First viewed : 22 June 1984
Jill Sinclair used her clout once more to get Channel 4 to cover the unveiling of the video for Frankie Goes To Hollywood's new event single Two Tribes as a Tube Special at midnight. The video, directed by Godley & Creme, centred on a brawl between supposed lookalikes of the geriatric leaders of the two super-powers thus giving a strange immortality to the otherwise completely forgotten last representative of the old Soviet guard, Konstantin Chernenko. It was moderately entertaining but , like the record it was promoting, hardly worth all the hype. Ironically, the song itself was actually inspired by the film Mad Max 2 and the Cold War re-interpretation was entirely the work of Paul Morley.
For good measure, the programme also broadcast the unexpurgated video for Relax and I recall a house mate called John Tuck pointing out the suggestion of bestiality with the tiger which would otherwise have escaped me.
I always chuckled at a line in the Commitments concerning the main character's judgement in music: "you were the first to own the Frankie Goes to Hollywood album, and the first to realise they were shite". Never quite understood the fuss about them, musically, in some quarters.
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