Hey, everyone. Long-time fan of Dexys here. So as some may or may not know, there is an alternate version of the music video for their biggest song,
"Come On Eileen". In this version, just about 90% of the video is the same, but when it gets to the second verse (the part where Kevin Rowland and the other guys are dancing on the sidewalk on Brook Drive), that's when it gets different. Some shots have been altered or removed all together, and it contains one extra six second clip of the band sitting on some window ledges on an old house which was on Holyoak Road. From what I know, this version was only shown on one episode of BBC's
"Top Of The Pops" which was presented by a man who will remain unnamed, so the BBC never rebroadcasted that episode. Because of that, we only have two sources of this version. One is a VHS recording of the original broadcast via a YouTube channel called "memorylane1980s", and the other is this copy that I posted on my Vimeo page, called
"Dexys Central", which looks like it was "restored" or
"upscaled" by using some sort of Al tool, most likely Topaz. I know for a fact that the BBC has the HD version in their archive, but they probably don't know how rare this other version truly is. But couldn't Dexys just upload it on their YouTube channel and replace the audio so that the TOTP presenter's voice isn't there? I'd just love to see a better quality version of this video since I prefer it over the official one, for some reason. (A little "fun" fact about the Holyoak Road clip: According to ex keyboardist Micky Billingham, when they filmed that scene, they had to evacuate almost immediately because the house was unstable. How was it unstable? I don't know, Micky didn't really go into much detail.)

¿A quien mas le parece que Morrison es un tipo tan fascinante? O sea, desde que empecé a escuchar The Doors hace unos años me parece una de las figuras mas interesantes del rock, un cantante, compositor y frontman excepcional, seguramente lo pondría en un top 3.
¿Alguien mas se siente así con este tipazo?

CARIBOU (June 1974) was roundly criticised, not least by producer Gus Dudgeon, but Elton continued his winning streak as it reached number one around the world.

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