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80s Week
from: Hunting High and Low
An example of a song that become a gargantuan hit after the music video was re-tooled several times.
When Steve Barron got on board, he and his team set about combining live action with rotoscoping pencil drawings in frame-by-frame animation. MTV ate it up.
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In A Major, the composers keep away from the tonic by staying on the supertonic (B Minor) for the introduction, finally landing a ii-V-I progression in Bars 13-15.
Also impressive is the Major Seventh leap in the vocal in Bars 37-38:
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