Island
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AN ICON. Love her.Who the hell was Bear Van Beers anyway?! She must be the most regular presenter of this era of TOTP but I've never heard of her before or since.
AN ICON. Love her.Who the hell was Bear Van Beers anyway?! She must be the most regular presenter of this era of TOTP but I've never heard of her before or since.
I'd forgotten that Moby had a full on screechy hard rock song like that, in between his better known dance and ambient phases.
Gina G's genie look was her best look for me!Highlights this week were Gina G dressed as a genie and Robert Miles and Maria Nayler's One and One. Maria had such a perfect voice for trance music.
The nonsense of Babyface etc trying to pull off some “live” performance of dancing in a fairground with just a guitar for instrumentation and the rides whirring behind them (but making no noise). Like that performance in front of the log flume a few weeks back whilst the TOTP winner sits there looking bored.
I did think that was hilarious. In the presence of greatness and did not give a heck.But boy those teenage girls looked bored to tears during Bjork - one in green seemed to be glaring and wishing her off stage.
Hope you get something nice in your stockings today!As is custom, there is a week of Christmas Day TOTP repeats at 7pm on BBC4 in the run up to the festive season.
Shame we're not getting 2004 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Minogue Medley!
Cruel Auntie Beeb depriving us of the Minogue Medley in HQ!As is custom, there is a week of Christmas Day TOTP repeats at 7pm on BBC4 in the run up to the festive season.
Shame we're not getting 2004 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Minogue Medley!
Monday 16th December - Christmas 1985 (last shown 2018)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9b1xw
Tuesday 17th December - Christmas 1978 (last shown 2021, 2022)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008ptfg
Wednesday 18th December - Christmas 2002 (last shown 2021)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012ty3
Thursday 19th December - Christmas 1993 (last shown 2022)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g4xm
Friday 20th December - Christmas 1989 (last shown 2020, 2021)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l424
I clocked that too – noticeable now as Jody doesn't (won't?) perform with Howard and Jeffrey now …Whilst this is all true it also featured the classic Shalamar line up of Jody, Howard and Jeffrey!
I clocked that too – noticeable now as Jody doesn't (won't?) perform with Howard and Jeffrey now …
That was a really weird idea: why does Babyface – one of the hottest R&B producers of the late 80s/early-mid 90s – even need to do that? The rap was pointless and half-hearted, too … I would rather have seen Jeffrey's iconic 1982 TOTP routine again.
It may have been a bit camp, but Prince had a star quality seriously lacking in so many performers now – and the talent to back it up.That Prince video is the campest thing I've seen in a long time.
The Fast Show presenters were horrendous.
Wow – that's the reverse of what I thought had happened!I have read that there's no beef between them, Shalamar have been working so long now with the lady who fills Jody's role that they're loyal to her, and even declined to tour with Jody out of loyalty.
It may have been a bit camp, but Prince had a star quality seriously lacking in so many performers now – and the talent to back it up.
The Fast Show links were diabolically bad and so many of them seemed to rest on the 'gag' that the characters might be gay – it was feeble then and really hasn't aged well.