The Videotheque

As played on the 24 March 1984 show. Rolling Stone called it “perhaps the most unconvincing anti-drugs song of all time.” Perhaps.

Julian Lennon, the famous ventriloquist, wows the crowd with his David Bowie impression. Better than his John Lennon impression at any rate.

I mean… that’s it.

The Undertones’ last single, from 1983, it got all the way to number 82 and the band split up shortly afterwards. The video is, er… of its time?

Well now. A Johnny Cash single from 1984 which never had a sniff of the chart, which is a shame because it’s absolutely ludicrous. The story of the time Johnny had his brain replaced by that of a recently deceased bank robber, and his own organ transplanted into a chicken. True story. We came across this because it was used on a compilation album, Four Star Country, which was the highest new entry on the UK album chart this week in 1985. Of all the Johnny Cash songs they could have licensed…