I'd never heard of this group. Everyday on here is an education! Thanks for sharing the track, I like it.
(The video too.)
Wow. Really? Dang. I either feel really old or they didn’t have quite the impact over in the UK as I once thought.
Breakfast Club were Bray’s own band, beyond him being behind the board as producer and songwriter for a bunch of other unforgettable talent and tracks (including many earlier hits by Madonna, whom he dated for about a minute during the very early 1980s). Incidentally, the lead singer, Dan Gilroy, not only also dated Madonna early in the ’80s, but later, sometime in the ’90s, became life partners with Shelley Duvall.
“Never Be the Same”, the single I posted, is probably the single I keep coming back most as an adult (ask me sometime about how I relied on having the track on single-song repeat as I ploughed through visual materials — in QuarkXPress, obv — just prior to the first team urban planning studio in grad school).
But when the album was current (one I’ve owned both on cassette and compact disc), this single, third released in North America, garnered virtually no radio or music video airplay where I was. Their second single, “
Kiss and Tell”, a downtempo jam released only in Canada, the U.S., and Japan, seemed everywhere during the boreal summer of 1987 (and a track which still gives me a bit of frisson should it turn up somewhere and surprise me). But even then, residual airplay of their biggest hit, “
Right on Track”, from late winter 1987 and spring 1987, was still getting regular, recurring airplay (despite falling off most charts by then).
[If you really want your mind blown, watch “Right on Track”, then watch the music video for Debbie Harry’s “
French Kissin’” from very late 1986, and count how many props from the former also appear in the latter.
And if you really,
really want your mind blown: one of the chickens in Breakfast Club’s music videos, as well as one of the women
out of costume in “Never Be the Same”, was portrayed by N’Dea Davenport, later of The Brand New Heavies!]
In all, Breakfast Club released six singles (technically seven, but one song, “Rico Mambo” was released semi-independently in 1984, then re-recorded and released in 1987 as a fourth single, for places like Europe and Australia). One single never appeared on their own album (the final, 1988 single, for their cover of The Beatles’ “Drive My Car”, for a forgettable, summer ’88 Holllywood film,
License to Drive, is one I didn’t even know existed until sometime in the 2000s! and no, it’s not worth your time, as all the spirit of the band was gone by then).
No they're not. I have a number of pork-pies and homburgs.* See this guide.
*What can I say? I'm just a geek who loves hats.
I hope there won’t be a quiz! (well, except the obnoxious, ten-gallon hat which I saw often enough in Texas, worn frequently by people who’d probably never once set foot in a cow patty or even a pasture.)
EDITED to add the bit about N’Dea Davenport.
