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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2977 results found
Sandie Shaw TOTP
Sandie Shaw performing on Top Of The Pops - camera, studio audience and weekly chart in shot.
52 KB
1960s, music, images
The Adam Singers
'The Adam Singers', celebrating 10 years and 500 broadcasts of Sing Something Simple.
46 KB
1960s, music, images
The Beatles
'The Beatles' who were photographed here for the BBC after an interview with a member of the BBC Italian Service on the eve of their departure for a tour in Italy, June 1965.
45 KB
1960s, music, images
The Hollies
The Hollies - Terry Sylvester, Tony Hicks, Steve Turner, Alan Clarke and Bernie Calvert in 'Colour Me Pop'. Four of the Hollies relax at a darts match with the producer in 1970.
38 KB
1960s, music, images
The Hollies Playing
The Hollies performing on Top Beat
33 KB
1960s, music, images
The Miracles
The Miracles (with Smokey Robinson far left) performing with the Bobby Patrick Big Six on Top Beat in 1964.
34 KB
1960s, music, images
The Searchers
The Searchers - Tony Jackson, John McNally and Mike Pender.
34 KB
1960s, music, images
The Spinning Wheel Song
The song 'The Spinning Wheel' from 1960s
20 MB
1960s, music, video
The Supremes
A contact sheet showing The Supremes backstage at Top of the Pops.
46 KB
1960s, music, images
The Swinging Blue Jeans
The British Merseybeat band 'The Swinging Blue Jeans', backstage at Top of the Pops, at Dickenson Road Studios, Manchester.
42 KB
1960s, music, images
The Troggs
The Troggs backstage at Top of the Pops. Top are Reg Presley and Chris Britton, Bottom are Pete Staples and Ronnie Bond.
41 KB
1960s, music, images
The Who 1
Contact sheet of The Who backstage at Top of the Pops.
44 KB
1960s, music, images
