I had a brief chat with Scott Ross this morning about the end of an era this week in the world of TV in the UK, with the final switch-off of analogue transmissions and, with it, the BBC’s Ceefax service. The Divis Mountain transmitter in Northern Ireland was officially shut down on Tuesday by Olympic veteran Dame Mary Peters.
My clues to this week’s song that was acceptable in the 80s – a UK top 40 hit single that you probably hadn’t heard in a while – were that the song culminates in the singer standing pretty in the dust that was a city, and that this 1984 no 1 was this German Band’s only UK top 40 hit.*
*Acceptable in the 80s was Nena’s 99 red balloons