A kung fu fighter in a disco

Because it was the one that got onto TOTP, that reached the mainstream consciousness (what heightened it is that it was introduced on TOTP by *a Blue Peter presenter*, namely the late Caron Keating, thus connecting it, albeit one step removed, with something so symbolic of Middle England). I'm pretty sure it wasn't a credible record with those who were actually involved in The Scene, that in those circles it was seen as a watering-down, a dilution for the masses (Reynolds compares it to "Rock Around The Clock" vis-a-vis that song's black sources which would, of course, have been completely shut off from most of the people who heard RATC by informal apartheid in the US and "massive cultural quarantine", to use a Mark S phrase, in the UK). But the fact that it was a dilution of its source is precisely what made it important in a wider social context. It impacted the lives of the Sun readers, the Belinda Carlisle and Glenn Medeiros fans, the floating voters (who "owed cultural loyalty to no-one" - Sinker again) who'd jump on the Blair bandwagon after Murdoch said it was OK, and that's why it's cited today.

I'll post a few more things here in a moment (ah, egotistical googling).