23/03/1983 Top of the Pops

Well, hello there, fans, and welcome to another Top Of The Pops.

-Sorry, can we do that again, Tony?

-No!

-No, wait a minute, this is live.

-It's a live Top Of The Pops tonight.

-Live? Oh, dear.

You know, like we rehearsed it. Across the nation tonight.

Let's get on with it. Making their Top Of The Pops debut tonight -

never mind, John - it's JoBoxers!

# You heard about this boxer style?

# Well, listen up, I think it's worth your while

# Just shake your knees and plant your feet

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat

# Just keep the devil in hell Just keep the trains on the rail

# Just keep the stars in the sky And keep the money for sale

# Just let the crippled ones walk And let the silent ones talk

# Just make the blind so they see And the sad ones happy

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat, boxerbeat

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat, boxerbeat, boxerbeat

# The boxerbeat, the boxerbeat, the boxerbeat

# Just let the critics critique And let the top secrets leak

# Just make the lazy ones work And let the power unleash

# Just keep your feet on the loose And keep your neck from the noose

# Just keep your eye on the ball And keep your feet in your boots

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat, boxerbeat

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat, boxerbeat, boxerbeat

# The boxerbeat, the boxerbeat, the boxerbeat

# Do the boxerbeat

# The boxerbeat, the boxerbeat, the boxerbeat, the boxerbeat

# Do the boxerbeat

# Just keep the devil in Hell Just keep the trains on the rail

# Just keep the stars in the sky And keep the money for sale

# Just let the crippled ones walk And let the silent ones talk

# Just make the blind so they see And the sad ones happy

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat, boxerbeat

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat, boxerbeat, boxerbeat

# The boxerbeat, the boxerbeat, the boxerbeat

# Do the boxerbeat

# The boxerbeat, the boxerbeat, the boxerbeat, the boxerbeat

# Do the boxerbeat

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat, boxerbeat

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat, boxerbeat

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat, boxerbeat

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat, boxerbeat

# And you'll be doing the boxerbeat, boxerbeat

# Do the boxerbeat

# Beat, boxerbeat, beat, boxerbeat beat, boxerbeat

# Do the boxerbeat

# Beat, boxerbeat, beat, boxerbeat, beat, boxerbeat

# Do the boxerbeat

# Beat, boxerbeat, beat, boxerbeat, beat, boxerbeat

# Do the boxerbeat

# Beat, boxerbeat, beat, boxerbeat, beat, boxerbeat

# Do the boxerbeat! #

JoBoxers at number 21 in the chart.

The second highest new entry comes in at number five and it's

from David Bowie who incidentally will be a guest of mine

on my Radio 1 evening show tomorrow night

and here's a video he shot in Australia.

# Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh

# Let's dance

# Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

# Let's dance

# To the song they're playing on the radio

# Let's dance

# While colour lights up your face

# Let's sway

# Sway through the crowd to an empty space

# If you say run I'll run with you

# If you say hide, we'll hide

# Hi-i-ide

# Because my love for you would break my heart in two

# Ahh, ahh...

# If you should fall into my arms

# And tremble like a flower

# Let's dance

# Let's dance

# For fear your grace should fall

# Let's dance

# For fear tonight is all

# Let's sway

# You could look into my eyes

# Let's sway

# Under the moonlight This serious moonlight

# And if you say run I'll run with you

# And if you say hide we'll hide

# Hi-i-i-de

# Because my love for you Would break my heart in two

# Ahh, ahh

# If you should fall into my arms

# And tremble like a flower... #

And that's David Bowie who's going to be droning on and on and on

on the Lads programme on Radio 1 tomorrow evening.

Up next, Orange Juice asking the age-old musical question, Rip It Up.

Play those ukuleles, boys.

# When I first saw you Something stirred within me

# You were standing sultry in the rain

# If I could've held you I would've held you

# Rip it up and start again

# Rip it up and start again

# Rip it up and start again

# I hope to God you're not as dumb as you make out

# I hope to God, I hope to God

# And I hope to God I'm not as numb as you make out

# I hope to God, I hope to God

# And when I next saw you My heart reached out for you

# But my arms stuck like glue to my sides

# If I could've held you I would've held you

# But I'd choke rather than swallow my pride

# Rip it up and start again

# Rip it up and start again

# I hope to God you're not as dumb as you make out

# I hope to God, I hope to God

# And I hope to God I'm not as numb as you make out

# I hope to God, I hope to God

# And there was times I'd take my pen and feel obliged to start again

# I do profess

# That there are things in life That one can't quite express

# You know me I'm acting dumb-dumb

# You know this scene is very humdrum

# And my favourite song's entitled "Boredom"

# Rip it up and start again

# I said rip it up and start again

# I said rip it up and start again

# I said rip it up and start again

# I said rip it up, and rip it up

# Rip it up, and rip it up

# Rip it up and start again

# Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

# Rip it up. #

Orange Juice enjoying some long-deserved chart success

there with Rip It Up.

And now from his recent BBC One television series,

Leo Sayer performing his latest hit which is called Orchard Road.

# To tell the truth it's really such a sad affair

# Standing here waiting in the cold night air

# But I've got to make this call

# Cos my heart is breaking

# I hear the pips drop a coin in the slot

# Has it been that long?

# I thought you'd forgotten me

# Well, I know it's getting late

# But I just couldn't wait

# Will I have the nerve to say

# I just want to come back?

# You shouldn't just go away

# I just want to come back

# I've been struck by such a bad luck

# I need a place, a little happiness and some love

# I think I can see it now

# So let me paint the picture

# It's 12 o'clock and the curtains are drawn

# They're counting sheep down in Orchard Road

# You're hanging on the telephone line tonight

# And I wish that I could be

# In Orchard Road

# Not much been happening here

# I think I've got a job

# They're going to call me next week

# But I'll be working out of town

# Well, it sure beats hanging around

# What's that?

# Tomorrow at two?

# You're kidding me, no

# Is it all right with you?

# I don't know what to say

# It'll be like a holiday

# When you say you're all alone

# Makes me want to come back

# And this house is not a home

# I just got to go back

# It's 12:10 when I put down the phone

# The moon's shining down on Orchard Road

# And I'm feeling like a schoolboy again and tonight

# I'll see you in my dreams

# Of Orchard Road

# It's funny but I thought I'd never go back

# I think sometimes I might lose track

# But I remember you and the things we do

# And I want it back

# In Orchard Road you've got my heart

# I left it in your doorway

# In Orchard Road a welcome mat

# Is waiting there just for me

# In Orchard Road the sun will shine again

# I know, I know

# In Orchard Road you keep my love

# It's waiting there for me

# It's eight o'clock and the dawn's arrived

# In Orchard Road it's breakfast time

# I climb in my car and I turn the key and I'm gone

# I am coming home

# To Orchard Road

# I'm coming home

# I'm coming home. #

Next the band you would have heard on my radio

programme last night - Big Country!

# Between a father and a son

# Between the city and the one

# Before the teacher and the test

# Before the journey and the rest

# The shining eye will never cry

# The beating heart will never die

# The house on fire holds no shame

# I will be coming home again

# 400 miles without a word until you smile

# 400 miles on fields of fire

# Between a woman and a boy

# Between a child and his toy

# Huh, huh, huh!

# Between a woman and a boy

# Between a child and a toy

# Before the following of the west

# Before the journey and the rest

# 400 miles without a word until you smile

# 400 miles without a word until you smile

# 400 miles without a word until you smile

# 400 miles without a word until you smile... #

Brilliant, that's Big Country, Fields Of Fire, a chart-bound song!

I think so, John. Wait a minute, this is the point in the programme

where you start reading the new chart, have you got it?

OK, yeah, well, got it right here. Let's go for it, let's hear it now.

At number 30, Tomorrow's Just Another Day from Madness.

At 29, a former number 1 from Kajagoogoo, Too Shy.

At 28, Foster and Allen by Maggie.

No, that should be the other way around. At 27, a new entry.

Orchard Road, that's Leo Sayer.

Another new entry at 26, Whistle Down The Wind, Nick Heyward.

At 25, Joy, it was big in the discos for months, Band AKA.

24, seven and a half minutes of New Order, that's Blue Monday.

23, Africa. Toto, what a cute bunch of guys.

22, Love On Your Side, uncomfortable but fun, the Thompson Twins.

And at 21, a new entry, Boxerbeat from JoBoxers.

Well, now, admirers, we're going to go back to number 26.

This is Nick Heyward and Whistle Down The Wind,

a rather futile activity in my view.

# Out the window

# Look what's happening

# In my prism

-# Watching day by...

-Day by day

# In my humour, ha

# Kiss and make up friend

# Out the window

# Look what's happening

# Give my time away

# Give me all the time I pay

# Kiss my cross away

# I break down doors My candle whistles

# Hello, hello,

# Hope you're feeling fine

# Hello, hello, hope you're feeling mine

# Hello, hello

# Hope you're feeling fine

# Whoa, whoa

# Hope you're feeling time

# Out the window

# Bring me back my rose I gave away

# In a picture

# Mm-mm

# A freckle and a famous feature

# She's not smiling

# Give my time away

# Give me all the love you need

# I want to watch you bloom and breathe

# Kiss my mouth, I hear you whistle

# Hello, hello

# Hope you're feeling fine

# Hello, hello

# Hope you're feeling mine

# Hello, hello

# Hope you're feeling fine

# Hope you're feeling time

-# Whistle down the wind

-Whistle softly

-# Whistle down the wind

-Whistle softly

-# Kiss and be my friend

-Whistle softly

# Whistle down the wind. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Nick Heyward and a couple of his pals there

and Whistle Down The Wind.

Well, John seemed to get through his part of the chart OK,

let's see if I can do the same right now.

At number 20, it's Spandau Ballet's Communication.

Still at 19, Blancmange with Waves.

Patti Austin and James Ingram are at number 18 with Baby Come To Me.

At 17, Iceland's Mezzoforte and Garden Party.

At 16, Phil Everly and Cliff Richard,

She Means Nothing To Me.

Ultravox move up from 30 to 15 with Visions In Blue.

Bucks Fizz are at number 14, Run For Your Life.

You should see Peely dance to this one.

At number 13, David Joseph, You Can't Hide Your Love.

A new entry at 12,

Don't Talk To Me About Love, Altered Images.

At 11, Joan Armatrading and Drop The Pilot.

But right now, let's go back to number 12 -

Altered Images here performing the Mike Chapman-produced hit

Don't Talk To Me About Love.

CHEERING

# They exchanged a look

# An hour later her voice shook

# When her whispering died

# She cried

# Never wants to recover

# She cried

# Don't talk to me about love

# Yesterdays shatter, tomorrows don't matter

# Don't talk to me about love

# Yesterdays shatter, tomorrows don't matter

# Since that gaze

# Roaring by went her days

# When her whispering died

# She cried

# Never wants to recover

# She cried

# Don't talk to me about love

# Yesterdays shatter, tomorrows don't matter

# Don't talk to me about love

# Yesterdays shatter, tomorrows don't matter

# Don't talk to me about love

# Yesterdays shatter, tomorrows don't matter

# Don't talk, don't talk to me

# Yesterdays shatter, tomorrows don't matter

# Don't talk to me about love

# Yesterdays shatter, tomorrows don't matter

# Don't talk to me about love

# Yesterdays shatter, tomorrows don't matter

# It couldn't be that good

# Although they said it would

# Just couldn't be that good

# Be that good

# It couldn't be that good

# Although they said it would

# Just couldn't be that good... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Well, I don't know who those people were,

but I thought the little lad was good.

I think I can get him a gig at our local youth club.

It would be nice to think so. Let's get back to the chart.

At number 10, High Life, the profoundly ethnic sounds

of Modern Romance.

At number 9, Orange Juice.

You saw them earlier performing Rip It Up.

At number 8, a former number 1 -

Billie Jean from Michael Jackson.

At number 7, Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye,

Bananarama.

At number 6, the one called Rock The Boat.

That's Forrest.

At number 5, the second-highest new entry,

David Bowie and Let's Dance.

At number four, Speak Like A Child, The Style Council.

At number 3, Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This, Eurythmics.

At number 2, last week's number 1,

Total Eclipse Of The Heart, Bonnie Tyler.

Here's another band we'd like to see down at our village youth club.

That's right. Duran Duran, straight in at number 1.

-What's it called again?

-Is There Something I Should Know?

That's right. OK, take it away.

# Please, please tell me now

# Please, please tell me now

# Please, please tell me now

# Please, please tell me now

# I made a break

# I run out yesterday

# Tried to find my mountain hideaway

# Maybe next year, maybe no go

# I know you're watching me every minute of the day, yeah

# I've seen the signs and the looks and pictures

# They give your game away, yeah

# There's a dream that strings the road

# With broken glass for us to hold

# And I cut so far before I had to say

# Please, please tell me now

# Is there something I should know?

# Is there something I should say?

# That would make you come my way

# Do you feel the same?

# Cos you don't let it show

# Ooh

# People stare and cross the road from me

# And jungle drums they all clear the way for me

# Can you read my mind, can you see in the snow?

# And fiery demons all dance when you walk through that door

# Don't say you're easy on me

# You're about as easy as a nuclear war

# There's a dream that strings the road

# With broken glass for us to hold

# And I cut so far before I had to say

# Please, please tell me now

# Is there something I should know?

# Is there something I should say

# That would make you come my way?

# Do you feel the same?

# Cos you don't let it show

# Please, please tell me now

# Is there something I should know?

-# Please, please tell me now

-Is there something I should say

-# Please, please tell me now

-That would make you come my way?

-# Please, please tell me now

-Please, please tell me now

-# Please, please tell me now

-Is there something I should know?

-# Please, please tell me now

-Is there something I should say

-# Please, please tell me now

-That would make you come my way?

-# Please, please tell me now

-Please, please tell me now

# Can you see what makes me blow? #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

That's Duran Duran at number 1.

In case you're wondering why it is that we're live and it's Wednesday,

it's because tomorrow, the BBC starts down the countdown

to Eurovision 1983.

Be there or be round the pub with him and me.

Now here's a group you probably won't see in the Song For Europe,

David Joseph and his band, You Can't Hide Your Love.

Hope to see you real soon. Bye.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# And now your time has come for me

# Girl, your love I adore

# You fill me with such ecstasy, girl

# Cos I want you for more

# You can't hide your love

# You can't hide your love from me From me

# You can't hide your love

# You can't hide your love from me From me

# And now your time slips gently by

# It's just like being alone

# Our hearts and minds, they both combine

# That's called being in love

# You can't hide your love

# You can't hide your love from me From me

# You can't hide your love

# You can't hide your love from me From me

# You can't hide your love

# You can't hide your love from me From me

# You can't hide your love

# You can't hide your love from me From me

# Girl

# You can't hide

# Your love from me

# You can't hide

# Yeah, baby

# Your love from me

# I can tell by the way you look at me, girl

# I can tell by the way you care for me, baby

# I can tell by the way we argue And do our thing

# I can tell when we do our thing

# We swing, we swing, yeah

# Your love from me

# Your love from me

# I feel it stronger and stronger and stronger

# And stronger, yeah

# Your love from me

# Don't take it away, don't take it away. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE