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Perms and combs or lace ribbons and bat sleaves....that stone washed faded patchy denim box jacket slong white linen jackets hairgel shoulder pads.....

Thanks Maria x

I had white stilettos & I never lived in essex at the time either lol ! :o))

Oh and I had pink leg warmers too !

I went to see David Bowie at Wembley Stadium in 1997, the Glass Spider tour. Big Country was the supporting group.

shut up Pat - you're just jealous :-)))

had forgotten about ski-pants. BIG t-shirts a-la Wham

forgot about Wham too! and Haircut 100, white stilettos, one side of your hair put up with a comb, those satin/lycra really tight bright coloured trousers and of course .... legwarmers :-))

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Of course Pat.:)))

I had belly swelling in the 80's..

In 1981 I saw Marvin Gaye in concert......................he was brillaint.......................my all time music hero.................

Oooh No! The 90's were MY decade! :-)

Pat

Right then Elaine if yer interested, lol

your Fade to Grey dance mix is ready to download.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/586983942340c8b5/

If it's not the right one give me a yell :o)

Maria xxx

Alexander O'Neil was my man of the 80's. Saw him a couple of times..............oohhhhhh sex on legs...............

McAnne ya the same age as me then.........was a good time to be 19 in the 80's............

I had a rara skirt for my school uniform ohh my mothers face..how we laughed as she chased me down the road waving a tinopener..ahhhh

skipants remeber them with the loop that went under your foot big belts big hair....

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((

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))

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

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

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

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 !

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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