Gordon in the morning: This is all wrong

This Bizarre story is very wrong indeed:

The Killers were playing a gig at the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday night when a crew member interrupted the band's encore to hail support act THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS.

Frontman BRANDON FLOWERS appeared stunned when the man ran on to the stage to declare: "Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time and The Psychedelic Furs had one of the best songs of all time."

But it was all a big joke. Kanye had better get used to this.

The wrongness of this story? What sort of world do we live in where The Psychedelic Furs are warm-up act to The Killers?

Embed and breakfast man: The John Hughes weekend

As a tribute to John Hughes - a man who knew how to pull together a soundtrack - let's spend the weekend in 80s teen movie heaven, plucking gems from the Hughes oeuvre.

There is, I'll tell you now, hugely unlikely to be anything from Beethovens 5th.

Let's start with the Psychedelic Furs, who found that being adopted for a title of Hughes movie gave them their biggest ever hit. Albeit, as Andy Kershaw pointed out at the time, with "one of their old ones, with the drums turned up."

This would be your Pretty In Pink, then:


And this would be the song underneath the title:


Buy
Pretty In Pink DVD
Psychedelic Furs 5 album box set [for £12]

More Hughes-related music across the weekend
Planes Trains & Automobiles represented by Steve Earle & The Dukes
She's Having A Baby represented by Gene Loves Jezebel
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York represented by Darlene Love
Career Opportunities represented by Betty Boo
Sixteen Candles represented by Altered Images, The Vapors and Nick Heyward