Friday 14 September 2018

Train of Top of the Pops

All aboard! The 17th April 1986 edition of Top of the Pops is waiting for you at the station. Get your tickets ready!

Full steam A-ha!


17/04/86  (Gary Davies)

Big Country – “Look Away” (10)
Getting the show rolling down the tracks tonight are Big Country with their final top ten hit which peaked at number 7.

Falco – “Rock Me Amadeus” (3) (video/chart)
Slowly chugging closer to its number one destination.

A-ha – “Train Of Thought” (8)
They are back in the studio again but this song had come to the end of its line.

Suzanne Vega – “Marlene On The Wall” (27) (breaker)
Her debut top 40 hit, it peaked at number 21.

Grange Hill Cast – “Just Say No” (26) (breaker)
Zammo and the gang got as high as number 5.

Janet Jackson – “What Have You Done For Me Lately?” (16) (video)
On its way to number 3.

It’s Immaterial – “Driving Away From Home (Jim’s Tune)” (28)
Making their debut on the platform tonight with what was to be their only top 40 hit, peaking at number 18.

George Michael – “A Different Corner” (1) 
He's in the studio to perform his runaway hit, this being the first of three weeks at number one.

Whitney Houston – “The Greatest Love Of All” (33) (video/audience dancing/credits)
Our journey ends tonight with Whitney's third of 17 top ten hits, this one peaking at number 8.


Next stop is April 24th.

64 comments:

  1. Good to see that your extended train metaphor didn't run out of puff, Angelo! From this point on, for reasons best known to Michael Hurll, the show would oscillate between having solo hosts and duos, with Gazza the first to get to present on his own. One or two stumbles aside, he does a good job, and I liked his crack about it being OK to talk all over Falco because nobody could understand what he was saying. He'd probably be accused of xenophobia if he made that comment nowadays...

    I agree with Gazza that Big Country get the show off to a flying start, with comfortably my favourite song of theirs, and a big return to form for them after a disappointing previous couple of singles - that surging chorus is irresistible. Stuart's hair looks distinctly bog-brush here, and I don't know what all those brooches the band were wearing were meant to signify. We are almost done with these Top 40 rundowns over a song - just one more to come, I think, on the 1st May show - but at least you can still enjoy the punk-meets-baroque aesthetic of Falco's video without being able to hear the record properly.

    This A-ha tune is growing on me, and the boys are in the studio once again for a performance distinguished only by the keyboard player bizarrely going for a brief walkabout with his instrument, for reasons that were not clear as the camera stayed fixed on Morten. Breakers next, and sadly this is as much as we will get of the rather fabulous Marlene on the Wall, an inspired 80s update of the classic singer-songwriter sound on the part of Ms Vega. I wonder if Marlene Dietrich, who was still very much with us at the time, ever heard the song or saw the video, and if so what did she think of Suzanne's impersonation? Then we go from the sublime to the truly ridiculous with the Grange Hill gang, but more on that next time...

    I've never been a fan of Janet Jackson and her highly mechanical dance moves and music, but I suppose this one had quite a good rhythm to it. Some nice choreography too in that cartoony diner; I gather from Twitter that future pop star Paula Abdul was responsible for it, and that she appears at the start of the video, though I didn't notice her. While I have long been familiar with Driving Away From Home, I have never listened that closely to it before and always thought it was a rather serious song. Watching this performance left me with a decidedly different impression, and I also noticed for the first time the M62 being mentioned in the lyrics. The singer's tongue was visibly in cheek throughout, and that large 1930s mic added to the ironic feel - still a good tune, though.

    A lesser seen George Michael studio appearance as he hits number 1, and evidently tasselled jackets were having a bit of a comeback in 1986, as he follows Bryan Ferry in unwisely donning one. Together with the mullet and the boots, the jacket helps make George look about as uncool as he ever did, which perhaps explains why this performance hasn't been repeated much. Whitney to close, beginning her descent into shouty balladry, though thankfully not yet into vocal gymnastics. The girl in the video did look similar to the young Whitney, though I think it was an actress rather than genuine footage. As for the song, I much prefer George Benson's more understated version, though the "I believe that children are our future" line is incredibly trite - if they aren't, what is?

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    1. I'm of the opinion that solo hosting, as was traditional on TOTP pre-1983, was always the best way on TOTP, and I never really liked the two-host approach, so if what you are saying is correct, ie, that we will see more single hosting, if not on every show, then it is a welcome re-introduction, as Gary Davies clearly showed by having his own show this week, that he excelled further, and looked much more comfortable that way. Well done TOTP!

      With regard to Falco, I remember really liking the video, especially the beginning when he comes out of the royal horse-and-cart, followed by two identical girl twins in gold coloured clothing. Nice touch that, and pity that we had the video disturbed by the top 40 chart rundown, so thank G-d that there is only one more of these over a video!

      The video of The Cast of Grange Hill seemed to look like a cross between the videos of USA For Africa's We Are The World, and Olivia Newton John's video for Physical!

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    2. Yes, from now until 1988 there is a mix of solo and dual-hosted shows, but in '88 the show reverts to being hosted by two people every week again. I think you are right that one presenter generally works better for a show with TOTP's format, though the Rhythm Pals and Janice & John provided some memorable moments when hosting together.

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    3. The lyric "I believe that children are our future" is quite macabre when you think of Ms Houstons daughter.

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    4. Yes, that's very true.

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  2. big country: what, are they still hanging around? one i'd completely forgotten about, with the chorus vaguely registering on a fresh listen now. unlike on their previous hits the guitars sound a bit weedy, but otherwise the sound is much the same and pretty stale by now. rather absurdly there is still a version of the band plodding the nostalgia circuit, despite stuart adamson topping himself several years ago now

    it's immaterial: yet another silly bracketed title tune! i say tune, but i had forgotten that the vocalist rather annoyingly talks his way through the verses even though i seem to remember this being played to death on the radio at the time. of course unlike american ones, british "road songs" are few and far-between as being stuck in a queue on the M6 in the pissing rain hardly has the same romantic appeal as cruising the pacific coast highway in an open-topped cadillac

    suzanne vega: i don't think this got to be seen on the show properly, so i'll make comment on it now: i remember there being a hushed aura about her debut album as if it was piece of class among the dross of most contemporary music of that time, and as such i managed to acquire it to listen to accordingly. but "small blue thing" apart i was pretty disappointed and so moved on. and moved even further on having been somewhat put-off by that dance remix of "tom's diner". but in recent years i have discovered several later excellent tracks recorded by her, such as "night vision" and "caramel". i seem to remember that like gene pitney, she was touring blighty at the time of the 9/11 incident and so had to give her opinions on that in pre-scheduled tv interviews rather than promote her own affairs

    whitney: i thought this was syrupy rubbish when george benson recorded it nearly 10 years earlier, and she did nothing to change that opinion despite (or maybe because of) the unmitigated wailing

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    1. I always thought Big Country's best work was well behind them by now, as their first year, 1983, and first album, brought the best out of them, so by now in 1986, I was also surprised that they were still doing TOTP, but let's give John G his accolade if this single was his favourite, even as late as 1986!

      I quite liked this Whitney Houston third single, and I must admit it is a guilty pleasure for me, not just the song but the video also, with that amazing sparkly beige dress in that drop-dead figure of hers. Good Lord, what a size 6 figure if ever I saw one (morning erection alert). It deserved to get to no.1 following this playout single.

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    2. Big Country were still managing to reach the Top 30 as late as 1993 (indeed, that is when they made their final TOTP appearance) though after Look Away they only had two further Top 20 hits.

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  4. This week's episode features a true classic of British new wave: It's Immaterial's 'Driving Away From Home'. My Dad could not make head nor tail of them when they appeared on TOTP. At the time he remarked, "He's ill, that feller - and he's on drugs", referring to guitarist Jarvis Whitehead and vocalist Martin Campbell respectively. The latter had previously fronted Radar-signed power pop band The Yachts, who scraped the Billboard Top 200 with their debut album but otherwise failed to trouble the chart compilers. Watch out for another former Yacht, Henry Priestman, on future repeats as a member of late 80s chart regulars The Christians.

    The charity single by the cast of 'Grange Hill' reminds me of a sketch from 'Alas Smith and Jones', in which Griff Rhys Jones played a spokesperson of some description. In a fictitious conversation with a TV reporter, he stated that the slogan 'Just Say No' was to be publicised across Britain's state school system. "For the private schools," he continued, "it's 'Just say no, thank you.'"

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    1. julie you forgot to mention that all the above are yet-more scouse acts! according to some guy i know who was working in the music industry at the time, the christians were anything but that in their attitude when they were riding high in the charts. so when the hits started drying up, their decline was accelerated accordingly (they obviously forgot the old adage "be nice to people on the way up...")

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    2. The Christians weren't religious, they were called that because most of them had the surname Christian, and Henry Priestman's middle name was Christian.

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    3. NOTE: I made an error in my opening paragraph; the lead singer of It's Immaterial was JOHN Campbell, not Martin.

      I know that both The Christians and It's Immaterial were formed on Merseyside, but not all their members were scousers. Henry Priestman was originally from Hull, but attended school in North Yorkshire and Reading before his art studies took him to Liverpool. Similarly, John Campbell of It's Immaterial hails from Manchester - as he states in the lyric of 'Driving Away From Home' ("...Manchester - and that's my birthplace, you know").

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    4. of course i am aware that the christians were so-called because they were mainly a group of brothers with that surname, as opposed to god botherers. but i was just commenting on how ironic it was that they had a reputation for being a bunch of c*nts, in contrast to the usual christian-like attitude that is considered to be kindly and considerate!

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    5. julie to me the definition of a "scouse act" is one that was formed and was active in liverpool before becoming famous elsewhere, regardless of where those in it originated from. perhaps the most famous case of a non-scouser associated with the liverpool music scene is julian cope, who was raised in the far-less musically cool environs of tamworth in staffordshire?

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  5. First one I’ve watched live for ages, and really enjoyed it.
    I remember the Its Immaterial track. It always reminds ne of a Department S B side, which is a list of directions ending with a knock at the door and “he’s expecting you” - the title of the track. I always intended to see whether they were real instructions...

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    1. I remember that track by Department S; it was actually titled 'SHE'S Expecting You' and was the B-side to 'Going Left Right', their follow-up to 'Is Vic There?'. Unlike its predecessor, though, it stalled outside the Top 40.

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    2. Ah yes. Thats what comes of working from memory and not prechecking with Mr Wiki :-)

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    3. And checking my records reveals a french version of is vic there on the 12”

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    4. i remember taping "going left right" in the early 80's and much preferring it to "is vic there", although i haven't heard it for decades since then. i suspect the lack-of novelty element was what put paid to its chances of also being a hit? in that case, going by the above comments then maybe they should have flipped it over for radio play?

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    5. charlie call it pride or stupidity, but i still cannot resist posting some trivia here that i have pulled from the dark dim recesses of decades-old memory from time to time without first checking the internet to make sure it's correct or not! thankfully i still think i'm more right than wrong in that regard, although i'm now having trouble pulling things out of my head that i'm sure wouldn't have been the case a few years ago. yesterday was a good case in point as i was discussing kylie minogue's transformation from wholesome soap star to glitzy gay icon with a chum, and when her duet with that jason guy was mentioned i couldn't remember his surname!

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  6. Big Country with what can best be described as variations on a theme, it goes on a bit in that respect but I'm glad they remembered to include a tune again for their last big hit. Stuart wearing Max Headroom's jacket, there.

    Well, we'll see the Falco video again, but I can think of one word he says we could all understand, Gary.

    A-ha back in the studio and bizarrely the keyboardist (Pal? Mags? Mal? Pags?) seems to take off on a skateboard and zoom around behind Morten, keyboard in hands. Then seconds later he's back where he was. The magic of television!

    Suzanne Vega, oh so sensitive with a ditty about Marlene Dietrich, pretty decent for a debut hit though she was always a shade too delicate for me to enthuse about. This certainly has a nice little tune, and rather this than Luka.

    Janet Jackson, a terrific debut hit with tetchy lyrics and muscular production from a pretty great album, Control. The formation dancing in the video was obviously inspired by her brother, but she was always preferable by dint of appearing halfway reasonable.

    It's Immaterial, almost a novelty hit, but a pleasing, atmospheric British road song, as noted above, there aren't many! Of course, those lyrics wouldn't fly now, it all sounds a bit "Allo love, want one of these?" "No fanks, better not" post-Yewtree, but we can go back to a more innocent time with these repeats. The album Life's Hard and Then You Die was very good too, though my favourite song of theirs, Ed's Funky Diner, never made the charts, pity because it's superb.

    George at number one, a nice thing about him was his willingness to show up for TOTP, he was loyal like that, remembering what a big deal it was when he was a kid. Still find the song dull, mind you.

    Whitney takes us out with The Greatest Lungs of All, signalling what she would be best known for, overblown balladry. Always preferred her as a popstrel. Of course, now the generations are supposed to hate each other, so the lyrics would have to be changed to "I can't believe the children are our future".

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    1. I presume you are referring to the word "bekannt" which is German for "famous".

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  7. Did that funky n-n-n-ew music getting us under way. Attack, attack, attack no more!!

    Big Country – Look away – Pretty standard Country Fair.

    Falco – Rock me Amadeus – Proving we’re still persisting with the chart rundown vs. video battle, this one proves harder for Gary to prevail over with his chart utterings, as the song is an insistent anthem that just begs to be heard.

    A-Ha – Train of thought – or ‘Train of thought (remix)’ to be accurate. There’s not a lot of difference between the original album version to be honest with Morten still doing his Mark Knopfler impression on the verses. I find myself ‘siding’ with the album version if I had to choose between the two. The second verse sounds a little different mind you.

    Breakers - Suzanne Vega – Marlene on the Wall – I loved this and it’s B Side ‘Small Blue Thing’ when it came out and I listed to Vega’s albums quite a lot. Now I find both the albums and the singles missing from my collection so I must of got tired of her after a while. Sounds good now saying that. Grange Hill Cast – Just say no – I found myself trying to work out which Grange Hill pupils were actually in this. I couldn’t see Paula Ann Bland anywhere who I had a crush on at the time.

    Janet Jackson – What have you done for me lately – Nothing much. FF.

    It’s Immaterial – Driving away from Home – Never heard this before. Not bad at all. Quite soothing. Would no doubt grow on me. Will have to check out further…

    George Michael – A Different Corner – Never knew that George rocked up to the studio to perform this and it looks a lot better seeing him there rather than just the rather insipid video. Great song, although no3 in the Smooth top500 I feel flatters it.

    Whitney Houston – Greatest love of all – FF needless to say. Just for the record, this was the B Side of her first flop single ‘Someone for me’ released in April 1985 so gawd knows why it got an A Side outing. Remixed apparently although the label does not say so. Much prefer George Benson’s version to this (as John G sums it up nicely), shouty rendition.

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    1. Paula Ann Bland had left Grange Hill the previous year, so wasn't on the single. She seemed to spend the rest of her post-Hill career getting her kit off.

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    2. i'm going to test my memory here (see above) by saying that to my recollection paula ann bland's "grange hill" character's name was clair (or clare or claire)?

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    3. That's right, Claire Scott. Looking at an interview, it seems she tried a pop career with a cover of The Locomotion. Guess who stole her thunder?

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    4. Paula Ann bland's effort was released on the lesser known Kay Drum label and was the second consecutive Goffin / King cover out of the company's total of four singles, the previous being "It Might As Well Rain Until September" by Cavern, a band of Beatles wannabes who included a John Lennon lookalike!

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    5. There was a performance of PAB's Locomotion on Pebble Mill At One ISTR.

      Wonder if that still exists?

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  8. Just outside the top40 were Heart with the wonderful 'These Dreams' which had recently topped the US charts. This UK chart run would stall at no62 but thanks to a classic power ballad released the following year, 'These Dreams' would get belated top10 recognition in 1988 coupled as a double A Side with 'Never'.

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    1. I remember when Heart first appeared in our UK charts, that the younger sister Nancy was quite stunning and just amazing in every way, and she of course plays lead character from the start of the video for These Dreams:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41P8UxneDJE


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    2. 'These Dreams', written by Martin Page, featured lyrics by none other than Bernie Taupin btw. It's strange how the UK completely ignored the 'Heart' album and its singles first time round in 1985. After the huge sucess of 'Alone' in summer 1987, we were treated to a couple more songs from the 'Bad Animals' album before kickstarting those missed hits from the superb 'Heart' album:- 'Never/These Dreams', 'What about love?' and 'Nothin at all'. Great stuff, and the 'Alone' video is right up there for me...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw1ng75KP0

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    3. Yes indeed, and on Alone we see the lovely Nancy playing on piano at the start of the video while her less attractive sister Ann sings on the balcony. Perhaps Ann had the better voice, but Nancy certainly had the sex factor for melting hearts.

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    4. Heart had of course been around for more than a decade before finally breaking into the UK charts; they had enjoyed an American Top 10 hit with Magic Man as early as 1976. Another of their singles from that year, Crazy on You, is an excellent rock track - here's a great live version:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gpNqB4dnT4


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    5. Interesting little diversion this is! 'Crazy on you' is the opening track on 'The Essential Heart' double CD and what an opener! This live version is a treat too....thanks for the nudge John.

      btw 'Crazy on you' was released on Arista with catalogue number 'Arista 86'. The preceding single 'Arista 85' is Gary Glitter's 'It takes all night long' which, if I am not mistaken, was shown on the BBC4 reruns....

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    6. Yes, It Takes All Night Long was shown while BBC4 were repeating 1977, in that brief period before Yewtree broke when the Beeb had decided that the likes of Glitter and JK should be shown despite their previous convictions, as to do otherwise would rewrite history. Would that such an attitude had prevailed longer term...

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    7. no one has yet seemed to mention that ann wilson had the same problem as one of the steps ladies, in that in later years she had major problems keeping the weight off. can anyone think of other once-svelt female pop stars who then ballooned as they aged?

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    8. Aretha certainly piled on the pounds in later years, though she was never exactly svelte in the first place. Alison Moyet went in the opposite direction, of course...

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    9. i was reading up a bit on ann wilson on wiki, and wondered why heart relocated to canada as they were american? it turned out that their manager skipped the states over the border (having had to swiftly leave his home via the bathroom window!) so he could dodge the vietnam draft, and the band (which included his girlfriend nancy wilson and his brother, who was ann's boyfriend) decided to follow him there

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    10. I guess it was a bit like the Fleetwood Mac relationships within their band, going out with other band members and trying to work with them too.

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  9. Looks like I'm the only only one here whose favourite It's Immaterial single is the madcap "A Gigantic Raft In The Philippines"!

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  11. April continues with a one man show from Mr Gary.

    Loving the new theme but never realised as a 12 year old how hideous that logo is.. 😀

    Big country up first. Said when this was a breaker that I like this song. Very catchy. Never realised it was such a big hit. Could that coat be any more Scottish? The hair is fabulous. Everyone at school had spikey hair in the mid 80s. Even me when I still had some.

    Great to see the Falco video. What fun. This one is burned in my memory. Different mix of the song on the video In fact I think this song has more versions than any other 80s hit (maybe excepting Two Tribes). Every compilation has a different version.

    Countdown really doesn't work like this does it. OMG Grange Hill??? 😁

    Aha back and this has grown on me in the last couple of weeks. Not sure that's the lightest keyboard he could of skateboarded with. Morten is such a rebel isn't he.. NO TIE!

    Breakers:
    Suzanne Vega. Like her voice and some of her later stuff (luca). This is OK but I don't recall it at all.
    Grange Hill. I was banned form watching GH. Not suitable apparently. Used to watch it around a friends house from about 1988 so no idea who any of this lot were. Love the hand moves.

    Janet dances and looks like Michael apparently. I'm sure she was thrilled Gary. Fab song. Fab video. 😀

    It's Immaterial. One hit wonder? I liked this at the time and it has aged well, probably by not being overplayed on 80s radio stations. Side 1, Track 1 80s Driving songs... Road To Hell top of Disc 2.
    Surely this was a performance crying out for a live vocal as most of it is spoken.

    OMG. George has gone the full Edmonds...not his best look.
    Fabulous ballad though. Glad it made it to Number One. As good as Careless Whisper?? Possibly. Beautiful.

    Another ballad to play out. Whitney with one of her signature tunes. Personally not a favourite, she will do much better.

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    1. okay, can anyone name any other british road songs? the first one that comes to mind for me is "driving home for christmas" by chris rea...

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    2. Billy Bragg did a spoof of "Route 66" for the Essex coastal road called "A13, Trunk Road To the Sea".

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    3. And a second from Chris Rea, of course! "Road To Hell" was his tirade against the M25 car park.

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    4. Think it was a tirade against the M4 to his house in Berkshire.

      Tragic that I know tha

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    5. Driver's Seat by Sniff'n'The Tears?

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  13. Ah, good, one of the better presenters with nary a prick botching things up.

    A rousing fist raiser from Big Country, showing Sheer Elegance how to do matching clobber with those medals – and what a coat and shirt collar chain artefact on Stuart!

    A strange yet fun video from Falco, and I don’t care what language he’s singing, that bloody chart rundown ruins the whole effect.

    If only A-Ha had dressed up as British Rail staff for proper effect. Get out of shot at the end, Davies!

    I love “Marlene On The Wall”. Suzanne Vega may be stick thin, but she scrubs up well and has an engaging smile.

    To think we baulked at the thought of Kids From Fame! Zammo chased the dragon and got a smack on the nose and, boy, did we suffer for it aurally.

    Gary notices exactly what I thought of Janet’s video last time round.

    It’s Immaterial with a surreal yet enigmatic song which I enjoyed more than I did back in the day.

    A different corner, George? How about Muller Fruit Corner! Fair play to him for turning up, but a live performance would have stormed it.

    As for the outro song, I’m with Peter Kay – I believe garlic bread is the future. Such a shame we couldn’t have put Whitney and Mariah in a padded cell for a shriek-off to see whose head exploded first.

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    1. sheer elegance! that seems like going back half a lifetime now...

      also, i am now wondering if george michael wrote that song with such a title as a veiled reference to what he realised by now was his true sexuality?

      and as for peter kay - as far as i'm concerned the guy is (to quote bernard manning) as funny as rabies in a guide dogs home! do you remember those "i love the 70's" docs from the turn of the century where he was recalling what was going on back then with amazing clarity - even though he was only 7 when that decade ended? what a fraud!

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    2. I loved those "I Love The 70's" docs. I think they're still on YouTube, and you'll never see the 1970 episode on telly again due to the host.

      I know not everyone's a Peter Kay fan and he's a bit Marmite (I like some of his work but not all of it), but I prefer his vision of future to the one in that song!

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    3. despite realising that peter kay was a ringer afterwards (i wonder how many of his lines were fed to him by stuart maconie?) i did really enjoy those "i love the 70's" programmes. and the 80's ones as well come to that. plus at the same time channel 4 were producing those "top 10" music genre programmes that were an equally good nostalgia fest

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    4. The I Love... programmes were quite enjoyable at the time, though they took the concept too far by doing a 90s series as well, which meant that you ended up with "I Love 1999" being broadcast in 2001!

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    5. yes, totally agreed john - you can have too much of a good thing! i don't watch the telly these days (the licencing people have just contacted me asking me to confirm i don't need a licence - i anm planning to reply with a mega-rant on the reasons i'm not prepared to pay for one!), but it would make more sense to show those programmes again now given the time elapsed. unlike the late 80's i thought (and still do think) that the early 90's were generally of a high standard musically, although by halfway through the decade it was pretty much all over thanks to contrived acts (take that, spice girls, boyzone) and scenes (britpop). also there were some pretty amazing tv shows around back then ("frasier", "whose line is it anyway", "have i got news for you" when it was actually funny, unlike for the last 10 years or so - another case of too much of a good thing!), the quality of which you'll never see now

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    6. Yes, it would be much more sensible to show I Love the 90s now, though they still only seem five minutes ago! You could also probably just about get away with a Noughties series as well now - maybe the I Love... franchise and other nostalgia shows of the era could feature in it?

      By the way, agree on HIGNFY - a once great show that should have been put out of its misery years ago.

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  14. Sadly, there go it's Immaterial, driving away from our consciousness as quickly as they rode in. This single sped up ten places the next week then reversed down the chart. Prequel and then sequel single "Ed's Funky Diner" somehow stalled at 65, and the band appear to have released three more singles on Siren (like 10 and Circa, one of those trendyish 80's labels which had a few hits then dissolved) before disappearing into the sunset.

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  15. Sorry to go off beam here but this seems to be the best forum on TOTP. Wondered if anyone knows where to find the 1967 Boxing Day edition which I remember was repeated over Xmas/New Year 1988 and I - doh! - lost my tape. Any info gratefully received. Thank you.

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    1. https://we.tl/t-7OLdEQ5nlr

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    2. thanks for the compliment matt! one of the good things about it in my view is that most of us here go off-beam to a point every now and again, and yet it still seems to retain some relevence to the core subject!

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    3. Wow! Fantastic, thank you very much Manorak!

      Yes indeed wilberforce, no discussion of TOTP is complete without the music as well as the presentation.

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  16. Hi, Dory here. Does anyone know how to access my blogger name, as for some reason it is coming up as 'Google Account' as though I'm not signed in to my google account when I am, and on the top right hand corner of this Angleo blogspot it says 'sign in', even though I am already signed in to my gmail account.

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    1. OK, I'm back on board, I changed browser from Safari to google chrome and it worked. Weird, cos Safari has never failed, and is the only one I use!

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