2 hours ago, Gezza said:

I agree i prefer other SAW Rick singles from later on, almost all of them but I'd probably still put this above Michael Jackson.

I think our Michael Jackson taste is a bit different!

It's a good song, I think at this point I'm just over hearing it.

(I'll probably apply that to another one coming up I can think of)

Great song from Rick - another one I would rate higher. Let them come!!!

I’ve not got a lot to say about ‘Never Gonna…’ that hasn’t already been said. It was inescapable in ‘87 and amazingly, for a very average SAW song, is still popular now! Rick himself has always seemed a genuinely nice guy (and he’s from my hometown) so it’s hard to hate on this. I’d probably go for 5/10.

After all it’s not his fault he stopped the greatest ever pop song from reaching number one!

Edited Sunday at 07:241 day by Jaz13music

I prefer Who's That Girl to La Isla Bonita but both are very good.

Interesting read as I've just been catching up on this. 1987 was something of a pivotal year for me. I was 15 and becoming increasingly disillusioned with the contet of the charts and it was therefore the year I went full tilt into looking for alternatives in the Indie charts. Naturally I subsequently hated almost all of the songs that hit number 1. I was, at the time, full on Goth/Punk/Metal and very closed minded about almost anything else. However, has time mellowed those opinions?

Ferry Aid - Didn't care much for The Beatles (old people music) but respected them. Didn't care for this version. Still don't

Boy George - Never haved liked Culture Club and hated this at the time. Ambivalent about it now but grateful it lead me to Ken Boothe's take.

Steve 'Silk' Hurley - Loathed this with a passion that is hard to describe. and House was very much the enemy in our circles. Re-appraisal came when educating my daughter on the history of music. It's an absolute landmark release in Dance music. I no longer hate it and although I don't really like it much, I can't deny it's vision and importance

The Firm - It was mildly entertaining, immediately annoying, daft rubbish back then. It still is but I just roll my eyes at it now.

Jackie Wilson - One I actually bought. A great song and a brilliantly made video.

Madonna - I'd begun to find Madonna annoying by 1986 and this continued a run of singles I really didn't like having to hear. Often forget this exists.

Los Lobos - Didn't mind this. It's a good cover of a fun oldie. Wouldn't get anywhere near my personal #1s that year but was ok.

M/A/R/R/S - Detested this as much as Jack Your Body and I even quite liked AR Kane which made it feel worse. This was everywhere and infuriated me every time I heard or saw it. Nowadays I've long since came to realise it's brilliance and what a game changer it was back then.

Rick Astley - S/A/W were just setting off on a monster run of conveyer belt lightweight Pop songs with a terrible production style (to my ears) and this really did grate on me. It's actually a really soild song with a good vocalist under it all and I was always smile when i get Rickrolled. Plus he's a lovely fella isn't he?

This is a great read so far Jester. Always like to get a take on what others thought of years gone by.