BBC4 rewinds Top of the Pops to 1976

Channel to show vintage episodes from equivalent week 35 years ago, starting in AprilViewers of a certain age have fond if hazy memories of Top of the Top from the 1970s, when the likes of Dave Lee Travis and Jimmy Savile presided over a cheesy circus of big hair and bad dancing.From next Thursday BBC4 is giving viewers the chance to compare their memories with the reality, showing vintage Top of the Pops episodes from the equivalent week, starting in April 1976, in the now defunct music chart s...

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