A real dancefloor classic today, with Ready For The World's eighties Billboard #1 smash
Oh Sheila. Heavily influenced by Prince this band may have been, but really, what a top tune! A truly great song in its own right - which makes me wonder why the hell it stalled at a lowly 50 in the UK charts. Not even this performance at the 1986 Montreux Festival could help them crack the Gallup 40:
(with apologies for the Mike "Smitty" Smith intro)
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I have never heard that track before, very pleasant.
Oh incidentally, Mike Smith told me to 'Fuck Off' once. I was 14 or something and watching him film an outside broadcast of The Late Late Breakfast Show LIVE! at Wookey Hole in Somerset, I asked for his autograph between takes and he shouted 'Fuck Off!' and pushed past me.
And that, just as Mike himself states on the youtube footage, is A FACT.
What a fucker! You should have sold the story to the Wookey Hole Gazette or whatever. Imagine the headline that week: "Famous DJ In 'Swearing At Child' Shocker!"
What happened next, anyway? I hope that OB you were at wasn't the same episode where that poor bungee jumping member of the public plummeted to his death. Talk about adding injury to insult!
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