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Hitler Youth - not New Romantics Back in the 80s - and the 70s - many pop bands toyed with...
The 70s 80s 90s Blog
TV historian Tony McMahon takes you on a rollercoaster ride through the politics, history, and culture of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. A period of history he knows well having grown up in it and been politically very active as well as a big fan of many rock and pop groups. He has also written two well-received biographies of Neville Staple, lead singer in The Specials and Errol Christie, a pioneering black British boxer of the 1970s and 1980s.
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The NME in 1981 - at the height of its influence So what were the top pop hits in 1981?...
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Back in 1981, the NME ran a very easy pop quiz for its readers that went like this... Q: Iggy's...
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Strong LGBT presence in Chelsea in the 1980s At the start of the 1980s, I was at college and a...
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I'm afraid the death of pop has been predicted for longer than some people realise. Back in 1982, in the...
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It's a funny old thing - but looking back over my copies of the NME, Sounds, Smash Hits, Melody Maker,...
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The wedding of Charles and Diana ended up an unhappy affair. But in 1981, the media proclaimed it as the...
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Between 1979 and 1981, there was a shocking rise in youth unemployment in the first years of Maggie Thatcher. But...
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There have been many sartorial atrocities in the history of British youth fashion but I put it to you dear...
