Semi-Related (What Gets Me) Hot Gossip MP3 'Not Exactly Music' Podcast (Featuring) Star Virgin Starship Trooper Facebook Connect Alice in Wonderland X-Rated My Big Breasts and Me

Semi-Related Hot Gossip MP3 Dogmeat 'Not Exactly Music' Podcast
(Featuring)
Star Virgin Starship Trooper Facebook Connect Alice in Wonderland X-Rated My Big Breasts and Me

1 Hot Gossip (INFAMOUS) Brown Dance
2 Star Virgin (Hustler Porno) Soundtrack
3 (I Fell In Love with A) Starship Trooper
Sarah Brightman and Hot Gossip
4 HOW TO Add Facebook Connect to Your Blog in 8 Minutes
5 Alice in Wonderland (X-Rated Musical)   
6 My Big Breasts and Me (BBC America)

With stars in her eyes, Brightman immediately left the group (who weren't really involved in the song anyway, other than lending their talents to the video) and formed "Sarah Brightman and the Starship Troopers". The rest of Hot Gossip hooked up with members of the Human League to make an all covers album (mostly Human League and Heaven 17 songs, though they also did a version of the Talking Heads' Houses in Motion). Both projects flopped. Brightman went on to be a musical stage star, marry and divorce Andrew Lloyd Webber, and eventually have a successful recording career (though I would argue that her output today is almost as cheesy as her Hot Gossip years - and not nearly as fun). Still, you can remember those glory days with more Hot Gossip clips, catalogued here.

Hot Gossip were a British dance troupe created by choreographer Arlene Phillips, and they appeared regularly on British DJ Kenny Everett's TV comedy show in the late 1970s. With singer Sarah Brightman guesting on lead vocals, they scored a UK Number Six hit in 1978 with I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper, one of many dubious 'space'-themed records released to cash in on the success of the first Star Wars film. In truth, Hot Gossip contributed little more to the single than a spot of dancing in the video and Sarah Brightman dispensed with their services for her follow-up single, The Adventures Of The Love Crusader (shrewdly credited to Sarah Brightman & the Starship Troopers). But someone somewhere clearly thought there was a market for further Hot Gossip records, despite the fact that the dancers couldn't actually sing particularly well. Work on this album began in 1981, wiith Richard James Burgess (who had already recorded a Hot Gossip single, Criminal World, with his band Landscape) in the producer's chair. The album was to be a collection of cover versions, entitled The Hollywood Jungle, featuring songs by The Psychedelic Furs, The Rolling Stones, Adam & The Ants, The Police and Talking Heads, among others. However, Richard eventually abandoned the project, leaving Geoff Westley to complete production of Houses In Motion. Martyn and Ian were then asked to salvage an album from the inconclusive sessions. They decided to ditch most of the material and took the opportunity to fill 75% of the record with new recordings of their own Human League and Heaven 17 songs, retaining only the Talking Heads and Police numbers (Houses In Motion and Burn For You respectively). The album was finished within just two weeks and renamed after one of the Heaven 17 covers it now included.

Soul Warfare (a Heaven 17 song from their debut album, Penthouse & Pavement) was issued as a single (DIN 38 and DIN 38/12) in February 1982, backed by a mercifully instrumental version. This was followed by the release of Hot Gossip's attempt at the single the League had released as The Men, I Don't Depend On You (DIN 39, pictured above, and the extended 12" version, DIN 39/12), which was backed by an alternate version, Depend On Us. Like every other Hot Gossip release since their 1978 hit, all of these records failed to reach the charts.

  
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hotgossip browndance.mp3 (1413 KB)

  
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star virgin.mp3 (232 KB)

  
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StarshipTrooper.mp3 (4226 KB)

  
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HOW TO_ Add Facebook Connect to Your Blog in 8 Minutes.mp3 (864 KB)

  
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Alice in Wonderland_ A.mp3 (1858 KB)

  
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Breasts and Me.mp3 (7546 KB)

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