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Why did everyone watch Top of the Pops?
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The terminally uncool "pop" programme from the terminally uncool state TV station, BBC1. A recipe for failure, surely. And yet, everyone watched Top of the Pops. Why was that?
Take a trip back in time to the culturally hegemonic imperial phase of the programme; to a time when it was great act of subversion to play air guitar as you mimed to your hit live on air; to a time when Tony Blackburn was being driven round a lagoon by a Womble in a speedboat.
Let's find out why Top of the Pops was so uncool it went all the way back round and became cool again.
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Chapters
1. Why did everyone watch Top of the Pops? (00:00:00)
2. Introduction (00:00:20)
3. A medium sized dive (00:02:00)
4. The cultural context of the 1970s (00:04:27)
5. The monstrously egotistical DJ phenomenon (00:07:10)
6. Cross generational water cooler conversations (00:10:15)
7. Subverting the state station (00:12:52)
8. Conclusions (00:16:09)
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