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This is a list that I have made which covers I hope, every performance/video of Queen and solo projects on Top Of The Pops. Let me know of any inaccuracies. I will make a note beside each episode if the Queen segment is available, full or fragmented, and also the position number in the chart!

My source for most of these comes from this website here: next-episode.net/top-of-the-pops-uk/season-1

21st February 1974 - Seven Seas Of Rhye (NEW) - *Full*

14th March 1974 - Seven Seas Of Rhye (30) - *Full*

28th March 1974 - Seven Seas Of Rhye (15) - *Fragmented*

11th October 1974 - Killer Queen (NEW) - *Full*

24th October 1974 - Killer Queen (23) - *Full*

7th November 1974 - Killer Queen (3) - *Fragmented/'Damaged'*

21st November 1974 - Killer Queen (2) - Missing but a Photographs exists (The band Hello appeared on this episode and their drum can be seen in the photo):

https://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2015/1/22/d/7/8/d787610a-a25c-11e4-8685-fc332e16a2f7.jpg

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/english-rock-group-queen-perform-their-new-single-killer-queen-on-the-picture-id84892984?s=2048x2048

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/english-rock-group-queen-perform-their-new-single-killer-queen-on-the-picture-id84892987?s=2048x2048

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/english-rock-group-queen-perform-their-new-single-killer-queen-on-the-picture-id84892978?s=2048x2048

1974 Christmas Special (Part 2) - Killer Queen - Repeat of 1st take.

16th January 1975 - Now I'm Here (NEW) - *Fragmented*

30th January 1975 - Now I'm Here (20) - Missing but Photograph exists:

https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/b615/wdy59g3ebld48ft6g.jpg

13th February 1975 - Now I'm Here (11) - Missing but could possibly be a repeat of one of the above.

20th November 1975 - Bohemian Rhapsody (9) - *Full*

27th November 1975 - Bohemian Rhapsody (1) - Same ^

4th December 1975 - Bohemian Rhapsody (1) - ^

11th December 1975 - Bohemian Rhapsody (1) - ^

18th December 1975 - Bohemian Rhapsody (1) ^

1975 Christmas Special - Bohemian Rhapsody - Repeat of above.

1st January 1976 - Bohemian Rhapsody (1) - ^

8th January 1976 - Bohemian Rhapsody (1) - ^

15th January 1976 - Bohemian Rhapsody (1) - ^

22nd January 1976 - Bohemian Rhapsody (1) - ^

2nd December 1976 - Somebody To Love (danced to by Legs & Co) (4) - *Full*

1976 Christmas Special - Bohemian Rhapsody - Repeat.

16th June 1977 - Good Old Fashioned Loverboy (22) - *Full*

30th June 1977 - Good Old Fashioned Loverboy (17) - Same ^

21st July 1977 - Good Old Fashioned Loverboy (17) - ^

20th October 1977 - We Are The Champions (30) - *Full*

3rd November 1977 - We Are The Champions (6) - Same ^

17th November 1977 - We Are The Champions (2) - Same ^

1st December 1977 - We Are The Champions (2) - Same ^

1977 Christmas Special (Part 2) - We Are The Champions - Repeat.

2nd November 1978 - Fat Bottomed Girls (21)

16th November 1978 - Fat Bottomed Girls (13) - Same ^

1st March 1979 - Don’t Stop Me Now (28)

15th March 1979 - Don’t Stop Me Now (22)

22nd March 1979 - Don’t Stop Me Now (13)

25th October 1979 - Crazy Little Thing Called Love (21)

8th November 1979 - Crazy Little Thing Called Love (5)

22nd November 1979 - Crazy Little Thing Called Love (2)

1979 Christmas Special (Part 2) - Crazy Little Thing Called Love

31st January 1980 - Save Me (30)

7th February 1980 - Save Me (20)

11th September 1980 - Another One Bites The Dust (18)

18th September 1980 - Another One Bites The Dust (10)

25th September 1980 - Another One Bites The Dust (danced to by Legs & Co) (7) - *Full*

11th December 1980 - Flash (20)

8th January 1981 - Flash (10)

15th January 1981 - Flash (10)

23rd April 1981 - Future Management (55) - *Full*

19th November 1981 - Under Pressure (danced to by Zoo) (1) - *Full*

26th November 1981 - Under Pressure (1)

All the Number Ones of 1981 - Under Pressure

27th May 1982 - Roger Taylor Interview - *Full*

17th June 1982 - Las Palabras De Amor (32) - *Full* (Queen's last 'appearance' on TOTP)

1st July 1982 - Las Palabras De Amor (22) - Missing or non-existant. Photograph with audience memebers exist but possibly never made it to air:

https://i.ibb.co/Gx19P6r/bbc008queenp7su.jpg

The Story Of Top Of The Pops 1983 - Roger & John (Clip from 1000th Episode) - *Full*

2nd February 1984 - Radio Ga Ga (4)[/span]

19th April 1984 - I Want To Break Free (5)

10th May 1984 - I Want To Break Free (3)

26th July 1984 - It’s A Hard Life (23)

20th September 1984 - Hammer To Fall (19) & Love Kills (27) (Love Kills) *Full*

4th October 1984 - Love Kills (10) - Same ^

9th May 1985 - I Was Born To Love You (11)

27th March 1986 - A Kind Of Magic (16)

10th April 1986 - A Kind Of Magic (7)

24th April 1986 - A Kind Of Magic (3)

19th June 1986 - Friends Will Be Friends (21)

26th June 1986 - Friends Will Be Friends (14)

12th March 1987 - The Great Pretender (4)

5th November 1987 - Barcelona (12)

31st December 1988 - Brian & Roger Interview & Bohemian Rhapsody Fan Favourite - *Full*

11th May 1989 - I Want It All (3)

28th June 1989 - Breakthru’ (13)

17th August 1989 - The Invisible Man (26)

19th October 1989 - Scandal (26)

26th October 1989 - Scandal (25)

24th January 1991 - Innuendo (1)

7th March 1991 - Innuendo (1)

14th March 1991 - I'm Going Slightly Mad (24)

23rd May 1991 - Headlong (28)

10th October 1991 - The Show Must Go On (NEW)

24th October 1991 - The Show Must Go On (19)

28th November 1991 - The Show Must Go On (-)

5th December 1991 - Driven By You (4)

19th December 1991 - Bohemian Rhapsody (1)

1991 Christmas Special - Bohemian Rhapsody

2nd January 1992 - Bohemian Rhapsody (1)

9th January 1992 - Bohemian Rhapsody (1)

16th January 1992 - Bohemian Rhapsody & The Days Of Our Lives (1)

25th December 1992 - Barcelona (?)

29th April 1993 - George Michael & Queen – Somebody To Love (1)

6th May 1993 - George Michael & Queen – The Days Of Our Lives (1)

13th May 1993 - George Michael & Queen – Killer/Papa Was A Rolling Stone (1)

24th June 1993 - Brian May with Cozy Powell – Resurrection (23) - *Full* (Seems to get blocked on YT, sorry for the shitty source):

19th October 1995 - Heaven For Everyone (NEW)

2nd November 1995 - Heaven For Everyone (2)

21st December 1995 - A Winter’s Tale (6)

19th July 1996 - Rock Therapy – Reaching Out (NEW) - *Full*

13th November 1998 - Queen/Wyclef Jean & Pras Michel – Another One Bites The Dust (5)

7th July 2000 - Five & Queen – We Will Rock You (NEW) - *Full*

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1. Nih with just photos...isn't that from 45, the Granada-filmed opposition to TOTP? The film camera visible is a bit of a clue (TOTP cameras would be marked BBC)

2. There's a mimed performance of Las Palabras from 82

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Post by ted on Feb 4, 2021 2:04:57 GMT

Thank you for this thread and all of the footage and photos, etc. I haven't yet seen a complete January 16, '75 video for NIH and I don't think I've ever seen any footage nor photos of their other videos made for the song. Up until now I've never seen the version of WATC within which Freddie is shown playing the piano although I've known for 30+ years that it exists.

Regarding the video for GOFLB, as far as I know there is only one promo video for the song, the one you've posted which is also on Queen's Greatest Video Hits I DVD. I think the recording date provided for the video in the DVD booklet is July 14, 1977 and I think I've seen the same date elsewhere corresponding to the same vid. I'm not sure which date is correct but just wanted to point it out.

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Feb 3, 2021 20:31:23 GMT pg said:

2 comments

1. Nih with just photos...isn't that from 45, the Granada-filmed opposition to TOTP? The film camera visible is a bit of a clue (TOTP cameras would be marked BBC)

2. There's a mimed performance of Las Palabras from 82

1. You're right, I completely forgot about that performance, I couldn't find anymore photos from Queen at TOTP. Perhaps, it was just a repeat of the first performance?

2. Kinda, they made the music video in the BBC studios where TOTP was filmed, but I guess it could count as Queen's last 'appearance' on TOTP, until Brian in 1993 with Resurrection.

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Feb 4, 2021 12:52:25 GMT Chinwonder2 said:

Feb 3, 2021 20:31:23 GMT pg said:

2 comments

1. Nih with just photos...isn't that from 45, the Granada-filmed opposition to TOTP? The film camera visible is a bit of a clue (TOTP cameras would be marked BBC)

2. There's a mimed performance of Las Palabras from 82

1. You're right, I completely forgot about that performance, I couldn't find anymore photos from Queen at TOTP. Perhaps, it was just a repeat of the first performance?

2. Kinda, they made the music video in the BBC studios where TOTP was filmed, but I guess it could count as Queen's last 'appearance' on TOTP, until Brian in 1993 with Resurrection.

-Chin

2. I suppose any video wasn't filmed, I have only this pic founded few years ago

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Queen & Related Top Of The Pops Appearances Feb 4, 2021 21:43:12 GMT

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Post by georg on Feb 4, 2021 21:43:12 GMT

The non-audience version is on GVH2, but that image of the band in front of an audience (and Roger wearing sunglasses) is new to me. The party line has been that they didn't film in front of an audience, so I wonder what this is...

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Feb 4, 2021 21:43:12 GMT georg said:

The non-audience version is on GVH2, but that image of the band in front of an audience (and Roger wearing sunglasses) is new to me. The party line has been that they didn't film in front of an audience, so I wonder what this is...

Apologies, the non-audience version wasn't mentioned either, but I didn't notice the audience in the still (or hadn't noticed the lack of audience in the vid).

Best guess for an explanation is that the intention was to film in front of an audience (as was standard TOTP practice), but something went wrong that wasn't noticed before the audience were shuttled out. So they either went back and did it again without an audience, or used the footage from a camera rehearsal.

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Post by oreno on Feb 6, 2021 9:47:29 GMT

Great stuff this, thanks

Always used to wonder why Roger moaned so much about doing TOTP, but looking at that lot they did do about 8 different appearances between Feb 74 and 75, plus sundry other mimed shows.

Guess he just got tired of the cymbals that went "dunk".

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Feb 4, 2021 8:06:26 GMT NathanH said:

I just realised, TOTP never showed Play The Game despite it being a Top 20 hit. They even showed a lot of the later singles like Scandal and Headlong that I didn't think they would.

I'm 100% sure they did show "PTG " as i remember waiting for it to be shown, knowing it was on that week & running from my youth club to my house to catch it on a Thursday night...they only showed it the once. I remember it well.

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Feb 6, 2021 21:50:51 GMT zanzibar1 said:

Feb 4, 2021 8:06:26 GMT NathanH said:

I just realised, TOTP never showed Play The Game despite it being a Top 20 hit. They even showed a lot of the later singles like Scandal and Headlong that I didn't think they would.

I'm 100% sure they did show "PTG " as i remember waiting for it to be shown, knowing it was on that week & running from my youth club to my house to catch it on a Thursday night...they only showed it the once. I remember it well.

No, it never happened, not on TOTP anyway, and here's why - a Musicians Union strike meant there were no shows broadcast between 28th May and 7th August, PTG being in the charts during June.

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Feb 6, 2021 9:47:29 GMT oreno said:

Always used to wonder why Roger moaned so much about doing TOTP, but looking at that lot they did do about 8 different appearances between Feb 74 and 75, plus sundry other mimed shows.

TOTP was the best publicity a young struggling British band could have back then. It would've been career suicide to turn it down. We wouldn't be talking about this if they did.

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Feb 6, 2021 23:52:40 GMT oreno said:

Feb 6, 2021 21:50:51 GMT zanzibar1 said:

I'm 100% sure they did show "PTG " as i remember waiting for it to be shown, knowing it was on that week & running from my youth club to my house to catch it on a Thursday night...they only showed it the once. I remember it well.

No, it never happened, not on TOTP anyway, and here's why - a Musicians Union strike meant there were no shows broadcast between 28th May and 7th August, PTG being in the charts during June.

Good sleuthing.

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Queen & Related Top Of The Pops Appearances Feb 7, 2021 11:19:24 GMT

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Post by oreno on Feb 7, 2021 11:19:24 GMT

Great work, there's still things that need clarifying I think Chinwonder2 .

You've not posted the 2nd SSOR performance (14 March) in your thread, I assume by accident as it's your upload!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJzd3aPJX5o&feature=youtu.be

Now. There was NO Queen performance on 21st March 1974, the website you have used erroneously repeats the listings for 21 February (This error occurs across many listings sites, I'm using Popscene which seems to be properly curated.)

So there were just THREE SSOR performances on TOTP. The 28th March final performance is Freddie in the black and white striped top (with DLT annoyingly crashing the stage).

We should be grateful there is video for all three, quite remarkable really.

I'm delving into Killer Queen next, there's possibly something interesting to be unearthed but will report back

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Post by oreno on Feb 7, 2021 12:56:41 GMT

Killer Queen

--EDIT--- It seems I was wrong earlier, so here's the updated version.

The Black jacket/Les Paul performance is apparently the first, ie 11 October.
Which means the famous Fur Coat footage is actually the second KQ totp performance, and from 24th October.
There is no evidence that the Fur Coat second take was ever broadcast - though in theory either could have gone out on the 24th. The "first take" seems more likely though, as this was definitely used on the December 27th repeat.
Black Jacket/Les Paul repeated - 7th Nov (with Savile intro)
Red Jacket - 21st Nov

(I noticed Chinwonder2 that you have incorrectly labelled the repeat performance as November 11 on your Youtube vid description.)

Fun digging though this lot. Will have a proper gander at NIH next.

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OK a few more notes and observations.

Now I'm Here - the existing TOTP performance as far as I can find out is NOT from 16/1/75. That performance, about which we know almost nothing, is missing, believed wiped.

The existing NIH video is from the 30/1/75 broadcast. Two sources serve for this - info apparently direct from the tape's owner, from the missing episodes site, but also, that the exact same set is used for Steve Harley's performance of "Make Me Smile", which did not feature on the show until this 30th January edition.

The 3rd and final NIH, broadcast 13th Feb, was a repeat (but it is unknown of which recording).

I also strongly believe the final 21/11/74 Killer Queen performance (Freddie in red jacket) definitely still exists - based on several pieces of evidence - in the hands of at least one private collector. I won't go into details (yet?), but the "Hello" totp footage is the key.

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I seem to remember that when The Invisible Man video was shown on Top Of The Tops, Anthea Turner introduced it very earnestly saying “I’m biased but they’re in a class of their own”.

So those of you that don’t love The Invisible Man should, like, back off.

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Feb 3, 2021 19:32:33 GMT Chinwonder2 said:

The Story Of Top Of The Pops 1983 - Roger & John (Clip from 1000th Episode) - *Full*

Here's an uncropped version of that (also without the cuts) from the original broadcast.

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Queen & Related Top Of The Pops Appearances Feb 11, 2021 12:04:48 GMT

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Post by oreno on Feb 11, 2021 12:04:48 GMT

Is it an idea to have one thread (maybe this one) that has the definitive TOTP listings/videos? One that could be stickied perhaps (ah I see it has been, but pehaps should be in Video section) and kept updated?

I've read through dozens of old TOTP posts/threads on Queenzone, plus a few here that have fallen into the mists of time, as well as the Missing Episodes website. I'm afraid I got a bit obsessed with pinning things down, but I'm no archivist. However I'm confident with the dates I listed above, and I'm happy to show my "workings", i.e other people's research, lol.

(Meanwhile this thread queenchat.boards.net/thread/374/killer-queen-on-top-pops is still useful despite some missing links.)

Most notable I think is that the famous "Fur Coat" Killer Queen seems NOT to be the songs 1st totp performance (11 October), but its 2nd, on 24 October. (The 'alternate take' Fur Coat never being broadcast seems to be fair conjecture as well.)

The "Freddie in all white" photo is I believe the lost Now I'm Here TOTP performance (16 January 75), nothing to do with the Christmas Rock on With 45 (where Freddie's in all black) or TopPop. I could be wrong but it definitely looks like a TOTP set and is the only Queen TOTP appearance otherwise unaccounted for.

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After Bo Rhap comes out it's much easier to trace things, as the TOTP archives are more complete from 76, and anyway from then on it's 99% Queen promo videos.

What do people think? I know Queen on totp/lip sync is a minority interest but it'd be good to get it right.

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Feb 4, 2021 8:06:26 GMT NathanH said:

I just realised, TOTP never showed Play The Game despite it being a Top 20 hit. They even showed a lot of the later singles like Scandal and Headlong that I didn't think they would.

Hi, Play the game didn’t feature on Top of the pops as the programme was off air for a few weeks at that time due to some dispute.

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Feb 10, 2021 20:40:42 GMT spidzzle said:

Feb 3, 2021 19:32:33 GMT Chinwonder2 said:

The Story Of Top Of The Pops 1983 - Roger & John (Clip from 1000th Episode) - *Full*

Here's an uncropped version of that (also without the cuts) from the original broadcast.

I saw Anthea at the last We will rock you performance.

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