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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: re: WHAM video ("Choose Life")
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Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 01:16:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 01:16:00 1984
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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)

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