The Cure - Play For Today - TROS TOP 50 (1980) - TopPop

This is a premiere for YouTube and the rest of the world!
This rare footage of The Cure has never been broadcast since this very first broadcast on July 3, 1980 in the TROS Top 50 in the Netherlands.
We publish it today, February 3, 2022, to celebrate drummer Lol Tolhurst's 63rd birthday.
Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst, (Laurence Andrew Tolhurst, Horley (Surrey, England), 3 February 1959) was drummer of the Cure untill 1988.
This track has not been released as a single at the time and is still part of the Cure's live performances.

This video has not been shown in later episodes because Robert Smith did not want to release a second single from the 'Seventeen Seconds' album in the Netherlands.
'A Forest' the lead single from the album 'Seventeen Seconds' by the way was recorded and broacast on the same tv-show and has been published before on this channel.
A full version will be released in the coming weeks

The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1978 in Crawley, West Sussex. Throughout numerous lineup changes since the band's formation, guitarist, lead vocalist, and songwriter Robert Smith has remained the only constant member. The band's debut album was 'Three Imaginary Boys' (1979) and this, along with several early singles, placed the band in the post-punk and new wave movements that had sprung up in the United Kingdom.
Beginning with their second album, Seventeen Seconds (1980), the band adopted a new, increasingly dark and tormented style, which, together with Smith's stage look, had a strong influence on the emerging genre of gothic rock as well as the subculture that eventually formed around the genre.

This rare and never published video of 'Play For today' from their 'Seventeen Seconds' album was shot and broadcast by TROS TOP 50 episode 79 on July 3, 1980.

Watch our great music videos ❯ https://goo.gl/feVLNN
More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ https://goo.gl/X9FOAU
More info on Wikipedia ❯ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TopPop

Broadcast date: July 3, 1980

This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip.

The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives.

AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988.

AVROTROS Broadcasting
PO Box 2
1200 JA Hilversum
The Netherlands

TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.
World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.