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I am trying to remember a song from 1980's. I remember the video on MTV, it started out with wind chimes, and a lone figure walking (or maybe riding a horse) across some desolate landscape. For some reason I think its a Chris Deburgh video, but I can't seem to find any Chris Deburgh song that is the song I am thinking of. Everytime I hear the beginning of Blackwater by the Doobie Brothers on the radio, which also starts with wind chimes, I think it may be this long lost song, but its always Blackwater and not the other song. Anyone have any idea of what this song is? Thanks.
I am trying to remember a song from 1980's. I remember the video on MTV, it started out with wind chimes, and a lone figure walking (or maybe riding a horse) across some desolate landscape. For some reason I think its a Chris Deburgh video, but I can't seem to find any Chris Deburgh song that is the song I am thinking of.
Argh. Thanks for sticking don't pay the ferryman in my head now.
You are freaking amazing Shroombeanie!!!!! That is the song, the guy running across the desolate landscape starts around 2:16 in the video. For some reason that video, Chris Deburgh's Don't Pay the Ferryman, and David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes, all kind of got scrambled together.
Are you around 45 years old too? I remember watching MTV when all they had were videos, and didn't even have enough commercials to fill in the commercial spots, so they had the spaceman with the mtv flag jumping around during some hard/pop rock acoustical music.
Serendipitous that this line is in the song:
"the last man to be here
was never heard from again
he won't be back this way
till 2010..."
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Originally Posted by shroombeanie
Well this is the only eighties song I can think of that starts with wind chimes. One of my favs from the eighties...
I remember watching MTV when all they had were videos, and didn't even have enough commercials to fill in the commercial spots, so they had the spaceman with the mtv flag jumping around during some hard/pop rock acoustical music.
At the time cable came out all cable programming including MTV was marketed as commercial free television since it was subscription supported. There weren't commercials on any channel, but somewhere along the way they caved and started showing commercials.
uh, thats incorrect. mtv started in 1981, cable tv had been around since the 1940s. I remember first getting cable in the 1970's, and remember that superchannel WTBS (from Atlanta i think) was carried, even though we lived in texas. WtBS had commercials back in the 70's. I seem to remember superchannel WGN from Chicago also, and it had commercials too. MTV got commercials very early, not sure if they had any the first few weeks, but i remember local ads being inserted into MTV fairly quickly. MTV was always going to be a commercial channel, thats why they had the 1-2 minute breaks a few times an hour between videos where they played acoustic music, showing the MTV spaceman on the Moon. Those breaks was space for future commercials, that salesman were trying to fill.
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Originally Posted by Thursday007
At the time cable came out all cable programming including MTV was marketed as commercial free television since it was subscription supported. There weren't commercials on any channel, but somewhere along the way they caved and started showing commercials.
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as it's so 80's New Wave 
