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1968 (Forty years later...)
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Thanks! I really loved that early MTV period, too, when they all began to get creative!
For visuals, you can't beat the following:
Dire Straits - Money for nothing (1984)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNaKWXqXkhw&feature=related[/youtube]
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (1986)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0[/youtube]
Peter Gabriel - Big Time (1986)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0FBi5Rv1ho&feature=related[/youtube]
Katie77:
Oh....I love Dire Straits, my favourite being "Going Home" (instrumental).....powerful powerful music.
As a footnote to when I mentioned my son being an Elvis fan....back when he was a teenager, he would be in his room listenng to Elvis and Hubby and I would be in another room listening to Dire Straits.....talk about topsy turvy.....
MaineWriter:
I was just reading an article about Peter Gabriel and they were talking about Sledgehammer. Everyone tried to talk him out of the idea and he was adamant and now it has become one of the most famous music videos of all.
I love that A-Ha video...and so does my 17 year old daughter. Which says something about young people liking their parents' music!
We were in Jamaica in 1989 and saw the group The Fixx filming a music video called "This Magic Stone." We sat and watched the filming for a few hours and I remember my sister memorably saying to me, "No wonder they use drugs...you'd have to, to manage to get through this crap and make it look realistic."
I never heard the song on the radio nor saw the video on TV so obviously it was a flop, but I can still hum a few bars of the melody (courtesy of Leslie's vault brain).
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Katie77:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on August 22, 2008, 07:39:11 pm ---II never heard the song on the radio nor saw the video on TV so obviously it was a flop, but I can still hum a few bars of the melody (courtesy of Leslie's vault brain).
L
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Yeah Leslie.....we all have that Wurlitzer Juke Box up there in our brain.......and the music just keep going on and on.....
Lynne:
We saw Peter Gabriel live in Worcester, MA circa 1996 and it was a terrific show. Some of his songs (like Sledgehammer) relied on nostalgia and his pants were wicked tight...still fun tho!!
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