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Marilyn was a member of the original Band Aid as were Bananarama (the only act to come back for Band Aid 2) So...

 

Bananarama - Cruel Summer

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Bananarama dueted with The Fun Boy Three. So

 

Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics (have taken over the asylum)

Well, it's an obvious move but a good one...

 

The Fun Boy Three were originally half of The Specials...so

 

The Specials - Ghost Town

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Ghost Town was (symbolically) number one at the time of the Brixton riots in 1981. So,

 

The Clash - Return to Brixton

 

Don't you mean Guns Of Brixton?

 

Anyway the Clash's principle songwriters were the late great Joe Strummer & Mick Jones, who left The Clash to form Big Audio Dynamite who scored a huge hit in 1986 with.....

 

Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2

 

I challenge you to do the next link without resorting to one hit wonders Landscape 1981 hit single :D

Return to Brixton was a remix of Guns Of Brixton :D

 

Anyway, I shall accept your challenge as Einstein A Go Go would have been far too obvious.

 

The c in Einstein's equation refers to the speed of light. Coldplay's Speed of Sound doesn't count as retro son I'll go for something else very fast

 

Inspiral Carpets - Saturn 5.

 

The new challenge - avoid the obvious link to Oasis :dance:

 

 

 

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Saturn is a planet in the Solar System.

 

The next planet to Saturn that is nearer to the Sun is Jupiter so......

 

Tori Amos - Hey Jupiter

And you avoided the Inspiral Carpets - Abba link.

 

Anyway, most of Tori Amos's hits have been on East West records. So,

 

East 17 - West End Girls

 

Yes, the Pet Shop Boys original is far better but this is a neater link.

East 17's West End Girls cover was from around the time they released 'Steam'. 'Steam' is probably the coolest East 17 single as it has a remix by none other than Carter USM on it - the SW2 mix I think it was cheekily titled.

 

So...

 

Carter USM - Sheriff Fatman

 

Obviously

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East 17 - West End Girls was a not very good cover of a Tennant/Lowe classic....

 

A better cover of a Tennant/Lowe classic composition was.....

 

Eighth Wonder - I'm Not Scared

 

(I remember once (I think) Q Magazine did a pop connections diagram with Patsy Kensit at the centre of it, so you can go virtually anywhere with the next link) :lol:

Oops - looks like a double post. So, I'll follow on the the classic Sheriff Fatman. Nicholas van wotsisface was a not very subtle reference to a notorious landlord. Nicholas van Eede was the lead singer of Cutting Crew. So,

 

Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms

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Very recently VH1 America counted down the Top40 travesties of a classic song being denied the #1 spot on the US Billboard chart at the expense of a not so great song.

 

The Cutting Crew single was featured at #8 because it kept off the top spot one of the greatest songs of the 1980s by one of my all-time favourite acts.......

 

Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over

I'll avoid the obvious Split Enz link. Instead, Crowded House also recorded Four Seasons In One Day. So,

 

Four Seasons - Silver Star

 

BTW, the Crowded House song was, of course, better than Cutting Crew

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Keeping up the metallic theme from Four Seasons - Silver Star to.....

 

Echo & The Bunnymen - Silver

Hmm, I could go back to Carter USM as they had a drum machine almost as famous as Echo. But I'll go for

 

Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach

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A great excuse to link to a truly fantastic track.....

 

The late Frank Zappa recorded a satire about an American President who had a brain made of a Muffin "The Muffin Man". His only USA Top40 success was in 1982 featuring the talents of his daughter Moon Unit.

 

Frank Zappa ft Moon Unit Zappa - Valley Girl

 

(Also - The guitarist on this track is (future Missing Persons/Duran Duran member) Warren Cuccurrullo who is Canadian as were Martha & The Muffins)

I'd forgotten that Martha and the Muffins were Canadian. So they did produce something decent between Neil Young and the Arcade Fire. Anyway, Frank Zappa worked with a long list of other musicians. One of them was Sugar-Cane Harris. So,

 

Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane

 

As for the American president with a muffin for a brain, Zappa was clearly ahead of his time.

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From Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane to the farewell single by .......

 

The Kane Gang - Motortown

 

A song written by the 1980s Mackem based band about the opening of a Nissan Car factory in their town of Sunderland, and how PM Margaret Thatcher said it would save a dying community that had previously been based on ship-building and coal mining.

 

The group's message was that it was more an exploitation of cheap labour in the region ('spread the word all around, they work for pennies in Motortown') over a Motown (Detroit where Motown was based was otherwise known as Motortown) pastiche backing track!

 

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Paddy McAloon recently wrote and recorded (as Prefab Sprout) the theme tune to Where The Heart Is..... so let's have.....

 

Soft Cell - Where The Heart Is (sadly no video on Youtube)

 

 

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