There once was a German pop group called Propaganda. One day, when they were out doing German things, journalist and broadcaster Paul Morley came up to them and said, “Hello Propaganda, would you like to be on my friend Trevor Horn’s record label? It is called ZTT”, and the band said, “Yes please, as long as we get to go on The Tube”.
The Krautsynth thesps famously made two versions of their song ‘Duel’. The first, which made up the mainstream release of the single, was a fairly straightforward 80s pop song with a video that was very much ‘of its time’. The second, entitled ‘Jewel’ (duel/jewel - DO YOU SEE), was a banshee-inflected horrorshow full of blood-curdling screams and shouted lyrics that rattled along like a bad night in a porn dungeon.
Duel:
Jewel:
Which one do you prefer? Get in touch and tell us! (Don’t.)
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