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High Energy

Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 7 June 1984

It's a new type of dance beat. Hazell Dean's 'Searchin'' is High Energy; so are The Weather Girls, Gloria Gaynor and Evelyn Thomas. The charts are full of it. Some people even say it's "the sound of '84". Dave Rimmer tells the story.

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