The Furby wrote: ↑<span title="Sun May 03, 2020 12:47 pm">4 years ago</span>
Aren't they Sam Harper & Jaymi Bandtok ?
The question was a touch rhetorical
The Furby ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
but yes, you’re right (comme d’habitude !).
The video these came from is definitely the cleanest I’ve seen from 1985. The boys are at least relatively clear - it’s really so much better than those standard Betamax versions on YouTube.
I’m a bit loathed to add these new faces to the Time Line though, as I can’t match them well at all. Jaymi and Sam yes, and Gareth Lowman perhaps, but the others look like complete strangers.
There could be almost 3 years between the versions you’ve just matched up and this earlier one.
There’s proof throughout Libera’s more recent history that the boys don’t come and go that much: it seems they retain 70-80% of boys and they rollover to the following year.
If the same logic is applied to 1985-1990 then there are some big problems. I’m supposing that at the start they may have been testing out boys to create a good nucleus of singers, and we can’t really apply the slick efficiency of today with the way they did things in the mid 80s. This big choir ‘mix-up’ seemed to happen around 1994-1995 too, as a whole new draft appeared in one fell-swoop, when only 2 or 3 older boys were kept.
As you and
Wolf have completed the first challenge so well, I’ll add this new set of faces to your sheets, if you’d like to have a go at some further matching.