Christmas TOTP 1989 on BBC4 now...

[Builtthiscityonsausagerolls]

For all the old farts...
'Too many broken hearts in the world'......

@Lauren1983

A heads up that bbc4 have a xmas totp at 7pm everyday starting Monday. There is 1990, 1986, 1978, 1998 and 2002.

Well I wasn't happy about working from home again until this!! bookmarks every Monday night

Although they need to do a 1995. That was my time

@WeAreTheHeroes naturally. It was about tough Brooklyn guys. They're not #bekind.

What happened to The London Boys is truly tragic. I was shocked when I read it.

What happened?

Just googled it

@Warmduscher

What happened to The London Boys is truly tragic. I was shocked when I read it.

What happened?

They were killed in a car accident in the mid-1990s - the car they were in was hit by a drunk driver. One of their wives was also killed in the accident. Both had young children.

They were killed by a drunk driver who hit their car when they were on holiday in the European mountains. The wife of one of them was also in the car and also was killed, so their young daughter was orphaned by the crash. A really horrible event.

Sorry X post.

aww bloody hell I missed totp2 tonight, I loved Jason Donovan back in 1989, had his posters all over my bedroom walls.

and omg I never new that about the London boys that's tragic. loved their songs

If anyone wants to watch Saturday Night Fever it's on prime with adverts. They'll never show it on the BBC again because it is, as discussed above, pretty gritty. But if you can stand the ads it's there.

God I remember all those, I was just about to turn 11. I think that was the year I got a portable tape cassette player (the baby blue one from Boots) and a LOT of Stock Aitken & Waterman tapes. I remember sitting on the stairs playing my music and thinking I was so cool

Well I've just finished watching Saturday Night Fever and I can safely say this is one movie that stands the test of time. John travolta all swivel hipped flouncing down the road in the opening credits, tearing it up on the dance floor throughout, hopeless gritty working class life and the desperation that comes from it and the difficulties of 'fake it till you make it' when you don't understand the codes and signals of the class you're trying to infiltrate ... this movie has a lot to say, with a disco beat pounding through it. Ofc the male characters are sexist and racist, it's Brooklyn in the 70s. At least the movie intimates some of the complexities behind that mindset. In that sense it's probably deeper than a lot of the feelgood justbekind crap we're faced with now in that it explicitly acknowledges the mechanisms of structural racism and sexism. And now I've made myself feel dirty by trying to be all sjw.