Osibisa - the warrior
Instead of punk glory we have ...er... bongos (played by someone with a prototype Mr T haircut), flutes, plenty of funk. Its plenty of mess too. Still an inoffensive way to start the show, speaking of inoffensive... well you can't say that about Tony's shirt.
ELO - telephone line
We get the video again, cellos and big hair and bigger pop rock et cetera.
Gladys Knight & the Pips - baby don't change your mind
Straight into another video, whats this MTV or something? We get a behind the scenes video of the band practicing their dance moves, singing in a studio and generally goofing around.
Neil Innes - silver jubilee
Well it is Jubilee Week and we get a song about it. Its all a bit poor really, obvious and bland but also about a trillion times better than Gary Barlow's effort a few decades later. So thats anti-progress.
The Stranglers - go Buddy go
A repeat of The Stranglers appearance for a couple of weeks ago. Punk on TOTP in Jubilee Week! Now that is subversive!
Demis Roussos - Kyrila
Its Summer and people return from holiday to buy stuff like this... Demis croons away in his giant blue outfit like if Brian Blessed did Star Trek. A perfect song for Summer but i bet he wouldn't get far with this on a rainy November night in Stoke. Demis does get some plastic palm trees to sing behind to add the required atmosphere.
Honky - join the party
Another repeat, did the BBC blow all their budget on the jubilee coverage? White boy funk thats not bad, nice synths.
Legs & Co perform The Jacksons "show you the way to go" behind the same plastic trees as Demis earlier. Not sure why they reused the trees for this song but perhaps the unique way the BBC is funded means they have to get their value for money.
Bob Marley & the Wailers - exodus
Neil Innes had a bit of a reggae thing going on earlier, well kinda. Here is the real thing obviously.
Rod Stewart - the first cut is the deepest
And at number two... sorry one is Rod and his tight trousers.
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