80's SYNTHS: BETTER THAN SLICED BREAD? Tubeway Army: "Are Friends Electric" Reaction

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[@borisbrosowski6630]

You just witnessed the exact point in music history when Punk became New Wave. This is the song that made all the musicians in Europe throw down their guitars and get synthezisers. I'm not exaggerating here. The next single "Cars" was even a top10 hit in the US and started the whole synth-movement there. The influence this song had cannot be overestimated.

[@MaddyReactions]

Wow!!!

[@scifimonkey3]

Maybe…. Kraftwerk, Jean Michelle Jarre, Tangerine Dream and others had been exploring the synth led sound for quite a while by this point but as far as mainstream popular music is concerned you are not far off in saying that this was a key moment.

[@borisbrosowski6630]

@@scifimonkey3 I will not disagree, you forgot Moroder. But then, none of them made the vast majority of musicians switch their instruments (partly because synths were just too expensive). None of their songs sparked an international wave of new music with new sounds. In the case of Kraftwerk - they had been having Top10 hits since 1974 but can you name an act that had followed them??? (I can only see Wolfgang Riechmann in 1978 but he died tragically - though his image was to be copied by Numan one year later). I'm not a huge Numan fan, but it was the success of this song that finally made the electronic revolution happen (remember The Human League and Ultravox! had been struggeling before that for years, but without any success.)

[@thelwulfeoforlic6482]

@@borisbrosowski6630- When the Human League heard AFE on the BBC’s Top Of The Pops they said well that’s that he’ll be the first

[@stephenmoncur5983]

You are so right. It changed everything!

[@chris_debian5368]

Synths + Autism + Talent = An up and down life. Hats off to Gary and his family.

[@mikemnemonic311]

= prolonged bouts of genius.

[@Hans-v6k]

So this sounds typical for someone who has autism. Gary has Asperger yes. But you can hear it from his music?

[@Alix777.]

His lyrics are amazing. He often talks about isolation, solitude and individualism. I love Gary Numan.

[@derekmccullough1625]

Gary Numan is and was one of the most influential Musicians of that era and even today . The song you have been listening to has to be brought into context with the full album called , Replicas . The song itself is about a Robot Prostitute . How one can hire or rent a robot for sex . Are friend's electric

[@martingrey2231]

Gary Numan was Data before Data.

[@craigusselman546]

Data with a deep musical talent and a great sense of humour.

[@Patrickjohnphotography]

"THIS" as you call it, set the tone for the 80's! grasp the fact that these guys set the tone for the next 30 years in music.

[@exile220ify]

This song went to #1 on the UK singles charts and the album it came from (Replicas) did as well. A few months later he repeated the feat with "Cars" and the album The Pleasure Principle - making him the first artist ever to accomplish this rare "double-double" (edit: within the SAME CALENDAR YEAR, that is)

[@ouethojlkjn]

I think in the UK Gary Numan was the second Artist to achieve a Double Double - the first being The Beatles (whoever they are).

[@exile220ify]

@@ouethojlkjn I was unclear (and will edit my comment accordingly). You are correct, *BUT*, Numan was the first to do it in the SAME CALENDAR YEAR.

[@twenty3enigma]

Genius. Gary Numan wrote a song about robot call girls, but with lyrics so subtle that broadcast censors never picked up on it.

[@alenk738]

Almost all Numan’s songs back then had science-fiction themes and many dealt with alienation. If you were a teenager who read mostly science fiction and was ostracized by peers, his music was PERFECT. Not that I am speaking from experience. ;->

[@highpath4776]

shout out to the guy on drums for keeping that beat going without a break

[@scatton61]

Cedric (RIP) was an instinctive player.

[@reinaldohall8801]

✊🏽😎

[@steveprice5784]

Cedric sharpels rip ❤

[@liamodriscoll571]

Ced sharpley R.I.P

[@stephenmoncur5983]

If you want to be totally blown away, watch Gary Numan's intro to his farewell concert at Wembley 1981. In fact watch the whole concert!

[@lewissmith4123]

Ahh takes me back. Fantastic stuff and I am so pleased that you are discovering this :)

[@MaddyReactions]

🤗

[@stevemisog]

I was born in 1960 and grew up in the UK with the glam rock scene. Then came Punk Rock which blew the music industry apart and opened the door to many independant labels. On the back of this musical revolution, in 1979 came two songs in totally different styles that blew my mind and were the beginning of 2 genres that I still love today. The first was "Are Friends electric" which was the first charting record in the Synth era and would later lead to the evolution of Electronic Dance Music. The second was "gangsters" by The Specials which was the first charting record by the founders of Two Tone Records and heralded the begining of the Ska Revival genre.

[@MaddyReactions]

Ooooohhh! Love it! 😎💖

[@easybigun7825]

You are so right my friend. I was 13 in 1979, listening to John Peel on my little radio, under the blankets at boarding school and like you totally enraptured by those two songs. I don't think there was any greater variety in music than there was in the years 1976 - 1980.

[@exile220ify]

I'd suggest you try Gary Numan's "Cars" and "I Die: You Die" for more of this 80s sound, and then jump to his NEW stuff which will knock your socks off, like "The Fall", "Love Hurt Bleed", "My Name Is Ruin", and "Saints And Liars". There's also a more-recent live version of this song on KZbin in which he performs it with the Skaparis Orchestra - I highly recommend.

[@daviddeath6029]

This song is about robotic prostitutes so much darker than on first listen 😊

[@MaddyReactions]

😂😂😂😂

[@j_clarkson]

@@MaddyReactions Yeah, here's the bit of the lyrics that the title comes from: You know I hate to ask, but are 'Friends' electric? Only mine's broken down and now I've no-one to love.

[@paolobenmore3504]

In the lyric his one "broke down". ;-)

[@markosolo]

@@j_clarkson All it needed was washing out regularly, some WD40 and a spanner. 12 hour charge, Bob's your uncle! Good as new.

[@martineriksson726]

This is when music was honest and true.❤️😊

[@MaddyReactions]

So true

[@garyfallows1123]

Other synth bands only got to the heights they did because they stood on the shoulders of Gary Numan, he was The Godfather of it all 🇬🇧

[@garynumanfanforever]

Absolutely spot on.

[@nathanpapp432]

He was the breakthrough and deserving of massive respect, but Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder are the real Godfathers of synth.

[@garynumanfanforever]

@@nathanpapp432 Don't forget Jean Michel Jarre, he was another Godfather of electronic music.

[@ThomasPalmen]

I think you have to categorize it completely differently. Synthesizers were - at least for the normal musician - completely new and sounded different to everything that had been known until then. It was a revolution that is perhaps difficult to comprehend today.

[@richardcoleman1427]

AFE is without doubt the best song ever made - chills my blood when its starts since its release

[@direnova6284]

Afrika Bambaataa who is credited as one of the founding fathers of Hip-Hop cites Gary's next hit "Cars" as inspiration because that's what everyone on the streets of the Bronx were break dancing to on their bits of lino. Unfortunately the music press took a dislike to him, they were (and still are) stuck on the only cool thing is punk, I think they think it makes them look edgy. The barrage of negative (unjustified) BS eventually killed his career for decades.

[@victormontano7148]

The 80’s practically started in the late 78-79 The 79 live version of this song and CARS were great too I recommend watching those videos!.

[@lilfootstudio]

Fun fact is back in the 79 this song came out, i was 14 and i really loved synth that time and though what would it be in the future and want to go there. Today im 53 and i am gratefully happy to hear this and makes me want go back to the 70s❤

[@livapininfarina2164]

Back then, we viewed about 99.9% of people who weren't part of that "lifestyle" with a kind of superiority. Gary had that same look in his eyes. It wasn’t a time when style and taste were democratized-no IKEA, no H&M. It might sound arrogant, and honestly, it was. But it was also a lot of fun! 😄 Despising parents, teachers, and classmates was the purpose of life and filled us with visionary energy.

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

The beautiful thing that I've loved over these last few years is the good friendships hes had with the very musicians he helped to influence & inspire who invite him to guest or work with him, such as Trent Reznor or Dave Grohl. They in turn have given him fresh impetus to create new music, even making him "cool" enough to his own daughter Persia, that she has helped him create new tracks. Reznor invited him to play on stage and it was a turning point. Now Gary has in turn, been influenced by the same person he influenced, that a lot of his music has a darker NIN sound around it, which has attracted a whole younger generation to enjoy his material. If thats not a stroke of genius, i dont know what is.... Can I strongly recommended one of tracks "You Are In My Vision", which is a track he wrote all by himself, even using sticky tape to hold keys down on a synth, so he could play more than one instrument simultaneously.

[@DavidDArcy1975]

effects and textures would describe what you're trying to say i think. Gary Numan (the singer) is the main man in the band and very shortly after this went out on his own. he is revered by industrial bands, like NIN, as a major influence on them, as well as on many other bands in the genre. he is still performing and making new music and has collaborated with NIN in live performances. his daughter is now part of his band too. glad you enjoyed it Maddy 😎🤘♥ Respect & Peace ☘

[@MaddyReactions]

So cool! I really liked this one!!

[@thelwulfeoforlic6482]

Numan has stated the song is about robot prostitution, with the ‘friends’ coming to your residence to perform ‘services’!

[@MaddyReactions]

WHAT?!? 😂😂😂😂

[@warmongerel9743]

For context, when this came out it was the time of white guys with afros doing guitar solos (e.g. Boston), country rock (e.g. Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd), Progressive keyboards (e.g. Yes) and disco. And then this guy shows up, looking like a clean-cut, pasty alien robot. And the synthesizer was still *very* new at the time, believe it or not. It was a shock to the system. It changed everything. Even Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails says Numan was a HUGE influence. I'm old. I remember. ;-)

[@Workerbee-zy5nx]

Billy Curry is the one on keyboards, he did a keyboard solo on the 1979 tour called Broadway it will blow your mind..Gary let Billy go in 1980 and they kinda faded..🤷‍♂️

[@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra]

"The '80s" don't begin until: 1981. ...in 1979, no-one, really, sounded like this.

[@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra]

Also: "videos" (as most people perceive of them) did not exist. I don't have the specifics on why or when this piece was created🤷 ...there were some small companies who made "song clips" for in industry events or because specific artists wanted them (also: one one would suppose "a look into the future"). ...the modern music video did not exist until after August of 1981 - when a new station called: MTV debuted on cable. ...within 8 months-a year labels saw an eager viewing public and an increase in sales for bands who had exposure on the network. ...after that it was "a free-for-all". ...Most artists did not, REGULARLY, make "videos" until 1982-1983 (when labels began to budget for them, in their artists' expenditures.).

[@MaddyReactions]

Ooh!

[@markallen2984]

I always say the 80s began in 1977 (Talking Heads, Sex Pistols, The Clash) and ran through about 1992. Of course, Roxy Music began inventing the 80s in 1972 (Virginia Plain)

[@PhilipLievens]

Everybody is forgetting about another very important musician that's always stayed at the background! Billy Currie, Tubeway army, Ultravox, Visage...

[@jamesobrien1440]

Maddy, I could just tell from your smile you were utterly smitten with this. One of my favourite pieces of music ever. The best thing? It’s now 45 years old, yet it still sounds like the future. How dramatic!

[@tonygriffin_]

The lead singer was Gary Numan, who had a good solo career after Tubeway Army. Kraftwerk, a German synth band, were one of the main pioneers of electronica and are worth a watch. I was born in 61 so the 70's were my teenage years and Rock and Punk were my thing but I got to love electronica and was raving to EDM by the 90's. Now my music is mostly Japanese and female!

[@MaddyReactions]

Oh awesome!! Lol

[@scatton61]

Gary Numan still has a solo career... and has done since his hit Cars.

[@tonygriffin_]

@@scatton61 That's why I said he has had a good solo career since then!

[@scatton61]

@@tonygriffin_ Nope, you said " Gary Numan, who had a good solo career"

[@tonygriffin_]

@@scatton61 whatever

[@johant23]

Gary Numan was brilliant. this inspired the whole synth/new wave movement of the 80's in the uk

[@MaddyReactions]

So cool!!

[@markhughes8314]

He brought this sort of music into the limelight. John Foxx/ Ultravox were good and already out there before Gary became known (Systems of romance, 78 album for example) Early Human League is good. Maybe take a look at being boiled from 78, and others.

[@2009numan]

1979 was actually the end of the 70's LOL

[@chris_debian5368]

They don't blink, they're replicants

[@MaddyReactions]

From the future, and cool Linux penguin picture!

[@chris_debian5368]

@@MaddyReactions :-) Windoze free, since '98.

[@barrysmith8920]

It’s: “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” It’s a question, please take note

[@ThistleAndSea]

The beginning of a fun and often silly era. The official Devo video of "Whip It"...Silly! 😄 Fun one, Maddy! Thanks!

[@MaddyReactions]

Oooh! I love it!

[@shenysys]

Another song from around the same time is called Computer Games by kiwi band - Mi-Sex kzbin.info/www/bejne/naSrioaplNaao7c Also Space invaders by Player One kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGPPeH2Dp7qIftk

[@pir8lifeforme]

Ironically his current music isn’t classified as electronic by the music industry. He's considered alternative. Either way his music is still incredible. Check out the Intruder album.

[@simontboon]

This is 70's, not 80's

[@julesgosnell9791]

I am a robot - this song touches my soul...

[@TweedSuit]

The 70's vision of the 2000's became the 80's.

[@trespire]

I remember when this come out, it was so different from everything else. Numan practically invented the New Wave sound.

[@aan238]

This is the first time i listen to and see this band, the music is fun and the vocalist's voice is unique, and of course you are always beautiful and enchanting maddy...😘🤣👌👍💖

[@MaddyReactions]

Thanks so much 💖🤗 Happy you enjoyed new music with me!

[@aan238]

@@MaddyReactions next react please Alip_Ba_Ta play a guitar ( finger style) cover song 👉 " Bohemian rapsody" 👌👍☕🇮🇩

[@undergroundwarrior70]

"Are The Friends Electric?" are about Android Women that preform sex. (Which now have been developed AI Women that can do that. They cost between $2,000+ and $5,000+, and can be ordered online). The song is from Gary Numan's second album 'Replicas', and it is a concept album about a dystopian futuristic society. And in one of his songs on the album he sings about Machmen which they are like Terminators long before the films by film Director James Cameron. Gary Numan was into science fiction when he was a kid in school, a self taught musician, and became a license pilot in his early 20s despite having Asperger's which is some form of autism. To this very day he still struggles with it.

[@johnzacharias7928]

I think the song is an homage to the Phillip K Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep which was made into a movie, Blade Runner.

[@johnclarke-vs9qe]

Born in 1961, I had never heard anything like like this before and absolutely loved it!! Anyone who likes this should listen to "On Broadway" (Live) by Gary Numan, really great and different cover version.

[@Lee-70ish]

And he's still producing great music. Fantastic career.

[@daviddeath6029]

You need to do down in the park next darling 👽👽👽

[@MaddyReactions]

Oooh

[@MartinInBC]

Down in the Park is practically a companion piece to Are Friends Electric ... neither before nor since has there been quite as good a 'wall of synth' as those two songs. AFE is more of a pop song (despite Numan himself pointing out "it's five minutes long, it's got no chorus, you can't dance to it, and it's about a robot prostitute") while DitP is more orchestral in feel. In both of them, though, the synthesizers power through you ... Numan used those Moogs in the bass register rather than having them as more common string synths in the violin range. His concerts have the Moogs booming through. Numan had some other songs that went the same way ( Films from the Pleasure Principle album; I Die You Die and Remind Me To Smile from his more guitar-influence Telekon album) but these two songs were the peak. He has never really got due credit for just how astonishingly and breathtakingly different his sound was, even from other synth pioneers ... I still see moronic reviewers try to pass him off as a wannabe Bowie clone, presumably because of Bowie's similar and earlier androgynous space alien look. But it was Numan's music that was so different.

[@georgebovell5081]

My all time favourite, Down in the Park❤

[@christopherrace4761]

Numan gave music a rebirth, & is still creating the future.

[@ouethojlkjn]

Worth noting this performance was mimed by a 21 year old kid who had absolutely no idea of what he was supposed to be doing on stage. I don't think this recording was ever broadcast. For his UK Top of the Pops debut, I remember he was much more distant and unemotional (terrified was what Gary recalls) but it suited the song perfectly and he was suddenly a success, catapulted into the music business.

[@harryrabbit2870]

For an interesting comparison, check out Numan's recent song "Intruder" or maybe "Ruin" which he did with his daughter Persia. He is still an active performer and is composing new music but it's a LOT heavier than this.

[@StephenBrown-vh8mz]

As I've said on other KZbin comments you cannot beat the sheer grunt of the old skool synths I was more into the UK ska revival at this time but Gary was always good for a riff

[@TheAzguardThor]

Billy Currie from Ultravox on the keyboard .. memories ... :)

[@boretti1307]

I love it to see you smiling all the time while the song is playing. The song is about loneliness in a cold society, where prostitutes are robots and no love is to be found. The guys of the band try to perform the mood of this song by giving the camera a bad look, but they are really having fun playing in the studio in the Netherlands where this song became very popular. Here's the story behind the song. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWGapIGBrM18q9E

[@gringopablo]

The IT Crowd soundtrack was inspired on this song.

[@MaddyReactions]

No way?!?

[@mikeclements252]

Omg…. thanks for bringing this song back into my life,grew it in Wales, great time to be a teenager… crazy good times at the disco

[@MaddyReactions]

Love it!!

[@iznone]

ОMG this is pure ART!

[@s.oliver3687]

The title "Are friends electric" reminds me of todays social media.

[@jeffkins62]

"Are Friends Electric" come out in may 1979 its now 45 years old ... Gary Numan is making great music to day check out his song I A Dust from the album Splinter songs from a Broken Mind....

[@alexfletcher5192]

The Essex boy Gary Webb was sufficiently geekish to find a mass audience behind a surprisingly emotional take on electronic music. It was a total accident, but he triggered perhaps the greatest revolution in how pop sounded over the next decade.

[@markhughes8314]

Blimey don't link him with Essex! He was born in west London. lol.

[@davidspion9548]

He wasn't from Essex.

[@scatton61]

One of my all time favorites. I was a night club DJ and played this a lot along with Ultravox, OMD, Simpole Minds and Visage

[@MaddyReactions]

Classic

[@MartinInBC]

And of course in this film clip, the keyboardist on the right is Billy Currie, who played keyboards for Ultravox and Visage, and the keyboardist on the left is Chris Payne who wrote the melody for Visage's big hit Fade To Grey.

[@victorycrosby4896]

The spiders from mars "self titled solo"

[@iznone]

In 80s leading synth is better than guitar in many cases!

[@iznone]

Аnd Gary Numan is a legend, he is natural freak - never goes here to react hehe :)

[@TD_JR]

It's post-punk era -- a lot of bands had that "dark business casual" look at the time.

[@kingwen1286]

Kraftwerk for sure. Full version of Autobahn? Maybe too long. Computer Love?

[@MaddyReactions]

Nice

[@Sarvasaha]

The Model?

[@lescarter3880]

This song by tubeway army/Gary numan on vocals. Later on in his career he revealed what Are friends electric was about. When he sings are friends electric only mines broke down know i have no one to love. It is about a artificial intelligent prostitute that will open a few who be thinking really this was to get played in todays music it would not get air play as they will know what it is about

[@PaulFrancis111]

Hi Maddie, what a great tune to listen to, the song was actually made up of two different songs stuck together, Numan wrote of an apocalyptic London in the future, the song is about electric prostitution which you would order and they would come to your house. The songs from the album were all brilliant

[@devolve42]

Gary Numan is an under-appreciated genius. I think his best album is "Telekon" but he has quite a lot of great ones.

[@paulcasey5486]

When i first heard this i thought wow, the only other time i thought that was queen singing bohemian rhapsody. but dont under estimate the power this song had.

[@Barakdee-nb6qu]

This came out not long after Bowie's Heroes album. Bowie accused Numan of stealing his act. anyhow, its still a great song.

[@Hans-v6k]

British number one Jul 1979 already.

[@Owen-gc8yc]

Blessed that this was ....and is.... my music

[@shanepye7078]

This song was awesome when used in Fringe with Peter Weller

[@MaddyReactions]

Oooh

[@shanepye7078]

@@MaddyReactions season 2, Episode 17. Was a GREAT show if you’ve not seen it.

[@Dannoga]

Great choice! Its actually a tune about Robot Prostitution that he hid between the lines to get past the BBC

[@bryanforis1839]

Great song love music saw live great music live concert great song

[@MaddyReactions]

Definitely 🌸🩷

[@bryanforis1839]

Like what mama cass make your own type of music don’t let people tell you what music play and don’t be of music sounds different

[@aquaticborealis4877]

Musically so simple, but brilliant. Gary Numan just had that touch.

[@markbeetham5118]

No we didn't think we looked like the future. We were not American. It was just fun

[@iznone]

You are the best looking girl ever seen from me to react here in YT , I swear!

[@MaddyReactions]

🩷🩷🩷

[@erickent3557]

Yep, you kinda nailed the 70s future vision as music. Take the cold, industrial urban wasteland of "now", and re-cast it into a cold, sci fi dystopian barren soundscape of "tomorrow" and you get tracks like this.

[@opencarry3860]

The clothing parallels what you would see on the tv show, "Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century."

[@iznone]

This is natural early dark wave - my favorite style, always in minor. My recommendation - go to classics as "Sisters of Mercy" and more ...

[@GNeuman]

Actually, Gary Numan, real name Gary Webb, was the songwriter for AFE and actually every song on Replicas as well as the first eponymous named album, Tubeway Army. The reality was that Gary wrote all the songs and for the first two albums, his Uncle, Jess Lidyard, played drums, and the remnants of his punk band, called Tubeway Army, also had Paul Gardiner on bass. By the time Gary broke through, Uncle Jess had stepped back and a new drummer, the legendary Cedric Sharpley was brought on board plus keyboardist/violinst Chris Payne and Billy Currie from Ultravox. Gary could have technically billed the first two albums as Gary Numan and not Tubeway Army....

[@alexfletcher5192]

It should be pointed out that he was later diagnosed with Aspergers. It is not a 'connective' condition and it probably spoke to alienation. Which, in some respects, the position of every adult Brit since time began....

[@carcarjinks1430]

it's a futuristic song about robot prostitutes. gary shrouded the meaning in the lyrics so it wouldn't be so obvious. he was really into sci-fi at the time, especially the author philip k. dick. many of gary's songs from this period revolved around sci-fi themes, in this case a future society where sex could be obtained by calling for an android to come to your room for a visit.

[@bigredfella13]

This erupted in '79 and changed everything, this and his song Cars

[@brapmanbrap5188]

This is magnificent ground breathtaking brilliance from a classc band you should react to the 2013 gary numan basement sessions of this song brought up to date with a whole new take its mind blowing

[@iznone]

I like the guitar boy - he is not sure what he plays ... he is just a like on stage "wtf", so cute :)

[@Samplesurfer]

There's a video with Gary Numan, where he explains how this song came into being more or less by accident, with the synths sound. Most of what you say about the vibe they oozed in the staging is spot on, if you listen to his explanation. See the interview: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWGapIGBrM18q9E There are some aspects with regard to this song, that he explains that still might surprise you very much.

[@denismichaeljames]

Please review Talk Talk. Such a Shame. His voice wonderful. And ghe video is great. You'll love it hopefully. Your GN AFE. Review. Its an epic track. Just saw him at the Roundhouse Camden. His London Show. Fans love this track Live. Pioneer Numan.

[@dipsydoodle7988]

I believe it's Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army. I'm sure you have heard his music before. Know a little tune by the name of Cars?

[@MaddyReactions]

Oooh

[@johncarr2806]

This song was released by Tubeway Army, as was the first album. In reality, there was no such group, as it was just Gary Numan, who then got a few musicians, including one of his relatives and Billy Currie from Ultravox, to promote the album.

[@flea1683]

I was a teen then, went clubbing six nights a week. The music and fashion were amazing punks, goths, new romantics girls in tutu, girls in pvc, girls in Thunderbirds outfits so many girls so little time😂

[@MaddyReactions]

😂😂😂😂 in pvc???

[@flea1683]

@@MaddyReactions yup pvc skin tight

[@MaddyReactions]

😂😂😂

[@davidpratama-vz8qs]

Very unique music, the next reaction was Alip ba ta playing the guitar covering the Lily song (Alan Walker) ☕

[@MaddyReactions]

Nice 💖

[@Patrickjohnphotography]

Remember that their " belt" is the same as your short-lived off-the-shoulder top that VERY few bought and wore because it was too poorly designed. in 4 years, they will laugh at your top. Enjoy life.

[@10cesat]

what you on about this was the first HD for top of the pops UK never used released after time of copyright ran out !!!

[@garymc3519]

Seems the Musicians Union in the UK tried to ban this guy. His reply was why ban me, ive got no musicians.

[@StephenBrown-vh8mz]

I'm making you an honorary brit for your dry comments

[@tachikomakusanagi3744]

Over the shoulder boulder holder