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Gabrielle is looking into the window of the video shop, and you see all the cassettes for rental! For folks of a certain age, like ourselves, that’s exactly how it was." Mentioning de Paul, he also stated "They had zero money, but got a really good cast, too. Matthew Kelly, Gareth Hunt, Windsor Davies, Eric Sykes, Bob Todd, Josephine Tewson… and Lynsey De Paul! Maybe because she’d written the music, that strange song that Matthew Kelly sings, they asked her if she wanted to be in it."
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