I'm not quite sure who uploaded it for us, Neil B? D42? Meer? but a huge thanks to whoever it was for sure!
Obviously do not click if you wish to avoid seeing Jimmy Savile.
There's only one Booker Newberry the third!
02/06/83 (Tony Blackburn & Jimmy Savile)
Wham! – “Bad Boys” (2)
A slight sharp intake of breath at Tony's introduction as Wham! get the show underway with Bad Boys now at its chart peak.
Elton John – “I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues” (27) (video)
Became the second of seven top ten hits in the 80's for Elton when it peaked at number 5.
JoBoxers – “Just Got Lucky” (7)
At its peak.
Jonathan King – US chart rundown: Reporting this week from Las Vegas ~
The Tubes – “She’s A Beauty” (video clip)
Bryan Adams – “Straight From The Heart” (live clip)
Irene Cara – “Flashdance (What A Feeling)” (video clip)
Booker Newbury III – “Love Town” (8)
His only top ten hit, indeed his only top 40 hit, went up two more places.
Yazoo – “Nobody’s Diary” (4)
Not quite split up yet it seems, and went up one more place.
Flash & The Pan – “Waiting For A Train” (21)
Became their only top ten hit, indeed their only top 50 hit, peaking at number 7. And Zoo get to whoop and robot dance and generally do their own thing to it.
The Style Council – “Money-Go-Round” (11)
Making it into the studio, and a busy night then for Dee C Lee, but this Jam throw back song was now at its peak.
The Police – “Every Breath You Take” (1) (video)
First of four weeks at number one.
Bob Marley & The Wailers – “Buffalo Soldier” (6) (audience dancing/credits)
Went up two more places.
Back to BBC4 next with June 8th 1983.
I’m gonna get here quick as this one has just appeared for now…thanks for the loader upper!
ReplyDeleteA very 70s looking set of hosts for a show getting near the mid 80s. Takes me back.
Wham – Bad Boys – An energetic start from the boys and girls, bad or otherwise.
Elton John – I guess that’s why they call it the blues – With clips from the film ‘Peter’s Friends’ I believe. One of his better efforts from this era.
Jo Boxers – Just got lucky – Lucky 7 indeed. Top 10 material?
JK slot – The Tubes track rings no bells for me whatsoever. The Tubes are memorable for me being on the ‘Xanadu’ soundtrack singing ‘Dancin’ with Olivia Newton-John, and also the wonderfully titled ‘White Punks on dope’. Bryan Adams ditto, don’t recall this song; doesn’t he look young though! Finally Irene Cara’s wonderful ‘Fame’ follow up starting six weeks at the US summit before giving way to eight weeks of our very own no1 this week.
Booker Newbury 111 – Love Town – Just a nothing record for me, sorry.
Yazoo – Nobody’s Diary – Classy. Well worth seeing again.
Flash in the Pan – Waiting for a train – Aptly named band.
Style Council – Money go round – Next…
Police – Every breath you take – Ah the b&w video we’ve seen so many times. There definitely does sound like a string backing on the track but the album states ‘all noises by the Police’ so maybe Sting plays violin as well as double bass?
Bob Marley – Buffalo Soldier – Hastens me to the stop button.
JS is on top form with his ‘informative’ chart rundowns with only F R David getting his song title mentioned.
Thanks whoever uploaded this; another JK-featuring one skipped altogether by BBC4 so I guess I don't have any splicing together to do this time to get the best quality version. (Actually by the look of it there's only two more JK ones in 1983 that BBC4 will actually be showing even in cut form, so I'll get a bit of a rest for a while.)
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime I did BBC4HD versions with JK put back in for the following older ones in case they're of use to anyone:
17/6/82 https://www.4shared.com/video/WrlYd2eGei/TOTP_1982-06-17__full_.html
9/9/82 https://www.4shared.com/video/JdN8ThU6ei/TOTP_1982-09-09__full_.html
11/11/82 https://www.4shared.com/video/tothmEiJca/TOTP_1982-11-11__full_.html
That's terrific ~ thank you :-)
DeleteThanks :) And thank you for all your hard work on the blog itself, more importantly.
DeleteWhile I'm at it, I just added another edit job, 28/4/83 from BBC4HD with the final link re-inserted:
https://www.4shared.com/video/Pq1GLwEOca/TOTP_1983-04-28__full_.html
I guess it's only a few seconds longer as a result, but it's a point of principle for me to try and fix these things. Especially when the censoring is as pointless as it was here (no yewtreed presenter appears; no yewtree presenter is even mentioned by name for heaven's sake!)
Thanks drykid, Excellent job on the edit! What software do you use to join the files together? I've done a few edits , the last one being 9/3/79, fitting Gene Chandler's Get Down back into the show. I use Freemake Converter and wondered what you use.
DeleteThanks! I use Magix Movie Edit Pro, although it's not free and has probably been superseded by other products now anyway. The main reason I use MEP is that it has a multicam mode so I can treat the BBC4 and VHS versions as if they were separate "camera angles" of the same event and then play them back in sync (obviously they need to be lined up perfectly with each other on the timeline first for this to work.) Once they're synced up, actually doing the edit is just a matter of clicking where you want the angle to switch from BBC4 to VHS and then back again, and exporting. Usually I find that it takes some trial and error to find the edit points that give the smoothest transition, but because the program keeps everything in sync moving the transition point backwards or forwards a second or two to again is easy enough. To have to do this in a non-multicam editor like say, Windows Movie Maker, would be a total nightmare.
Deleteyet another cut-and-paste job curtesy of youtube, so nothing to say on our superannuated hosts. other than to wonder if tony has ever made comment on his erstwhile long-term colleague in the wake of yewtree?
ReplyDeletewham: i think this is the first appearance of american deon estus on bass, who was to become a mainstay of george's for a while. but who is that guy on the right? is he part of the act, or just someone who's blundered into the performance area? only right at the end is his purpose made evident, as he's there to hold andrew's axe once he joins in with the choreography! but couldn't ridgers have just slung it behind him?
booker newberry iii: another silly american forename a la forrest, and another example of the silly american custom of handing the same forename down to each generation - imagine what a nightmare it must have been when grandad came around to stay! i somehow had it in my head that this guy came along about three years later as part of the first wave of house exponents, but maybe i'm getting him confused with someone else? anyway sartorially he's actually about three years behind with his three piece suit and exposed open-necked shirt collar. and where's his 'tache gone? musically it's a pleasant enough but fairly forgettable post-disco groove
flash & the pan: i couldn't remember how this actually went, only that i recalled quite liking the backing track whereas something else about it really bugged me. and i was reminded that that something else was the complete lack of tune, with some guy just pretty much sounding like he's shouting through a megaphone!
style council: i only watched this as i couldn't remember a single thing about it. and unlike most here i actually quite liked it! well, the faux-funky backing track anyway. given that the slap bass is much more prominent than any keyboards on it, you would have thought the modfather would have borrowed deon estus from wham as well as his future "trouble"?
I seem to remember that after Yewtree erupted Tone was quick out of the blocks to say he had never liked the Jangly One. Now that may well be true, but I'm sure there was also an element of image protection going on there...
DeleteWilby, I can see why you got mixed up but, as Roy Walker would say, it's good but it's not right! You confused our mate Booker III with Darryl Pandy, vocalist on "Love Can't Turn Around" by Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk in 1986, one of the very few house-style tracks I can listen to and enjoy.
Deleteah yes, i realise now i was mixing up two somewhat corpulent black american guys who churned out what for me was very average and undistinguished 80's dance music - thanks for the memory jog arthur!
DeleteI forgot to say in a previous show’s post, I noticed the chart rundown didn’t have a mugshot for Booker Newberry III, and let’s just say a lot of people were unpleasantly surprised to find his looks didn’t match his voice.
ReplyDeleteI remember The Tubes’ song as it had a much played video (MTV helped it make number 10 in the US) with Fee Waybill playing a fairground caller. I also remember the last (only?) time The Tubes were on TOTP, performing “Prime Time”, the female singer looked oven glove hot but the cameras virtually ignored her and focussed on Fee Waybill in a Fred Flintstone-style top!
Bryan Adams’ single also peaked at 10 in the States and was a top 51 hit over here.
Reading up about Yazoo, I didn’t realise that (a) things had got so bad they recorded the parts for their second album at separate times and (b) the album includes a track with a rare Vince Clarke solo vocal (“Happy People”) as Alison Moyet was in no mood to sing a happy song with their relationship at that stage. The album cover with two dalmatians fighting in front of a snow speckled backdrop, chosen by ‘Alf’, spoke volumes.
This was imperial Elton era for me, as I loved and bought this single, “I’m Still Standing” and “Passengers”. I remember re-working the latter song on the terraces at his beloved Watford, singing “You’re just a passenger in Division One / Gonna go down, gonna go down” at them!
arthur i didn't realise that the bryan adams single was a top 51 hit in the this country - what was its actual highest chart position?
DeleteI should point out that when I say a record was a top X smash in the UK, X is the highest number it reached in our chart. My sense of humour!
DeleteBryan Adams' single did best in the USA, reaching number 10. It also made number 20 in Canada, 51 in the UK and 98 in Australia (figures courtesy of Wikipedia).
Apparently a lot of Yazoo's difficulties stemmed from finding success too quickly, before they really got to know each other, and Vince's tendency to let Alf undertake most of the promotional work on her own. Happily they seem to be on good terms these days, following that reunion tour a few years back.
Deletei realised that arthur - that was just my sense of humour in response!
DeleteSorry, Wilby! Going through an awkward time and having a bit of trouble seeing the wood for the trees right now.
DeleteI decided to see how many hits New Edition had (not many, thankfully) and was reminded, as I thought, that the name had been used for a BBC dance troupe - given joint billing in Mike Batt's big hit of 1975, "Summertime City"!
That New Edition that accompanied Mike were the dancers/singers that appeared on the 70s Saturday night variety show 'Seaside Special'.
Delete...and here he is with Pans People on a rare 1975 preserved edition introduced by you know who.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtp6BLqeZkQ
"C'mon, c'mon, c'mon kickoff your shoes" indeed... rather this than 'Candy Girl', and I love the intro.
don't worry arthur - a lot of people fail to get my sense of humour at all, never mind sometimes! as one of the original crew i hope your problems resolve themselves soon enough so you can get back on the case without distraction - not that you're doing a bad job at the moment anyway!
Deleteby the way, you've opened up a thread (even if probably covered already) for more than one act of the same name to have a hit single - i'll keep the ball rolling with space (70's french disco and 90's scouse britpop)...
Thanks, Wilby. I think we had a thread for acts with hits of the same name (e.g. Doop) and we may have had a 'same name' thread, but I'll keep the latter rolling, albeit tenuously, with Nirvana - there was a British band of that name who made number 34 in 1968 with "Rainbow Chaser".
DeleteAfter a run of fairly lukewarm editions, we were due for a decent show, and this just about makes it to that level.
ReplyDeleteWham kick us off with a track that George was strong-armed into writing by the record label. It's a by-numbers teenage-angst dancer that owed more than just a little of its success to the exhuberant performances put on by the boys and girls. As a sidenote- my opinion of Andrew Ridgely can be accurately shown by the fact that I read Wilby's comment about him handing his 'axe' to someone and immediately wondered what the hell Ridgers was doing with a tree-chopping implement. Quite clearly, I didn't put him in the same vicinity of a guitar!!
Elton John in his straw boater phase. This is mid-range Elton. Pleasant enough, but you wouldn't turn the radio up if it came on, would you? No, don't lie, you wouldn't.
JoBoxers. Better than their debut song, a nice little piano motif and middle eight. But they're all just a little bland aren't they?
JK in LA, USA. The Tubes have a little place in my heart, but not thanks to this clunky clunker. I have lost it now, but I used to have a copy of White Punks, which was just sheer genius AND was couple by a further two belters on the B Side (remember B sides?) Dont Touch Me There was a sparkling 50s pastiche with a great tune and great double entendre lyrics. What Do You Want From Life was a third great tune, this time riffing on the dubious pleasures of American game shows. I played all three songs to death for probably three or four years. A wonderful single. A wonderful band.
Booker Newbury. We can start to see how disco is evolving now, and we can see how it ends up later on in the decade. This used to be a favourite, but it hasn't aged well.
Yazoo. This is just about the only song associated with Vince Clarke that I can bear to listen to. Really quite poignant lyrics over a doleful heart-break melody.
Flash & The Pans. Another that hasn't lasted well. I kind of mentally group this with Spanish Stroll and Driver's Seat. I don't know why.
The really rather beautiful DC Lee does that rare thing of appearing twice on the same show in different bands. She looks better in this one, but the song itself is a rare mis-fire from Weller.
FF forward through Every Step, cos, well just cos.
So to the scores. As I said this is a step up from recent shows - but only just. George & Co get the star of the show award. 6
DJs. Awful. He Who Cant Be Shown's chart rundown was just awful as indeed were all his links. And he seems to have dragged Blackburn down to his level - 2
shakey your response to my ridgers "axe" reference cracked me up! the myth was that when wham performed "live" he actually believed whatever he played on his "axe" was in the mix, but that sound technicians made sure it was inaudible or even unplugged! by the way, was the guy doing "axe handling duties" their old chum david austin?
Deleteshakey the spoken word delivery of "waiting for a train" is what probably reminds you of "spanish stroll". as for "driver's seat", perhaps it's the fact that both acts concerned had similar (badly) punning names (sniff 'n' the tears in this case)?
Deletewhat it reminds me of is another one-off hit a decade or so later (by their fellow antipodeans OMC) called "how bizarre":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2cMG33mWVY
Goodness knows why I kept my UK Gold recording from the 90s - I like a fair few of the songs but the presentation all feels a bit rushed and there is WAY too much Zoo in evidence.
ReplyDeleteOh, and it's a good job that you weren't relying on me for this one since the UK Gold scissors were well and truly out. The link to Joboxers is missing and so is the JK section.
Wham! - It was worth keeping my VHS copy for this at least, another very slick performance to what I think is a good song, even if George never agreed...
Elton John - One of his lesser heard big 80s hits, I guess. I rather like it, and the video is quite different to his normal stuff too.
Joboxers - A better performance this time I reckon, even they were a bit squashed on that stage.
JK segment - At least I didn't miss anything here. Neither the Tubes or Bryan Adams songs are much cop and as for Irene Cara, sadly it's another of those housewife classics. Speaking of which...
Booker Newberry III - This was on one of our radio stations, I think Smooth (though it could easily have been Heart) ALL THE TIME for a while and it did my head in. It's extremely average fare, though no doubt Tone thought it was the best track on the show by miles.
Yazoo - I've had this in my head all week after it was on the other edition. A fab song.
Flash & The Pan - No love for this round here so far then? Shame, as I think it's brilliant. I love the 'train sounds' backing the song and it's lyrically very interesting. After it was a hit they re-released their 1978 flop 'And The Band Played On' which did even worse second time around (and I like that too!)
The Style Council - Awful non-tune.
There is one other 83 show still to come that I have kept from UK Gold, we'll see if that one's any better..well...relatively soon at the rate we're going!
I'm not sure what you mean by "way too much Zoo" on this show. Indeed I beg to differ, in that I thought they were so good this week, and the best of them since 1981 when they first appeared on TOTP. The three main girls in Zoo were quite hot I thought. In fact I thought that Flash And The Pan danced to by Zoo was the highlight of the show, not to mention DC Lee appearing twice, i.e., at No.2 with Wham, followed by No.11 with Style Council.
DeleteIt's overkill Dory, I don't think every single performer needs to be cut away from so that we get to see some people gyrating in front of stage. I prefer it when they get to do a whole routine to a song by someone who can't appear.
DeleteYes, I gather you are on the right track, as their routine for Flash & The Pan was much more memorable because the total focus was on Zoo for that one.
DeleteThe up-to-the-minute hosting duo of Jim'll and Tone guide us through this one, though the former seems almost comically disinterested in the featured acts, and also does his normal half-hearted chart rundown. Tone acquitted himself pretty well, his one uncomfortable moment coming when neither he nor Jim'll seem to know who should be introducing the number 1.
ReplyDeleteAnother dynamic Wham performance to get us going, with Dee C and Shirlie looking like visions in white. Andrew is sidelined with his guitar for most of the performance, only really getting camera time right at the end when he puts it to one side and joins in the dancing. A pleasingly nostalgic video from George's mate Mr Dwight next, though he would have been a bit too young to be eligible for National Service himself. Reunited at last with Bernie Taupin, this song is a real return to form for Elton and in my view his best 80s single.
More dodgy dancing from the JoBoxers singer leads us to Vegas and the latest JK segment, though an oddly rushed one this time. This might be because JK wanted to spend as little time in the City of Tack as possible, or it could also be to do with his Entertainment USA show covering the same ground. In any case, this was chiefly interesting for giving us our first ever TOTP glimpse of Bryan Adams, who sounds very croaky on this live recording. I’d always vaguely assumed that he didn’t break through until the Reckless album a year or so later, so I was surprised to see that he was already breaking the US Top 10 in ’83. The Tubes song sounded like pretty forgettable pop-rock to me, but the Irene Cara track has to be one of the archetypal 80s singles, and we will be seeing more of it imminently.
So, is it Newbury or Newberry? The latter, if Wikipedia is any guide, but either way I have never heard of Booker or his song before, despite it reaching the Top 10. He has a big voice to match his physical girth, but this is pretty generic 80s soul fare – as has been noted, his dress sense is still firmly stuck in the disco era. The most notable feature of this performance for me was the Zoo girl down the front dressed in white, who reminded me a bit of Patti Leg. Great to see Yazoo back for one final performance – I wonder if this was the last time they appeared on TV before they split.
Zoo then get their moment in the sun courtesy of Flash and the Pan, with “Patti” well to the fore once again, as she is subsequently with The Style Council. While the routine features some nice robotics, there were too many dancers doing their thing for it to properly cohere, though in fairness I don’t think the song did so either! It’s no surprise to read that the group had a single out back in 1978, as this definitely had a New Wavey feel to it. Having listened to more of Money-Go-Round, I like it better than I did from the brief snatch on the last show. The funky backing is pretty good, as are Dee C’s vocals – she certainly earned her money’s worth on this show, with a costume change thrown in too!
The first sighting of this famous Police video as they reach the top, directed by Godley & Creme complete with sinister window cleaner. Zoo then give us some slinky accompaniment to Bob Marley, with “Patti” highly prominent yet again…
Shame there wasn't any of 'a bit of that sort of rock' for Tony to introduce through a gritted teeth smile!
Deletequite clearly by this time mr as it appens was about as interested in top of the pops as noel edmunds was (i.e. not at all), and as such like tidybeard his appearances on the telly should have been confined to the general/mainstream/weekend light entertainment schedule that they both clearly preferred. sadly though the fact that he was an egomaniac who didn't know when to quit (and apparently couldn't be made to do so by anyone else) means we're all suffering the consequences now!
DeleteJohn G, you're spot on about George Michael and Elton John, here appearing completely separate for their own bands, with Elton coming on straight after Wham, and ironically 8 years later in 1991 they would be at No.1 together with Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me, where Elton also came on after George Michael, but within the same song!!
DeleteIn terms of the girls on Wham in full white, this was dejavous, as each time wham came into the TOTP studio up to now, their girls were dressed in heavenly white. No strange coincidence, but this could have been George's preference for them to wear white each time. I also noticed that the girl in the video for Bad Boys who sings "boys like you are bad through and through", was neither Shirlie Holliman nor DC Lee!
The Zoo girl on the front of Booker Newbury III, was Julie, but I would never put her as a lookalike to Patti of Legs & Co. Good Lord!
Wham begin with Bad Boys, or Bad Boy and a half because Andrew gets very little to do for most of the performance, George showing early signs of solo career direction. "Cigarettes and love bites!"? Yeah, that's really, er, impressive, bad boy.
ReplyDeleteElton John gets on the 1950s nostalgia bandwagon with his Blues video, if not the song itself. Nice, romantic but regretful tune, but the line in the chorus "Rolling like thunder under the covers" sounds like Elton had a bad takeaway curry on the way home before bedtime.
Jo Bugners - sorry, JoBoxers and their swansong (?), so early in their career too. The piano player looks a bit shy.
Jonathan King with his usual pick of the yawnfests, only Irene standing out. I bet Bryan was pleased they picked that clip!
Who's this big boy? It's Booker, but not the famous Booker in soul, it's another one, with the fair dance track Love Town. He looks a bit Barry White, but doesn't sing like him, and apparently couldn't wait to finish as the second the applause starts he pisses off.
Yazoo, sad songs say so much - oh, that was Elton again. More or less a rerun of their last appearance. Vince could at least have worn a piano tie.
Flash and the Pan, one hit wonders, I think they were Australian, but what a hit, a great bit of enigmatic synth pop with two catchy organ hooks. It does sound like the singer runs out of words when he starts counting though (which we didn't hear in this). Zoo, well, the robotics were amusing, but a real mess otherwise.
The Style Council, who better to tell off the British political establishment than a narked Paul Weller backed by various funk breaks? Does he want Jeremy Corbyn's job?
Ello ello ello, let's be avin' yew, the Police make it to the top spot with their stalker's anthem. Then Jim'll, who seems to have been off in his own little world throughout the episode, and Tone, who has been taking up the slack with a fixed grin, groove to Bob Marley.
ADDITIONAL NOTE. You have to feel a bit sorry for Tony Blackburn. Having been surplus to requirements for a few years, 1983 saw him pop up a couple of times. Unfortunately he gets Yewtree'd here because of Saville and his next (and final) appearance is in the company of DLT. Damned unfortunate that. 83 still has a further 11 editions that are Yewtree'd/Smithed, whilst 84 also has a total of 11 editions that we won't get to see.
ReplyDeleteBy my count, we will lose 14 shows in '84. It could have been more, but thankfully a couple of Smitty's shows that year were co-hosted with Jim'll.
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ReplyDeleteFor some reason this show is playing mute to me, I am getting no sound. Anyone experiencing the same problem?
ReplyDeleteI cannot even open the file, as my media player is Quicktime which cannot open avi. files, even if they are uploaded to WeTransfer.
DeleteCan anyone convert this avi. file to another format and load back on to WeTransfer or any other similar outlet, so that I can watch the show, hence no comments from me so far on the blog for this one.
Hello, anybody there? If any of you were able to watch this link, is there any chance of posting it somehow on Utube or Vimeo, as I cannot open an avi. file, even through WeTransfer.
DeleteHere you go Dory, sorry I usually keep all my files as avi
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At last, thank you. Are you Meer?
DeleteLate to the party on this one, but what the heck.
ReplyDeleteWham - making their first check-in to the TOTP studio for this song Bad Boys at No.2 already, and you'd think that after this dynamic performance they would have a good chance of getting their first No.1, but no, The Police were on hand to shut them out of the No.1 spot for four weeks in total, while Irene Cara was simultaneously at No.1 for 6 weeks in the USA with Flashdance, and only just entering the British chart this week at No.30.
The Style Council - I don't remember this at all at the time, but when I bought the Style Council Greatest Hits some years later, and I couldn't stop listening to it, mainly due to the superb background riff, and hearing the words "silly cow" on the lyrics just before the instrumental break. Suffice to say that the BBC had no issues with such language in 1983 that it did not have to be edited on this TOTP studio performance for two other words in its place.
DC Lee - hardly a silly cow, but the opposite, a cutie in the eyes of Paul Weller, and was to be his wife for the next 15 years till 1998 as someone mentioned in a recent blog.
The fact that she appeared twice on the show, firstly with Wham and secondly with Style Council was indeed rare on TOTP as Shakey mentions above, but also beautiful as Shakey also mentions above. So the scores for Shakey this week are a 9 (cos I don't give 10's unless one of the Zoo members agrees to go out with me).
Zoo - very good on Booker Newberry III (score 8), rather excellent on Flash & The Pan (score 10), then 7 on Style Council (cos they only appeared briefly at the middle and end), and then 8 on the playout which I thought was due to poor disco lighting which obscured the Zoo girls unfairly with too much flash getting in the way, when it should have been flesh!
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ReplyDeleteCan anyone upload this episode
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DeleteWham - spirited performance. I have to admit they were good. If Andrew Ridley was such a spare wheel, how come most of the Michael solo stuff is vastly inferior (awaits backlash...)
ReplyDeleteElton John - never seen the video before
Jonathan King - Bryan Adams definitely live - needs the Vocalzone.
Flash and the pan - definitely know this. Did it appear on an early Now?
Style Council - starts well, but a bit monotone. Imagine it sounded good in the clubs.
it was obvious george michael was running out of ideas even before the end of wham, so no surprise his solo stuff was weaker. as i said after he died, he was a good singer but somewhat limited as a songwriter...
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