Agadoo still bearing fruit for Dene - more than 40 years after its release

If you've ever been to a school disco, a Christmas party or a wedding reception, you've heard Agadoo. Although Leeds-born Dene Michael joined Black Lace shortly after it came the band's biggest hit-only George Michael's Careless Whisper kept it from going to number one in 1984he has been performing it ever since.

- by Harriet Sutton

Now he is the focus of a documentary, Still Pushing Pineapples, made by the people behind the film A Bunch of Amateurs, which explored the fortunes of the Bradford Movie Makers club.

It started with director Kim Hopkins feeling a little impish. "I could see that the industry was full of what they call IP films - intellectual property films - like Wham or Madonna, where filmmakers were getting into these big estates from global stars.

"And I was being fairly contrary. I thought, what kind of estate could I get into? And then I thought, what was that song back in the 80s?"

After a quick internet search and call out to Alexa - she recognised the "earworm" of Agadoo immediately - Kim discovered that Dene was living just a short drive away from York.

They met in the pub, where Kim proposed the idea of a documentary to Dene and invited him to a screening of A Bunch of Amateurs.