Finally got YouTube to co-operate, no doubt to the delight of my colleagues. I am certain they enjoyed, as I did, Duran Duran's Wild Boys, which was obviously my first port of call when offered a database of every imaginable video in the history of the world.
Imagine my disappointment to discover that the cutting edge design and technology of the day now looks shite and, I'd go so far as to say (forgive me HP), embarrassing. I should have left it unsullied in my memory as being the best video I ever remember seeing. The veil has been lifted from my eyes and I am the poorer for it. Though there was a genuis bit where one band member was tied to his car bonnet, thrashing in agony as he was subjected to the indignity of having his own image flashed at him from an overhead screen. I doubt I'd have thought it so amusing when it was made, but retropectively I can fully appreciate that a reality check of my 80's make-up & hair 'style' would indeed be torture.
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