These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.

The material is searchable, can be browsed by ‘Theme’ or ‘Decade’, and filtered by media type.

You can download individual items from the collection, or use the search and filtering to produce your own downloadable collections.

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Search Results

2977 results found

  1. Hot Chocolate

    Hot Chocolate' (back row, l-r : Errol Brown, Larry Ferguson, Harvey Hinsley, Ian King, front row seated, l-r : Patrick Olive and Tony Wilson) backstage at 'Top of the Pops' on November 1962.

    68 KB

    1970s, music, images

  2. Gilbert O'Sullivan

    Gilbert O'Sullivan on 'Top of the Pops', 16th November 1972.

    38 KB

    1970s, music, images

  3. Gladys Knight

    Gladys Knight performing on 'Top of the Pops'. 1972

    45 KB

    1970s, music, images

  4. Rod And Ron

    Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart of 'The Faces' performing on 'Top of the Pops', November 1972.

    55 KB

    1970s, music, images

  5. The Faces

    The Faces (L-R : Ian McLagan, Ronnie Wood, Kenny Jones and Rod Stewart) backstage at 'Top of the Pops', November 1972.

    63 KB

    1970s, music, images

  6. Wizard

    Roy Wood and Wizard backstage at 'Top of the Pops' 1972

    81 KB

    1970s, music, images

  7. Emlyn Hughes

    Emlyn Hughes playing for Liverpool in 1972

    94 KB

    1970s, sport, images

  8. Record Player

    Woman listening to records, 1972

    81 KB

    1970s, music, images

  9. Alice Cooper

    Alice Cooper backstage at 'Top of the Pops' when they perfomed 'School's Out". 1972

    62 KB

    1970s, music, images

  10. Michael Jackson

    Michael Jackson performing on 'Top of the Pops', aged 14. 1972

    45 KB

    1970s, music, images

  11. Roberta Flack

    Roberta Flack performing the song 'First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' on 'Top of the Pops', 28th December 1972.

    40 KB

    1970s, music, images

  12. The Jackson 5

    The Jackson 5 appeared on the Christmas show of 1972 when they performed Rockin Robin. 1972

    69 KB

    1970s, music, images