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The Drive, 8/23/06: 1980
« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2006, 08:58:45 AM »
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proxy of Gazoo: Macca, "Coming Up (Live at Glasgow)".


Have you ever seen the video for this?  Paul dressed up as various pop/rock stars and archetypes, including 1974 "Beatle Paul" and a then-unknown-to-me Ron Mael of Sparks.  Song's also Linda's best effort apart from "Silly Love Songs."

PS: 1980 strikes me more and more as a very strange year for music.  It's like rock abruptly stopped, turned the car 90 degrees, and started driving again.
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« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2006, 09:09:03 AM »
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proxy of Gazoo: Macca, "Coming Up (Live at Glasgow)".


Have you ever seen the video for this?  Paul dressed up as various pop/rock stars and archetypes, including 1974 "Beatle Paul" and a then-unknown-to-me Ron Mael of Sparks.  Song's also Linda's best effort apart from "Silly Love Songs."

PS: 1980 strikes me more and more as a very strange year for music.  It's like rock abruptly stopped, turned the car 90 degrees, and started driving again.


1980 was indeed a weird year: Top 40 radio was in an identity crisis; the prevalence of disco (and of all-disco formatted stations, which were stealing a lot of the Top 40s' audience) led Top 40 to take a distinctly AC turn, hence Chris Cross, Air Supply, Kenny Rogers etc. It began a downward slide for the format, which didn't bounce back until '83, by which time MTV had become powerful enough to be an influence.  The huge, unexpected success of Z-100 in NY that year was the rebirth of Top 40 (or CHR as it had now been rechristened).
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« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2006, 08:17:13 PM »
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VHM Christopher Cross "Ride Like The Wind", just because it could have been "Sailing" from the way Bob was talking & it wasn't.


And I'm gonna BOS it without guilt.  Even gonna shout out to Michael McDonald's contributions to the track.  If memory serves, the metal band Saxon did a cover of this during the "Headbanger's Ball" heyday. (!)
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« Reply #18 on: August 24, 2006, 07:49:50 AM »
Genesis   Misunderstanding   4.3%
Bob Marley   Redemption Song   4.7%
Paul McCartney   Coming Up   2.3%
Bruce Springsteen   Out in the Street   5.1%
Christopher Cross   Ride Like the Wind   5.9%
AC/DC   You Shook Me All Night Long   9.4%
Rod Stewart   Passion   3.9%
The Police   Driven to Tears   6.2%
Loverboy  Turn Me Loose   28.5%
David Bowie  Ashes to Ashes   29.7%

yikes, nearly a dead heat between Bowie and Loverboy.
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