Top of the Pops reaches 2000th episode

The BBC’s flagship music show reaches it 2000 episode tonight, nearly 40 years after Jimmy Saville introduced the first show in 1964. To celebrate the anniversary Status Quo, who, with 106 TOTP appearances, have been on the show more than any other band, performing a "special birthday rendition" of ‘Rocking All Over the World’. The band’s Rick Parfitt reminisced about his first time on the show in a recent interview: "You just can't imagine how I felt when we first heard that we've got Top of the Pops. I was in my car and nearly smashed it up.” Also lined up to perform is the White Stripes, Jurgen Vries, Tom Jones, who will perform a duet with Wyclef, and the acts at numbers one and two in this weeks chart – Appleton and Atomic Kitten.