“The original version was one of the main tracks in the 1984 concept album for the musical Chess, and its music was composed by former ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson…The song is mainly a pop song, though at the time it could also have been classed as belonging to the dance music genre” – The verses could be described as a spoken rap by Head, a sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek denunciation of the city’s moral corruption and comparative glorification of the intellectual purity of chess.
Listened to the Remix EP this morning and it has made me remember how much i love this song. Keep trying to rap something with “I can feel the devil walking next to me”, and cant get the theme out of my head.
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Murray Head- One Night In Bangkok (The Bang-Kok Mix)
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Murray Head- One Night In Bangkok (Extended Mix)
I’m in the States, do you know where I can find this track? Thanks.
Thanks for these! Great track and the extendeds are hard to find!
dude, ridiculous. thanks for posting!
Thanks so much man, you rock!
Love this tune… I’m pretty sure I once heard ‘One Night in Bangkok impact’ – a mashup which doesn’t need a great deal of explanation… But I’ve yet to find any evidence that I’ve just imagined it/made it up… Any ideas?