The “flat-out perfect” actor who conned Mel Brooks in 1980: “I was so angry”
He’d been swindled.
1980
Why Bob Dylan deliberately tried to provoke audiences in 1979: “Make people jump on any level”
“People are so asleep.”
“A mountain disappears”: the shocking moment Sting found out about the death of John Lennon
“The landscape changes…”
“I wanted to be in that film”: the 1980 movie that informed Idris Elba that he wanted a life in cinema
One of the best sci-fi movies in history.
The “beautiful” 1980 movie Christopher Walken wants everyone to see: “Go and feast your eyes”
Originally described as one of the worst of all time.
How being starstruck in 1980 gave Dolly Parton her biggest hit: “Lives on and on”
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
“Essential”: The 1980 show Siouxsie and the Banshees needed to play
In even the most literal sense of the word, Siouxsie and the Banshees were a wailing force against convention, epitomising the ritual that rules were…
“It wasn’t arrogance”: the 1980 audition that convinced Tom Cruise he’d be a movie star
He was right, obviously.