On this date in 1980, XTC released the single GENERALS AND MAJORS, (Aug 9, 1980) NOTE: I've upscaled and framed this 1980 clip taken from the Australian TV show 'Countdown'. XTC's fourth and fantastic album Black Sea saw the band challenging for wider recognition with another edition of imaginative sounds and words that cast a quizzical eye on the ‘quiet desperation’ of life in Britain. These multi-layered tales of wit and elegance were some of the band’s finest to date. The album had the critic