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Hugh Grant does 80's pop...

posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 03:37pm on 16/02/2007 under , , ,
A spoof 80s pop video from his latest Drew Barrymore romcom.

For those of us who lived through Top of the Pops in the 80s...



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posted by [identity profile] the-gardener.livejournal.com at 04:10pm on 16/02/2007
About equal parts Human League and Wham, I thought. Although the sequences of Grant with his jacket sleeves rolled up were very clearly modelled on the post-Wham George Michael, which is of course All Wrong for the ostensible year of 1984 in which this video was shot.

(Actually, I can't remember whether Wham existed as far back as 1984, either. So that might be another wrongness.)
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kshandra: "80's Child" in hot pink on black background (80s Child)

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posted by [personal profile] kshandra at 04:48pm on 16/02/2007
Wikipedia knows all: Their first single was released in June of '82; the albums were released in '82, '84 and '86.
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Don Johnson was doing the whole sleeves rolled up thing in Miami Vice

posted by (anonymous) at 05:55pm on 16/02/2007
First series in 1984 of course.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4e/Miami_Vice_Guns.jpg/300px-Miami_Vice_Guns.jpg
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posted by [identity profile] spiritmoving.livejournal.com at 08:31pm on 16/02/2007
That is completely hysterical, Simon! Thanks for getting me laughing on a grayish day!
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posted by [identity profile] jaq.livejournal.com at 09:12pm on 16/02/2007
It just shows, they don't make 'em like they used to. Oh, wait.
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posted by [identity profile] the-magician.livejournal.com at 12:40am on 17/02/2007
Ah the Simmons syndrums, the steinberger headless bass, the pointy headstock guitar (currently a Kramer, may have been back then too!), the D50 (I would have thought a DX7 should have been in there too), the Duran Duran haircuts, the ABC/HumanLeague/PowerStation band, the "Gold" from Spandau Ballet, the backdrop from Robert Palmer, the AHA moments and obviously dollops of Wham since that's the basic inspiration for his character etc. etc.

Pleasant, but I don't think it would have top 20'd in the mid 1980s ... :-)

Thanks Simon for the vid!
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posted by [identity profile] tanais.livejournal.com at 09:51am on 17/02/2007
There is a DX7 in the frame (its under the Roland D50.)
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