What's going on? They're getting rid of Top of the Pops after all theseyears. How could they? It's the end of an era.
Thursday nights were really special when I was a child. My siblings andI would plonk ourselves in front of the telly, vying for the bestviewing spot, ready for the strains of Whole Lotta Love to start.
All those "joss dicky" class acts like Dave Lee Travis aka The HairyCornflake, Tony Blackburn and Peter Powell. The best was Jimmy Saville,who introduced bling and track suits long before your P Diddy rappertypes, along with the "Now then" catch phrase accompanied by aTarzanesque jungle call.
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