In the early 1980s the bastard children of punk and disco music ran riot, intermingling and mutating. Among the hybrids was New Romanticism, a melange of glossy fashion, Glam and electronica. The New Romantic standard-bearers were Duran Duran, named for the villain in the Jane Fonda movie Barbarella and bringing that film’s mixture of shiny futurism and sex to the early Thatcher years. By 1982, whether frolicking on a yacht, exploring the jungle or strolling through the Sri Lankan surf, they dominated the new medium of the pop video.

The following year, expectations were high for the band’s new single. A nation tuned in to Radio 1 to hear its first broadcast; a nation sent it straight to Number One. The trouble was, “Is There Something I Should Know” was dreadful. The video stepped away from the colour supplement epics of “Rio” (and the lad’s-mag slap-and-tickle of “Girls On Film”) into split-screen German Expressionism in pastel shirts. The band looked as if they had been imprisoned in a subterranean dungeon. For lines like “Don’t say you’re easy on me / You’re about as easy as a nuclear war,” they deserved it.