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Recorded 21st December 1988, broadcast 22nd December 1988. Written and produced by Phil Collins and Lamont Dozier, from …
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Levi stubbs thats all you need to know ❤️
My Golden Boy's Birthday 2012 ❤❤❤
Hear this and think of the Buster film portrayed by Phil Collins 🚂
Life Long BEST love love love still get goosebumps ❤
Really 😂❤ religion
Castle Carousel brought me here 😂❤
Levi stubs one of the greatest voices in soul music
I love it beautyful music
was this the episode that saved them from the ill fated pan am 103?
They were due to board PanAm 103 that was blown out the sky above Lockerbie and missed the flight because TOTP were running late filming this. What a stroke of luck that was!
Best group ever
So hard to think that this could have been their last hit single if it wasn't for the sheer grit of the producer of Top Of The Pops. This recording went out on the 22nd December 1988 but was recorded on the 21st against the will of the band as they wanted to get back home to Detroit for the holidays but they were told they needed to return to the BBC studios to do this recording. They had to phone Heathrow in London to move to a later flight as they weren't going to make the one they were booked on. That call saved their lives as they were due to fly on PAN AM 103 which was sadly lost over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. However their names remained on the manifest for the flight and their seats in First Class remained empty and the bomb was in the hold directly under where they would have been seated.
Greatest ever holiday tune. Undisputed undefeated
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Feel good song never fails 😊
Was there last month,there is a lot of storm damage
Одна из тех песен, услышав которую, уже не можешь выкинуть из головы, бриллиант!!!
Typical of the BBC Top of the Pops where all the acts mimed in the 80's.
The 4 "tops"?
Brilliant song and group
what a voice!
Bass on this Song : "Ready" Freddie Washington 🙂
I agree.
some top, link sinking there 🙂
Saw them live 40 years ago, way beyond superb
are kidding look at the earier music u wiil be spell boumd ok
Well song's like this make me get up and dance
Crazy to think that they 'should' have all died a few hours after this performance – they were booked on the Lockerbie bombing plane to return to the US on 21st December but had to miss it as the Top of the Pops producer insisted they stay on to record a second song, so they re-booked onto another flight. The show went out a day after recording, on 22nd December.
Phil Collins wrote it
The song, the voices, the moves. Top!
Four Tops are iconic. Levi Stubbs’ voice was amazing! May their music live forever ❤
Odd but true fact. The Tops were booked on the PAN-AM Lockerbie crash aeroplane returning from this performance, but changed flights at last minute.
Tune what a singer ………Your BACKED AGINST THE WALL. written by Phil Collins
Banger
Ta piosenka to czysta magia! ❤❤❤❤
Beautiful beautiful voice Levi with the Four Tops ❤❤❤❤ RIP to all 4 gentlemen this was Motowns greatest group ❤❤❤❤
It’s a shame some of these groups from the 70’s were so underpaid convey to these no talent can sing everything is adjusted in the studio for the singers today and none of them have a good voice what a joke today’s music is that’s why you see all these tick-tock dances YouTube dancers use music from the 70s cause I can’t use the own music
All of the originals are now dead 😢
RIP Duke Fakir
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