By the time she performed on TOTP she was already a favourite of ITV's rival Ready Steady Go! She

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By the time she performed on TOTP, she was already a favourite of ITV's rival Ready Steady Go! She followed "I Only Want To Be With You" with a string of top 10 hits, including "Anyone Who Had a Heart", and "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself."The SplitsSpringfield enjoyed the lion's share of her success in the 1960s. She became a solo performer in 1963 after touring America and hearing soul acts such as Martha and the Vandellas. Dusty Springfield: I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU (NO 5 IN THE CHARTS, 2ND ON THE SHOW)The HitsShe was born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, but, since 1960, the world had known her as Dusty Springfield, a name she acquired when she joined a folk trio called The Springfields. Taylor, in turn, was replaced in 1975 by Ronnie Wood of The Faces. In 1991, Wyman left the group without a bassist, however old friend Darryl Jones tours with the band. In February this year, the band, who have sold now sold 240 million albums, played to 1.5million people on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.The SplitsRolling Stones line-up changes are like hens' teeth; the original line-up of Jagger, Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts lasted until 1969 when the drug-addled Jones was replaced by John Mayall guitarist Mick Taylor. He was not a very popular man.Bobby Elliot The Rolling Stones: I WANNA BE YOUR MAN (NO 13 IN THE CHARTS, 1ST ON THE SHOW)The HitsHaving started when old primary school mates Keith Richards and Mick Jagger ran into each other on Dartford station and realised they were into the same blues artists, The Stones were about to become massive by the time they performed this Lennon-McCartney song.

In 1968 they were called "The Biggest Rock'n'Roll Band in the World" and they have had a seat at rock's top table ever since. But at the time I thought it was a stupid name for a programme, and I didn't think it would last.We were on that show so many times during the Sixties and the Seventies, and my only regret is that some clever old soul from the BBC wiped all the video tapes from Top of the Pops, from 1964 to 1968. Apparently, some sort of argument over a ball-point pen.And Dusty Springfield was there, too, obviously. She was a very sweet lady, pretty shy, but you could talk to her fine. At the end of the show, I didn't go out - I just went home to my parents' house just outside of Manchester.Now I look back on that show, which is a part of broadcasting history, with a lot of pride.

As everybody was queuing up for a cup of tea you'd swap stories. I think, at some stage, the Blue Jeans got into some sort of kerfuffle with the Stones in the canteen. We had both had a couple of hits, and we had graduated to having a van and a car - getting a roadie to drive our gear in the van, and a personal roadie to drive all of us in the car.But you knew everybody. We were both coming out of the period when we were just travelling in a van. All the rest of us mimed to the track, sang along to the record, as you did on all the shows those days It was quite fun making it look convincing.

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