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Best Friends Perfect Book One - songs

17/6/2014

2 Comments

 
Best Friends Perfect Book One has characters who are into music: they discuss it, sing along to it, collect it, rate it and dance to it. I studied media and communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London. I wrote essays about pop music and my dissertation about the gay man, Brian winning Big Brother. I like music, films, TV. So I suppose it’s not too surprising that Best Friends Perfect Book One features quite a few songs and films.

Here’s some of the songs in the story. I’ve not explained their context as that would spoil the story, you’ll just have to read it and find out for yourself! But I have included some explanation of why I like the songs.

  • One For Sorrow by Steps – Bananarama did it first, but not nearly as well, I’ve found. This is one of the most Abbaesque Steps songs, I feel.  
  • Five, Six, Seven, Eight by Steps – it’s set in the nineties, this group was everywhere in the UK then. That is all.
  • No More I Love You’s by Annie Lennox – the video with the Minnie Mouse ears is amazing
  • Stay by Shakespeare’s Sister – because I love the video, and the French and Saunders version is hilarious too. 
  • Voulez Vous by Abba – discotastic and fabulous!
  • Vienna by Ultravox – a crime that it didn’t get to number one in the UK charts.
  • Love’s Unkind by Donna Summer – because it is isn’t it?
  • Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley – decades before Rick-rolling
  • I Want That Man by Blondie – it’s a gay fiction story, it wouldn’t be complete without this song I felt.
  • Orinoco Flow by Enya ‘sail away, sail away, sail away’ I often write to Enya music.
  • Making Your Mind Up By Bucks Fizz – I am a massive Eurovision Song Contest fan, so one of the rare times the UK won, this had to be in the story.
  • Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship – from the film, Mannequin. That is all.
  • I Feel Love by Donna Summer – electro disco before there was such a genre.
  • My baby just cares for me by Nina Simone – because it’s awesome in every way.
Best Friends Perfect Book One is available from Wilde City Press and Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com

Next time, the films mentioned in Best Friends Perfect Book One.

Keep singing and dancing!

Liam Livings xx


2 Comments
Charlie Cochrane
22/5/2015 04:03:34 am

Love that Blondie song! Actually, I love lots of Blondie stuff.

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Liam Livings
23/5/2015 03:22:56 am

You have good musical taste, Charlie, natch.
I used to listen to Blondie's greatest hits in my room at uni on my little CD player while I was writing my essays. Such hard work!

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