Old TOTP (BBC4)

Phil Lynott didn't last much longer if I recall correctly...he was dead within a few months of this.
 
Well, three of Propaganda...mostly hate each other these days. Duel is an absolute classic, still sounds amazing.
 
Confession: Suzanne Freytag took over from Keren Woodward as "who I would most like to be when I grew up" even tho she didn't seem to do much in the band...
 
It really is fucking amazing. Utter 80s classic. Should have done way better than #21.

Damn right. I bought a 7" double pack and a 12" that was shrinkwrapped with the 12" of Dr Mabuse. So I did my bit.
 
So I got Russ Abbott's Atmosphere. I mean it was shit, but it was fun catchy shit. The new effort is astonishingly JUST TERRIBLE. The video is so annoying.

Glad to see more of the all star line up of The Crowd.
 
We're just over a year away from KYLIE :disco:

Just the middling weirdness of 1985-1987 to get through. I guess Pet Shop Boys, Erasure and Whitney will all appear soon.
 
I'm sticking up for "Kayleigh" again folks. One of those hits you just don't get now, a niche act having a proper crossover.
 
The stress of making jokes about having 'been out in the sun' can't have made it easy for him.

That was almost as excruciating as Mike Read describing Madonna as "raw sexuality" with a raise of his unkempt eyebrows. He sure knew how to dry a girl up.
 
"Frankie" is shit. Hated it at the time and still do. How the hell was that such a big hit?
 
The stress of making jokes about having 'been out in the sun' can't have made it easy for him.
That was painful. The preview of 1985, he stated that was just the BANTER in 1985, which I can imagine. He was awful on that first episode.
 
I'm guessing the Nick Kamen Levis ad has recently dropped due to the bizarre amount of ugly 80s boxer shorts featured recently.
 
Oh man, I'd forgotten Fish had done TOTP in fully highland gear!!
 
"Frankie" is shit. Hated it at the time and still do. How the hell was that such a big hit?

It is toe curling, isn't it? Even more so when they had plenty of properly :disco: singles that underachieved.
 
Add me to the WHY WAS FRANKIE such a big hit?

I guess it wasn't the first or last time and a breezy rubbish pop song has been a bigger summer hit than it should have been.
 
1) Andy Cox and Dave Steele dancing like they have rickets and 40 volts up their arse

I hadn't actually re-watched the episode when I posted this...hadn't really remembered how properly ridiculous they were. They look like they're actually a bit special.
 
Now I THINK I remember Ferry Aid. The Zeebrugge disaster was one of the first big news stories I remember.
"The disaster resulted in the deaths of 193 people. Many of those on board had taken advantage of a promotion in The Sun newspaper offering cheap trips to the continent"

LOL!
 
I remember being pissed that Frankie held Madonna off #1. But then she ploughed a not entirely dissimilar musical furrow with True Blue to get a #1 in 1986.
 
I remember being pissed that Frankie held Madonna off #1. But then she ploughed a not entirely dissimilar musical furrow with True Blue to get a #1 in 1986.

Fair point. Mads had the better middle 8 tho'.
 
I absolutely would have, though.

Fuck no, he'd have written a song about you.

The only song he'd have written about me would have been called "Why Did That Mad Goth Just Break My Ankle With A Golf Club?"
 
Is that tiny sliver of The Crowd really the only Yewtree-free segment?
 
Confession: "In Too Deep" was the one Dead Or Alive record I bought. Still sounds alright.
 
I owned this Damned single too. They played this when I saw them in January. Made a decent fist of it.
 
Fun fact: The Damned's guitarist in this era is called Roman Jugg. And that's his actual birth name. He turns up on a Nurse with Wound album around this time as well.
 

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