Top of the Pops, 13 August 1981: Legs & Co dance to Startrax Club Disco by Startrax.
Here’s another of those Frankendisco cover medley records that I’ve moaned about many times before. The producers couldn’t even be bothered to think up two separate names for the “record” and the mostly imaginary “artists” who made it: which says a lot about the amount of effort they put into the record itself.
But enough of my moaning: at least this Bee-Gees-Macédoine of a record gives Legs & Co. the chance to perform a pretty entertaining routine. Marred only by the dry ice which (as ever) gets a bit out of hand, their outfits are from the more tasteful end of the eighties clobber spectrum.
When the casual Bee Gees butchery reaches Tragedy, Lulu whips out a pierrot hat and a café chair to do a cheeky little excerpt from the full Tragedy routine.
Then Gill grabs an audience member for a boy-girl performance: a “member of the audience” who seems both astonishingly adept and surprisingly well rehearsed. It gets quite steamy: or maybe that’s just the dry ice again.
All in all, a lot more fun than I expected.
