what are you, then? eh, bank robbers. [lyrics] how does it feel to treat me like you do. when you ve laid your in the u.k., disco did not suck. it never sucked. and bands like new order combined it with the new synthesizer sound, and they gave us these incredible songs that got us out on the dance floor. [lyrics] i still find it so hard. to say what i need to say. i like what s happening in dance places now over the last year or two. i think the music is becoming very healthy.
we re a new generation, a new wave. [lyrics] you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when i met you. by the early 1980s, new wave is used to describe these sleek, dressy, cool bands that are coming out of england. [lyrics] don t you want me, baby. don t you want me, oh. british artists all understood how to use visuals in a way that i think american artists didn t necessarily get that quickly. [lyrics] do you really want to hurt me? do you really want to make me cry? do you really want to hurt me? is a good song. it s a song that old people like and young people like. so i think the proof is in the pudding. buy it and eat it. mtv actually met with duran duran s managers and said, we re looking for kind of like james bond videos, on location, and their managers are the ones that went to the band members and said, look, we really need to up the ante with these clips. you know, we need to give this channel something they ve never seen before. [lyrics] moving
of exposing new acts. [lyrics] here in my car where the image breaks down. will you visit me, please if i open my door in cars britain was ahead of the curve. they had a ton of videos in their inventory. and that was what paved the way for this accidental second british invasion. if you look at some of the groups on popular music charts in america today, you can t help asking, where on earth did they come from? well, the answer is the same today as it was two decades ago. they come from britain. the music isn t anything like the famous group that came from there, the beatles. you got to understand they were 20 years ago.
soft porn. well, excuuuuse me! we like to call them tastefully smutty. [lyrics] her name is rio and she dances on the sand. just like that river twisting through the dusty land. and when she when i first met duran duran, they were saying that they thought they looked like rock stars, so why not become rock stars? [lyrics] don t stand, don t stand so, don t stand so close to me. why do you think we re so popular over there? well, i think there s a tradition that goes back over the past 20 years from the days of the beatles and the rolling stones, where british bands seem to be better at it than americans. the police have sold four million albums in one year. rolling stone chose them as the best new band of the year, taking note of the swirling, dreamy, soaring quality of the sound.
special. my little pretty one, pretty one when you gonna give me some time sharona mtv made you feel like those artists were in the room. you had a personal concert all day. crack that whip when you have the rotation of, say, maybe 100 different videos being rotated over and over on mtv, they do a great job of exposing new acts. here in my car where the image breaks down will you visit me please when i open my door in cars britain was ahead of the curve. they had a ton of videos in their inventory. and that was what paved the way for this accidental second british invasion. if you look at some of the groups on the popular music charts in america today you can t help asking where on earth did they come from? well, the answer is the same today as it was two decades ago. they come from britain. the music isn t anything like