Retro Video of the Week: "The Look of Love" by ABC

Other than Hair Band Friday in a couple days, this will be my last post until after our fair country celebrates its 246th birthday, as I have various things going on the rest of this week and then will be spending next week forgetting about all the things that I'll have to do the following week.

Anywho, yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the release of English pop/new wave band ABC's debut album, The Lexicon of Love.  It was a pretty immediate success for the band, reaching #1 on the album charts in their native UK, as well as on the album charts in Finland and New Zealand.  It also went Top 10 on the album charts in Australia, Canada, and Sweden, and to #24 on the Billboard album chart.  Four songs from the album reached the Top 20 on the UK pop charts, including three Top 10s.  Two songs were also Top 25 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 -- "Poison Arrow" (#25) and "The Look of Love" (#18).

I consider "The Look of Love" to be one of the band's signature songs, so I'm going with that.  It's a nice little synth pop classic, complete with a super early '80s video.