08 May 1975

Thursday

1975-05-08

Events

 * Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler is born in Madrid, the third and youngest child of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and wife Isabel Preysler. Enrique will go on to become the 'King of Latin Pop' in the second half of the 1990s.

TV

 * BBC One
 * 6.55 pm Tomorrow's World. Raymond Baxter, William Woollard and Michael Rodd report the latest efforts of scientists and technologists to improve our life style at home and at work
 * 7.20 pm Top of the Pops. Discs, stars and the news from this week's Top Thirty. (see below)
 * 8.00 pm The Liver Birds Anyone For Freedom by Carla Lane.
 * 8.30 pm Are You Being Served? Hoorah for the Holidays.

Top of the Pops

 * 1) (27) Mac & Katie Kissoon – Don’t Do It Baby
 * 2) (New) Hot Chocolate – Disco Queen
 * 3) (17) Stephanie De Sykes – We’ll Find Our Day
 * 4) (40) Desmond Dekker – Israelites
 * 5) (New) Slade – Thanks For The Memory (Wham Bam Thank You Mam)
 * 6) (New) Chips – Love Matters
 * 7) (New) Shirley Bassey – Good, Bad But Beautiful
 * 8) (13) Gary Glitter – Love Like You And Me (rpt.)
 * 9) (25) Betty Wright – Where Is The Love
 * 10) (14) The Carpenters – Only Yesterday (Video)
 * 11) (12) Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes Feat. Sir Monti Rock III – I Wanna Dance Wit Choo (Doo Dat Dance) – Part 1 (Danced To By Pan’s People)
 * 12) (1) Mud – Oh Boy Mud - Oh Boy 1975