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Matt Berry covers classic British TV themes

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Rob Beschizza
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Matt Berry, of Darkspace and IT Crowd fame, has produced a covers album of 70s- and 80s-era British TV themes. His rendition of "Are You Being Served?" signals delights to come on October 5.https://soundcloud.com/acidjazzrecs/matt-berry-are-you-being-served-1/s-d82UB

"Self-consciously naff, but this actually results in it being kind of cool", says Robin Murray from Clash Magazine. Ffff! Here's nothing naff about it!https://twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet/status/1021393159560089601

Tracklisting:

Are You Being Served? (1972-1985)
The Good Life (1975-1978)
LWT (1968 - 1972)
Blankety Blank (1979 - 1990)
Top Of The Pops (1963 - 2005)
Picture Box (1966-1990)
The Liver Birds (1969 - 1979)
Thames Television (1968 - 1992)
Rainbow (1972-1997)
Doctor Who (1963- present)
Wildtrak (1979-1984)
World In Action (1963-1998)
Sorry (1981 - 1988)
Open University

I am alarmingly eager to hear Berry's cover of Rainbow. Here's the original, completele with the inappropriately melancholy bit in the middle they never used in the show.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_q-UxEI7I

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