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"Fields of Fire" (the 12" version) was the first disc to grace my new (first decent) record deck just purchased from a still quite new themselves I think, Richer Sounds.
Happy Birthday for tomorrow (but don't open this greeting until then).
The week before had been January by Pilot - YUK ! ! ! and the following number 1 was If by Telly Savalas - OMG
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The ones that I bought were: Bonnie Tyler, Forrest (on 12", for its utterly fantastic percussion break, which the DJ in the "specialist" club which I had just started attending would sometimes play twice in a row, thanks to the miracle of owning two copies), Madness (one of their best, especially the version on the B-side with the lead vocals by Elvis Costello), Thompson Twins (I must have seen the same tour, and I loved the cheeky little quote from "In The Name Of Love" after the cue of "I played you all my favourite records), Orange Juice (from pasty-faced jingly-jangly love-sick floppy fringed fey indie boys not getting any in 1980-81, to shiny happy "New Pop" boys with nice new clothes and haircuts getting plenty thank you in 1982-83, I felt like we were fellow travellers), Wham! (actually I bought this on 12" the first time it came out in summer 1982 actually actually), Belle Stars (woo!), Big Country (phwooar!), Indeep (there's not a problem that I can fix, cos I can do it in the mix).
Favourite at the time: Forrest.
Favourite now: Bonnie Tyler.
I rested my Silver Discs feature after I'd run it 25 times, which seemed a sort of appropriate place to stop. But, yes, I've missed it too, so it's back for this pre-birthday shindig.
I'd forgotten quite how fabulous 1983 was too. Or maybe the year you turn 18 is always fabulous by default, I dunno.
Good line up of singles there though - a fine vintage! I wonder if Sinitta is still mates with Brad Pitt (she was his first 'famous' girlfriend). Hee hee.
I think Duffy was just about worth the wait though.
I also love 1983, my favourite '80s year for singles. Now 1 and 2 are well worth tracking down.
I was checking the Billie Jean Video (and agree with your assessment of MJ) but what caught my eye was the tramp lying in the corner that gets transformed into the white suit appears to be Micheal Gambon, seems a bit weird giving the fact he is onscreen for about 2 secs.
I was 28 this month 25 years ago seems only yesterday.
The only two I bought were Total Eclipse of the Heart and Waves, but a lot more have entered my collection via albums (artist and compilation). Even the Cliff Richard is listenable.
Very difficult to pull out a favourite. Probably Bonnie Tyler, but the only turkeys are Musical Dustbins (as Timmy Mallett called them), Depeche Mode (eternal turkeys for me) and In-deep. Just about everything else in the non-top ten is, to my mind, a near classic. Okay, I'll go with Fields of Fire because I then went through a Big Country phase. But I'm sorely tempted to mention Sign of the Times because its soundworld evokes this period of my life.
Many happy returns, DG.
Take it from me, 1983 *was* fabulous. You were just extra lucky that it coincided with turning 18.
So it was around 25 years ago that I thought myself lucky to hitch a ride down the M6 from Carlisle to London with a yuppie in a fast car. The flash git had only one cassette - the Men At Work album.
I've hated them ever since.
I've never liked that Joe Cocker hit, either, but it was while it was no.1 in the States that he joined Kokomo on stage at the Cricketers Arms in Kennington for an impromptu set - at closing time. The landlord rang the local cop shop who told him to stop serving, but keep the doors unlocked because Kennington's finest wanted to catch the set.
A magical memory.
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