BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 5 Astounding Singles Turning 40 In 2021

1. CEREMONY by NEW ORDER

Released: January 1981
Album: Movement

2. THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN by THE CLASH

Released: 10 April 1981
Album: Sandinista!

3. (WE DON’T NEED THIS) FASCIST GROOVE THANG by HEAVEN 17

Released: 6 March 1981
Album: Penthouse And Pavement

4. PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIG BAG by PIGBAG

Released: May 1981
Stand-alone single.

5. JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH by DEPECHE MODE

Released: 7 September 1981
Album: Speak And Spell

‘Papa’s Got A Brand New Pig Bag’ By PIGBAG (1981)

Top singles from the past…

11 May 2020

Band: Pigbag (UK)
Active: 1980-1983
Single: Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag.
The song’s title is a play on the James Brown
song ‘Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag’.
It was released as a stand-alone single,
but added in 2000 as a bonus track
to their debut LP Dr Heckle and Mr Jive
B-side: The Backside
Label: Y Records
Released: May 1981 / Re-release: 1982

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Top Of The Pops performance…

James Brown

PIGBAG: Discography