Neil Pye Wins A Brit Award

This clip is mislabelled as The Young Ones winning a Brit, so I was expecting it to be for Living Doll, but Nigel Planer accepts the award in character. Nice to see Alexei Sayle got a nod that year too. Warning, this video contains traces of Noel Edmonds.

Here’s what he won it for, performing live on Top Of The Pop in 1984.

Anyone know why he calls out Paul Weller?

And here’s Alexei’s …

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