Oh, the eye shadow, hair gel and strange trousers – the turn of the 80s was all about the New Romantics. I remember in 1981 going to something that called itself a ‘futurist’ party. Seemed to involve a lot of guys in sixteen pleat Bowie trousers – which you could buy in the NME classified…
When the Buggles met Yes and created a Drama – the fusion of prog rock and new wave with an unhappy outcome
The stop and search SUS laws were based on the Vagrancy Act of 1824 and caused massive resentment among black youth in the 1980s
Unemployment in the eighties was endemic in the United Kingdom with millions out of work and an underground dole culture emerged
Michael Foot – a great intellectual, not such a great party leader
Ken Livingstone – always at the centre of controversy – meeting Irish Republicans and Soviet representatives
Reactolite Rapide – the glasses that darken in 30 seconds!
At the 1980 Conservative Party conference Margaret Thatcher declared that the lady was not for turning but turn she did on economic policy
