Jocky Wilson's Compendium of Darts

Jocky Wilson

Although hugely successful as a darts player, Jocky Wilson is perhaps best known in the UK for his inadvertent appearance on long-running music programme Top of the Pops - his photo appeared in the background as the group Dexy's Midnight Runners performed their song Jackie Wilson Said. This was a deliberate joke played by Dexy's notably eccentric frontman Kevin Rowland, though at the time it was widely believed to have been an error by the show's production staff - BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Read even mocked them the following day for not having heard of the influential soul singer Jackie Wilson, who inspired the song.