Clean, Clean
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| Single by Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club | |
| from the album English Garden | |
| B-side | "Flying Man" |
| Released | 2 November 1979 |
| Format | 7" |
| Recorded | 1979 |
| Genre | Synthpop, rock |
| Length | 3:16 |
| Label | Epic |
| Writer(s) | Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Bruce Woolley |
| Producer(s) | Mike Hurst |
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| Single by The Buggles | ||||||||||||||||
| from the album The Age of Plastic | ||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Technopop" | |||||||||||||||
| Released | 24 March 1980 | |||||||||||||||
| Format | 7", 12" | |||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||||||||||||||
| Genre | New wave, synthpop | |||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:53 | |||||||||||||||
| Label | Island | |||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Bruce Woolley | |||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | The Buggles | |||||||||||||||
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"Clean, Clean" is a song composed by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley. It was recorded first by the latter for his band Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club in 1979, and later by the former two as The Buggles for their debut album The Age of Plastic. It was released as the album's third single on 24 March 1980.
Along with "Video Killed the Radio Star", the song was co-written by Bruce Woolley. "Clean, Clean" was first recorded and originally released in 1979 by Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club. It was issued as a single in the Netherlands and Japan on 7" vinyl via Epic Records. It was the only song that The Buggles fully wrote as a trio. "Video Killed the Radio Star" was also issued as a single by Woolley in 1979. Both songs were included on the album English Garden, which was also issued under the title Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club.
The single was released on 7" vinyl via Island Records across Europe, America and New Zealand. In the UK, the single was manufactured and distributed by EMI Records Ltd. The single included the B-side "Technopop" which was written by Downes and Horn. The song was originally exclusive to the single before it appeared as a bonus track on the 2000 remastered re-issue of The Age of Plastic album, amongst other re-issues of the album.
The majority of the releases of the single featured the same track listing, however the main American release of the single featured "Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade)" as the B-side - an album track from The Age of Plastic. Additionally, a promotional version of the single was released in America which featured a stereo and mono version of the song on each side.
In America, the single was also issued on 12" vinyl as a scarce promotional release only. This version featured an extended 12-inch version of the song, whilst the B-side was "Living in the Plastic Age", the duo's previous single release. The release also featured exclusive artwork. The 12-inch version of "Clean, Clean" would later see release as a bonus track on the 2010 Japanese CD re-release of The Age of Plastic.
Following the song's original release, it has appeared on three various artists compilations; the 1980 Warner Bros. Records compilation Troublemakers, the 1994 Oglio Records release Richard Blade's Flashback Favorites, Vol. 3 and the 1995 Polygram compilation Teenage Kicks: 46 Classic Punk & New Wave Tracks.
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