Madchester united
23/11/89 (Jakki Brambles & Jenny Powell)
Big Fun – “Can’t Shake The Feeling” (27)
Getting us underway with what became their second of two top ten hits when it peaked at number 8.
Bobby Brown – “Roni” (29) (video)
Went up eight more places.
Fine Young Cannibals – “I’m Not The Man I Used To Be” (21)
In the studio and the song went up one more place.
Jeff Wayne – “Eve Of The War” (remix) (24) (video)
The original version had made number 36 back in 1978, this new dance remix fared rather better, peaking at number 3.
The Stone Roses – “Fools Gold” (13)
In the studio performing what became their first of four top ten hits when it peaked at number 8.
Happy Mondays (with Kirsty MacColl) – “Hallelujah” (30)
A second helping of Madchester in the studio tonight and Bez and the boys (and Kirsty) peaked at number 19.
Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville – “Don’t Know Much” (3) (rpt from 09/11/89)
A second showing for the duo and the song went up one more place.
New Kids On The Block – “You Got It (The Right Stuff)” (1) (video)
First of three weeks at number one.
Prince & Sheena Easton – “The Arms Of Orion” (31) (video/credits)
Peaked at number 27.
30th November is next.
Jenny's brief, largely undistinguished flirtation with TOTP fizzles out here, in a chalk-and-cheese partnership with Jakki (whom she seemingly had never met before) which sees the pair of them indulge in some notably strained banter. Jenny does OK, and is dressed to kill, but Jakki's fierce professionalism leaves her looking like a lightweight in comparison.
ReplyDeleteThe 90s arrive a few weeks early on this edition, as the Roses and the Mondays both show up to put Madchester centre stage, but we start with another offering from the SAW conveyor belt as Big Fun somehow manage a second Top 10 hit. The song is predictably vapid, but the boys do put a lot of energy into their routine, so much so that I feared they would put their backs out at one point; their chart fortunes would start to decline pretty rapidly after this one. A concert video next for the odious Bobby Brown and his overly conspicuous torso, which sends the girls in the crowd wild but ends up overshadowing a decidedly average song.
Nobody could have predicted at the time, given how high they were riding, that FYC would manage just one further Top 10 hit after this. I think this song is unfairly overshadowed by She Drives Me Crazy and Good Thing, its chart performance doubtless suffering from being the fourth single released from The Raw & the Cooked album. It is better than those other songs, however, leant a real poignancy by Roland's tremulous vocals - don't know why they brought those street dancers along for this performance though, as their antics seem decidedly out of place. My dad had the original War of the Worlds album, and it terrified me as a small kid, in part because of the very striking cover artwork, which clearly inspired the quite impressive animation featured in the video here. As remixes go this isn't too bad, at least initially, but gets a bit too plinky plonky as it goes on - at least we still get to hear Richard Burton's sonorous tones.
On to the Madchester bands, then, and first up it's Fools Gold, or should that be The Emperor's New Clothes? I won't deny there is some impressive funky guitar on this, but it never really gets out of first gear and Ian Brown's inaudible, tuneless vocals quickly begin to grate; he barely bothers to mime in some parts of this performance, too, though it must be admitted that the band do have a certain cool poise and charisma. "Happy Monday" (thanks Jenny), are rather more carefree, though I am glad to see Bez was thoughtfully provided with some maracas to shake to keep him occupied. I think I marginally prefer this to the Roses track, as it is a bit more lively, though still not something I would actively choose to listen to. Nice to see Kirsty, but her presence does seem rather superfluous - presumably it was hoped her appearance on the record would give the boys a leg up. The next two songs have been on before, and we close with another Prince/Sheena duet, but one which isn't a patch on U Got the Look, veering into drippy ballad territory. It also appears they couldn't be bothered to make a new video for it, instead putting together an unsatisfactory patchwork of promos past.
Just spotted a typo - I meant to say FYC would manage only one further Top 20 hit after this.
DeleteI must say I did like Jenny Powell's costume, cheekily enhancing her nice legs, with subtle shorts if any one looked closely enough, but yes, I liked it to. That was just Jenny, in a class of her own, and pity she didn't do any more TOTP shows after this.
DeleteI would say that the Madchester era just starting here with The Stone Roses and The Happy Mondays on the same TOTP show, was somewhat surprising to see Kirsty McColl appearing with The Happy Mondays on stage, as it is not exactly her type of music, but Madchester came to a heady peak when The KLF came along the following year and took it to a whole new level. Can't wait for their arrival shortly on these TOTP reruns!
The KLF were not part of the Madchester scene in any way. Their music was influenced more by rave whereas the Madchester bands generally combined indie and dance influences.
DeleteLast watched this on DVD-R way back in 2009, some people have told that Linda Ronstadt was cut from the UK Gold showing 25 years ago, i'd think it had something to do with timing issues, highlights follow:
ReplyDeleteBig Fun - Aldi NKOTB strike again, this time a original song written by Stock/Aitken/Waterman, i'd reckon finding this was a bit cheesy.
Bobby Brown - His single tracks from the 'Don't Be Cruel' album have had his songs mixed up for the British market, despite 'Roni' was a top five in the U.S. in March '89.
FYC - Their last hit of the '80s and their last appearance in the studio, sounds great song, shame 'Don't Look Back' wasn't featured in a TOTP episode in August '89, well due to too many Italo/SAW acts in the studio around that time and music videos.
Jeff Wayne - Superb remix of the 1978 classic, with martians and pictures of Victorian people and in Victorian London with drawn animation.
The Stone Roses / Happy Mondays - The Madchester double bill make it for their first (and only) appearances in the studio with Kirsty MacColl being on one of them with the Leonard Cohen song 'Hallelujah' (as its same name, different tune)
Ronstadt / Neville - Same repeat performance as before, UK Gold cut this out to make way for adverts when it was shown 25 years ago, originally done by Barry Mann in 1980.
NKOTB - First of three weeks, as the creation of boy bands were growing around this point, Maurice Starr managed these at the end of 1987 and went on to become big pop stars over four months later with 'Please Don't Go Girl' (failed to chart over here, sadly)
Prince / Sheena Easton - Play-out track, sadly his production team couldn't be bothered to make a video, instead snippets of his previous music videos are shown as its his third single to be taken from the Batman soundtrack, already the film was already released on VHS around this point.
Songs that didn't make it were Morrissey's 'Ouija Board, Ouija Board', which was already a new entry at number 18, a real shame he wasn't confirmed to this point.
Morrissey's single was controversial because it dealt with the occult, which Ouija boards definitely are not someone moving the planchette unconsciously, honest. I don't think it even got radio airplay, or not much. See also: Derren Brown's Seance, which Christians tried to get banned despite him revealing seances are a total sham.
DeleteRoland Gift returned to the studio and performed FYC’s final hit, The Flame, in 1996.
DeleteI know I've said Jakki wasn't my cup of tea back then, but she made me laugh out loud more than once on this episode, so maybe I should reconsider at this late stage.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this Big Fun song would be better if they had someone who could actually sing performing it? His Jimmy Somerville falsetto only reminds you that technique should be left to the professionals. Plus their frantic dance moves are exactly the same as they did last time.
Bobby Brown in concert, and he treats us to a rendition of Male Stripper by Man 2 Man meets Man Parrish. Or at least that's what he seems to be doing, have no memory of this at all (was the title short for macaroni?), but Jakki made me laugh at the end.
FYC with an odd, almost skiffle beat under Roland's regretful, reflective vocals and lyrics. Not that bad, actually, it does sound like the last gasp of an 80s band, however. The dancers smacked of desperation.
Ben Liebrand messes about with another track which nobody wanted him to do, and this time it's Jeff Wayne's meal ticket (how many variations on this has he staged now? About ten? More?!). For some reason Richard Burton's vocals are slowed down, or treated weirdly anyway, which sounds vaguely comical. The bit with the cartoon "whoosh" is left off this clip, thank goodness for small mercies.
Then sounding like a breath of fresh air after that nonsense, The Stone Roses, you can hear why this stood out, though Jakki saying the album would be out next Spring is surprising - did things really move that slowly back then, or was it just this band in particular (!)? Anyhoo, funky guitar, shuffling drums, Ian's vocals way down in the mix, must admit it didn't do much for me then, and I've heard it too often now, but in context? Yeah, I can see why people were excited.
The Happy Mondays I did like, however, though it was their previous album Bummed (the one with the surprising and slightly queasy nude in the inner sleeve) that I truly loved. Shaun's eccentric way with a lyric was like no one else's. This isn't my favourite Mondays single, but I did get a kick out of seeing them on TOTP back then. Double denim, Kirsty?
Can someone confirm to me that this Aaron and Linda performance was longer than the last time it was on? Maybe it just felt like it, but I'm not sure.
The New Blockheads make it to the top, I was too old for the latest boy band's take on pop to get me interested even in 1989. Their dance moves here are very strange.
Prince and Sheena, it's a pity the bargain basement video was all they had to show, because this is quite lovely, a really nice duet that is delicate but powerful at the same time. Sheena would keep plugging away at the comebacks, but was never as successful as Prince would be in the 90s.
The Prince/Sheena Easton duet on the playout this week was just brilliant, and agree with your summary of it. I always thought that Sheena's very best duet was in 1983 with Kenny Rogers doing We Got Tonight, but this Arms Of Orion track on the Batdance album I don't recall at all, but having seen it on the playout this week, boy is it impressive.
DeleteSheena brings a certain sexiness in her voice as though she is in the arms of Prince, never mind Orion. Best song on the show this week for me, even though there is no dedicated video for it, and only using snippets of previous Prince videos. I wish there were more songs like this, and kudos to Prince & Sheena for rolling out such lovely tune to end the show with!
I guess we're both just big softies when it comes to this track! But I can't remember where it is in the Batman movie. Haven't seen it in years, I admit. Anyone recall?
DeleteI'm saving enough Nectar points to purchase this Batman movie with the Prince soundtrack on Sky Store, as I've not seen the movie at all in 31 years, but these superb Prince tunes and videos on the soundtrack are just generating a new appetite for the movie all these years later.
DeleteArms of Orion doesn’t actually feature in the film, from what I recall.
DeleteAnd the Stone Roses were even slower than Jacqui suggested - their next album didn’t come out for another five years.
That's why I don't remember it in the film, then!
DeleteThere was a joke that when The Stone Roses (or their record company) released the Best of compilation, they might as well have rereleased the first album, considering the dodgy quality of the second.
I don't recall the original War Of The Worlds album in 1978, but years later when flicking through album covers in HMV and Our Price, I couldn't help but noticing the impressive vinyl double album that it was, and accompanying artistry of the martians on the album, and it was a bit like the impressive ELO Out Of The Blue double album artistry.
ReplyDeleteI guess in 1978, Jeff Wayne's album was competing with a lot of other soundtracks and albums that year, like the 50s revival with the Grease soundtrack, Showaddywaddy and Darts, as well as the Boney M and Abba music juggernauts that year, so it was nice to see that this new 1989 remix by Ben Liebrand made the Top 3 along with its impressive animation video on show on this week's TOTP as a new entry at No.24.
I'm planning to do a War Of The Worlds viewing and listening weekend for myself of all the various movies, tv stories, singles and album tracks, pop videos, etc, i.e., all things War Of The Worlds, as there was a new movie as late as 2005, and a TV series in 2019. Bring on the popcorn!
The War of the Worlds album was very successful on first release, and Forever Autumn was a Top 10 hit, but for whatever reason the original version of The Eve of the War didn't do so well as a single. Jeff Wayne recorded a new version of the album in 2012, with a new group of performers, but I don't think it did particularly great business.
DeleteJeff Wayne turned 77 a few days ago, and I wasn't aware that apart from the original War Of The Worlds soundtrack, he also composed various ITV theme tunes, such as The Big Match (introduced by Brian Moore), World of Sport (introduced by Dickie Davies), and Good Morning Britain (TV-am) at launch in 1983.
DeleteI think Jeff came from advertising, though I couldn't tell you which ads he did off the top of my head.
DeleteI think it was this ad for Fry's Turkish Delight. Certainly sounds like War Of The Worlds style of music:
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Yes, you're right. The one I was thinking of was the Esso tiger ad music, however:
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Which once you know it's his, sounds unmistakable!
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DeleteCertainly brings back memories of that Esso ad. Classic Jeff Wayne!
DeleteJeff of course, produced David Essex's debut hit 'Rock On'.
DeleteHe also produced David's two chart toppers, Gonna Make You a Star and Hold Me Close. In the 90s, he tried to follow up The War of the Worlds with his musical take on Spartacus, featuring Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta Jones among others, but that got panned.
DeleteDreadful offering 'Sparticus'...I recall going to get a copy of that autographed by Jeff and Catheine in the HMV Shop Oxford Street when it was released. I ended up selling it on eBay.
DeleteI do have a copy of it lying around, as my dad passed it on to me as he thought it was rubbish - thanks Dad! I have never plucked up the courage to listen to it...
DeleteWe got sent a copy of the 'Spartacus' album at our University Radio station (and the single) and nobody showed any interest in it despite the fact that anyone could've walked off with it!
DeleteAh, now. To these eyes the most attractive pairing of co-hosts in an edition thus far.
ReplyDeleteSo long so soon, Jenny. Maybe the producers got fed up with her erratic presenting, e.g. “I think they’re called Gun” and “Happy Monday” and her excitable slightly high pitched voice? If so, shame. I liked her. Jakki on top form again.
A fine catchy chorus to start with but Big Fun, partly dressed like two Friesian cows and a zebra, were a bit embarrassing to watch.
Bobby Brown – chest yuk, haircut horrible, video predictable, song slimy soul.
FYC’s sombre reflective number completely ruined by superfluous dancers bopping around at twice the speed of the song. What were they thinking?
Ben Liebrand gives us a horrible remix of a tune from something which later became associated with Ronnie Corbett sized heartthrob Tom Cruise.
Watch poor Jakki grimace at the end of her intro to Stone Roses due to the yelling around her. Good grrove, but I always thought Ian Brown was an arse.
Next up, Jenny introduces Hippy Monday with “Aloe Vera” then bursts into cringing laughter. Not the band’s best, but here we get the over-40s’ first sighting of Bez. Priceless. The very definition of culture shock.
NO NO NO! Aaron and Linda aren’t live in the studio, Jakki. We’re not falling for that one!
Oh God. KNOB at number one. FF.
We finish with a second and less successful duet, with not enough Sheena in the “Will this do” video.
Big Fun - now familiar SAW fodder
ReplyDeleteBobby Brown - dull...
FYC - full version of last week’s breaker. Didn’t go anywhere...
Ben Liebrand - Not a bad remix, but yet another example of the original being superior.
Stone Roses - I was a massive fan of early Stone Roses, but this was the first track that didn’t grab me. As time goes by it has grown on me, and it is certainly the best thing so far tonight.
Happy Mondays - Madchester part 2. Not their strongest single, but I remember the excitement of the double bill. Didn’t remember Kirsty being involved until the ‘Story Of’ programme earlier this tear.
Overall, I dull show this week...
Hi Anonymous! Here's this week's request for original archive shows you probably haven't got! This week they're all from 1976 and are 22/04, 27/05, 26/08 and 23/12. Cheers!
ReplyDeletehere's a couple of them :
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Thanks for these, mate. See you next week!
DeleteSad to hear the Maestro himself, Ennio Morricone died, a genius at soundtracks but his way with a catchy tune meant he had a couple of big hits here. First when Hugo Montenegro ripped him off - sorry, covered his The Good The Bad and The Ugly in the 60s, then in the 80s when Chi Mai made No.2 in the charts. But his contribution to music overall is immeasurable.
ReplyDeleteApparently he lived his whole life in Italy, and was never tempted to make the move to Hollywood. No doubt a good Italian diet to live to the age of 91.
DeleteMy earliest memory of his contribution to the British charts to get to No.2 in 1981 with Chi Man, when Legs & Co did an awkward performance of this in dull Victorian costumes not in their sexy style at all, but TOTP had no alternative cos there was no video, and the great composer didn't come to the TOTP studio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj1M8RBKFN4
He did make a number of Hollywood movies like The Exorcist II (soundtrack better than the film!), The Thing, The Mission, The Untouchables, The Hateful Eight, mostly because there were filmmakers there who loved his Italian work and wanted him to add some magic to theirs. Which he did!
DeleteAlthough The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is his most famous spaghetti western score, my favourite is For a Few Dollars More. I love all those whistling sounds in it, somehow laid back but strangely haunting at the same time. The music played by the pocketwatch is also highly memorable.
Deleteone of my all-time music heroes, with for me his best soundtrack being "a fistful of dynamite". i strongly recommend getting hold of the expanded version that was released a few years back - which revealed that morricone wrote and recorded far more than was actually used in the film!
DeleteYes, a bona fide musical genius, and A Fistful of Dynamite's score is better than the film, though Rod Steiger's "What about me?" is quite a last line.
DeleteMy favourite of his Western scores is probably Once Upon a Time in the West. Leone would play it on the set full blast to get the cast and crew in the mood.
I first heard the moving 'Once upon the West' on am instrumental compilation album called 'Reflections' that sold bucketloads in the early 80s. Wonderful piece of music which made me watch the film in which there is one scene where the heroine gets off a train and the camera pans up and this music fits sooo well.. Then I heard a subtely different working on the radio which I had to track down and was this different recording.
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Unfortunately on 45cat here, someone has not loaded the version which appears on the single, and I can't find it on YT. But trust me, it is a different recording.
Anyone see the Spandau Ballet "documentary" on BBC2 last night? Absolutely hilarious! Martin Kemp as a Dalek was inspired. And the Sia pisstake, I wonder if they'll get complaints? It was spot on, though! I wonder if Tony Hadley has a sense of humour? I won't spoil the jokes, but if you want a good laugh, it's on iPlayer.
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DeleteNot my day - I made a dreadful spelling mistake, and failed to cut and paste my previous answer properly before deleting the last attempt and lost it. Deep sigh, here we go again...
ReplyDeleteTony Hadley slagged the Kemps off not just for the mockumentary (saying he'd rather watch "Broadchurch" and wasn't asked to take part) but also for Gary Kemp, who (let's not forget) wrote the song in the first place, allowing "Gold" to be re-worked for a soap commercial. Fair play to Tony, though, for intervening recently in a Singaporean radio music quiz row, where a contestant was wrongly given a wrong answer simply because the DJ couldn't make out he'd answered "Tony Hadley" correctly in a strong accent. The contestant contacted Tony, who replied with a video message which made the radio station pay the contestant what he should have won. As for the mockumentary, a very weak ending ruined a good show with laugh-out-loud bits and which showed the Kemps are capable of taking the mickey out of themselves and each other. Martin's 'row' with Shirlie, apparently one of his wives, was classic.
You got there in the end!
DeleteShirlie really is married to Martin, but he's definitely not married to Pepsi (!). The voice they used to disguise Tony was a highlight.
I don't mind Martin Kemp but Gary is so up himself that I wouldn't want to watch anything with him in even if it is a parody so I'm with Tony on that one!
DeleteJakki and Jenny, a contrasting pairing but not a bad thing. Some good music on here.
ReplyDeleteBig Fun – Can’t shake the feeling – Preferred can’t fight this feeling by REO Speedwagon.
Bobby Brown – Roni – FF
Fine Young Cannibals – I’m not the man I used to be – Just love the sublime keyboard chords on this one for Roland to sing above. Really enjoyed this song which I haven’t heard in ages (apart from the brief clip on the previous show in the breakers).
Jeff Wayne – Eve of the War (remix) – Grand! Spent over four years in the album charts on its first run and a cd that is never far from my player. Sen the show as well. This remix is not the best version but the point is it gets a damn fine piece of music into the top10 and good on it. Loved the pictures taken from the booklet that came with the album. The tv version of this which was shown a short while ago was just awful though.
Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold – Double A Side this was with ‘What the world is waiting for’. A much derided masterpiece! There I said it! OK not the best record of 1989 maybe, but strangely hypnotic.
Happy Mondays with Kirsty McColl – Hallelujah – Give me Leonard Cohen’s ‘Cold and broken hallelujah’ any day. This sounds brash and tuneless in comparison. I loved ‘Shrek’ btw.
Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville – Don’t know much – One of the top records of 1989 gets a repeat of the then live performance which wasn’t live on this show, so why pretend? Still sounds great though.
New Kinds on the Block – The right stuff – Horrible stuff.
Prince and Sheena Easton – Arms of Orion – This is OK I suppose, but this is just a weird pairing. How does ‘Purple Rain’ end up with the ‘Morning Train’?
Top0 rundown – Good to see the fabulous ‘Woman in Chains’ by TFF in there, but no mention of Oleta Adams? Phil Collins plays drums on this record also.
I've always been curious as to how Prince and Sheena Easton got together in music, as you are correct, on the outset it is a chalk and cheese sort of thing, but as she first dueted as early as 1983 with a global superstar like Kenny Rogers, and this probably was the springboard for moving on to Prince to continue her music career, as having Kenny Rogers on your CV would probably have impressed Prince no end.
DeleteThe key to the puzzle is, how did she go from Morning Train to collaborate with a global superstar like Kenny Rogers to do the Bob Seger classic We Got Tonight, and do it better than Seger himself? All prince did after was to make her look, dress and sing sexy like him, but the Rogers part was clearly a door opener for her to subsequent fame with Prince later in the decade.
An alternative interview with Prince & Sheena Easton from Naked Video
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Fantastic, I like the part when Prince talks in a Scottish accent!
DeleteHere I am, so late that as usual I'm below the old show requests and the obituary section...
ReplyDeleteThis show is one I know back to front as I still have my recording from UK Gold (which did indeed cut out Neville & Ronstadt for timing reasons) and so I am very familiar with Jenny Powell's vocal mishaps and Jakki's frankly brilliant deadpan 'No, Jenny' contribution to the brief discussion on Bobby Brown's sex appeal.
Big Fun - One of SAW's finest songs, this. A shame really that it didn't go to one of their more credible acts.
Bobby Brown - Bleurgh. Horrid.
FYC - I loved this at the time, maybe it was the novelty of the 'Funky Drummer' sample being used by a pretty mainstream act. I'm not quite as excited it by it now, though it at least isn't as overplayed as the 2 big hits from the album.
Jeff Wayne - The first sighting of Mr.Liebrand's ability in adding random noises to old songs. Although at least this is a pretty good remix.
Stone Roses - A fantastic song, and for all the Beatles comparisons, it is blindingly obvious from this performance where Liam Gallagher got his stage persona from. Their first album (which this isn't on, of course!) is great, everything else they did afterwards isn't.
Happy Mondays - "Ally-you-ee-er" or whatever Jenny tries to call it is one that I prefer in its remix form, which we may hear as when that came out the single started going up the charts again.
Prince / Sheena Easton - Doesn't interest me at all.
23/11/89 - Happy 26th Birthday Doctor Who (for a while we thought it would be last) and here come the 90s starting with a bit of GIRL POWER courtesy of Jakki & Jenny who make a great pairing. Jenny in particular very funny.
ReplyDeleteStarting off with some Big Fun but I “Can’t Shake The Feeling” this elbow dancing will not catch on. The male Bananarama perform a song that structure wise is a carbon copy of Blame It On The Boogie. Not actually a bad tune but I maintain these guys never all sang on their records!
I have a new album idea. Bobby Brown does Ballads Badly. Lead single – “Roni". Utterly forgettable.
Fine Young Cannibals do a proper ballad with “I’m Not The Man I Used To Be” getting a heavy influence from UB40. Not sure about the elbow dancing on show - who knew that Big Fun dance would catch on???
Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds was new to me in 89 so this remix of “Eve Of The War” was my first experience of it. I really like this version and I continually mean to listen to the original album, but never quite get time..An iconic tune.
Ben Liebrand possibly the first of the really famous "named" remixers that would gain popularity in the 90s and 00s. Responsible for the Bill Withers "Lovely Day" remix from 88 as well.
Loving the Dungarees - what a fashion choice to wear in TV,
So here come the 90s with The Stone Roses. Wasn't sure what to make of “Fools Gold” at the time but it grew on me and it is a really classic tune now.
Can't say the same for the next track. They may have Happy Mondays but Shaun and Bez from Gogglebox give us a Terrible Thursday and they've even bought Mum. “Hallelujah” this ended as it's the worst of Indie and I have no idea what Kirsty was doing there. Mondays and Black Grape will make some top tunes but this just isn't one of them.
Hey up it's Squeaky Noise and Josie Lawrence on repeat. Still love this song.
Cute stage kids alert there's some New Kids On The Block. Need a funky dance move? “You Got It" and these middle American boys sure had "The Right Stuff" for a few years. If you miss Blue Bloods then Detective Danny is wearing a nice cool hat here!
Not sure what Prince thought he was doing with this rubbish...everyone must have an off day.
Jeff Wayne's WotW has some catchy tunes, but be warned a lot of it is rather... bracing.
DeleteSuitably warned...
DeleteThe first half is very good, second half not so good, though it does give you an OTT Phil Lynott having a stab at playing a deranged parson.
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