Posted on 02/14/2020 10:32:46 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
80s flashback classic!
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Loved this - even bought the album.
‘80s memories... what a great time to be alive.
The Reagan Decade, best times ever.
Please!
I was living in the west end then...well northwest to be precise
Tottenham court and Hampstead lane
West End girls
Posh birds
String fellows and Tramps
I know I’m not the only freeper knows that era. In London
It was the best time ever because this trash generation called millennials wasn’t born yet.
Pet Shop Boys - “Always On My Mind”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDe60CbIagg
Their cab passenger was two years before he played the main bad guy in “Lethal Weapon 2” and had his assistant answer to the question “What are you doing?” “I was just checking to see if I was standing on plastic.”
The last great Eighties band: Fine Young Cannibals. Every song they did was Grammy quality.
She Drives me Crazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtvmTu4zAMg
Good Thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_9MthGzwk
And this one is worthy of Buddy Holly. Don’t Look Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THD_vY2-AXA
The actor David Tennant had to change his name as there were already 2 other actors with his name. So he chose “Tennant” from one of the Pet Shop Boys.
CC
It must’ve been fun living there.
Never lived in London but visited a few times back then. Stayed once in Cricklewood-Broadway in the late ‘80s - mostly Irish there.
Mostly what I remember are the pubs, a dance hall, and everyone drinking (and then fighting). People “queued” up at the phone booths, banging on the door if you talked too long. And riding double-decker buses and the Tube.
Pretty much after seeing the video, you knew they weren’t straight.
But still, a cool song.
I could never keep Pet Shop Boys and Frankie Goes to Hollywood straight in my mind. Kinda liked them both, just found them semi-interchangeable.
Have the CD from back in the day. I think Roland Gift also had a bit of an acting career.
I loved Taco- “Putting on the Ritz”. The video was Great!
“The Reagan Decade, best times ever.”
Not for Rock and Roll. The 1980’s was the beginning of the end for Rock and Roll...Fortunately, you can still buy the truly great albums from the time of the FM radio boom of the late ‘60’s and ‘70’s.
Those two clubs I mentioned ....I worked Hatton Garden ...diamond district...we were importing...Brazil and Sierra Leone
The same ex SAS and SBS and Paras and Royal Marines etc along with South African Recces who did security in Sierra Leone also worked Hatton Garden and also some worked the doors and whatnot at the best nightclubs for extra cash and the women..lord the women
And I knew most of those who’d done diamond mining work so I could always get in
Gorgeous women everywhere....and celebs
RUSH was still good, but their weaker period IMHO.
I recall buying the YES album 90125. Was surprised it was more Pop Music than rock.
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