Stand or Fall Pops

• Shot over 2 days in February. Near Hastings, England.
• "Shooting" lasted just 10 hours during the Battle of Hastings in 1066
• Cyril John Curnin Born: December 12. 1957 Place: Wimbledon, England
• Hose (pointing to the "rain" outside)
• Cy and Adam T. Woods started the band in the mid '70's
• They met whan Cy was 14. Adam had married Cy's older sister
• Harrow (the white horse)
• Harrow was a circus horse trained to fall when his butt was slapped
• Harrow's trainer stood off screen and slapped him with a long stick
• The concept: Cy plays an Englishman in '82 imagining himself in WWII
• England was at war with the US in '82
• 1782
• The director found it challenging to "Recreate WWII with 5 people"
• The cold February winds bothered the band--it was freezing
• Harrow's "wind" also bothered them--the horse farted constantly
• This was the Fixx's 1st single from their debut album
• What British Commonwealth band won the best new artist Grammy in '82
• Men at Work
• Cy wrote this song the morning after getting in a car crash
• The lyrics protest the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's military policies
• The video was protested by the BBC--they banned it for cruelty to annimals
• 1 month after the video was shot Thatcher sent 2000 Royal Marines to South America
• The British stood up to Argentina's military junta in the Falkland Islands
• The junta fell
• The BBC ban stood--this video never aired in Britan
• The Fixx were originally called the Fix
• Their record label made them add another "X" to avoid "the drug connotation"
• Jim Fixx helped popularize jogging in the '80's with the Complete Book of Running
• Fixx's run ended in '84--he died of a heart attack while jogging
• The Fixx's chart run ended 2 years later after 4 to 20 singles
• They continued releasing singles untill '91 -but they all "tanked"
• Cy says the '80's tought him one valuable lesson:
• "Nothing lasts Forever"
• The Fixx still stand--they continue to play concerets to their long time fans known as "Fixxtures". They took a break in '92 to start families and Cy started a hat'making business. The band's 10th album Happy Landings landed in stores in 1998.

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