Performance by Thomas Dolby taken from the DVD The Old Grey Whistle Test (The Definitive Collection). All rights are reserved to their respective owners.
The keyboard player looks like the actor Matt Smith! Didn't realise Dolby played all the keyboards on Def Leppard albums Pyromania and Hysteria. He also produced The King of Rock n' Roll by Prefab Sprout, very talented 👍
@@richardpennington5445I think the Def Leppard stuff is completely overlooked because he was in dispute with his record company and was credited as Booker T Boffin. I remember getting Pyromania and wondering who that was! I love the stuff he did with Foreigner and Prefab Sprout though yeah.
This is one of the best live performances on RU-vid. Love this version so much more than the fairly dry studio recording. Brilliant. Adele Bertei is so cute and has a fun history. In her solo you can hear a little of how the song was originally written for Michael Jackson, who apparently just ignored it.
Michael actually said he liked the drums when Dolby approached him after not hearing back for a few weeks (this was likely in 1983, when Thrilled was the absolute hottest shit). Michael said he liked the drums. Then Dolby recorded it for the better.
Love this sooo much... one of my all time favourite songs from the 80s. It was just so different to my ears at the time. I mean what? Trombone solo? I really appreciate that this is actually performed live (except for the bass I guess).
Matthew Seligman wasn't present unfortunately. And the bass on the album version is also sequenced. This sounds like the original part, so I got no problems with it. If it works, it works.
