Looking Back On The Wang Chung Video Controversy
I was very happy to see former PR clients Wang Chung—Jack Hues and Nick Feldman—in fine form last night at Resorts World in Las Vegas on the “Things Can Only Get Better” ‘80s tour headlined by Howard Jones.
Back in the day, I milked the controversy surrounding the video for their 1986-1987 smash “Everybody Have Fun “Tonight” for all it was worth. It all started when the BBC refused to air the video in the band’s native UK “after a medical adviser to its screening committee warned that the rapid flashing and strobe-like editing could trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy.”
Quickly taking advantage of this, I wrote a press release and landed key coverage on Good Morning America and in the Los Angeles Times. Responding to the BBC’s claim that the video contained “too many frames per second,” Nick Feldman told the newspaper: “It’s absolutely ludicrous. I mean, they told Mozart his music had too many notes, and look what it did for his career.”



