'80s Hitmaker, 67, Plays Iconic Chart-Topper 43 Years Later
- - '80s Hitmaker, 67, Plays Iconic Chart-Topper 43 Years Later
Jacqueline Burt CoteDecember 30, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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While Thomas Dolby's wide-ranging career has included working as a musician with the likes of Foreigner and Def Leppard (in addition to becoming a tech entrepreneur and novelist), he'll always be best known for his iconic early '80s hit, "She Blinded Me With Science."
So it was a nostalgic treat for fans to see a clip of the star performing the hit song over 40 years after it first hit the airwaves (the song was released in 1982 in the U.K. and 1983 in the U.S.).
In a clip shared on TikTok, Dolby, 67, played the catchy new wave track live onstage wearing a white graphic t-shirt and black pants, his grey hair cropped short.
Commenters couldn't get enough of the musical throwback moment.
"I've always loved this song!" gushed one person, with a second declaring, "I loved him immediately, I still do."
"SUPER COOOOL to get to see!!" added someone else.
Thomas Dolby came up with the video for 'She Blinded Me With Science' before the song
in a 2024 interview with Forbes, Dolby opened up about how he had the idea for a music video for "She Blinded Me With Science" before the song was even written.
“I'd already put my album out, and it had been acclaimed but not done particularly well commercially,” he said. “I was convinced that music videos were the way forward, not least because I always fancied myself as a filmmaker. I was particularly fond of the silent movie era. The heroes of the silent movies were the underdogs: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. I identified with them: the heroic little guy who beats the bully and wins the girl."
“I felt that a music video was sort of a silent movie with a soundtrack,” Dolby continued. “I made a couple of videos with other directors, but I wanted to have a go myself. So I went to my record label EMI and I showed them the storyboard for the 'She Blinded Me With Science' video. And they thought it was very appealing. They said, ‘But when can we hear the song?’ I said, ‘Oh, well, I'll bring it on Monday morning.’ Then I went home and wrote the song. So it was definitely spurred by the enticing idea of writing and directing my own video.”
Nearly half a century later, both the song and the video are still considered classics.
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Source: “AOL Entertainment”
