22 May 1980

Thursday

1980-05-22

Events

 * Computer game Pac-Man appears for the first time.
 * BBC Radio One: John Peel show - first broadcast of second session by Echo & the Bunnymen, the first of two in 1980. Tracks: The Pictures On My Wall / All That Jazz / Over The Wall.Echo & The Bunnymen - Peel Session 1980

Top of the Pops
Presented by Mike Read. See my review on TOTP 80 here.

(25)	LIPPS INC – Funky Town (and charts)

(48)	THE LAMBRETTAS – D-a-a-ance

(3)	MICHAEL JACKSON – She’s Out Of My Life (video)

(32)	U.K. SUBS – Teenage

(27)	JONA LEWIE – You’ll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties

(52)	KAREL FIALKA – The Eyes Have It

(18)	THE SPECIALS – Rat Race (video)

(45)	COCKNEY REJECTS – I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles

(10)	Gary Numan – We Are Glass (video)

(35)	JUNIOR MURVIN – Police And Thieves

(17)	AVERAGE WHITE BAND – Let’s Go Round Again

(6)	MASH – Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) (danced to by Legs & Co)

(26)	MATCHBOX – Midnite Dynamos (rpt.)

(1)	JOHNNY LOGAN – What’s Another Year? (rpt.)

(23)	JERMAINE JACKSON – Let’s Get Serious (and credits)