TOP OF THE POPS: THE LOST YEARS REDISCOVERED 1964-1975

Running from 1st January 1964 to 30th July 2006, BBC TV’s ‘Top Of The Pops’ was the UK’s longest-running and most influential music TV show. Yet, unbelievably, the BBC didn’t start semi-regularly keeping tapes of the show until the spring of 1976. Fortunately - thanks largely to sneaky TV technicians, overseas TV stations and early home-video pioneers - the picture isn’t quite as bleak as it at first appears. This book affectionately recaptures those musically and historically important years, and includes:• Complete episode guides to all 619 episodes from 1964 to 1975. • The 1969 ‘Pop Go The Sixties’ and 1970 ‘Into 71’ one-off TV specials. • 100’s of black & white screen-shots of surviving footage.• Nearly 900 mini-bios on every act seen, heard or danced to during those years.• Memories and anecdotes from over 50 artists who performed on the show, as told exclusively to the author.All this and more make this the definitive book on Top of The Pops’ golden “lost” years! Read more