“One Night In Bangkok” Makes YouTube Censors’ Heads Hurt

Bangkok. Oriental City! A place where laws about what counts as legal paid entertainment probably differ from where you live. A city that was invented in 1984 for the premiere of Tim Rice/ABBA musical "Chess." You may be more familiar with the classic Murray Head version of this stirring tale, but as European dance club DJs are wont to do "One Night In Bangkok" has been given a 21st century update complete with thumbing bass line and a five-girl strip club orgy video. Honestly, if you can't go to Bangkok and see five party babes have a topless pillow fight/bubble bath, then what's the point of even having musical theater? However, you probably can't see it on YouTube for much longer--so we've preserved it here.

Oh, and in case you slept through the 1980s, here's our preferred version of the song ... although the video lacks a little something....

· Chess - "One night in Bangkok" (YouTube)
· "Vinylshakerz- One Night in Bangkok (Uncensored)" (YouTube, via Blography)