Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now

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[higgmeister]

I'm old.   In the Eighties I was busy working shift work making a living and listening to Hard Rock and Southern Rock to stay awake at night.   Let me just say, this isn't my kind of music.   But there are several Eighties songs that have grown on me over the years.

Crazy ones with a hook, like "Oh Yeah - Yello", "One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head", *Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satellites", "Let's Talk Dirty In Hawaiian - John Prine", "The Tide Is High - Blondie", "Shout - Tears for Fears", and "Owner Of a Lonely Heart - Yes."

[higgmeister]

Piedmont Arts Festival in Atlanta

What year?

[FreedomPoster]

‘81 IIRC.

[FreedomPoster]

There’s a big John Prine memorial festival that has been going on in Nashvegas all weekend. We really should have gone, but life got in the way. He was an early Covid casualty in April 2020. And yeah, that’s a great song.

[dead]

I was at Live Aid in Philly and, by far, the most surprisingly good band that day for me was the Thompson Twins. I expected nothing special, but they blew the place up with a great set from a large really talented group of musicians.

Biggest disappointment that day was a very drunk and lackadaisical Led Zeppelin. They sounded like a bad Led Zeppelin cover band.

[higgmeister]

Wow, I was there for the Arts Festival in 1972 on a Senior Class Trip from high school, but I have lived only twenty miles away from there for the past forty years, and have never been back down there in the past fifty years.

It's strange to me that I have been to Grant Park a couple of times which is only three and a half miles from Piedmont Park.

But then again, I used to work in a building across the street from Truist Park.   It's only seven miles from my house and I've never watched a Braves game there.

[wardaddy]

My wife followed them very early too and saw them frequently in Murfreesboro Tennessee where they played a very small club near the college before they had a record deal and her boyfriend who was a musician knew some of them she always said Michael Stipe was a weirdo but Peter Buck was fun

[StAnDeliver]

"Him/her name was Jane Coaston."

Her trans partner is named Defecate or Jefecate, something like that.

The earlier TT songs were less overproduced and clever enough, like "Love On Your Side" quoting the "In The Name Of Love" chorus from the prior album (and introducing it in the song with the line: "I've played you all my favorite records").

The band was doomed from the start, though. Condensed down to 3, broke up 3 years later, then Bailey married Currie and that broke up, now Bailey does 80s festivals alone with hired hands as "Thompson Twins Tom Bailey".

[FreedomPoster]

Sounds about right, regarding Buck and Stipe.