0:00:02 > 0:00:04MUSIC: "Blue Monday" by New Order
0:00:15 > 0:00:18Welcome to a considered collection of music performances
0:00:18 > 0:00:22by British rockers from the funny old 1980s.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26The '80s was, of course, the decade when MTV got under way.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28Before that, people like you and me
0:00:28 > 0:00:32could only watch music clips on minor channels, late at night.
0:00:32 > 0:00:33Imagine that!
0:00:33 > 0:00:37We've tried to get around the ubiquitousness of such things
0:00:37 > 0:00:41by asking you to forget everything you've ever seen.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Done it? Good. Thanks for playing along.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48First up is The Clash from Shea Stadium, New York, 1982,
0:00:48 > 0:00:51and they're introduced here by the blistering Kosmo Vinyl
0:00:51 > 0:00:54and, mind games aside, New York
0:00:54 > 0:00:57really hadn't seen or heard anything like him before.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00- CHEERING - Good evening, New York City!
0:01:00 > 0:01:02How you doing?
0:01:02 > 0:01:03APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:01:03 > 0:01:07Come on, Shea Stadium! You sound like you're half asleep!
0:01:07 > 0:01:10Come on, let's hear ya! How you doing?!
0:01:10 > 0:01:12CHEERING
0:01:12 > 0:01:15It's good to see a few people who aren't worried about a bit of rain!
0:01:15 > 0:01:17You ain't worried about no rain, are ya?
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Rain's a load of rubbish! Don't worry about rain!
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Anyway, what we've got for you tonight is...
0:01:23 > 0:01:27We ain't got no baseball! No baseball tonight!
0:01:27 > 0:01:30We ain't got no football! They're on strike!
0:01:30 > 0:01:32- CHEERING - But what we have got for you
0:01:32 > 0:01:35is a little bit of what's going on in London at the moment!
0:01:35 > 0:01:41So will you welcome, all the way from Ladbroke Grove, London, W10,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43The Clash! Come on!
0:01:43 > 0:01:45HUGE CHEER
0:01:55 > 0:01:58SONG BEGINS
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Ow!
0:02:08 > 0:02:11# Darling, you've got to let me know
0:02:12 > 0:02:14# Should I stay or should I go?
0:02:16 > 0:02:19# If you say that you are mine
0:02:19 > 0:02:21# I'll be here till the day I die
0:02:22 > 0:02:26# Come on and let me know
0:02:26 > 0:02:28# Should I stay or should I go?
0:02:29 > 0:02:32# It's always tease, tease, tease
0:02:33 > 0:02:35# You're happy when I'm on my knees
0:02:36 > 0:02:38# One day is fine, the next is black
0:02:40 > 0:02:42# So if you want me off your back
0:02:43 > 0:02:46# Come on and let me know
0:02:47 > 0:02:48# Should I stay or should I go?
0:02:50 > 0:02:52# Should I stay or should I go now?
0:02:54 > 0:02:57# Should I stay or should I go now?
0:02:58 > 0:03:01# If I go, there will be trouble
0:03:01 > 0:03:04# And if I stay, it will be double
0:03:05 > 0:03:07# So you've got to let me know
0:03:11 > 0:03:15- # This indecision's buggin' me - Indecision me molesta
0:03:15 > 0:03:18- # If you don't want me, set me free - Si no me quieres, librame
0:03:18 > 0:03:22- # Exactly who am I'm supposed to be - Dime! Que tengo ser?
0:03:22 > 0:03:25- # Don't you remember where you met me?- Sabes que ropa me quedar?
0:03:25 > 0:03:29- # Come on and let me know - Pero tienes que decir
0:03:29 > 0:03:33- # Should I cool it or should I blow? - Doble! Me frio o lo soplo? #
0:03:33 > 0:03:34Wah!
0:03:36 > 0:03:38Agh! Split!
0:03:39 > 0:03:41OK, wise guy!
0:03:43 > 0:03:44So what's the conclusion?
0:03:46 > 0:03:50Wop, wop, wop! Wop, wop, wop! Wah!
0:03:53 > 0:03:57- # Should I stay or should I go now? - Yo! Me frio o lo soplo?
0:03:57 > 0:04:01- # Should I stay or should I go now? - Yo! Me frio o lo soplo?
0:04:01 > 0:04:04- # If I go, there will be trouble - Si me voy, va a haber peligro
0:04:04 > 0:04:08- # And if I stay, it will be double - Si me quedo, es doble
0:04:08 > 0:04:12- # So you've got to let me know - Pero que tienes que decir
0:04:12 > 0:04:15- # Should I cool it or should I blow? - Me frio o lo soplo?
0:04:15 > 0:04:19- # Should I stay or should I go now? - Me frio o lo soplo?
0:04:19 > 0:04:23- # If I go, there will be trouble - Si me voy, va a haber peligro
0:04:23 > 0:04:27- # And if I stay, there will be double - Si me quedo, es doble
0:04:27 > 0:04:31- # So you've got to let me know - Pero que tienes que decir
0:04:31 > 0:04:33# Should I stay or should I go? #
0:04:33 > 0:04:34CHEERING
0:04:34 > 0:04:37The Clash, whose break-up a year later
0:04:37 > 0:04:40paved the way for success in America for U2.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43Your legacy, Joe(!)
0:04:43 > 0:04:45And now, The Fall! I pretty much discovered The Fall.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48It says so in John Peel's book if you don't believe me.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50And I never tire of telling people!
0:04:50 > 0:04:53Shalamar - that's another group I found as well.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57In 1988, Mark E Smith's band were asked to accompany
0:04:57 > 0:05:00a contemporary dance show by Michael Clark,
0:05:00 > 0:05:02called I Am Kurious Oranj,
0:05:02 > 0:05:04apparently based on the 300th anniversary
0:05:04 > 0:05:08of William of Orange's accession to the English throne.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11This is Big New Prinz, and look out for Mike,
0:05:11 > 0:05:13with the curly black wig and crutches!
0:05:13 > 0:05:15# Rockin' records
0:05:15 > 0:05:17# The guy's rock records
0:05:20 > 0:05:22# A big priest
0:05:24 > 0:05:26# Big priest
0:05:27 > 0:05:29# A big priest
0:05:31 > 0:05:36# Rockin' records Rock the record! Rock, rock record!
0:05:42 > 0:05:44# Drink the long Drink the long draught
0:05:44 > 0:05:47# Drink the long draught for big priest
0:05:56 > 0:05:58# Drink the long draught down Drink the long
0:05:58 > 0:06:01# Drink the long draught Big priest
0:06:03 > 0:06:05# He...
0:06:05 > 0:06:06# Is...
0:06:06 > 0:06:08# Not...
0:06:08 > 0:06:09# Appreciated!
0:06:09 > 0:06:11# Drink the long Drink the long draught
0:06:11 > 0:06:14# Drink the long draught for big priest
0:06:23 > 0:06:26# Rock the records, check the record Check the guy's track record
0:06:26 > 0:06:30# Check the record Check the guy's track record
0:06:30 > 0:06:32# He...
0:06:32 > 0:06:33# Is...
0:06:33 > 0:06:35# Not...
0:06:35 > 0:06:36# Appreciated
0:06:36 > 0:06:40# Check the record, check the record Check the guy's track record
0:06:40 > 0:06:42# Big priest
0:06:50 > 0:06:54# Check the record, check the record Check the guy's track record
0:06:54 > 0:06:57# Check the record Check the guy's rock record
0:06:57 > 0:06:59# He...
0:06:59 > 0:07:00# Is...
0:07:00 > 0:07:02# Not...
0:07:02 > 0:07:03# Appreciated
0:07:03 > 0:07:05# Drink the long draught down
0:07:05 > 0:07:08# Drink the long Drink the long for big priest
0:07:17 > 0:07:21# Check the record, check the record Check the guy's track record
0:07:21 > 0:07:24# Check the record Check the guy's track record
0:07:24 > 0:07:26# He...
0:07:26 > 0:07:27# Is...
0:07:27 > 0:07:29# Not...
0:07:29 > 0:07:30# Appreciated
0:07:30 > 0:07:34# Rock the records, rock the records Rockin' records
0:07:34 > 0:07:36# Big priest!
0:07:44 > 0:07:46# Drink the long Drink the long draught
0:07:46 > 0:07:49# Drink the long draught for the big priest
0:07:57 > 0:08:01# Check the record, check the record Check the guy's track record
0:08:01 > 0:08:05# Check the record Check the guy's track record
0:08:05 > 0:08:06# He...
0:08:06 > 0:08:08# Is...
0:08:08 > 0:08:09# Not...
0:08:09 > 0:08:11# Appreciated
0:08:11 > 0:08:15# Rockin' records, rockin' records Rock the record
0:08:15 > 0:08:18# Big prinz!
0:08:18 > 0:08:22# Rockin' records, rockin' records rockin' records, rockin' records
0:08:22 > 0:08:25# Rockin' records Rockin' rec, rock's records! #
0:08:25 > 0:08:27Mark E Smith!
0:08:27 > 0:08:30Mark E Smith! Mwah!
0:08:30 > 0:08:34This is Prefab Sprout's second album Steve McQueen.
0:08:34 > 0:08:35But not in the United States,
0:08:35 > 0:08:39where the late actor's estate forced them to change the title.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43This contains one of the great breakup songs of the '80s,
0:08:43 > 0:08:46or any other decade for that matter, When Love Breaks Down.
0:08:46 > 0:08:51It was released four times as a single before becoming a hit. Why?
0:08:51 > 0:08:55Because the public don't always recognise quality when they see it!
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Oh, er... Not, not you, though!
0:08:57 > 0:08:58Prefab Sprout.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19# My love and I
0:09:19 > 0:09:23# We work well together
0:09:23 > 0:09:27# But often we're apart
0:09:30 > 0:09:34# Absence makes the...
0:09:34 > 0:09:37# Heart lose weight, yeah
0:09:37 > 0:09:41# Till love breaks down Love breaks down
0:09:57 > 0:10:00# Oh, my, oh my!
0:10:00 > 0:10:04# Have you seen the weather?
0:10:04 > 0:10:07# The sweet September rain!
0:10:11 > 0:10:14# Rain on me
0:10:14 > 0:10:18# Like no other
0:10:18 > 0:10:22# Until I drown, until I drown!
0:10:22 > 0:10:23# When love breaks down
0:10:23 > 0:10:25# The things you do
0:10:25 > 0:10:29# To stop the truth from hurting you
0:10:29 > 0:10:31# When love breaks down
0:10:31 > 0:10:32# The lies we tell
0:10:32 > 0:10:36# They only serve to fool ourselves
0:10:36 > 0:10:38# When love breaks down
0:10:38 > 0:10:40# The things you do
0:10:40 > 0:10:43# To stop the truth from hurting you
0:10:43 > 0:10:47# When love breaks down When love breaks down
0:11:17 > 0:11:20# My love and I
0:11:20 > 0:11:24# We are boxing clever
0:11:24 > 0:11:28# She'll never crowd me out
0:11:31 > 0:11:38# Fall be free as old confetti
0:11:38 > 0:11:41# And paint the town, paint the town!
0:11:41 > 0:11:43# When love breaks down
0:11:43 > 0:11:45# The things you do
0:11:45 > 0:11:49# To stop the truth from hurting you
0:11:49 > 0:11:50# When love breaks down
0:11:50 > 0:11:52# The lies we tell
0:11:52 > 0:11:56# They only serve to fool ourselves
0:11:56 > 0:11:58# When love breaks down
0:11:58 > 0:12:00# The things you do
0:12:00 > 0:12:03# To stop the truth from hurting you
0:12:03 > 0:12:05# When love breaks down
0:12:05 > 0:12:07# The lies we tell
0:12:07 > 0:12:10# They only serve to fool ourselves
0:12:10 > 0:12:12# When love breaks down
0:12:12 > 0:12:14# The things you do
0:12:14 > 0:12:17# To stop the truth from hurting you
0:12:17 > 0:12:19# When love breaks down
0:12:19 > 0:12:21# You join the wrecks
0:12:21 > 0:12:25# Who leave their hearts for easy sex
0:12:25 > 0:12:28# When love breaks down When love breaks down. #
0:13:07 > 0:13:08'Paddy McAloon!'
0:13:09 > 0:13:13The late poet, raconteur and - dammit! - rock star Ivor Cutler
0:13:13 > 0:13:16detested loud music and motor cars
0:13:16 > 0:13:19and was a member of the Noise Abatement Society.
0:13:19 > 0:13:23I've seen him in concert request audiences not to applaud!
0:13:23 > 0:13:26He was, first and foremost, a drawl.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29Here he is, harmonium and frank headwear in tow,
0:13:29 > 0:13:33playing, quietly, the song Shoplifters.
0:13:33 > 0:13:41# Shoplifters
0:13:42 > 0:13:48# Shoplifters
0:13:51 > 0:13:57# Is your shop right down on the ground?
0:13:57 > 0:14:02# Then let us lift it Lift it for you
0:14:02 > 0:14:06# There's plenty of room in the blue
0:14:06 > 0:14:11# For your shop and for you
0:14:15 > 0:14:21# Shoplifters
0:14:23 > 0:14:29# A woman whom once I know
0:14:29 > 0:14:34# Had a shop It sold bananas and calico
0:14:35 > 0:14:38# She said, "Lift up my shop"
0:14:40 > 0:14:42# So we lift it two thousand hundred yards
0:14:42 > 0:14:45# Into the sky
0:14:45 > 0:14:48# She thought she was going to die
0:14:48 > 0:14:52# But we gave her the big reassure
0:14:52 > 0:14:56# There was plenty of room to spare
0:15:00 > 0:15:06# Shoplifters
0:15:08 > 0:15:14# Shoplifters. #
0:15:19 > 0:15:22Ivor Cutler. At least twice the man I am.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25In fact, if he was still alive, he should be doing this.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27I'd watch it.
0:15:27 > 0:15:28In fact...
0:15:31 > 0:15:32Ah, here it is.
0:15:34 > 0:15:38This track is The Boy With The Thorn In His Side.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52# The boy with the thorn in his side
0:15:52 > 0:15:55# Behind the hatred, there lies
0:15:55 > 0:15:57# A murderous desire
0:15:58 > 0:16:03# For love
0:16:03 > 0:16:06# How can they look into my eyes
0:16:06 > 0:16:09# And still they don't believe me?
0:16:11 > 0:16:14# How can they hear me say those words
0:16:14 > 0:16:17# Still they don't believe me?
0:16:19 > 0:16:22# And if they don't believe me now
0:16:22 > 0:16:27# Will they ever believe me?
0:16:27 > 0:16:30And if they don't believe me now
0:16:30 > 0:16:35# Will they ever Will they ever believe me?
0:16:35 > 0:16:37# Oh!
0:16:37 > 0:16:40# Oh! Oh!
0:16:40 > 0:16:44# Ooh!
0:16:46 > 0:16:50# The boy with the thorn in his side
0:16:50 > 0:16:52# Behind the hatred, there lies
0:16:52 > 0:16:55# The plundering desire
0:16:55 > 0:17:00# For love
0:17:00 > 0:17:03# How can they see the love in our eyes
0:17:03 > 0:17:07# And still they don't believe us?
0:17:07 > 0:17:10# And after all this time
0:17:11 > 0:17:15# They don't want to believe us
0:17:16 > 0:17:20# And if they don't believe us now
0:17:20 > 0:17:24# Will they ever believe us?
0:17:24 > 0:17:28# And when you want to live How do you start?
0:17:28 > 0:17:32# Where do you Who do you need to know?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34# Oh!
0:17:34 > 0:17:38# Oh! Oh!
0:17:38 > 0:17:42# Ah ooh-ah! #
0:18:44 > 0:18:48Morrissey... Never knowingly under-overwrought.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Now, Motorhead,
0:18:50 > 0:18:55who once put the word parallelogram into one of their songs. Yes, songs.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58Whilst being largely ignored by fashionable folk in the 1980s,
0:18:58 > 0:19:01heavy rock or heavy metal just got bigger and bigger.
0:19:01 > 0:19:06Thousands of kids thought Spinal Tap the movie really was a documentary.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10Then again, many of us miss the fun when it comes to metal music.
0:19:10 > 0:19:11Though everyone agrees,
0:19:11 > 0:19:16nobody can plunge into Motorhead without feeling 100% alive.
0:19:16 > 0:19:21So come, Lemmy, come, Fast Eddie, come, Philthy Animal.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38# If you like to gamble I tell you I'm your man
0:19:38 > 0:19:41# You win some, lose some It's all the same to me
0:19:48 > 0:19:51# The pleasure is to play Makes no difference what you say
0:19:55 > 0:19:58# I don't share your greed The only card I need is
0:19:58 > 0:20:01# The ace of spades The ace of spades
0:20:05 > 0:20:08# Playing for the high one Dancing with the devil
0:20:08 > 0:20:12# Going with the flow It's all a game to me
0:20:18 > 0:20:22# Seven or eleven Snake eyes watching you
0:20:25 > 0:20:28# Double up or quit Double stake or split
0:20:28 > 0:20:32# The ace of spades The ace of spades
0:20:39 > 0:20:42# You know I'm born to lose and gambling's for fools
0:20:42 > 0:20:46# But that's the way I like it, baby I don't want to live for ever
0:20:51 > 0:20:53# And don't forget the joker
0:21:19 > 0:21:23# Pushing up the ante I know you've got to see me
0:21:23 > 0:21:26# Read 'em and weep The dead man's hand again
0:21:33 > 0:21:37# I see it in your eyes Take one look and die
0:21:40 > 0:21:43# The only thing you see You know it's going to be
0:21:43 > 0:21:46# The ace of spades The ace of spades. #
0:22:06 > 0:22:08I found that bracing.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10Of course, some people say that the eye of the storm is
0:22:10 > 0:22:13the quietest and safest place to be.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Those people are idiots.
0:22:15 > 0:22:16In the '80s, when British bands
0:22:16 > 0:22:19frequently had to nip over to Europe for TV appearances,
0:22:19 > 0:22:21they soon discovered that their European colleagues
0:22:21 > 0:22:25had very different ideas about the visual side of pop.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28On the Continent, music was presented in a way
0:22:28 > 0:22:32that might make Salvador Dali say, "What the hell is going on?"
0:22:32 > 0:22:33Even a performer like, say,
0:22:33 > 0:22:37Van Morrison could find himself adorned with plastic kippers,
0:22:37 > 0:22:41rubber ducks and generally festering with giant balls of Play-Doh.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43We haven't got anything like that.
0:22:43 > 0:22:44We went for something really tough -
0:22:44 > 0:22:48a piece of European television that's actually sensible.
0:22:48 > 0:22:49And we found it.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Dutch TV, The Pretenders, and I Go To Sleep.
0:23:09 > 0:23:16# When I look up from my pillow I dream you are there with me
0:23:18 > 0:23:26# Though you are far away I know you'll always be near to me
0:23:26 > 0:23:31# I go to sleep, sleep
0:23:31 > 0:23:35# And imagine that you're there with me
0:23:35 > 0:23:41# I go to sleep, sleep
0:23:41 > 0:23:45# And imagine that you're there with me
0:23:51 > 0:23:59# I look around me and feel you are ever so close to me
0:24:00 > 0:24:08# Each tear that flows from my eye brings back memories of you to me
0:24:08 > 0:24:14# I go to sleep, sleep
0:24:14 > 0:24:18# And imagine that you're there with me
0:24:18 > 0:24:23# I go to sleep, sleep
0:24:23 > 0:24:28# And imagine that you're there with me
0:24:28 > 0:24:32# I was wrong, I will cry
0:24:32 > 0:24:34# I will love you till the day I die
0:24:36 > 0:24:39# You were all You alone and no-one else
0:24:39 > 0:24:41# You were meant for me
0:24:47 > 0:24:55# When morning comes again I have the loneliness you left me
0:24:56 > 0:25:04# Each day drags by until finally my time descends on me
0:25:04 > 0:25:10# I go to sleep, sleep
0:25:10 > 0:25:14# And imagine that you're there with me
0:25:14 > 0:25:19# I go to sleep, sleep
0:25:19 > 0:25:23# And imagine that you're there with me. #
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Oh!
0:25:48 > 0:25:51And they were so close to getting through that without larks, weren't they?
0:25:51 > 0:25:54Still, nice try, Holland. And that's all, folks.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57You might be asking what was the point of our '80s spectacle tonight,
0:25:57 > 0:25:58and I'll give you the answer.
0:25:58 > 0:25:59Who cares?
0:25:59 > 0:26:03Here to close are the shareholders of Manchester's Hacienda club
0:26:03 > 0:26:07taking time out from their day jobs one evening in 1985.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09A very good night to you.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12And happy birthday, Gareth.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Happy birthday, Gareth, who's 19 today.
0:27:09 > 0:27:14# I've been waiting to hear your voice for too long now
0:27:15 > 0:27:20# One-way conversations do not work somehow
0:27:22 > 0:27:28# Tell me, how does one get your soul in touch with the one above?
0:27:28 > 0:27:33# When one-way conversations pay the price for the use of love
0:27:35 > 0:27:39# I tried so hard last night You would not talk to me
0:27:40 > 0:27:44# I live with the fear of the few with the gift
0:27:44 > 0:27:46# And I know what's going to be
0:28:50 > 0:28:56# Why did you never speak my name in front of my family... #