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Pete Wylie on Margaret Thatcher – in music

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Elvis Costello on Margaret Thatcher – interview in 1989 plus song

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Pauline Black in Fab 208 annual for 1981

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The Special A.K.A – gig ticket from 1979

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All your photos of New Romantic excess welcome

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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…

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Brilliant Record Mirror cover featuring The Motors

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Brilliant Record Mirror cover featuring The Motors. These were pained front covers not photographs.

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Dead Kennedys and Governor Jerry Brown

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California Über Alles was an American punk onslaught by The Dead Kennedys on Democrat governor Jerry Brown in 1979

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Chivers jellies encourage kids to be coin collectors!

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Buy Original Rude Boy – biography of Neville Staple, The Specials

Boxing and racism in the 80s

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