Best Of

I don't know if any of the commenters on the last thread are still around, but I see we were discussing "Our Lips are Sealed". This happened to come on my daughter's playlist yesterday (the Fun Boy Three version) and I was telling her the story discussed - i.e. it was co-written by Hall and Weidlin about their affair. The thing which has always intrigued me about this was the difference between the two versions: the Go-Gos version is sunny and Californian and optimistic; the Fun Boy Three version resigned and gloomy. Both make total sense, but are very different. The videos of the two songs compound this. I often wonder if Jane Weidlin looked at the Fun Boy Three version and reevaluated a little what the relationship had meant.

More that Californian post-punk is intrinsically more upbeat than British post-punk, reflecting the optomism of Reaganite America vs the mass unemployment of early eighties Britain.

The Go-go's are a seriously under-rated band.

They could not, however, punctuate.

Republic now!

Buckingham Palace was handed emails six years ago that would have shown that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was sharing confidential government information while a trade envoy, according to court documents.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy02j5pl98no

In a vast archive and it is not as Mandelson shows as if this Labour government has been much better in terms of hiring sound record managers.

6 years ago the late Queen was still in charge of the Palace on a nominal basis but the emails were handed to the then Lord Chamberlain, Earl Peel (a descentant of former PM Peel) who is the one who may have a few questions to answer