Blog: PowerPop

An Earlier Than Usual Clue to the New Direction

Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only (original video)
From 1991, here's Brit pop star/actor Chesney Hawkes and "The One and Only," the theme from the fitfully amusing Michael J. Fox comedy Doc Hollywood . This song -- written by 80s pop phenom Nik Kershaw , who I think is underrated -- is kind of a guilty pleasure for me, and I had assumed that Hawkes was basically a lame-o until I found out recently he'd collaborated with Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of [...]