Faye asks: Did the Cold War end in 1989 or 1991? There seem to be differing views on this and I'd value yours! I'll give you...

House music was a brand new dance music genre which originated in Chicago in the early-to-mid 1980s. House was influenced by Disco and many ...

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!...