Flying Pickets "Englishman in New York"

ONLY YOU - THE FLYING PICKETS Canción de 1983 del grupo británico The Flying Pickets. Escrita originalmente por Vince Clark y grabada un año antes por Yazoo para el álbum Upstairs At Eric's. Esta versión fue incluida en el álbum Lost Boys y lanzada como sencillo junto al tema Disco Down. Llegó al número 1 en la lista de éxitos del Reino Unido. | The songs of my life

On this day, 24 December 1983 it was announced that pop group The Flying Pickets, made up of actors who had supported miners' strikes in 1972 and 74, had the UK Christmas number 1 single with their a cappella cover of Yazoo's (Yaz in the US) Only You. Flying pickets were groups of strikers who travelled around the country to picket out other workers in solidarity, and helped bring down the Conservative government in 1974. The band, who were militant socialists, later got into conflict with their