General Chat

Thinking about the new Ashes to Ashes series, which is apparently set in 1982. I was 16 in 1982 & the music era brings back so many memories

This year, fashion trends are 80's inspired, and the good old electric blue seems to be making a comeback !

I bought a brilliant 80's album called 80's night club. Has many of the popular songs of the day. Have had 80's albums in the past & this is by far the best one

Who else loves 80's music ?

Sorry it's still 60's for me :-)))

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Holds hand up.

I loved the 80's Elaine. Glad Spandau Ballet are getting back together.........abit of old nostalgia and all that...............they were great days.......

Hi Mildred

Should leave this decade to oblivion, apart for an handful of songs,
maybe,,,,and the fashion ? err what fashion lol
mind you, could swear I see a girl wearing a rara skirt today,
it looked just as gross today as it did back then pmsl

Ray x

Love all things eighties but especially the music xx

Sorry l'm with Suem 60's for me too

oh Ray, I had a Rara dress, agreen one. I called it me Spurs outfit.........

Well. one scene in series 1 of ashes to ashes was a night club scene. It was fabulous, all the new romantics with all the make up, men & women, and Fade to grey by Visage was playing. It was a quicker version, more like a Disco mix., would love to get hold of it :o))

Sue

I like 60's music, but that was the decade of my birth, so It doesnt evoke memories for me

I like all music really, but its the current trend for the 80's which I love at the mo

Was you in goal then Whirls ? green,,,Spurs lol

New Romantics ???? bleedin, nancy boys me dad caled em. pmsl


Ray x

I do like some of the music Elaine but for me the music revolution during the 60's was something so huge I don't think another era can touch it.

I remember when the protest songs started being wriiten but not broadcast unless it was on pirate radio stations. All of my friends genuinely started to take an interest in what was happening overseas.

We would all sit for hours in one anothers' front rooms and just listen in complete silence. Awesome times.

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In 1981 I had an oversized frilly white shirt a la Adam & the Ants :o)))

But I never ever had a rara skirt !

I had bright electric blue mascara called Bahama blue, couldnt get away with it now lol !

When I think of new romantics I think of Duran Duran singing Planet Earth :o))

Hi Elaine, yep early 80's was my yoof too :-)
I see jumpsuits are back, I had 2 ... a purple glittery one and a black satiny one (omg pmsl), then jodhpurs (sp?) I had blue cord ones, also had the frilly shirt, those really pale jeans very skinny ones, grandad shirts/dresses, braces, raras, pencil skirts, BIG hair, which I always wanted but never got til I had a perm :-)) which EVERYONE had. and of course everything had shoulder pads ...
my ipod is virtually all late 70s early 80s music, I bop around the allotment singing along ... if no-one else is about lol we had a BIG thing for Adam and the Ants, Human League etc lol plus of course what they now call Club Classics!
I used to sometimes go with friends (older than me) to the Camden Palace and I wore a dress of my mum's which I loved, from the 50s I suppose, would be called vintage now and probably worth a fortune! I remember we saw Steve Strange there one night, probably others too but can't remember!
thanks Elaine, nice memories :-)
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No Ray, what I meant was, my rara skirt was soooooooooooo big, it reminded me of a football pitch and hence me fav team...............

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ohhhhhh nearly forgot lol I went to one of Culture Clubs first gigs after Do You Really Want to Hurt Me came out. Was at the Strand Palace theatre - he was supporting Paul Young and Mari Wilson !!!
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Can remember the startled look of me dad when culture club,
were on TOTPs lol

WHAT THE BLEEDIN HELLS THAT!!!!!

Edited,,,,thanks for clearing that up for me Whirls lol

Ray

Hi Elaine,

I tasked my very clever OH with finding your Fade to Grey thing - he's found a dance mix so that might be the one - we can send you a link to a site you could download it from. And if it's not the one you meant he'll have another look!

You see, I said I wanted to send you some daffs but this might be better, lol

Maria xx

Oh yes the 80's has to have been the best decade ever !!

I would have been ........ 19 in 1982 - loved most of the groups and music - had the ra ra skirt and the electric blue mascara too lol

Will be reliving it in October - going to see Spandau on their reunion tour :O))

OOOh Maz !

I saw Culture club at Wembley Arena Dec 1984 ?

King was the support act & they were rubbish ! (remember Paul king who went on to be a VJ on MTV)

Right at the end CC sang Do they know its Christmas. If we went on the friday, the next and last night, apparently lots of the stars in the video all came on to sing it at the end - trust us to miss it by a day !

CC started going down after that what with george & his drugs :o((