January 1980
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Computer Music Specials, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 8:00 am UTC
That Underpass was a hit single back in 1980 now seems extraordinary. It is cold, bleak, sci-fi synth music and utterly brilliant for it, but hardly Radio 1 material. So the fact that Tony Blackburn actually played it is also extraordinary. Afterwards he commented that the track was “weird but wonderful”, leading to a third extraordinary event: him being right!