You get bonus points for mentioning Pet Shop Boys - possibly my favourite pop group of all time. (I know they only had a couple of hits in the US during the 1980s, but here they had loads of albums… - Simon Dillon

However, it was a playground for directors and filmmakers of all stripes to be as off-beat and creepy and funny and artistic as they could dream. With so much airtime to fill — before the network added game shows and broke into reality TV — MTV had this attitude that amounted to: give us your strange and over-thought, your high-brow directors as well as your stuff shot on super-8 by the Pet Shop Boys yearning to be free. It’s not surprising that Cyndi’s playful, cheeky approach to music would be right at home in this di…
The Revolution Will Be Unusual: Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”
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You get bonus points for mentioning Pet Shop Boys - possibly my favourite pop group of all time. (I know they only had a couple of hits in the US during the 1980s, but here they had loads of albums and singles beyond the 1980s, and are still going today. They are practically a UK national institution.)
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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