I want Smash Hits, TOTP and the SUNDAY night top 40 chart countdown

[Charley1988]

Just that really.AIBU?

I still miss TOTP on a Friday...sob

I miss it Never but I miss the THURSDAY version

I vividly remember the Thursday night that Culture Club appeared. Our school was electrified by Boy George.

YANBU! I miss TOTP
I also want to confirm that miss the holiday programs. The ones that Judith Chalmers/Jill Dando/Mary Nightingale presented.
I feel better for that!

Boy George was amazing in the 80s

YANBU especially about Smash Hits!

I remembers Cliff Michelmore on Holiday!!

A Smash Hits annual came out circa 2007'- I bought it - very goo and lots of excellent memories

I want all those too. And Holiday. And Tomorrow's World.

Heart/Capital Radio do the top 40 on a Sunday from 4.00pm until 7.00pm, my DD listens every week. Like mother, like daughter

And Krypton Factor with Gordon Burns

Thanks Cauldron will listen x

I miss Thursday Top of the Pops, Just Seventeen and Number One magazine

Archived Smash Hits issues, in their entirety:
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Some amazing discoveries!

And their re-christening Paul McCartney "Fab Macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft" will never fail to make me giggle.

YADNBU. Smash Hits was my absolute favourite magazine and I put every issue I bought in my parent's attic as I was convinced they'd be worth a fortune one day! I'm still bitter about lending a special annual issue which cost about a fiver to a friend and her mum "threw it away"

Heart/Capital Radio do the top 40 on a Sunday from 4.00pm until 7.00pm

But is this going to be modern pop music?

Reminds me of Peter Kaye when he talks about cutting words out of smash hits and doing the dance routines in your room (Mel and Kim -' respectable ' ,) and your Dad would be downstairs saying 'what's she doing up there?, dancing?, I'll give her dancing, she's coming through ceiling!' That was exactly like our house in the 80's !

Smash Hits did a diary in about 1986 that invited you to fill sections in yourself. Your fav dream this week, or who's your most fanciable person this week. I filled it in and I still have it. It's an amusing read.

I miss them all so much! I think my brain is 75% made up of 80s pop songs all learnt off by heart from Smash Hits. The other 25% is 80's adverts and TV theme tunes.
Btw me and my mate Loren had letter of the week in Just 17, with a photo!

I love some of your recollections on here - there's something interesting about reading your diary years later

Yeah or reading old letters. Absolutely hilarious.

Is Newsround still on (at boring work at that sort of time). I need John Craven to explain some of the things we’re currently facing in a way that is informative and reassuring.

Smash Hits was amazing - so witty.

In the 90s, first the Pepsi Chart, followed by the Radio One official top 40 (once I learned the Pepsi chart included airplay shudders ). Listening in my bedroom and recording my favourite songs on cassette was a staple part of my Sundays. Quickly leaping off the bed to impress pause....then rewinding after the song to cut out the DJs talking!

Very nostalgic.

I want to sit on our kitchen counter with my Mum's cassette player and tape the top 40 - trying desperately to push both buttons to record without getting the DJ talking!