I thought that the Pink Palace would have been on the dancefloor for Gloria every time it came on because of him. PH: Gloria is his name but I also remembered those types of songs that would get people on the floor: they come on, you look at each other and you’re there going crazy. RTD: I think this song works because the character of Gregory’s name is also Gloria. They hugged people when you were being told not to. They never abandoned their gay fanbase, they never turned away. They would turn up and perform at 2am and that was their life for decades. RTD: I wanted those women in there – the Kelly Maries and the Hazell Deans – because when the Aids crisis came along, they kept coming to the gay clubs. It’s on screen for eight seconds and Omari just goes for it. I said to Omari that he should choose the song and to just feel it. It was an eighth of a page and it said: “Roscoe, in a wig, dancing like his life depends on it.” That was it. I added a few choices of my own and told them to bring something to the party. I made a playlist on Spotify for the cast and I put everything from the show in it. PH: Kudos for that song goes to Omari Douglas, who plays Roscoe. At the time, if you’d said “I like Hazell Dean” you’d be laughed out of the pub. Again, it’s music that was not cool at the time. RTD: The scene with this song is about the character Roscoe being as gay as he could possibly be. Hazell Dean: Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go) – video Hazell Dean – Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go) At one point, we were going to be stripped of an awful lot of them because it was so expensive. But a lot of people also worked very hard to get the money to put the songs in there. PH: But we did have discussions about music. I never asked you because I didn’t want it to be wrong. RTD: I loved the fact that you put all these tracks in and I would sit in the edit and think: I wonder if these came out in the right year. It felt like the sound of London drawing him in. Enola Gay starts with this repetitive introduction and then it begins, which is when we let Ritchie free from his home on the Isle of Wight. Also, technically, I wanted something that had a build. I needed something that sounded like a bit of a release. I went to 1981 and looked at what had been released then. PH: I chose this song because I wanted to make my mark as the director and set the scene with how I felt the show should look, sound and feel. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Enola Gay – video That’s where the most interesting songs were lurking. It was always more interesting to go down into the Top 30 or Top 40. RTD: I remember while I was writing the show and, say a scene was taking place in March 1984, I wouldn’t look at March. The laughter and giggling! I hadn’t seen much of that, face-to-face lovemaking with silliness. I particularly like when it gets to the end and it’s Ritchie with his friends. Without sex, we wouldn’t have the same story. I did think that I’d played my hand too early because we had four more episodes to go, but I had my strop on that and we won. RTD: We were told to cut it in half! Once a show you have to have an executive strop, and I chose that scene to have my strop over. I also think that if it had been one track, we would have been told by executives to cut it in half and that it wasn’t necessary. There’s a joy and glee to that, which sums up the whole tone of the show. It’s a sequence that I wanted to make people laugh. I think one monolithic track might have flattened that. He goes from wanking, to mutual masturbation, to passive, to active, and then into friendship and love. And it’s not just a sex montage, it’s a sex education: Ritchie learns different forms of sex at each stage. But marvellously, for that sex montage in episode one, the song is broken up into sections. I had the Hooked on Classics album I didn’t think it was high art, but I loved it. Russell T Davies: I really wanted to include songs that were not cool in the 80s but which I loved.
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