Rick Wakeman : I'm So Straight I'm A Weirdo
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It should have been a number one.
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Just potty
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@emanuele6461 eno would be proud of a song like this.
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i like how the last 50 seconds sounds like modern day Radiohead's tech-ambient experiments.
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If anything it sounds like The Buggles. Hilarious song.
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Big thank you, I have been looking for this for 32 years (it was filmed in 1979)...I'm teh git in the dark glasses and peaked hat. One day on a double decker bus with B George...unforgetable...even worse...teh video is SO bad...when they were filming us I invisioned something a LOT better.
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Just really great stuff
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A very odd single but I loved it! Pleased to find it on here. Thanks!
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A cringeworthy attempt by a then has-been to cash in on the New Wave trend of the time. Lame-ass progster...
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@nearlyoutofideas Good quality for a 30+ year old VHS tape. The blank VHS tapes from the early 80's where always the best quality.
No Steve that day, he couldn't make it...George was still George O'Dowyd and handn't yet softened his image...he was SOOO cutting to Rick all day...Some of the extras were from Blitz, the rest, like me, were from the London Art college curcuit.
They promised us a tenner each, but all we got were fish and chips!!!!
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nigelhpappy 3 months ago
@nigelhpappy Very interesting, thanks for sharing your memories of it all!
nearlyoutofideas 3 months ago
Absolutely fanflippintastic! Oh mate,you are a complete and utter hero for posting this.Well done for finding this holy Grail. I had never actually seen it - I know I would have remembered if TOTP had aired it,but despite what Rick seems to remember,I don't think it charted. This is delightfully odd,and exactly what we would expect to fit the song perfectly.Brilliant.Not only do we glimpse Boy George,by I'm pretty sure Steve Strange in there too. What a treat sir,thankyou very much..
ucfbtm 2 years ago
It's OK, then? :) I didn't realise it was quite so rare, I taped it off air (Australian TV) in the day and it's been on an old VHS tape ever since. Good thing YouTube is around to share it with the world! Luckily the tape was still in fairly good condition too; can't believe it was nearly 30 years ago...
nearlyoutofideas 2 years ago