Alphaville - Big In Japan (Thommys Popshow extra 1984)

40 years ago today, BIG IN JAPAN went all the way to the top of the Official German Singles Chart for the first time! In celebration, we dug up one of our favourite performances of the song that year at ’Thommy’s Popshow extra’ and had it upgraded! Enjoy it in a quality you haven’t seen since 1984! Here is what Marian Gold remembers about this specific performance: “We arrived in Dortmund the day before the show and of course it was a big hello. Pretty much all the artists from the current top 40 were there. That ended in a delightful collective binge, of which I unfortunately have no memory. Rehearsals began the next morning, which went pretty quickly despite the hangover mood, but Billy Idol’s show interlude was quite something, because during his performance he crawled so deeply under the skirt of his bassist lady that nothing was left of his head. The event organisers then, in true German brusqueness, ordered this cute interlude to be omitted during the ac