surely? That's right, Sailor. 'Girls Girls Girls', 'A Glass of Champagne' As camp as a row of pink tents and very much a part of the 70's glam rock 'scene' (See how easily I slip into pop journo jargon...I'm such a hepcat!) Sailor graced TOTP a few times. never being very musically sophisticated even back then I liked them. I loved the honky tonk piano sound they made and the whole sailor image. Fast forward thirty three years and I've got their greatest hits CD and do you know what? The music's still great, it stands up as camp as ever and as much fun too. Their whole image, maybe it's even a concept ,(whatever that means) is of sailors ashore in foreign ports trawling the red light districts. There's a lovely innocence to their lyrics, their songs a re set in paris and Amsterdam and the most exotic thing they can think of is a samba in some South American port. It's a lovely B Movie ethos. You can imagine Robert Mitchum or Robert Ryan in the movie versions.I urge you all to go out and rediscover Sailor.
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