Originally Posted by
80sfan:
“Not really. I was 14 in 1989, do you even think I'd heard of Donna Summer when the awesome 'This Time...' was released?!? Her work with SAW opened up her 1970s/early 80s stuff to me alongside other singers from that era. Donna's best 80s hits are her SAW ones in my opinion.
I agree that Donovan was by far the weakest act SAW ever signed. Terrible voice yet he acted like their biggest talent, but that was down to Donovan's ego more than anything else. The total opposite of the likes of Kylie, Rick, Sonia, Bananarama etc.
I was in their target audience and I'm not ever ashamed to say SAW's music was the soundtrack to my teen years. They gave us what so many of us wanted. The likes of Ms Summer & Mr Richard would have been foolish not to have taken the songs they were offered
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I was 14 in 1983. Why would I have needed some artist to suddenly release a song to "open up" their back catalogue to interest me, or suddenly find out they even existed? Of course you should have heard of Donna Summer in 1989 at the age of 14, even without her big Waterman produced "comeback" to the top ten hit early that year. You'd never heard I Feel Love by age 14 for instance? I do not understand your logic here. I respect your opinion, but disagree strongly with it about Donna Summer's 80's hits.
Have you not heard her two fantastic 1982 top twenty singles....Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger) or State Of Independence? What about 1983's She Works Hard For The Money? All vastly superior to her late 80's sell out.
As for Cliff Richard, the despair I felt when discovering he'd fallen into the clutches of Waterman! I mean, he never even needed to do it. He was having enormous hit singles right up until that moment. The previous 2 singles up until his Waterman effort, had been his 100th single that made No2, The Best Of Me, only kept off the top by a dreary Jason Donovan cover when they both debuted at the top two spots in the same week of June 1989, unheard of then other than the Band Aid/Wham chart that did it. The single before that by Cliff was his major 4 week long 1988 Christmas No1. He'd had one of his best singles and a No3 with Some People in late 1987 too. So the hits were still coming and were big ones. He did not need to look towards Waterman to aid him for a moment, in the same way that Donna Summer had been through a leaner spell which you could make excuses for.
Bananrama's best singles were all in the early 80's from 1982 to 1986. Cruel Summer beats everything.
Kylie's best singles have all come with her second wind after her mid 90's lull.
The Gatherer need not start snarling at me over this post. Talking Donna Summer and SAW is a flammable combination with me and him. It's my opinion, and I respect what other's think but am also happy to argue my own corner.
Nobody has yet commented on why they think Tony has missed the obvious chance to celebrate his 50th anniversary on radio this weekend by doing 1964 on POTP.