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  • @johndonaldson3619
    @johndonaldson3619 Місяць тому +49

    RIP Steve Strange. First remeber him in Bowie's 1980 vid 'Ashes to Ashes' - a year before this film

  • @grahamjay4155
    @grahamjay4155 Місяць тому +35

    Memories of yesteryear, Thomas Dolby, Gary Numan ect, it was all so new and fresh, cherished memories.

    • @analogueman123456787
      @analogueman123456787 Місяць тому +7

      Indeed, though in fairness, neither of the two you mention were anything to do with the Blitz Kid scene.
      Unfortunately, tabloid journalism both then and now lumped every artist and band who ever picked up a synthesizer into this culture, which is quite wrong.

    • @Custardpoint948
      @Custardpoint948 Місяць тому +3

      Gary Numan was not a New Romantic

    • @analogueman123456787
      @analogueman123456787 Місяць тому +1

      @@Custardpoint948 - Why repeat what I said above?

    • @Custardpoint948
      @Custardpoint948 Місяць тому

      @@analogueman123456787
      why say indeed?

    • @analogueman123456787
      @analogueman123456787 Місяць тому

      @@Custardpoint948 - Try answering the question, assuming you understand words of more than one syllable of course... 😄

  • @wemissedyouhissed
    @wemissedyouhissed Місяць тому +43

    I hope the BBC uploads more videos on Goths, Punks, New Wave and New Romantics

    • @rain3rr
      @rain3rr Місяць тому

      i love your compilations!

  • @JasmineSurrealVideos
    @JasmineSurrealVideos Місяць тому +23

    Steve Strange apparently when he was the bouncer at the Blitz refused to let Mick Jagger in who had rudely pushed his way to the front, do you know who I am nonsense, and Steve said he didnt care who he was. Top bloke, for that alone lol.
    I was only a tiny kid at the time, but I certainly liked the music, and had q fetching ruffled shirt, navy blue velvet knickerbockers and waistcoat!
    As a 49 year old I still love the romantic sound, the creativity, electronicness, suave and angular music from then, like Thomas Dolby, Visage, Numan, Gang of Four, Magazine, Echo and the Bunnymen, Julian Cope, Japan etc. New Romantic definitely influenced a lot of musicians, not just pure New Romantic, but post punk and synth as well.
    After the rather aggressive and gobby punk it was a breath of fresh air to see art, style and intriguing music again.

    • @spookybaba
      @spookybaba Місяць тому +4

      Steve was great. They were fantastic imaginative and creative times. I'm still a walking advertisement of the early 80s. I don't care what others think.

    • @donnawaldron3261
      @donnawaldron3261 Місяць тому

      George O'Dowed was a punk for a while it's in his books all worth a read.

    • @spookybaba
      @spookybaba Місяць тому

      @@donnawaldron3261 Dowd

  • @01Sharondun
    @01Sharondun Місяць тому +6

    As a teen in the 80s, I was into Rockabilly/Psychobilly. My best friend was a Goth and we’d all mix together. Everything was about individuality, but at the same time finding your tribe. And that meant being around different fashion, music and people. How I miss those days!

  • @analogueman123456787
    @analogueman123456787 Місяць тому +50

    Now THIS was my era. Those of my parents' generation would forever wax lyrical about the '60s at the time, but for me, the period between '79 to '84 will live with me till they stick me in a box.
    RIP Steve Strange.

    • @dman7619
      @dman7619 Місяць тому +10

      It was an amazing time. Fun, fun ,fun and more fun. No guns, minimal violence. Where's my time machine?

    • @kumachan9311
      @kumachan9311 Місяць тому +4

      Born in '71 I was about 10 years too young for it, I got lumbered with Sigue Sigue Sputnik in '86

    • @mbrady2329
      @mbrady2329 Місяць тому +2

      @@dman7619 there was certainly plenty of casual violence in the suburbs and small towns, especially on a Friday or Saturday night!

    • @Stiffd1
      @Stiffd1 Місяць тому

      Is that Mr. X? Bet you're still a liquid. I'm just a click track reminding you your here AJB greetings from Me, CEC x

  • @mbrady2329
    @mbrady2329 Місяць тому +5

    I was still in secondary school when the New Romantic thing was happening, but what strikes me from looking back on it is just how many of these young people (5-10 years older than I was) were carving out careers for themselves which had nothing to do with mainstream society at the time, and just how articulate and ambitious many of them were.

  • @glamnesianouveaux2039
    @glamnesianouveaux2039 Місяць тому +11

    I have seen this BBC footage many years ago and endless times on You Tube and it is so dear to me. The scenes at Le Kilt Route are stunning - I so want to be in that club NOW *!*! THE CULT WITH NO NAME LATER DUBBED AS THE BLITZ KIDS AND NEW ROMANTICS CAN NEVER BE MATCHED FOR ME. THE GREATEST SUB CULTURE EVER! xoxoxo Steve Strange FOREVER xoxo And I noticed Goerge (Boy George) for the first time in this special because this is a clearer version - YES!!!!!! - I just died and went to heaven! ... Spandau Ballet were totally unique and fabulous on their first 2 albums until they sold out to True.Time Machine now on a loop of the era of The Cult With No Name. It is so SAD what London has now become! .

  • @openyourheart5745
    @openyourheart5745 Місяць тому +13

    Nice of them to upload the full report!! 👍👍

  • @clarsach29
    @clarsach29 Місяць тому +14

    New Romantics really had a lot in common with flappers and Dadaists of the 20s and 30s, the Weimar republic of Germany between the wars and Les années folles in France....a great time for self-expression, creativity and experimentation.

  • @SamUrtonDesign
    @SamUrtonDesign Місяць тому +27

    I was slightly too young to be a real New Romantic, but in '85 finally old enough for the Mud Club & Taboo. Met Boy George & Leigh Bowery there. Then Acid House - and that was the 80's basically.

    • @RolandoRatas
      @RolandoRatas Місяць тому +11

      Not quite, in the 1980s there was a big goth and Indie music scene following, also a very large heavy metal / metal following - (now both movements diminished in numbers but still around or have evolved into something similar but different). Also in the 80s there were still the remnants of punk and the usual mainstream teeny boppers (Bros, Curiosity Killed the Cat etc) and 20s something 'normie' musical followers (Rick Astley, Whitney Houston etc). Also I noticed in the 80s there were pockets of hip hop and rap followers here and there.

    • @analogueman123456787
      @analogueman123456787 Місяць тому +7

      @@RolandoRatas - Yeah, you're right. The '80s as a whole was still very 'tribal'. Not so much today. People understandably remember a particular decade from their own experiences, rather than deliberately attempting to erase the other facets of the time.

    • @SamUrtonDesign
      @SamUrtonDesign Місяць тому +4

      @@RolandoRatas Everything you mention here (with the exception of hip-hop) bored the pants off of me, if I'm being totally honest. LOL! I always viewed goth & metal as holdovers from the 70's, as was the punk & post punk stuff (plenty of it was going on in the 80's, but even then seemed dated, somehow). And yes, there was always the terrible pop music of the time. It was the rave/house/techno revolution in the later 80's that was really interesting (to me), and has had the biggest/longest lasting legacy of 80's music. And of course, Hip-Hop.

    • @kumachan9311
      @kumachan9311 Місяць тому +5

      Born in '71 I was about 10 years too young for it, I got lumbered with Sigue Sigue Sputnik in '86

    • @SamUrtonDesign
      @SamUrtonDesign Місяць тому +1

      @@kumachan9311 Haha! Yes I remember the year of Sputnik in '86!. I actually would run into them them hanging out in various London clubs at the time (the lead singer, Martin Degville (sp?) was part of the original New Romantic clan). For about 6 months in 1986 they were The Next Big thing (because everyone was waiting for something new). My best friend bought their album, which had adverts in between the songs (part of the "concept" of ultra violence/capitalism they were lampooning). Unfortunately most of the ads were for London based hipster "insider" business, like The Face magazine. I remember them on Top of the Pops (Shoot Em Up?) in 86 being touted as the "new punk"! LOL! Thank god for house music (acid) the next year...

  • @dennisbuckley
    @dennisbuckley Місяць тому +19

    Ah takes me back - the music, the clothes, the dancing… how I didn’t get my head kicked in I’ll never know 😂

  • @zeddeka
    @zeddeka Місяць тому +27

    Very much a product of the era. That period in the late 70s and early 80s was totally bleak in so many ways. A grey, unpleasant and often quite violent time. Escapism was appealing.

  • @petermcmillan3446
    @petermcmillan3446 Місяць тому +33

    For me it was all about being able to go into the Oxfam shop and not be stuck with the boring stuff on the men's racks. Pixie boots, jingly belts and scarves baby, not to mention puffy blouses worn as pirate shirts. 😉

  • @annehebert510
    @annehebert510 Місяць тому +14

    43 years ago! And just 36 years after WW2

  • @zippy963
    @zippy963 Місяць тому +14

    Steve strange going through his dificult Worzel Gummige phase. Aunt Sally had some new romantic vibes too.

  • @gracemastrogiacomo393
    @gracemastrogiacomo393 Місяць тому +6

    Was in London at time as an au pair. I loved it !! Had and will stay the greatest time of my life. Greetings from Switzerland
    😍

  • @leea2112
    @leea2112 Місяць тому +69

    I was a new romantic best years of my life it was fresh and new no one followed like sheep nowadays wearing all the same clothes we had our own style brilliant times!! ❤❤❤❤

    • @analogueman123456787
      @analogueman123456787 Місяць тому +11

      @@Anna-iq4yq - Most of those from that era didn't actually have two ha'pennies to rub together. All the outfits and subsequent styles were cobbled together from charity shops and jumble sales. You can still do it to this day if you exercise a bit of imagination.

    • @leea2112
      @leea2112 Місяць тому +7

      @@analogueman123456787 exactly ! You can make your own that's what we did style and imagination something much lacking in the clones of this generation!!

    • @leea2112
      @leea2112 Місяць тому +1

      @@analogueman123456787 exactly ! You can make your own that's what we did style and imagination something much lacking in the clones of this generation!!

    • @analogueman123456787
      @analogueman123456787 Місяць тому +4

      @@leea2112 - It's amazing to think now, that the outfits put together back then, usually from second-hand sources, ended up actually influencing the designers and high street chains who were keen to jump onto the bandwagon. Street fashion, but with style.

    • @75YBA
      @75YBA Місяць тому

      Dorks.

  • @Kunard144
    @Kunard144 Місяць тому +6

    Still listening to lots of New Romantic / new wave, indie from the 80s.still buying CDs and vinyl, my latest CDs this week Japan Quiet life, and The cure triple CD disintergration 💖

  • @brianprice5152
    @brianprice5152 Місяць тому +4

    I worked in retail, sold clothes, went to Camden Palace and the rum runner, went down Kings Road saw world end and antony price's shop, what great creative period created your own culture, clothes dance and music 🎶
    I'm now a fashion designer and bespoke tailor thanks to the 80s
    Most culture is corporate Nike, addis and phone 📱

  • @dukedepommefrite
    @dukedepommefrite Місяць тому +5

    Very cool. I wish young people had something to cling to these days.

  • @nickwalter9630
    @nickwalter9630 Місяць тому +10

    That was great. Very familiar old faces.

  • @DavidPaulMorgan
    @DavidPaulMorgan Місяць тому +7

    brillant -just brilliant! This is why the 80s were "the best" 🙂(me, 18 in 1979, Newport, Gwent)

  • @jakecavendish3470
    @jakecavendish3470 Місяць тому +4

    I remember Bazzy Bumster, Cynthia de Haviland Gunt, Wally the Wazzok and Gropey Gavin

  • @mci6830
    @mci6830 Місяць тому +4

    Steve was, indeed, strange . Bless him.

  • @sharronsmith-vc5lg
    @sharronsmith-vc5lg Місяць тому +3

    I loved the 80s it was a amazing time

  • @heyabusa1
    @heyabusa1 Місяць тому +5

    Is the building/venue, 60 Greek Street, still there? Before my time but curious to know.

    • @pobstrel
      @pobstrel Місяць тому +3

      The entrance is still there but the rest of the building has changed a lot. 60 Greek street on Google Maps.

  • @emmabrooker166
    @emmabrooker166 Місяць тому +6

    Loved my electric blue corduroy knickerbockers! 😆

  • @MrItsme73
    @MrItsme73 Місяць тому +6

    It's wonderfully preposterous and situationist. And ignoring a recession and nuclear war

  • @TinaLouise73
    @TinaLouise73 Місяць тому +5

    the new romantics were like the 80s version of the renaissance era!

  • @louminati4318
    @louminati4318 Місяць тому +9

    Those clothes are now worth some serious bread.

  • @MrItsme73
    @MrItsme73 Місяць тому +2

    It's whimsical flipflamery but weirdly meaningful to so many people still

  • @rabit818
    @rabit818 Місяць тому +10

    “People take pictures of themselves” - looking fabulous. Fast forward to 2024, same thing sans fabulous. Just a few, maybe.

  • @RolandoRatas
    @RolandoRatas Місяць тому +8

    I was around as a kid during the New Romantics movement and I just got to know about it second hand from mainstream TV and the music press newspapers but 'up North' it wasn't much of a thing for the youth culture there, I never knew or saw anyone who was into dressing in this way and going out; I think there may have been small pockets of people who were into it up North (the clubbing and dressing up) but I dunno where they went to meet up etc. (any venues in Leeds / Manchester etc anyone knows about ?).
    I've looked into it before but The New Romantics was very much a smaller scene down in London around Covent Garden and Soho (Central London) as this video stated in clubs such as Billy's and The Blitz.

    • @analogueman123456787
      @analogueman123456787 Місяць тому +4

      Yeah, you're right, it began as a kind of London-thing. However, there were also some remarkably talented groups of people at the time from the likes of Sheffield, Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Brum who fed into the rising culture and ended up culturally influencing the rest of the world at that time.

    • @richardmacleod5253
      @richardmacleod5253 Місяць тому +5

      Liverpool had Cagneys which was a New Romantic nightclub in the early 1980s. There are photos on the Liverpool Echo. Leeds had Bar Phono.

    • @RolandoRatas
      @RolandoRatas Місяць тому

      @@richardmacleod5253 thanks for the info, never heard of those clubs before. Let me Google them now.

    • @loiteringwithintent461
      @loiteringwithintent461 Місяць тому +1

      ​​@@RolandoRatas Leeds had their New Romantic Club 'The Warehouse'. Birmingham had 'Barbarellas' and 'Holy City Zoo'. Liverpool had 'Erics'. Romford had 'Crocs'. Each of these clubs spawned their own stars and bands. Soft Cell, Vicious Pink, Duran Duran, Dead Or Alive, Depeche Mode etc.

    • @RolandoRatas
      @RolandoRatas Місяць тому +1

      @@loiteringwithintent461 Do you know if Siouxsie Sioux had anything to do with the Romford 'Crocs' club ? I haven't read her biography but should do.

  • @shaunigothictv1003
    @shaunigothictv1003 Місяць тому +3

    Steve Strange looked the most unique out of all of them..

  • @sarahlouise7163
    @sarahlouise7163 Місяць тому +9

    aw, i was a bit young at 15, pretty sure i bought a few copies of I-D 😆 but they cannot possibly insist that their style wasn't a fashion. they absolutely did dress like a tribe, even in the early clubland. pretty soon every shop on the high street was full of fru-fru new romanic stuff. what i didn't appreciate though, was that some of them, like the first bloke, were more fashioned on 30s and 40s styles. far cry from Spandau Ballet's get-up. and the fashion petered out - just like every other style before the new romantics.
    now of course, the fashion/music tribe is dead, essentially. although "narcissistic... forever taking pictures of themselves", no. that's definitely more prevalent than ever 😁
    i note that the journalist seems desperate to make it about politics and "greyness" and "desperation" and "gloom" and you just know he is gagging to say "Thatcher", and these kids are nonchalantly refusing to play that game 🤣

  • @danmayberry1185
    @danmayberry1185 Місяць тому +7

    Martin Kemp looked about 15

  • @jam1087
    @jam1087 Місяць тому +1

    I could always dig dressing that way but never could I agree with listening to Spandau Ballet

  • @nigelcarren
    @nigelcarren Місяць тому +8

    Bloody hell, I wish my hair and I hadn't got divorced! 🇬🇧

  • @HistoryonYouTube
    @HistoryonYouTube Місяць тому

    I was 19 when this was on Newsnight and of course I remember the music but cannot remember the clothes - or maybe it did not get to where I was then. I find the comments section just as interesting as the report, reflections from people the same age as me, people who seem to have been more involved than I was!

  • @pit_stop77
    @pit_stop77 Місяць тому +2

    I wanted to be a new romantic, but lived in very Conservative rural Ireland, and was too scared to break the norm. Not so shy 40 years on 😂

  • @RolandoRatas
    @RolandoRatas Місяць тому +2

    btw 2:51 was that singer Marilyn from the New Romantics era ?

    • @analogueman123456787
      @analogueman123456787 Місяць тому +2

      @SubtraxionStudio - My mistake.

    • @loiteringwithintent461
      @loiteringwithintent461 Місяць тому +2

      That's Pinkietessa - Theresa Thurmer. She's on youtube. She later famously made a cameo in Holly Johnsons video 'Love Train'.

  • @bardo0007
    @bardo0007 Місяць тому

    What happened to John Baker? Can't find any more info on him.

    • @geezerbutler4582
      @geezerbutler4582 Місяць тому

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Baker_(producer)

  • @GriefTourist
    @GriefTourist Місяць тому +2

    When you live in Engjand especially London of course you need escapism.

  • @KC-gy5xw
    @KC-gy5xw Місяць тому +6

    I was one too!!

  • @robertguildford
    @robertguildford 7 годин тому

    Briefly, roughly a year earlier than the shooting of this film. I pulled a punkette in a club on a Friday night. Went back to her gaff, a mews house in West Kensington. In the morning mouth as dry as a camels armpit. Need a cup of tea, passed through the lounge to kitchen. Two fellas at ease in the lounge,extravagant hair and clothes . Made tea went back into the lounge. Introduced themselves as Steve & Billy. Conversation led round to where they we at. New Romantics ?? I said, What's that then?? They tuned me into their scene. Good Luck I said as their taxi called and they departed. Me? I went back to my warm punkette.
    Much later I realised the two guys were Steve Strange and Billy Idol. Strange what can happen on a Friday night out in London.

  • @PollyDayDream
    @PollyDayDream Місяць тому

    Steve Strange was right - it all evolves. I made most of my clothes then. My daughters make evening dress and costume for comic con, my son loved his Peaky Blinders phase.

  • @MrItsme73
    @MrItsme73 Місяць тому +4

    It's massively inclusive, back then you'd be beaten up looking a bit bent. It took balls

  • @bougeac
    @bougeac Місяць тому +4

    This seems like a thousand years ago, how has the world got so sh@t?

  • @kanalhopper9125
    @kanalhopper9125 Місяць тому +2

    2:40 WOW

  • @desianwar
    @desianwar Місяць тому

    I lived through this era 😊

  • @vandolmatzis8146
    @vandolmatzis8146 Місяць тому +1

    We usedto nick our older sisters shirts

  • @natasabobinec9413
    @natasabobinec9413 7 днів тому

    @3:10 young Boy George ❤❤❤

  • @paulhowarth6976
    @paulhowarth6976 Місяць тому

    1st bit was Blue Rondo A La Turk? Klactoveesisteen

  • @richalderson6069
    @richalderson6069 Місяць тому +2

    I've never seen Steve Strange look so rough!

    • @kumachan9311
      @kumachan9311 Місяць тому

      Yeah, it's like he's hung his head in shame

  • @kaymanuel7256
    @kaymanuel7256 Місяць тому +1

    Steve Strange looks like he needs a good shower, or a new romantic shower! I remember it being way more flamboyant than this! I loved those times, the makeup the buying something new every week, it was fabulous

  • @DIETRICHCICCONE
    @DIETRICHCICCONE Місяць тому +3

    i-D ❤

  • @hintex487
    @hintex487 Місяць тому

    Interesting

  • @Satscape
    @Satscape Місяць тому +1

    I liked the music of the period, but couldn't give a f*** about fashion. I think the hippy culture will have it's day again.. Hippy 2.0 (coining the phrase)
    You're an eternal being who lives forever who temporarily blocks their memory and incarnates into a physical meat-suit then dresses the meat-suit with various garments and has various experiences that you learn from.
    A cold description of life as a human.
    All of the "dead" people in this video are very much alive and well.
    I should probably stop now...Have a lovely day everyone!
    ❤&✌‍

  • @robbflynn4325
    @robbflynn4325 Місяць тому +2

    They all eventually grow up.

  • @hazza5999
    @hazza5999 Місяць тому +3

    Can i be first to post "Things aren't what they used to be"?
    No?
    Doh!

  • @carlraja1622
    @carlraja1622 Місяць тому +1

    right of screen 3,09 boy george

  • @Stiffd1
    @Stiffd1 Місяць тому +1

    Steve's been on the toot.

  • @aidenwhelan2560
    @aidenwhelan2560 Місяць тому +1

    What is the chance the first gentleman we see is a rich man. Making themselves a spot in the lime light. And then dragging the poor plebs behind for more.

  • @heymusiclover1
    @heymusiclover1 Місяць тому +7

    "There's a brand new dance but I don't know its name, That people from bad homes do again and again, It's big and it's bland full of tension and fear, They do it over there but we don't do it here !" 🤣🤣 David Bowie had this lot totally sussed and the fact that he plucked a few of them to appear in one of his vids, oh the irony.

    • @loiteringwithintent461
      @loiteringwithintent461 Місяць тому +2

      If that was Bowie's comment on the New Romantics, the old fart didn't make much sense. Steve Strange looked incredible in the Ashes video, but Bowie looked pathetic. That 40-something junkie in a pierrot suit- a look that he in fact stole from Steve.

  • @ymotechnopopfan
    @ymotechnopopfan Місяць тому +1

    To me, New Romantics are like aliens that came from another planet!

  • @hopebgood
    @hopebgood Місяць тому +4

    Bob Elms urgh rent-an-opinion bloke.

    • @kumachan9311
      @kumachan9311 Місяць тому +2

      Well, it's 'kept him in work', Channel 5 must have him on speed dial

  • @alexbowman7582
    @alexbowman7582 Місяць тому +1

    Definition of New Romantics, posers who iron creases in their clothes.

  • @Stiffd1
    @Stiffd1 Місяць тому

    First bloke was Steve Strange's jealous cousin....

  • @Custardpoint948
    @Custardpoint948 Місяць тому +1

    Steve Strange wasted

  • @richguest
    @richguest Місяць тому +2

    Even more pretentious than I remember..... 🤣

  • @MrItsme73
    @MrItsme73 Місяць тому

    The personal is political in a dadaeque way , much more fun and more sex than cnd marches

  • @jacktar9567
    @jacktar9567 Місяць тому

    punk not good enough for these 'alternatives'.... so empty & devoid of style...rubbish music.... self-centered pseudo camp nonsense....

  • @rickykilby4672
    @rickykilby4672 Місяць тому

    More to the point,who cares.

  • @robinscott7816
    @robinscott7816 Місяць тому +5

    We were in to Ska and Two Tone. New Romantics were a total joke

    • @analogueman123456787
      @analogueman123456787 Місяць тому +16

      And I'm sure they thought you were ridiculous too!
      The first half of the '80s were incredibly tribal. One was no better or worse than the other. Maybe better to be part of something, than be bland and homogeneous and be part of nothing.

    • @glamnesianouveaux2039
      @glamnesianouveaux2039 Місяць тому +1

      @@analogueman123456787 Perfectly said!!! * YES * !!!

  • @A1Cynic70
    @A1Cynic70 Місяць тому +7

    I had a 'movement' this morning. Wouldn't exactly call it fashionable tho. Actually rather pongy.

    • @RolandoRatas
      @RolandoRatas Місяць тому +4

      that would be Bros and you certainly 'Dropped The Boy' there ...

  • @anomietoponymie2140
    @anomietoponymie2140 Місяць тому +9

    A gathering of narcissists.

    • @75YBA
      @75YBA Місяць тому +2

      Yeah, boring narcissists.

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka Місяць тому +9

      I suppose you also have to look at the context they were in. That period in the late 70s and early 80s was totally bleak in so many ways. A grey, unpleasant and often quite violent time. Escapism was appealing.

    • @lewis7515
      @lewis7515 Місяць тому

      ​@@zeddeka Escapism is fine, but they really do come over as nothing but sickeningly narcissistic and up themselves.... Just so repugnant.

    • @anomietoponymie2140
      @anomietoponymie2140 Місяць тому

      @@zeddeka I know, I was there.

    • @moonsovermiami101
      @moonsovermiami101 Місяць тому

      @@anomietoponymie2140 you May have been around at the time but you certainly were not there!

  • @garyrigby21
    @garyrigby21 Місяць тому +1

    Say new be romantic 😂

  • @orionxtc1119
    @orionxtc1119 Місяць тому +7

    pretentious crowd

    • @RolandoRatas
      @RolandoRatas Місяць тому +17

      Maybe so, where they really 17th century dandies ? nope. But at least they were doing something creative and hopefully enjoying themselves at the time. Listening to say, Spandau Ballet on Spotify right now makes them seem like geniuses compared to some of the quality of music that's around right now in the charts and I didn't like them at the time in the 80s (I thought they were 'boring' back then).

    • @zippy963
      @zippy963 Місяць тому +7

      Well said Duran and so many other bands were dismissed as poseurs when they were actually great musicians and songwriters.​@@RolandoRatas

    • @JasmineSurrealVideos
      @JasmineSurrealVideos Місяць тому +2

      ​@@RolandoRatasI only really like To Cut A Long Story Short, and I thought Spandau were just a boy band like Duran and was quite sniffy about them as a kid, but now compared to the mostly crap in the charts they were OK and Tony Hadley has a great voice. Same with Duran.