Mel & Kim - F.L.M

[@sharonjohns3012]

Always will love mel &Kim joined their fan club, when mel was ill they phoned me as I sent her a gift , gutted my mum answered the phone as I was out missed their call , still in 2022 I listen to them , brilliant duo great dancer and pure voices miss them xx

[@DocRock67]

What a bittersweet memory. Thank you for sharing it, Sharon.

[@glamdolly30]

Wow, that's so sweet that they rang you - and incredibly rare for a successful pop star to reach out to a fan in person and thank them like that. Mel and Kim were the real deal. Mel's death from a rare form of cancerous tumor at 23, was an horrific, against-all-odds tragedy.

[@glamdolly30]

Wow, that's so sweet that they rang you - and incredibly rare for a successful pop star to reach out to a fan in person and thank them like that. Mel and Kim were the real deal. Mel's death from a rare form of cancerous tumor at 23, was an horrific, against-all-odds tragedy.

[@peterfranks6243]

A very talented and beautiful young lady taken far far too early, Mel we still miss you, God bless you. Mel and Kim always had me up and dancing like a madman on the dance floor when I was a teenager

[@hayabusabart]

what a polished act! a pair of lovely sisters singing and dancing together. "I love money.. I love money.. boyfriends are boring🤣 " the puppets were brilliant too

[@karlnoben8199]

Looks like you don't know the context of this videoclip. At that moment, Mel was unable to move due to its cancer treatment. The producers had to do "something" for the release of the track without having the duet available...

[@miiguueeelll]

Axtually says "fun love money", not "I love money"

[@rachelbrown7682]

So talented. And still fresh R.i p beautiful Mel.x

[@TheLeanfel]

2025 Remembering 35years 😢for Mel Rip

[@KyliePanozzo-xs3ps]

Mel and kim were fantastic together love their music

[@HeartBreakHigh]

💚 Mel and Kim. I mourn the loss of the long career they could have had together. Rest in peace Mel and I hope Kim is doing well.

[@tabeccaletford408]

SAW got a lot of stick but they came up with some brilliantly catchy songs and this is one of their best. Still love it

[@BaljitSingh-hm9gq]

My favourite tune of there's great singing ❤❤❤❤❤

[@jackkelly335]

🤡

[@michaeledwards3578]

Mel lives forever

[@b.v.6077]

Ja sie lebt immer weiter alle liebten madonna oder weiß der Geier ich liebte Melanie she always look great guten dancing moves sexy body I loved in Videos the bouncingof her titts but never liked the atomic boobs from Sam fox Or Sabrina Mel was perfect

[@Ibolyagyongyikis]

Yes,forever!

[@glamdolly30]

No one lives forever but some are taken way too soon - at only 23, Mel Appleby was one. But like a shooting star, she burned gorgeously bright for the short time she was here. God bless her, so very sad for her family and of course her sister Kim in particular, they were obviously very close.

[@paultreadaway102]

With a stadium packed Heavenly Choir gathered of Artists over the years it's only going to get bigger and bigger she's part of that

[@John-tz2tx]

No she doesn’t

[@jochentannemann6343]

Probably the best song their did. Love it

[@EnnioRome]

Another brilliant SAW production....that the other have sensed the potential of House Music that was expanding in those years

[@jameshollyoak8230]

Still absolutely love this song

[@coralbitten5335]

This my favourite mel and kim song ....LOVE IT

[@johnkeifmustapha6708]

I never knew the artist names neither their songs titles, Respectable, showing out and this FLM were superb by then, just searching for 80s I came across my favorite by guessing. thanks to you tube and those that upload these musics, Melanie may your gentle soul rest in peace and to you Kim may God continue to bless and guide you. blessing to those bringing us closer.

[@peterbrazzoduro1874]

the girls only had four hits BUT each was a gem

[@lexkanyima2195]

But tragedy

[@ericamccluskey1714]

What georgeous talented girls and RIP Mel. My friend and I danced to them RIP Ann also. Fabulous music.

[@jeffreywiesemann5856]

Here in the USA they had 5. I'm The One Who Really Loves You was released as a 12 inch single and went to #11 on the Billboard Club Chart

[@peterbrazzoduro1874]

@@jeffreywiesemann5856 acknowledged, in Sweden More Than Words Can Say was released as a single, that one should have been released as a single in the UK/US, great ballad

[@RocStarr913]

@@jeffreywiesemann5856​​⁠It was only four singles in America: “Showing Out,” “Respectable,” “I’m The One Who Really Loves You” (which was remixed for the single release there by Clivilles & Cole and had originally planned to be the follow-up single to this one in the UK and likely the rest of the world, but was cancelled), and “That’s The Way It Is,” which was released as a single in America from the soundtrack album to the film Coming To America. Their American distributor had passed on releasing “F.L.M” as a single in America.

[@djstonedog]

Mel passed away on this day 30 years ago. RiP angel xoxo

[@hayabusabart]

LOVE THE PUPPETS R.I.P Mel.. much much to young to die x

[@BookieKillah]

Cried for weeks when I found that out... :(((

[@gerry5134]

I wonder if the puppets are still around ?

[@juliandarley]

@hayabusabart i am glad you liked the puppets. i am sorry that others don't, but we worked very hard with a specialist puppet-maker to make them as charming as we could. i was keenly aware that the circumstances were very sad. @Hugo Malice the puppet-makers, who were also the operators, took the puppets back after we had finished filming them. i have no idea where they are now. i would have liked to have to kept them.

[@sharonjohns3012]

@@juliandarley I love the puppets .. x

[@juliandarley]

@@sharonjohns3012 thank you!

[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

I bought this single, really sad what happened to Mel, they were great.

[@magorzataworoch1002]

swietny videoclip oraz super piosenka oraz wspaniala mel and kim

[@BNCA70]

I'm 43 but man what an 80s dance

[@TerrieClarissa]

BNCA70 you’ll be 50 now 😂

[@nocomment4848]

You’re a maths whizz, Terrie

[@deepnation10009]

My favorite Mel & Kim tune. 2021!!!

[@nigelcarty8084]

Rest in Peace Mel ❤ angel 🎉😢

[@micheal_jacksonfan8433]

Oh this brings me back to the 80s even if I was born in 2011

[@garyroberts1496]

Try bein born in 64

[@ZeldaFitz]

1:22-1:34 is where Sainsbury's at Camden town now stands. Opened in 1988.

[@juliandarley]

yes, they had just knocked down the previous buildings and the site was was briefly as you see it here.

[@vanillasnow4084]

Noo way i didn’t notice it maybe because i wasn’t born then 😂🙊

[@ikaik7107]

Religiderasta

[@bipbippadotta3680]

Yes. I worked around the corner in Kentish Town. It was on the C2 bus route. FLM is my favourite Mel & Kim song. So sassy at the time ! Love it ! RIP Mel.

[@rebeccajackson2238]

The park is st Martin’s gardens in Camden near to there too

[@glamdolly30]

It's an upbeat song, but the 1987 video always makes me feel sad. Mel was very sick with the return of the cancer that would take her life in January 1990 aged just 23. So this video was put together using an actor to play a private eye, with footage from a Mel and Kim live performance in Montreux, plus those creepy puppets to depict the sisters. The biggest problem with this video was that Mel and Kim weren't consulted or told about it, and both hated it. Kim said she felt "devastated" when she switched on the TV one day and saw it out of the blue. Mel commented from her sick bed that she would rather no video had been made at all. The sisters must have been feeling pretty low in '87, fearing Mel's prognosis was poor and that the end of her life - and 'Mel & Kim' - was looming. To switch on the TV and see that their record company had replaced them with a couple of marionettes, must have felt like a kick in the teeth. I think it was surprisingly tactless of their record company/management not to seek their approval for the puppets or even keep them in the loop. IMO the 'Private Eye & Puppets' theme looks cheap, and only succeeds in drawing attention to the fact the real Mel and Kim aren't in it! Their absence is a chilling omen of the tragedy to come. It would surely have been much better to have just used the footage of their Montreux performance, in which they both look healthy, happy and chic, and dance like a dream. 'FLM' was Mel and Kim's penultimate single, and reached no 7 in the UK charts.

[@nocomment4848]

Tbf even though the marionettes was a fail, those sort of things in video clips was in vogue at the time. Consider Genesis “land of confusion” which was released the previous years. But yeah, whatever the producers were going for clearly wasn’t done well. And obv in conjunction with the cancer and lack of consultation, it was still in poor taste.

[@DocRock67]

@@nocomment4848 Apart from the fact that I think the marionettes are quite cute: The biggest difference between this video and Land Of Confusion is Genesis themselves had the idea to collaborate with Spitting Image.

[@TheLongdarktunnel]

I have never heard the story about them not being consulted or hating the vid! Where did you get that from?

[@milanmernjik8354]

Who is the boy in a video,what his name?

[@glamdolly30]

@@TheLongdarktunnel Wow it's a year since I wrote that - I can't remember tbh. But I don't make things up - I'm a journalist by profession. Google it and I'm sure you'll find confirmation. I don't know the name of the male model - again Google may help you.

[@liverush24]

This was out just before I passed my driving test. I used to walk everywhere with my Walkman.

[@ACCH-cm9ou]

this was the song of Mel&Kim got me the most...that effect "ma ma mmm mamama " made me crazy intrigued...in the end there s a male /female key transition ,which is wickled.... Stock Aitken Waterman Genius

[@emanuelasalituro6200]

I like this Music to Mel&Kim!

[@medievalist]

Once you know the story behind why the only footage of the girls is live, it's so sad :(

[@Timturpinfleck17642]

Why is that?

[@medievalist]

@@Timturpinfleck17642 Mel was dying, so couldn't make a video.

[@Timturpinfleck17642]

@@medievalist of course, thanks for that.

[@sojapku8249]

@@Timturpinfleck17642 m99 di Indonesia dengan harga terjangkau dan dapat pula terjadi karena banyak sekali jenis di royal

[@paultreadaway102]

Still made a mean video u still see glimpses of them on stage even the puppets is pure class good idea to do

[@iantucker2310]

Mel & Kim ❤❤

[@22tnt]

loved it. still do.

[@andreaboys]

Su funny video.!! One of my favourite Mel&Kim songs.!

[@gaywest4298]

My favourite Mel and Kim song.

[@TheFakeyCakeMaker]

RIP Mel. Still sad for your loss. Gone too soon. :-( xx

[@skindrew]

one of my fav mel n kim tunes

[@sportsbettingwealth4247]

Their best in my opinion.

[@victor9501]

I like the flat-screen TV, 20 years before its time!

[@amandawilson7412]

Perfect pop ...

[@julies7510]

RIP MEL..taken way too young❤❤❤

[@jacquelinefox2632]

Only those girls stayed. Cos here we are loving them. Xxxxx

[@peterbrazzoduro1874]

the right choice for their album signature song

[@amandawilson7412]

I played this to death It was a brilliant happy song

[@RezaMaulana98YT]

Thank you Jimmy Broadbent for letting me to discover this song with your "F" soundbite

[@Bloodrayne800]

Mel and her smile, looked like she really enjoyed her singing. Shame she was taken too soon

[@lexkanyima2195]

It's mystery

[@paultreadaway102]

For Love Money great song so catchy following the magnitude of Respectable tough to follow just as good mean puppets great video inventive u can only get with the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s and magical creation that was the time and era the guy must of been spellbound by the Girls cause he is part of a good song Mel and Kim did

[@jamespassas9441]

When I first heard this in the 80s, I thought FLM was a reference to radio, FM, MW, LW! Ha ha!

[@chiarae1573]

They were classy and sassy,talented and funny.

[@raycarroll967]

Mel Appleby passed away Jan 18 and i overlooked it but so did the media she was so young in her prime to be taken to heaven. mel appleby R.i.P

[@RainDrifter]

+ray carroll Or, waiting for a resurrection (like Jesus promised)... "No one has ever ascended to heaven." - Jesus (John 3:13)

[@johnellepadolina8243]

Flm news update

[@missyb9438]

No one is “taken to heaven” when they die. That’s not what is says in the bible😉

[@GaryHind701]

F.L.M actually stands for 'fucking lovely mate' the sisters would say that after each vocal take in the studio, plus me and Mel are July 11th buddies too. #samebirthday

[@skattbro]

Got My FLM Deluxe Edition yesterday.... Great Stuff

[@jimcameron4672]

So cheesed off at the time waiting in to see Top of the Pops and all we got was puppets, of course the real story wasn't out there yet

[@sergiyivanov4619]

👍🙂 Hello from ex-USSR ! In the 1988 year we are dancing with this song on the DISCO pol's in sport holl Cheboxarsky medical college. 🔝 📀 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🔉 🔉 🎶 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 🔊 🔊 🎵 🎶 💃🏼🕺 🕺💃🏼 💃🏼🕺 🕺💃🏼 💃🏼🕺 Thanks for your jobs and publication. 😊👋🙂

[@hollypietrzak5214]

We dont hear from mel and kim so much anymore now and they quickly faded to black after the 80s ended also

[@kyleturner8283]

Mel died of a reoccurence of her cancer, that's why you don't hear of them. Mel & Kim were working on their second album when Mel died. The songs that they were working on Kim put on her solo album. Now u know.

[@hallson2917]

R.I.P Mel

[@TheFakeyCakeMaker]

Toooooooooooooooootally agree. xx

[@enquvist]

Mel was very sick at this point hence why they're only in the video via live footage someone dug up. This was 80's - way before they could do stuff like digital fairies to hide the fact Ginger Spice had jumped ship from the Spice Girls in "Viva Forever" :-)

[@Dikijs86]

The footage they show in this video was from the Montreaux (I've probably misspelled it) festival from 1987. That festival is huge. Just thought, I'd throw that info in there. I appreciate that you wrote this 6yrs ago, so this comment might be a surprise to you.

[@patrickstocks3986]

It would have been Mel's 50th birthday today!

[@granto6738]

Wow how time goes

[@t.f.6332]

She was the one who died with câncer?

[@davidhotson1594]

@@granto6738 iiiikkkm. Dxxa see b I m m lol l lol I’m l

[@talikamurray1388]

@@t.f.6332IT REALLY WAS PNEUMONIA THAT KILLED HER DUE TO HER HAVING SUCH WEAK IMMUNE SYSTEM FROM CANCER

[@samoyo7054]

i like this song by mel and kim klm from 1986

[@malcolmallen9474]

With u sad loss ❤

[@tanyamccann1747]

Thanks Ladies

[@janekiely848]

Flm F..kin. Lovely Mate. True Cockney Proud My Accent FLM

[@timschulz9563]

To my ears this song sounds final. Afterwards just silence. And it's almost right.

[@dantootill7644]

This video scared me to death as a kid, seem ridiculous now. Something about those puppets (although I seem to remember them having milk bottle top eyes, which they obviously don't!) and the rumours at the time as to why they were used. Oh and the eyes on the poster following the guy haunted me further, I really found it scary as hell.

[@malcolmallen9474]

Sad miss for her sister bless

[@superflyfly-g7b]

❤❤

[@CAOMENVEVO]

This music video has never been right with me. You see the reason that the clips of Mel and Kim where only clips from concerts was because Mel was ill while recording the video. That’s also the reason they used puppets. Such a sad loss. ❤

[@NancyRodriguez-f9q]

Clement Mill

[@patrickstocks3986]

RIP Mel

[@BelenDechavez-z6o]

Sir FLM..sana po mbigyn nio din po aq ng tulong at sinor n po aq Hindi n mkka pg trabho khit ano pong ipg kloob nio sken ang biyayang gling sau sir salamat po and god bless you sir..sna po mrami o kaung mtutulyngan n tuld qpi mhirap.kylabgab k nmin sir..

[@penir]

Very sad. The carreer of these 2 girls its like spaceship explode when it flight up.

[@asankagurusinghe6128]

RIP Mel.

[@patrickstocks3986]

Mel’s 28 years passed away today

[@BookieKillah]

You keep coming back here every year, don't you - is this like a shrine to you? #NotKnockingIt

[@jakemorris8903]

Almost 30 years now

[@SAPTACDUSE]

@@jakemorris8903 How old was she???

[@theman2017inc]

January 18th 1990, now more than 30 years ago (today’s date August 6th 2020) @23, that was much too young to go 😔

[@theman2017inc]

RADE DANILOVIC - Kouč, Savetnik, Konsultant just 5 months short of her 24th birthday

[@RobertLee-p1m]

Bonita Points

[@terriemurton6945]

Kim Country singer

[@malcolmallen9474]

Luv the girls other sad loss we'll missed do u agree ❤

[@angelasmithson5291]

I'm 12 again!!😀

[@ajs41]

Sadly Mel was too ill to appear in this video at the time it was released. She does appear but only in old clips.

[@glamdolly30]

@@peterschofield1553 I agree, I read Mel and Kim weren't consulted about the whole marionettes & detective themed video, and they both hated it. Kim saw it out of the blue on telly one day, and said she was "Devastated", and when Mel found out she said she would rather no video was shown at all! Seems to me the obvious thing to do was to use the Montreaux live performance, which was excellent with the sisters looking great and dancing beautifully. In 1987 Mel's cancer had returned and they were facing the terrible possibility that 'Mel and Kim' was on the way out, as tragedy loomed. I imagine switching on the TV and seeing your record company has replaced you with a couple of puppets, must have felt pretty hurtful!

[@ZeeZahSmile]

Saw a video of the sisters Sparked my interest. They didn't like this video but it would've worked without the puppets. They could've been bigger. Gone to soon❤ Mel❤

[@deanoobg42]

my first proper crush was Mel gone far far too soon xxxx

[@EarthaSieger-e1o]

Stiedemann Parkway

[@robocop5935]

These classy British ladies encouraged destinys child and spice girls and the like.

[@WedgePee]

And they were only recording for about two years, if that. FLM actually means "fucking lovely mate," a phrase they often said.

[@RocStarr913]

The odds are Destiny’s Child didn’t know who they were.

[@AboveSomething]

BIG F

[@DerekAntoine]

Mel C.Gone to soon .RIP..❤.delboy Xxx.

[@BookieKillah]

1:40 Wouldn't be able to do that in this day and age - at least not without ending up on that darn register anyway...

[@Usmiatun-x8k]

Sip

[@jacquelinefox2632]

What was that song about you're going to be OK, so he left you, etc?

[@desertrose1226]

“Don’t Worry” by Kim Appleby.

[@joop7381ep]

mel kim zo good joop van buerink

[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

Yeah same can be said for Queens later vids before the rest of us knew freddie was aidsed up and they used old footage which struck me at the time as indicating something was wrong but couldn't put my finger on it and was surprised even though it should have been obvious, we all knew about Mel in the papers and it was indeed very sad to see her in her wheelchair still smiling gorgeously, but they were upfront, no hiding here just a good creative concept trying to make the best of a sad situation

[@poshsurreygirl3571]

1980s🤗

[@MangUded]

Good krenn🙏🙏

[@1.FutureBoy]

Apparently FLM stands for "fucking lovely, mate," which the girls would say a lot during the recording the the album.

[@Jamie-wd3ql]

Fucking Lovely Mate F.L.M. ♥️

[@patrickstocks3986]

In couple weeks that its going to be 26 years that Mel passed away!

[@elentorres7120]

Hi sir FLM sana matulongin not poh ako sa 3 studyanti ko po..sa pag aaral nila Lozano din asawa ko...problima kami kc walA ng trabaho ako habal driver nalang po ako sana matulonga mga anak ko po hinde poh sa pang sareli kosog.. salamat pooh!!!

I like your beautiful dans songs Mel and Kim LOVE ANGEL MEL HAPPY BRITHRDAY MAY ANGEL MEL ÉRA MEL AND KIM BEAUTIFUL. Than you very much and etapa 80-90 Super STARS MEL AND KIM - FANS JAREK

[@malcolmallen9474]

This record stood out for me ?

[@paulmichael1150]

Hope Kim sees these.

[@jaytops]

Anyone know who the guy is? He looks familiar.

[@glamdolly30]

He reminds me of a young Kevin Costner. Don't think his career took off after this though, I've never seen him in anything else!

[@PaulWilliamArnold]

Neither of them were happy with this video.