"Remember that amazing blonde lady in the 'Nikita' vid? Ya? Well how about if we made that character, the Russian soldier, into a pop star? Crikey chaps, we could clean up!"
And so it came to pass that some poor video extra was shoved into a studio to make a thoroughly useless song about the "cold nights in Moscow", balalaikas a-rockin'. Bleeding capitalists. (Peter Martin, Smash Hits, December 4, 1985)
If this particular young woman hadn't been seen rolling her Thunderbird eyes and chewing her not inconsiderable bottom lip on Elton's "Nikita" video, chances are this record would have gone straight into the bin. What we have here is a clumsy rewrite of "Those Were The Days" which won the Eurovision Song Contest about 30 years ago. This sort of stuff is done better by the Two Ronnies. (Andy Strickland, Record Mirror, December 14, 1985)
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