06 November 1986

Thursday 06 November

1986-11-06

Top of the Pops
Hosts: Peter Powell & Steve Wright


 * 1) Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer (15)
 * 2) Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush – Don’t Give Up (16) (video)
 * 3) Red Box – For America (22)
 * 4) Swing Out Sister – Breakout (17)  DEBUT*
 * 5) Bob Geldof – This Is The World Calling (25) (breaker)
 * 6) Shakin’ Stevens – Because I Love You (24) (breaker)
 * 7) Spandau Ballet – Through The Barricades (20) (breaker)
 * 8) Duran Duran – Notorious (7)
 * 9) Berlin – Take My Breath Away (1) (video)
 * 10) The Pretenders – Don’t Get Me Wrong (10) (video/credits)


 * Corinne of Swing Out Sister had this to say about this appearance, in a 2021 Facebook post:

"Our first Top of The Pops! Imagine the thrill of being on a tv programme you have watched since you were 3 years old! We were given some money to buy clothes by our record company…but as I had to pay the gas bill only had enough money to buy a Joe Casely-Hayford jacket. The rest of my outfit was improvised…a sarong skirt from a piece of old Viyella…a threadbare boat neck t shirt of my mum’s from the sixties…curtain ring bangles pinched from my mum’s house…and Doc Martens to keep feet firmly on the ground!"