Oh why can't we have good old scandals such as this? Dave Cameron found with lover possibly? Mind you some of the cabinet look suspect ! It was a great thing at the time, I remember walking up Fleet st and seeing the bill boards. I love this film.
This is so great. The movie Scandal was really well done about Profumo and Christine Keeler. I just love this video and how they cut back and forth between the movie and the real Profumo and Keeler from the 1963 news reels. This haunting song played over the opening and closing credits.
@skintrade The movie is called Scandal. It's about the true story of John Profumo, high Cabinet Minister in the British Government; his affair with prostitute Christine Keeler. It happened in 1963; great story... google The Profumo Affair and read about it on Wiki.
It was a pity that Poulson took the fall. He was seeing the Russians on govt business which could not be divulged at the time. Non public meetings about nuclear disarmament.
It was not until the official papers were released at the PRO at Kew that cleared him of any wrong doing.
A very fine and often overlooked film. A great story brilliantly acted.
Joanne Whalley, in particular, at 3:20 - 3:25, after John Hurt turns down her affections: It's easy to see that she did like him, or something like that, and her failure here to entice him into something more emotional speaks volumes about the emotional problems plaguing her life. The look on her face.....just brilliant.
@calvintoronto i totally agree with you , but Stephen Ward ( John Hurt) was an osteopath he enjoyed healing people , and he did make Christine keeler,s life better , but where it all went wrong was of two things . No 1 She briefly got into drugs and had a one night stand with a Jamaican immigrant. No2 was when she told John Profumo that she will never leave Stephens flat ( coz Profumo saw the heat and insisted that she move out .) this is when it all went sour for Profumo.
Synthesizers and drum machines are what The Pet Shop Boys are all about - amusingly so at times. However, it worked so well, and Neil Tennant is a craftsman at writing uniquely-haunting lyrics that make your stomach flip over. Dusty Springfield's melodic sensuality is hard to replicate, she had a brilliant voice and was adored by her peers: I miss her. This is one of my favourite tunes ever. Thanks.
think Secretary of state for war/ a russian spy/ a jamaican drug dealer/ a gun toting pimp/ teenage prostitutes/ resignation of a prime minister. The only person missing was Silvio Berlusconi.
Appreciate posting this but I think the synthesizers and drum machines override her voice. I don't know what her voice was like at this point in her career but you can't hear her famous voice at all.
Government Arseholes protecting perverted senior ministers going for 17 year olds, Poor old Valerie Hobson had to live with the bald headed pervert. PROFUMO.
@nippylobster That's been said by many a wise man and woman up and down the country for decades. You are in possession of a decent mind there my copper wired friend.
(Bet you fuck it up by getting trollied and chasing skirt like the rest of us though)
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
The Profumo Affair - still remember it well - Mandy Rice - Davies, Christine Keeler, John Profumo, Stephen Ward et al - the lyrics- cleverly written. Watch the film and learn a part of history, which really did happen people, in real life!
@rocklady54 there are two movies planned about Dusty. One is supposed to star Nicole Kidman. The second one I'm not sure who will be in it. I think it's more of an independent film.
A true classic, a singer without peer, Ms. Springfield kicks out on this. Thank you so very much to Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe for recognizing the legend that is Dusty Springfield. Great sax work from Courtney Pine, too! Thank you!
Anyone fascinated by this song and in turn the film or the Profumo Scandal should check out, if they haven't already, Anthony Frewin's novel London Blues. Amazing
A mesmerising performance by the fabulous Dusty Springfield. Anyone who doesn't understand the term "star quality" should watch this vid. Ms Springfield has "star quality" and then some. Incidentally, Mandy Rice-Davis at 0:54 ! She looks like big, big trouble. Though, I bet she matured into a really nice woman.
lyrically, it's very cerebral for a pop song. My hats off to PSB for being able to tell the story and put it to music.
A friend of mine, who knew nothing about the Profumo Affair but has the song on CD said to me "that song makes me so sad when I hear it. It's haunting."
and it IS haunting...the atmospheric production, those eerie lyrics (the funeral's very quiet, because all his friends have fled") and most of all, the lovely, haunting voice of Dusty Springfield.
If you don't like Dusty, don't listen to her! I believe that the ultra gaga lady is waiting for your cash...
If you DO like Dusty - congratulations on having an excellent ear for music and an appreciation of one of the finest artistes that England has ever produced.
This song has the perfect tone for the story - Dusty has a perfect delivery, actors are intriguing. Well, I'll have to see the film! Nicely put together, whoever did this montage.
Twinskyh, I love her older ones also but this is still a beautiful song. Great smooth feeling and then at the end when she does her patented big notes it's just amazing.
@starlight76able lmao some people just dont have good taste. Some people have tacky houses and some people have nice houses. Its all about differant tastes. Some people like crap food, some people like good food. Id say i have good taste :) especially with music. Good song !
A song tailor made for Dusty - and the video displays her perfectly. A perfect blend of voice, lyrics and drama. You can tell she really enjoyed this one. Her best video performance.
Beautiful, haunting track. I am not really a Pet Shop Boys fan but this was a stroke of genius by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe (and Dusty, of course). I was 13 during the Profumo scandal in 1963 and it seems like yesterday! It was one of the first great political scandals of the modern era and nothing in Britain was the same afterwards. Thanks for posting.
I agree--very beautiful song. This is one of their many (undeservedly) forgotten gems. They haven't been big in the U.S. for some time, and it bugs me that so many people here only remember them for West End Girls. Intelligent, thoughtful lyrics, lush orchestral melodies--only a couple of reasons why I have been a devotee for so long.
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@karlvorderman Poor Stephen Ward my arse! He was a self centered pimp. The only person who came well out of this whole thing long term was John Profumo who rehabilitated himself and devoted his life to charity work
Nice club sound to this music video where music videos in cinemas during the 80s was new trend when one day slowly disappeared. I still havent seen Scandal 1989 maybe it will suffice on bluray in the UK or DVD when the studio can pull its finger out.
Dustys voice has nice silkiness tone and the saxophone slowly fading away at the end as its telling the story of the Profumo Affair scandal long before my time.
A few nice backing voices by The Pet Shop Boys also on the track.
So how gorgeous this song can be? The Pet Shop Boys are great music-crafting guys and Dusty's soothing voice really adds up a lot to that. A masterpiece of the eighties to play loud over and overr...
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Well, there were only two girls, so if it wasn't Mandy then i guess it had to be Christine. The point I was trying to make was that it wasn't Steven Ward in drag as some other poster suggested.
Love this! The best later song of Dusty's career by far! Memories of 1989,i don't know lol.Funny though in the video clip for this between 4.05 and 4.08,the policeman in the backround on the left hand side,behind keeler looks like Jerermy Clarkson of the BBC Top Gear programme.Never noticed this before,its the spit of him! Funny! Anyway nice post!! Benja :-)
There were rumours that never entirely went away that the trail of johns went to some pretty lofty heights of English society-Prince Phillip to name just one...
fantastic singer, Dusty may her music stay alive always.
aud2369 1 week ago
beautiful. the girls. john hurt. ooo la la.
MrSuzanne88 2 weeks ago
what a special lady dusty was, i had a crush on her at 12 years old and now i am 54 still love that lady !!!!
SuperDaveylad 4 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
Great song.
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Vispateresa3 1 month ago
Courtney Pine on sax at the end, can't beat it!
gladiator3543 1 month ago
Αυτό το βίντεο έχει προστεθεί στα Αγαπημένα σας.
theCluevi 1 month ago
The issue has nothing to do whit me at that time.
I did not know anyhing about girl company and stuff!!
Dusty Springfield,1989
glaeken14 1 month ago
supurb film , supurb soundtrack and Dusty and the PSB's were a fabulous mix. RIP Dusty,
freddielaker2 2 months ago
what a song
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Zgreens 2 months ago
This is the definition of an epic song, people.
I could listen to this song all day & night.
whatthedeuce81 3 months ago 3
Dusty is fantastic...If she was Welsh she would be Tom Jone's female equivalent!
Honestly though what a voice and what a woman.
Jman19810 3 months ago
John Profumo created 13 accounts to dislike this
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ambientdweller 4 months ago
May I recommend the book 'A Concise Guide To Eighties' Music' by Karl Vorderman. The author is a big fan of this track.
garyw930 5 months ago
Oh why can't we have good old scandals such as this? Dave Cameron found with lover possibly? Mind you some of the cabinet look suspect ! It was a great thing at the time, I remember walking up Fleet st and seeing the bill boards. I love this film.
Seal00754 5 months ago
John Hurt is fucking sexy.
embojitsu 5 months ago in playlist Songs
scandal = amazin film, amazin tune = rip dusty xxxx
TheMisshayley1 5 months ago
Great great song. R.I.P Dusty
shanx2002 5 months ago
"Sorry about the mess. I'm guilty till I'm innocense in the Public and Press."
PSBGeorge 6 months ago
BEST SONG EVER.
246Gill 6 months ago
This is so great. The movie Scandal was really well done about Profumo and Christine Keeler. I just love this video and how they cut back and forth between the movie and the real Profumo and Keeler from the 1963 news reels. This haunting song played over the opening and closing credits.
janicerosen 6 months ago 2
Whats the name of the film please?
skintrade 6 months ago in playlist skintrade's Favourited Videos
@skintrade The movie is called Scandal. It's about the true story of John Profumo, high Cabinet Minister in the British Government; his affair with prostitute Christine Keeler. It happened in 1963; great story... google The Profumo Affair and read about it on Wiki.
janicerosen 6 months ago
@skintrade Scandal with Bridget Fonda & Joanne Whalley
launwatch 4 months ago
great great song , joanne whalley in this movie is breathtakingly BEAUTIFUL a modern version of TAYLOR or LEIGH !
wexfordboyful 6 months ago
@wexfordboyful Let's not exagerate. Whalley may remind us of Joan Collins, but not Dame Elizabeth Taylor or Vivien Leigh.
marcosvalenca 5 months ago
@marcosvalenca No. She is infinitely more fuckable.
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@wexfordboyful Let's not exagerate. Whalley may remind us of Joan Collins, but not Dame Elizabeth Taylor or Vivien Leigh.
marcosvalenca 5 months ago
I've got to see this movie, I've been reading up a lot about the Profumo scandal lately
ladycplum 6 months ago
I'd really love to see this film. The song is fantastic.
katie7714 7 months ago
Went out with a bang rather than a whimper - that's our Dusty - good on yer girl!
HardWarUK 7 months ago
i've loved this song from the start.
rowanmark21 8 months ago
best singer to come out of the uk. legend.
noddy2ful 8 months ago
Dusty looks beautiful :O
guitarrox01 8 months ago
Haunting and beautiful :)
Nunov103 8 months ago
GREAT SONG GREAT MOVIIE.!!!!!!!!!
MrChloeaimee 8 months ago 2
John Hurt was robbed of an Oscar nomination for this movie.
Messylin 9 months ago 2
It was a pity that Poulson took the fall. He was seeing the Russians on govt business which could not be divulged at the time. Non public meetings about nuclear disarmament.
It was not until the official papers were released at the PRO at Kew that cleared him of any wrong doing.
PZK12 9 months ago
How one woman rocked the KGB, MI5 and the British establishment. None many about like Christine now.
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launwatch 4 months ago
Amazing song, such a tragic story. Poor Stephen Ward.
ginaraquel 9 months ago 2
Sad story. poor Christine. GREAT song.
MidEasterner 9 months ago
A very fine and often overlooked film. A great story brilliantly acted.
Joanne Whalley, in particular, at 3:20 - 3:25, after John Hurt turns down her affections: It's easy to see that she did like him, or something like that, and her failure here to entice him into something more emotional speaks volumes about the emotional problems plaguing her life. The look on her face.....just brilliant.
calvintoronto 10 months ago 10
@calvintoronto i totally agree with you , but Stephen Ward ( John Hurt) was an osteopath he enjoyed healing people , and he did make Christine keeler,s life better , but where it all went wrong was of two things . No 1 She briefly got into drugs and had a one night stand with a Jamaican immigrant. No2 was when she told John Profumo that she will never leave Stephens flat ( coz Profumo saw the heat and insisted that she move out .) this is when it all went sour for Profumo.
skababooshka 1 week ago
Synthesizers and drum machines are what The Pet Shop Boys are all about - amusingly so at times. However, it worked so well, and Neil Tennant is a craftsman at writing uniquely-haunting lyrics that make your stomach flip over. Dusty Springfield's melodic sensuality is hard to replicate, she had a brilliant voice and was adored by her peers: I miss her. This is one of my favourite tunes ever. Thanks.
Jazzigator 10 months ago 12
great singer
joeysings 10 months ago
think Secretary of state for war/ a russian spy/ a jamaican drug dealer/ a gun toting pimp/ teenage prostitutes/ resignation of a prime minister. The only person missing was Silvio Berlusconi.
lifereguard 10 months ago 3
Appreciate posting this but I think the synthesizers and drum machines override her voice. I don't know what her voice was like at this point in her career but you can't hear her famous voice at all.
iandenisjohnson 10 months ago
@iandenisjohnson I think i know what her voice was like at this point ... something called sublime..
hambuns 10 months ago
I cannot put into words how much i adore this song.
246Gill 10 months ago
SMOOTHER THEN SILK...
ambientdweller 10 months ago
"it maybe false it maybe true, but nothing has been proved, ..........only when you want to. because we didnt try
bobdun1 10 months ago
"it maybe false it maybe true, but nothing has been proved, ..........only when you want to.
bobdun1 10 months ago
I saw Gandalf!! ;)
80sAlways 10 months ago
Christine was so wronged.
Messylin 10 months ago 2
Oh dear lord! I thumbed this, & it made 666!
borgduck 10 months ago
Christine is fab! I love 60's beauties, ever since I was hugged by 60's Doctor Who actress Wendy Padbury. She's older than my mother!
borgduck 10 months ago
Goodness, Christine Keeler was a beauty in her day
Nicklas4500 11 months ago
Please Please me's number one, it's a scandal! such a scandal! great movie and great song Dusty and PSB Perfect!!
altv1969 11 months ago
03:18 - Pure magic. Great track and fantastic movie
iberia77 11 months ago 2
these track is fuuuunnnnkkkky. my lord the beat is murderin.
peacetynanlove 11 months ago
Wow- What a song. It really conveys the story and the time in which it was set. Gives me goosebumps.
katie7714 11 months ago 2
What Is 2:07 All About?
Was This A Movie?
DUSTY :( GONE RIP
desert3347 1 year ago
@desert3347 it's from the movie Scandal. You just got to see it.
MsKrien 11 months ago
@MsKrien Thanks, I will!! Love Dusty :)
desert3347 11 months ago
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I'm so glad to have found other people who adore this song!
raswallow 1 year ago
I'm so glad to have found other people who adore this song!
raswallow 1 year ago 2
@raswallow yes fab
MegaTerry1972 11 months ago
Government Arseholes protecting perverted senior ministers going for 17 year olds, Poor old Valerie Hobson had to live with the bald headed pervert. PROFUMO.
k80nya 1 year ago 3
I Am Feeling Totally Stupid! Did I Miss something? Who Was Having An Affair?
Did I See Two Women In Bed Together? Wondering!!!!
2lovs4music 1 year ago
Dusty had a quality of voice that comes around only once every 200 or 300 hundred years. RIP my dear.
itsmegp46 1 year ago 3
Il caso Profumo...
MrChrisHeaven 1 year ago
Christean Keeler what a woman
billyowl 1 year ago 2
he had a wonderful voice!!! RIP Dusty!!!!
downdeep35 1 year ago
@nippylobster That's been said by many a wise man and woman up and down the country for decades. You are in possession of a decent mind there my copper wired friend.
(Bet you fuck it up by getting trollied and chasing skirt like the rest of us though)
:)
HitMeQuick 1 year ago
Such a brilliant ensemble of talent here, music, style, the evocation of an era - everything. John Hurt was robbed of an Oscar! Genius actor.
Messylin 1 year ago 2
Dusty was the best singer i just loved all the stuff she did with the pet shop boys RIP DUSTY GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN......................
MsFanmail 1 year ago 5
This song is so haunting, will love it till i die.
246Gill 1 year ago 5
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radioelargentino 1 year ago
Secret classic.
mrblack6974 1 year ago 2
Dusty = As Good As It Gets
Pet Shop Boys = As Good As It Gets
Dusty + Pet Shop Boys > As Good As It Gets
LesbianVampireLover 1 year ago 26
@LesbianVampireLover I agree you are amazing!!
PetShopBoysrgr8 6 months ago
gorgeous song, it gives me shivers. Dustys got a great voice.
muddlup44 1 year ago 14
The Profumo Affair - still remember it well - Mandy Rice - Davies, Christine Keeler, John Profumo, Stephen Ward et al - the lyrics- cleverly written. Watch the film and learn a part of history, which really did happen people, in real life!
truefactsth 1 year ago 4
Amazing video edition!
I loved!
Marciab84 1 year ago
Absolutely amazing video edition!
marciab8 1 year ago
Christ Dusty slays me!
Kubrickfan1 1 year ago
what a stunning voice she had
joedgillis 1 year ago 2
would anybody know if anyone know if they are going to make a movie sbout the lofe and career of dusty spingfield . could please let me know a.s.a.p
rocklady54 1 year ago
@rocklady54 there are two movies planned about Dusty. One is supposed to star Nicole Kidman. The second one I'm not sure who will be in it. I think it's more of an independent film.
lasktguy 1 year ago
PSB and Dusty, what more can you asked for??? perfection at is best.
simply awesome!!
lacviet 1 year ago 2
Dusty sang it brilliantly ,
janeelizabeth50 1 year ago 2
late dusty still blows us away
jeremiah3181 1 year ago
it's a pitty Dusty didn't stay around for longer. great singer, great song and a great voice.
romaloni 1 year ago
great song... extremely elegant singing voice
voutespancar 1 year ago 2
Miley Cyrus and Bieber at the Brit Awards 2011? doing a duet with this song?
CyrusTrueLove 1 year ago
@CyrusTrueLove thats sounds awful nooo
is it deffo lol
sarahbisme1 1 year ago
Brilliant! Dusty, you are profoundly missed! So much genius that we missed out on since you were taken too soon.....
boywondfw 1 year ago 3
A true classic, a singer without peer, Ms. Springfield kicks out on this. Thank you so very much to Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe for recognizing the legend that is Dusty Springfield. Great sax work from Courtney Pine, too! Thank you!
grooverunner 1 year ago 4
Fabulous then and it still is now.....
amandabun 1 year ago 3
Não acredito que a Miley Cyrus e Justin Bieber vão cantar essa música no Brit Awards 2011.. Afff....
AshDemiMil 1 year ago
Anyone fascinated by this song and in turn the film or the Profumo Scandal should check out, if they haven't already, Anthony Frewin's novel London Blues. Amazing
destructivedandy 1 year ago
Great song and from a great film too.
MegaSpliffster 1 year ago
At 2:57 is that John Hurt in drag as a purse-lipped granny? Wot?
Shtove 1 year ago
@Shtove
it's Jean Alexander ( Hilda Ogden from Coronation Street ) playing Christine Keeler's Mother.
likewhateva1 1 year ago 2
A mesmerising performance by the fabulous Dusty Springfield. Anyone who doesn't understand the term "star quality" should watch this vid. Ms Springfield has "star quality" and then some. Incidentally, Mandy Rice-Davis at 0:54 ! She looks like big, big trouble. Though, I bet she matured into a really nice woman.
smlsax99 1 year ago
lyrically, it's very cerebral for a pop song. My hats off to PSB for being able to tell the story and put it to music.
A friend of mine, who knew nothing about the Profumo Affair but has the song on CD said to me "that song makes me so sad when I hear it. It's haunting."
and it IS haunting...the atmospheric production, those eerie lyrics (the funeral's very quiet, because all his friends have fled") and most of all, the lovely, haunting voice of Dusty Springfield.
mnmcv1 1 year ago 5
@mnmcv1 Not all the Pop Songs are stupids like the shits of today.....
ArtDC08 1 year ago
I have to agree with everybody here, an absolute gem of a track. Totally adore this.
clooneyclub 1 year ago 2
This is without a doubt a classic, and with the the input of the pet shop boys will always remain so, we miss you Ms O'Brien.
taetoy 1 year ago
listen to the depth the soul wow who sings that way now
sarahbisme1 1 year ago
@sarahbisme1 Emma Bunton?
seanr456 1 year ago
The best eye make-up in the business. Whew!
roried 1 year ago
Love this song it reminds me of a time when real songs could make it in the chart
MrJubileeday 1 year ago
The PSBs should do more soundtracks.
ettlz 1 year ago
If you don't like Dusty, don't listen to her! I believe that the ultra gaga lady is waiting for your cash...
If you DO like Dusty - congratulations on having an excellent ear for music and an appreciation of one of the finest artistes that England has ever produced.
rpauls1 1 year ago 5
This song is great, Dusty Springfield and the Pet Shop Boys, wow! Movie was great too!!!!
rgarcia923 1 year ago 2
Im 19 and i love this. I hate todays music, its so bland and wishey washey.
lippy170 1 year ago
This song has the perfect tone for the story - Dusty has a perfect delivery, actors are intriguing. Well, I'll have to see the film! Nicely put together, whoever did this montage.
ytcarol 1 year ago
Pure quality!
fer2006A 1 year ago 4
Twinskyh - thumbs down.
lasktguy - thumbs up.
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sensual tune and a more sensual voice........just great!!!!
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I love Dusty, but this is crap
Twinskyh 1 year ago
Twinskyh, what??!! This song is beautiful. You're nuts.
lasktguy 1 year ago 3
@lasktguy I'm sorry, but I more preffer her older songs.
Twinskyh 1 year ago
Twinskyh, I love her older ones also but this is still a beautiful song. Great smooth feeling and then at the end when she does her patented big notes it's just amazing.
lasktguy 1 year ago
@Twinskyh You can drown in a lake you bad taste waste of space
starlight76able 1 year ago
@starlight76able Please try to behave yourself. Everybody had an opinion. Respect that.
Twinskyh 1 year ago
Twinskyh, just ignore her. If someone thinks this song is bad they're the ones who have no taste.
lasktguy 1 year ago 2
@starlight76able lmao some people just dont have good taste. Some people have tacky houses and some people have nice houses. Its all about differant tastes. Some people like crap food, some people like good food. Id say i have good taste :) especially with music. Good song !
lippy170 1 year ago
Love her voice and music is tight but dont care much for the look...looks like a tranny.
TheMidcoast1 1 year ago
All over the map today.
prairienymph 1 year ago
What a great singer she was. AND, much too pretty to have make-up trowelled on her like this (but then.....this WAS the 80's) We miss you, Dusty.
rocktenniscat 1 year ago
A song tailor made for Dusty - and the video displays her perfectly. A perfect blend of voice, lyrics and drama. You can tell she really enjoyed this one. Her best video performance.
owsh123 1 year ago 3
i agree,but i think the instrimental side with courtney pine on sax is really awsome!!
jazzfreak56 1 year ago
CHOON!!!
RFSA88 1 year ago
Dusty fans - gotta get this -reelinintheyears(dot)com/britishinvasion
lindakevin10lk 1 year ago 29
@lindakevin10lk
Twinskyh 1 year ago
im 19 and i love this. My mum has it on a cd. I hate the majority of todays music.
lippy170 1 year ago 5
useless trivia:
Please Please Me was number 1 for 30 weeks (so says Wikipedia). ;)
seanr456 1 year ago
Musical dexterity by the Pet Shop Boys and the lyrical genius of Dusty Springfield .Absolutely marvellous and timeless.
AvidPsychonaut 1 year ago 3
Beautiful, haunting track. I am not really a Pet Shop Boys fan but this was a stroke of genius by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe (and Dusty, of course). I was 13 during the Profumo scandal in 1963 and it seems like yesterday! It was one of the first great political scandals of the modern era and nothing in Britain was the same afterwards. Thanks for posting.
Mrfairchap 2 years ago 5
I agree--very beautiful song. This is one of their many (undeservedly) forgotten gems. They haven't been big in the U.S. for some time, and it bugs me that so many people here only remember them for West End Girls. Intelligent, thoughtful lyrics, lush orchestral melodies--only a couple of reasons why I have been a devotee for so long.
seanr456 2 years ago
Sums Britains up full stop, full of fucking upper class ponces on bribes and taxpayers dosh, blow the cunts up.
k80nya 1 year ago
@k80nya
Nah largely meritocracy today; your point is taken though. Cheer up fella!!!
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corLTD 2 years ago
Poor Stephen Ward. He was just a scapegoat. A true scandal!
karlvorderman 2 years ago 14
@karlvorderman Poor Stephen Ward my arse! He was a self centered pimp. The only person who came well out of this whole thing long term was John Profumo who rehabilitated himself and devoted his life to charity work
tanyrallt 1 year ago
"It's a scandal...such a scandal."
Gotta love Neil Tennant. ^^
mildewmocha 2 years ago 3
Nice club sound to this music video where music videos in cinemas during the 80s was new trend when one day slowly disappeared. I still havent seen Scandal 1989 maybe it will suffice on bluray in the UK or DVD when the studio can pull its finger out.
Dustys voice has nice silkiness tone and the saxophone slowly fading away at the end as its telling the story of the Profumo Affair scandal long before my time.
A few nice backing voices by The Pet Shop Boys also on the track.
EmpireLS56KW 2 years ago
i envy the people who chilled out with her...
MrRocamorra 2 years ago
dusty springfield to me is one of the best singer in thia lifetime and beyond
rocklady54 2 years ago 3
So how gorgeous this song can be? The Pet Shop Boys are great music-crafting guys and Dusty's soothing voice really adds up a lot to that. A masterpiece of the eighties to play loud over and overr...
ryo1999 2 years ago 6
my girl , Dusty
pitochupon 2 years ago 2
What is that at 2:58 - looks like John Hurt dressed up as his old mother?!
Shtove 2 years ago
oi, thats hilda ogden matey, you dont want to get on the wrong side of her, she'll ave ya guts for garters...
MrRocamorra 2 years ago
That was Mandy's Mother, reading about her daughters exploits in the Big City.
Do see the Movie. It is excellent in every way and it is very close to the true story. John Hurt-One of the best actors that ever lived.
grover12able 2 years ago 6
@grover12able It was Christine's Mother wasn't it?
ragingpearl 1 year ago
RAGINGPEARL- I don't know how to use this and I don't see your name here.
Well, there were only two girls, so if it wasn't Mandy then i guess it had to be Christine. The point I was trying to make was that it wasn't Steven Ward in drag as some other poster suggested.
grover12able 1 year ago
Love this! The best later song of Dusty's career by far! Memories of 1989,i don't know lol.Funny though in the video clip for this between 4.05 and 4.08,the policeman in the backround on the left hand side,behind keeler looks like Jerermy Clarkson of the BBC Top Gear programme.Never noticed this before,its the spit of him! Funny! Anyway nice post!! Benja :-)
louluvscats 2 years ago 2
@Mulsanne917andkink
the DVD is released in the UK on 5th of April 2010
No news on whether there will be a Blu-Ray :(
eternia75 2 years ago
Is that so and about time! I hope its in original six-track Dolby stereo as true to the 70mm!
EmpireLS56KW 2 years ago
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TWO movies in production now about Dusty's life - one starring Kristen Chenwith and the other starring Nicole Kidman.
Dusty is poised to blast into the national American consciousness once again. A whole new generation will discover what an incredible artist she was.
I cried when Dusty died .....
Toronado2008 2 years ago
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Toronado2008 2 years ago
There were rumours that never entirely went away that the trail of johns went to some pretty lofty heights of English society-Prince Phillip to name just one...
petclark1 2 years ago 3
lol @ Mandy Rice Davis "Well he would say that, wouldn't he ! ".
richardsonjames1971 2 years ago 3