Prefab Sprout

[Slim]

This was shown on Channel 4 forty years ago last night; the first single from the band's debut album SWOON which was released a couple of months later. Annie Nightingale had played it on her R1 Sunday show a couple of days earlier.

It's not an exaggeration to say that this changed my life. I absolutely loved this band and SWOON was something like the soundtrack to 1984 for me.

[Slim]

This was shown on Channel 4 forty years ago last night; the first single from the band's debut album SWOON which was released a couple of months later. Annie Nightingale had played it on her R1 Sunday show a couple of days earlier.

I've just heard the rather sad news that Annie Nightingale has died.

[dom]

used to love her Sunday evening show on Radio 1.  Think I first heard Red Lenses from  GUP on that show.  To think she was only a couple of years younger than my mum who wouldn't have had a clue about the majority of the stuff Annie was playing! 

EDIT: And she kept evolving - I don't have a clue about much of the stuff she played in her latter years !

[The Picnic Wasp]

I liked her very much. RIP Annie.

[Fishy]

I remember her introducing the OGWT that featured Todd in 1982..

[captainkurtz]

Ah bollocks. 

[Slim]