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There's two or three guitar parts, I'm not sure there's anything unique about the sound of most of them but there is a huge fuzz going on. Gawd knows what that is, I want to say something like the sound you get from over driving a mixing board ( or plugging into a JHS Colour Box these days). It's not a typical guitar tone and as they were being recorded as a pop band rather than as a rock band I guess someone thought plugging straight into the board would do it.
Having sat on the toilet and googled it for ten minutes I'm none the wiser although I don't think it's done my piles any favours.
What always surprises me is just how universally liked it seems to be. I mean, it can't be on the radio much nowadays but literally every age group seem to know it and they all do the fingers in belt-loops Status Quo dance too! Guess it must've been in a film or something.
It's also my birth-date no1 single!
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There are a few pop culture uses of the song as well in Mr Bean, the 2012 Olympics ceremony and A Very English Scandal although I don't think any of those would have shown the thumbs in loops dance.
Anyway, this is Rob showing how to play the solo, in-between writing hit songs for Kylie and Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Then I watched that video and felt a lot better!
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(thanks to Media Monkey’s excellent indexing of my mp3 library).
Prefer the original though.
1970s, golden age of pop, the record companies just used to point the artists at Top of the Pops and let them get on with it, no stylists, no choreographers, just exuberance, desperation and beer. And a lot of shiny clothing. It might be me being old and nostalgic, but it seems a lot less dull than the manicured product we get today.
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If I'm flicking through the channels and there's an old TOTP on I'll usually stop and watch it. Huge amount of mediocre twaddle that's largely disappeared from our collective psyche but then sitting through all that in hope of seeing a really good band was part of the pleasure of it.
These days it only seems to be bloody Fortnite in-game events that capture the kids' attention in the same way.
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(or I might've imagined it).