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Top of the Pops 1980
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Message 1.Ìý
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014
The continuing story of the UK's greatest ever music show ...
Starts January 2015. Watch this space. -
Message 2
Posted by briggsy2 (U1288489) on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014
Given it was so great why did the ´óÏó´«Ã½ decide to cancel it?
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Message 3
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014
Wasn't that after 40-odd years of weekly shows? Not a bad run.
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Message 4
Posted by GZ (U5310554) ** on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014
Given it was so great why did the ´óÏó´«Ã½ decide to cancel it?Ìý MTV came along.
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Message 5
Posted by redhotlady (U14317310) on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014
I can't remember when it was canceled but I'm sure MTV was the killer
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Message 6
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014
Episode 1 begins with the Clash, 'London Calling'...
JANUARY 1980:
3-1-80: Presenter: Peter Powell
(29) THE CLASH – London Calling (and charts)
(54) MADNESS – My Girl WATCH
(6) PAUL McCARTNEY – Wonderful Christmastime (video)
(5) THE PRETENDERS – Brass In Pocket WATCH
(12) DAVID BOWIE – John I’m Only Dancing (video)
(36) BONEY M – I’m Born Again WATCHWATCH
(17) THE BEAT – Tears Of A Clown WATCH
(3) FIDDLER’S DRAM – Day Trip To Bangor (Didn’t We Have A Lovely Time) WATCH
(30) KURTIS BLOW – Christmas Rappin’ WATCH
(24) BILLY PRESTON & SYREETA – With You I’m Born Again ®
(21) CHIC – My Feet Keep Dancin’ (danced to by Legs & Co) WATCH
(58) DR. HOOK – Better Love Next Time WATCH
(1) PINK FLOYD – Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) (video)
(15) ROSE ROYCE – Is It Love You’re After (and credits) -
Message 7
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014
Episode 1 begins with the Clash, 'London Calling'...
JANUARY 1980:
3-1-80: Presenter: Peter Powell
(29) THE CLASH – London Calling (and charts)
(54) MADNESS – My Girl WATCH
(6) PAUL McCARTNEY – Wonderful Christmastime (video)
(5) THE PRETENDERS – Brass In Pocket WATCH
(12) DAVID BOWIE – John I’m Only Dancing (video)
(36) BONEY M – I’m Born Again WATCHWATCH
(17) THE BEAT – Tears Of A Clown WATCH
(3) FIDDLER’S DRAM – Day Trip To Bangor (Didn’t We Have A Lovely Time) WATCH
(30) KURTIS BLOW – Christmas Rappin’ WATCH
(24) BILLY PRESTON & SYREETA – With You I’m Born Again ®
(21) CHIC – My Feet Keep Dancin’ (danced to by Legs & Co) WATCH
(58) DR. HOOK – Better Love Next Time WATCH
(1) PINK FLOYD – Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) (video)
(15) ROSE ROYCE – Is It Love You’re After (and credits)Ìý I should mention that the above line-up is taken from the Popscene website (although I meant to strip out all of the WATCH labels which I think are supposed to link to videos). -
Message 8
Posted by rod spode (U846894) on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014
I'm glad The Clash are on first.I can switch off after that
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Message 9
Posted by sqwerty (U8310964) on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014
I'm glad The Clash are on first.I can switch off after that
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There's David Bowie as well. But it's a video, and not a live performance. -
Message 10
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014
I'm glad The Clash are on first.I can switch off after that
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Well you'll be missing out on Fiddler's Dram if you do! -
Message 11
Posted by mal (U5924339) on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014
I remember madness were the very first group to appear in the 80s. Super music back then, could listen to those songs over and over.
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Message 12
Posted by aviddiva (U13145965) on Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
Episode 1 begins with the Clash, 'London Calling'...
JANUARY 1980:
3-1-80: Presenter: Peter Powell
(29) THE CLASH – London Calling (and charts)
(54) MADNESS – My Girl WATCH
(6) PAUL McCARTNEY – Wonderful Christmastime (video)
(5) THE PRETENDERS – Brass In Pocket WATCH
(12) DAVID BOWIE – John I’m Only Dancing (video)
(36) BONEY M – I’m Born Again WATCHWATCH
(17) THE BEAT – Tears Of A Clown WATCH
(3) FIDDLER’S DRAM – Day Trip To Bangor (Didn’t We Have A Lovely Time) WATCH
(30) KURTIS BLOW – Christmas Rappin’ WATCH
(24) BILLY PRESTON & SYREETA – With You I’m Born Again ®
(21) CHIC – My Feet Keep Dancin’ (danced to by Legs & Co) WATCH
(58) DR. HOOK – Better Love Next Time WATCH
(1) PINK FLOYD – Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) (video)
(15) ROSE ROYCE – Is It Love You’re After (and credits)Ìý I should mention that the above line-up is taken from the Popscene website (although I meant to strip out all of the WATCH labels which I think are supposed to link to videos).Ìý Hands up everyone who's thinking of House Of Fools when Day Trip To Bangor comes on - especially Beef's lyrics! -
Message 13
Posted by Vericacious (U15193847) on Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
I can't remember when it was canceled but I'm sure MTV was the killerÌý 2006 and nonsense to the MTV reason.
Singles chart music had long lost its broad appeal so there wasn't anything but a core audience who wanted to watch Top of the Pops anymore - and you're not telling me that fans of a particular act wouldn't like to see them 'live' in a studio rather than in the same repeated video. -
Message 14
Posted by Dee_host (U15846799) on Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
Thanks meet the wife for starting off the new Top of the Pops thread.
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Message 15
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
Thanks meet the wife for starting off the new Top of the Pops thread.Ìý No worries, Dee! Hopefully there won't be any duplicate threads this time.
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Message 16
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
Hiya meet the wife!
It's apt that you should be the curator of this thread; and, as you know, I will join in, so I will.
BTW:
Yep, I had a wonderful time in my Motherland, Argentina - ta for asking!
Also on another thread, you picked up on my reference to an encounter with the great Gil Scott-Heron...
I've told this story so many times on the old R2 Boards so I hope you don't mind me saying that the gist of it is -
A Notting Hill Gate hotel, and whaccy-baccy, and a nice time was had by all...
Gil was in his musical prime in the early 80s; but. alas, you won't see him on TOTP. -
Message 17
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
Hiya meet the wife!
It's apt that you should be the curator of this thread; and, as you know, I will join in, so I will.
BTW:
Yep, I had a wonderful time in my Motherland, Argentina - ta for asking!
Also on another thread, you picked up on my reference to an encounter with the great Gil Scott-Heron...
I've told this story so many times on the old R2 Boards so I hope you don't mind me saying that the gist of it is -
A Notting Hill Gate hotel, and whaccy-baccy, and a nice time was had by all...
Gil was in his musical prime in the early 80s; but. alas, you won't see him on TOTP.Ìý Lovely to hear from you, May!
Ooh, curator... I like that! Hope Logan's Run doesn't mind.
I did nominate you on one thread as message boarder of the year, so I did! -
Message 18
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Thursday, 4th December 2014
Hiya meet the wife!
It's apt that you should be the curator of this thread; and, as you know, I will join in, so I will.
BTW:
Yep, I had a wonderful time in my Motherland, Argentina - ta for asking!
Also on another thread, you picked up on my reference to an encounter with the great Gil Scott-Heron...
I've told this story so many times on the old R2 Boards so I hope you don't mind me saying that the gist of it is -
A Notting Hill Gate hotel, and whaccy-baccy, and a nice time was had by all...
Gil was in his musical prime in the early 80s; but. alas, you won't see him on TOTP.Ìý I wonder if GSH had you in mind when he wrote the song mentioned here...
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Message 19
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Friday, 5th December 2014
A big Ta for that wee dedication; it's a great Gil song.
Apart from your knowledge that I'm half-Irish and half-Argentinian, how did you guess that I'm Catholic?! -
Message 20
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Friday, 5th December 2014
A big Ta for that wee dedication; it's a great Gil song.
Apart from your knowledge that I'm half-Irish and half-Argentinian, how did you guess that I'm Catholic?!Ìý Haha! I didn't know! I just saw the song title - Me And That Divil May - and immediately thought of you -
Message 21
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Saturday, 6th December 2014
The continuing story of the UK's greatest ever music show ...
Starts January 2015. Watch this space.Ìý From the digital spy forum...
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1980 starts on Friday January 2nd according to the new Christmas TV Times with ´óÏó´«Ã½4 showing Top Of the Pops The Story of 1980 and Top of the Pops 1980 - The Big Hits " -
Message 22
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Saturday, 6th December 2014
So all being well, TOTP 1980 proper bo should start the following Thursday, January 8th.
Looking ahead, there are only three episodes in the first five months of 1980 tainted by the two personae non grata - the first of those not until March. Then most of the summer months were TOTP-free because of (perfectly valid?) industrial action.
Joe Jackson, Dexy's, the Lambrettas, the Vapors, Siouxsie, Martha&Muffins, Ramones... on reflection, I think I might like 1980 even more than 79. -
Message 23
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Saturday, 6th December 2014
I've said it before but I'll say it again -
You know your stuff, so you do!
BTW:
Yep, I know you don't have to be a Catholic to feel those old Devil blues... -
Message 24
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Saturday, 6th December 2014
I've said it before but I'll say it again -
You know your stuff, so you do!
BTW:
Yep, I know you don't have to be a Catholic to feel those old Devil blues...Ìý Wow! There really is no greater compliment I might be paid! Undeserved, of course! But mersey beaucoup -
Message 25
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Sunday, 7th December 2014
With acknowledgement to bootjangler, who pointed us to the best sellers of '79, here's the list for 1980...
Most of the top 5 aren't what you might expect. My personal favourite is #95. What's yours? -
Message 26
Posted by Turner (U14992668) on Sunday, 7th December 2014
I'm glad The Clash are on first.I can switch off after that
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Same here (will briefly switch back on for Bowie though...) -
Message 27
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Sunday, 7th December 2014
I'm glad The Clash are on first.I can switch off after that
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Same here (will briefly switch back on for Bowie though...)Ìý Y'all do know, there is more than one episode. Right? -
Message 28
Posted by Turner (U14992668) on Sunday, 7th December 2014
I'm glad The Clash are on first.I can switch off after that
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Same here (will briefly switch back on for Bowie though...)Ìý Y'all do know, there is more than one episode. Right?Ìý
Oh. I thought that was just the *first* episode
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Message 29
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Sunday, 7th December 2014
I know. Just teasing. My point being, if the Clash and Bowie are your bag, there's plenty to be had in TOTP 1980. I think 'Ashes to Ashes' heralds the apres strike return.
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Message 30
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Sunday, 7th December 2014
That 1980 list of top-sellers was a wee bit odd!
Apart from some great Disco and Funk, I was buying post-punk stuff that rarely troubled the charts...
Joy Division, Magazine, PIL, Gang Of Four, Scritti Politti, The Slits, The Pop Group, Cabaret Voltaire...
Yep, it was a good era for Bowie; and my old mucker, Elvis Costello, was doing great stuff.
I have a wee hunch that meet the wife's real favourite two are #66 + #67... -
Message 31
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Sunday, 7th December 2014
That 1980 list of top-sellers was a wee bit odd!
Apart from some great Disco and Funk, I was buying post-punk stuff that rarely troubled the charts...
Joy Division, Magazine, PIL, Gang Of Four, Scritti Politti, The Slits, The Pop Group, Cabaret Voltaire...
Yep, it was a good era for Bowie; and my old mucker, Elvis Costello, was doing great stuff.
I have a wee hunch that meet the wife's real favourite two are #66 + #67...Ìý Spot on, May! Who'da thought, those two cheek by jowl, huh?
I also confess to liking #30 and #48. I love your buys that didn't trouble the top 40, but I can't say I've heard of the eponymous Pop Group. -
Message 32
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Sunday, 7th December 2014
I don't know how to do links, but you must check out "She Is Beyond Good And Evil" by The Pop Group on YouTube.
A 3-min thrilling summing-up of the Existential blues I suffer from.
Produced by Dennis Bovell, who also produced The Slits.
(Our old chum, me-the-first, likes the Bovell stuff...) -
Message 33
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Sunday, 7th December 2014
I don't know how to do links, but you must check out "She Is Beyond Good And Evil" by The Pop Group on YouTube.
A 3-min thrilling summing-up of the Existential blues I suffer from.
Produced by Dennis Bovell, who also produced The Slits.
(Our old chum, me-the-first, likes the Bovell stuff...)Ìý Oo, yes, this is good!
I had the same trouble as you trying to link to YouTube.
Completely passed me by. I promise to investigate Dennis Bovell, too! -
Message 34
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Monday, 8th December 2014
I don't know how to do links, but you must check out "She Is Beyond Good And Evil" by The Pop Group on YouTube.
A 3-min thrilling summing-up of the Existential blues I suffer from.
Produced by Dennis Bovell, who also produced The Slits.
(Our old chum, me-the-first, likes the Bovell stuff...)Ìý Your the last person I would think suffers from the Blues, Existential or otherwise, so you are! -
Message 35
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Monday, 8th December 2014
... I swear I typed "You're..."!
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Message 36
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Monday, 8th December 2014
Any objections to posting 'future' TOTP 1980 episode listings ahead of of transmission here?
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Message 37
Posted by st3ph3n (U13643748) on Tuesday, 9th December 2014
Wasn't that after 40-odd years of weekly shows? Not a bad run.Ìý And over all that time, they NEVER listed the acts / bands in the end credits. Just all the technical personnel - plus the names of Pan's People / Legs and Co. - Gill, Lulu, Patti, Pauline, Rosemary, Sue.
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Message 38
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Tuesday, 9th December 2014
Hiya meet the wife
Your msg #34....
You couldn't be more mistaken so you couldn't...!
(In fact, I can feel a wee break in my broadcasts coming on; but hopefully not for too long!) -
Message 39
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Tuesday, 9th December 2014
Hiya meet the wife
Your msg #34....
You couldn't be more mistaken so you couldn't...!
(In fact, I can feel a wee break in my broadcasts coming on; but hopefully not for too long!)Ìý But you're always so bright and usually breezy! Come back soon, the place just ain't the same without you, so it isn't! -
Message 40
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Sunday, 14th December 2014
I'm looking forward to 1980, so to speak, and the summer break for the Proms neatly coincides with TOTP's enforced suspension due to the 1980 Musicians' Union strike.
However, I'm intrigued by this entry on the Popscene site...
9-7-80: Presenters: Peter Powell & B.A. Robertson (TOTP Pilot)
(14) SAXON – 747 (Strangers In The Night)
(2) ODYSSEY – Use It Up And Wear It Out (danced to by Legs & Co)
(11) PAUL McCARTNEY – Waterfalls (video)
(21) THIN LIZZY – Chinatown
(22) LEO SAYER – More Than I Can Say
(16) KATE BUSH – Babooshka (video)
(24) DARTS – Let’s Hang On (video)
(10) SPLODGENESSABOUNDS – Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps Please (still picture)
(9) BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS – Could You Be Loved (live clip)
(8) THE KORGIS – Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime (video)
(7) UB40 – My Way Of Thinking (sound dubbed over clip of TOTP 17-4-80)
(6) LIPPS INC – Funky Town (still picture)
(5) THE DETROIT SPINNERS – Cupid (live clip)
(4) DON McLEAN – Crying (video)
(3) STACY LATTISAW – Jump To The Beat (still picture)
(2) ODYSSEY – Use It Up And Wear It Out (still picture)
(1) OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN & ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA – Xanadu (still picture)
(29) CHANGE – A Lover’s Holiday (and credits)
>> During the Musician’s Union strike, TOTP piloted the new-look show during July
1980 - members of the production team stood in for the studio acts.
Although the 'stand ins' presumably only stood in for Saxon, Thin Lizzy and Leo Sayer, it must have looked very odd! Does anyone remember this "pilot" episode? -
Message 41
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Friday, 19th December 2014
The continuing story of the UK's greatest ever music show ...
Starts January 2015. Watch this space.Ìý It's.. official..!
1980 - Big Hits is on ´óÏó´«Ã½4, Friday 2nd Jan ...
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Message 42
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Friday, 19th December 2014
... and TOTP ??/01/1980 on Thursday Jan 8...
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Message 43
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Saturday, 20th December 2014
Does that mean the ´óÏó´«Ã½ themselves don't even know the exact date of the original broadcast? Odd!
Looking back again at that strange list of 1980 top-sellers...
I'd agree with you about Bush and Gabriel, and round off my Top Five with -
"Ashes To Ashes"
"Brass In Pocket"
"Going Underground"
(But I still prefer the stuff I mentioned earlier that didn't get anywhere near the charts...)
BTW:
I've been described as many things, so I have, but never "bright and breezy"! -
Message 44
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Saturday, 20th December 2014
Does that mean the ´óÏó´«Ã½ themselves don't even know the exact date of the original broadcast? Odd!
Looking back again at that strange list of 1980 top-sellers...
I'd agree with you about Bush and Gabriel, and round off my Top Five with -
"Ashes To Ashes"
"Brass In Pocket"
"Going Underground"
(But I still prefer the stuff I mentioned earlier that didn't get anywhere near the charts...)
BTW:
I've been described as many things, so I have, but never "bright and breezy"!Ìý Yep, that "??" is a bit odd, but I'm pretty sure it's the 03/01/1980 episode.
I really wasn't trying to detract from your black horn-rimmed glasses and beret, cool jazz noir image May... but you always seem pretty cheerful to me,
so you do!
I'm pleasantly surprised that our "commercial" 1980 Top Five match pretty well!! -
Message 45
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Saturday, 20th December 2014
This notion that I'm cheery and bright and breezy is troubling my already troubled Soul...
From now on, I will always wear my beret when I post; the black horn-rims are always in place anyway and not negotiable for medical reasons!
But perhaps then I will be true to my moody, awkward Existential self...
A la Nanette Newman in Tony Hancock's "The Rebel" -
"Why kill time when you can kill yourself?"
I haven't mentioned the black polo-neck sweater but I assume that's a given.
(I'd also like to replace the Silk Cut that is always sticking out of my gob with a Gauloise - but you can't get 'em in Dublin!)
PS:
Joe Jackson's "It's Different For Girls" makes the cut.
That's a good song! -
Message 46
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Saturday, 20th December 2014
This notion that I'm cheery and bright and breezy is troubling my already troubled Soul...
From now on, I will always wear my beret when I post; the black horn-rims are always in place anyway and not negotiable for medical reasons!
But perhaps then I will be true to my moody, awkward Existential self...
A la Nanette Newman in Tony Hancock's "The Rebel" -
"Why kill time when you can kill yourself?"
I haven't mentioned the black polo-neck sweater but I assume that's a given.
(I'd also like to replace the Silk Cut that is always sticking out of my gob with a Gauloise - but you can't get 'em in Dublin!)
PS:
Joe Jackson's "It's Different For Girls" makes the cut.
That's a good song!Ìý Funny, I very nearly threw in a made up reference to a 40-Gitanes-a-day habit just for effect... but it was Gauloise?!
Joe Jackson's It's Different... might just be my fave of 1980 now you mention it. I know it's hopeless me trying to tempt you with Macca's Coming Up, but how about Kate's Army Dreamers? -
Message 47
Posted by briggsy2 (U1288489) on Sunday, 21st December 2014
I'm looking to a bit of Thotch. As we all know, the band were riding the crest of a wave in 1980.
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Message 48
Posted by rod spode (U846894) on Sunday, 21st December 2014
Splodgenessabounds, one of the best band names in pop music.
.... and I've got the right change and everything.... -
Message 49
Posted by MAY-DAY (U14316705) on Sunday, 21st December 2014
But wouldn't Thotch have been at their creative peak in the mid-70s?
Have you seen their great record sleeves on their iPlayer page?
Yep, mtw, I like those Kate and Macca tracks well enough; but I wouldn't say they were highlights of either's "oeuvre".
(Blimey, I'm getting very French this weekend!)
Alas, "Army Dreamers" has one of those cheap, naff videos she had to do before she could afford Donald Sutherland!
As it's just been given the deluxe reissue treatment, I've been listening to my original vinyl copy of "Venus And Mars".
It was one of the first LPs I ever bought - and stands up pretty well.
Probably not as strong as the one before, "Band On The Run"; but, oddly, I've never owned that one, or heard it all the way through.
Au revoir! -
Message 50
Posted by meet the wife (U15616578) on Sunday, 21st December 2014
But wouldn't Thotch have been at their creative peak in the mid-70s?
Have you seen their great record sleeves on their iPlayer page?
Yep, mtw, I like those Kate and Macca tracks well enough; but I wouldn't say they were highlights of either's "oeuvre".
(Blimey, I'm getting very French this weekend!)
Alas, "Army Dreamers" has one of those cheap, naff videos she had to do before she could afford Donald Sutherland!
As it's just been given the deluxe reissue treatment, I've been listening to my original vinyl copy of "Venus And Mars".
It was one of the first LPs I ever bought - and stands up pretty well.
Probably not as strong as the one before, "Band On The Run"; but, oddly, I've never owned that one, or heard it all the way through.
Au revoir!Ìý French Connection II... I happened to be in Paris in August 1975, and for my 15th birthday treated myself to the 'Venus and Mars' Lp, bought at Lido Musique, 68 Avenue des Champs-Elysees... and I still have the plastic bag!
I know what you mean about the Army Dreamers video... but all I ever see are her beautiful eyes!
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