Cover Charge is simple: A covers B, B covers C, C covers D and so on, until I loop back to where I started, Ouroboros-style.
Last time: Elton John to Pet Shop Boys
Aside from getting the title wrong when introducing it, it's hard to imagine a straighter Straight Bat than the Pet Shop Boys' take on Blur at their most disco. In fact, when I describe it like that, it seems like a marriage made in heaven. So here's PSB performing (ahem) "Boys and Girls" live in Rio, more than 30 years ago. See what you think.
Which of course takes us to that brief golden period in the Nineties when Blur were beyond huge, post Popscene but pre Oasis-feud nonsense. If memory serves, this was the first single to be lifted from Parklife, an album that didn't just redefine them but shaped the era too. The term Britpop has retrospectively been bandied about and expanded by whim and convenience to include all manner of bands, songs and sins but this... if Britpop really was a thing, and not just a handy catch-all label, then this is the song it went on holiday to. Following the herd down to Greece, probably.
Next time: Margaret might...
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