There has not been an edition of Top of the Pops like this for a decade: you were guaranteed to have heard of half the acts on it. For TOTP celebrated its 2,000th episode with some famous old ...

Fifty years ago, direct from Manchester, Top Of The Pops made its debut on the airwaves. The weekly pop countdown ran for decades, racking up more than 2,000 episodes, featuring the likes of U2, ...

The show will be broadcast in the old BBC 1 slot of 7.30pm and will be aired for at least one year - with a view to extend its run for longer should the show prove successful. April 1976 was chosen as ...

Top of the Pops was a music behemoth back in the day. From 1964 until the show's demise in 2006, viewers got to see some of the world's greatest music acts: The Beatles, David Bowie, Whitney Houston ...

Ten years ago this week, the final weekly episode Top of the Pops aired on the BBC. McFly’s Don’t Stop Me Now was the Official Number 1 single, while Razorlight, Lily Allen and Paolo Nutini ruled the ...

From Nicky Campbell to Fearne Cotton, Top of the Pops featured a roster of much-loved presenters – and others who have long been forgotten – during the Nineties. Back then, the TOTP was still the ...

The logos and presenters changed over the years, but TOTP was always based on the week's Top 40 singles chart Fifty years ago, direct from Manchester, Top Of The Pops made its debut on the airwaves.