Camouflage (Chris Sievey song)

The song was released during a hiatus with Sievey's band the Freshies. The documentary film Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story features clips from interviews Sievey gave at the time of the song's release, stating that it came about when he went to pay a telephone bill and instead purchased a ZX81. The third program was an animated music video for the song "Camouflage". In order to play the video, the user had to record the B-side onto cassette tape, load the data from the tape into the ZX81, and then run the program while playing the A-side at the same time, so that the music synchronised with the video. ==Reception==

"Camouflage" failed to chart when it was released, but retrospectively critics have praised the creation of the single for how forward-thinking it was at the time. Bob Sorokanich writing for Gizmodo said that: "It's a graphic style that artists and musicians find fascinating today, and Sievey's experiment foreshadowed the Enhanced CDs that offered up all kinds of easter eggs when you'd pop them in your computer's CD-ROM drive". ==Aftermath==

In 1984, Sievey created the video game The Biz for the ZX Spectrum, a simulation set in the music industry. The B-side of The Biz featured eight songs by Sievey and the debut of his most famous creation, the comic character Frank Sidebottom. Rhys James Jones wrote in The Conversation that: "It's possible to see Sievey's retreat into his Frank disguise as a reaction against "Camouflages failure. But it's telling that the computer press, particularly the Spectrum magazine Crash, adored Frank. Home microcomputing, and the tools surrounding it, helped bring about one of the best-loved pop parodists of the past 30 years." ==Personnel==

• Chris Sievey – lead vocals, keyboards • Paula and Winifred (the Vizzable Girls) – backing vocals • Mike Doherty – drums ==References==