Ken Livingstone versus Sir Horace Cutler
The Greater London Council in the late 1970s and early 1980s saw Tory leader Sir Horace Cutler fighting Labour’s Ken Livingstone
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Wood Green Riot of 1977
The Wood Green riot in 1977 was a prelude to the 1981 summer of riots as a large crowd tried to halt a planned National Front demonstration
Birmingham – punk breaks the heavy metal stranglehold
Heavy Metal reigned supreme in the English city of Birmingham in the 1970s until Punk came along as Tony McMahon discovers
Berlin and the 1980s German pop craze
In the early 1980s – British indie kids got into German pop especially the so-called Neue Deutsche Welle as Tony McMahon recalls