Just the twinkling lights of heaven and the 29th of August 1991 edition of Top of the Pops!
Cracking up actor
29-8-91: Presenter: Mark Goodier
(29) MARKY MARK & THE FUNKY BUNCH featuring LOLETTA HOLLOWAY– Good Vibrations
A live rap to get the show underway but this was his only top 40 hit and it peaked at number 14
(3) P.M. DAWN – Set Adrift On Memory Bliss (video) (and charts)
At its peak.
(28) EMF – Lies
A lively studio performance but the song got no higher.
(5) PRINCE – Gett Off (video)
Went up one more place.
(9) ARNEE & THE TERMINATERS – I’ll Be Back
Steve Wright and his posse are here with their only top ten hit and it peaked at number 5.
(13) SIMPLE MINDS – Stand By Love (video)
Got no higher.
(31) THE FARM – Mind
In the studio tonight but the song got no higher.
(33) TIN MACHINE – You Belong In Rock And Roll
Bowie's band make their studio debut with their biggest hit but number 33 was its peak.
(2) RIGHT SAID FRED – I’m Too Sexy (video)
Their third of six weeks stuck at number 2.
(24) SALT-N-PEPA – Let’s Talk About Sex (video) (Breakers)
Peaked at number 2.
(21) DIRE STRAITS – Calling Elvis (video) (Breakers)
Got no higher.
(1) BRYAN ADAMS – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (video)
Half way there! 8th of 16 weeks at number one.
(20) T-REX – 20th Century Boy (video) (and credits)
Went up seven more places.
6th of September is next.
Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch ft Loleatta Holloway - was she the original vocalist on Black Box's Ride On Time in 1989? If so, then it was a nice touch for Marky Mark to get her on TOTP with him as she should have been when Ride On Time was at No.1.
ReplyDeletePM Dawn - final viewing of PM Dawn with this superb Top 3 hit, and interesting to note at this point that it got to No.1 in America for one week at the end of November, so the Americans must have just loved it at the time!
EMF - not one of their best tunes, but they must have just returned from their tour of America where they had just got to No.1 over there with Unbelievable for one week in July 1991, and just before Bryan Adams planted himself on the American No.1 spot for.......wait for it...... only 7 weeks with everything I Do.
Prince - where does he get those perfect girls he dances and gets up-close-and-personal with on his videos? Certainly the dolly on this video was right up there with the very best that he has seduced on his ever glamorous videos. Good Lord!
Arnee & The Terminators - what, Steve Wright In The Afternoon having left as TOTP presenter the previous year, and now deciding to be presented by others as a member of a pop group on guitar and in the Top Ten so easily? Good Lord, I need a sanity check.
Simple Minds - 1991 was the only year in which Jim Kerr was single, as he divorced Chrissie Hyde the previous year, and then married Patsy Kensit in 1992, so I guess he was dating Kensit around the time of this 1991 single before getting married to her the following year.
Tin Machine - were not going to get far with this single with such a duff sound. With no new music from David Bowie since 1987 where he had largely failed to reach the heights of his 1975-1985 heyday, he came back in 1991 with this weird project called Tin Machine. Oh please.
Dory, correct, it was Loleatta Holloway who got badly short changed on "Ride On time".
DeleteAs for Prince, this reminded me of a skit on "The Fast Show" where Mark Williams is a filthier George Formby called Ken Halibut whose act is comprised of rude (any other type?) Prince hits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYks29_oxUA
Ah, Mark Wahlberg, popular Hollywood star, charmless chat show guest and convicted violent criminal, demonstrating that as a rapper, he was a fine actor. Loleatta shows up to mime to her sample, somewhat gamely. Apparently he gets annoyed if he gets called Marky Mark now. Remember that. And call him Marky Mark.
ReplyDeletePM Dawn on video, but I'm more interested in the charts.
EMF, they found a formula and stuck with it, huh? No memory of this, but it's their usual energetic jumpabout, accompanied by aggrieved lyrics. That mike stand is almost knocked into the audience on more than one occasion.
Prince, or rather a rather brutal edit of Prince, remarkable they got away with as much as they did (was the "jizz" line in there?), you kind of get the gist, but it doesn't beat the pounding original version. Modestly cut off before the bit about the "big ass", of course, which is always clumsily edited on the radio and is really annoying.
Then Richard Easter of Steve Wright's posse lives the dream of having a hit record. Steve's on stage, but I don't think he had anything to do with it except play it on his shows, along with the accompanying sketches. Well, it's a thing that happened, maybe you'll find it funny if you have no sense of humour, and Easter was by no means untalented, but it's awfully lazy.
Mind you, Arnee has stuck in my mind, whereas this Simple Minds record never stuck in it at all. Can't recall how it goes even now. Nondescript.
After getting the video playout, The Farm are invited to the studio. Not much more to say, except the larger backing singer's dress seems to be falling off.
Tin Machine, hmm, brave move by Dame Dave, but nobody could say he pulled it off success-wise. I wanted to like the band at the time, but they were incredibly pompous, even when they were trying to be funny (dog food on the guitar?), and I don't want Bowie to be pompous. Pity, because the idea was sound.
Right Said Fred have a video now. Oh.
We'll see Salt N Pepa again, but the Dire Straits video was more memorable for using Supermarionation than the song.
Bry gets a shorter clip every week, then a classic oldie from T-Rex, revived because of a jeans ad (which starred Brad Pitt I think? Someone will correct me if I got that wrong). Unlike previous jeans ad hits, this didn't break the Top 10, which was a bit of a surprise at the time. Terrific tune, anyway (that intro!).
The Levis Jeans Ad did indeed feature Brad Pitt (who probably was not so well known at the time).
DeleteHe wasn’t well known. The film Thelma and Louise was about to change that….
DeleteQuite a different feel this week from the last few and not in a good way, in an episode full of songs that are very much not enduring classics.
ReplyDeleteLoleatta Holloway may at least get a credit here but it's still not as good as Ride on Time, sorry Loz. And I can never take Mark Wahlberg seriously as an actor, cos to me he'll always be the slightly embarrassing little bro of a New Kid.
PM Dawn - summer's almost over but this is basically its last gasp.
EMF - I don't really remember this one but it's alright.
All had gone a bit quiet in The Year of Sex but here is Prince bringing it back at his raunchiest with Gett Off.
Arnee and The Terminaters - I guess this was capitalising on T2 (I always turned Steve Wright off and still do - I know he's popular but something about him has always grated on me - so never heard his reasons) but it's absolutely terrible, even for a novelty record.
Simple Minds - I Did (Forget About This)
The Farm - same as last week without the derelict backdrop.
Tin Machine - zzz. Would rather hear The Laughing Gnome. Nice to see Bowie in the studio though.
RSF - Still hanging on at number 2 and there's little more to say about this one.
Salt n Pepa - The Year of Sex is definitely back, folks.
Dire Straits - another band who've got their te machine out and ended up in the wrong decade.
Thing to say about that thing 8/16. At least according to Wikipedia, it's the 12th best selling (physical) single of all time, with 15 million worldwide sales and yet no-one has ever met someone who admits to owning it.
T Rex - This year's obsession with 70s rock continues.
Has anyone else been listening to all the 1991 retrospectives on 6 Music this week in honour of Nevermind's anniversary? Soooo good although only some of the stuff they play has/will troubled TOTP91.
Yes, I really enjoyed 6Music's 1991 day (er, week) too, there's a thread about it three blog posts ago. Interesting to hear Screamadelica in full too (as well as the Nirvana tracks).
DeleteI think this may have been David Bowie's first appearance in the TOTP studio, as I don't think he came in during the 70's and 80's where TOTP always had to show his videos to get around the lack of interest to come into the studio to perform. Looks like he had to resurrect his career at this point, having had no new music since 1987.
DeleteDon't you remember Bowie doing Starman? Arm around Mick Ronson? One of the most famous and overplayed TOTP clips of all time?
DeleteAlso there was that rediscovered footage of Dave doing Rebel Rebel on TOTP, wasn't there?
DeleteHe was on video on the show in the 80s, granted.
Yeah granted, but I think Starman was in the mid-70s though, which would mean that Bowie stayed away from the TOTP studio for around 15 years until this new Tinman single in 1991.
DeleteA bit like Cher and Paul McCartney, staying away for two decades or so until the turn of the 90s, and late in their careers as middle-aged over 40s trying to hold on to their youthful days, and now needing TOTP studio appearances to keep them going into the next generation of record buyers no looking for their own generation of musicians to aspire to.
Perhaps the Tin Man song title You Belong In Rock 'n' Roll was telling us something of how Bowie was feeling about his career at this stage?
Sorry, should be Tin Machine, not Tin Man.
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DeleteThx - I think you are thinking of lost footage of jean genie from 1973. By a remarkable coincidence, I got my 2 seconds of fame there, as i am in the audience. (If you watch it, I am in the red jumper staring at the camera at 4.17!
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Wow that was 48 years ago, and great footage, you must be around 70 now Charlie, and must be our oldest regular on here.
DeleteWow that’s amazing Charlie. When I used to watch Madness, Specials etc on TOTP I was always jealous of the kids in the studio.
DeleteI was only 5 years old in 1973, and pop music was a long way in the future for me. I remember watching around that time Man About The House, Mary Mungo & Midge and Jon Pertwee's Dr Who, and I remember watching the show when he transformed into Tom Baker. I guess this is one of the many lost shows of the 70s that the BBC wiped.
DeleteDory - not quite 70, but closing in on it :-) tickets were applied for about a year in advance, and as it was recorded (i think) jan 1 there were few live acts but I did see trex
DeleteI seem to recall David Bowie turning up earlier in this re-run to perform a TOTP turn without an audience for a song which went down the chart the next week so it never got shown. I think was either "Time Will Crawl" or "Never Let me Down", both from 1987.
DeleteI guess the whole point is that any TOTP studio appearances since his mid-70s period up to this point in 1991 were quite rare. I do remember that he returned to the TOTP studio in a collaboration with The Pet Shop Boys in 1996 with Hallo Spaceboy:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvVfSNwxiMU
Bowie turned up in the studio in 1977 with the excellent Heroes - this was by then his fifth time in the studio apparently ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ol17NnBHk
DeleteThat's great Charlie! What a moment to be present at. Bowie completely live in the studio. A remarkable bit of TV. Obviously it's so long ago but do you recall it being a special moment at the time. Also I notice that T Rex were on the show doing 'Solid Gold Easy Action'. Were they also in the studio that week?
DeleteMic yes saw trex, and only a couple of others. The rest were film. My adolescent memory says Pans People were there, but my sensible senior mind thinks it might have been film.
DeleteWow Charlie....I have just read this - what an amazing claim to fame to have been there for this live performance.
DeleteLooking at the line up for that (Saville)show, there are some goodies. Lieutenant Pigeon with 'Desperate Dan' the follow up to you-know-what. Wings with 'C Moon' ('cos they wouldn't feature 'Hi Hi Hi') and Status Quo with their first traditional Quo sound 'Paper Plane' (gosh I thought that was sooo heavy at the time!), and of course T.Rex. Shame about Jimmy Osmond at No1.
I defintely watched that show at the time, but you being on it certainly gives you huge bragging rights!
Chart rundown - two songs entering the Top 40 rundown this week over the PM Dawn video, but were not to get any showing cos they fell out of the chart the following week:
ReplyDeleteNo.39 The Black Crowes - Hard To Handle
A re-issue of the 1990 original release that peaked at No.45, and this time round managed to sneak in to the Top 40 only just at No.39, and not enough ground to get a showing on TOTP. Fantastic record in my opinion, and what you would call real rock 'n' roll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRcs_OzQb14
No.40 Stevie Nicks - Sometimes Its A Bitch
Nicks had a few cracking singles after the last of Fleetwood Mac by the turn of the decade, but apart from a 1989/1990 appearance in the TOTP studio for her solo career lift off, this new tune in 1991 could only scrape in at No.40 as peak position, and no Breakers slot along with The Black Crowes.
This Stevie Nicks song was one of a handful of new songs featured on the 'Timespace' compilation and co-written by Jon Bon Jovi.
DeleteThis is the last show with a Stereo Simulcast on BBC Radio One.
ReplyDeleteFour tunes peaking outside the Top 40 this week and worth a mention:
ReplyDeleteNo.45 - Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary Lou
Re-release of a 50's classic, but can't think why, unless it was on an advert.
No.47 - Army Of Lovers - Crucified
Now that's more like it, what a classic from a new Swedish group, and also the video which I remember was a Eurotrash favourite if indeed Eurotrash had started up already. A true 90s anthem, and I can't believe how this failed to crack the Top 40 with such perfect boobs on display by the lead girl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di18hTFTwIw
No.52 - Paula Abdul - Promise Of A New Day
Much anticipated follow-up to the brilliant Rush Rush, this new one bombed out at No.52, but went all the way to No.1 in America for one week in mid-September 1991, knocking off Bryan Adams after seven weeks at No.1 (yes only 7 weeks in America).
No.71 Lindy Layton - Without You
Layton still trying to go it solo without Beats International since 1990, but not doing very well. There would be no more from her until 1993 with a couple more singles with a No.38 achievement at best, and that was pretty much all.
Hello Mary Lou was featured on an advert for Impulse body spray, and Crucified made the top 40 when reissued the following year.
DeleteI bought the Army Of Lovers single in 1991. And it eventually hit the Top 40 in 1992 (just). Agree that it's a great record. Eurotrash on Channel 4 was great as well but it didn't start until 1993.
DeleteAh ok, thanks to both of you for clearing this up. If Eurotrash arrived in 1993, then Army Of Lovers must have been still fresh enough at the time, as I do see that it made No.31 on re-release in early 1992.
DeleteI'm pleased to have purchased the video on iTunes a few years ago when it became available to buy, and I have always loved the corny nature of the video, which could be seen as a Eurotrash precursor, as I do recall it being shown by Mr Antoine de Caunes on his popular show on Channel 5 in the 90s.
We start with two Marks, Hey Wow Kids Mark who we won’t see for a while and Marky No-Mark, with Loleatta who didn’t appear right on time (see what I did there?) but at least she gets a fully deserved studio outing, but why make that woman mime her majestic voice while we hear that knob ‘rap’ live? Meanwhile, Black Box’s Katrin tries to pout somewhere but is spitting feathers.
ReplyDeletePM Dawn set adrift on ‘chart under the video’ mode. It’s true. In the ex-mugshots, there’s Big Country? Are they still going? Then, I mean, not now.
EMF give us another attempted facsimile of “Unbelievable”. Formulaic to say the very least. Give us a ballad, lads.
Prince gets his “23 positions in a one night stand” line chopped after backing vocalists sing something like “F#ck me” twice and they aren’t deleted. Hmmm. Biggest drummer’s hat on the re-run yet.
“I’ll Be Back”? No, you bloody won’t. I always thought and still think Steve Wright is a talentless wanker. Luckily Mark screwed this with his chart forecast.
Simple Minds with “Stand by the FF”. Another live video for them. Great.
The Farm recording in Cornwall? Talk about culture shock. Seen cows before, lads? Cue trade Peter Hotton swagger dance and vocal range as limited as Tony Hadley.
David Bowie, more like David Brent with “You Don’t Belong In This Shite, Mate, Look At Yourself”.
At least Right Said Fred knew their place in the pre-Covid pop scheme. Knowing catwalk stage in the vid, obviously shot before Richard decided to set his hair clippers to zero.
Salt-N-Pepa. Safe breakfast. Always use a condiment. Boom boom tish!
Dire Straits. The first word of the band title nailed this track. Both the breakers clips are virtually made up of the songs’ titles and next to nowt else.
A nice ‘bye’ wink from the Mark we’ll miss for the intro to some proper music at the end.
It's interesting that the ITV Chart Show following this programme had elevated PM Dawn to No.2, dislodging Right Said Fred's grip of the No.2 position in the last couple of weeks, whereas Fred was never dislodged by them and stayed at No.2 for a total of 6 weeks right up until late September behind the undislodgeable No.1 of 16 weeks:
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Also Arnee & The Terminators on this Top Ten rundown at No.9 had no video available, so they had to have a photograph on the video countdown, and we got a first showing of the Zoe video, not shown on TOTP at all cos she did two visits to the TOTP studio during her rise up the charts, but The Chart Show predicted her correctly to be at No.6 on the next BBC Chart, so spot on!
Funnily enough that's how I always remember 'Insanity' whenever it appeared on 'The Chart Show'. I never saw the video, just a still of three band members looking extremely normal on a street at night. I remember in 6th form a few of us finding it really funny.
DeleteMark bids adieu for a while and has a fairly ho hum edition to present. Hum though isn't something you could easily do to some of these records.
ReplyDeleteMarky Mark and the Funky Bunch; Up to now all I've allowed myself to recall about him in his pre acting days is a hugely cringeworthy appearance being interviewed, and I think made to partially strip off, by Amanda De Cadenet on 'The Word'. That's still all I'll remember as I didn't pay much attention to this. Good to see the much maligned Loletta Holloway appear on the stage and mime to what Black Box twisted about. An extremely grudging extra point for the sheer nerve of giving this rubbish that particular title.
PM Dawn; Lovely blissed out record and video. A tone of rapping that could be from three centuries ago. Oh that's where Roger McGuinn's shades went.
EMF; Far less energetic performance for this one. Just a fairly melodic, fairly moany song with James still overdoing the insouciant teenager act. Incidentally I'm sure Stephen Fry said around this time in an interview that they were one of his favourite bands.
Prince; A fantastic single and video next, one of the best things that summer. It's like Prince has sat down with 1991 and said, 'you think you're randy? Try this!'.
Brilliant exotic sauciness with a playful putdown of the need to not cause any offence. Any idea where I'm heading with this? I did hear this very quietly, it being on at about 2 in the morning, obviously perilously close to the watershed, so I might've got it wrong but did they cut out the first response line in each chorus? Why?? Certainly Chiltern Radio didn't have a problem with it during the afternoons that summer but I don't know, we obviously can't have that sort of thing nowadays oh no no. For what it's worth I find the 'big ass' line absolutely f***ing hilarious.
Arnee and the Terminaters; Of course it was the Posse here. I just remember Steve Wright appearing and gurning in a helmet and going on and on about it in the run up to the show. The Beatles have a song with the same title. It's better.
Simple Minds; Sweaty, fist pumping tosh.
The Farm; I did intend to buy 'Spartacus' at the time but didn't like the cover. I didn't buy 'Screamadelica' for about 2 years for the same reason. Doh.
Tin Machine; Well we get David Bowie in the studio for the first time I think since 1977. The need to flog product is unavoidable though. Can't get remotely into this I'm afraid.
Right Said Fred; The video at last and it is funny and silly. Probably should've been a chart topper for at least one week.
Breakers; Pick a random couple of words for us to hear.
Salt 'N' Pepa; There better be much more of this one next week. So smart as only they could be.
Dire Straits; I swear I can remember aged 3 or 4, hearing 'Sultans of Swing' on the radio when laying half asleep one sunny '79 morning so that will always be a truly special single. 'Tunnel of Love' and 'Romeo and Juliet' are undeniably beautiful. However I would love to know just how long he's ever spent actually trying to compose a tune.
Bryan Adams; Me and a best mate saw the film at the cinema when this single had
already been at No.1 for about 10 weeks. As I remember people started filing out deep into the end credits where the single still hadn't yet appeared. Then it did and almost everyone went back to sit down again!
Mark introduces and follows up the No.1
with a noticeable lack of delight. He almost lets out a sigh in fact. A rather downbeat end then for cheery Mark. Oh well. Encore with a great party single. Wow Bolan looks THE pop star doesn't he.
Ouch! This was a largely rotten edition which only really redeemed itself at the end. I won’t do a blow by blow account of all the rotters but particularly offensive to my ears were Marky Mark, EMF, Prince (still don’t get the appeal) And Arnee and the Terminators.
ReplyDeleteSimple Minds – Stand by Love – Simple Minds have one thing in common with another ‘simple’ group – Simply Red, that being few can name any band member other than the lead singers. Anyway, another bog standard live performance video and the song lacked the grandeur of some of their previous efforts.
The Farm – Mind – I enjoyed this more last week with the quirky video.
Tin Machine – You belong in Rock and Roll – Big surprise to see Bowie in the studio – first time since ‘Heroes’? Song not quite in the Heroes/Jean Genie league sadly and Bowie seems to find it vaguely amusing.
Right Said Fred – I’m too Sexy – An excellent video for this ‘denied by Bryan at No2’ song that really goes well. London scenes in there that someone probably recognizes.
Breakers – Salt n’ Pepa – Another ‘denied by Bryan at No2’ single which Bryan well and truly did us a favour in stopping this smutty effort reaching the top spot. Dire Straits – Never seen this video before and didn’t realise they’d splashed out on ‘Thunderbirds’ (that must have cost a bit in royalties to Gerry Anderson). This was Knopfler’s last throw of the Dire Straits dice to date and, unless he gets an Abba moment that will be it. The ‘On Every Street’ album that ‘Calling Elvis’ is the lead single from is one of those albums I can never decide on whether its good, bad or indifferent. Give me ‘Making Movies’ any day certainly.
Bryan Adams – (Everything I do) I do it for you – A paltry showing this week. Barely gets going. I have to say that Robin Hood the TV series had one of the saddest endings I have ever seen in a TV series. Really cut me up watching when Lucy Griffiths appears at the end (sob!).
T.Rex - 20th Century Boy – Well a classic to end up with and a nice segue with the opening line of lyrics going “Friends say it's fine, friends say it's good, everybody says it's just like Robin Hood”. This went straight in at No3 on original release and stubbornly refused to move up for three weeks, stuck behind Slade and Donny Osmond. Love those backing vocals from Flo and Eddie from the Turtles which gives another link with Jason Donovan currently in the charts with ‘Happy Together’.
I'm not surprised that Bowie appeared in the TOTP studio for the first time in 14 years since 1977, cos he had no new music since 1987 when he was big enough in pop music terms to have top ten singles by TOTP showing his videos only, but the 90s would pose a difficult challenge for his type of music when you consider what was wowing the new generation born in the 60s & 70s as the main record buyers in the 90s.
DeleteA further attempt to appeal to the next generation came in his 1996 venture with The Pet Shop Boys with an ode to Major Tom in the single called Hallo Spaceboy, where he and PSB performed in the TOTP studio, so Bowie was becoming a regular in the TOTP studio in the 90s to try and evolve and needing to reach out to this new younger audience that held all the cards with regard to record-buying and chart positions.
We were nearly at the end of the Dire Straits singles catalogue, as this was their penultimate top 40 hit, as the next three songs to be released in 1991-92 failed to break the top 40, and then their final single called Encores reached No.31 in 1993, before the group called time on their incredible chart career.
DeleteMark Knopfler in retirement appeared last year in the Sky arts series of interviews with Brian Johnson of ACDC, where Knopfler met Johnson at their Geordie part of the country where he looked back at his 15-year chart career with Dire Straits from 1978-1993, starting with Sultans Of Swing, and is defo worth a watch.
MARKY MARK & THE FUNKY BUNCH featuring LOLETTA HOLLOWAY– Good Vibrations
ReplyDeleteSampling Loletta again (someone's been listening to Black Box in the US) but at least poor Loletta gets a credit and a turn on stage this time. Marky the baby brother of a KNOB of course. Bulked up and played a porn star at the movies as I recall. The rap is terrible of course but the tune is alright
P.M. DAWN – Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
Lovely summer video.
EMF – Lies
Proving you can make a little go a very long way it's Gloucestershire's finest EMF. They are clearly having fun though so fair play. This isn't great though, just average. Did they ever grow into long trousers?
PRINCE – Gett Off
One of his rude tunes but I've never been a fan of this. Just not a great song unfortunately. I'm waiting for Cream which is a Prince classic in my opinion..i wonder how edited this video is..answer...a lot!
ARNEE & THE TERMINATERS – I’ll Be Back
If you're going to do a cheesy novelty record, make it a good one. A slice of 1991 fun when Terminator 3 was the huge summer film. Brilliant stuff, love it.
SIMPLE MINDS – Stand By Love
Back to the 80s with your soft rock live video please Jim.
THE FARM – Mind
Tune of the evening. Adore The Farm. All their singles are great and this is one of their best.
TIN MACHINE – You Belong In Rock And Roll
Love Bowie. He made some wonderful music. He also made some not so wonderful music. This being in the latter category.
RIGHT SAID FRED – I’m Too Sexy
Cheap and cheerful video time. Loved themselves a bit didn't they.
Breakers:
SALT-N-PEPA – Let’s Talk About Sex. Again. Must we?
DIRE STRAITS – Don't trouble the charts for long. Surprisingly decent tune. Surprisingly crap video.
BRYAN ADAMS – 8. He's a real guy! In fact, that's his middle name.
T-REX – 20th Century Boy
Loving this back in the charts. I think I'd heard this before it came back to the charts and it's wonderful. What a hook..