84 is a bit of a nostalgic year for music for me, I loved some songs a lot from then. Jump by The Pointer Sisters is another of those. As is Sade's Smooth Operator. I remember when I first heard it, I was listening to Radio Luxembourg and I knew it would be big straight away, as did the DJ Andy Hollins. The whole Diamond Life album is great though and it just shows that records that sell huge can also be very good, people don't have to be snobby and ignore them later. Music that you have lived with for a long time becomes part of people's shared memories. I'm not sure I ever go off music that I truly love.
Laura Brannigan herself met an early death, both Gloria and Self Control were covers of Italian songs, the second song having a typically extravagant and inventive 80s video (which may remind some of Eyes Wide Shut, the Kubrick film).
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