Friday 7 May 2010

It's Thursday night and it's Top of the Pops..

..and it's 8th May 1980. And my life will be changed. Forever.

No, not by Mystic Merlin (?), Johnny Logan, or Peter Powell's jumpsuit, or even by Dexy's Midnight Runners at number 1 .. but by Sheffield electronic band The Human League opening the show with their fantastic rendition of Rock n Roll (even though it never made the Top 40 but I knew that one day all music would be made this way) - and by Liverpool band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark performing the new version of Messages.
My jaw dropped and I never looked back.

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