Always will love mel &Kim joined their fan club, when mel was ill they phoned me as I sent her a gift , gutted my mum answered the phone as I was out missed their call , still in 2022 I listen to them , brilliant duo great dancer and pure voices miss them xx
Wow, that's so sweet that they rang you - and incredibly rare for a successful pop star to reach out to a fan in person and thank them like that. Mel and Kim were the real deal. Mel's death from a rare form of cancerous tumor at 23, was an horrific, against-all-odds tragedy.
Wow, that's so sweet that they rang you - and incredibly rare for a successful pop star to reach out to a fan in person and thank them like that. Mel and Kim were the real deal. Mel's death from a rare form of cancerous tumor at 23, was an horrific, against-all-odds tragedy.
A very talented and beautiful young lady taken far far too early, Mel we still miss you, God bless you. Mel and Kim always had me up and dancing like a madman on the dance floor when I was a teenager
what a polished act! a pair of lovely sisters singing and dancing together. "I love money.. I love money.. boyfriends are boring🤣 " the puppets were brilliant too
Looks like you don't know the context of this videoclip. At that moment, Mel was unable to move due to its cancer treatment. The producers had to do "something" for the release of the track without having the duet available...
@@jeffreywiesemann5856 acknowledged, in Sweden More Than Words Can Say was released as a single, that one should have been released as a single in the UK/US, great ballad
Ja sie lebt immer weiter alle liebten madonna oder weiß der Geier ich liebte Melanie she always look great guten dancing moves sexy body I loved in Videos the bouncingof her titts but never liked the atomic boobs from Sam fox Or Sabrina Mel was perfect
No one lives forever but some are taken way too soon - at only 23, Mel Appleby was one. But like a shooting star, she burned gorgeously bright for the short time she was here. God bless her, so very sad for her family and of course her sister Kim in particular, they were obviously very close.
It's an upbeat song, but the 1987 video always makes me feel sad. Mel was very sick with the return of the cancer that would take her life in January 1990 aged just 23. So this video was put together using an actor to play a private eye, with footage from a Mel and Kim live performance in Montreux, plus those creepy puppets to depict the sisters. The biggest problem with this video was that Mel and Kim weren't consulted or told about it, and both hated it. Kim said she felt "devastated" when she switched on the TV one day and saw it out of the blue. Mel commented from her sick bed that she would rather no video had been made at all. The sisters must have been feeling pretty low in '87, fearing Mel's prognosis was poor and that the end of her life - and 'Mel & Kim' - was looming. To switch on the TV and see that their record company had replaced them with a couple of marionettes, must have felt like a kick in the teeth. I think it was surprisingly tactless of their record company/management not to seek their approval for the puppets or even keep them in the loop. IMO the 'Private Eye & Puppets' theme looks cheap, and only succeeds in drawing attention to the fact the real Mel and Kim aren't in it! Their absence is a chilling omen of the tragedy to come. It would surely have been much better to have just used the footage of their Montreux performance, in which they both look healthy, happy and chic, and dance like a dream. 'FLM' was Mel and Kim's penultimate single, and reached no 7 in the UK charts.
Tbf even though the marionettes was a fail, those sort of things in video clips was in vogue at the time. Consider Genesis “land of confusion” which was released the previous years. But yeah, whatever the producers were going for clearly wasn’t done well. And obv in conjunction with the cancer and lack of consultation, it was still in poor taste.
@@nocomment4848 Apart from the fact that I think the marionettes are quite cute: The biggest difference between this video and Land Of Confusion is Genesis themselves had the idea to collaborate with Spitting Image.
@@TheLongdarktunnel Wow it's a year since I wrote that - I can't remember tbh. But I don't make things up - I'm a journalist by profession. Google it and I'm sure you'll find confirmation. I don't know the name of the male model - again Google may help you.
@hayabusabart i am glad you liked the puppets. i am sorry that others don't, but we worked very hard with a specialist puppet-maker to make them as charming as we could. i was keenly aware that the circumstances were very sad. @Hugo Malice the puppet-makers, who were also the operators, took the puppets back after we had finished filming them. i have no idea where they are now. i would have liked to have to kept them.
I never knew the artist names neither their songs titles, Respectable, showing out and this FLM were superb by then, just searching for 80s I came across my favorite by guessing. thanks to you tube and those that upload these musics, Melanie may your gentle soul rest in peace and to you Kim may God continue to bless and guide you. blessing to those bringing us closer.
F.L.M actually stands for 'fucking lovely mate' the sisters would say that after each vocal take in the studio, plus me and Mel are July 11th buddies too. #samebirthday
Mel was very sick at this point hence why they're only in the video via live footage someone dug up. This was 80's - way before they could do stuff like digital fairies to hide the fact Ginger Spice had jumped ship from the Spice Girls in "Viva Forever" :-)
The footage they show in this video was from the Montreaux (I've probably misspelled it) festival from 1987. That festival is huge. Just thought, I'd throw that info in there. I appreciate that you wrote this 6yrs ago, so this comment might be a surprise to you.
Yes. I worked around the corner in Kentish Town. It was on the C2 bus route. FLM is my favourite Mel & Kim song. So sassy at the time ! Love it ! RIP Mel.
this was the song of Mel&Kim got me the most...that effect "ma ma mmm mamama " made me crazy intrigued...in the end there s a male /female key transition ,which is wickled.... Stock Aitken Waterman Genius
For Love Money great song so catchy following the magnitude of Respectable tough to follow just as good mean puppets great video inventive u can only get with the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s and magical creation that was the time and era the guy must of been spellbound by the Girls cause he is part of a good song Mel and Kim did
👍🙂 Hello from ex-USSR ! In the 1988 year we are dancing with this song on the DISCO pol's in sport holl Cheboxarsky medical college. 🔝 📀 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🔉 🔉 🎶 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕 🔊 🔊 🎵 🎶 💃🏼🕺 🕺💃🏼 💃🏼🕺 🕺💃🏼 💃🏼🕺 Thanks for your jobs and publication. 😊👋🙂
This music video has never been right with me. You see the reason that the clips of Mel and Kim where only clips from concerts was because Mel was ill while recording the video. That’s also the reason they used puppets. Such a sad loss. ❤
This video scared me to death as a kid, seem ridiculous now. Something about those puppets (although I seem to remember them having milk bottle top eyes, which they obviously don't!) and the rumours at the time as to why they were used. Oh and the eyes on the poster following the guy haunted me further, I really found it scary as hell.
Saw a video of the sisters Sparked my interest. They didn't like this video but it would've worked without the puppets. They could've been bigger. Gone to soon❤ Mel❤
@@peterschofield1553 I agree, I read Mel and Kim weren't consulted about the whole marionettes & detective themed video, and they both hated it. Kim saw it out of the blue on telly one day, and said she was "Devastated", and when Mel found out she said she would rather no video was shown at all! Seems to me the obvious thing to do was to use the Montreaux live performance, which was excellent with the sisters looking great and dancing beautifully. In 1987 Mel's cancer had returned and they were facing the terrible possibility that 'Mel and Kim' was on the way out, as tragedy loomed. I imagine switching on the TV and seeing your record company has replaced you with a couple of puppets, must have felt pretty hurtful!
Sir FLM..sana po mbigyn nio din po aq ng tulong at sinor n po aq Hindi n mkka pg trabho khit ano pong ipg kloob nio sken ang biyayang gling sau sir salamat po and god bless you sir..sna po mrami o kaung mtutulyngan n tuld qpi mhirap.kylabgab k nmin sir..
Yeah same can be said for Queens later vids before the rest of us knew freddie was aidsed up and they used old footage which struck me at the time as indicating something was wrong but couldn't put my finger on it and was surprised even though it should have been obvious, we all knew about Mel in the papers and it was indeed very sad to see her in her wheelchair still smiling gorgeously, but they were upfront, no hiding here just a good creative concept trying to make the best of a sad situation
1:40 Wouldn't be able to do that in this day and age - at least not without ending up on that darn register anyway...
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I like your beautiful dans songs Mel and Kim LOVE ANGEL MEL HAPPY BRITHRDAY MAY ANGEL MEL ÉRA MEL AND KIM BEAUTIFUL. Than you very much and etapa 80-90 Super STARS MEL AND KIM - FANS JAREK
Back in the good ol' days, before vocal fry, Babysing, and Dipthong craziness, combined with autotune, and being concerned with things other than the sodding music
The private detective always reminds me of a young Kevin Costner! I wonder who he is and what became of him? I don't recall seeing him in anything else - maybe he wasn't an actor?
Always will love mel &Kim joined their fan club, when mel was ill they phoned me as I sent her a gift , gutted my mum answered the phone as I was out missed their call , still in 2022 I listen to them , brilliant duo great dancer and pure voices miss them xx
What a bittersweet memory. Thank you for sharing it, Sharon.
Wow, that's so sweet that they rang you - and incredibly rare for a successful pop star to reach out to a fan in person and thank them like that. Mel and Kim were the real deal. Mel's death from a rare form of cancerous tumor at 23, was an horrific, against-all-odds tragedy.
Wow, that's so sweet that they rang you - and incredibly rare for a successful pop star to reach out to a fan in person and thank them like that. Mel and Kim were the real deal. Mel's death from a rare form of cancerous tumor at 23, was an horrific, against-all-odds tragedy.
💚 Mel and Kim. I mourn the loss of the long career they could have had together. Rest in peace Mel and I hope Kim is doing well.
A very talented and beautiful young lady taken far far too early, Mel we still miss you, God bless you.
Mel and Kim always had me up and dancing like a madman on the dance floor when I was a teenager
So talented. And still fresh
R.i p beautiful Mel.x
what a polished act! a pair of lovely sisters singing and dancing together. "I love money.. I love money.. boyfriends are boring🤣 " the puppets were brilliant too
Looks like you don't know the context of this videoclip. At that moment, Mel was unable to move due to its cancer treatment. The producers had to do "something" for the release of the track without having the duet available...
Axtually says "fun love money", not "I love money"
SAW got a lot of stick but they came up with some brilliantly catchy songs and this is one of their best. Still love it
Once you know the story behind why the only footage of the girls is live, it's so sad :(
Why is that?
@@Timturpinfleck17642 Mel was dying, so couldn't make a video.
@@medievalist of course, thanks for that.
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Still made a mean video u still see glimpses of them on stage even the puppets is pure class good idea to do
the girls only had four hits BUT each was a gem
But tragedy
What georgeous talented girls and RIP Mel. My friend and I danced to them RIP Ann also. Fabulous music.
Here in the USA they had 5. I'm The One Who Really Loves You was released as a 12 inch single and went to #11 on the Billboard Club Chart
@@jeffreywiesemann5856 acknowledged, in Sweden More Than Words Can Say was released as a single, that one should have been released as a single in the UK/US, great ballad
Mel lives forever
Ja sie lebt immer weiter alle liebten madonna oder weiß der Geier ich liebte Melanie she always look great guten dancing moves sexy body
I loved in Videos the bouncingof her titts but never liked the atomic boobs from Sam fox Or Sabrina Mel was perfect
Yes,forever!
No one lives forever but some are taken way too soon - at only 23, Mel Appleby was one. But like a shooting star, she burned gorgeously bright for the short time she was here. God bless her, so very sad for her family and of course her sister Kim in particular, they were obviously very close.
With a stadium packed Heavenly Choir gathered of Artists over the years it's only going to get bigger and bigger she's part of that
No she doesn’t
It's an upbeat song, but the 1987 video always makes me feel sad. Mel was very sick with the return of the cancer that would take her life in January 1990 aged just 23. So this video was put together using an actor to play a private eye, with footage from a Mel and Kim live performance in Montreux, plus those creepy puppets to depict the sisters.
The biggest problem with this video was that Mel and Kim weren't consulted or told about it, and both hated it. Kim said she felt "devastated" when she switched on the TV one day and saw it out of the blue. Mel commented from her sick bed that she would rather no video had been made at all.
The sisters must have been feeling pretty low in '87, fearing Mel's prognosis was poor and that the end of her life - and 'Mel & Kim' - was looming. To switch on the TV and see that their record company had replaced them with a couple of marionettes, must have felt like a kick in the teeth. I think it was surprisingly tactless of their record company/management not to seek their approval for the puppets or even keep them in the loop.
IMO the 'Private Eye & Puppets' theme looks cheap, and only succeeds in drawing attention to the fact the real Mel and Kim aren't in it! Their absence is a chilling omen of the tragedy to come. It would surely have been much better to have just used the footage of their Montreux performance, in which they both look healthy, happy and chic, and dance like a dream.
'FLM' was Mel and Kim's penultimate single, and reached no 7 in the UK charts.
Tbf even though the marionettes was a fail, those sort of things in video clips was in vogue at the time. Consider Genesis “land of confusion” which was released the previous years. But yeah, whatever the producers were going for clearly wasn’t done well.
And obv in conjunction with the cancer and lack of consultation, it was still in poor taste.
@@nocomment4848 Apart from the fact that I think the marionettes are quite cute: The biggest difference between this video and Land Of Confusion is Genesis themselves had the idea to collaborate with Spitting Image.
I have never heard the story about them not being consulted or hating the vid! Where did you get that from?
Who is the boy in a video,what his name?
@@TheLongdarktunnel Wow it's a year since I wrote that - I can't remember tbh. But I don't make things up - I'm a journalist by profession. Google it and I'm sure you'll find confirmation.
I don't know the name of the male model - again Google may help you.
Still absolutely love this song
This my favourite mel and kim song ....LOVE IT
Mel passed away on this day 30 years ago. RiP angel xoxo
LOVE THE PUPPETS R.I.P Mel.. much much to young to die x
Cried for weeks when I found that out... :(((
I wonder if the puppets are still around ?
@hayabusabart i am glad you liked the puppets. i am sorry that others don't, but we worked very hard with a specialist puppet-maker to make them as charming as we could. i was keenly aware that the circumstances were very sad.
@Hugo Malice the puppet-makers, who were also the operators, took the puppets back after we had finished filming them. i have no idea where they are now. i would have liked to have to kept them.
@@juliandarley I love the puppets .. x
@@sharonjohns3012 thank you!
Another brilliant SAW production....that the other have sensed the potential of House Music that was expanding in those years
Rest in Peace Mel ❤ angel 🎉😢
I bought this single, really sad what happened to Mel, they were great.
I never knew the artist names neither their songs titles, Respectable, showing out and this FLM were superb by then, just searching for 80s I came across my favorite by guessing. thanks to you tube and those that upload these musics, Melanie may your gentle soul rest in peace and to you Kim may God continue to bless and guide you. blessing to those bringing us closer.
I'm 43 but man what an 80s dance
BNCA70 you’ll be 50 now 😂
You’re a maths whizz, Terrie
Oh this brings me back to the 80s even if I was born in 2011
Try bein born in 64
Mel C.Gone to soon .RIP..❤.delboy Xxx.
My favourite tune of there's great singing ❤❤❤❤❤
Mel & Kim ❤❤
F.L.M actually stands for 'fucking lovely mate' the sisters would say that after each vocal take in the studio, plus me and Mel are July 11th buddies too. #samebirthday
Mel and her smile, looked like she really enjoyed her singing. Shame she was taken too soon
It's mystery
My favorite Mel & Kim tune. 2021!!!
Mel was very sick at this point hence why they're only in the video via live footage someone dug up. This was 80's - way before they could do stuff like digital fairies to hide the fact Ginger Spice had jumped ship from the Spice Girls in "Viva Forever" :-)
The footage they show in this video was from the Montreaux (I've probably misspelled it) festival from 1987. That festival is huge. Just thought, I'd throw that info in there. I appreciate that you wrote this 6yrs ago, so this comment might be a surprise to you.
I played this to death
It was a brilliant happy song
RIP MEL..taken way too young❤❤❤
1:22-1:34 is where Sainsbury's at Camden town now stands. Opened in 1988.
yes, they had just knocked down the previous buildings and the site was was briefly as you see it here.
Noo way i didn’t notice it maybe because i wasn’t born then 😂🙊
Religiderasta
Yes. I worked around the corner in Kentish Town. It was on the C2 bus route. FLM is my favourite Mel & Kim song. So sassy at the time ! Love it ! RIP Mel.
The park is st Martin’s gardens in Camden near to there too
RIP Mel. Still sad for your loss. Gone too soon. :-( xx
swietny videoclip oraz super piosenka oraz wspaniala mel and kim
Their best in my opinion.
this was the song of Mel&Kim got me the most...that effect "ma ma mmm mamama " made me crazy intrigued...in the end there s a male /female key transition ,which is wickled.... Stock Aitken Waterman Genius
I like this Music to Mel&Kim!
Mel Appleby passed away Jan 18 and i overlooked it but so did the media she was so young in her prime to be taken to heaven. mel appleby R.i.P
+ray carroll Or, waiting for a resurrection (like Jesus promised)...
"No one has ever ascended to heaven." - Jesus (John 3:13)
Flm news update
No one is “taken to heaven” when they die. That’s not what is says in the bible😉
Only those girls stayed. Cos here we are loving them. Xxxxx
So cheesed off at the time waiting in to see Top of the Pops and all we got was puppets, of course the real story wasn't out there yet
Thank you Jimmy Broadbent for letting me to discover this song with your "F" soundbite
Mel, we will always think of you
Perfect pop ...
one of my fav mel n kim tunes
They were classy and sassy,talented and funny.
My favourite Mel and Kim song.
R.I.P Mel
the right choice for their album signature song
It would have been Mel's 50th birthday today!
Wow how time goes
She was the one who died with câncer?
@@granto6738 iiiikkkm. Dxxa see b I m m lol l lol I’m l
@@t.f.6332IT REALLY WAS PNEUMONIA THAT KILLED HER DUE TO HER HAVING SUCH WEAK IMMUNE SYSTEM FROM CANCER
loved it. still do.
When I first heard this in the 80s, I thought FLM was a reference to radio, FM, MW, LW! Ha ha!
For Love Money great song so catchy following the magnitude of Respectable tough to follow just as good mean puppets great video inventive u can only get with the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s and magical creation that was the time and era the guy must of been spellbound by the Girls cause he is part of a good song Mel and Kim did
I like the flat-screen TV, 20 years before its time!
Su funny video.!! One of my favourite Mel&Kim songs.!
With u sad loss ❤
👍🙂 Hello from ex-USSR ! In the 1988 year we are dancing with this song on the DISCO pol's in sport holl Cheboxarsky medical college.
🔝 📀 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥 🚥
🔉 🔉 🎶 💕 💕 💕 💕 💕
🔊 🔊 🎵 🎶 💃🏼🕺 🕺💃🏼 💃🏼🕺 🕺💃🏼 💃🏼🕺
Thanks for your jobs and publication. 😊👋🙂
This music video has never been right with me. You see the reason that the clips of Mel and Kim where only clips from concerts was because Mel was ill while recording the video. That’s also the reason they used puppets. Such a sad loss. ❤
Got My FLM Deluxe Edition yesterday.... Great Stuff
This video scared me to death as a kid, seem ridiculous now. Something about those puppets (although I seem to remember them having milk bottle top eyes, which they obviously don't!) and the rumours at the time as to why they were used. Oh and the eyes on the poster following the guy haunted me further, I really found it scary as hell.
Flm F..kin. Lovely Mate. True Cockney Proud My Accent FLM
Very sad.
The carreer of these 2 girls its like spaceship explode when it flight up.
Toooooooooooooooootally agree. xx
To my ears this song sounds final. Afterwards just silence. And it's almost right.
Saw a video of the sisters Sparked my interest. They didn't like this video but it would've worked without the puppets. They could've been bigger. Gone to soon❤ Mel❤
Mel’s 28 years passed away today
You keep coming back here every year, don't you - is this like a shrine to you? #NotKnockingIt
Almost 30 years now
@@jakemorris8903 How old was she???
January 18th 1990, now more than 30 years ago (today’s date August 6th 2020) @23, that was much too young to go 😔
RADE DANILOVIC - Kouč, Savetnik, Konsultant just 5 months short of her 24th birthday
i like this song by mel and kim klm from 1986
Sadly Mel was too ill to appear in this video at the time it was released. She does appear but only in old clips.
@@peterschofield1553 I agree, I read Mel and Kim weren't consulted about the whole marionettes & detective themed video, and they both hated it.
Kim saw it out of the blue on telly one day, and said she was "Devastated", and when Mel found out she said she would rather no video was shown at all!
Seems to me the obvious thing to do was to use the Montreaux live performance, which was excellent with the sisters looking great and dancing beautifully. In 1987 Mel's cancer had returned and they were facing the terrible possibility that 'Mel and Kim' was on the way out, as tragedy loomed.
I imagine switching on the TV and seeing your record company has replaced you with a couple of puppets, must have felt pretty hurtful!
Luv the girls other sad loss we'll missed do u agree ❤
These classy British ladies encouraged destinys child and spice girls and the like.
And they were only recording for about two years, if that.
FLM actually means "fucking lovely mate," a phrase they often said.
RIP Mel
Thanks Ladies
Sad miss for her sister bless
my first proper crush was Mel gone far far too soon xxxx
Sir FLM..sana po mbigyn nio din po aq ng tulong at sinor n po aq Hindi n mkka pg trabho khit ano pong ipg kloob nio sken ang biyayang gling sau sir salamat po and god bless you sir..sna po mrami o kaung mtutulyngan n tuld qpi mhirap.kylabgab k nmin sir..
I'm 12 again!!😀
RIP Mel.
Hope Kim sees these.
Fucking Lovely Mate F.L.M. ♥️
In couple weeks that its going to be 26 years that Mel passed away!
29 years ago today that Mel died!
@@MissTia777 give the guy a break he's obviously a dedicated fan you mop.
@@dazauto1400 There was another comment that got deleted you dumbass
Yeah same can be said for Queens later vids before the rest of us knew freddie was aidsed up and they used old footage which struck me at the time as indicating something was wrong but couldn't put my finger on it and was surprised even though it should have been obvious, we all knew about Mel in the papers and it was indeed very sad to see her in her wheelchair still smiling gorgeously, but they were upfront, no hiding here just a good creative concept trying to make the best of a sad situation
1980s🤗
Mel and Kim hated this video with the marionettes and wish it had never been released.
BIG F
1:40 Wouldn't be able to do that in this day and age - at least not without ending up on that darn register anyway...
I like your beautiful dans songs Mel and Kim LOVE ANGEL MEL HAPPY BRITHRDAY MAY ANGEL MEL ÉRA MEL AND KIM BEAUTIFUL. Than you very much and etapa 80-90 Super STARS MEL AND KIM - FANS JAREK
Fucking Lovely Mate.
Back in the good ol' days, before vocal fry, Babysing, and Dipthong craziness, combined with autotune, and being concerned with things other than the sodding music
mel kim zo good joop van buerink
This record stood out for me ?
Kim Country singer
26 years ago that Mel died!
What was that song about you're going to be OK, so he left you, etc?
“Don’t Worry” by Kim Appleby.
MEL & KIM
"F.L.M."
*F.L.M. (c)1987
2 weeks in 12 days is the 26 years of death of Mel!
Oh lol @ the puppets. They couldn't have looked LESS like Mel & Kim.
Fucking lovely mate.
How clever, detective Frank L Mirror, or FLM 🙄
Sip
Good krenn🙏🙏
The private detective always reminds me of a young Kevin Costner! I wonder who he is and what became of him? I don't recall seeing him in anything else - maybe he wasn't an actor?
Cute x