It's the Friday 80s Pop song thread (5 Viewers)

Mine was this:
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I still have the 7”, the b-side is an instrumental karaoke version.
 
SIMPLE MINDS - I Travel (1980) live on Scottish TV
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I think I posted these before:
Sweat In Bullets (1981)
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Lovesong (1981)
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American (1981??) live in studio in Paris. blows away version that was released.
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all their best songs were dominated by Derek Forbes' bass and Mick McNeill's keyboards.
 
There was a girl in my class who was a massive Simple Minds fan. She was absolutely disgusted when our English teacher (Con Harvey - legend) told her that Jim Kerr's ears made him look like Plug from the Bash Street Kids.
 
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I didn't say it to anyone, but I've been hearing 5 star songs in my head all day.
They had some well put together pop tunes. This was released 35 years ago.

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"The Jackson's ??? Never heard of them."
 
I didn't say it to anyone, but I've been hearing 5 star songs in my head all day.
They had some well put together pop tunes. This was released 35 years ago.

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"The Jackson's ??? Never heard of them."

Denise Pearson the 5 Star singer's photo came came up on Pointless (TV quiz).
I realised after a minute or two who it was and remembered her name.
it was a pointless answer - (zero out of 100 people asked were able to indentify her).

this has often come up on kids TV live bloopers:
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in fairness the Jacksons, I mean Pearsons, took it in good grace.
 
Denise Pearson the 5 Star singer's photo came came up on Pointless (TV quiz).
I realised after a minute or two who it was and remembered her name.
it was a pointless answer - (zero out of 100 people asked were able to indentify her).

this has often come up on kids TV live bloopers:
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in fairness the Jacksons, I mean Pearsons, took it in good grace.

Strange. I just watched this a few moments ago
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Strange. I just watched this a few moments ago
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wow - all the times that was shown on TV and young McIntyre's part was never shown.
maybe I last saw it before he was a household name.
 
THE OCEAN BLUE - Between Something and Nothing (1989)
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very English sounding alt rock jangly guitar and keyboards band from Pennsylvania.
just came up in my youtube suggestions. I never heard of them despite their familiar sound.
their first album on Sire seems to full of songs like this.
 
DIGNEY FIGNUS - The Girl With The Curious Hand
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cheapo attempt at a Duran style video by Boston based guy (DF is his real name) who someone from Mass told me later reinvented himself as a Celtic folk singer songwriter.
the story behind the woman in the video is the only interesting part. she later married a billionaire Republican politician.
 
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I just realised that I posted this in the belief that yesterday was Friday
 
From 35 years ago....

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