Mel & Kim - Respectable (wimv mix)

Mel and Kim were a British pop duo, comprising sisters Melanie and Kim Appleby. They achieved success between 1986 and 1988 before Melanie succumbed to terminal illness.

"Respectable" was a UK number one single for one week in March 1987 for Mel and Kim. Written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman, it was the team's second number one. It was also number one in New Zealand for five weeks spanning July and August, and in Germany, Switzerland, and The Netherlands.

A memorable feature of the song is the sampled and sequenced first syllable of the chorus: "Tay, tay, tay, tay, t-t, t-t, t, tay, tay, take or leave us...".

Melanie Susan Appleby (11 July 1966 -- 18 January 1990)
Born in Hackney, London of mixed-race to a Jamaican father and a British mother, Appleby initially worked as a glamour model (In 1987 she did a photo shoot for Mayfair) and then joined her sister Kim Appleby to form Mel and Kim, enjoying considerable chart success during the mid and late 1980s.

She died in Westminster, London, of pneumonia following treatment for metastatic paraganglioma on 18 January 1990. Appleby was first diagnosed with cancer in December 1985, prior to the success of Mel & Kim, when she had an operation to remove a large tumour on her liver. The cancer returned to her spine in mid 1987. During her lengthy health problems towards the end of her life, her condition was for some time rumoured to be a spinal disc herniation resulting from the energetic dance routines performed by the pair. However, after initial denials of the seriousness of her condition were released, the fact that she was suffering from cancer was eventually confirmed.

It was reported by their agents on 19 January 1990 that a few days earlier she had been admitted to hospital with a common cold, but that as a result of the cancer treatment she was receiving her immune system had been unable to fight this off and the cold had developed into pneumonia. She died at the age of 23 and is buried in East Finchley Cemetery.

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[musichasthebeat]

This is one of the reason AITKEN/STOCK/WATERMAN/CURNOW/H­AMMOND/HARDING are RESPECTABLE!!!!

Greetings from CHILE.

[lempeafeawintil]

@usminc1 This one's great: GW-FmrTBZ7Q

[usminc1]

I can't understand why there's not an official video for this on Youtube. This is the best quality version of this video I've seen.

[Vippe8652]

Good memories of this song :) Thanks!

[szczecinniebuszewo]

nice song