Good-Bye Bad Times – Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder (1985)

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Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder  – The Artist/s

Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (born 1940) is an Italian composer, songwriter, and record producer. Dubbed the “Father of Disco”. Moroder is credited with pioneering Italo disco and electronic dance music, and his work with synthesisers heavily influenced several music genres such as new wave, house and techno music.

Philip “Phil” Oakey (born 1955) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer, songwriter, and co-founder of English synth-pop band The Human League. Aside from The Human League, he has had an extensive solo music career and collaborated with numerous other artists and producers.

Good-Bye Bad Times – The Song

‘Good-Bye Bad Times’  is a song by British singer and songwriter Philip Oakey and Italian producer Giorgio Moroder. It was written by Oakey and Moroder and recorded for the album Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder. Released as a single in the UK in June 1985 as the follow-up to Oakey and Moroder’s 1984 hit “Together in Electric Dreams”, it reached number 44 on the singles charts and remained on the charts for 5 weeks. Virgin Records had high expectations for the single but it failed to sell in the quantities forecast. After a final single, “Be My Lover Now”, the short partnership between Oakey and Moroder effectively ended. Oakey then returned to work with his band the Human League full-time. The music video for “Good-Bye Bad Times” was quite a high budget production as Virgin Records had high expectations for the song after the huge international success of “Together in Electric Dreams”. It was filmed in black and white, directed by Steve Barron and has a Victoriana theme. It is set in 19th century London and features unrequited love between a city gent and a pretty working-class girl. Oakey features inset in the early scenes and later as a singer in the background of a music hall dressed in Victorian attire. A paradox of the video is that the modern music is completely at odds with the scenery and story board.

Keith Starmer – The Shape

This record has been modelled into a silhouette of political labour leader and UK Prime Minister Keith Starmer.

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