Bookmarks: Wham!

It might be slightly alarming to realise that Club Tropicana is now thirty years old, but at least it's given The Quietus an excuse for a reappraisal:

In the video the leather jackets and street corner rants have been ditched for swimming trunks and lounging by the pool. The boys had escaped the shackles of home and work and were now enjoying the spoils of their stardom.