)[1] was a one-off, 75-minute TV special originally broadcast in colour on 31 December 1969,[2] to celebrate the major pop hits of the 1960s.
The participating artists were (in order of appearance):[4] Audio of The Beatles track Twist and Shout was played over the closing credits.
[5] The Bee Gees, The Dave Clark Five and Engelbert Humperdinck were all invited to appear in the show, but eventually none of them were available or included in the recording.
Dusty Springfield dropped out from the final running order just before the recording due to illness, after rehearsing her song You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.
[6] Tom Jones also had to withdraw from the recording at short notice, resulting in the inclusion of a 29 February 1968 performance of his song from Top of the Pops.
This footage was a film recording in monochrome and was shown on a giant screen in the studio, with the audience dancing to the soundtrack.
Horst Jankowski appears in a film insert shot in a snowy landscape in West Germany.
In 2015, the most recent repeat on BBC Four was edited to remove all appearances of Savile due to the sexual abuse revelations about him and subsequent Operation Yewtree investigation.