What’s your earliest memory of Top of the Pops?

This is mine. With three older sisters and a pop-mad babysitter called Pam who came round every Thursday, I was into The Beatles and The Stones when the other kids at infant school were still watching Sooty & Sweep. Only Eugene O’Hara shared my precocious obsession and we had to wait years for the rest of the class to catch up. I remained obsessed with TOTP until the mid-90s when, like so many people, I suddenly turned into my own father one Thursday night and said “What’s this racket? They used to play a proper tune in my day”. This morning, my friend Brian Jones reminded me that The Beatles performed this on the roof of Apple Records exactly 46 years ago today. And that made me realise I’m very old. Though ever so slightly younger than Brian. And for that matter, than Eugene O’Hara.