TOTP 27 NOV 1998
After featuring nine songs in the last TOTP, we’re down to seven this time though six of them are new to charts (sort of). Our host is Jayne Middlemiss and we start with that ‘start of’ hit which is from Steps. The reason for it’s unclear categorisation is that whilst “Heartbeat” hasn’t been on the…
TOTP 20 NOV 1998
Those pesky BBC4 programmers have slipped an extra TOTP repeat into the schedule this week meaning I have three shows to review rather than the usual two. I think it’s to make up for the fact that they only showed one last week due to the snooker coverage and so, in order to get the…
TOTP 13 NOV 1998
That’s not Kate Thornton! She may have similar hair but it isn’t Kate. And it’s certainly not Jayne Middlemiss so who’s this on hosting duties for this particular TOTP? Well, it was Katy Hill (she does tell us that’s her name right at the very start of the show to be fair) and she was…
TOTP 06 NOV 1998
We’ve got through the October TOTP repeats and the end of the year is finally appearing upon the horizon and not a moment too soon – 1998 has been a real slog. Our host is Kate Thornton who seems to have styled her hair on Billie’s barnet but more of her later. We start though…
TOTP 30 OCT 1998
It’s a case of someone old someone new in this episode of TOTP with some artists that have been around for literally decades in some cases mingling with acts making their debut on the show. Our host is Jamie Theakston (again!) and we start with a group who were definitely in the ‘old’ bracket. If…
TOTP 23 OCT 1998
On the day this particular TOTP aired, Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown was sentenced to four months in prison for threatening behaviour towards an air stewardess and banging on the cockpit door on a British Airways flight from Paris. He would serve two months in Strangeways. Manchester. While he was inside, Roses bassist Gary ‘Mani’…
TOTP 16 OCT 1998
I ended the last post with the statement that pop was definitely back in 1998 having laid claim to the notion that many of artists who’d had the biggest and most hit singles that year had been almost defiantly of a pop nature. B*Witched, Billie, 911, Cleopatra and Five were just some of the names…
TOTP 09 OCT 1998
In a truncated show (I think the Fawlty Towers repeats issue was at play again), there’s only seven hits being offered up to the viewing audience but only one of those has been seen before which is last week’s No 1. Our host is Kate Thornton who tells us in her top of the show…
TOTP 02 OCT 1998
We’ve entered October in these 1998 TOTP repeats meaning that we’re three quarters through the year already. As such, the album release schedules will have been set with an eye on the all important Christmas period. I wonder how many of the artists on this TOTP also had an album to flog and also how…
TOTP 25 SEP 1998
I’ve long talked about the number of hits featured in these TOTP repeats that I can’t recall despite working in a record shop at the time. However, I sometimes think that the proliferation of new entries ushered in by first week of release price discounting worked against the show and my poor, overworked memory. Six…
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