I remember hearing this for the first time in 1984 when ‘Echo and The Bunneymen’ appeared on ‘Top Of The Pops’ and we had just taken delivery of our first video recorder! I remember eleven years earlier, during the summer holidays, we had been at my granny’s house and my mother read out an article in the paper saying that within ten years we could expect to see the domestic video recorder and every home could record and playback television programmes whenever they wanted. As we watched a repeat of ‘Doctor Who and The Sea Devils’ on my granny’s black and white PYE TV, the concept of colour tv and video seemed a million miles away, but more or less by 1983 the domestic video recorder was available. Naturally they were very expensive and so we had hired ours from Granada!
Our shiny new video machine came with two tapes one of an hour’s duration and one three-hour cassette. Having pressed the eject button and watched the cassette casing shoot up and hungrily await my tape. I put it in and did a test recording of ‘Top Of The Pops’ and recorded this song, which was in the charts that week. I was now able to watch and replay my favourite songs as much as I wanted! It was amazing.
I still have the original recording of that episode, transferred it to DVD and watched it recently as my son Oliver also loves this song and wanted to see it. We often play this is in the car and I listened to it on the way to work today as well.
Now listen to the song….
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