St Patrick's Day Special TOTP2

This is Steve Wright at Top Of The Pops 2 Headquarters

with our St Patrick's Day Special.

Tonight, we're in it just for the craic.

Those U2 boys are on. It was 1981. They had more hair.

Then there's trouble from Sinead.

Absolutely no hair, but she's gorgeous.

And a classic from Thin Lizzy.

But first up it's Bob, when he was a punk.

# The world owes me a living

# I've waited on this dole queue too long

# I've been standin' in the rain for 15 minutes

# That's a quarter of an hour too long

# Oh, oh...

# I'll take all they can give me

# And then I'm gonna ask for more

# Cos the money's buried deep in the Bank of England

# And I want the key to the vault

# I'm gonna take your money

# Count your loss when I'm gone

# I'm all right, Jack I'm lookin' after number one

# If I want something, I get it

# Don't matter what I have to do

# I'll step on your face on my mother's grave

# Never underestimate me I'm nobody's fool

# Oh, oh

# Oh, oh

# I don't owe nobody nothing

# And it's me that must come through

# Why can't you stop, think, look

# Babe, I always get what I want and I wanna get you

# I'm gonna take your money

# Count your loss when I'm gone

# I'm all right, Jack I'm lookin' after number one

# I don't wanna be like you

# I don't wanna live like you

# I don't wanna talk like you

# Ooh, ooh

# Oh!

# Oh, wow!

# Don't give me love thy neighbour

# Don't give me charity

# Don't give me peace and love or the good lord above

# You only get in my way with your stupid ideas

# Oh, oh

# Oh, oh

# I am an island, entire of myself

# And when I get old Older than today

# I'll never need anybody's help in any way

# I'm gonna take your money

# Count your loss when I'm gone

# I'm all right, Jack I'm lookin' after number one

# I don't wanna be like you

# I don't wanna live like you

# I don't wanna talk like you

# Ooh, ooh

# I'm gonna be like I'm gonna be like

# I'm gonna be like me! #

Bob Geldof, Boomtown Rats.

Now it's 21 years later, and look how gorgeous those Corrs are.

And the girls are nice, too.

# I haven't slept at all in days

# It's been so long since we have talked

# And I have been here many times

# I just don't know what I'm doing wrong

# What can I do to make you love me?

# What can I do to make you care?

# What can I say to make you feel this?

# What can I do to get you there?

# There's only so much I can take

# And I just gotta let it go

# And, who knows, I might feel better, yeah, yeah

# If I don't try and I don't hope

# What can I do to make you love me?

# What can I do to make you care?

# What can I say to make you feel this?

# What can I do to get you there?

# No more waiting, no more aching

# No more fighting, no more crying

# Maybe there's nothing more to say

# And in a funny way, I'm calm

# Because the power is not mine

# I'm just gonna let it fly

-# What can I do to make you love me?

-What can I do to make you love?

-# What can I do to make you care?

-What can I do to make you care?

# What can I say to make you feel this?

# What can I do to make you love me?

-# What can I do to get you there?

-What can I do to make you care?

# Just tell me

-# What can I do to make you love me?

-What can I do to make you love me?

-# What can I do to make you care?

-What can I do to make you care?

# What will I change to make you feel this?

# What can I do to make you love me?

-# What can I do to get you there?

-What can I do to make you care?

# And love me

# Love me

# Lo-o-ove me

# Love me

# Lo-o-ove me

# Love me

# Lo-o-ove me... #

Ah, those Irish eyes are smiling - and other cliches.

What Can I Do? August 1998.

Now it's August 1981.

Bono looks about 12, The Edge is just a corner,

but they had it going on. This is Fire.

# Yo, yo!

# Calling, calling The sun is burning black

# Calling, calling It's beating on my back

# With a fire

# Ooh, with a fire

# Ooh

# Calling, calling The moon is running red

# Calling, calling It's pulling me instead

# With a fire, oh-oh

# Fire, oh-oh

# But there's a fire inside

# And I'm falling over

# There's a fire in me

# When I call out

# I built a fire, fire

# I'm going home

# Calling, calling The stars are falling down

# Calling, calling They knock me to the ground

# With a fire, oh-oh

# Fire, oh-oh

# But there's a fire inside

# And I'm falling over

# There's a fire in me

# When I call out

# There's a fire inside

# When I'm falling over

# I built a fire, fire

# I'm going home... #

It really was 20 years ago.

Very nice special effects, BBC.

Sorry we didn't have Pan's People dressed in firemen's helmets.

Next on Top Of The Pops 2 St Patrick's Day Special,

it's our dentally-challenged friends.

# For seven long years She helped me spend my dough

# Now I take her out But she don't wanna know

# That woman's got me drinking Look at the state I'm in

# Give me one, two, three, four, five, six

# Seven, eight, nine, ten bottles of gin

# That woman's got me drinking We used to have some fun

# Now shrinks and astrologers Have got me on the run

# That woman's got me drinking Look at the state I'm in

# Give me one, two, three, four, five, six

# Seven, eight, nine, ten bottles of gin

# She said she'd always love me She said I'd be the one

# Now look at the way she treats me Just like a piece of scum

# That woman's got me drinking Look at the state I'm in

# Give me one, two, three, four, five, six

# Seven, eight, nine, ten bottles of gin

# Ya-aw!

# If I had the guts to do it I'd take a long goodbye

# Instead I'll love her long and fast

# And love her till I die

# That woman's got me drinking Look at the state I'm in

# Give me one, two, three, four, five, six

# Seven, eight, nine, ten bottles of gin

# Bottles of gin

# Bottles of gin, bottles of gin

# One, two, three Four, five, six, seven, eight

# One, two, three Four, five, six, seven, eight

# One, two, three Four, five, six, seven, eight

# Nine, ten bottles of gin

# One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight

# One, two, three, four, five, six, seven... #

And then they went off for their board meeting.

Shane MacGowan and The Popes.

Now, I've got a claim to fame for this next song.

In my Radio 1 DJ days,

I may have inadvertently overplayed this record,

thus helping it to become a massive hit.

I was young, I didn't know what I was doing.

# Let me sail, let me sail

# Let the Orinoco flow

# Let me reach, let me beach

# On the shores of Tripoli

# Let me sail, let me sail

# Let me crash upon your shore

# Let me reach, let me beach

# Far beyond the Yellow Sea

# Deh, deh

# Deh, deh

# Deh, deh

# Deh, deh

# Deh, deh

# Sail away, sail away, sail away

# Sail away, sail away, sail away

# Sail away, sail away, sail away

# Sail away, sail away...

# From Bissau to Palau

# In the shade of Avalon

# From Fiji to Tiree

# And the Isles of Ebony

# From Peru to Cebu

# Feel the power of Babylon

# From Bali to Cali

# Far beneath the Coral Sea

# Deh, deh

# Deh, deh

# Deh, deh

# Deh, deh

# Deh, deh

# Turn it up, turn it up, turn it up

# Ah-ah-adieu

# Ooh

# Turn it up, turn it up, turn it up

# Ah-ah-adieu

# Ooh

# Turn it up, turn it up, turn it up

# Ah-ah-adieu

# Ahh

# Sail away, sail away, sail away

# Sail away, sail away, sail away

# Sail away, sail away, sail away

# Sail away, sail away...

# From the north to the south

# Ebudae on to Khartoum

# From the deep Sea of Clouds

# To the Island of the Moon

# Carry me on the waves

# To the lands I've never been

# Carry me on the waves

# To the lands I've never seen

# We can sail, we can sail

# With the Orinoco flow

# We can sail, we can sail

# Sail away, sail away, sail away

# We can steer, we can near

# With Rob Dickins at the wheel

# We can sigh, say goodbye

# Ross and his dependencies

# We can sail, we can sail

# Sail away, sail away...

# We can sail, we can sail

# Sail away, sail away, sail away

# Sail away, sail away, sail away

# Sail away, sail away... #

Well, we picked that Blue Peter Garden dry that day.

Enya, Orinoco Flow.

This is Top Of The Pops 2, the St Patrick's Day Special.

Bring on U2.

# All is quiet on New Year's Day

# A world in white gets underway

# I want to be with you Be with you night and day

# Nothing changes on New Year's Day

# On New Year's Day

# I will be with you again

# I will be with you again

# Under a blood red sky

# A crowd has gathered in black and white

# Arms entwined, the chosen few

# The newspapers says, it says

# Say it's true, it's true

# And we can break through

# Though torn in two

# We can be one

# I...I will begin again

# I...I will begin again

# Oh...

# I will be with you again

# I will be with you again... #

That was 1983.

Two more U2 songs to come before the end of the programme.

Next, look at this bunch of posers.

# Back when I was younger, they were talking at me

# Never listened to a word I said

# Back when I was younger they were talking at me

# Never listened to a word I said

# Always yap, yap, yapping and complaining at me

# Made me think I'd be better off dead

# I don't wanna talk about it

# I don't wanna hear no lip

# Take your share Don't shout about it

# That's your lot Remember you're a kid

# They would always teach me that to swear was a sin

# Always speak your mind but not aloud

# Think of something that you wanna do with your life

# Nothing that you like That's not allowed

# I've no time to talk about it

# All your stupid hopes and dreams

# Get your feet back on the ground, son

# It's exams that count Not football teams

# And I'm running at the edge of their world

# They're criticising something they just can't understand

# Livin' on the edge of their town

# And I won't be shot down

# Taught me to defend myself and to be a man

# How to kick someone and run away

# Gave me everything that any young man could need

# But don't understand why I won't stay

# Here's your room and here's your records

# Here's your home and here you'll stay

# Here's somewhere I don't believe in

# Wish someone would take it all away

# And I'm running at the edge of their world

# They're criticising something they just can't understand

# Livin' on the edge of their town

# And I won't be shot down... #

Well, I knew Jake Burns when he was a Radio 1 producer -

way too aggressive.

Now, I expect you're wondering

why this girl isn't dancing in time to the music.

So am I. This is Thin Lizzy.

# As I was going over

# The Cork and Kerry mountains

# I saw Captain Farrell

# And his money, he was countin'

# I first produced my pistol

# And then produced my rapier

# I said stand and deliver Or the devil, he may take ya

# Musha ring dum-a-doo dum-a-da

# Whack for my daddy-o

# Whack for my daddy-o

# There's whisky in the jar-o

# I took all of his money

# And it was a pretty penny

# I took all of his money

# And I brought it home to Molly

# She swore that she loved me

# Never would she leave me

# But the devil take that woman

# Cos you know, she tricked me easy

# Musha ring dum-a-doo dum-a-da

# Whack for my daddy-o

# Whack for my daddy-o

# There's whisky in the jar-o

# Now some men like the fishin'

# And some men like the fowlin'

# And some men like to hear

# A cannon ball a-roarin'

# Me, I like sleepin'

# Especially in my Molly's chamber

# But here I am in prison

# Here I am With a ball and chain, yeah

# Musha ring dum-a-doo dum-a-da... #

Thin Lizzy, Whiskey In The Jar. They really were a top band.

We very much enjoyed the guy, of course, in the flowery shirt.

He's watching this now from a retirement home in Camber Sands.

Phil Lynott definitely the coolest man in the room, though.

Now, here's Sinead.

# I can go out every night And sleep all day

# Since you took your love away

# Since you've been gone, I can do whatever I want

# I can see whomever I choose

# I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant

# But nothing

# I said, nothing can take away these blues

# Cos nothing compares

# Nothing compares to you

# It's been so lonely without you here

# Like a bird without a song

# Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling

# Tell me, baby Where did I go wrong?

# I could put my arms around every boy I see

# They'd only remind me of you

# I went to the doctor And guess what he told me?

# Guess what he told me?

# He said, "Girl, you'd better try to have fun

# "No matter what you do" But he's a fool

# Cos nothing compares

# Nothing compares to you... #

Maximum impact, minimum hair. Sinead O'Connor.

I don't know about you, but I think this is U2's best ever song.

# Is it getting better?

# Or do you feel the same?

# Will it make it easier on you now?

# You got someone to blame

# You say

# One love

# One life

# When it's one need

# In the night

# One love

# We get to share it

# Leaves you, baby

# If you don't care for it

# Did I disappoint you?

# Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?

# You act like you never had love

# And you want me to go without

# Well, it's too late tonight

# To drag the dirt out into the light

# We're one, but we're not the same

# We've got to carry each other

# Carry each other

# One

# Have you come here for forgiveness?

# Have you come to raise the dead?

# Have you come here to play Jesus?

# To the lepers in your head

# Did I ask too much?

# More than a lot

# You gave me nothing

# Now it's all I've got

# We're one

# But we're not the same

# Well, we hurt each other

# Then we do it again

# You say

# Love is a temple

# Love's a higher law

# Love is a temple

# Love's a higher law

# You ask me to enter

# But then you make me crawl

# And I can't be holding on

# To what you got

# When all you've got is hurt

# One love

# One blood

# One life

# You got to do what you should

# One life

# With each other

# Sisters

# Brothers

# One life

# But we're not the same

# We've got to carry each other

# Carry each other

# One

# One

# Oh, yeah... #

We wanna be number one.

Yeah! Top Of The Pops!

# Oo-oo-ooh

# Yeah, yeah, now

# Ha-aa-aa

# Who-ha-aa... #

Thank you very much.

Nice outfit from Bono. I guess he must have been

patrolling the underground earlier on that day. That's One.

Now, classic Undertones. Feargal, what do you look like?!

# Now I've got a cousin called Kevin

# He's sure to go to heaven

# Always spotless, clean and neat

# The smoothest you'll get 'em

# He's got a fur-lined sheepskin jacket

# My ma said they cost a packet

# She won't even let me explain

# That me and Kevin - we're just not the same

# Oh, my perfect cousin

# What I like to do, he doesn't

# He's his family's pride and joy

# His mother's little golden boy

# He's got a degree in economics

# Maths, physics and bionics

# He thinks that I'm a cabbage

# Cos I hate University Challenge

# Even at the age of ten

# Smart boy Kevin was a smart boy then

# He always beat me at Subbuteo

# Cos he flicked the kick and I didn't know

# Oh, my perfect cousin

# What I like to do, he doesn't

# He's his family's pride and joy

# His mother's little golden boy

# His mother bought him a synthesiser

# Got the Human League in to advise her

# Now he's making lots of noise

# Playing along with the art-school boys

# Girls try to attract his attention

# But what a shame, it's in vain Total rejection

# He will never be left on the shelf

# Cos Kevin - he's in love with himself

# Oh, my perfect cousin

# What I like to do, he doesn't

# He's his family's pride and joy

# His mother's little golden boy. #

It's the Top Of The Pops 2 St Patrick's Day Special.

All Irish, all classic, all the time.

That was The Undertones, now The Cranberries.

# If you

# If you could return

# Don't let it burn

# Don't let it fade

# I'm sure I'm not being rude

# But it's just your attitude

# It's tearing me apart

# It's ruining everything

# I swore

# I swore I would be true

# And, honey, so did you

# So why were you holding her hand?

# Is that the way we stand?

# Were you lying all the time?

# Was it just a game to you?

# But I'm in so deep

# You know I'm such a fool for you

# You got me wrapped around your finger, ah-ha-ha

# Do you have to let it linger?

# Do you have to, do you have to

# Do you have to let it linger?

# Oh, I thought the world of you

# I thought nothing could go wrong

# But I was wrong

# I was wrong

# If you

# If you could get by

# Trying not to lie

# Things wouldn't be so confused

# And I wouldn't feel so used

# But you always really knew

# I just want to be with you

# And I'm in so deep

# You know I'm such a fool for you

# You got me wrapped around your finger, ah-ha-ha

# Do you have to let it linger?

# Do you have to, do you have to

# Do you have to let it linger?

# And I'm in so deep

# You know I'm such a fool for you

# You got me wrapped around your finger, ah-ha-ha

# Do you have to let it linger? #

Cranberries, Linger.

Now, unusual combination here. Van Morrison. Van, is that a smile?

Watch carefully.

# Whenever God

# Shines his light on me

# Opens up my eyes

# So I can see

# When I look up

# In the darkest night

# Then I know everything

# Is gonna be all right

# In deep confusion

# In great despair

# When I reach out for Him

# He's always there

# And when I'm lonely

# As I can be

# Then I know God shines

# His light on me

-# Reach out for Him

-Reach out for Him

-# He'll be there

-He'll be there

-# With Him your troubles

-With Him your troubles

-# You can share

-You can share

-# If you live

-If you live

-# The life you love

-The life you love

-# You get the blessing

-Mm-mm

-# From above

-From above

BOTH: # He heals the sick

# And He heals the lame

# Says you can do it too

# In Jesus' name

# And He lifts you up

# And He turns you around

-# And He puts your feet back

-Puts your feet back

-# On higher ground

-Mm-hm

BOTH: # Ba-a da-da da da da

# Daa da da-da da da da

# Daa da da-da da da da-daa

# Da da da

# Ba-da da-da da da da

# Ba-da da-da da da da

# Baa-da da da baa-da duh dum

-# Reach out for Him

-Reach out for Him

-# He'll be there

-He'll be there

-# With Him your troubles

-With Him your troubles

-# You can share

-You can share

-# You can use

-You can use

-# His higher power

-His higher power

-# Every day

-Every day

-# And any hour

-Any hour

BOTH: # He heals the sick

# And He heals the lame

# Says you can do it too

# In Jesus' name

# Lifts you up

# And He turns you around

-# And He puts your feet back

-Puts your feet back... #

Well, we thought Van Morrison looked a bit like

the guy out of NYPD Blue in that song.

Now here's U2 with Stuck In A Moment.

Thanks very much for watching our St Patrick's Day Special.

I'm Steve Wright.

We'll see you next time for another Top Of The Pops 2. Goodnight.

CHEERING

# Whoa...

# Whoo...

# Whoo-hoo-hoo...

# I'm not afraid

# Of anything in this world

# There's nothing you can throw at me

# That I haven't already heard

# I'm just tryin' to find

# A decent melody

# A song that I can sing

# In my own company

# I never thought you were a fool

# But darlin', look at you

# Oh-oh-oh

# You gotta stand up straight

# Carry your own weight

# These tears are goin' nowhere, baby

# You've got to get yourself together

# You just got stuck in a moment

# And now you can't get out of it

# Don't say that later will be better

# Now you're stuck in a moment

# And you can't get out of it

# I will not forsake

# The colours that you bring

# The nights you filled with fireworks

# They leave you with nothing

# I am still enchanted

# By the light you brought to me

# I listen through your ears

# Through your eyes I can see

# And you are such a fool

# To worry like you do

# Oh-oh-oh

# I know it's tough

# And you can never get enough

# Of what you don't really need now My, oh, my

# You've got to get yourself together

# You just got stuck in a moment

# And now you can't get out of it

# Oh, love, look at you now

# Stuck in a moment

# And you can't get out of it

# I was unconscious, half asleep

# The water is warm till you discover how de-e-e-ep

# I wasn't jumping For me it was a fall

# It's a long way down to nothing at a-a-a-all

# Oh-oh, baby

# You've got to get yourself together

# You just got stuck in a moment

# And now you can't get out of it

# Don't say that later will be better

# Now you're stuck in a moment

# And you can't get out of it

# And if the night runs over

-# And if the day won't last

-I feel like it's all my fault

# And if your way should falter

# Along the stony pass

-# And if the night runs over

-And if the night runs over

-# And if the day won't last

-And if the day won't last

# And if your way should falter

# Along this stony pass

# It's just a moment

# This time will pass. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE