Top of the Pops in 1986 captures The Housemartins as they deliver “Happy Hour”, released that same year. One of their defining hits, it captured the band’s upbeat, socially aware style.
Noel Gallagher dedicated "Cast No Shadow" to Richard Ashcroft.
"He always seemed to me that he was not entirely happy with the things that were happening around him. So the lyrics 'bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say' was cos I always felt that he'd been born in the wrong place at the wrong time, and always tried to say the right things, but they went wrong. When I first sang the song to him he was near tears"
📸 Michael Spencer Jones