“… AM/FM, all that jazz, we’d reasonably sing together with Yazz, what occurred to the radio, they by no means play the songs we all know…” “…No heavy steel, rock and roll, music from the previous, I’d reasonably jack, than Fleetwood Mac…”
It at all times felt a bit harsh on Fleetwood Mac, whose newest album Tango In The Night time had been one of many best pop albums of the late 80s. Nonetheless, bare ageism was honest recreation in 1989 when a sisterly teenage duo infamously took to the charts for the primary and solely time…
Like their contemporaries Large Enjoyable, the undertaking gave the impression to be little greater than a dare for Inventory, Aitken and Waterman, who have been taking flak for hogging the charts and airwaves so, by way of Linda and Aisling Reynolds, they retorted with a track stating that older rock stars had no enterprise dominating the radio station playlists.
We Don’t Need Them Again…
Regardless of an excitable acid house-inspired intro, the melody was arguably not one of many Hit Manufacturing unit’s stronger efforts, and any technique behind the message acquired misplaced within the novelty worth. The entire thing didn’t, and hasn’t, aged properly.
For all that, you wouldn’t hear golden oldies, Rolling Stones or Fleetwood Mac on Radio 1 after 1993, so a kinder view can be that this in any other case featureless observe did make somebody assume as they unfurled a BBC spreadsheet.
But it surely’s uncertain. Children cherished it, after all, and it acquired to No.8 in 1989 on the UK Singles Chart. The Reynolds Ladies remained very a lot a momentary phenomenon, with no album and just one follow-up single, which flopped.
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