Pet Shop Boys performances resurface in TOTP repeats

musicJul 3, 202638335

Repeat broadcasts of Top of the Pops on BBC Four have been running Pet Shop Boys performances from across their career, featuring songs such as Go West, Always on My Mind, It’s a Sin, Happiness, and the duo’s duet What Have I Done To Deserve This with Dusty Springfield. The repeats include episodes drawn from different years, with one viewer noting a double bill of 2000 episodes and another referencing 1986 and 1989 segments that aired in the same slot. Viewers are posting clips and YouTube links to specific performances and citing Pet Shop Boys albums including Actually, Alternative, and the 2024 release Nonetheless. Commenters call the duo “national treasures,” point to iconic moments such as the Hyde Park Go West performance, and quote lyrics while revisiting long playlists and vinyl pressings. The broadcasts are prompting people to dig out records, share specific video links, and relaunch conversations about the band’s back catalogue and memorable TOTP appearances.

Des

@desdelboy.bsky.social

The Pet Shop Boys are true national treasures, aren’t they? #totp

414h ago

Julie 🖤🎼

@juliemch.bsky.social

#ShareAnAlbumCover Day 1. With the artist on the cover. 💿 Pet Shop Boys - Actually

25Yesterday

Sean Walters

@seanwrite.bsky.social

Victor Willis, the singer-songwriter who with French producer Jacques Morali, created camp disco group Village People, has died at 74. Pet Shop Boys performing the Willis composition “Go West” live at London’s Hyde Park in 2019. #RIPVictorWillis m.youtube.com/watch?v=gHwd...

1822h ago

Martin Nutbeem

@martinnutbeem.bsky.social

Those Pet Shop Boys babies all have accounts on Bluesky now #totp

174h ago

Tim Worthington

@outonbluesix.bsky.social

Few things are as simultaneously thrilling and ridiculous as the fact that it's Dudley Moore saying :...LATER!" on Voodoo Ray. #totp

114h ago

Acidgrandads

@acidgrandads.bsky.social

Just catching up on #totp and reminded that Furniture (Brilliant Mind) ended up as Transglobal Underground.

144h ago

LewisB2

Never knew that - a good career move definitely. 👍

John the Fox 🍀🍀LL671

I think I saw Transglobal Underground play with PWEi at Aston Villa Leisure centre.

Eldest Girl1

I've now gone down a TGU and Deep Forest rabbit hole 🥺

Eldest Girl1

Wait what? Never knew that

Imperfect Product1

Did not know that - great knowledge!

Rob Vearnals1

I saw em live at Leeds uni 1991 I would’ve asked for brilliant mind had I known …

djkideye.bsky.social

@djkideye.bsky.social

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #Musicsky #80s Day 2: With Always or Forever in the Title Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind youtu.be/wDe60CbIagg?...

15Yesterday

Mike Burke

@kiwifrenzy.bsky.social

#ArtistFaveLP #MusicChallenge Pet Shop Boys - Alternative (1995) 9. Do I Have To? youtu.be/BZ8nqi47z2k A-side song: Always on My Mind

14Yesterday

Justin Lewis

@whenisbirths.bsky.social

Derek and Clive on #totp. Well, alright, A Guy Called Gerald.

104h ago

Agatha Cakalogika 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@acakalogika.bsky.social

With the accompanying song being the Pet Shop Boys “It’s A Sin” which became the title of the tv show:

It's a Sin
TV Series • 2021 • Drama

It's a Sin is a British drama television series written by Russell T Davies. Set
WHEN THE WORLD TURNED ITS BACK, THEY HAD EACH OTHER.
in London between 1981 and 1991, it
depicts the lives of a group of gay men and their friends during the
HIV/AIDS crisis in the United Kingdom...

132h ago

Ricardo Autobahn

@ricardoautobahn.co.uk

Pet Shop Boys dressed as CU Jimmy for this one #totp

76h ago

Dave Brockman 💙💛

@davebrockman.bsky.social

Well, we got through another one. No Altered Images, No Pictures of Lily, and plenty of Wishing I Had a Photograph. Thanks Bluesky. Music was patchy at best, and 66% of the presenters were awful. Still: double PSB, and Chaka Khan. Every cloud. Same old nonsense next week? #TOTP

94h ago

Mad Wasp XS

@madwaspxs.bsky.social

#NowPlaying on Mad Wasp XS Show: 345 For: @andymo52.bsky.social Pet Shop Boys - Go West #MWXS #MadWaspRadio @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social the very best in advert free music – accept no substitutes!!

93h ago

ICBEHRZ

@icbehrz.bsky.social

I started the long weekend by playing Pet Shop Boys 2024 album Nonetheless (limited edition pressing with bonus EP Furthermore) pressed on two 12” 33 RPM white vinyl records.

99h ago

Robert Dallas Gray

@robertdallasgray.com

I don’t think there’s been a white singer in the pop soul idiom with as a beautiful a voice as george michael #totp

94h ago

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