After a number of lineup changes, the band became \"The Status Quo\" in late 1967, finally settling on the name \"Status Quo\" in 1970. The song peaked at number 3. Janice dons her black party dress and seems even more enthusiastic than usual - kudos to her also for virtually telling Bates to shut up so they could get on with the Top 10 rundown.Quo up first, and I am sure that Alan Lancaster would indeed have preferred to be somewhere else. Status Quo Live - Rockin' All Over The World (Fogerty) - Top Of The Pops 2 Special 2000. Jim Lea doing piano & guitar here I notice.Bazza - No thanks, not keen on either him or Steinman songs so this is not for me.Pretenders - For some reason, this completely passed me by at the time (surely it got airplay though?) They usually have both Meat Loaf and Barry Manilow versions to choose from, so I feel spoiled for choice. Status Quo Live - Medley 3 - Irish Hat Dance,Mexican Hat Dance,The Wanderer,Marguerita Time,Living On An Island,Break The Rules,Something 'Bout You Baby I Like,The Price Of Love,Roadhouse Blues. I've got two copies of it with the link so it does exist. Not sure I liked it when this lot got all sincere when singing about their "woo-mahn! ... ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man" was the first video that was a sequel. I suspect the latter.Kool & the Gang – Straight ahead – Extended dance out to a track I’ve not heard before (or don’t recall) and it sounds like a dry run to a later superior hit called ‘Fresh’ which I see Dory has already flagged up. I just dusted off my CD of Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits: The Platinum Collection, and this song is the longest on it by a mile. [25] Status Quo: Marguerita Time.Bad news. The single was also issued in a Christmas double pack that included "Caroline"/"Joanne". Fantastic. It's courtesy of X Ray Four at vimeo.com/218307384. Frede Olsen. Top Of The Pops - 1983 Various Artists | 03-11-2017 Total duration: 3 h 54 min ... Marguerita Time . I'd forgotten just how many dancefloor gems Kool & The Gang produced. That was a good cover, as was his version of Mandy, but this was less pleasing. Status Quo – Marguerita Time – Much derided song, but if you skip comparisons with the likes of ‘Caroline’ and just focus on a good pop song, then that’s what you get. Francis Rossi and Alan Lancaster met at Sedgehill Comprehensive School, Catford, and were members of the same orchestra. The song peaked at number 3. Frede Olsen. Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an English rock band whose music is characterized by their distinctive brand of boogie rock.\r\rThe group's origins were in \"The Spectres\" founded by schoolboys Francis Rossi and Alan Lancaster in 1962. Status Quo - Marguerita Time (1983) Top Of The Pops - YouTube So I thought I'd just mention it here so anyone who needs to grab anything can (rather than having it suddenly vanish quicker than a wetransfer link :P)The files are available from:http://www.4shared.com/u/CfKm5YmK/mrpleasant.htmlCurrently I've uploaded restored versions for all BBC4-screened JK episodes from 17/6/82 through to 14/4/83 (excluding 5/8/82, which someone else already did a restoration on.) A largely forgettable show saved right at the end by a monster boogie classic from Kool and the Gang. Hi drykid! I couldn’t stop laughing at the Picket with the pipe in his mouth! Not to sure about the video. They did pick up a bit after this, in my opinion, before descending into cover version self-parody by the 1990s. Not much in this show to tickle the Shaky tastebuds. Did they suggest this charade or were they talked into it? A nice, melancholy festive tune from The Pretenders next, a tribute from Chrissie to the late James Honeyman-Scott. He is an actor, known for Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002), Bula Quo! Video Top 10 up to no.3. Status Quo. The band seem to enjoy playing it and I recall on a future appearance they fall over the drum kit and knock it over.UB40 – Many rivers to cross – Diminishing returns.Slade – My oh my – Still sounds powerful and the scarves add to the atmosphere. The single stayed at no.1 for five weeks. Despite the Manilowization of the song, this still has Steinman stamped all over it. I guess suspending the Pickets on wires was beyond them, so melting them would have to do. All profits from this updated and lyrically-reworked version will be donated equally to the British Forces Foundation and Help For Heroes charities.\r\rThe release of the band's complete BBC television and radio recordings has been announced. Nicely filmed but I never like seeing anyone done up as a clown as it seems to emphasize the odd shape of people's heads/faces and Baza is no exception.Until it was revived a few years ago on Xmas compilations and TOTP2 I had zero memories of this Pretenders song. This album was essentially the stylistic template for each album they released up until Blue for You in 1976. quo sink to new depths (although believe or not there was actually worse to come) whilst UB40 are now firmly into covers-in autopilot territory. 4:09. A mildly-diverting performance but one definitely belonging to the 80s.So to the scores. If there's any way you can share the missing link for 23/3/83 then please do so, I'm happy to go back to that one and fix it. Personally I think that 'Marguerita Time' is Status Quo's low point, having neither the crunchiness of their usual output nor the melodic sublimity of 'Living On An Island' and 'Rock 'n' Roll'. Angelo, is 11.35 million viewers a record for TOTP? The suggestion being that He was about to return to the planet. Quo's more popular songs from this era include \"Paper Plane\" (1972), \"Caroline\" (1973), \"Down Down\" (1975), \"Rockin' All Over the World\" (1977) and \"Whatever You Want\" (1979). Presumably their newly-acquired position as Gods within the NWOBHM was responsible for this late success. What was it about Musical Youth that other groups were clambering up for to have them feature in their videos? Status Quo on Top of the Pops on the 5th January 1984 performing Marguerity Time. Maybe 5C DID get to the punch after all? Nothing to say about Janice Long's dress? This is a pre-recorded episode of Top of the Pops so Simon Bates won't tell us the time.However, he does helpfully namecheck BBC1 for any viewers whose TV set is missing a channel tuning knob. Thanks. !...and Manilow's excellent cover of 'Ships'. Their long-standing work for charities includes The Prince's Trust, British Heart Foundation and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy.\r\rThe band have started to work on their twenty ninth album, provisionally titled Quid Pro Quo.\r\rClassic Rock magazine reported on 17 March 2010 that the band has patched up their relationship with Alan Lancaster, and are discussing the possibility of a collaboration in the future. The song is over played now and does little to excite me.The Flying Pickets tick of all the usual Christmas performance tropes the BBC props department could think of - snowmen, tinsel, balls, snow. Looks like its school prom night as the world's dreariest teacher and Sister Cheggers are appropriately attired to keep the wastrels from 5C adding cheap vodka to the kid-friendly punch. 2:02. ", not even the bittersweet tone of Far Far Away to be heard.Bazza Mazza essentially with a Meat Loaf song with his plaintive vocals replacing the big man. Don't hold your breath for the BBC to show it in full though, the host is DLT! Status Quo - Marguerita Time (Top of the Pops) Status Quo - Marguerita Time I missed it at the time. During this period, and throughout the rest of the 1970s, they became one of the UK's leading rock bands, gaining a faithful following due to their relentless touring and energetic live gigs. Rossi and Lancaster played their first gig at the Samuel Jones Sports Club in Dulwich, London. anything that kool & co did post-"ladies night" was utter crap in my opinion - their finest moment for me was "open sesame" (i have a chum who wants that to be played as the crematorium furnace doors open at his funeral service - i told him i hoped i was around to witness that!). Sadly Meat's version wasn't released as a single in the UK as the obvious follow up to Deadringer For Love in early 1982, but hey, let's not take anything away from Barry Manilow's fine attempt at this Steinman masterpiece second time round as 1983 was drawing to a close.Suffice to say that Read 'Em And Weep is the perfect karaoke choice for me, and it is always the one I go for first at my local karaoke on Tuesday nights when I can be bothered to head down there and sing. Could It Be Magic is almost 7 minutes long in its full length version - is that on your compilation CD, Dory?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDEynk7SwxE, Christmas Day's arrived! of the other new stuff, i'm not even going to bother listening to barry manilow and kool and the gang. The book was famous enough, I suppose.Kool and the Gang to finish with a song I don't remember, it's by the numbers stuff from a band on cruise control by then. The other version I already had must be from a later UK Gold repeat as the ad break style is different to the one I remember from the mid-90s. STATUS QUO Dreamin' (BBC Top Of The Pops) STATUS QUO - Cross That Bridge (1988) Status Quo - Burning Bridges (Official Video) Status Quo - Lies 1981. Something to investigate...The Flying Pickets' staging everyone remembers, they look simultaneously ridiculous and a little sad - had the Raymond Briggs' cartoon been on yet? bama: in case you're still reading this I re-uploaded 18/8/83 for you:https://www.4shared.com/video/gTwMYJe0ei/TOTP_180883.html? As any fool knows, Status Quo aren’t just one of the most enduring and successful rock bands of all time – having notched up a gobsmacking 66 hit singles, more than 100 appearances on Top Of The Pops, and spent 434 weeks (over eight years) in the British singles chart – they also have one of the most expansive catalogues. Status Quo – “Marguerita Time” (25) The Quo get the party underway and Alan's back on bass, although he looks like he'd rather be anywhere else! After a number of lineup changes, the band became The Status Quo in 1967 and Status Quo in 1969. They have recorded over 60 chart hits in the UK, more than any other rock group in history. UB40 – “Many Rivers To Cross” (24) (video) Going a bit gospel with this third single from their number one album, Labour of Love, and it peaked at number 16. 4:09. Frede Olsen. The video ends with a nice Christmassy touch, too.The scarves are waved again for Slade, with Noddy sporting some Lennonesque shades, before Bazza becomes the latest artist to hitch a ride on the Jim Steinman bandwagon. By the end of 1965 Rossi and Parfitt, who had become close friends, made a commitment to continue working together. This list of performances on Top of the Pops is a chronological account of popular songs performed by recording artists and musical ensembles on Top of the Pops, a weekly BBC One television programme that featured artists from the UK singles chart.. Mr Loaf could turn on the self-pity with ease, of course.The Pretenders, a charming tune made all the more melancholy when you know the subject matter, and also the only really Christmassy tune on the show, fake snow and all.Still don't know why Kenny offends Dolly (she doesn't look happy about that kiss either - was it the beard?). The Flying Pickets - Only You (3:24) Thanks Kevin pass: polarbear. Frede Olsen. I just looked at 21/7/83 and there's some weird editing going on there for sure; will have to read the thread for that one to see what was going on with that episode. Kenny (with his trimmed-to-within-an-inch-of-its-life beard) is virtually note perfect, whilst the heroically-upholstered Dolly goes off-point occasionally, but gives the better performance. Great stuff drykid! theme for his video, but the self-pity doesn't suit him. I see that a copy of the 600th edition of Top of the Pops, from october 1975, which was wiped by the BBC, has been found in an archive in Blackpool! Jim Lea of Slade filled in for him. Undeterred, UB40 (snow)ploughed ahead, bizarrely including The Blues Brothers getting in touch with their feelings halfway through (anyone know the point of that? Status Quo, Soundtrack: Men in Black 3. Status Quo - Ain't Complaining. Status Quo on Top of the Pops on the 15th December 1983 performing Marguerita Time.The famous performance were Rick Parfitt walks into the drum kit. [25] Status Quo: Marguerita Time. Shakey - just love your Meatloaf pun!! I mean we saw them in the Donner Summer video for Unconditional Love in Nov 1983, and now in Dec 1983 they appear on the UB40 video for Many Rivers To Cross. Email This BlogThis! When Christmas makes you happy from your toes to your dandruff. I think I am correct in saying that this is the only time anyone has done a cover of Meat Loaf! Yes, yes, yes, I didn't spot Musical Youth the first time round watching the UB40 video, but having just seen it again, they appear at the front row of the church, and then the first row of people exiting the church into the outdoor snow! Better than the original in my view and a cracking video too. Was expecting to see the comedy crashing into drums collision here, but that must be on their next performance.When Jimmy Cliff has performed the definitive Many Rivers to Cross, what's the point in doing a cover? This is a special Christmas video which is different from the one on the Labour Of love video.Slade were clearly hoping that they would get to number one with the anthemic My Oh My. But, a few more hearings further down the road, and I had to reconsider. It's quite a pretty tune, if a bit underpowered, and at least it isn't another boring plodder. Maybe I just read too much into stuff.Kenny & Dolly up next with a consumate C&W performance. In 1963 they added drummer John Coghlan. The Flying Pickets. When they appeared on BBC 's Top of the Pops to mime to the single, his place was taken by Jim Lea of Slade, who were also on the programme that week. I'm still dancing. Good quality Video recorded live from Top Of The Pops 1983. I really like it, and the KT Tunstall cover is very good too.Kenny / Dolly - Glad that fans of this got to see it at last. The only song called Open Sesame that I am familiar with is by Leila K in 1993, with a humdinger of a video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GV_5dRrWH4I followed the charts until 1995 which is when I consider was the point in time when the charts changed forever towards computerised pap and managerial sign-off for everything, to the detriment of musicians being in control across the whole process. The single stayed at no.1 for five weeks. Status Quo are an English rock band whose music is characterized by their distinctive brand of boogie rock. Status Quo-Living On An Island. The song survives because it's a great piece of music, but anyone who's seen The Harder They Come won't be impressed.Slade, and Dave seems to have nicked a Flying Picket's white leopardskin breeks from last week. (2013) and Top of the Pops (1964). Listen to Marguerita Time by Status Quo, 26,976 Shazams, featuring on Status Quo Essentials Apple Music playlist. Here's our roundup of the best new series of the year so far, and where to watch them. He also made no secret of his dislike of "Marguerita Time", which he thought was too pop-orientated for the group. Their first album for Vertigo, Piledriver was released in 1972, and heralded an even heavier, self-produced sound. The couple would split soon afterwards, with Chrissie falling for Simple Minds' frontman Jim Kerr.Kenny and Dolly could not miss with this million-seller, which was penned by the Brothers Gibb - though with a little Scandinavian help in the brass-led instrumental break! Maybe Chrissie borrowed her hat from Noddy Holder?Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton – Islands in the Stream – At least BBC4 viewers get to see this now.Flying Pickets – Only you – Have you ever seen anything so ridiculous? A nice,long play out too which was great. Watch Status Quo Live - Pictures Of Matchstick Men(Rossi) 1968 - Top Of The Pops 2 Special 2000 - Frede Olsen on Dailymotion Slade – My Oh My (2) The Flying Pickets – Only You (1) (video) Kool & The Gang – Straight Ahead (19) (audience dancing / credits) Video. Only You . The Pretenders were good and Manilow's video was diverting enough but there wasn't really anything else of interest. Just some lyrics here from it to savour:"I've been whispering softly trying to build a cry up to a scream.....we let the past slip away and put the future on hold, now the present is nothing but a hollowed-out dream"..."Well I could tell you goodbye and maybe see you around with just a touch of sarcastic thanks.....but now the guns are exhausted and the bullets are blank, and everything's blank....."Good Lord, I must get down to my local karaoke on Tuesday to do this one. 03:26 20. Oh well, two out of three aint bad.The Pretenders with the first sighting of a soon-to-be Christmas staple. so the best thing here (in relative terms) is chrissie hynde's so-so festive effort that no doubt tops up the old "brass in pocket" pension thanks to being included in countless xmas pop compilations. and sprinkle on some salt, then shake a shot or two of tequila and triple sec over the ice in your cocktail glass and sit back and relax in your comfiest chair because you are about to watch the second most popular show on BBC1 this week (just behind the Two Ronnies) along with 11.35 million others ~ the December 15th 1983 edition of Top of the Pops! Was never that happy about how that one was edited, but the UK Gold version with cut to ad break was the only thing I had to work from at the time. 9), "A Mess of Blues", originally a hit for Elvis Presley (No. The BBC transmitted new installments of the programme weekly from January 1964 through July 2006, and later converted it into a radio programme. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax TOTP. Status Quo - Marguerita Time (3:26) 20. Status Quo - Wild Side Of Life. 15), "Marguerita Time" (No. 03:22 Comments I recall buying this when it came out and it came with a free ‘Barry’ Christmas card which I sent to someone that year – someone fortunately didn’t send theirs and instead were able to look onto 45cat and can see that Barry’s message is the very American ‘Happy Holidays’.Pretenders – 2000 Miles – We’ve seen this millions of time on Christmas TOTP 2 but it’s a great song. 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