I was a teenager in the late 60s early 70s, thank god, the world will never ever be as good, i pity the kids of today, they will never know what fun is all about.
Me too imagine to listen this girlie music instead of Slade Zep Purple and pink Floyd black Sabbath and Uriah heep and many more at that time what happened to the beautiful world we used to live 😢
Well, ya wrong, you're looking at the world through your eyes from then and now. They'll be having as good a time with the music and life around that you had when you were younger. It's just that you aren't that age anymore and life changes as we get older. In years to come, they'll likely say the same things for the kids of that younger generation that you've said . ❤
@@petervalovic5504Couldn't agree with you more.... No such thing as just stop oil protesters, or rainbow flag waving member's of the woke brigade. And the music was much better.....
What you don't appreciate is the people that you love, were mostly the liberal people who helped bring about that insanity with their lets break the system of Christian morality, which they did. It was their drive that has brought about the woke culture we have today.
@SeeYouEnTee666 the world was not perfect back then, but, people laughed, joked, and had fun...the dystopian world ahead is not for me. The young ones now will know no different, they will be indoctrinated through the ranks and believe it all to be normal. Much worse than any extreme sci fi horror movie. Very sad
@@derek7471 I too was 14 years old and remember watching this. I have just become an OAP and we had the very best of times, we just didn't know it. If someone told me them how this world would be now, i wouldn't have believed them. If i could go back, i would do so in a heartbeat. At least we lived those fantastic days which the youth of today will never experience.
December 1971 was my first Christmas as a working 15 year old. I left school in the April and started in a local factory working 40 hours a week for £5. Had not much money, no girlfriend and couldn’t drive but I was happy. I would go back in a heartbeat. Merry Christmas to everyone 🙏🙏👍forgot to mention how naturally good looking the girls used to be & Pans People were gorgeous. 👍👍
Id go back also to them yrs but old saying If i knew then , what i know now ..that would be cool going back as we learn by mistakes made in life eh ..pity we dont get the 2nd chance of being young again but the knowing where we all went wrong and able to fix that would be cool ..We only get one chance in life and it flys past in no time .Also loved Soul music also .
Never in life would i want to be young again nowadays! I was young that time, and it was great. I am so happy to be old now and have these great memories.
I was 13, great time! We were so lucky to live our teenage years in such a normal joyful time, it's good to have all those memories, we're blessed. Happy Christmas 🎄!
And yet in the 1960s and 1970s older people were complaining about the behaviour of young people then. They were moaning about the "permissive society" and long hair on guys, and they were calling rock and pop music "noise".
@garytwitchett9359 It's all relative. I saw the horror film "Plague of Zombies" in 1976 when I was 10. It scared the crap out of me! Saw it again when I was in my 30s and I was pissing myself laughing.
It’s hard to watch this on Xmas Day as it brought me back to 1971 and all the fond memories. The girls, the music, the fashion, the freedom. T- Rex with Elton, flairs, mini skirts, slim beautiful Caucasian women, Triumph Bonnievilles, Radio Luxembourg, sigh!!! It pains me to think how Britain has declined - especially over the last twenty years. I guess those of us who are in our 60s had the very best years.
I was the consummate teenybopper. Mark Bolan and David Cassidy posters all over my bedroom walls. I was 16 and miss those times so much. It really was the best era to grow up in.❤
I was a little girl. I remember coming home from school my uncle covering my eyes up, he lead me into the living room, Maggie May was on and uncovered my eyes to reveal the christmas tree, fully decorated and all shiny .. it was a moment I'll never forget.
Met my future wife in 1971, fell in love with her watching Elton, Valentines day, "Your Song" became ours! Celebrating Diamond wedding this year, responsible for 3 children and 5 grandkids. Great memories, great times and music!❤
Nearly Christmas here in 2024 and I'm really missing old times and music especially. I'm 59 now , born in 65, and I wish this world was still in those times. Have a great Christmas everybody. ❤ 🎄 🎉
I was 9 yrs of age when this was recorded, so these are all memory rushes for me, and to think now I listen to Tony B on a Saturday “ Sounds of the sixties” as a 61yr old 🎬
I remember this like it was yesterday I was 11 at the time I had just stuffed my face with a selection box then out on my brand new chopper bike 🚴 lol those were the days . My favourite was slade and David Bowie and Alice cooper 😊
1971...now then...i was 16 just started work..was still a suedehead ,but increasingly developing a liking for Bowie &Roxy Music...of course still very much into Northern soul ,Motown etc...These were times that will remain in my heart forever....
Three years later in December 1974 I was rolling the footballs from the side stage curtain at The Apollo Theatre in Glasgow towards Rod Stewart, as he kicked the balls into the audience. I was 18, and worked for a year for Unicorn Leisure who managed The Apollo.
@@sheilagarrido8204 My older brother still talks about it, as I had permission to bring him along to the concert. He was standing beside me in the side stage, when Rod came off and nodded to us.
If only I could go back to the 70s and 80s a wonderful time to be growing up I was 8 in 1971 what a wonderful childhood and teenage years I had. We had the best decades .terrible times now .
For me the memory of 1971 was New Years Eve. I was in Rockafellas nightclub in Bolton with a beautiful girl I'd been going out with for a few months. Just before midnight she whispered in my ear, "I love you". She knocked me off my feet. And it's true what they say, I was off my food for a week. Carol Stacey if you're still out there I still love you !
You’ve reminds me of that Stevie Wonder, classic “Knocks me off my feet”, George Michael did an excellent version. So no fairytale ending to your love story!? Curious person from Rochdale!
@@redlightspellsdanger7177 Ah yes, I remember that song. Appropriate title. No fairytale ending, she went on holiday to Spain with family and met a bloke there which she later married. It destroyed me for a while but I got over it. It's a bit easier when you're younger.
@@vespadavidson2315 Some of the vocals are live and the original studio recordings they are singing to are not overproduced, artificial, computerised or synthetic.
I was 14 & a huge Slade fan . Medically I'd like to return to the 70's but for teenage angst/ exams etc but at least I could still move around & I didn't have epilepsy . The music was phenomenal
Please! Take me back! Times were tough then ( remember tepid baths by candlelight re power cuts?!?) but at least no Woke-ness, no Govt Over-reach, and NO SOCIAL MEDIA! People talked to each other, told each other what was what and that lead to a sense of community!
The power cuts were caused by my Dad and his colleagues. My Dad was a coalminer and went out on strike in 72\74 and they managed to help bring the Government of the day down. But like you I wish I could return back there as we led much better and much happier life's back then
I saw Slade in concert in Cardiff Dec 72. Two, then unknown, bands supporting were Suzi Quatro (before Can the Can was released) and the great Thin Lizzy ( before Whiskey in the Jar was released. A brilliant night, Slade were absolutely fantastic live. And on the same night across town at the Capitol was another little band going by the name of Led Zeppelin!!! Heady days indeed. Unfortunately it was to be another 3 years before I got to see Zeppelin live.
We are both from England and we are 62 now ! One of the best concerts ever was the Slade one at the Birmingham Odeon. Must have been about 1980 .. We left England in 1988 and have lived here in Canada since then, but the best music for us is still in England. My first concert was T.Rex then Sparks!! Roxy Music at Birmingham Odeon great but crap at NEC.. great growing up there but glad we left!! Great musical memories for sure
I was so lucky to be 16 in 1971. Left school in 72, had a great job, mets lots of nice women. Would I go back, yes I would if I could go back knowing what I know now. To be fair the 80’s and 90’s were pretty good as well. Very happy days but I have been lucky and enjoyed life, but there was something about the seventies that have never been replicated.
This was the year my dad looked at T Rex and coined the immortal phrase " I wouldn't go to watch them if they were playing at the end of our garden!" Miss him.❤
My dad used to give out shit about and hate Jonny Rotten and praise Jimmy Savile. He died before Jimmy was exposed and Jonny was proven a wonderful human looking after his sick wife to the end. . He was so sure Jonny was evil. How wrong he was.
8 years before I was born in 1979. The 1970's will for me be a very special decade a long with all the decades before year 2000 came along sadly.My now both deceased parents got married in early 1971. Keep on enjoying the music all😊
Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, The Small Faces & John Peel playing football, great song, great musicians +Tony Blackburn, Slade, T-Rex, The Tams etc When music was good!!!
Good to see Elton playing keyboard for Marc & T-Rex during Get it On. I was only 3 when this 1st broadcast. And also great to see Maggie May from Rod at the end too. Gotta love the 70s. The best decade for music IMO. Most variety of genres with high quality acts & tunes across all of them. From the Carpenters to the Sex Pistols & from the Wombles to the Smurfs & from Led Zep, Black Sabbath to Grease everything in between. From ABBA to ELO & from Super Tramp to the Eagles to Manhattan Transfer & the Jackson 5 & just so much more that I'd be writing all day & I'd still forget half of them. LOL
Just happy that I was part of that generation We had jobs, football terraces, no pressure like the kids of later generations had. Best of times.👹🇬🇧❤️🙂🍺
1971 I had left school,at 15 years,old ,going out into the big world ,I remember and loved all the music,a regular viewer of top of the pops ,lots of memories watching this video .❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
1971 the last year you could leave school (in uk, or england) at 15. My sister finished school then and started a full time job. She'd only just turned 15.
Noddy has one of the greatest voices in all of rock music. The man don't even need a microphone. He could peel the paint off the wall . And I have every slave album and I've never heard a bad slade song yet 😊
1971 I through my neighbour discovered TOTP, discovered TRex, discovered Glam Rock and the world was now my oyster. GR didn’t last and by Xmas 73 I’d discovered Deep Purple and I was off on another journey thanks to my school mates.. but 71/72 were special years indeed 🎸
I was just an innocent 11year old in 71. By the time I had reached my teans glam was king and top of the pops had turned into a weekly must watch for all of us and every Friday me and my mates would be discussing the show which in those days was shown every Thursday at 7.30. pop,rock music just seemed. sooo coulerful new and exciting to us back then, and just pure escapeism to all of us. And sadly somehow it was never to feel quite the same again after. Phew what music.
We didn't know about his vile way of life then so it made no difference at the time. I agree with you in the fact that I can't watch any TH-cam top episodes with him in them.🇬🇧😡
I watched when it was first broadcast. I was 11. If you had told me then 15 years later I would in a pub in southern California hanging with Rod Stewart, just me and him, for a good hour talking about footie, music, women, etc... I absolutely wouldn't have been able to comprehend the image!
I think no one at the time of buying those records for gifts realised they weren't the original artists. There was no "now thats what i call " back then , record companies didnt have the foresight so much. It's funny that in some ways of constant playing, I grew to even like the fake versions..we know that elton john played on these type of things before he hit the big time big style along with some other famous musicians had to do just to get by b4 they made it. ❤
Wow! I remember those Hot Hits and Top of The Pops (no relation to the TV programme) records. I had loads of those because you got an album for the price of a single. Some versions were better than others. Elton John actually did the vocals for some of these in around 1969-70.
In those days you either knew the band if not the singer. Today everyone seems like their singing through their noses. Bands were bands. Not plastic created by record companies and producers put together. Music ended when they brought in the drum machine in the 80's
This takes me right back to the 70s, riding my bike as fast as I could down to the local youth club to listen slade and T rex and grab a dance with jenny Tilbury, happy days , wish I could go back !!!! F 😊
27th December 1971 edition: The FAMOUS Tams incident when Five BECAME Four during the middle of the performance after one of the members fell off the stage backwards after being absolutely pissed before they went on.
I thought he looked rather 'unaware of his surroundings', and then noticed he'd disappeared, so started scrolling down the comments to see if it was mentioned, and found your post - thanks for telling me what happened! 😃
I wish I could see part one of t.o.t.p or b but it on DVD , cause there's one prediction I made that year 1971 "I'm going to miss this year' for the music , and from that year till the day. I die I've been right and I know i always will be💔💔💔😥😥😥🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴
tickets for a time machine anyone? I'm first in the queue, damn this world is so screwed now, I'm pushing 74 in march and I'd give anything to go back to happy times, happy holidays everyone for 2024
I WAS 5 YEARS OLD THEN, BACK IN 1971, I CAN NOT REMEMBER DUE TO THAT AGE I WAS STARTING SCHOOL, BUT I LIKE T-REX BAND WITH THEIR MASSIVE HIT 'GET IT ON'.🇨🇾🇨🇾✌️✌️👍👍
![Top Of The Pops | 1988 | Christmas Day Special | Home VHS [Rec] | TOTP](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mfT2QbeS4wM/mqdefault.jpg)
Watched it first time around and I'm 69 now. Merry Xmas 2024 to all my generation.. We never had it so good did we !!
true!
Totally agree@
Old gyt just like ME- 1ST 45 YESTER ME STEVIE W; 1st LP CCR CISMOS FACTORY. STIIL PLAYED!!!!
I know what you mean. I'm 66. I don't know how much longer I have left, but so glad and so grateful I saw the whole of the 70s' and heard the music.
cheers
These songs bring back great memories of my childhood. Merry Xmas to anyone watching this in 2024.
Me too 😊 A very Merry Christmas to you too. Growing up, then, was so much fun 😊
Merry Christmas..and a happy new year.
Back at ya my friend.
Merry Christmas to you and everyone watching! 🌲
I was a teenager in the late 60s early 70s, thank god, the world will never ever be as good, i pity the kids of today, they will never know what fun is all about.
Me too imagine to listen this girlie music instead of Slade Zep Purple and pink Floyd black Sabbath and Uriah heep and many more at that time what happened to the beautiful world we used to live 😢
Totally agree
Well, ya wrong, you're looking at the world through your eyes from then and now. They'll be having as good a time with the music and life around that you had when you were younger. It's just that you aren't that age anymore and life changes as we get older. In years to come, they'll likely say the same things for the kids of that younger generation that you've said . ❤
Daft old fart! 😂
From Australia yet saw Slade twice. Totally agree. They haven't a clue.
Met girlfriend in 1971, both 15, on 15 November '23, celebrated 48th wedding anniversary!
That's my bday 1968 USA
I was 15 on 15th November too.
Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Ah the seventies, great music, great fashion, great times. Then along came insanity.
We all should just live in 70 what beautiful world it was ❤ instead this sad rubbish so called society 😢
@@petervalovic5504 yep with ya there
@@petervalovic5504Couldn't agree with you more.... No such thing as just stop oil protesters, or rainbow flag waving member's of the woke brigade. And the music was much better.....
Talking about fashion ,I wonder how I dared ,hotpots, minis ,but I loved them ,
What you don't appreciate is the people that you love, were mostly the liberal people who helped bring about that insanity with their lets break the system of Christian morality, which they did. It was their drive that has brought about the woke culture we have today.
I wanna go back 😫...the world now is just awful. I was 14....and life seemed great, even though we were poor, we were full of life....and happy.
I agree with you so much!!
I was 14 s well - yep good times
@SeeYouEnTee666 the world was not perfect back then, but, people laughed, joked, and had fun...the dystopian world ahead is not for me. The young ones now will know no different, they will be indoctrinated through the ranks and believe it all to be normal. Much worse than any extreme sci fi horror movie. Very sad
@SeeYouEnTee666 I agree it basically makes life really hard cause it is so bad
@@derek7471 I too was 14 years old and remember watching this. I have just become an OAP and we had the very best of times, we just didn't know it. If someone told me them how this world would be now, i wouldn't have believed them. If i could go back, i would do so in a heartbeat. At least we lived those fantastic days which the youth of today will never experience.
Wish I could go back to those days.
For the music yeah. But not for anything else!
We are 👍 Right now .. Beers 🍻
Music,TV cop shows,football and Ford cars were all good then
Me too
@@bruce5799 #FordCortinas?
December 1971 was my first Christmas as a working 15 year old. I left school in the April and started in a local factory working 40 hours a week for £5. Had not much money, no girlfriend and couldn’t drive but I was happy. I would go back in a heartbeat. Merry Christmas to everyone 🙏🙏👍forgot to mention how naturally good looking the girls used to be & Pans People were gorgeous. 👍👍
I definitely agree with the pans people bit of that 😊
Id go back also to them yrs but old saying If i knew then , what i know now ..that would be cool going back as we learn by mistakes made in life eh ..pity we dont get the 2nd chance of being young again but the knowing where we all went wrong and able to fix that would be cool ..We only get one chance in life and it flys past in no time .Also loved Soul music also .
🇨🇾🇨🇾✌️✌️👍👍
Happy Christmas 🎄!
Never in life would i want to be young again nowadays! I was young that time, and it was great. I am so happy to be old now and have these great memories.
I was 12 and times were a lot simpler and had proper family time and safe boundaries. Bring it all back
I was 13, great time! We were so lucky to live our teenage years in such a normal joyful time, it's good to have all those memories, we're blessed. Happy Christmas 🎄!
I was 19 and life was good. Top of the Pops was a weekly treat
I turned 18 in 1971. Never realized how innocent this generation was.
So unlike today's 18 year Olds.
the word is not 'innocent' . .. . you mean 'British' . . . !!!!
And yet in the 1960s and 1970s older generations were bemoaning the behaviour of young people then. th-cam.com/video/h3QdILmYQas/w-d-xo.html
And yet in the 1960s and 1970s older generations were bemoaning the behaviour of young people then. th-cam.com/video/h3QdILmYQas/w-d-xo.html
And yet in the 1960s and 1970s older people were complaining about the behaviour of young people then. They were moaning about the "permissive society" and long hair on guys, and they were calling rock and pop music "noise".
@garytwitchett9359 It's all relative. I saw the horror film "Plague of Zombies" in 1976 when I was 10. It scared the crap out of me! Saw it again when I was in my 30s and I was pissing myself laughing.
It’s hard to watch this on Xmas Day as it brought me back to 1971 and all the fond memories. The girls, the music, the fashion, the freedom. T- Rex with Elton, flairs, mini skirts, slim beautiful Caucasian women, Triumph Bonnievilles, Radio Luxembourg, sigh!!! It pains me to think how Britain has declined - especially over the last twenty years. I guess those of us who are in our 60s had the very best years.
Oh 1971. How I miss you.
And many years after x but not Now
I was a teenager in 1974, they were the best years of my life,
when we had snow, it was deep, we had no Snow days..
My sweet lord was the standout sound of 71,fantastic year.
I was the consummate teenybopper. Mark Bolan and David Cassidy posters all over my bedroom walls. I was 16 and miss those times so much.
It really was the best era to grow up in.❤
I was a little girl. I remember coming home from school my uncle covering my eyes up, he lead me into the living room, Maggie May was on and uncovered my eyes to reveal the christmas tree, fully decorated and all shiny .. it was a moment I'll never forget.
Was it uncle 'Jimmy'
Met my future wife in 1971, fell in love with her watching Elton, Valentines day, "Your Song" became ours! Celebrating Diamond wedding this year, responsible for 3 children and 5 grandkids. Great memories, great times and music!❤
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Good on you 👍👍💎💎💎💍
Well done Alex.... Congratulations to you and your wife and family.🎉🎉🎉
Well done
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I was 11 and I sure do miss those days,the music. Everything was cool and groovy❤
I was born August 1971 even though I was only months old I love all this music I'm 52now .
good for you.🥰
I am here to get a feel for what life was like the year I was born. We are only a month apart. Everyone looks relaxed.
Nearly Christmas here in 2024 and I'm really missing old times and music especially. I'm 59 now , born in 65, and I wish this world was still in those times. Have a great Christmas everybody. ❤ 🎄 🎉
You too, you youngster, I was born in 57, but I loved this era. I'm 67, but feel 14, because that's the age I was in this year, happy days.❤
@@robharding5345same here.
@@1WillowMoon and you! Merry Christmas!
I was build in 1959.
I entered life in the 70s. So much cool music.
I miss these Times.
Christmas 1971 I was 1 month off 15 and loved Marc Bolan .Still do . Keep a little Marc in your heart 💚💚
Christmas 1971 I was a day off 12. I loved Marc Bolan too. Fond memories.
@@VR-Stories26 ❤❤❤
I was 1 month off 8 and I loved T.Rex only watched it for marc
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xxx
I was 14 in 1971 and in love with my first girlfriend. We had some wonderful times listening to all this triffic music.😊
you lucky man, great days, I loved this time. 🥰
I was 9 yrs of age when this was recorded, so these are all memory rushes for me, and to think now I listen to Tony B on a Saturday “ Sounds of the sixties” as a 61yr old 🎬
I remember this like it was yesterday I was 11 at the time I had just stuffed my face with a selection box then out on my brand new chopper bike 🚴 lol those were the days . My favourite was slade and David Bowie and Alice cooper 😊
Same as!
Oh the selection boxes!!!
Same here!
1971...now then...i was 16 just started work..was still a suedehead ,but increasingly developing a liking for Bowie &Roxy Music...of course still very much into Northern soul ,Motown etc...These were times that will remain in my heart forever....
I was 16 the world at my feet, the music was great, social life was great ... now I'm an old lady and I truely I feel sorry for 2023's teenagers
Strangely enough, they probably feel sorry for you too.
yes a know where your coming from, 90 percent couldnt live without help from mammy and daddy, there all takers no givers, wimps
@@canderson1955 Piss off.
@@canderson1955 As they should. Outdoor toilets, TB, Rickets, Black and White telly ...
The halcyon days of the seventies was 18 in 71 great memories of better times
I was 17 yrs old strted work then in 1970
Great times
So Good to see this again , first time in colour, we didnt Get colour in oor hoose until 1976 !!
Aye nor war hoose lad...😂
Three years later in December 1974 I was rolling the footballs from the side stage curtain at The Apollo Theatre in Glasgow towards Rod Stewart, as he kicked the balls into the audience. I was 18, and worked for a year for Unicorn Leisure who managed The Apollo.
OHHHH WOW!!!!! What memories 💯👍👏👏👏👏
@@sheilagarrido8204 My older brother still talks about it, as I had permission to bring him along to the concert. He was standing beside me in the side stage, when Rod came off and nodded to us.
If only I could go back to the 70s and 80s a wonderful time to be growing up I was 8 in 1971 what a wonderful childhood and teenage years I had.
We had the best decades .terrible times now .
Wanna go back to the 70s i was 18 in 1971 feels like yesterday
17 heare, and yes it does seem like yesterday
Same here..the times of real,good life ..
I was born in 1964, "Get it on" has to be one of the best timeless classics ever written.
My birthday is 5 days before Christmas....it was my 19th this particular year ! Fabulous days. Glad I belonged to this era ! ❤
For me the memory of 1971 was New Years Eve. I was in Rockafellas nightclub in Bolton with a beautiful girl I'd been going out with for a few months. Just before midnight she whispered in my ear, "I love you". She knocked me off my feet. And it's true what they say, I was off my food for a week.
Carol Stacey if you're still out there I still love you !
You’ve reminds me of that Stevie Wonder, classic “Knocks me off my feet”, George Michael did an excellent version. So no fairytale ending to your love story!? Curious person from
Rochdale!
@@redlightspellsdanger7177 Ah yes, I remember that song. Appropriate title.
No fairytale ending, she went on holiday to Spain with family and met a bloke there which she later married. It destroyed me for a while but I got over it. It's a bit easier when you're younger.
Wow the quality of talent no auto tune no overly produced just raw talent incredible
Millennials would probably say the songs on this vintage edition of TOTP are “underproduced”.
The richness of different opinion
@@brigitbroekhoven3604 right opinion and wrong opinion.
This is all a mime.! Duh!
@@vespadavidson2315 Some of the vocals are live and the original studio recordings they are singing to are not overproduced, artificial, computerised or synthetic.
Whose watching in 2023. Merry Christmas 🎄
2024 even.still sounds feel good😂😂
@@owenmccall632 Yep. LOL
whose watching in 2024 Merry xmas x
I was 14 & a huge Slade fan . Medically I'd like to return to the 70's but for teenage angst/ exams etc but at least I could still move around & I didn't have epilepsy . The music was phenomenal
Please! Take me back! Times were tough then ( remember tepid baths by candlelight re power cuts?!?) but at least no Woke-ness, no Govt Over-reach, and NO SOCIAL MEDIA! People talked to each other, told each other what was what and that lead to a sense of community!
Going up the street to the phone box and small shops
The power cuts were caused by my Dad and his colleagues. My Dad was a coalminer and went out on strike in 72\74 and they managed to help bring the Government of the day down. But like you I wish I could return back there as we led much better and much happier life's back then
Yep. And I wager you voted Tory back then too
I saw Slade in concert in Cardiff Dec 72. Two, then unknown, bands supporting were Suzi Quatro (before Can the Can was released) and the great Thin Lizzy ( before Whiskey in the Jar was released. A brilliant night, Slade were absolutely fantastic live.
And on the same night across town at the Capitol was another little band going by the name of Led Zeppelin!!!
Heady days indeed. Unfortunately it was to be another 3 years before I got to see Zeppelin live.
OHHHHH WOW!!!!!!!💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
I saw the same bands at Leeds Town Hall. Must have been the same tour. Fantastic time
I saw the same concert but in Bristol Colston Hall
Their Civic Hall concerts were awesome, the lads were back home, what nights they were, deaf as a door nail for days.
We are both from England and we are 62 now ! One of the best concerts ever was the Slade one at the Birmingham Odeon. Must have been about 1980 .. We left England in 1988 and have lived here in Canada since then, but the best music for us is still in England. My first concert was T.Rex then Sparks!! Roxy Music at Birmingham Odeon great but crap at NEC.. great growing up there but glad we left!! Great musical memories for sure
I was so lucky to be 16 in 1971. Left school in 72, had a great job, mets lots of nice women. Would I go back, yes I would if I could go back knowing what I know now. To be fair the 80’s and 90’s were pretty good as well. Very happy days but I have been lucky and enjoyed life, but there was something about the seventies that have never been replicated.
This was the year my dad looked at T Rex and coined the immortal phrase " I wouldn't go to watch them if they were playing at the end of our garden!"
Miss him.❤
He had good taste. 😊
My dad used to give out shit about and hate Jonny Rotten and praise Jimmy Savile. He died before Jimmy was exposed and Jonny was proven a wonderful human looking after his sick wife to the end.
. He was so sure Jonny was evil. How wrong he was.
He'd probably liked the Tams more.
The glory days of music, football and film.
8 years before I was born in 1979.
The 1970's will for me be a very special decade a long with all the decades before year 2000 came along sadly.My now both deceased parents got married in early 1971.
Keep on enjoying the music all😊
They would have loved your appreciation for a great time and music back then,
@robharding5345 Hello and thank you so much!
I was six then and I would go back to the seventies in a flash if I could, great decade 😊
So much talent, puts today’s music to shame.
Mind you a cat dying of terminal flatulence puts today's music to shame 😅
Come on, a lot of it was shit
So was l such happy unforgettable times never be seen again
1967, 1969 and 1971 were the best years for music
What happened in '68 and '70?!
72 was good
yes definitely if you were a skinhead 69to 71
Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, The Small Faces & John Peel playing football, great song, great musicians +Tony Blackburn, Slade, T-Rex, The Tams etc When music was good!!!
When life was good 👍
Истину глаголишь, друг мой)
When music was magical.
That was the year we were married, my wife had just turned 20 and I was 22. We are a bit older now but it seems like yesterday.
It was a rare occasion where Elton wasn't hogging the limelight!
I still think it would have been better without him.
Good to see Elton playing keyboard for Marc & T-Rex during Get it On. I was only 3 when this 1st broadcast. And also great to see Maggie May from Rod at the end too. Gotta love the 70s. The best decade for music IMO. Most variety of genres with high quality acts & tunes across all of them. From the Carpenters to the Sex Pistols & from the Wombles to the Smurfs & from Led Zep, Black Sabbath to Grease everything in between. From ABBA to ELO & from Super Tramp to the Eagles to Manhattan Transfer & the Jackson 5 & just so much more that I'd be writing all day & I'd still forget half of them. LOL
better times by far --- wish it could be 1971 every year
A great era in TOTP and 1971 was the year that really launched T-Rex, Slade and Rod into the premier league of British pop culture.
Now it is not only British but world culture.
I was 9 in 1971. Power cuts, strikes and no money. But loved the music
A blast from the glamorous past! What a treat to see all these stars in their prime.
Just happy that I was part of that generation
We had jobs, football terraces, no pressure like the kids of later generations had.
Best of times.👹🇬🇧❤️🙂🍺
1971 I had left school,at 15 years,old ,going out into the big world ,I remember and loved all the music,a regular viewer of top of the pops ,lots of memories watching this video .❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
1971 the last year you could leave school (in uk, or england) at 15. My sister finished school then and started a full time job. She'd only just turned 15.
@@johntate5722 I would have those days back ,
@@johntate5722 in England 1972 was the last year you could leave school at 15.👨🎓
@@splodge57 so would i! Tbh i meant 1971 - last year u ciuld leave at 15
@@splodge57 thanks splodge
11 at that time, and Noddy Holder was my musical hero. What a voice
Noddy has one of the greatest voices in all of rock music. The man don't even need a microphone. He could peel the paint off the wall . And I have every slave album and I've never heard a bad slade song yet 😊
@@chriskroll4166 love em. I was around 16. I love all their songs 👍👍♥️♥️🎄🎅
Me, 2. 11 the previous May.
Me too !! I even fancied him :)
cant imagine EJ playing piano for anybody even 2 years after this
Pure magic, the likes we will never see again. All this and not a download in sight !!!!!😊
The lovely Tony Cheesy Grin Blackburn , i really can't imagine him ever getting road rage .
He was lovely then & still lovely now in looks and nature, seems so gentle & kind
This band put a big smile on many young faces back in the super 70's.
Sure did👍💯👏😃
And Noddy Holder seems such a nice down to earth guy. I saw him in an interview on TH-cam not long ago. I really liked him💯👍😘
As the song goes, still the same. Noddy has not changed, he's still the same as he was before he hit the big time.@@sheilagarrido8204
@@sheilagarrido8204 Nod is just one of the guys.
1971 I through my neighbour discovered TOTP, discovered TRex, discovered Glam Rock and the world was now my oyster. GR didn’t last and by Xmas 73 I’d discovered Deep Purple and I was off on another journey thanks to my school mates.. but 71/72 were special years indeed 🎸
Imagine going back to 1971 & knowing then what you know now!! 🙂🙂🙂
Best years ever love to go back for a week to relive it again 67 now 😢😢😢 love my ROD ❤️❤️⭐️⭐️🍀👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I was 15 my first year in the army the greatest time of my life 68 and still singing Slade, Rod, Mark. Such a marvellous time 😂😂😂
I was just an innocent 11year old in 71. By the time I had reached my teans glam was king and top of the pops had turned into a weekly must watch for all of us and every Friday me and my mates would be discussing the show which in those days was shown every Thursday at 7.30. pop,rock music just seemed. sooo coulerful new and exciting to us back then, and just pure escapeism to all of us. And sadly somehow it was never to feel quite the same again after. Phew what music.
I always enjoy watching retro TOTP's programs especially when there not introduced and hosted all throughout by Jimmy Saville!!!!!!
We didn't know about his vile way of life then so it made no difference at the time.
I agree with you in the fact that I can't watch any TH-cam top episodes with him in them.🇬🇧😡
i was seven years old. remember this music so well. what a decade. to think most of the lovely girls dancing are in there 70s now.
70s best era for rock music hard,prog,glam,punk and new wave great memories ❤
I watched when it was first broadcast. I was 11. If you had told me then 15 years later I would in a pub in southern California hanging with Rod Stewart, just me and him, for a good hour talking about footie, music, women, etc... I absolutely wouldn't have been able to comprehend the image!
I was 14 in 71 and my favorite song was My sweet Lord 🕊️
17 year old greaser in 1971 such magical times never got😅
I remember this Christmas. My Nan bought me a Woolworth’s soundalike record with most of these songs.😂
hahaha, the ones with the scantily clad sexy ladies on the cover.
Top of the pops long players dreadful In retrospect but much cheaper thN the 45s
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I think no one at the time of buying those records for gifts realised they weren't the original artists. There was no "now thats what i call " back then , record companies didnt have the foresight so much. It's funny that in some ways of constant playing, I grew to even like the fake versions..we know that elton john played on these type of things before he hit the big time big style along with some other famous musicians had to do just to get by b4 they made it. ❤
Wow! I remember those Hot Hits and Top of The Pops (no relation to the TV programme) records. I had loads of those because you got an album for the price of a single. Some versions were better than others. Elton John actually did the vocals for some of these in around 1969-70.
The first single that I bought that got me into Slade and never stopped buying their music afterwards.
Great music! I was 15. Takes me right back.
In those days you either knew the band if not the singer. Today everyone seems like their singing through their noses. Bands were bands. Not plastic created by record companies and producers put together. Music ended when they brought in the drum machine in the 80's
Most bands now use autotune. When Celine Dion "sang" at the Olympics she was miming to an autotuned recording.
@lewisner suppose she had to, to keep it identical to her record
slade what an absolute fantastic band
As a 13 year old i binned my t rex and put on deep purple in rock!!!
The 60s and 70s was the fantastic era of music.
Saw Slade at Cambridge Corn Exchange in 72 , one of the best gigs I've ever seen / been to , was 18 then
This takes me right back to the 70s, riding my bike as fast as I could down to the local youth club to listen slade and T rex and grab a dance with jenny Tilbury, happy days , wish I could go back !!!! F 😊
Elton John playing the piano with Marc Bolan, on "Get it on" what a pleasant surprise to watch this video,
27th December 1971 edition: The FAMOUS Tams incident when Five BECAME Four during the middle of the performance after one of the members fell off the stage backwards after being absolutely pissed before they went on.
I thought he looked rather 'unaware of his surroundings', and then noticed he'd disappeared, so started scrolling down the comments to see if it was mentioned, and found your post - thanks for telling me what happened! 😃
I wish I could see part one of t.o.t.p or b but it on DVD , cause there's one prediction I made that year 1971 "I'm going to miss this year' for the music , and from that year till the day. I die I've been right and I know i always will be💔💔💔😥😥😥🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴
Such a great variety of music... that we took for granted because we didn't know better.
So true. Best decade ever for popular music
My sweet lord ,love that song ❤️
Море любви и света в ней)
yeah ! the early 70's were just perfect for me and my likewise thinking friends.
tickets for a time machine anyone? I'm first in the queue, damn this world is so screwed now, I'm pushing 74 in march and I'd give anything to go back to happy times, happy holidays everyone for 2024
I left school at 14 and although my take home pay was 7.50 i could go out every night and still have change next payday.
The seventies was the best time to be a kid.
Happy days,great memories...
Ime 67 what a year wish I could go back
Born in 71. This music was so cool.
So different now what a fantastic time then
I WAS 5 YEARS OLD THEN, BACK IN 1971, I CAN NOT REMEMBER DUE TO THAT AGE I WAS STARTING SCHOOL, BUT I LIKE T-REX BAND WITH THEIR MASSIVE HIT 'GET IT ON'.🇨🇾🇨🇾✌️✌️👍👍
I was 16 just stared work music was wonderful best time off my life
Would go back in a heartbeat