In Popular Culture
- The Scottish punk band The Rezillos lampooned the show as a vehicle for vapid commercialism and for paying little or no attention to talented, unknown bands, in their song "Top of the Pops." Ironically the band actually ended up performing the song on the programme (twice) when it entered the charts.
- The Kinks recorded "Top of the Pops" on their 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, an album highly critical of the music business.
- The Smithereens recorded a song entitled "Top of the Pops" on their album Blow Up.
- The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (who later became The KLF) sampled nearly three minutes of Top of the Pops on their album 1987.
- The opening scene for the Spice Girls' movie Spice World shows the group recording a performance of their song "Too Much" for Top of the Pops.
- Top of the Pops is mentioned in Micky Dolenz's of The Monkees biography, I'm A Believer: My Life Of Monkees, Music And Madness as he married Samantha Juste, who at the time hosted the show.
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