-short for " The Collective Consciousness Society "-which had several hit singles produced by Mickie Most, including a version of Led Zeppelin's " Whole Lotta Love ", which was used as the theme for BBC's Top Of The Pops between 1971 and 1981.

When " Too Drunk to Fuck " came out in May 1981, the song caused much controversy in the UK as the BBC feared the single would reach the Top 30 ; this would require a mention of the song on Top of the Pops.

" Starman ", issued as an April single ahead of the album, was to cement Bowie's UK breakthrough: both single and album charted rapidly following his July Top of the Pops performance of the song.

In 1991, EMI reissued the " American Pie " single in the United Kingdom and McLean performed on Top of the Pops.

* 2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two.

Peel appeared occasionally on British television as one of the presenters of Top of the Pops in the 1980s, and he provided voice-over commentary for a number of BBC programmes.

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2000 saw new albums released for Belle & Sebastian, Looper, and The Gentle Waves, as well as Belle & Sebastian's first appearance on Top of the Pops.

When his manager informed him that a band by the name of " Bastard " would never get a slot on " Top of the Pops ", Lemmy changed the band's name to " Motörhead " – the title of the last song he had written for Hawkwind.

With Bossanovas release, 4AD hoped to get the Pixies chosen to perform their single " Velouria " on the BBC music program Top of the Pops.

In 1996, Top of the Pops magazine gave each member of the group aliases, which were adopted by the group and media.

Twain's popularity in UK was reflected by numerous appearances on the long-running music show Top of the Pops, performing singles from Come on Over from 1999.

On 26 October, the Undertones performed Teenage Kicks live on Top of the Pops.

" Boss of Me " became the band's second top-40 hit in the UK which they performed on long running UK television programme Top of the Pops, and in 2002, won the duo a Grammy Award.

The brothers have infamously, despite their high status in the mainstream, never appeared on Top of the Pops, with the use of music videos to replace the performance, sometimes accompanied by a video apologising for their absence.

Other celebs to have been featured in their own strips include Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand, Esther Rantzen, Stephen Fry, Noel Edmonds, Jimmy Savile ( as the headmaster of " Pop School ", as " Sir Jimmy Savile, the Owl " and in " Jimmy Savile's Haunted Head "), Johnny Vaughan, Adam Ant, Jimmy Hill, Noddy Holder, Boy George, Freddie Garrity, Steve McFadden, Morrissey ( constantly finding daffodils stuck into the seat of his trousers, parodying his appearances on Top of the Pops ), Busted, Eminem, Big Daddy and plenty more.

* List of performers on Top of the Pops

Originally intended as a B-side, " Fools Gold " quickly became the Roses ' most famous song and a performance of it on Top of the Pops cemented their national fame.

In 1967, while in the UK on tour, Dolenz met future wife Samantha Juste, a co-presenter on BBC TV's pop music show, Top of the Pops.

Often cited as the moment of inception is his appearance on the UK TV programme Top of the Pops in March 1971 wearing glitter and satins, to perform what would be his second UK Top 10 hit ( and first UK Number 1 hit ), " Hot Love ".

The video was edited by Top of the Pops for its graphic content and many other channels followed suit.

Jones appeared on 31 December 1969, on the BBC's review of the 1960s music scene, Pop Go The Sixties, performing " Delilah " ( in a telerecording of an earlier appearance on Top of the Pops ).

In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops.

* Top Quality Crims was aired on 13 February 1992

The video album earned her a fourth Grammy and was aired as an ABC prime time special, Let's Get Physical, becoming a Top 10 Nielsen hit.

From 1956 to 1958, he hosted a show titled Top Tunes and New Talent, which aired on Monday nights.

In 2005, the popular British automotive show Top Gear aired its " Winter Olympics special ", an episode of various Olympic event-themed challenges involving cars, set in the surrounding area of Lillehammer.

Many clips were aired on " Top of the Pops " in the UK, and two were aired on " Thank Your Lucky Stars.

In 2005, ESPN Classic aired an episode in The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame ... series in which it examined the sale, and explained why Frazee cannot be held as the scapegoat:

* TV Guide and TV Land ranked The Star Wars Holiday Special at number 59 on their " Top 100 Unexpected Television Moments " in a five part special that aired from December 5 until December 9 in 2005.

By the 1974 – 1975 season, Sanford and Sons high lead-in helped the entire NBC Friday night lineup to place in the coveted bracket of Top 20 shows ( Chico and the Man, following Sanford, placed in the Top 10, while the police dramas The Rockford Files and Police Woman aired later in the evening and ranked in the lower reaches of the Top 20 ).

Originally conceived as Top Gun meets A Few Good Men, JAG was first aired on NBC on September 23, 1995, but was later canceled on May 22, 1996 after finishing 79th in the ratings, leaving one episode unaired.

The first Top of the Pops first aired from Dickenson Road Studios in Manchester on 1 January 1964.

Top of the Pops was created by BBC producer Johnnie Stewart, inspired by the popular Teen and Twenty Disc Club which aired on Radio Luxembourg.

Free-to-air music channel C4 then picked up the UK version of Top of the Pops and aired it on Saturdays at 8 pm with a repeat screening on Thursdays.

Peaches appeared on the British TV show Top of the Pops, but her performance was deemed too racy to be aired.

* A Vietnamese edition called Ô cửa bí mật ( literally: Secret doors ) aired on VTV3 from January 11, 2009 to February 19, 2012 and was among the Top 5 most-watched game shows.

Final moments of an episode of the Montreal version of Reach for the Top, as aired on CBMT-6 in the late 1970s.

The CBC stopped airing Reach for the Top in 1985, but it continues to be shown under the aegis of Reach for the Top Inc. From 2000-2008, the national finals were aired by CLT ( now OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network ), hosted by Graham Neil of CFRN-TV in Edmonton.

From 1973 to 1997 the CBC's French language network, Radio-Canada, aired a program called Génies en herbe (" Budding Geniuses "), which was the French language equivalent of Reach for the Top.

Created by Elise Doganieri and Bertram van Munster, the original series has aired in the United States since 2001 and has earned thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards, including every award from 2003 – 2012 for " Outstanding Reality-Competition Program ", except in 2010 when Top Chef won.

It aired from June 4, 1995 to January 2004, and was replaced with Ryan Seacrest's American Top 40 countdown.

* 1996 – Außen Top Hits, innen Geschmack (" Top Hits Outside, Taste Within " ( pun on a commercial aired in Germany )) GER # 10, AUT # 21, SWI # 14