Dollar - Videotheque (1st July 1982)

Dollar on Top of the Pops, Thursday 1st July 1982. Produced by Trevor Horn.

http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/01_July_1982_(TOTP)

Dollar are David Van Day and Thereza Bazar.

My remix of Videotheque:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21RX1AG0QME

"New Pop involved a renaissance of glam's interest in artifice and androgyny, all the delicious games you could play with pop idolatry. Perhaps the climax of all these tendencies was the bizarre critical apotheosis of Dollar, a schlocky male-female duo who had broken away from the middle-of-the-road vocal troupe Guys and Dolls. Dollar had already garnered a smidgen of campy admiration from hipsters for their sheer plasticness, but when they teamed up with superproducer Trevor Horn, the duo's fabricated fakeness took on an almost conceptual extremity, as if they were a work of Pop Art."

Quote from "Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk, 1978-1984" by Simon Reynolds, page 377.

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[alan24362]

amazing track and thereza looks beautiful thanks for posting x

[asilum69uk]

i was on holiday in Antibes france with a couple of friends had my 21st while there and on the night went to a disco and this was playing ..OM.G what a tune...what a memory

[austinPize]

i'm 48 but im sure i could work with you X i'm good paul careful X

[MrEurominx]

I remember watching this in a carvan park TV room in Ballycastle - the TV had a grill around it and was placed about 12 feet high so I was raging that I couldnt turn the voliume up. Now I can...thank you for this

[Oliver1967]

Oh wow! being a Danish exchange student staying with a beautiful family in Eastbourne back in 1982, brings back memories. I loved Dollar and missed their performance on TOTP back then and here I am watching it now years later on youtube ... crazy but thank you for posting it. Amazing! Definitely a Trevor Horn moment and fantastic.

[EssexBoy696969]

Maybe it's a sign of my memory of youth, but I still find Thereza Bazar in this vid a lot bloody sexier than modern day talentless, gormless bints such as Cheryl Cole.

[usxs58draw]

@ripx10 ripx10 you made me laugh!

[littlenige]

Cheesy pop haters will hate it but I loved it. You just have to look at the music that Trevor Horn has produced over the years to realise he has a magic touch - it's all about the 'sound'. ABC's Lexicon of Love, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Yes 90125, Grace Jones Slave to the Rhythm and a whole host of others. For me his later stuff such a the Robbie album have lost the 'uniqueness' that his sound usually has - but he totally deserved his recent Command of the British Empire award. Genius.

[TheBookOfGoth]

Totally fab. Thanks for uploading this. [I was formerly spince2!]

[scomberscombrus]

what a egotistic prick that guy turned out to be