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Happy 40th birthday to New Order's Blue Monday, which was released on this day in 1983. Here's a celebratory thread, starting with a live version filmed for Switch that year (THREAD 1 of 12)
It went on to be the biggest selling 12” single of all time. Legend has it that Peter Saville’s iconic die-cut floppy disc sleeve meant Factory Records lost money on every copy, but this original design was quickly changed for a less expensive version (THREAD 2 of 12 inches) 
New Order had used synths before, but took things to a whole new level with Blue Monday. Here they are explaining how things work on the Dutch TV show Countdown in 1983. "Tell him you come from Macclesfield" (THREAD 3 of 12)
Happy birthday to Robert Wyatt. Here’s his fab version of I'm A Believer on #TOTP in 1974. The producer asked him to sit in a wicker chair as a wheelchair "was not suitable for family viewing". Robert told him where to go (THREAD)
And here's Robert Wyatt performing Sea Song on French TV in 1975. The full 9-min recording, which also includes Alifib, is at
As it's Robert Wyatt's birthday, here are his impeccable selections for the "portrait of the artist as a consumer" feature in the NME from 1982 (THREAD)
Has #TOTP 1981 been on before? Has to be one of the best years for popular music. bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06…
urgh! urrghghggh hissssss! The Birdie Song 🙉 #TOTP 1981
Oh that reminds me. The Birdie Song is on the 'Weird Al' Yankovic OST. open.spotify.com/track/3WyZBmcg…
Thank-you Let me share with you how I became involved with The Story of 91...a junior researcher I think who is around 19, so never watched any of the original year zero shows, watched back to back 91/92 and wrote a detailed report to his exec specifically mentioning myself and
colleague @MarkFranklin123 he then did further reserach and was shocked that in not 1 BBC look back or review after our Era were we ever mentioned, he didn't understand why in his eyes the shows were really well presented, when they 1st contacted me my 1st words were I don't ever
