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“Never Never” by Assembly
“Never Never” by Assembly appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1983. Its best result is #23 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1983. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #95 alternative song of 1983.
Vince Clarke's project the Assembly only ever put out one single, and "Never Never" was it: a 1983 release on Mute, produced by Eric Radcliffe, with Feargal Sharkey of the Undertones brought in to sing. Anyone who knows the Undertones' punk racket is in for a jolt, because Sharkey leaves all of that far behind here and throws himself into Clarke's pop instead, the snarl traded for something much sweeter.
It went to number four in the UK and spent ten weeks on the chart. The video made it onto the video edition of Now 1, though the song itself was left off the record.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 23 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1983 | 50 |
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