Top of the Pops

Sadly I am old enough to remember when top of the pops was the best way to keep abreast of what was happening in the music charts and the guests used to perform live and very well on the show. Add to that the very good presenters and the excellent camera work that not only focused on the artists but also showed you round the studio and let you see the audience dancing and enjoying themselves too and you had a decent well worth watching show. For anyone lucky enough to be too young to remember top of the pops at all, It was a half hour show that would count down the top 40 singles and would have about three or four live acts singing their current ...  Read the complete review

TOTP 19.30 - 20.00 - Friday BBC1 and again on Saturday BBC’s TV chart run down on Friday night between 19.30 and 20.00 is normally presented by 2 people quite often male and female. Sometimes a star from the pop world. Today's show Easter Sunday guests Fearne a regular female TOTP presenter and male friend. We start live outside the BBC building with the Red-Hot Chilli Peppers, later they play their new single. The rest of the show recorded earlier is back inside. The show is organised around the presentation songs from the top 20 hits. The songs position in the chart is normally announced and displayed as an icon in the bottom left hand corner, ...  Read the complete review

Every generation has its own memories of 'Top Of The Pops'. For some there's Jimmy Saville introducing Gary Glitter in a retrospectively sinister way. Imprinted on the memory of others is the be-maned Bruno Brookes and his chunky yellow microphone, reeling off statistics about Five Star and Wham! with the enthusiasm of a tartrazined-up toddler. And then of course there was that moment of organisational genius where the lisping Chris Eubank was the guest presenter when Suggs's was on the show performing his track 'Cecilia'... However, the 1990's and early 2000's have seen TOTP rebranded time and time again in an effort to remain ...  Read the complete review

This is a music program and they play music on it. It last for 30 mins which is the biggest waste of air space ever seeing as they don't even let D-12 say words like FUCK and SHIT. This is stupid. I think that Top of the pops should be replaced with something more approriate such as Mastermind. What happened to Bottom of the Pops, now that was a program. Thanks for readin, plz rate and comment. Wot u on about, this ain't 75 words ...  Read the complete review

Top of the Pops has changed dramatically thoughout the years. It used to be an extremely entertaining programme which everyone could enjoy, and was quite funky! Unfortunately, more childish bands appeared around the globe and the perfomances are almost dominated by the likes of Steps, Westlife, and more recently The Tweenies. The more serious aspect of the show seemed to disappear! I have quite recently noticed a change in the show again, with more bands like Ash and other alternative bands performing. The show is beginning to cater for everyone's taste in music. More bands sing live nowadawys, now that the technology is available and stable. This ...  Read the complete review