It may be the nostalgia but does it seem to anyone else that the 1970s were just more fun pop culture-wise? I mean, could you see a band forming a concept around sailors on shore leave, as this lot did? No, today you get Fall Out Boy instead...
Granted this sounds an awful lot like an attempt to recreate Roxy Music's 'Virginia Plain' even down to the lead singer's vocal inflections, but this is one top tune nonetheless.
Other poptastic facts about Sailor:
- They were fronted by one Georg Kajanus, born Prince Georg Johan Tchegodaieff from Trondheim, Norway
- Kajanus invented the Nickelodeon, a musical instrument made of pianos, synthesisers and glockenspiels (I believe it is the monstrous dual keyboard you can see in the video)
Bonus Clip: Sailor's only other Top 10 entry in the UK charts was the follow-up single 'Girls, Girls, Girls'
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