Twenty-five years after its chart success, Agadoo – mindless, ruthlessly catchy and voted the worst song in pop history – is to be re-released, afflicting a whole new generation.
Once banned by Radio 1 because it simply wasn't "credible", Agadoo, or "Aaaaarghadoo" to its many critics, peaked at No2 and refused to leave the Top 75 for some 30 weeks.
The 1984 hit, by the Yorkshire band Black Lace, represented a nadir in holiday-hit pop, its very awfulness celebrated in Spitting Image's The Chicken Song, with the Black Lace duo immortalised as "those two wet gits with their girly curly hair". More...
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