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by Sledge Hammer » 10 Apr 2015, 12:44
"Silence was the strongest instrument he had"? what he meant was the "space" in the music which Graham has spoke about recently...
This quote from Wiki sums up the situation in the UK at the time...
"Talk Talk achieved considerable international success in 1984/85, particularly in continental Europe, Australia and New-Zealand, with the album It's My Life. The accompanying single "Such a Shame" (a song inspired by the book The Dice Man) became a Top 10 hit in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Switzerland during this period. The title track of the album was also a Top 10 hit in Italy (where a remix of six songs from the album, It's My Mix, was the #86 best-selling album of 1985, and entered the U.S., Canadian, French, German, New Zealand and Netherlands Top 40. A third single, "Dum Dum Girl", was a success in some European countries and in New Zealand however, the album and its singles were largely ignored in the UK. Commercial success notwithstanding, the band made deliberate choices that moved it away from the mainstream. The music video for "It's My Life", for instance, featured a grumpy Hollis who mocks lip-synching; after EMI protested, they re-shot the video, turning it into "a total piss-take of lip-synching", in Alan McGee's words."
Ignored in the UK! gets me mad that I never heard it back then, cheers Radio 1! (that's all there was back then...)
