Dick Clark Interviews Thompson Twins - American Bandstand 1985

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  • Host Dick Clark talks to the Thompson Twins about their early career aspirations and how they ended up in the music business. Alannah Currie introduces other band members.
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  • @TheMastiffprince
    @TheMastiffprince Рік тому +41

    80s were the best of my childhood, no internet, no cell phone. VHS, Beta,N.E.S. and amazing bands.

    • @erinmeggik391
      @erinmeggik391 Рік тому +2

      Amen to that

    • @klytus42
      @klytus42 Рік тому +1

      @@erinmeggik391 80s kid here. My first concert ever was The Thompson Twins. I agree with the simplicity of the 80s, but let's be real: VHS, Beta, and our TVs sucked.

    • @erinmeggik391
      @erinmeggik391 Рік тому +1

      @@klytus42 I recall their song Long Goodbye... 👍. I love that UA-cam has loads of 80s even 70s TV content. 😆 At the old CRT 📺 unuts

    • @ricktyuio283
      @ricktyuio283 5 місяців тому

      @@klytus42that’s why we all had full lives outside the media bubble.

  • @kellywilliamson2187
    @kellywilliamson2187 2 роки тому +30

    One of my favorite groups from the 80s. Very innovative and impeccable recording quality.

  • @poetrycorazon
    @poetrycorazon 4 роки тому +107

    I'm so glad I was a teenager in the 80s.

    • @kevin_conley
      @kevin_conley 3 роки тому +1

      Amen😁

    • @michaelfrazia4569
      @michaelfrazia4569 3 роки тому +2

      ditto

    • @MontagZoso
      @MontagZoso 3 роки тому +1

      Same! ❤️😎

    • @jupitermoongauge4055
      @jupitermoongauge4055 3 роки тому

      Yeah me too, the 80`s was the shittest decade since the 1940`s. Shit music, shit hair, shit clothes, shit politics, but at least things could only get better.

    • @atrain84
      @atrain84 2 роки тому

      Agreed!

  • @glamdolly30
    @glamdolly30 Рік тому +11

    So humble and so talented! God bless them.

  • @karlhiggins3109
    @karlhiggins3109 4 роки тому +19

    The ageless Dick Clark. A true Icon.

  • @maha77
    @maha77 6 років тому +34

    what's amazing is Tom Bailey just released a new album a few days ago called 'Science Fiction' how quickly 33 years goes by

  • @sunnybearbuds
    @sunnybearbuds Рік тому +7

    It just hit me that today's youngsters may think these folks looked odd. We didn't think so back then!😉

    • @RavenlucJanie
      @RavenlucJanie 6 місяців тому

      I thought the lady was scary and seemed to be bombastic in the videos. Must've been the mohawk lol. But she wasn't at all. She came off as a nice, Teddy Bear in the interview.

  • @JoeyLevenson
    @JoeyLevenson 13 років тому +27

    I love how much the crowd love them!

  • @greggriffin8020
    @greggriffin8020 5 місяців тому +2

    The Thompson Twins may be the most underrated and under-appreciated New Wave/synth-pop band from the 80s.

  • @erinmeggik391
    @erinmeggik391 Рік тому +2

    Was a teen in the 70s and miss this era of Saturday morning 🌅 TV 📺

  • @Iceblooo
    @Iceblooo 11 років тому +38

    A nice fun interview. Shame it was not longer - the Twins were in an entertaining mood !

  • @huggybear9937
    @huggybear9937 8 років тому +16

    I love the Thompson twins

  • @mikeprice9826
    @mikeprice9826 5 років тому +10

    the Thompson twins were my favourite band when I was a teenager in the awesome 80s & still remain one of my favourite bands until this day

    • @Paul-ob1lc
      @Paul-ob1lc 3 роки тому

      Mike Price, so who’s your favourite band NOW ?

    • @Paul-ob1lc
      @Paul-ob1lc 3 роки тому

      Mike Price, so who’s your favourite band NOW ?

  • @mimimiller-mcclurg3205
    @mimimiller-mcclurg3205 4 роки тому +9

    I danced on this episode !!

  • @RogDow123
    @RogDow123 12 років тому +9

    best group ever......get back together guys.

  • @harikavisuals
    @harikavisuals 5 років тому +8

    I love her. What a great band

  • @kpec3
    @kpec3 Рік тому +3

    I like them today as much as when I bought Into The Gap on 33 vinyl back when it came out. When I heard You Take Me Up, I knew it would be a hit, and then the video came out and it charted!

    • @erinmeggik391
      @erinmeggik391 Рік тому +1

      A Long Goodbye 🎶 is a timeless song...

  • @AnGoosen
    @AnGoosen 11 років тому +9

    So cool. Timeless songs!

  • @MrRibby88
    @MrRibby88 4 роки тому +9

    I remember seeing this interview when I was a teenager and becoming infatuated (read: in love with) Mark Heyward-Chaplin. I had this videotaped and watched him over and over and over. Then a year later my sister taped an episode of ALF over it, but as I was in the closet still, I could not tell her I was upset (she's the one that taped theTT in the first place)

    • @duffbaker9554
      @duffbaker9554 4 роки тому

      @MrRibby88 Perhaps Mark is on fb?

    • @holyspacemonkey
      @holyspacemonkey 7 місяців тому

      An ALF episode! Oh no! This story is sad! But it’s also one of the most 80s things ever. Takes me back as intensely as this video did!

  • @richsantana3211
    @richsantana3211 8 років тому +8

    LOVE THE SONG!

  • @geraldojunior7467
    @geraldojunior7467 3 роки тому +5

    Uma das bandas mais incríveis que fez muito sucesso nos anos 80

  • @THEJIG-IS-UP
    @THEJIG-IS-UP 5 років тому +6

    Dick Clark was the best at Interviewing NO doubt about it

    • @petemarr824
      @petemarr824 5 років тому

      you are right, about the big NO. That interview was terrible!

    • @amelmatt5641
      @amelmatt5641 4 роки тому

      You're kidding ,right ? This interview along with all of his other ones are painful to watch. Dick is so awkward no matter who he's interviewing, it's embarrassing.

    • @dessullivan1725
      @dessullivan1725 2 роки тому +1

      Agreed, very chill and relaxed. No patronising rubbish.

  • @TheGodParticle
    @TheGodParticle 5 місяців тому

    Loved this band, they had 3 incredible years but by 85 it was over. Happened to many groups in the early 80's. I guess they didn't have a army of song writers like they do today.

  • @mariaordonez8112
    @mariaordonez8112 7 років тому +4

    es un gran grupo muy buena musica

  • @davidkublin4446
    @davidkublin4446 9 місяців тому

    Saw them in Boston in 85. Awesome concert!

  • @2532robh1
    @2532robh1 10 місяців тому

    Wish we could go back to these times.

  • @modeo92
    @modeo92 8 років тому +35

    I believe Lou Reed's "bad phase" with journalists pretty much was his entire career. He was a rough interview.
    But still, you'd think he could go easy on a lovely lass like Allanah Currie.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 5 років тому +3

      I'd have popped him one in his smug nose for what he did to her.

    • @paulbradley4445
      @paulbradley4445 3 роки тому +3

      I know thompson twins but who is lou reed ?

    • @donknowles2531
      @donknowles2531 3 роки тому +3

      @@paulbradley4445 He was in Andy Warhol's band Velvet Underground. Now you may ask who is Andy Warhol...Nico had some choice words for Lou Reed as did nearly everyone else who ever worked with him. According to one article: "when he had a liver transplant a satirical magazine reported the news under the headline: "New liver complains of difficulty working with Lou Reed.""

    • @jpalvarez4972
      @jpalvarez4972 3 роки тому +2

      @@paulbradley4445 A tuneless twat that nobody gave a fuck about until ironic hipsters decided he was great. 99% of the general public couldn't name a Lou Reed song, for good reason.

  • @davidbeazley1958
    @davidbeazley1958 11 місяців тому +1

    Last I heard Alannah is a furniture maker in New Zealand. 😊

  • @musiclove4635
    @musiclove4635 9 місяців тому

    Everyone applauded and screamed but US fans failed the Thompson Twins by not buying their music. Definitely deserved better. I bought everything I could get my hands on growing up in the 80s.

  • @whatthereview369
    @whatthereview369 Рік тому +1

    Alana looks/sounds like Princess Diana, but with spiked hair and bold makeup!

  • @crazyralph6386
    @crazyralph6386 Рік тому

    Dick Clark had class

  • @frankesposito2182
    @frankesposito2182 2 роки тому

    Dick had such serious questions ....

  • @MaskedMan66
    @MaskedMan66 11 місяців тому

    Ah, my old crush on Alannah Currie has reawakened! I love her laugh in this!

  • @joranslanderb00tssternty64
    @joranslanderb00tssternty64 2 роки тому

    Great thumbnail.

  • @ethanjay04
    @ethanjay04 2 роки тому +2

    Brits rule baby

  • @EphemeralProductions
    @EphemeralProductions 11 років тому +4

    Tom and Alannah have been married for quite some time I believe...or maybe they got divorced? I can't remember. Anyway, I think I saw an interview from no more than 10 years ago I think, were they expressed that they didn't see any reforming of the group ever happening....

    • @John-ip3xm
      @John-ip3xm 4 роки тому +3

      tall32guy...yes it's true...Tom and Alannah got divorced and have 2 children and live in New Zealand.No, they, unfortunately will not tour again!😞😰😰 John Keating

  • @miracleshappen4483
    @miracleshappen4483 6 років тому +2

    Why didn't you show the song as well??????????

  • @KockyArapopolis
    @KockyArapopolis 11 років тому +4

    Joe Leeway was "tweeking!"

    • @peachbellini2615
      @peachbellini2615 4 роки тому

      I know this comment is old.. but was he on drugs?! I saw an interview with Tom and Alana and she said some not very nice things about Joe.. it mad me dislike her.. but.. if there's been drug problems in their past.. I understand now..

    • @marelistic
      @marelistic 8 місяців тому

      @@peachbellini2615may i know which interview? i’m curious on what she said

  • @arricammarques1955
    @arricammarques1955 Рік тому

    Suspect TT exploring other avenues.

  • @richardhuff9313
    @richardhuff9313 3 роки тому

    2:03 HOLD ME NOW!

  • @3xbadboy264
    @3xbadboy264 2 роки тому

    I never noticed that Dick Clark was kinda 'Shady' with the comments!
    🤣😂🤣🤣

  • @Ingens_Scherz
    @Ingens_Scherz 6 років тому +1

    Nice suit. He looks like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.

  • @bakerstreet101
    @bakerstreet101 2 роки тому +1

    New wave/goth musicians on AB LOL

  • @catchinghorses
    @catchinghorses 3 роки тому

    Pete Davidson from SNL at 1:14

  • @seandelfin
    @seandelfin Рік тому

    joe is funny

  • @thetrustybutterknifean80sa19
    @thetrustybutterknifean80sa19 7 років тому +1

    Rad

  • @douglasfreeman3229
    @douglasfreeman3229 3 роки тому +1

    I fell in love with Alannah, but she was the only thing about the 1980s that I liked. Oh, swoon, swoon!

  • @marguskiis7711
    @marguskiis7711 Рік тому

    Currie looked always so scary

  • @WarthDader74
    @WarthDader74 6 років тому +1

    I think this is "Til tuesday"

    • @petemarr824
      @petemarr824 5 років тому +1

      No, its the Thompson Twins. Til Tuesday has Aimee Mann!

  • @mrdeafa25
    @mrdeafa25 6 місяців тому

    The 80's had a style all of its own exemplified here by The Thompson Twins incidentally being interviewed by a man in a beige suit.

  • @MrsBlaileen1
    @MrsBlaileen1 10 місяців тому

    Better than that gawd awful and awkward interview Dick Clark did with them in 1983 (it’s also on UA-cam…look it up).

  • @TheGreatAlan75
    @TheGreatAlan75 4 роки тому +1

    Risky move, letting Mark David Chapman into the band.....

    • @andrewgarrett3555
      @andrewgarrett3555 4 місяці тому

      Unfortunate coincidence in name or a bad joke on her part?

  • @ermertieplug
    @ermertieplug 10 місяців тому

    I had no ideal that Amiee Mann was part of this group

  • @moisessan1
    @moisessan1 Рік тому

    usa...no AMERICA.

  • @gussfish8670
    @gussfish8670 Місяць тому

    Tacky but typical the way the show host tries to control the audience reaction such a crochety move.

  • @M4rloww
    @M4rloww 11 років тому +3

    ugh, how cringe worthy from the yanks. would love this guy to have dared interview Johnny Rotten AAHAHAHAHA

  • @rickyrickardo8347
    @rickyrickardo8347 2 роки тому

    I was in my teens and twenties in the 80's and I hated the music, the fashion and the vibe. You can't go from The Who, Zepplin,The Stones and Neil Young to the Thompson Twins and Till Tuesday.

    • @jasoncampbell2365
      @jasoncampbell2365 Рік тому

      Yes you can, it's called progress.

    • @Derry_Aire
      @Derry_Aire Рік тому +1

      You can. I was into Led Zep, Black Sabbath, The Who etc when I was a teen through the 70s but then I got into bands like The Cure, The Smiths and The Thomson Twins in the 80s.
      It's a pity you threw your toys out of the baby buggy and got stuck in the past, as you missed some great music.