Between 1968 and 1976 the undisputed highlight of Top of the Pops was its glamorous dance troupe, Pan's People. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Top of the Pops, Babs, Cherry, Dee Dee and Ruth - the surviving members of the classic line-up - tell their remarkable story.
With John Duttine (Sergeant George Miller), Gwen Taylor (Peggy Armstrong), Sophie Ward (Doctor Helen Trent), Steven Blakeley (Police Constable Geoff Younger), Vanessa Hehir (Rosie Cartwright), Peter Benson (Bernie Scripps), Todd Carty, ...
Alan Davies was always a hoarder.
Elizabeth: Pan's People. Maureen: What about them? Elizabeth: I sat with Miss Joyce and watched Pan's People. Maureen: You're not going to tell me about this bloke's stories? Elizabeth: Pan's People. Maureen: Yeah all right, alright.
Pan's People floated in my head. I wondered if they had changed much? They were probably called Pan's Pensioners now, and needed zimmer frames to move – not that it would make any difference to me. Outside the cells, the white quietness ...
Pan's People? These faultless, glorious girls? Me, watching them rehearse? So I was putting some lipstick on in the mirror to go and see Pan's People and in walks this bloke. I see him through the mirror and I'm thinking, Wow, ...
Now, in addition to Ian Anderson, John Evans, Jeffrey Hammond and Barrie Barlow, the group included a trumpet player, a tenor sax player named Tony Wilkinson and Chris Riley, who, taking note of the band's dramatic improvement, ...
Chicken curry. Fry one onion, grated, till soft, with chopped clove of garlic. Then simmer with 1 large tbspn mixed curry spices as above. (If you have them to hand, the following make a good chicken blend – 2 cloves, 2 cardamoms, ...
While you were waiting for him to finish the second one, you missed a bus that your buddies had caught to the hotel where Pan's People were playing. If this was the second knife, it's the one that caused you to marry me and saved one of ...
And although ancient sources announced his death, he has lived on through the work of Arthur Machen, Gustav Mahler, Kenneth Grahame, D. H. Lawrence, and countless others. Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return traces his intoxicating dance.
Louise English danced for me before she became a Hill's Angel, and I put a dance group together for my Jimmy Jones Show in Eastbourne called The Lovers who defected to Benny in their entirety. Before they were famous, Pan's People ...