Top of the Pops began life as a rebellious teenager, but unfortunately ended up as Grandpa at the disco. This book focuses on 40 highlights - some sublime, some bizarre, many plain daft - that made this show a unique spectacle.

From the pipe-smoking DLT to the narrative dance routines of Pan's People, from David Bowie to Clive Dunn, from the rebels who refused to mime for the cameras to the audience members who dressed up for them, "TOTP" really mattered to children of the seventies, and this book will be irresistible to them.