The Look - I Am The Beat

The Look performing their excellent one and only hit 'I am the beat' on TOTP from January 1981. It reached number 6 in the UK chart.

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Music

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• look
• the
• beat
• TOTP
• 1981
• one
• hit
• wonder

[meatballuk2008]

Did you know that this song holds the record for the longest single ever!!?

I've got the 7" vinyl and the last few words of the song "I am the beat" is scratched into the inner circle on the record,so it goes on forever lol

[UKSazzy67]

GOD! I absolutely love this song! Brings back great memories of when I was 13. Can't imagine anyone ever feeling such passion over a Westlife song. Westlife are completely souless,passionless and insipid. Oh for the old days! At least music had some balls to it then, and I'm speaking as a woman who cannot stand todays lightweight boybands and don't fancy them neither. So much patronising claptrap is targeted at us women these days, like we have'nt got minds of our own.

[Exempttt]

Bought a pair of jeans when i was 12 and got this as a single free along with them...this song is the one that made me form my 1st band in school...im 44 now and still playing. Thank you for the upload...and yes... i do cover this track :-)

[scherzomortale]

@meatballuk2008 WRONG ! Killing Joke did it back in 1979 with their debut single Nervous System/Turn to Red.

[blonde7000]

good song but audio is poor

[naganokumas]

@meatballuk2008 Is this the only occassion when this has been tried?

It was after about day three when I realised I was a somnambulist, and that they had since gone home and I was actually listening to a loop.

My life has recovered those three days. I now appreciate it was a loop.

But is this the only occasion when this has been tried?

It was after about day three when I realised I was a somnambulist, and that they had since gone home and I was actually listening to a loop.

My life has re

[kfeve11]

@UKSazzy67 How many number ones have The Look had? It's a good song...but there is no reason to target a band which has a lot of success, loyal fans and a lot of talent that people who haven't seen their tours don't realise. I have an eclectic musical taste and Westlife, along with Queen, Meat Loaf, jazz and swing (the list goes on) are one of my favourite bands. Just because people like them, doesn't mean they don't have 'minds of their own'.

[paulhamerton1]

@meatballuk2008 was a nightmare when i was DJING lol but great days

[bossendenwoodconvict]

@UKSazzy67 Have you noticed that all boy bands are interchangeable too? You could switch the group members between the bands and I'm sure no one would notice. There is a sort of formula- one member is blond, the rest dark and one waits for brainless girls to fall in love with him before announcing he is gay. It's all to a script. None of them play instruments and they all have silly dance routines. Fairly bland and boring and it has been that way since the early 90's.

[RockAndRollMassacre]

the singer looks like centre forward for a lower league football team

[Feisty1967]

I wish there were groups like this today, sigh...

[madcharlii]

@flares mum here, I did enjoy it, and you'll have to forgive me, i actually grew up thinking it had reached number one, don't know why, maybe because my family were making such a big fuss about it at the time, but then, like i said, i was just a little girl =0)