It was March 1980, and Vince Clarke and Andy Fletcher formed a band called Composition of Sound. The lads had been in various bands for a c...

The ancient cathedral in Ely, England. How is this related to the thoroughly Australian 'Neighbours'? Read on! UPDATE: Delighted tha...

                       Of course, the painting which Mrs Helen Daniels of Ramsay Street, Erinsborough, did of her neighbour, Mrs Nell Mangel...

Magazine advertisement for the Sony Stowaway personal stereo, launched in the UK in 1980. In 1981, it would be patented as the Sony Walkm...

My, what big shoulders you have, Mr Robinson. Sorry, I mean Donovan.   Shoulder pads were part of the "Power Dressing" image. T...

Love Can't Turn Around - Farley Jackmaster Funk with Darryl Pandy on vocals. House music: Year Zero 1983 - the very beginning. 1986 - h...

  Lovely Gwen Guthrie from 1986 with Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent . This is the extended version. Another clattering, cl...

Wow - 1987 and M/A/R/R/S and Pump Up The Volume . Hugely influential early dance record. And I couldn't get enough. Still thrashing arou...

Continuing our backwards countdown of some of our ultimate favourite 1980s pop tracks. Incredibly hard to select - so much must be left out!...

  I was going to leave 1988 and 1989 and make my way back to 1987 and 1986, but then I realised there were several top choons I couldn't...

  Felly of Technotronic - her with the blue lipstick on the original album cover. She didn't wanna place to stay, but you could get your...

  Love 1980s music. I adore it. Everything from Kelly Marie's It Feels Like I'm In Love in 1980 to these choice tunes from 1988 and ...

                 Fed up with the virus scenario? We now live in a world that is very odd indeed. A world in which families are breaking apar...