Bucks Fizz - London Town

[@chrishughes1103]

At the end of this video, and lots before the end, Cheryl, you are close to Heaven ..

[@constantinegeorgiles931]

One of the best bands of the 80s. Glad to say I have seen them live!

[@constantinegeorgiles931]

Me too

[@magdapoland]

They were great pop songs and creative videos and...Mike😍😍😍😍😍

[@SarahWilson-fv5vo]

Good old London how it used to be, misss that old town

[@nickdavey6424]

Still love this group.. so underestimated. These are the 80s , makes me feel a teen all over again..thank you BF

[@LUCKYGUYHH]

Wow... in my point of View one of The best and sadly way much underrated Pop tunes of The 80s. I will play this Song in my next 80s Radio Pop Show. ...

[@ELEcomments]

okay this is turning into one of my favorite bands. So f-ing underrated!

[@michaelleacy]

Underrated indeed. There was a huge bias against pop bands as opposed to rock outfits like U2. So stupid of course, then - and now! It takes a lot more talent to come up with a pop hook than a rock song

[@plumberman4u]

London Town as depicted will never be again. So sad it's identity being erased.

[@dannycostello1978]

Erased in what way? Are you talking in terms of ethnicity?

[@dannycostello1978]

The contributions made by migrants since the 1960s has been a cornerstone of the economy.

[@plumberman4u]

@@dannycostello1978 The negative impact of the many far outweighs the positive impact of the few.

[@banbrotam]

It's been depicted in a cold hostile manner. Goodness knows why you think that is something to cherish

[@plumberman4u]

@banbrotam because it's even WORSE now.

[@fountainpen44]

One of their best songs.

[@pauloivan6421]

0.42 to 0.49 though is everything! Jay Aston was underrated she should be a legend

[@scottpeacock5492]

Getting into London Town?? Not when the train drivers are on Strike, it a tough life out there!!

[@marekfabis8575]

I live in London over 3 years and.... Please don't get me wrong I'm really gonna like it!!! London Town!😄😄😄😄

[@danfrost3043]

All the shit that gets to the top nowadays & this only got to No 34 ........ Criminal

[@frubtok7]

In Poland chart, they reached number 6.

[@tumslucks9781]

​@@frubtok7 Lech Walesa loved it! 🇬🇧 🤝 🇵🇱

[@stephenlovering7932]

What a great song, best group of the 80s

[@gareth3152]

Production on their records is incredible

[@jacekromsicki985]

I have always been a great fan of this band. I remember buying their album in 1990s when I was in London for the first time

[@jonathandahl3431]

Never heard this one and I was around at the time.

[@Northerner1966]

Barely made the top 40. Bands popularity had dropped by that stage.

[@TomRipley7350]

If Jay Aston had won the cosmic lottery, she would've been Madonna. So fierce and charismatic. Always thought it was a pity she never reached her true potential. She has a touch of the Lady Ga Ga's in this video.

[@toomuchinformation]

That's so true about Jay Aston. I could barely take my eyes off her when Bucks Fizz performed. She also had a great (and natural) pout.

[@troublegum65]

Very very interesting and intelligent observation Tom Ripley.....could not agree more.

[@jimrogers4490]

She ended up in a lawsuit with their manager & that as she was so sick and fed up that she wanted out of her contract, in the end they ended up settling out of court and one of the conditions was that she didn't launch a solo career which was why she basically disappeared after her Bucks Fizz days

[@sofamousithurts4794]

A million times better than the Trash Ga ga

[@ami0du0peuple]

I LOVE Jay Aston because among the 4 Fizzes she is the troublemaker and the one with the rollercoaster biography, and i like that. INCREDIBLE her performance in Getting Kinda Lonely. But to be fair towards Cheryl Baker: When I first saw all the Bucks Fizz videos from the 80s, I was thinking that she was the centre of attention...

[@Captstar2]

One thing I love about this song and video is the energy coursing throughout it.

[@zanducktv2398]

Maybe not one of their best lyrically, but it's a great dance track. Love the extended version. That guitar solo!

[@cobwebscavern2994]

By the session guitarist Ian Bairnson - he recorded lots of stuff with Pilot, Alan Parsons Project and many others.

[@zanducktv2398]

Cobwebs Cavern That’s right, I saw his website. Quite an impressive cv, plus he co-wrote If you can’t stand the heat and Run for your life with Andy Hill for Bucks Fizz too.

[@JDKelleherMusic]

One of their best videos though...good choreography and dancing.

[@zanducktv2398]

@@JDKelleherMusic yes, it’s very busy. I remember when it was featured on the pop panel segment on Saturday Superstore, Mike Read said looks like it took them longer to record the video than the song!

[@MSTA1234]

0.45-0.49 is why Jay Aston will always be a pop legend.

[@jasonforward9930]

Love this song 😚😚😚

[@sharonperry1000]

Great to revisit. Still love Bucks Fizz😍

[@ajs41]

Love the affected vocal by Bobby on this. Really suits the song.

[@BlytheWorld1972]

Yes!!! that is what makes the song special

[@zanducktv2398]

In a Smash Hits interview around the time of Talking in your sleep the following year, Bobby stated he thought London Town was dreadful cos his voice was treated and he sounded like a munchkin!

[@andrewbell3346]

I'll never sicker of the Fizz

[@TonyG-sv6pq]

Love this song and vid they were a brilliant pop band still listen to their music absolutely love em to bits.

[@sebastianwelcome2080]

yea there are back together but just called the fizz now just 3 of them from about 2017 2018

[@rhianjones1319]

I think London Town” is one of Buck Fizz’s best song

[@zanducktv2398]

rhian jones Mike doesn’t rate it lol

[@michellecollins5317]

grew up with them love love love

[@13towerofpower]

Úžasná skladba populárna v disco kluboch v BA, hoci z pohľadu umiestnenia nebola v UK veľmi úspešná...v jeseni 1983 skončila len na 35.m.. Skupina Bucks Fizz je aj tak najúspešnejším britským interpretom, ktorý zvíťazil vo Velkej cene Eurovizie,pretože ako jediní mali na vrchole rebríčka v UK tri skladby.V roku 1981 Makung Your Mind a The Land Of Make Believe a v roku 1982 My Camera Never Lies.

[@lennybustratt7024]

Bobby's voice in this

[@zanducktv2398]

Appallingly or appealingly lol 😝 In a Smash Hits interview to coincide with the release of their Talking in your sleep single, he says this one was dreadful cos his voice was treated and he sounded like a munchkin lol. I thought he meant he had to see a doctor or specialist, not in the studio 😝

[@hans2406]

Bucks Fizz. When they came on stream, I was not really a teen any more. But I loved them. And Jay Aston? Oh well, she was my favourite woman. She oozed sensuality and more. Still does.

[@ЛолаДашдиева]

LUKS....SSSSUPER👌❤🙈🤩GREAT......

[@goddambitch12]

f-ing excellent.really unique sound.

[@thomasalexanderlost9730]

my first song ever if i am in London

[@jamesdoyle3885]

Like the guitar on this, cool tune

[@barney1963]

Jay is mesmerising to watch ❤️

[@chrysalis72]

Every song i listen to the lyrics, cheesy 80s. I think its good for learning music to get hearing all the way back to at least early beatles,ecclectic listening can surely only help an artist to play more unique sounds with all those styles,mix and match,experiment. Its all the best fun learning, your ears and your brain will remember even subconsciously until you end up with a mox of your favourite favourite noies ultimately. The beatles all albums show a unique progression from very few chords to complex orchestral.B ut still with diary in hand id just play the emotion of what youve written. The best songs i think are like diary excerpts where you wrote feelings down , feel how the emotions were and play it out. Best music is like a story, theatre production. Like kate bush. ultimate genius played with all things music, dance,writing with imagination, where theatre plays the part of the song to commincate and arrange everything together,words, song,dance,theatre. The beatles were genius in that they were open to learning new instruments,guitar and piano, e❤❤asily be guitar and keyboard. Just some thoughts... sorry about typos phone letters very small.

[@clausstimpfig3803]

what a unique Performance W U N D E R B A R

[@simontaylor1793]

Love the Copper doing air guitar

[@christerjohansson9136]

love all the songs from bucks fizz best ever since abba won

[@MrEightiesvintage]

well well well of course my favorite number one bucks fizz song & also because i still loved the england specially LONDON city of my heart

[@HansVros1]

Excellent track and a very stylish video!! I bet this makes Lady GaGa very jealous :-)

[@vj551]

my youth :)

[@gregmardell6653]

Great Stuff!!.

[@Eurobouy]

Happy birthday Cheryl❤️🎂

[@laurawilson4181]

My fave fizz

[@michaelhyde9070]

Believe me London Town don't look like this anymore 😢

[@constantinegeorgiles931]

Sadly not

[@TomRipley7350]

You’re right. It’s now a third world ish hole.

[@katie-jobartlett2917]

Me and my 6 year old brother love this song. EXCELLENT SONG

[@andrewbell3346]

greatest Eurovision group. Sorry Abba

[@Northerner1966]

Bardo-One Step Further.

[@paulgibson7293]

this one, when we were young ,easy love ,cold war were my favourites 😀

[@jarekj594]

Great song Jaroslaw from Poland

[@KriZeMix]

I like this :) Italo Disco też lubię :)

[@hustleno-filta5373]

I found this record in my emersion tank upstairs since I got a combi boiler typed this in and this came up🤣 different

[@Adetv1616]

Go over to Spotify and this brilliant…..why aren’t they releasing these videos with hi Fi?

[@charlesdonovan7775]

Such a good video (their worst surely has to be the horribly cheap-looking When We Were Young one).

[@Antpeople1]

I love what Cheryl does right at the end.. so cute! Finally met her and the Group on Friday at the bandstand. I had a pic with her and at 6"7, she said I needed to bend down. She always seemed so bubbly. I was just a baby when this was made but the Group look so fresh and young faced, especially sexy Jay! She called me before going up to get on stage. I wish my behind was small and shapely too :-)

[@dimahkhan5203]

I'll say it again, 2nd Best Group to ABBA

[@abbeybeck443]

Agreed!

[@jasonfury1]

Bucks Fizz were no poor mans Abba they had more street creed , sex appeal and being younger tons more energy and chutzpah. Abba were more polished and middle of the road. I'd say Bucks Fizz were much better then Abba because they were British and because we don't have to continuously hear their records getting overplayed like Abba and all that retro memorabilia.

[@einarvindenes9509]

first time i heard this,and its really cool tune

[@Chuckymyheart]

My fave one of my fizz track x

[@soundoak7146]

Added to our Videos Shot in London playlist!

[@xiaomi9839]

🎶🎶🎶🔥🔥🎶🎶🎶

[@simonparry5958]

Have met the band have all their autographs

[@huotarilovesradio7636]

I Recognize the Building Thats where Bonnie Tyler sang total eclipse of the heart at

[@wolftones58]

Yes it is a old hospital in Virginia Water Surrey called Holloway Sanatorium.

[@Dentistmentalust]

What town are they getting into? Seriously though, really good song. I like it.

[@paulouk83]

0:43 is jay at her coolest she was ahead of the times

[@sebastianchirinos7714]

2019?

[@zanducktv2398]

Is the blonde girl dancer in the blue dress Bunty Bailey, who starred in a-ha's Take On Me video a couple of years later?

[@rampheadsheilaramphead2481]

Yes certainly is. Well spotted

[@duncanhutchinson8103]

One of the dancers was in Depeche Mode's Just Can't Get Enough video a few years previously.

[@janeeve1]

No it isn't Bunty Bailey it's Donna Fielding from Hot Gossip, it was choreographed by Chrissy Wickham

[@gettinoveritgettinoverit1062]

🇬🇧 🐦 🐦 💃 💃

[@krystynakrystyna1705]

💌💌💌

[@HeyouCrow]

Absolutely.., @RoseTheatre '89 😎🇬🇧.., 👍., Upon 'Kids from FAME' *Vibe too. *Playlist= HoFFarrellAway 👋

[@ТатьянаВладимировна-ч7н]

2018 ✌

[@TomRipley7350]

London before the cancer set in.

[@renataw7662]

⚡💪🇵🇱

[@goddambitch12]

music videos were better in the 80s.

[@romfivera]

No they were different, they correspond to a time. Every era brings its touch. It's more of a nostalgia that speaks.

[@MegaDazza87]

2:23

[@catherineroyes4370]

👍

[@ajs41]

Any chance of an HD upload of this video? Thanks in advance.

[@catharinecarrington2705]

Prime video called London Time by the original book series great video London Town the great video from the original band books was Eurovision song contest when is the Eurovision something okay When it's making your mind up London Terrace magnificent views of London where they sold the original video to books with the European the making your mind up the Land of Make Believe by bucks Fizz The Land of May believe it's a magnificent song

[@flowergirl8815]

did Jay put her fingers in the plug socket!!

[@metalbearuk]

Listen to the guitar lick and beats on this one(and 'If You Can't Stand the Heat'), anyone else think Dieter Bohlen of Modern Talking was influenced by this sound for the early MT hits?

[@sebastianchirinos7714]

2020?

[@kikaobtulovicova6487]

thanks you help me on project of english

[@rampheadsheilaramphead2481]

Criminal this didnt make top 10.

[@dlamiss]

Compared to Abba some of the Bucks Fizz songs were miles over produced. this being one of those

[@jasonfury1]

Why compare them to Abba for fucks sake. Abba were a band of the seventies Bucks Fizz were of the 80s both great bands from completely different eras and with totally different group dynamics. Abba split at the perfect time they would have probably sounded dated and out of place as the 80s wore on.

[@zanducktv2398]

The lavish production was Andy Hill’s trademark though. Have you heard the stripped down “tv version” of this and their Warren Bacall tracks When We Were Young and Rules of the Game, from their 30th anniversary Up Until Now compilation?

[@dlamiss]

@@jasonfury1 Cos almost everyone bar your goodself saw them as the British successors to Abba FFS

[@dlamiss]

@@zanducktv2398 Yep thats a fair point, Bucks Fizz had some great songs in fairness and yes the stripped down version of this is half decent. When we were young was a good song

[@royalordinance]

Yvonn takes the Trophy, Sorry.

[@queerulantin6431]

☀️🏳️‍🌈💜💋

[@1553962]

why is the volume not equal throughout the list it ruins the mix from a much under rated group

[@qusayibrahim7201]

Back then wasn't good song no meaning ... just maybe dance or clothes we are looking for ..

[@kennyp9616]

No

[@moishe43]

Sounds like a chipmunk singing.

[@kennyp9616]

I like chipmunks

[@tipsonlyproductions522]

I just got introduced to this and my life is changed 🤌🏻🤌🏻

[@jamesc7019]

It’s all about Jay Aston. She was sexy, edgy and the crucial member.

[@trebleking1641]

The reason this track didn't do better was Bobby Gee's vocals. They're God awful on this and somebody should've pointed that out to either him or their management