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About This Track
“Too Much Too Young” is based on the 1969 song “Birth Control” by Lloyd Charmers. It is sometimes wrongly stated that the song was banned by the BBC due to mentions of contraception in the lyrics. This is not true - however, when the song’s promotional video was featured on Top of the Pops, it was cut off just before reaching the final line, “try wearing a cap”.
The song became an instant smash topping the UK singles chart for two weeks in January 1980. It was the first live recording to top the chart since Chuck Berry’s “My Ding-A-Ling” in 1972. It was the shortest song to reach #1 on the UK singles chart in the 1980s at 2’04”
Birth Control” by Lloyd Charmers. It is sometimes wrongly stated that the song was banned by the BBC due to mentions of contraception in the lyrics. This is not true - however, when the song’s promotional video was featured on Top of the Pops, it was cut off just before reaching the final line, “try wearing a cap”.
The song became an instant smash topping the UK singles chart for two weeks in January 1980. It was the first live recording to top the chart since Chuck Berry’s “
My Ding-A-Ling” in 1972. It was the shortest song to reach #1 on the UK singles chart in the 1980s at 2’04”
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chingbling wrote:
Can you have to much when you're young? Take it while you can. Life can kick you in the nuts.
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chingbling wrote:
The Specials were special
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shootbob wrote:
I had too much too young butI im a bloke who kept on the move hence the name
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NitaD1 wrote:
Was....once!!!
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Bluekool8 wrote:
should be havin fun with me! Sspeeshal 8
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blacklizard63 wrote:
The fast version was live (and the single). This is the album version
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nick_honest wrote:
great song
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prominence_la wrote:
@RussellChap - No! I remember a faster version, too, that I fell in love with (indeed, that's how I found the Specials). Although the slower version is certainly clearer.
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Adrian956 wrote:
randomly found this song on youtube a day after I found out that "she" was getting married to a douchbag.
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RussellChap wrote:
Um...It seems a lot slower than I remember...Or is that me?
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telecine wrote:
SO bloody special!
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selimteh wrote:
Now, they were special !!!!!!!!
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fergustobin wrote:
Raw
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ReducedCapacity wrote:
wow...........years since I heard this..........I remember dancing to this as kid and thinking I was well cool...............the passing years have proved my youthful optimism to be just that :(
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MarkAlien wrote:
Version in a Rocksteady style!
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omnomnomlove wrote:
*loves*
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Strubelpeter wrote:
: )
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MistaApocalypse wrote:
Ah, memories !!! I have met Terry Hall a couple of times. He is one tall dude !!!
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AshlenaAres wrote:
I did too much too much too young! But I'm still having fun!
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karlkandinsky wrote:
gr8
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