Worried About The Boy - Limited Edition DVD & CD

What turned out to be a highly entertaining nostalgic trip, as presented by the BBC. Has only left a sour taste with the release of this DVD. I don't want to be too dramatic, the story still holds up and the performances are great. Douglas Booth really capitulates teenage George, Awesome supporting performance from Freddie Fox (Marilyn), Mathew Horne (Jon Moss) and Marc Warren (Steve Strange). The look of the film is amazing, and attention to detail was impeccable from Hair styles to clothes right down to the props of Boy George dolls identical to the real ones except with Douglas' face on the images.

However...and here's the sigh - an important character in this Teledrama has been glaringly omitted. The changing of music tracks in TV to DVD releases due to Licensing issues is not uncommon, but in this case the films previous soundtrack of 23 New Romantic & Psychedelic Glam gems has been stripped of all but four of them. Only one of the Siouxsie & The Banshees tracks, Bow Wow Wow and the two Culture Club tracks remain (not counting the the Helen Shapiro version of 'My Guy' which replaced the original Mary Wells version). Even Theatre Of Hate performing Original Sin part of the scene was edited out all together.

Not only did we loose the songs, but they were instead compensated by a 'sound-a-like' yet nondescript original score. No offense to the composer, but it didn't even touch the sides, and comes off like Ringtones as opposed to Realtones. For those of us that have seen the original broadcast can testify at the sense of what it was really like at the Blitz, visually and sonically. Loosing those tracks majorly stands out in this DVD release and for that I really do feel cheated because it's not entirely what I paid for or expected. Thank God I still have the broadcast version saved.

ORIGINAL BROADCAST (* indicates songs left in the DVD Version)

Ultravox - Hiroshima Mon Amour
*Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
David Bowie - Heroes (Replaced with 'Street Life' by Roxy Music)
OMD - Electricity
The Human League - Empire State Human
La Dusseldorf - Viva
Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Happy House
Kraftwerk - Model
Hazel O'Connor - Will You
Mary Wells - My Guy (Replaced)
Theatre Of Hate - Original Sin
David Bowie - Beauty & The Beast
Soft Cell - Memorabilia
The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
*Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild In The Country
Ultravox - Vienna
Visage - Fade To Grey
*Culture Club - White Boy (Rehearsal scene only. Reprise during photoshoot/bar scene replaced with incidental music)
David Bowie Always Crashing In The Same Car
Brian Eno - The Big Ship
*Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me

Excellent Film, but dissapointed when released on the DVD, as I purchased the film because of the love of the music from the 80s. Such classics like Human League, Kraftwerk, Visage were all cut from the dvd, and really spoilt the film for me, and was replaced with dodgy synth music.

If you want this DVD because of the great soundtrack that we heard on the TV, dont buy it.

I eagerly awaited the release of this DVD, in part because of the wonderful soundtrack..what a disappointment. Where are OMD, kraftwerk, Hazel O'connor? Its just not the same without the original songs. Still worth a watch if only for the beautiful Douglas Booth, but certainly not what I was expecting.