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TOTP2 Halloween Special 2014 feat The Automatic - Monster, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire, Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters, Stan Ridgway - Camouflage and others.
Get your dancing shoes on for a show of disco mania as Steve Wright and the TOTP2 team take you back to the dance floor for some boogie fever. The Bee Gees are here in all their glory, along with Gloria Gaynor, Liquid Gold, Sylvester, the Village People, the Weather Girls and the Three Degrees. Also, Chic, George McCrae, Hi-Tension, Heatwave, the JALN Band, Earth Wind and Fire, Tina Charles, the Gibson Brothers, and Edwin Starr, Blondie, Yazz, Boney M, Linx, Sophie Ellis Bextor and Infernal.
Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates return to the nation’s screens on New Year’s Day to announce the first Number 1 of 2016.
The hour-long celebration of all things pop will review 2015’s year in music, with a line-up of the year’s brightest chart stars including Sigala, The Vaccines, The Vamps, Maccabees, WSTRN, KDA feat Tinie Tempah & Katy B, Lost Frequencies, Jess Glynne, Years & Years, Ellie Goulding, James Bay and brand new artist Grace. The New Year’s Day spectacular will also include the first No.1 of 2016.
The Top of the Pops Christmas Hits compilation is made up of hits down the years mostly performed on those classic episodes of Christmas Top of the Pops in a seasonal studio. We include songs that reached the charts in December from Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Madness, East 17 and Coldplay.
There are hits that made the enviable Christmas Number 1 spot from the likes of The Human League and Pet Shop Boys, songs that were pipped to the post and perennial Christmas classics from Slade, Mud and Frankie Goes to Hollywood to name but three. Plus a special rediscovered rare performance opening the programme from the psychedelic era Rolling Stones from 1967 and not broadcast for over 40 years.
Christmas Top of the Pops adorns the studio in tinsel to give a perfect playlist for any festive party.
Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates will host the hour-long special, which will conclude with the all-important Christmas Number 1.
The festive TV favourite will review 2016’s year in music with a line-up of some of the biggest musical names of the year, including Clean Bandit featuring Anne Marie, DNCE, Olly Murs, Skepta, Jonas Blue featuring Dakota, Zara Larsson, Calum Scott, Kungs, James Arthur, Craig David and Louisa Johnson.
It's Christmas and here's the proof! Steve Wright gets his Santa suit on and rummages around in his sledge to bring you the greatest Christmas songs of all time. There's Christmas classics from Slade, The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, Roy Wood, Mud, Aled Jones, Elton John, The Wombles, Jona Lewie, Paul McCartney and John Lennon plus more recent seasonal offerings from Destiny's Child, The Darkness, Kylie Minogue and Natalie Cole.
Steve Wright presents a series of editions of TOTP2 featuring the best pop music from the BBC archives. Featuring all-time classics from The Police, T Rex and Madness, plus great songs from Kylie, Girls Aloud and jungle giants Dollar. Plus, how Lynyrd Skynyrd fit into the story of 2008.
A mix of nostalgia and music, featuring archive party material from the Top of the Pops studio and pop promos, first broadcast on 23 December 2001.
