OMG. How can I possibly choose just one?
My immediate thought was Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
When they appeared on the scene, with their risque lyrics and their political agenda, they seemed to take over where punk had left off, but bringing a deep dance beat to their particular brand of anarchy.
They were a phenomenon, a zeitgeist. Being banned from the Beeb not because of an executive decision, but because the DJ Mike Reid personally found them offensive. The Katherine Hamnett "Frankie Says..." t-shirts. The whole anti-cold-war ethos.
Unless you were around in that era (and old enough to understand), there is little I can do to describe the frisson of seeing the
video at the height of the cold war, when programmes like
Threads were being broadcast, and Poland was being militarised by the USSR. Gorbachev and Reagan knocking seven bells out of each other in a boxing ring was way too serious to be laughed at.
Love it. Always will.
