Ivan Doroschuk, Men Without Hats

"We can dance if we want to/ We can leave your friends behind/ ’Cause your friends don’t dance/ And if they don’t dance/ Well, they’re no friends of mine!” --- Men Without Hats’ Ivan Doroschuk talks about The Safety Dance, Pop Goes The World, touring in 2023 [GPS] vs in 1983 [Rand McNally road maps], how Howard Jones taught him to enjoy the rigours of the road, the power of their videos on MTV and MuchMusic, jetting on the Concorde back & forth from NYC to the UK to film a video, the pride of being an answer on Jeopardy and the source for Weird Al Yankovic’s Brady Bunch-themed parody of The Safety Dance, retro touring [sometimes on 80s cruises] with The English Beat/Katrina & the Waves/Flock of Seagulls/The Box/Berlin/Human League/B52s/Eddie Money/Wang Chung/the GoGos, why his favourite cultural reference to The Safety Dance was on Beavis and Butt-Head, why Montreal was the Little Apple to NYC’s The Big Apple, and he shares the origin story of why he wrote The Safety Dance in the first place!

For everything Ivan, please visit https://www.safetydance.com/

TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at andrew.applebaum@gmail.com

All episodes available at https://www.torontolegends.ca/episodes/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices