Top of the Pops (1964–2016): Season 23, Episode 44 - Episode #23.44 - full transcript

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome to
Top Of The Pops.

Tonight on video we've got Berlin
and we've got Status Quo

and we've got Nick Berry. And in the
studio it's all the girls tonight

because we've got Kim Wilde,
Gwen Guthrie, Catherine Stock,

and over here it's Mel & Kim,
who are Showing Out.

♪ Show, show, show, show
Show, show, show, show

♪ Show, show, show, show
Show, show, show

♪ Showing out, showing out
Showing out, showing out

♪ Showing out, showing out

♪ Get fresh at the weekend



♪ Showing out, showing out

♪ Get fresh at the weekend

♪ Showing out, showing out

♪ You'd better live in love

♪ Than luxury

♪ It's all right

♪ And don't be dining out

♪ On foolish dreams

♪ Every night

♪ It only takes a moment
to feel all right

♪ Get fresh at the weekend

♪ Showing out

♪ Get fresh at the weekend

♪ Showing out, showing out



♪ Showing out

♪ We can't afford to wear

♪ Diamond and pearl

♪ That's OK

♪ Wouldn't want to be

♪ That kind of girl

♪ Anyway

♪ It only takes a moment
to feel all right

♪ Get fresh at the weekend

♪ Showing out

♪ Get fresh at the weekend

♪ Showing out, showing out

♪ Showing out

♪ I can supply you things

♪ I can provide everything

♪ If it's the man's hand

♪ That pays the price

♪ Then you belong to me

♪ Only, only, only, only
Show, show, show, show

♪ Only, only, only, only
Show, show, show

♪ Can't afford to buy

♪ Finer things

♪ That's all right

♪ We won't just lose our heads

♪ For anything

♪ Any time

♪ Only takes a moment
to feel all right

♪ Get fresh at the weekend

♪ Showing out, showing out

♪ Get fresh at the weekend

♪ Showing out

♪ Get fresh at the weekend

♪ Showing out, showing out

♪ Showing out

♪ Get fresh at the weekend

♪ Showing out

♪ Showing out

♪ I'm showing out

♪ Showing out

♪ I'm showing out

♪ Showing out… ♪

CHEERING

That's Mel & Kim, Showing Out.

One of the most successful movies
of the year has been Top Gun

and the song from that movie
is pretty successful too.

It's at Number 7.
It's by a band called Berlin.

CHEERING

♪ Watching every motion

♪ In my foolish lover's game

♪ On this endless ocean

♪ Finally lovers know no shame

♪ Turning and returning

♪ To some secret place inside

♪ Watching in slow motion

♪ As you turn around and say

♪ Take my breath away

♪ Take my breath away

♪ Watching, I keep waiting

♪ Still anticipating love

♪ Never hesitating

♪ To become the fated ones

♪ Turning and returning

♪ To some secret place to hide

♪ Watching in slow motion

♪ As you turn to me and say

♪ My love

♪ Take my breath away

♪ Through the hourglass I saw you

♪ In time you slipped away

♪ When the mirror crashed
I called you

♪ And turned to hear you say

♪ If only for today

♪ I am unafraid

♪ Take my breath away

♪ Take my breath away… ♪

CHEERING

That was Berlin
and You Take My Breath Away.

Still to come on the show we've got
Gwen Guthrie, we've got Kim Wilde

and we've got the new…
Well, it's not a new Number 1.
We've got Nick Berry later on.

Over here's a lady making her
very, very first appearance
on Top Of The Pops.

Her name is Catherine Stock.
This is To Have And To Hold.

CHEERING

♪ Some day there's got to be

♪ A heart that beats for me

♪ I can hear it now

♪ Too long to be alone

♪ When someone of my own

♪ Seems a dream somehow

♪ To have, to hold

♪ To know that I'll be told

♪ That someone in my life
belongs to me

♪ To laugh, to cry

♪ And know the reason why

♪ Is someone born of love

♪ To have and to hold

♪ And watching this love grow

♪ I'll take my time although

♪ It's high time to live

♪ Discovering on the way

♪ That price I had to pay

♪ I was glad to give

♪ To have, to hold

♪ To know that I'll be told

♪ That someone in my life
belongs to me

♪ To laugh, to cry

♪ And know the reason why

♪ Is someone born of love

♪ To have and to hold

♪ To have, to hold

♪ To know that I'll be told

♪ That someone in my life
belongs to me

♪ To laugh, to cry

♪ And know the reason why

♪ Is someone born of love

♪ To have and to hold

♪ To have, to hold

♪ To know that I'll be told

♪ That someone in my life
belongs to me

♪ To laugh, to cry

♪ And know the reason why

♪ Is someone born of love

♪ To have and to hold

♪ To have… ♪

CHEERING

That's Catherine Stock,
To Have And To Hold.

There are quite a few changes
in this week's Top 40.

Let's take a look.

CHEERING

And it's a new entry at Number 40.

It's Prince & The Revolution,
Anotherloverholenyohead

Because I Love You, Shaking Stevens,
a new entry at 39.

And The Mission go down to
Number 38… Stay With Me.

Stuck With You, it's Huey Lewis
& The News, this week at 37.

And a chart entry at 36. It's
Swing Out Sister with Breakout.

Cameo and Word Up
down to Number 35.

And a new entry at Number 34.

This Is The World Calling,
it's Bob Geldof.

Red Box, a chart entry
for America at 33.

Eurythmics, Thorn In My Side,
down to 32.

And a new entry at 31.

It's Don't Give Up
from Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush.

The Stranglers, Always The Sun,
up to Number 30.

I've Been Losing You, A-Ha,
down to 29.

And Julian Cope with World Shut
Your Mouth down to Number 28.

Bon Jovi, Living On A Prayer,
this week up to 27.

And a chart entry for Letitia Dean
and Paul Medford…

Something Out Of Nothing at 26.

Gwen Guthrie, Close To You,
up to 25.

And Showing Out from Mel & Kim
up to 24.

Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble.

It's DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince
at 23.

And Billy Idol, To Be A Lover,
up to 22.

Don't Leave Me This Way,
The Communards, down to 21.

And Always There,
it's Marti Webb down to 20.

This tune down to Number 19.
The Wizard, Paul Hardcastle.

And Think For a Minute from
the Housemartins up to Number 18.

Catherine Stock, To Have And
To Hold, this week at 17.

And The Smiths go in at Number 16.
A new entry… Ask.

Kim Wilde, You Keep Me Hanging On,
up to Number 15.

Notorious from Duran Duran,
a new entry at Number 14.

And Rain Or Shine from Five Star
down to 13.

True Colours stays at Number 12
for Cyndi Lauper.

And staying at Number 11,
You're Everything To Me.

It's Boris Gardiner.

CHEERING

The last time Gwen Guthrie was
in the charts, it was a big hit,

it was Ain't Nothing Going On
But The Rent.

She's here tonight
with her new single, at Number 25,

Gwen Guthrie and Close To You.

CHEERING

♪ Why do birds

♪ Suddenly appear

♪ Every time

♪ You are near

♪ Ooooo-ooooh

♪ Just like me

♪ They long to be

♪ Closer

♪ Closer to you

♪ Ooooo-oooo-oooh

♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo

♪ Aaaa-aaa-aaah

♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo

♪ Why do birds

♪ Suddenly appear

♪ Every time

♪ You are near

♪ Just like me

♪ They long to be

♪ Closer to you

♪ Why do stars

♪ Twinkle in the sky

♪ Each and every time
that you walk by

♪ Just like me

♪ They long to be

♪ Closer to you

♪ On the day that you were born

♪ The angels got together

♪ And decided

♪ To make a dream come true

♪ They sprinkled gold dust
in your hair

♪ But, baby

♪ Your eyes ain't blue
Doo-ooh

♪ Oh, but I love your

♪ Sexy, sexy moves

♪ Oh, that's why

♪ All the girls in town

♪ They love to follow you

♪ All around
Shoo-bee-doo-doo-ooh

♪ Just like me

♪ They long to be

♪ Closer

♪ To you

♪ Closer

♪ Oh, closer to you

♪ On the day you were born

♪ The angels got together

♪ And decided

♪ To make a dream come true

♪ They sprinkled gold dust
in your hair

♪ But, baby

♪ Your eyes ain't blue
Doo-ooh

♪ Oh, but I love your

♪ Sexy, sexy moves

♪ I want to get so close to you

♪ I'll be sticking like crazy glue

♪ I want to be closer

♪ Closer to your love

♪ Oh, that's why

♪ All the girls in town

♪ They love to follow you

♪ All around

♪ Shoo-bee-doo-doo-ooh… ♪

CHEERING

That's Gwen Guthrie
and Close To You.

I'm most insulted because someone's
just said to me it's like
working with a duvet in this.

CHEERING

Let's take a look at
the Top 40 breakers.

To celebrate 50 years of the BBC,
this video seems to be

in black and white.
It's Bon Jovi, Living On A Prayer.

♪ So tough

♪ Gina works the diner all day

♪ Working for her man

♪ She brings home her pay for love

♪ Mmm, for love

♪ She says we've got to hold on

♪ To what we've got

♪ It doesn't make a difference
if we make it or not

♪ We've got each other

♪ And that's a lot for love

♪ We'll give it a shot

♪ Whoa, we're halfway there

♪ Whoa, living on a prayer

♪ Take my hand,
we'll make it I swear

♪ Whoa, living on a prayer… ♪

You can always depend on The Smiths
for a good tune.

They're in at Number 16 with Ask.

♪ From saying all the things in life
you'd like to

♪ So if there's something
you'd like to try

♪ If there's something
you'd like to try

♪ Ask me, I won't say no
How could I?

♪ Spending warm summer days indoors

♪ Writing frightening verse

♪ To a buck-toothed girl
in Luxembourg… ♪

It's the highest new entry
at Number 14

but not as high as usual for
Duran Duran, and this is Notorious.

♪ Fools run rings to break-up

♪ Something they'll never destroy

♪ Grand notorious slam
Bam

♪ And who really gives a damn
for a flaky bandit?

♪ Don't ask me to bleed about it

♪ I need this blood to survive

♪ You own the money
You control the witness

♪ I hear you're lonely
Don't monkey with my business

♪ You pay the profits
to justify the reasons

♪ I heard your promise
but I don't believe it

♪ That's why I'll do it again… ♪

That's the Duran boys and Notorious.

Will you please welcome
on Top Of The Pops,

with You Keep Me Hanging On,
it's Kim Wilde.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

♪ Keep me hanging on

♪ Set me free, why don't you, babe

♪ Get out my life
Why don't you, babe

♪ Cos you don't really love me

♪ You just keep me hanging on

♪ Set me free, why don't you, babe

♪ Get out my life
Why don't you, babe

♪ Cos you don't really need me

♪ But you keep me hanging on

♪ Why do you keep a coming around

♪ Playing with my heart

♪ Why don't you get out of my life

♪ And let me make a brand-new start

♪ Let me get over you

♪ The way you've gotten over me

♪ Yeah, yeah

♪ Set me free, why don't you, babe

♪ Get out my life
Why don't you, babe

♪ Cos you don't really love me

♪ You just keep me hanging on

♪ No, you don't really need me

♪ You just keep me

♪ Hanging on

♪ You say although we broke up

♪ You still just want to be friends

♪ But how can we still be friends

♪ When seeing you only breaks
my heart again

♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa

♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa

♪ Yeah, yeah

♪ Get out, get out of my life

♪ And let me sleep at night

♪ Cos you don't really love me

♪ You just keep me
Hanging on

♪ Hanging on

♪ You say you still care for me

♪ But your heart and soul
needs to be free

♪ And now that you've got
your freedom

♪ You want to still hold on to me

♪ You don't want me for yourself

♪ So let me find somebody else

♪ Set me free, why don't you, babe

♪ Get out my life
Why don't you, babe

♪ Cos you don't really love me

♪ You just keep me hanging on

♪ Why don't you be a man about it

♪ And set me free

♪ Now you don't care
a thing about me

♪ You're just using me

♪ Hey, abusing me

♪ Get out, get out of my life

♪ And let me sleep at night

♪ Cos you don't really love me

♪ You just keep me

♪ Hanging on… ♪

CHEERING

Putting her stamp on the old
Supremes hit, that is Kim Wilde.

OK, for you now
we've got the Top 10.

CHEERING

And The Pretenders go up to
Number 10 with Don't Get Me Wrong.

Suburbia from the Pet Shop Boys,
down to Number 9.

And up to Number 8,
it's Midas Touch from Midnight Star.

Berlin and Take My Breath Away,
the highest climber, to Number 7.

It's Paul Simon down to Number 6…
You Can Call Me Al.

Madonna with True Blue
down to Number 5.

The Bangles, Walk Like An Egyptian,
up to Number 4.

Cliff Richard and Sarah Brightman
stay at Number 3

with All I Ask Of You.

Up to Number 2, In The Army Now.
It's Status Quo.

And for the third week on the run
it's Every Loser Wins at Number 1

from Nick Berry.

CHEERING

♪ We nearly made it

♪ We nearly found
the perfect combination

♪ The road was right
We must have read the signs wrong

♪ And now it's all gone

♪ But if we'd made it

♪ Could we be sure
that it was for the better

♪ Who could say we would have
stayed together

♪ Nothing is certain

♪ In a changing world

♪ Every loser wins

♪ Once the dream begins

♪ In time you'll see

♪ Fate holds the key

♪ And every loser knows

♪ The light the tunnel shows

♪ Will shine on you

♪ And all those who knew

♪ We nearly made it

♪ But suddenly we seemed to stop
and lose our way

♪ But did it really matter anyway

♪ For that was yesterday

♪ And we must live for now

♪ Cos every loser wins

♪ Once the dream begins

♪ In time you'll see

♪ Fate holds the key

♪ And every loser knows

♪ The light the tunnel shows

♪ Will shine on you

♪ And all those who knew

♪ We nearly made it

♪ Stand up and count me

♪ I know you're on my side

♪ Shine down on me

♪ And those who believe

♪ That we can make it. ♪

CHEERING

Still at Number 1, that's Nick
Berry, recorded live at the Old Vic,

and Every Boozer Wins.

Next week on the show you've got
Peter Powell and Steve Wright.

Thanks very much indeed
for watching.

We leave you with
a great bunch of lads.

It's Status Quo, In The Army Now.
Goodnight!

CHEERING

♪ A vacation in the foreign land

♪ Uncle Sam does the best he can

♪ You're in the army now

♪ Oh, oh, you're in the army

♪ Now

♪ Now you remember
what the draft man said

♪ Nothing to do all day
but stay in bed

♪ You're in the army now

♪ Oh, oh, you're in the army

♪ Now

♪ You'll be the hero
of the neighbourhood

♪ Nobody knows
that you left for good

♪ You're in the army now

♪ Oh, oh, you're in the army

♪ Now

♪ Smiling faces as you wait to land

♪ But once you get there
no-one gives a damn

♪ You're in the army now

♪ Oh, oh, you're in the army

♪ Now

♪ Hand grenades
flying over your head

♪ The sun's flying over your head

♪ If you want to survive
get out of bed

♪ You're in the army now

♪ Oh, oh, you're in the army

♪ Now

♪ Shots ring out
in the dead of night

♪ The sergeant calls
"Stand up and fight!"

♪ You're in the army now

♪ Oh, oh, you're in the army

♪ Now

♪ You've got your orders
to shoot on sight

♪ The finger's on the trigger
but it don't seem right

♪ You're in the army now

♪ Oh, oh, you're in the army

♪ Now

♪ You're in the army now

♪ Oh, oh, you're in the army

♪ Now

♪ Night is falling
and you just can't see

♪ Is this illusion or reality

You're in the army now

♪ Oh, oh, you're in the army

♪ In the army now

♪ You're in the army now

♪ Oh, oh, you're in the army

♪ Now

♪ Oh, oh, you're in the army

♪ In the army now

♪ Oh, oh, you're in the army

♪ In the army now

♪ Oh, oh, you're in the army… ♪