Wasn't that just THIS anyway...?

that would be a really specialist kind of fetish, wuldn't it?

"for all the wrong reasons (and we all know what they are)", are you referring to the fact that this is perceived as 'naff 80s pop' or something more sinister? A brief googling proved unenlightening...

never be topped. Bowie & Ronson, what's not to love about it?

spoiled only by Trevor Bolder's ludicrous mutton chops and Woody Woodmansey's failed attempt at the Ziggy haircut.

The part where Bowie puts his arm around Ronson only served to confirm my dad's long-held belief that the world was, indeed, going to hell in a handcart.

And the piano player in this clip is Robin Lumley, who I believe is the cousin of Joanna Lumley. He played with Bowie during 1972/73.

Oh, and to the gentleman dancing listlessly in the background at 1:10 to 1:20 - nice rainbow themed tanktop sir!

It's a wonderful record and that was a wonderful moment. And, to be fair, we posted it.

I would probably agree with you, although I would have loved to have seen the club gigs that *Dave* played around that time with Roxy Music as support act. I think the slightly earlier appearance on The Earl Grey Whistle Pest was more jaw-dropping and impression-forming on me as a young teenager.

and started giggling. I have decided to leave it at that... my imagination shall do the rest.

Love Sparks...Guitars with synths/keyboards do it for me musically. The musical...'Am I bovered..Face Bovered??'

Kurt's knackered voice and laconic delivery, the other two refusing to pretend to play their instruments. And a mini-stage invasion at the end. Terrific stuff.

and rubbish now. The appeal of this bunch of talentless numpties has always escaped me. Loud production to cover up the lack of tune or melody, atrocious shouty vocals from a bloke who can't hold a tune in a bucket, and trite, embarrassing sixth-form common room lyrics.

but they're still a pish band

the worst tune ever written and performed, Jeez! how awful is that?

never did give me that shirt back, but I'll let it drop...

in a burkha would still have played havoc with my teenage hormones.

Debbie gesticulates to camera man she's going down....

Saw Blondie supporting Television at Newcastle City Hall not long before this. Most of us were there for a bit of Tom Verlaine's exquisite guitar licks, the Debster came on, wearing a cloak, shades, and beret. Within a minute the cloak was off, revealing red mini dress and thigh high bootes, beret ditched and hair shaken loose and a 1,000 testerone-charged Geordie lads rushing down to the front before you could say Atomic. Fan-bloody-tastic!!

...didn't he take over the whole ToTP studio once going from stage to stage? For Goody Two Shoes I think.

..never fails to hit the spot.

I loved this song at the time, but her performance was awful. Why did she have to sing live - some musicians' union strike or something? No one should ever do live on TOTP.

Loved it ! IIRC, the B side was even more shambolic

"Beware of the flowers cos they are gonna get you ...Yeah"

You wont catch Boyzone or maria carey covering it.

That was the one for me and my fellow playground dwellers the next day.

I remember watching that with my parents at the time. My Dad got so incandescently angry at the performance and the use of the word 'moron' in a song that I thought he was going to throw the TV out of the window.

I liked it.

Great minds etc.

Wondered if any from Drummond and Cauty would appear. Nice one. Over the 90's and perhaps the whole time of TOTP they must'cve come up with the most original performances...My choice would be 'The KLF' - Justified and Ancient with the guitar playing 99's and the old ice cream van on stage...Genius!

You may wish to view the above clip. This is what I expect from my licence fee - foxy chicks grooving to disco records. Not programmes about hideous orange-skinned British people with bad jewellery wishing to relocate to Spain. Not documentaries about the weight problems of people who eat too much. Not game shows presented by Vernon "Sucker of Satan's Cock" Kay.

I WANT FOXY CHICKS GROOVING TO DISCO RECORDS, GODDAMNIT! IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?!

Give me what I want or give me my money back!

Apart from their literal interpretations of the lyrics. 'Get Down' by Gilbert O'Sullivan featuring the Pan's bossing their canine chums around being a prime example.

Wasn't Madonna on the same show?

Has there ever been anything stranger on prime-time TV?

Phenomenal.

Here! And I thought the Dancing In The Street video was Jagger's celluloid low-point

of Emerson Lake and on drums - so he said on Danny Baker's show the other week.

always understated

Still brilliant after all these years.

Daltry could sing back then, couldn't he? Just effortless.

well I would say that, since I was 13 and therefore perfectly poised for pop perfection on a Thursday evening. But every week there was something to talk about in the playground, be it Starman, Virginia Plain, School's Out, Walk On The Wild Side, All The Young Dudes and, er, Chicory Tip.

Alice also made a big impression with the follow up to School's Out. The single version had the guitar much more up front and I can still remember the thrill of entering my local youth club disco and hearing that first chord roar.

She is 15-years-old on that clip.

Never noticed. Better take another look...

Another sobering reminder of rainy Thursday TOTP reality with Bill Wyman a climber, Saxon dowm to number 26 and er Lobo.

This is "sadly" missing clips of two of the three disco medleys of 60s hits that were riding high in the charts (Gidea Park's Beach Boy Gold, Tight Fit's 'Back to the 60s' but the viewers were at least spared a burst of Stars on 45).

Fantastic to hear yet another Radio 1 variation on the pronunciation of Derpecher Mode. (Peeder Powell I recalled prefered Derpeshay Mode).

Once, twice, three times a ....??

like it was yesterday ;)

... went on to achieved commercial success as a songwriter, particularly for Kylie's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" along with Cathy Dennis,for which they received an Ivor Novello Award for composing the most performed song of the year in 2001. He also got a Grammy later in 2004 for another Kylie song, the name of which escapes me.

As the name of a Mud album once proclaimed - It's Better than Working eh?

More than can be said for the poor old drummer, Dave Mount who sadly took his own life in 2006 a year after being on the Never Mind the Buzzcocks identity lineup, and Les Gray who died in 2004 after throat cancer.

Bauhaus were 'my band' in my early teens and I saw them many times so this was a bittersweet moment for me, my heroes on TOTP but knowing things would nver be the same again, and they werent next day kids coming into school saying they quite liked that bauhaus lot....time to move on, Blood and Roses were calling.....

Wikipedia says you were slandered in my playground... I should have said too many musicians, not enough Italian singer/television hostess/model/ actress/record producer/songwriters

The delicious coffee, the exquisite food, the finest art collections on the planet, the wonderful people, the words "uffa", "boh" and "precipitevolissimevolmente", the novels of Italo Calvino, the poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti, the dark-skinned beauties of Matera...

Unfortunately Sabrina isn't one of them.

I went to boarding school and me and my mates were let out of class unexpectedly early one afternoon, went back to the house and caught a prefect getting his rocks off to a VHS copy of this from the night before. We did not get any punishments off him for the rest of the year.

....I always thought it was a shame that Blur and Oasis' samey blokeyness eventually became the defining image of Britpop as Suede (the true originators of the genre) were far more interesting visually. I remember Brett saying that his vision for Britpop had been comparable to a Mike Leigh film but that certain other bands had turned the whole thing into a Carry On.

Even more outstanding was their performance at the Brits from the following year.

Interesting iggy at start, nice moment @ 3 min

Transvision Vamp may be guilty of some atrocities but this ain't one of them. Simply the best thing they ever, ever did: a big dumb, smack you over the head singalong pop song with a babe doing the singing and some guitars.

All downhill from there though.

Brilliant song

I remember it well. He ended up on his back, singing and kicked off his espadrilles. Most amusing.

Fine, fine, er, CHOON! (as one R. Fitzpatrick would put it). What a great rhythm loop. And a song which you can date almost to the second purely by the sound of it.

Think it would have had much more impact in clubs than on TOTP.

Love that big squelching bass sound, funnily enough have been giving early house and electro a bit of a bashing on spotify recently and this and D Train's 'Youre The One For Me' are both great songs.

Reminds me of nights in Busbys on the Charing X road, dancing up a storm (so I thought) and getting phone numbers off girls from southgate...happy days.

in the audience at that show. I believe it also included Culture Club's first TOTP appearance.

in the Wham clip.
Dee C Lee who later had a big hit with the fantastic "See The Day".

...against being forced to lip-synch. All 4 members were there, though. It was around that time that Harry K the bassist left.

Glenn Tilbrook evidently knows his way around a kit, even if he is miming.

Can't answer the DLT question, frankly some things are best left uninvestigated.

Pity Jools didn't stick to the guitar if you ask me, would have saved us some awkward moments. He's handling that with almost as much competence as a bricklayer handles … cement

Seeing that for the first time was the moment I realized that pop music could say something truly significant within the context of a stonking good tune.