For a number of years, I have known that I am no longer center stage. Increasingly I have been moving toward the curtains. Without knowing though, the time of my life when I was most alive the 80's had music which presaged the present.
The top video I believe was their final performance at the Sydney Opera House on 24 November 1996. You will notice that Paul Hester the drummer was wiping his tears at the beginning of the performance.
The original
Man how I wish I were a teenager in the 80's sometimes. Fear of the cold war, ridiculous hair and awesome music.
There is nothing to stop you from calling up a bunch of your friends, putting on a little eyeliner (the hair might be a problem these days), running the videos and mixing your drinks of choice: Slow Comfortable Screw/Beer/Scotch/Red Red Wine etc. We are quickly advancing toward February so you might make a weekend of it.
When I was at university, we used to have a Suitcase Pub periodically. It would be on a Friday night. Before you would go to the pub, you would pack a suitcase. The door prize given at the end of the night was a couple of tickets for the airplane and 2 nights hotel stay in the Caribbean.
Right now I am trying to get my kids and friends to consider generating enough Steem Dollars so we could all rent a house for a month and go someplace "beachin".
I have a lot of admiration for that Suitcase Pub story, peppered with even more envy. I also have a receding hairline, so I can't do the 80's properly, in spite of the eyeliner, I'll just look like Boy George's fizzled side-kick
My hair is not receding, it has just gotten lazy. Instead of coming out the top of my head, it has decided coming out my nose, ears and eyebrows is enough.