21/02/1985 Top of the Pops

Hello! Another great edition of Top Of The Pops

lined up for you tonight. Bruno Brookes and myself

have escaped from Radio 1, just for the night.

Right, and we're going to get going with Howard Jones at number six,

and Things Can Only Get Better!

APPLAUSE

# We're not scared to lose it all

# Security thrown through the wall

# Future dreams we have to realise

# A thousand sceptic hands

# Won't keep us from the things we plan

# Unless we're clinging to the things we prize

# And do you feel scared? I do

# But I won't stop and falter

# And if we threw it all away

# Things can only get better

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

# Treating today as though it was

# The last, the final show

# Get to 60 and feel no regrets

# It may take a little time

# A lonely path, an uphill climb

# Success or failure will not alter it

# And do you feel scared? I do

# And I won't stop and falter

# And if they threw it all away

# Things can only get better

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa

# And do you feel scared? I do

# But I won't stop and falter

# And if we threw it all away

# Things can only get better

# Ah!

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa

# Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

# Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Howard Jones and Things Can Only Get Better,

and a guest appearance from Jed Hoile as Charlie Chaplin. Great.

All right, just to prove that unusual combinations work,

here's Gary Numan and Bill Sharpe, and Change Your Mind.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Why don't you ever listen?

# It's you I'm talking to

# This time it's your decision

# We're into something new

# I know that I'm thinking

# Oh, any fool can see

# Time that I was thinking

# Of no-one else but me

# Change your mind

# Nothing ever stays the same

# Change your mind

# No-one ever plays the game, game, game

# Change your mind

# Give them what you can't defend

# Change your mind

# Think it up and start again, 'gain, 'gain

# Why can't you reconsider?

# Listen if you can

# Take familiar giver

# Reject me if you dare

# Give me what I'm asking

# And save it all for me

# Love that's everlasting

# Is how it's meant to be

# Change your mind

# Nothing ever stays the same

# Change your mind

# No-one ever plays the game, game, game

# Change your mind

# Give them what you can't defend

# Change your mind

# Think it up and start again, 'gain, 'gain

# Change your mind

# Nothing ever stays the same

# Change your mind

# No-one ever plays the game, game, game

# Change your mind

# Give them what you can't defend... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Sharpe and Numan together, and Change Your Mind.

Right, we've got some tips for the top coming up,

some of those that we think, here at Top Of The Pops,

are going to go really, really high next week.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And the first of the Top 40 chart-busters, Prince,

who's got three titles in this week's Top 40.

The guy who used to to be known as "Skipper" when he was young.

Let's Go Crazy.

# If you don't like the world you're living in

# Take a look around you

# At least you got friends

# You see I called my old lady

# For a friendly word

# She picked up the phone

# Dropped it on the floor Uh-uh was all I heard

# Are we gonna let the elevator

# Bring us down?

# Oh no, let's go

# Let's go crazy

# Let's get nuts

# Let's look for the purple banana

# Till they put us in the truck Let's go... #

# Give me just another night... #

The second chart-buster for this week, Mick Jagger, who's had over

21 years as leader of the Rolling Stones, and loads of hits with them.

And it's over 15 years since his first solo hit,

which was Memo From Turner.

He's back in the charts again with Just Another Night.

# Cos I'm homesick

# Feel a little down and blue

# And I'm hurting

# Hurting, baby Just like you

# I was lonely till I saw you at the station

# And I never thought

# You'd keep our rendezvous

# Baby, it's true... #

# Legs... #

And the third chart-buster, hirsute and raunchy,

ZZ Top, moving forwards all the time. That's Legs.

Right the way to the top. That's Legs.

# Knows how to choose them

# She's got a dime

# All of the time

# Stays out at night

# Movin' through time

# Oh, I want her

# Said I got to have her

# The girl is all right... #

The fourth Top Of The Pops chart-buster for this week,

with '40s swing, '60s soul, '70s funk, a record for the '80s.

Little Benny and the Masters, Who Comes To Boogie?

# I said what now?

# Ooh

# Come to fight, come to party Come to boogie with y'all

# I said Lucy come to boogie

-# I say what now?

-Ooh

# Now Michelle come to party with y'all now

# Ooh

# Now Lisa come to boogie I say what now?

# Ooh

# Now Britney come to party Come to boogie with y'all now... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thanks, Mike. Don Henley was one of the breakers last week.

This week, he's at number 22 with The Boys Of Summer.

-There they are.

-APPLAUSE

# Nobody on the road

# Nobody on the beach

# I feel it in the air

# The summer's out of reach

# Empty lake, empty streets

# The sun goes down alone

# I'm driving by your house

# Though I know you're not home

# But I can see you

# Your brown skin shinin' in the sun

# You got your hair combed back

# And your sunglasses on, baby

# And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong

# After the boys of summer have gone

# I never will forget those nights

# I wonder if it was a dream

# Remember how you made me crazy

# Remember how I made you scream

# Now I don't understand what happened to our love

# But, babe, I'm gonna get you back

# I'm gonna show you what I'm made of

# I can see you

# Your brown skin shinin' in the sun

# I see you walking real slow and you're smilin' at everyone

# I can tell you my love for you will still be strong

# After the boys of summer have gone

# Out on the road today

# I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac

# A little voice inside my head said

# Don't look back You can never look back

# I thought I knew what love was

# What did I know?

# Those days are gone forever

# I should just let them go but

# I can see you

# Your brown skin shinin' in the sun

# You got that top pulled down and

# Radio on, baby

# And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong

# After the boys of summer have gone

# I can see you

# Your brown skin shinin' in the sun

# You got that hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on baby... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Don Henley was one of The Eagles,

and he's flying high with The Boys Of Summer.

And now the charts, from 40 to number 11.

APPLAUSE

At number 40, Thank You My Love from Imagination.

A chart entry 39, Just Another Night, Mick Jagger.

Wham! at 38, with Last Christmas and Everything She Wants.

Going up to 37, Do They Know It's Christmas? Band Aid.

Amii Stewart's Friends at number 36.

At 35, Ray Parker Jnr with Ghostbusters.

Standing still at 34, Personality from Eugene Wilde.

At 33, Yah Mo B There, James Ingram.

Cashmere at number 32, with Can I?

Madonna's at 31 with Like A Virgin.

And a new entry at number 30 from Eddy & The Soul Band, Shaft.

At 29, George Benson, 20/20.

Up to number 28 goes Misled for Kool & The Gang.

A new entry, and the highest at 27, let's Go Crazy,

Prince & The Revolution.

Pat Benatar's We Belong at number 26 this week.

Down to 25, Since Yesterday, Strawberry Switchblade.

And up to number 24, How Soon Is Now from The Smiths.

Down to 23, Tears For Fears with Shout.

Rising 17 places to 22, The Boys Of Summer, Don Henley.

No move at 21, This House from the Big Sound Authority.

Another riser at number 20, Change Your Mind from Sharpe & Numan.

Up to 19, Killing Joke with Love Like Blood.

At 18, Sussudio from Phil Collins.

Down to 17, This Is Not America, David Bowie and Pat Metheny.

And Billy Ocean's Loverboy at 16.

Down to 15, Atmosphere, Russ Abbott. He won't be pleased.

Chicago, up to number 14 with You're The Inspiration.

No move at 13, Thinking Of You, The Colour Field.

Former number one, at 12, I Want To Know What Love Is from Foreigner.

And we've flown him in from Europe to be with us tonight,

at number 11, here he is, Bryan Adams with Run To You.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# She says her love for me

# Could never die

# But that'd change

# If she ever found out about you and I

# Oh, but her love is cold

# It wouldn't hurt her if she didn't know cos

# When it gets too much

# I need to feel your touch

# I'm gonna run to you

# I'm gonna run to you

# Cos when the feeling's right

# I'm gonna run all night

# I'm gonna run to you

# She's got a heart of gold

# She'd never let me down

# But you're the one that always turns me on

# You keep me comin' round

# I know her love is true

# But it's so damn easy makin' love to you

# I got my mind made up

# I need to feel your touch

# I'm gonna run to you

# Yeah, I'm gonna run to you

# Cos when the feeling's right

# I'm gonna stay all night

# I'm gonna run to you

# Yeah, I'm gonna run to you

# Oh, when the feeling's right

# I'm gonna run all night

# I'm gonna run to you

# Oh, I'm gonna run to you

# Yeah, I'm gonna run to you

# Cos when the feeling's right

# I'm gonna stay all night

# I'm gonna run to you

# Oh, I'm gonna run to you

# Yeah, and when the feeling's right

# I'm gonna stay all night

# Oh, when the feeling's right now... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Oh, you've got to watch that Bryan Adams, you know.

That's Run To You, a deserved hit for him.

All right, let's get the videos ready and look at the Top 10.

Look in your screens now, because here they come.

# Two thousand zero zero party over... #

Down this week to number 10 goes Prince and Little Red Corvette,

along with 1999.

# So tonight I'm gonna party

-# Like it's 1999

-We're gonna

# Woo!... #

Up 12 places to number nine, the Commodores and Night Shift.

Their tribute to the late, great Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye.

# You found another home

# I know you're not alone

# On the night shift

-# Gonna be some sweet sounds

-Sweet sounds

# Comin' down on the night shift

# Oh, on the night shift

# I bet you're singing proud

# I know you're singing proud

# Oh, I bet you pull a crowd

# Oh, yeah... #

Sliding up one place this week, Art Of Noise and Close (To The Edit).

# I was 21 years when I... #

Congratulations to Kirsty MacColl, on the birth of a baby boy

yesterday, weighing in at seven pounds,

and at number seven now with A New England.

# Why the girls I knew at school are already pushing prams... #

# But I won't stop and falter... #

Up one place this week for Howard Jones

and Things Can Only Get Better.

# And if we threw it all away

# Things can only get better... #

# I, I, I, I... #

It's a big hit for Dead Or Alive, up 14 to number five,

and You Spin Me Round, (Like A Record).

# All I know is that to me

# You look like you're lots of fun

# Open up your lovin' arms

# Watch out here I come

# You spin me right round, baby Right round

# Like a record, baby Right round, round, round

# You spin me right round, baby Right round

# Like a record, baby Right round, round, round

# I want your love... #

# You can't start a fire... #

This week's number four was a hit back in 1983,

an even bigger hit in '84, Dancing In The Dark, Bruce Springsteen.

# This gun's for hire

# Even if we're just dancing in the dark... #

Still there are number three, they're Solid As A Rock,

they won't move. Ashford & Simpson.

# That's what we've got

-# Oh

-Oohhh... #

# That's what my heart... #

King, the pride of Coventry, number two this week, with Love And Pride.

# Love and pride

# That's what my heart yearns for now

# Love and pride... # CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And it's still there, up at number one,

-Elaine Paige...

-And Barbara Dickson.

-From the musical Chess, I'd like to...

-Get To Know Him Well.

I took it out of your mouth!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Nothing is so good it lasts eternally

# Perfect situations must go wrong

# But this has never yet prevented me

# Wanting far too much for far too long

# Looking back, I could have played it differently

# Won a few more moments Who can tell?

# But it took time to understand the man

# Now at least I know I know him well

-# Wasn't it good?

-Oh, so good

-# Wasn't he fine?

-Oh, so fine

# Isn't it madness

# He can't be mine?

# But in the end

# He needs a little bit more than me

# More security

# He needs his fantasy and freedom

# I know him so well

# No-one in your life is with you constantly

# No-one is completely on your side

# And though I move my world to be with him

# Still the gap between us is too wide

# Looking back, I could have played it differently

# Learned about the man before I fell

# But I was ever so much younger then

# Now at least I know I know him well

-# Wasn't it good?

-Oh, so good

-# Wasn't he fine?

-Oh, so fine

# Isn't it madness

# He won't be mine?

# Didn't I know

# How it would go

# If I knew from the start?

# Why am I falling apart?

# Wasn't it good?

# Wasn't he fine?

# Isn't it madness

# He won't be mine?

# But in the end

# He needs a little bit more than me

# More security

# He needs his fantasies and freedom

# I know him so well

# It took time to understand him

# I know him so well. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And we're going to leave you with the number 30 record this week,

Eddy & The Soul Boys and Shaft. Come on, Mike,

-let's go out on the town.

-Let's go.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Who's the black private dick

# That's a sex machine to all the chicks?

# Shaft

# That's right

# Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man?

# Shaft

# Can you dig it Can you dig it, can you dig it?

# Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about?

# Shaft

# Right on

# They say this cat Shaft is a bad

# Ooh, shut your mouth

-# I'm only talkin' 'bout Shaft

-Then we can dig it

# He's a complicated man

# But no-one understands him but his woman

# John Shaft... #