Saturday, December 04, 2021

Now That's What I Call Stuart's Favourite Music 6 - Never Never (The Assembly)

I love this song - Vince Clarke (post Yazoo and pre Erasure) along with Eric Radcliffe, and yes - that's Feargal Sharkey (A Good Heart) doing vocals on this. 

The Assembly was a British synthpop project formed in good old Basildon by Vince and Eric, with the intention of releasing an album of songs featuring a different guest vocalist on each track.   The project didn't release any further songs, and The Assembly disbanded shortly after Never Never was released.  

The rest is history, leading Vince to advertise in Melody Maker for a vocalist for a new project which would later become Erasure. 

Released in October 1983, Never Never stayed in the charts for 10 weeks and peaked at an impressive number 4.

Useless bit of information...  A great deal of the music video was filmed at Upminster windmill, not too far from Laindon where I grew up!

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