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1980s

The Specials - 1980s - 02

‘Ghost Town’: Did The Specials predict Britain’s present decline in 1981?

“The people getting angry…”

Tom Phelan
Apr 28, 2026
Music Video - General - 2024 - 2025

What was the most expensive music video of the 1980s?

Big bucks.

Lauren Hunter
Apr 25, 2026
Dhani Harrison - Far Out Magazine

When a nine-year-old Dhani Harrison contributed to a Traveling Wilburys song in 1988

Showing promise from a young age.

Reuben Cross
Apr 25, 2026
James Gandolfini - Tony Soprano - The Sopranos - HBO

How The Sopranos turned a forgotten classic rock hit from 1981 into the biggest song in the history of music

What really happened?

Callum MacHattie
Apr 25, 2026
Charts - Official Charts - Gold - Platinum - Music - General - Single

The five songs that held the US number one spot for the longest in the 1980s

Big hitters.

Tom Phelan
Apr 24, 2026
The 10 biggest lies told in the history of cinema

The 10 biggest lies told in the history of cinema

Just because it’s been repeated over and over doesn’t mean that it’s true.

Liam Gaughan
Apr 23, 2026
Joni Mitchell - Musician - 1960s

The 1980s singer Joni Mitchell called “the perfect bully”

The perfect form of intimidation.

Tim Coffman
Apr 22, 2026
Radio - Music - General - Radio - FM - DAB

What song was number one for the longest in the 1980s?

A hit that wouldn’t shift.

Tom Phelan
Apr 22, 2026
John Lydon - Public Image LTD

Spiked with peyote and beaten in a brawl: The pros and cons of being Public Image Limited’s support band in 1989

John Lyndon strikes again.

Rachael Pimblett
Apr 13, 2026
10 movies from 1986 that would never be made today

10 movies from 1986 that would never be made today

40 years later, and it feels like a completely different universe.

Liam Gaughan
Apr 9, 2026
Three men walk into a senate hearing The unholy alliance of Frank Zappa, Dee Snider, and John Denver

Three men walk into a senate hearing: The unholy alliance of Frank Zappa, Dee Snider, and John Denver

A memorable if fruitless defense of rock ‘n’ roll impurity.

Andrew Clayman
Apr 8, 2026
What was the first song to feature a Roland TR-808?

What is an 808?

An enduring legacy.

Tom Phelan
Mar 30, 2026

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