Interesting to see the New Romantic scene portrayed in a drama, probably for the first time. However I'm a bit dissapointed with it so far as the actor playing George is well of the mark with George's voice and Matthew Horne is just playing himself in Jon Moss's clothes.
There is a slight error in the facts in that George's dad is a Londoner (born and bred) but of irish extraction (not irish with an irish accent).

I rather enjoyed it whilst having similar reservations Robbie... but a fascinating story, not yet properly told.

The best bits were the scenes with Malcolm McLaren.

Not enough music for me; and a rather strange element of jumping from presentish to past... but not bad all the same.

George is said to have been very impressed at how spot on they got his various looks, tho he says there were plenty of inaccuracies.

I'm going to be watching it on iPlayer tonight.

Just watched it on iPlayer after reading George's comments about it.

I found it pretty moving, contrary to what I'd read in the press. I can understand George's misgivings about the inaccuracies in the plot, but it really captured the era- a nasty, nasty era of homophobia in Thatcher's Britain spawning a huge wave of creativity in spite of her.

The Soft Cell documentary was great as well:

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00shm0g/Y..._Series_2_Soft_Cell/

david wrote:


The Soft Cell documentary was great as well:

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00shm0g/Y..._Series_2_Soft_Cell/

I saw this before about 5 years ago, I hope they show all the other episodes of "Young Guns", featuring the Human League, Spandau Ballet, and Banarama.

robbiex wrote:
david wrote:


The Soft Cell documentary was great as well:

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00shm0g/Y..._Series_2_Soft_Cell/

I saw this before about 5 years ago, I hope they show all the other episodes of "Young Guns", featuring the Human League, Spandau Ballet, and Banarama.

Actually I think it was almost 10 years ago. It was definitely before their reunion, which was 2001-2003.

I would be mildly interested in seeing the Human League one again but not even faintly interested in Spandau Ballet or the Bananas

The Soft-Cell-Documentary is from 2000.

I thought the way it kept jumping forward into 1986 and then back again made the whole thing somewhat disjointed. An excellent visual likeness to George - but voice-wise nothing like him. George has never talked like Jon Ronson! That marred the show a bit for me because if he had spoken like a mincer his social impact would have not been as great (and he would have certainly been a lot less appealing to 'straight' men), but he was what he was and didn't need to adopt any such mannerisms.

Having now watched the second half of the programme on sky+, I have to say that it improved a lot. The recreation of George's 1982 totp performance was excellent.

However there were more omissions and inaccuracies:
George reacted to Visage's single on the radio as if it was the first time he heard it, with a caption of 1981, when in fact the single was released in 1980.

Where was Phillip Sallon, apparently he was Georges best friend during those new Romantic years, yet no sign of him here.

Still well worth watching, but ended a bit prematurely.