{"id":41,"date":"2006-07-30T19:23:52","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T18:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=41"},"modified":"2019-11-19T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T09:48:07","slug":"farewell-to-top-of-the-pops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to &#8220;Top Of The Pops&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, BBC2 television broadcast the last programme of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/totp\/\">&#8220;Top Of The Pops&#8221;<\/a> after 42 years of the feature.<br \/>\nIt started on 1 January 1964 when I was 15 years old and the Beatles were at No 1 with &#8220;I Wanna Hold Your Hand&#8221; and it was made in a converted church in south Manchester minutes from where I lived.<br \/>\nCan you imagine what it was like to be a teenager when the Beatles were at their height and to watch all the top acts on TV each week? I used to make a tape recording of the programmes and play them back constantly. These days, I have my iPod Nano like any self-respecting cool guy.<br \/>\nBut, as I&#8217;ve explained on my web site, the pop music of the 1960s was one of the many reasons why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fifties.html\">it&#8217;s fun to be in one&#8217;s 50s in today&#8217;s Britain<\/a>..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, BBC2 television broadcast the last programme of &#8220;Top Of The Pops&#8221; after 42 years of the feature. It started on 1 January 1964 when I was 15 years old and the Beatles were at No 1 with &#8220;I Wanna Hold Your Hand&#8221; and it was made in a converted church in south Manchester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25303,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/25303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}