";s:4:"text";s:3085:" No wonder we achingly hark back to its frantic mix. Anything could happen, including all-out nuclear war, and that gave even the frilly stuff an edge. The top 100 1985 lists the 100 most popular hits in the UK singles music charts in 1985. Please see our Pop music was magnified to new extremes of melodrama by the microchip technology of synthesisers; shoulders were widened by fashion designers under the influence of Dallas; barrow boys turned up the volume of the City trading floor to create a din about noughts; and ingenious new hair products peacocked our mullets upwards and outwards, each a backcombed monument to an era conjured from thin air. Live Aid was held 35 years ago and brought together some of the most famous musicians on the planet.There were concerts at Wembley and Philadelphia as well as fundraising on an epic scale.Can you remember what you were doing at the time? We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. The Right could be just as loony but at least Thatcher was as honest as the synth duos who stood a huge tape machine on stage on Top Of The Pops to show that they were miming.She made no bones about how much she despised unions, socialism and, according to an interview she gave to Woman’s Own in 1987, society. )Oh, it was a golden era for satire. Where there was pale ale, they brought fizz. And where there was certainty, they brought mutually assured destruction. 28 February – 1985 Newry mortar attack: The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station in Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
She explicitly promoted capitalism. Life The 1980s: the golden decade when everything was bigger, brasher and more extreme THE 1980s lasted longer than 10 years, which is typical for a decade that always felt a lot bigger than it was. The 1984 Christmas number-one, charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
(I doubt that Hansard contains a single mention of that c-word by David Cameron. His country had just elected an actor as president.
Were you there?Hartlepool MP Mr Ted Leadbitter officially opened the new energy information centre at Hartlepool power station. I started the decade as a teenager under the unisex influence of the New Romantic bands and ended it as a music journalist writing about those who had replaced them in time for the late-Eighties Acid House panic. by the collective Band Aid, … By Chris Cordner. Can you remember what else was happening in Hartlepool and East Durham that year.It was the year that Dutch freighter Anne Roossendaal was left grounded on the Longscar Rocks and she soon became a big tourist attraction.The Radio 1 Roadshow attracted a huge crowd on Seaton Green back in 1985.