What are you listening to right now?
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Ghost's tongue-in-cheek introduction to their new video.
Their new single and video are the first in which lead singer Tobias Forge plays his fifth demonic anti-Pope. He is now Papa V Perpetua.
Here is Tobias introducing the video to the new single...
Their new single and video are the first in which lead singer Tobias Forge plays his fifth demonic anti-Pope. He is now Papa V Perpetua.
Here is Tobias introducing the video to the new single...
Bad Manners - "Special Brew" (1980)
Special Brew is a strong Danish beer - 7.5% - first brewed in 1950 to celebrate Churchill's visit to Copenhagen. Its cognac notes are a reference to Churchill's favourite drink.
In this song, the London ska band, fronted by Buster Bloodvessel, pays homage to the beer...
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Well, at least they look like the genetic defectives they are, and not like some dress-up bad-boy wannabes.
Simple Minds - "Don't You (Forget About Me") (1985)
Formed in 1977 and named after a David Bowie lyric from his 1972 song "The Jean Genie", the Glasgow band reached No1 in the USA, Canada and the Netherlands and the Top 10 in many other countries - including their native Britain - with this...
Wet Wet Wet - "Julia Says" (1995)
Hailing from Clydebank, near Glasgow, the soft rockers had a No3 UK hit with this.
The band took its name from the fact that in the Eighties there were several double-barrelled band names - such as Duran Duran and Talk Talk. They wanted to go one extra and have a triple-barelled name. As it's often raining in Scotland they therefore called themselves Wet Wet Wet...
Duran Duran - "Ordinary World" (1993)
The Birmingham pop rockers had a No1 in the UK, US and Canada with this in the year Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia; Eritrea and Monaco joined the UN; the Grand National was a disaster; and a British mathematician presented proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that had been unresolved over 300 years...
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The Smiths - "This Charming Man" (1983)
The Manchester indie rockers, fronted by Morrissey, had a big UK with this.
Morrissey is the cousin of former Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool and Republic of Ireland star Robbie Keane, who is currently the manager of Turkish side Ferencvaros
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Aneka - "Japanese Boy" (1981)
The British songstress had a UK No1 with this in the year that Nazi Karl Dönitz - Grand Admiral of the German Navy during World War II - died; the world's first PC (the IBM 5150) is released; the IRA's Bobby Sands dies from his hunger strike while in the Maze prison; the video game "Donkey Kong" is released on Nintendo; Prince Charles (now King Charles III) marries Princess Diana; and I was born.
Here she is on BBC's "Top of the Pops"...
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Betty Boo - "Doin' The Doo" (1990)
Aged just 20, the London rapper reached No1 in the US, No2 in Canada and No7 in the UK with this. It wasn't until much later after the song was released that she was told that it's a slang expression for cunnilingus.
Eurythmics - "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)" (1984)
The English/Scottish synth-pop duo comprising Annie Lennox and David Stewart scored a No4 UK hit in 1984 with this song based on British author George Orwell's 1949 novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four": The novel which coined the phrase "Big Brother is watching you."
After hearing Lennox sing beautifully in a London restaurant in which she worked, Stewart decided he wanted to form a band with her, and the rest is history.
The mighty Eurythmics have sold 75 million records worldwide.
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