20/12/1984 Top of the Pops

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It's fun, we're having a party. Welcome to Top Of The Pops.

-He's very fragile.

-I'm not, really. It's the office party.

It's a Christmassy atmosphere.

It's not a Christmas programme, but it is a Christmas record.

It's Roy Wood, back on Top Of The Pops, from three years ago.

Same record - I wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day.

-With the Kempsey School.

-That's right.

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# When the snowman brings the snow

# Well, he just might like to know

# He's put a great big smile

# On somebody's face

# If you jump into your bed

# Quickly cover up your head

# Don't you lock the doors

# You know that sweet Santa Claus is on the way

# Oh, well, I wish it could be Christmas every day

# When the kids start singing and the band begins to play

# Oh, I wish it could be Christmas every day

# Let the bells ring out for Christmas

# When we're skating in the park

# If the storm cloud makes it dark

# Then your rosy cheeks are going to light my merry way

# Now the frosticles appear

# And they've frozen up my beard

# So, we'll lie by the fire

# Till the sleep simply knocks 'em all away

# Well, I wish it could be Christmas every day

# When the kids start singing and the band begins to play

# Oh, I wish it could be Christmas every day

# So, let the bells ring out for Christmas

-# When the snowman brings the snow

-When the snowman brings the snow

-# Well, he just might like to know

-He just might like to know

# He's put a great big smile on somebody's face

-# So, if Santa brings that sleigh

-Santa brings that sleigh

-# All along the Milky Way

-Along the Milky Way

# I'll sign my name on the rooftop in the snow

# Then he may decide to stay

# Well, I wish it could be Christmas every day

# When the kids start singing and the band begins to play

# Oh, I wish it could be Christmas every day

# So, let the bells ring out for Christmas... #

OK, you lot, take it!

# Well, I wish it could be Christmas every day

# Christmas, baby

# When the kids start singing and the band begins to play

# Oh

# I wish it could be Christmas every day

# Let the bells ring out for Christmas

# Why don't you give your love

# For Christmas? #

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Brilliant. Well done, Kempsey Primary School.

I'm really in the Christmas spirit now.

Paul McCartney is at three this week, with "Nibbit, nibbit, nibbit".

This is the Frog Chorus.

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Ribbit! Ribbit!

# Bom bom bom

# Bom bom bom

# Bom bom bom bom bom

# Win or lose

# Sink or swim

# One thing is certain

# We'll never give in

# Side by side

# Hand in hand

# We all stand together, bom bom

-# Bom bom bom

-Aye-i aye

-# Bom bom bom

-Aye-i aye

# Play the game

# Fight the fight

# But what's the point

# On a beautiful night?

# Arm in arm

# Hand in hand

-# We all stand together

-Bom bom

# Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah

# Keeping us warm in the night

# Bom ba ba bom bom

# Lah-lah-lah-lah

# Walk in the night

# You'll get it right

# Win or lose

# Sink or swim

# One thing is certain

# We'll never give in

# Arm in arm

# Hand in hand

# We all stand together

# Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah

# Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah

# Lah-lah-lah-lah-lah

# Lah-lah-lah-lah

# We all

# Stand

# Together. #

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That's Paul McCartney with a frog in his throat.

It's also a great single.

It's 28 minutes away from 8, we're live and, to prove it,

Bronski Beat on Top Of The Pops.

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# Da da da da dee da dum de

# Ba ra ba da da dee da dum doo

# Ba ra dum de, ba ra dum de

# Da ra doo de

# It ain't necessarily so

# Ain't necessarily so

# Things that you're liable to read in the Bible

# Ain't necessarily so

# David was small but, oh, my

# David was small but, oh, my

# He shot Goliath who lay down and dieth

# David was small but, oh, my

# David was small but, oh, my

# Da da da da dee da dum doo

# Da da da da da dee da dum de

# Ba ra dum de, ba ra dum de

# Da ra doo de

# Now, Jonah, he lived in a whale

# Jonah, he lived in a whale

# He made his home in that fish's abdomen

# Jonah, he lived in a whale

# Jonah, he lived in a whale

# Moses was found on a stream

# Moses was found on a stream

# Floated on water Old Pharaoh's daughter

# Fished him, she says, from that stream

# It ain't necessarily so

# It ain't necessarily so

# Things that you're liable to read in the Bible

# Ain't necessarily so

# Ain't necessarily

# Ain't necessarily

# Ain't necessarily

# Ain't necessarily

# Ain't necessarily

# Ain't necessarily

# Ain't necessarily so. #

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Bronski Beat. You should check out the B-side of that

cos it's wonderful. It's called Close To The Edge.

Spandau Ballet have been really busy this year. Enjoying yourself?

They're at 19 this week, with Round And Round And Round...

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# Oh, I don't have to be so wise

# You're just my fantasy and I will fantasise

# Something more or less to make this things started

# We're the artisans and we've been crafted

# I want to be your magical mystery

# I want to be your final history

# This is the news

# Nothing's ever been so wild

# All that I get to do is what I give to you

# This is all about the circles we've found

# And through the ups and downs it goes round

# Oh, I was just beginning to grow strong

# She was only 18 summers long

# Oh, we were the news

# Round and round it goes

# And, oh, don't you know

# This is the game that we came here for

# Round and round it goes

# And, oh, don't you know

# Ooh

# Oh, I don't have to be so wise

# You're just my fantasy and I will fantasise

# Something more or less to make things started

# We're the artisans and we've been crafted

# I want to be your magical mystery

# I want to be your final history

# This is the news

# Round and round it goes

# And, oh, don't you know

# Ooh, this is the game that we came here for

# Round and round it goes

# And, oh, don't you know... #

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Spandau Ballet, who appeared with the Prince of Wales

when he was in Edinburgh on Tuesday night,

making a lot of money for charity as well.

And if you want to spot a few stars on Top Of The Pops tonight,

now is your chance. Here's the Council Collective

and their new single which is called Soul Deep. Over here.

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# Getcha mining soul deep with a lesson in history

# There's people fighting for their communities

# Don't say this struggle does not involve you

# If you're from the working class this is your struggle too

# If they spent more on life as they do on death

# We might find the money to make industry progress

# There's mud in the water There's lies upon the page

# There's blood on the hillsides but they're not getting paid

# There's brother against brother There's fathers against sons

# But as for solidarity, I don't see none

# See them

# Soul deep

# Lesson in history

# Going on ten months now Will it take another ten?

# Living on the breadline with what some people send

# Just where is the backing from the TUC?

# If we aren't united there can only be defeat

# Think of all those brave men, women and children alike

# Who built up the unions so others might survive

# In better conditions than abject misery

# Not supporting the miners betrays that legacy

# There's mud in the water There's lies upon the page

# There's blood on the hillsides and they're not getting paid

# There's brother against brother There's fathers against sons

# But as for solidarity, I don't see none... #

# Up north the temperature's rising

# Down south she's wining and dining

# We can't afford to let the government win

# It means death to the trade unions

# And the cash it costs to close 'em

# Is better spent trying to keep them open

# She makes a mockery of the unity

# Got us puppets on the chains of inhumanity

# Try to feel the pain in those seeds planted

# Now are the things that we take for granted

# Like the power to strike if we don't agree

# With the bosses that make those policies

-# That keep us down

-And keep us dumb

# So don't settle for less than number one

# Strike back, fight back, let's change that

# No pit stops, no closures

# We want the truth We want disclosure now! #

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That's the Council Collective. Is that good or is that good?

That is very good. Who did you spot?

Jimmy Ruffin, Paul Weller, also Junior Giscombe.

What about Steve White on percussion?

Where The Rose Is Sown.

So Near To Christmas.

Caribbean Queen.

Soul Deep.

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day.

Private Dancer.

I Just Called To Say I Love You.

It Ain't Necessarily So.

The Wild Boys.

Treat Her Like A Lady.

Let It All Blow.

Hard Habit To Break.

Respect Yourself.

NeverEnding Story.

On Top Of The Pops, at number 26,

and here with their new video,

a future number one from Foreigner,

I Want To Know What Love Is.

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# I got to take a little time

# A little time to think things over

# I'd better read between the lines

# In case I need it when I'm older

# Oh

# Oh-oh

# Now this mountain I must climb

# Feels like the world upon my shoulder

# Through the clouds I see love shine

# It keeps me warm as life grows colder

# In my life

# There's been heartache and pain

# I don't know if I can face it again

# Can't stop now

# I've travelled so far

# To change this lonely life

# I want to know what love is

# I want you to show me

# I want to feel what love is

# I know you can show me

# Oh

# I'm going to take a little time

# A little time to look around me

# I've got nowhere left to hide

# It looks like love has finally found me

# In my life

# There's been heartache and pain

# I don't know if I can face it again

# I can't stop now

# I've travelled so far

# To change this lonely life

# I want to know what love is

# I want you to show me

# I want to feel what love is... #

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Foreigner and I want YOU to know what love is.

Tom Bailey's playing keyboards on that.

OK, let's go back to the charts, starting at 25 this time.

All Join Hands.

Louise.

Invisible.

Thank God It's Christmas.

I Feel For You.

Lay Your Hands On Me.

Round And Round.

I Should Have Known Better.

Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four).

I Won't Run Away.

In the charts again, Ghostbusters.

One Night In Bangkok.

Shout.

Fresh.

Teardrops.

But we go back to number 23.

Brilliant people, the Thompson Twins and Lay Your Hands On Me.

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# This old life seemed much too long

# With little point in going on

# I couldn't think of what to say

# Words just vanished in a haze

# I was feeling cold and tired

# Yeah, kind of sad and uninspired

# When it almost seemed too much

# I see your face and sense the grace

# And feel the magic in your touch

# Oh, lay your hands

# Lay your hands on me

# Oh, lay your hands

# Ooh-ooh

# Oh, lay your hands

# Oh, lay your hands on me

# Back and forth across the sea

# I have chased so many dreams

# But I have never felt a grace

# That I have felt in your embrace

# I was tired and I was cold

# Yeah, with a hunger in my soul

# When it almost seemed too much

# I see your face and sense the grace

# And feel the magic of your touch

# Oh, lay your hands

# Oh, lay your hands on me

# Oh, lay your hands

# Ooh-ooh

# Oh, lay your hands

# Oh, lay your hands on me

# Oh-oh

# You know you make me feel so good

# Yeah, like I never, ever thought I would

# You know you make me feel so strong

# And now our laughter just goes on and on

# So, come on, lay your hands on me

# Cos close to you is where I really want to be

# And if it ever gets too much

# I see your face and sense the grace

# And feel the magic in our touch

# Oh, lay your hands

# Lay your hands on me

# Oh, lay your hands

# Ooh-ooh

# Oh, lay your hands

# Oh, lay your hands on me

# Oh, lay your hands

# Oh, lay your hands

# Oh, lay your hands

# Lay your hands on me

# Oh, lay your hands on me

# Ooh-ooh

# Oh, lay your hands

# Oh, lay your hands on me

# Oh, lay your hands

# Oh... #

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Just a few presents for the Thompson Twins.

They're on BBC ONE on Christmas Day morning.

Thank you for these. It's back to the charts.

The top ten now, starting, of course, at ten.

Do The Conga.

Everything Must Change.

The Riddle.

Another Rock And Roll Christmas.

Nellie The Elephant.

The Power Of Love.

Like A Virgin.

We All Stand Together.

Last Christmas.

At Number one, for the second week running,

it's the biggest and the fastest-selling single of all time.

It certainly is, Janice. It's Band Aid and Do They Know It's Christmas.

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# It's Christmas time

# There's no need to be afraid

# At Christmas time

# We let in light and we banish shade

# And in our world of plenty

# We can spread a smile of joy

# Throw your arms around the world

# At Christmas time

# But say a prayer

# To pray for the other ones

# At Christmas time

# It's hard

# But when you're having fun

# There's a world outside your window

# And it's a world of dread and fear

# Where the only water flowing is

# The bitter sting of tears

# And the Christmas bells that ring there

# Are the clanging chimes of doom

# Well tonight, thank God it's them

# Instead of you

# And there won't be snow in Africa

# This Christmas time

# The greatest gift they'll get this year is life

# Oooh

# Where nothing ever grows

# No rain or rivers flow

# Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

# Oh-oh

# Here's to you

# Raise a glass for everyone

# Here's to them

# Underneath that burning sun

# Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

# Feed the world

# Feed the world

# Feed the world

# Let them know it's Christmas time again

# Feed the world

# Let them know it's Christmas time again

# Feed the world

# Let them know it's Christmas time again

# Feed the world

# Let them know it's Christmas time again

# Feed the world

# Let them know it's Christmas time again... #

Band Aid, Do They Know It's Christmas.

See you soon. Merry Christmas!

# ..In your neighbourhood

# Who you going to call?

# Ghostbusters

# If there's something weird

# And it don't look good

# Who you going to call?

# Ghostbusters

# I ain't afraid of no ghost

# I ain't afraid of no ghost

# If you're seeing things

# Running through your head

# Who can you call?

# Ghostbusters

# An invisible man

# Sleeping in your bed

# Who you going to call?

# Ghostbusters... #