Thrills were also to be had from singing along to the likes of Blondie’s 'Hanging On The Telephone', Boomtown Rats' 'I Don't Like Mondays' and The Stranglers' 'No More Heroes', which all can be found here, whilst watching Top Of The Pops.

How times have changed. Back then there was no MTV. There were no music videos, only pop promos. Fake tan hadn’t been invented and not every boy and girl had the cash to take a holiday in the sun. Hence the milk-bottle-symphonists of Teenage Kicks, from Feargal Sharkey to Paul Weller to Jools Holland.

There’s much to admire. From The Jam, whose addition of one consonant transformed Neville Shute's novel of romance forged amongst harrowing scenes during World War II, ‘A Town Called Alice’, to a critique of a suburban Surrey town haunted by the spectre of Thatcherism, ‘A Town Called Malice’. To Madness who use their beloved Primrose Hill as the backdrop to the start of the promo for ‘Baggy Trousers’. "Lots of girls, lots of boys, lots of smells, lots of noise", it remains a still-crazy-after-all-these-years soundtrack to schooldays past. 

As Jimmy Cricket, a comic of the time who inexplicably found fame, used to say: "There’s more." You’ve probably heard it as background music on Sky Sports, but The Teardrop Explodes’ ‘Respect’ crashes to the foreground when lead singer Julian Cope sings one of the most memorable opening lines ever: "Bless my cotton socks, I’m in the news." Equally resonant is Dexy's Midnight Runners' 'Geno', one of the three UK number ones to feature on the DVD, and superior even to their best-known song, ‘Come On Eileen’. 

For punks reliving their youth and surfers of the original new wave, this DVD is one to treasure. You’re going wanna hold it, hold it tight. All through the night. Alright.

(4/5)

Teenage Kicks