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Legs & Co.

Index Legs & Co.

Legs & Co. were a dance troupe created in 1976 for the BBC's weekly Top Of The Pops programme, performing over three hundred times on this show by the time of their last performance in 1981. [1]

56 relations: Andrew Gold, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Associated Television, Average White Band, Blue Peter, Disco, Donna Summer, Ed Stewart, Electric Light Orchestra, Endless Love (song), Enigma (UK band), Flick Colby, Frances Ruffelle, Go-Jos, Hank Mizell, How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees song), I Feel Love, I Wish (Stevie Wonder song), Jim'll Fix It, John Travolta, Jon and Vangelis, Lionel Richie, List of musical medleys, List of Top of the Pops dance troupes, Lonely Boy (Andrew Gold song), Michael Hurll, Mike Oldfield, Minder (TV series), Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Novelty song, Olivia Newton-John, Operation Yewtree, Pan's People, Punk rock, Ruby Flipper, Sex Pistols, Shakin' Stevens, Sir Duke, Sister Sledge, Soul music, Stevie Wonder, Summer Nights (Grease song), Sylvester (singer), Television Centre, London, Tenko (TV series), The Clash, The Real Thing (UK band), The Stud (film), Tiswas, Top of the Pops, ..., Toto Coelo, TV-am, Twilight (Electric Light Orchestra song), You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), You're the One That I Want, Zoo (dance troupe). Expand index (6 more) »

Andrew Gold

Andrew Maurice Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and arranger.

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Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (referred to simply as Saturday Night Takeaway or SNT) is a British television variety show, presented by Ant & Dec, both of whom also act as the show's executive producers, and broadcast on ITV since its premiere on 8 June 2002.

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Associated Television

Associated Television (ATV), a former British television company, was awarded the franchise by the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide the Independent Television service at weekends for the London region.

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Average White Band

Average White Band (also AWB) are a Scottish funk and R&B band that had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980.

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Blue Peter

Blue Peter is a British children's television programme, currently shown live on the CBBC television channel.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Donna Summer

LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), widely known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter.

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Ed Stewart

Edward Stewart Mainwaring (23 April 1941 – 9 January 2016), known as Ed "Stewpot" Stewart, was an English broadcaster.

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Electric Light Orchestra

The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970, by songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan.

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Endless Love (song)

"Endless Love" is a song written by Lionel Richie and originally recorded as a duet between Richie and fellow soul singer Diana Ross.

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Enigma (UK band)

Enigma was a musical project by British producer and musician Nigel Wright in the early 1980s.

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Flick Colby

Flick Colby (born Felicity Isabelle Colby; March 23, 1946 – May 26, 2011) was an American dancer and choreographer best known for being a founding member and the choreographer of the United Kingdom dance troupe Pan's People, which was a fixture on the BBC 1 chart show Top of the Pops from 1968 to 1976.

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Frances Ruffelle

Frances Ruffelle (born Frances Jane Ruffell; 29 August 1965) is an English musical theatre actress and recording artist.

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Go-Jos

The Go-Jos were a British TV dance troupe, created for the BBC1 TV music chart show Top of the Pops in late 1964, appearing regularly on the show until mid-1968.

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Hank Mizell

Hank Mizell (November 9, 1923 – December 23, 1992) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees song)

"How Deep Is Your Love" is a pop ballad written and recorded by the Bee Gees in 1977 and released as a single in September of that year.

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I Feel Love

"I Feel Love" is a song by Donna Summer, with production by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.

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I Wish (Stevie Wonder song)

"I Wish" is a hit song by Stevie Wonder.

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Jim'll Fix It

Jim'll Fix It is a long-running British television show, broadcast by the BBC between May 1975 and June 1994.

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John Travolta

John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, dancer and singer.

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Jon and Vangelis

Jon and Vangelis was a collaborative effort between the singer Jon Anderson (the lead vocalist of the progressive rock band Yes) and the Greek synthesiser musician Vangelis.

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Lionel Richie

Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer.

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List of musical medleys

In music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces, usually three, played one after another, sometimes overlapping.

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List of Top of the Pops dance troupes

This is a list of Top of the Pops dance troupes.

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Lonely Boy (Andrew Gold song)

"Lonely Boy" is an international hit song from 1977, written and recorded by Andrew Gold in 1976 for his album What's Wrong with This Picture? It spent five months on the American charts, peaking at number seven in both Canada and the United States,Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - and number 11 in the United Kingdom.

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Michael Hurll

Michael Hurll (7 October 1936 – 18 September 2012) was a British television producer who specialized in the comedy and light entertainment genres.

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Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English musician and composer.

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Minder (TV series)

Minder is a British comedy-drama about the London criminal underworld.

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a British comedy panel game, themed on pop music, that aired between 1996 and 2015.

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Novelty song

A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect.

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Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John, (born 26 September 1948) is an English-Australian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and activist.

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Operation Yewtree

Operation Yewtree is a police investigation into sexual abuse allegations, predominantly the abuse of children, against the British media personality Jimmy Savile and others.

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Pan's People

Pan's People was a British all-female dance troupe most commonly associated with the BBC TV music chart show Top of the Pops from the late-1960s to the mid-1970s.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Ruby Flipper

Ruby Flipper were a multiracial, mixed-sex dance troupe who performed dance routines to songs in the UK Singles Chart on the BBC television series Top of the Pops in 1976.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975.

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Shakin' Stevens

Michael Barratt (born 4 March 1948), known as Shakin' Stevens, is a platinum-selling Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter who was the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s.

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Sir Duke

"Sir Duke" is a song composed and performed by Stevie Wonder, from his 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life.

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Sister Sledge

Sister Sledge is an American musical vocal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Summer Nights (Grease song)

"Summer Nights" is a popular song from the musical Grease.

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Sylvester (singer)

Sylvester James Jr. (September 6, 1947December 16, 1988), who used the stage name of Sylvester, was an American singer-songwriter.

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Television Centre, London

Television Centre is a building complex in White City, West London that was the headquarters of BBC Television between 1960 and 2013.

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Tenko (TV series)

Tenko was a television drama, co-produced by the BBC and the ABC.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Real Thing (UK band)

The Real Thing are a British soul group formed in the 1970s.

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The Stud (film)

The Stud is a 1978 British film directed by Quentin Masters and starring Joan Collins and Oliver Tobias.

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Tiswas

Tiswas ("Today Is Saturday Watch And Smile") is a children's British television series which originally aired on Saturday mornings from 5 January 1974 to 3 April 1982 and was produced for the ITV network by ATV Network Limited.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Toto Coelo

Toto Coelo (renamed Total Coelo in the US) was a 1980s British new wave group, masterminded by producer Barry Blue.

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TV-am

TV-am was a TV company that broadcast the ITV franchise for breakfast television in the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 until 31 December 1992.

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Twilight (Electric Light Orchestra song)

"Twilight" is a song written by Jeff Lynne for English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), originally released on their 1981 album Time.

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You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is a 1978 single by American disco/R&B singer Sylvester.

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You're the One That I Want

"You're the One That I Want" is a song written by John Farrar for the 1978 film version of the musical Grease.

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Zoo (dance troupe)

Zoo were a dance troupe who appeared on the weekly British music series Top of the Pops between 1981 and 1983.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legs_%26_Co.

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