19/01/1984 Top of the Pops

Hello, it's Thursday night, it's the biggest pop party in Britain, it's Top Of The Pops.

And we've got six tunes tonight that are totally new

to Top Of The Pops, kicking off with this one.

It'll clear the wax out of your ears.

Whitesnake are here with their new single.

# I want you

# I need you around

# But you keep saying, babe

# It's gonna take time

# I know the heartache

# I put you through

# Believe me, babe

# I'm gonna make it up to you

# You are the reason

# I'm down on my knees

# I'm begging you to give me a chance

# If only you would

# Give me just a little more time

# Give me just a little more time

# Give me just a little more time

# Give me just a little more time

# To prove it to you

# So many feelings

# I can't explain

# I never thought I'd ever cause you any pain

# Now I'm alone here

# And I can't hide

# The sun don't shine for me without you by my side

# You are the reason

# I'm down on my knees

# I'm begging you to give me a chance

# If only you would

# Give me just a little more time

# Give me just a little more time

# Give me just a little more time

# Give me just a little more time

# To prove it to you

# I'm gonna prove it

# Wo-oah

# I want you

# Right by my side

# Cos you're the only one who keeps me satisfied

# I need your loving

# I need your charms

# I can't stand the thought of you

# In someone else's arms

# You are the reason

# I'm down on my knees

# I'm begging you to give me a chance

# If only you would

# Give me just a little more time

# Give me just a little more time

# Give me just a little more time

# Give me just a little more time

# Give me just a little more time

# Baby, give me just a little more time

# Give me just a little more time

# You got to give me just a little more time

# To prove it to you

# And I'm gonna prove it. #

APPLAUSE

Not bad, huh? That's Whitesnake and Give Me More Time.

They start their British tour in February.

Don't miss it, whatever you do.

A little more news about our video award on Top Of The Pops coming up later,

but here's Big Country, from Scotland, and Wonderland.

# If you could feel how I must feel

# The winds of quiet change

# If you could see what I must see

# Still hidden in the rain

# But when the thunder rolls

# It comes and covers up my soul

# And you will take my hand

# And be with me in wonderland

# I am an honest man

# I need the love of you

# I am a working man

# I feel the winter too

# Hey

# Oh-oh-ohh

# Hey-hey

# If you could hear what I must hear

# Then nothing would replace

# The 50 years of sweat and tears

# That never left a trace

# But when I look at you

# I see you feel the same way too

# And you will take my hand

# And be with me in wonderland

# I am an honest man

# I need the love of you

# I am a working man

# I feel the winter too

# You still remember other days

# When every head was high

# I watched that pride be torn apart

# Beneath a darker sky

# With innocence within ourselves

# We sing the same old song

# And you will take my hand

# And make believe it's wonderland

# I need the love of you

# I am a working man

# I feel the winter too

# I am an honest man

# I need the love of you

# I am a working man

# I feel the winter too

# Wonderland

# Wonderland. #

APPLAUSE

It's Big Country and Wonderland.

Look out for their LP The Crossing,

one of the biggest-selling albums of 1983.

OK, from Scotland, a new band in the chart this week

as a high, high new entry.

It is called Feels Like Heaven, the band are Fiction Factory.

# Heaven is closer now today

# The sound is in my ears

# I can't believe the things you say

# They echo what I fear

# Twisting the bones until they snap

# I scream but no-one knows

# You say I'm familiar Cold to touch

# And then you turn and go

# Feels like heaven

# Feels like heaven

# See how we planned for saddened eyes

# And tears to pave the way

# I fought the fever as I knew

# My hair returned to grey

# Study your face and fade the frame

# Too close for comfort now

# We can recall the harmony

# That lingered but turned sour

# Feels like heaven

# Feels like heaven

# You wanted all I had to give

# See me, I feel

# See me, I live

# Feels like heaven

# Heaven is closer Heaven is closer

# Feels like heaven

# Heaven is closer Heaven is closer

# Feels like heaven

# Heaven is closer Heaven is closer

# Feels like heaven

# Heaven is closer Heaven is closer

-# Feels like heaven... #

-APPLAUSE

So that's their Top Of The Pops debut, Fiction Factory,

a brilliant song, and Feels Like Heaven.

OK, a reminder now about the Top Of The Pops British Video Award.

Which we're rather proud about, because the Top Of The Pops Video British Award,

and the "British" is the important one about that,

is the first time it's ever been part of the Rock and Pop Awards,

which of course happens a little later on.

What we'd like you to vote for is the top video that you saw in 1983.

Now, it's got to be a British act or a British band

or a British individual taking part in it,

but it can be produced by anybody.

You can vote for any video that was produced in 1983

that you saw that year,

and it'll get the award, when the votes are counted up,

as being the Top Of The Pops British Video Award for 1983.

Now, you might need a few suggestions,

so here's a tape we strung together on Top Of The Pops.

And what we've done is,

not put together things you have to vote for, but some ideas.

There's The Police and Every Breath You Take.

Or a flashy bit of video production from Genesis, how about Mama?

There's Rod Stewart's Baby Jane. Perhaps that'd be your choice.

Made last year, so of course it qualifies,

Paul McCartney's Pipes Of Peace video.

The very clever Tray Ullman and Move Over Darling.

If you don't like the funnies,

how about Ultravox and Visions In Blue?

Howard Jones and Mental Chains may be your choice.

And a classic piece of video from Bonnie Tyler -

Total Eclipse Of The Heart, maybe?

There's Madness, always good for a laugh and always a good video,

Wings Of A Dove.

Or stick with a groover, maybe.

Elton John and Kiss The Bride might be one of your choices.

So there's just some ideas.

When you've made your decision send it to this address

on a postcard, please.

Let's get back to the music on Top Of The Pops.

Here's China Crisis, a first-timer, it's Wishful Thinking.

# It's time we should talk about it

# There's no secrets kept in here

# Forgive me for asking

# Now wipe away your tears

# And if I wish to stop it all

# And if I wish to comfort the fall

# It's just wishful thinking

# I sat on the roof

# And watched the day go by

# I see the likeness in his smile

# And the way he stands

# Makes it all worth while

# And if I wish to stop it all

# And if I wish to comfort the fall

# It's just wishful thinking

# It's time we should talk about it

# There's no secrets kept in here

# I see the likeness in his smile

# And the way he stands

# Makes it all worth while

# And if I wish to stop it all

# And if I wish to comfort the fall

# And if I wish to stop it all

# And if I wish to comfort the fall

# It's just wishful thinking. #

APPLAUSE

So many good records have appeared in the chart since Christmas, that's just one.

It's China Crisis and Wishful Thinking.

OK, let's take a look at the chart and see how things are happening.

And it's a chart entry at number 40. Holiday by Madonna.

Human Touch.

I Can Help.

Where Is My Man?

Move Over Darling.

Sixteen.

Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?

Uptown Girl.

Many Rivers To Cross.

Break My Stride.

My Oh My.

Give Me More Time.

Feels Like Heaven.

Let's Stay Together.

Sweet Surrender.

Only You.

At 24, and on Top Of The Pops, I Am What I am.

Here's Gloria Gaynor.

# I am what I am

# I am my own special creation

# So come take a look

# Give me the hook or the ovation

# It's my world that I want to have a little pride in

# My world and it's not a place I have to hide in

# Life's not worth a damn

# Till you can say

# I am what I am

# I am what I am

# I don't want praise I don't want pity

# I bang my own drum

# Some think it's noise I think it's pretty

# And so what if I love each sparkle and each bangle

# Why not try to see things from a different angle?

# Your life is a sham

# Till you can shout out

# I am what I am

# I am what I am

# And what I am needs no excuses

# I deal my own deck

# Sometimes the ace Sometimes the deuces

# It's one life and there's no return and no deposit

# One life

# So it's time to open up your closet

# Life's not worth a dam

# Till you can shout out

# I am what I am

# I am what I am

# And what I am needs no excuses

# I deal my own deck

# Sometimes the ace Sometimes the deuces

# It's one life and there's no return and no deposit

# One life

# So it's time to open up your closet

# Life's not worth a damn

# Till you can shout out

# I am what I am

# I am, I am, I am useful

# I am, I am, I am true

# I am, I am somebody

# I am as good as you

# I am

# I am

# I am. #

APPLAUSE

That's Gloria Gaynor at 24 and I Am What I Am.

OK, now let's go back to this week's 23.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.

Victims.

Rat Rapping.

Here Comes The Rain Again.

Straight Ahead.

Thriller.

King Of Pain.

Wishful Thinking.

Love Is A Wonderful Colour.

Love Of The Common People.

Wonderland.

Hold Me Now.

And at 11, and see and hear, John Lennon - Nobody Told Me.

Three, four.

# Everybody's talking and no-one says a word

# Everybody's making love and no-one really cares

# There's Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs

# Always something happening and nothing going on

# There's always something cooking and nothing in the pot

# They're starving back in China so finish what you got

# Nobody told me there'd be days like these

# Nobody told me there'd be days like these

# Nobody told me there'd be days like these

# Strange days indeed

# Strange days indeed

# Everybody's runnin' and no-one makes a move

# Everyone's a winner and nothing left to lose

# There's a little yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu

# Everybody's flying and no-one leaves the ground

# Everybody's crying and no-one makes a sound

# There's a place for us in movies You just gotta lay around

# Nobody told me there'd be days like these

# Nobody told me there'd be days like these

# Nobody told me there'd be days like these

# Strange days indeed

# Most peculiar, Mama

# Everybody's smoking and no-one's getting high

# Everybody's flying and never touch the sky

# There's UFOs over New York and I ain't too surprised

# Nobody told me there'd be days like these

# Nobody told me there'd be days like these

# Nobody told me there'd be days like these

# Strange days indeed

# Most peculiar, Mama... #

APPLAUSE

John Lennon, and it will climb next week, watch my words.

And that's Nobody Told Me.

OK, back to the charts, and the ten best sellers of the weeks.

Islands In The Stream.

Running With The Night.

Tell Her About It.

Marguerita Time.

Bird Of Paradise.

A Rocking Good Way.

That's Livin' Alright.

What Is Love?

Relax.

And at number one for the second week,

it's Paul McCartney's Pipes Of Peace.

# I light a candle to our love

# In love our problems disappear

# But all in all, we soon discover

# That one and one is all we long to hear

# All round the world

# Little children being born to the world

# Got to give them all we can till the war is won

# Then will the work be done

-# Help them to learn

-Help them to learn

# Songs of joy instead of burn, baby, burn

# Burn, baby, burn

# Let us show them how to play

# The pipes of peace

# Play the pipes of peace

# Help me to learn songs of joy Instead of burn, baby, burn

-# Won't you show me how to play

-How to play

-# The pipes of peace

-Pipes of peace

# Play the pipes of peace

-# What do you say?

-What do you say?

# Will the human race be run in a day

# In a day

# Or will someone save this planet we're playing on?

# Is it the only one?

# What are we gonna do?

-# Help them to see

-Help them to see

# That the people here are like you and me

# Like you and me

-# Let us show them how to play

-How to play

-# The pipes of peace

-Pipes of peace

# Play the pipes of peace

# Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

# I light a candle to our love

# In love our problems disappear

# But all in all, we soon discover

# That one and one is all we long to hear. #

APPLAUSE

We play out with The Police - King Of Pain.

And until next week, have yourselves a great time, won't you?

And don't forget to vote for the British Video Top Of The Pops Award.

-Goodnight.

-Bye-bye.

# There's a flag pole rag and the wind won't stop

# That's my soul up there

# I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

# With the world turning circles running 'round my brain

# I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

# But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

# There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall

# That's my soul up there

# There's a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall

# That's my soul up there

# There's a blue whale beached by a springtide's ebb

# That's my soul up there

# There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web

# That's my soul up there

# I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

# With the world turning circles running 'round my brain

# I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

# But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

# There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out

# There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt

# There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed

# There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread

# King of pain

# There's a red fox torn by a huntsman's pack

# That's my soul up there

# There's a black-winged gull with a broken back

# That's my soul up there

# There's a little black spot on the sun today. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING