On the surviving TOTP clip of Bus Stop, Tony Hicks looks so much like the young Johnny Marr it’s uncanny.

This is the Woking Hour.

I was summer-ing at Our Price when STSOL came out. We were all convinced it was a nailed-on number one. All of us battling over the one picture disc 12” we had in. For me Clive it’s TFF’s greatest moment, even more than Head Over Heels or The Working Hour.

TOM DIXON ON BASS KLAXON #forgotten80s

This gives me a chance to say something incredibly boring. Two well-known early Cure songs mention Christmas in the lyrics but aren’t ’about’ Christmas (Other Voices and Let’s Go To Bed).

Is anyone with the initials AP coming to mind here?

Ahoy, ahoy, Len see a sty /
Ahoy ahoy, barman and soda

Into The Valley - The Skids.

Peas sure sound divine.

“And we sang, a song that I can’t sing anymore” - Divine Comedy’s lyric in Our Mutual Friend after the people with the rights to the Walker Brothers classic said no.

Erm, that’s what I meant. I was fooled by connecting it to EFC’s stadium move. Right, I’m off to burn my Bowie Reference Club membership card in disgrace.

And there’s this magnificent moment. vm.tiktok.com/ZNRdrt9Mo/

I’m singing it in my head now, and it seems to have the same chorus as Gimme Gimme Gimme.

There’s a great account of the whole story in the book Lost Generation by David Tremayne, about three potential British F1 world title contenders who died young, within four years of each other, in totally avoidable and tragic circumstances. www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Fabulous thread Andy. As soon as you mentioned 1975 in your first post I thought ‘this is going to be about Hill’. I don’t have nearly as clear a memory of it but it had a big impact on me; I was just getting into F1 and soon became aware that the loss of not so much Hill but of Tony Brise.

Ah yes, those lovely chaps Bin Salman, Al-Thani, Mugabe, Amin, Gaddafi, Khomeini, Assad....