Biggles Flies Undone
Now, not all recycling is a good thing. French 1980s crooner Ringo’s recycling of “Video Killed The Radio Star” — the Buggles hit that launched MTV some 40 years ago — is a case in point. Its lyrics were incomprehensibly recycled as “Who’s That Big Black Crow?” and its video featured the popular MOR singer in an Elvis fancy dress costume with Madonna’s bra cups glued onto the shoulders, miming the finest air guitar performance you will ever see for a song with no guitars on it, in the middle of a children’s playground patrolled by Dementors while a man runs around without any trousers on.
It’s like every John Waters movie you ever saw rolled into three minutes. A masterpiece.
Wow … every word of that is true, look!
I’m speechless; if only she were French, that would be the explanation for SouthpawPoet’s entire childhood … and, consequently, her taste in music … in a single video — it’s uncanny!
