The Communards

to love when a boy meets a girl The love is strange and uncontrolled and can hurt anyone There's more to love when a boy meets a girl I would like to shout it from the highest mountain to tell the world I've been Well, love is strange and uncontrolled And it can happen to anyone There's more to love than boy meets girl Infatuations were as unsung By every thoughtful day

Jimmy Somerville and the Communards There's More to Love Talking of old friends a little bird in Huddersfield tells me that today is the birthday of an old friend of mine Johnny Jason He worked at the BBC World Service when I was there, but in those days he changed his name to John Jason.

But I remember listening to him back in the 1970s on Radio Caroline from the Mi Amigo.

It was that long ago.

And Jo, I did say fashion and music was best in the '80s.

So this morning on the program, we played the number one of 6th of September 1986, which was Don't Leave Me This Way by The Communards.

Yeah, of course.

Right? Of course.

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The Communards on Dubai 92.

Tunes like that can only mean that it's your Feel Great Friday.

We're feeling particularly awesome because we're going home now and Jade is here.

Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys was saying, was, was basically not saying anything, you know? Even Peter Thatcher, Thatcher wasn't out.

And the only people who were really out were Erasure and the Communards.

And I think what that shows you is that it was impossible to be out and, and famous in the '80s.

When Geo- when Elton John got married, you know, the front page of The Sun, I hate to use the language, but this is the language they used.

Quote, Cannon shots announced the breaking of the blockade against Soviet Russia and the victory of the world proletariat.

the red army returns from the front and passes in triumphant review before the leaders of the revolution at their feet lie the crowns of kings and the gold of the bankers ships draped with flags are seen carrying workers from the west the workers of the whole world with the emblems of labor gather for the celebration of the world commune in the heavens luminous inscriptions in different languages appear greeting the congress long live the third international workers of the world unite triumph to the sounds of the hymn of the world commune the international and even so glowing an account however hardly does it justice it had the pomp and majesty of the day of judgment itself rockets climbed the skies and peppered them with a thousand stars fireworks blazed on all sides garlanded and be flagged ships moved up and down the river chariots bearing the emblems of prosperity grapes and corn travelled slowly along the road the eastern peoples came carrying gifts and emblems the actors massed upon the steps waved triumphant hands trumpets sounded and the song of the international from ten thousand throats rose like a mighty wave engulfing the whole though the end of this drama may have erred on the side of the grandiose this may perhaps be forgiven the organisers in view of the occasion for which they prepared it nothing however could detract from the beauty and dramatic power of the opening and of many of the scenes moreover the effects obtained by movement in the mass were almost intoxicating The first entrance of the masses gave a sense of dumb and patient force that was moving in the extreme, and the frenzied delight of the dancing crowd at the victory of the French Communards stirred one to ecstasy.

The pageant lasted for five hours or more, and was as exhausting emotionally as the passion play is said to be.

I had the vision of a great period of communist art, more especially of such open-air spectacles, which should have the grandeur and scope and eternal meaning of the plays of ancient Greece, the medieval mysteries, or the Shakespearean theatre.