# Leave the booze alone

# Drank so much that he drove his sleigh through the wall

# Didn't we have a lovely time at the office Christmas party?

# We finished our work and all went berserk

# And grabbed the nearest secretary

# Mr Mackay had threw a mince pie

# And someone dropped a stink bomb

# We all said, "Phwoar!" And ran out the door

# Till the bomb died down

# The cleaner girl She lifted her skirt

# And did the hokey-cokey

# Old Mrs Swift got stuck in the lift

# It wouldn't go up or down you know

# The manageress, she ruined her dress

# As she fell into the trifle

# Said something obscene on the telex machine

# And the shares went down

# Then a knock on door and in came the law and we all went home

# I'm only a poor little fairy

-# Stuck on the top of the three

-What a shame

# They switched on the lights

# And bang went my tights

-# Then my legs fell off, 1, 2, 3

-1, 2, 3

# A chocolate soldier called Nigel

# He didn't like fairies, he said

# I know it sounds duff But I had the last laugh

# When somebody bit off his head

# We are the gnomes and the goblins

# Who come down from Greenland each year

# We sit on the shelves and beat up the elves

# And all have a happy new year That's nice

# Christmas turkey, you can stuff it... #

It's getting very much like pantomime tonight on Top of the Pops

because here, live before your very eyes, it's only Little and Large!

CHEERING

Oi, oi!

-Oi! Shut up!

-What are you doing here?

We're looking for Christmas trees to stand on top of.

Sydney, tell Simon what we doing here.

We've just finished our Christmas television show.

It comes out on Saturday, Simon.

What time? BOTH: 7:40.

What are you going to do after that?

After that we start rehearsals for our two-week show

at the Apollo, Victoria.

Commencing when?

-Er...

-BOTH: Boxing Day.

With Sheena Easton and she lent me this.

What about the BBC television series? Coming on?

Yes, the end of January.

What do you think of pop at the moment? The charts?

Pop's brilliant. Brilliant.

Pass, pass!

Some of the cover versions!

Police have done the one Eddie Waring should have done.

Da-da, di-da-da!

-MIMICKS EDDIE WARING:

-It's exciting.

The Boom Town Rats have been chased up the charts by Stray Cats.

And what about those three in the line? There's Baggy Trousers

followed by Flash, followed by Embarrassment.

LAUGHTER

All right, let me ask you one more question.

-Go on, Simon.

-How do you feel about The Specials?

Oh, I love Specials. He likes Special Brew

and he went to a special school!

Get a load of this! It's The Specials, of course.

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: Do Nothing by The Specials

# Each day I walk along this lonely street

# Trying to find, find a future

# New pair of shoes are on my feet

# Cos fashion is my only culture

# Nothing ever change, oh, no...

# Nothing ever change

# People say to me just be yourself

# It makes no sense to follow fashion

# How could I be anybody else

# I don't try, I've got no reason

# Nothing ever change, oh, no...

# Nothing ever change

# I'm just living in a life without... meaning

# I walk and walk, do nothing

# I'm just living in a life without... feeling

# I talk and talk, say nothing

# Nothing ever change, oh, no...

# Nothing ever change

# I walk along this same old lonely street

# Still trying to find, find a reason

# Policeman comes and smacks me in the teeth

# I don't complain, it's not my function

# Nothing ever change, oh, no...

# Nothing ever change

# They're just living in a life without...meaning

# I walk and walk, do nothing

# They're just playing in a life without...thinking

# They talk and talk, say nothing

# I'm just living in a life without...feeling

# I walk and walk, I'm dreaming... #

APPLAUSE

The Specials and Do Nothing.

A couple of quick things to say. First, if you haven't done all

your Christmas shopping yet, try this for size.

Only the best of Top of the Pops.

It's out now, available with wonderful gramophone records inside

and, what's more, Legs & Co on the front.

So that's pretty good.

And congratulations to BBC2 over the other side of the way,

for their Not The Nine O'Clock News series, and to BBC Records

because they've just gone platinum with Not The Nine O'Clock News album.

That's 350,000 copies, which is a good Christmas present for anybody.

Now a chance to introduce you to a guy you might have thought

you'd never see on Top of the Pops again.

He's just got his pilot's license today. He's chuffed to bits.

It's Gary Newman and its Wreckage, live!

APPLAUSE

MUSIC: Wreckage by Gary Newman

# And what if God's dead

# We must have done something wrong

# This dark facade ends

# We're independent from someone

# This wreckage I call me

# Would like to frame your voice

# This wreckage I call me

# Would like to meet you, meet you soon

# We write suggestions

# Suggesting fading to silence

And that must please you

# My mirror's tarnished with "No Help"

# This wreckage I call me

# Would like to frame your voice

# This wreckage I call me

# Would like to meet you, meet you...soon

JAPANESE LYRICS: # Owakare yo

# Owakare yo

# Turn out these eyes

# Wipe off my face

# Erase me

# Replay "The end"

# It's all just show

# Erase you

# I need to

# I need to

# I need to

# This wreckage I call me

# Would like to frame your voice

# This wreckage I call me

# Would like to leave you, leave you

# Leave you, leave you...soon

JAPANESE LYRICS: # Owakare yo

JAPANESE LYRICS: # Owakare yo... #

APPLAUSE

This is Mummy Claus.

It's a good family life we have on Top of the Pops.

There is a gentleman called Robert Palmer

who had a beautiful single out a while back called John and Mary

which wasn't a massive hit.

Try this new one, Looking For Clues.

# It's crazy but I'm frightened by the sound of the telephone

# Oh yeah

# I worry that the caller might have awful news

# Oh my

# Who knows these days Where on earth the money goes,

# Oh yeah

# No doubt we could put it to a better use

# Oh my

# You keep insisting that nobody showed you how to keep relationships,

# Oh yeah

# Your daddy made a real good try

# Oh my

# You said you knew all along we could work it out

# Oh yeah

# Do you have to make a fuss everytime we fly?

# Oh, I'm looking for clues

# I have to make an effort now just to be serious

# Oh yeah

# Nobody's gonna give you the benefit of the doubt

# Oh my

# Everytime I pick a paper up it's harder to believe the news

# Oh yeah

# I'm gonna have to shake it up and twist and shout

# Oh my

# You can't do nothing that you don't put your mind to

# Oh yeah

# I suspected all along you were a dream come true

# Oh my

# I'm never in the dark cos my heart keeps me well informed

# Oh yeah

# I'm convinced that there's a way of getting through to you

# Ooh, I'm looking for clues... #

Robert Palmer. In case you hadn't noticed,

next Thursday is Christmas Day

and we're not in our usual slot.

Where we are is two o'clock in the afternoon as the first

of two special Top of the Pops shows having a look at the records

that made it in 1980.

Christmas Day, two o'clock, and also a 45-minute special

on New Year's Day.

Don't miss them and don't miss the new chart either.

Here are Chas and Dave at 18 with Rabbit.

# Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

# Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

-# Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

-Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

# Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

# You've got a beautiful chin

# You got beautiful skin

# You got a beautiful smile

# You got style

# You got a beautiful nose

# You got beautiful toes

# You got a lot without a doubt

# But I'm finking 'bout blowin' you out

# Cos you won't stop talkin'

# Why don't you give it a rest?

# You got more rabbit than Sainsbury's

# It's time you got it off your chest

# Now you is just the kinda girl to break my heart in two

# I knew right off when I first clapped my eyes on you

# But how was I to know you'd bend my earholes too?

# With your incessant talkin'

# You're becoming a pest

# Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

# Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

-# Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

-Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

# Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

# Now you're a wonderful girl

# You got a wonderful smell

# You got wonderful arms

# You got charm

# You got wonderful 'air

# We make a wonderful pair

# Now I don't mind havin' a chat

# But you have to keep givin' it that

# No, you won't stop talkin'

# Why don't you give it a rest?

# You got more rabbit than Sainsbury's

# It's time you got it off your chest

# Now you is just the kinda girl to break my heart in two

# I knew right-off when I first clapped my eyes on you

# But how was I to know you'd bend my earholes too?

# With your incessant talkin'

# You're becoming a pest

# Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

# Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

# Yup-yup yup-yup rabbit yup-yup Rabbit, rabbit yup-yup yup

# Bunny, bunny, jabber-jabber, bunny jabber, rabbit. #

APPLAUSE

I don't believe it. That's Chas And Dave and Rabbit.

Now, then, have a look at this because we'll pick up the charts

at 17 and see exactly what's going down and, more to the point,

what's climbing in this week's chart.

And down go AC/DC to 17,

Kool And The Gang are at 16,

and Status Quo up to 15.

Blondie's The Tide Is High is at 14.

Kenny Rogers' Lady's at 13,

Flash by Queen at number 12

and Eddy Grant's Do You Feel My Love at number 11.

Just talking about rabbits a moment ago, wherever you look in

the Top Of The Pops studio tonight, there are Nolans everywhere.

# Ooh

# Oh, well

# Ooh, tonight I'll be holdin' you tight

# Makin' out that everything is fine

# To the crowd we'll be laughing out loud

# But they won't know the heartache on my mind

# I'll wear a smile and keep on dancin'

# Honey, when the night is over, I'll be askin'

# Darlin'

# Who's gonna rock gonna rock you now?

# Who's gonna put out your fire?

# Fire

# Who's gonna rock gonna rock you now?

# Who's gonna fill your desire?

# Well

# All around, movin' up getting down

# Party people freakin' in their groove

# They can't see what is happenin' to me

# Thinkin' 'bout the love I'm gonna lose

# I'll wear a smile and keep on dancin'

# Honey, when the night is over, I'll be askin'

# Darlin'

# Who's gonna rock gonna rock you now?

# Who's gonna put out your fire?

# Fire

# Who's gonna rock gonna rock you now?

# Who's gonna fill your desire?

# Well

# I'll wear a smile and keep on dancin'

# Honey, when the night is over, I'll be askin'

# Darlin', darlin'

# Who's gonna rock gonna rock you now?

# Who's gonna put out your fire?

# Who's gonna rock gonna rock you now?

# Who's gonna fill your desire?

# Who's gonna rock gonna rock you now?

# Who's gonna put out your fire?

-# Fire

-Tell me

# Who's gonna rock gonna rock you now? #

APPLAUSE

All right, there's the Nolans and now a few success stories.

Well, they're from the top ten,

so they really are success stories in pop music terms.

Featuring the rise and rise of Adam And The Ants,

up six places with Antmusic.

# Try another flavour... #

Bit of rockabilly from Stray Cats,

they're climbing up one place to number nine with Runaway Boys.

# Runaway boys... #

Down go Spandau Ballet with To Cut A Long Story Short

to number eight.

# To cut a long story short I lost my mind... #

And a surprise plummet for Boomtown Rats,

they're down two places to seven with Banana Republic.

# Sounds like dying... #

Madness have slipped two places as well, Embarrassment's at number six.

# The intention that you have booked

# Was an intention that you overlooked... #

Things to celebrate, The Police are giving live gigs in this

country over the next week

and they're up four places to number five with

De Do Do Do.

# De Da Da Da

# Their innocence will pull me through... #

# Super Trooper... #

From number one down to number four this week, ABBA and Super Trooper.

# Smiling, having fun

# Feeling like a number one. #

You might recall a single called

You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties

about nine months ago.

Here's the new hit from Jona Lewie at number three, 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 win 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-a dub-a dum-dum

# Dub-a dub-a dum dub-a dum-dum dubadum

# Dub-a dub-a dum

# Dub-a dub-a dum-dum

# Dub-a dub-a dum dub-a dum-dum dubadum

# Dub-a dub-a dum

# Wish I was at home for Christmas

# Bang, that's another bomb on another town

# While Luzar 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-a dub-a dum-dum

# Dub-a dub-a dum dub-a dum-dum dubadum

# Dub-a dub-a dum

# Dub-a dub-a dum-dum

# Dub-a dub-a dum dub-a dum-dum dubadum

# Dub-a dub-a 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. #

APPLAUSE

Jona Lewie, of course, at number three.

At number two it's St Winifred's School.

Now don't forget our two Christmas specials

on Christmas Day and on New Year's Day.

We wish you a happy Christmas and have a marvellous time.

We'll go out with the number one, of course,

it's John Lennon, Just Like Starting Over.

# Our life together is so precious together

# We have grown

# We have grown

# Although our love is still special

# Let's take a chance and fly away

# Somewhere alone

# It's been too long since we took the time

# No-one's to blame

# I know time flies so quickly

# But when I see you, darling

# It's like we both are falling in love again

# It'll be just like starting over

# Starting over

# Everyday we used to make it love

# Why can't we be making love nice and easy?

# It's time to spread our wing's and fly

# Don't let another day go by, my love

# It'll be just like starting over

# Starting over

# Why don't we take off alone?

# Take a trip somewhere far, far away

# We'll be together all alone again

# Like we used to in the early days

# Well, well, darling

# It's been too long since we took the time

# No-one's to blame

# I know time flies so quickly

# But when I see you, darling

# It's like we both are falling in love again

# It'll be just like starting over

# Starting over

# Our life together is so precious together

# We have grown

# We have grown

# Although our love is still special

# Let's take a chance and fly away somewhere

# Starting over

# Starting over

# Starting over. #