Thursday
1980-05-29
Events[]
- Tonight's was the last Top of the Pops before the Musicians Union strike put it off the air for two months until 07 August 1980.
Top of the Pops[]
Presented by Kid Jensen
- (17) Crown Heights Affair – You Gave Me Love (Danced To By Legs & Co)
- (13) Don Mclean – Crying (Video)
- (37) Thin Lizzy – Chinatown
- (6) Roxy Music – Over You
- (26) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Messages
- (21) Jermaine Jackson – Let’S Get Serious (Video)
- (36) Stiff Little Fingers – Nobody’S Hero
- (23) Mystic Merlin – Just Can’T Give You Up (Video)
- (New) Lena Zavaroni – Jump Down Jimmy
- (1) Mash – Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) (Danced To By Legs & Co)
- (9) Lipps Inc – Funky Town (And Credits)
Smash Hits[]
- Issue: May 29 - June 11 1980
- Cover: Terry Hall (Specials)
- Features: 'The Acceptable Face of Synthesisers', OMITD interview and Messages lyrics;
- Centrefold. New Musik
- Lyrics: Rescue, No Self Control, We Are Glass, Messages, Kitchen At Parties, I'm Alive.
- Rear cover: The Human League (live colour pic) [1]