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1978 - Big Hits

Top of the Pops performances from 1978, with Sham 69, Ian Dury, Elvis Costello, Blondie, The Boomtown Rats, Kate Bush, Dan Hill, Boney M, Bob Marley, 10cc, ELO and Manfred Mann.

A pick 'n' mix of Top of the Pops classics from 1978, when in-yer-face punk and new wave rebellion co-existed with MOR suburban pop, disco fever, soul balladry, reggae and prog rock, and when two mega-successful movie soundtracks in the shape of Grease and Saturday Night Fever squared up on the dancefloor. Featuring shouty Sham 69, the cool rebellion of Ian Dury, Elvis Costello and Blondie, the media-savvy clowning of The Boomtown Rats, Kate Bush's debut with Wuthering Heights, alongside Brotherhood of Man's perky Figaro, Dan Hill's sentimental Sometimes When We Touch and the high camp of Boney M's Rasputin. Bob Marley shares chart space with 10cc's Dreadlock Holiday, and ELO and Manfred Mann's Earth Band keep on rockin'.

59 minutes

Last on

Fri 5 Jan 2024 22:30
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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • Blondie

    Picture This

  • Brotherhood of Man

    Figaro

  • Kate Bush

    Wuthering Heights

  • Odyssey

    Native New Yorker

  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    (I Don't Want to go to) Chelsea

  • Manfred Mann鈥檚 Earth Band

    Davy's On The Road Again

  • John Travolta & Olivia Newton鈥怞ohn

    Summer Nights

  • The Boomtown Rats

    Rat Trap

  • The Motors

    Airport

  • Dan Hill

    Sometimes When We Touch

  • Sham 69

    Angels With Dirty Faces

  • Yvonne Elliman

    If I Can't Have You

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Mr. Blue Sky

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Satisfy My Soul

  • Chic

    Le Freak

  • Jilted John

    Jilted John

  • Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams

    Too Much, Too Little, Too Late

  • Ian Dury & the Blockheads

    What A Waste

  • 10cc

    Dreadlock Holiday

  • Rose Royce

    Love Don't Live Here Anymore

  • Boney M.

    Rasputin

Credit

Producer Serena Cross

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