
This is the 12″ version of the Adam Ant song, ripped from my own vinyl copy. Suprised this wasnt incuded on the remastered Strip album as i dont think its avilable on CD at this time.
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Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, more commonly known simply as Swap Shop, was a UK children’s television programme. It was broadcast on Saturday mornings on BBC One for 146 episodes in six series between October 2 1976 and March 27 1982. It was ground-breaking in many ways: by being live, sometimes up to three hours in length, and using the phone-in format extensively for the first time on TV. Its creation was thought by many to be the BBC’s response to the growing success of ITV’s Tiswas – although at the time the latter was only broadcast in the ATV region in the Midlands and had yet to be taken up by other ITV franchises around the country. The anchor was Noel Edmonds and his associates from the beginning were Keith Chegwin, John Craven and later, in 1978, Maggie Philbin. The show’s presenters formed a pop group called Brown Sauce in December 1981 before releasing a single called I Wanna Be A Winner. Soon after the group’s formation, the song peaked at #15 in the UK Singles Chart and stayed in the Top 75 for a total of 3 months. Also featured was Posh Paws, a stuffed toy dinosaur. Noel Edmonds once explained that his name was actually spelled “Pohs Paws” (sic), because that is “Swap Shop” backwards. Another character was Eric, the often-referred to but never seen lighting technician whose job was to lower a plastic globe containing postcards sent in by viewers as answers to competitions. The content of the programme included music, visits from celebrities, competitions, and …
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