“Clean Clean” by The Buggles

"Clean Clean" is a slice of plastic-age synth-pop from the Buggles' 1980 debut album, The Age of Plastic, and the third single taken from it. It has a crowded family tree: Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley wrote it, with Thomas Dolby adding to the composition, and Woolley had already recorded it in 1979 with his own band, the Camera Club, Dolby among them, before Horn and Downes, the two remaining Buggles, made it their own.

Their version climbed to number 38 on the UK Singles Chart and 60 in West Germany, and they took it onto Top of the Pops and Cheggers Plays Pop.

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