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Madness madness was going strong in 1983! You may know this London band for their smash hit "Our House", but they had this chart entry too.
I heard "It Must Be Love" a little bit on the radio, but I only saw the video once on MTV, and missed most of it. I think I was busy letting the dog outside or sweeping potato chip crumbs off the kitchen floor. So I had little memory of what appeared in the video.
Perhaps 25 years later, I heard a rumor that there was a video on MTV around that time that featured Big Bird falling from the sky and landing on a band. If I had seen Big Bird in a music video in late 1983, I surely would have remembered. That was at the height of my stage of writing tasteless Sesame Street fanfic and threatening to start watching Sesame Street again if my cartoons kept getting preempted.
It turned out the video in question was this one. The clip clearly shows Madness vocalist Graham "Suggs" McPherson catching Big Bird as he falls into his arms. It wasn't one of the Big Birds actually used on Sesame Street, but it was clearly intended to be Big Bird.
A YouTube commenter said of the video, "I noticed four dangerous stunts: running in front of a moving car, playing an electric guitar under water, a back flip into a pool, and Big Bird jumping into the man's arms."
This might not be the only mid-'80s lost hit that had a video with a Big Bird connection, so keep your beak peeled!
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