Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: re: WHAM video ("Choose Life") Message-ID: <4074@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 01:16:00 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.4074 Posted: Thu Nov 1 01:16:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Nov-84 03:49:07 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 23 Someone (I forgot who) the other week asked if there was any significance to the "Choose Life" t-shirts that the group WHAM sports in their video "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go". Well, that video was in MTV's Top 20 Video Countdown last weekend, and Mark Goodman answered that very question in a roundabout way. It seems that one of the members of the group (the lead singer, I believe) was in Florida early last year, and while there, picked up some oversized white t-shirts with "Choose Life" on them at an anti-nuke rally. When he brought them back to England, the group decided to wear them in the video. This started a "fashion craze" in England that summer --- oversized t-shirts with sayings on them. The group Frankie Goes to Hollywood jumped on the bandwagon, and had made up some that said "Frankie Says". As a matter of fact, if you watch the extended mini-movie version of David Bowie's "Blue Jean" (called "Jazzin' for Blue Jean"), you'll see a brief bit with Bowie dressing in one of the Frankie tees with "RELAX!" on it, and making a curious reference to not wanting to publicize Frankie. This reference didn't make any sense to me until I heard about the t-shirt craze. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA