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1982 ➤ Never a week without a fashion show
In April 1982, Steve Strange orchestrated the first serious sortie by a wave of young London designers to the Mecca of the established fashion world, Paris. An act of folly – or a marker for...
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2010 ➤ Rich List puts George Michael top of the popstars from the...
❚ ONLY THREE MUSICIANS FROM THE 1980s are included in the annual Rich List of Britain’s top 50 music millionaires, published today by The Sunday Times. The richest musician of the decade who holds his...
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1982 ➤ Lest we forget, on this day Britain sank the Belgrano
❚ THE BRITISH WAR CABINET headed by Margaret Thatcher, met at Chequers, the prime minister’s weekend retreat, on this Sunday in 1982 and unanimously agreed to a naval order to sink the Argentine...
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2010 ➤ Spider-woman Bourgeois created her art as meditations on sexuality
❚ LOUISE BOURGEOIS, THE FRENCH-BORN SCULPTOR, who lived in a 15-foot-wide town house on West 20th Street, Manhattan, died today at the age of 98 following a heart attack. She was largely unknown until...
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2011 ➤ The ghosts of Fac and Hac walk tall again
❚ BIG NEWS OUT OF MANCHESTER, recently named the UK’s live music capital by the PRS. After a week or two of wrinkles comes a smart new website and the very clear announcement: “Haçienda Records is the...
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2011 ➤ Wham!’s cunning plan for a Christmas No1 as climax to the 80s revival
+++ ❚ TWO REASONS TO CELEBRATE. Mother-of-two Shirlie Kemp has just exhumed a load of fab clothes from her heyday with Pepsi Demacque as the all-jiving all-singing girls in Wham! She has piled a load...
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➤ The true story of how love helped Gary Kemp write the next line
+++ ❚ WHY DID MUSICIAN GARY KEMP find it so “hard to write the next line” in the biggest smash hit love-song of his career? He was not hobbled by writer’s block, but was tongue-tied in admiration of a...
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2012 ➤ A brighter Bluer Rondo for the 20-tweens
❚ TWO VINTAGE MUSICAL GEMS appeared online this week, casting a fresh magic spell. They are two tracks from Chewing the Fat, the debut album by the image dance-band of 80s clubland, Blue Rondo à la...
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➤ Smash Hits and other mould-breakers of the 80s
❚ ANOTHER NICELY PACKAGED Radio 4 documentary today celebrated the crucial years 1982–85 which Neil Tennant describes as “the golden age of 80s pop”. They luckily coincided with his tenure as a writer...
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➤ Calling fashionistas for their tales of Spandau Ballet in the New Romantic 80s
❚ WERE YOU A FAN of Spandau Ballet in the 1980s? Here’s an appeal for your experiences from a reputable documentary film-maker… “ We are looking to speak to people who lived through the early years of...
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