80s Video Fandango

Pop videos! Sorry, but it was bound to happen eventually. As I work through my VHS tape collection, I keep encountering the weird and the wonderful. Now I come to both.

The first and second parts of Queen's Greatest Hits have long been out on DVD, but they're twiddling their thumbs over part three. Most of that doesn't really come under the heading of "fun", though, so I'm skirting around it here. The videos from the Made In Heaven album were a mixed bunch, and nobody really likes them anyway; but there is one little gem on the tape that we'll get to later. Elsewhere we have the questionable glory that is Wham!, the sometimes baffling imagery of a-ha, and the ever wonderful E Street Band. That's probably way more music videos in the space of an evening than anybody should ever sit down to watch. Well, perhaps not. I could never tire of Queen or Bruce and the boys, but I really don't think it was entirely safe to watch that many Wham! videos in one go. Dear heaven, the fashions. And the dancing. How the hell did any of us make it out of the eighties alive?!

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