Happy New Year!
Let me lay this 10th of January 1997 edition of Top of the Pops on you!
Desert island disco
10-1-97: Presenter: Nicky Campbell
(24) KENICKIE – In Your Car
Getting the new year underway with their first of four top 40 hits, this one being the biggest but it got no higher.
(8) KAVANA – I Can Make You Feel Good
Here with his first of two top ten hits, but it got no higher.
(2) TORI AMOS – Professional Widow (It’s Got To Be Big) (video) (and charts)
Will go up one more place.
(30) RUNRIG – The Greatest Flame
Performing their eighth and final top 40 hit but it got no higher.
(3) ORBITAL – Satan Live (video)
Their first of two top ten hits and this one was at its peak.
(12) TERRORVISION – Easy
In the studio but got not higher.
(NEW) BLUR – Beetlebum
Performing what will soon become their second number one.
(1) SPICE GIRLS – 2 Become 1 (video)
Third and final week at number one.
(TOTP2) DAVID BOWIE – Starman (clip of TOTP 6-7-72) (and credits)
Number 10 in 1972.
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ReplyDeleteI Finally Found Someone peaked at number 10.
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ReplyDeleteGood to see that Radio 1 DJ's are are still in demand for presenting TOTP by 1997.
Favourite group on the show this week was Kenickie which I presume came from one of the characters in Grease, just as McFly took heir name from one of the characters in Back To The Future.
Chart rundown - did anyone spot The Fine Young Cannibals as a new entry and at peak at No.36 with their original 1989 single She Drives Me Crazy? I'm presuming this was due to a TV advert in 1997 using their tune.
TOTP2 11-01-1997 https://we.tl/t-UNZ5o81sS9
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DeleteCheers Rob!!
DeleteAlso the main picture is a very young looking Lauren Laverne, BBC DJ
I must say that Laverne was looking very nice on her TOTP performance as Kenickie, and definitely worth a watch. I'd never even heard of this group before until this BBC4 repeat, although I had heard of Laverne as a radio presenter capacity on Desert Island Discs.
DeleteThanks Rob!!!
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