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shivers here too, \Id just moved up to Co Durham in 1983..from Sutton Surrey.

That wa afreezing winter..a great decade for pop music too

Did fiction factory appear at an 80s rewind concert in england this summer?

stunning memories, a great era ..

spankable...and maybe more

love standin up close behind a sagger in supermarket check out queue...

fave position for a rimming!

definitely the `north` as we know it....industrial chimneys, very steep streets, the colours are sim ilar to Edinburgh but

, vernacular architecture quite different

music teely to be sure...

o.35 has a face that says it all - and yes the fact that they might be the scum of the uk is the whole point!

folks dont like their memories messed around with...

the orginal was a stunning evocation of Britishness `The Beatles` and our bad winter of 63, set Margaret Thatchers bleak Britain , filmed in a real Northern Town sung by people who actually experienced it. Given our economic state, theirgiba...

fascinating news about their doing the Rewind festival this yera! Keep us posted someone!

@mrmagicroundcircle yes mate, great sounds..had just arrived at new job in Bishop Auckland Co Durham then...many pubs just like that, many gothic styles.....

impossible to replace that today...and hats off to Vince Clarke & Alison Moyet for the original

id love to know why the originator said `I hate gays` - if we knew we would understand him better ( and I bet its a him!)

well im married 33 years - to a woman, and `out` and a gay activist, `cause I got that freedom others want to take away.

By the way its agood record too - was even used on BBC`s Eastenders in the Queen Vic one night

was played on BBC Radio 2 this week,Chris Evans show ,not heard it for decades..

So simple and so well put together, huge hit! Along with Fiction Factory, Dream Academy etc

let us know how it goes guttersnipephil!

stunning song

.. went to Henley on Thames a few years back, by chance was her birthday and saw fresh flowers on her grave in the churchyard - for a sixties teen like me was avery moving experience

@polecatcontinuum yep we had great music and laughst at school in the late 1960s - no mobile fones, WIFI or colour TV - what you saw WAS what you got...

great to see some imaginative video shoots complementing the music..and Mark is gorgeous too

@polecatcontinuum

i shall search it out! I just vecame a gay teenager in 67 so it was big year for me too.. Joe Orton also died that year, an extraordinary gay plawright who lived a few miles form Joe Meek..and died in a double tragedy too...

agreed,, fantastic 80s song, crap vid....is it really about Mickey Dolenz?

this is amazing, i recal the song , never saw the vid, and the amazing title too....

yes they DO look so young! I was in me forties when this was released, doing a parttime NVQ in catering...

amazing sounds, great britpop!

married out & gay here - where would we be without str8 lads coming up and helping out here?

cheers - great music

no worries fuffix - Im gay and allow myelf quite afew hetero moments

great record - was agreat year` Fiction Factory` etc