Yes It's Number One

Again, the combined forces of Neil Barker and UK Gold When It Was Good fill in a blank: Geldof seems to have had a thing about ripping u...

I'm not being much help at the moment, am I? Two missing weeks and now being away on 'business' for a few days. So it's anot...

Firstly, that short T.Rex clip posted last week? The whole thing has now surfaced. There's a second keyboard player doing Gloria Jones...

Last time we were gathered here there was a national sensation lurking. This (thanks to jamesonedin from Popscene) is a scan of a page from...

I really hope BBC Four have some sort of strategy for this run, we're a good few weeks behind now with only two wiped shows for the rema...

ALERT! Top Of The Pops 2 is back for a fortnight only, every weekday from Monday, BBC2, 6.30pm. Don't expect too much out of the way stu...

Without wanting to turn this into another blog foregrounding the narrative of changing times in 1977, it's worth noting that on the 26th...

Just the four shows have been wiped in 1977, though there may be more that are unbroadcastable for whatever reason - UK Gold and Einsfestiva...

Well, it looks like we might have made it. Yes, it looks like we made it to the end. This retrospective year of Glamourpuss and Harpo . Of ...

Evidently the last missing show of the year, and with only four to come in 1977 we're slowly reaching a point of kept stock. As the show...

We've done quite well for surviving shows recently, seven in a row, but now the meat of the wipings kicks in with four out of six lost p...

Quick poll - should I migrate the On This TOTP Day feature from Twitter to here? It might get in the way of recaps and such business, but it...

Just to say the usual cut and thrust of the active comments box will have to do without me for a week or so (that's why this is up so ea...

Parish notices first, in the wake of last week's by far the largest number of comments for one show. Pan's People and TOTP Dance Tro...