I’ll be giving my thoughts on the music, 80s T.V.and Film, the personalities, the fashion, the trends and the events that shaped the 80s, and try to make my own small contribution to the greatest decade of them all.

You can also help to make this a fun journal dedicated to the 80′s with your own contributions and comments to this blog. I would love to hear what you think about my great love of all things 80s!

Look forward to hearing from you…

There are two rockumentaries about the ubiquitous 80s record label Stiff that brought us many an indie artist such as Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Damned, Elvis Costello and Madness to name but a few! Catch them this weekend tucked away at just after midnight on Saturday night on BBC4 and see how Stiff set the trend where others could only follow! The first documentary is a special featuring Stiff artists on Top of the Pops and the second an in-depth look at the founding of Stiff Records and how it went on to become a mainstream label in the 80s! It doesn’t get much better than this! Enjoy

Let’s hear it for the girls! Yes, we’ve more St. Valentine’s Day smoochers, this time from the girls! Like sweet kisses, these memorable jewels of the 80s from some of the Queens of the power ballad would melt anyone’s heart!  Le’ts hope you feel the power of love!

1. Woman In Love, Barbra Streisand
2. Total Eclipse Of The Heart , Bonnie Tyler
3. Power Of Love, Jennifer Rush
4. Saving All My Love For You , Whitney Houston
5. Tina Turner – Let’ s Stay Together
6. Your Love Is King – Sade
7. Live To Tell, Madonna
8. Time After Time , Cyndi Lauper
9. Sweet Love , Anita Baker
10. Anything For You , Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine

Who would make your Top10?

It’s time to ‘move closer’ and be a ‘slave to love’ with 80sGuy’s Top10 Soul smoochers guaranteed to fill any dance floor come the slowies at the end of the evening!

1. Gregory Abbot – Shake You Down
2. Atlantic Starr – Secret Lovers
3. Champaign – How ‘Bout Us
4. S.O.S. Band – Just Be Good To Me
5. Dennis Edwards Ft. Siedah Garrett – Don’t Look Any Further
6. Alexander O’Neal – If You Were Here Tonight
7. Luther Vandross –  So Amazing
8. Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
9. Teddy Pendergrass – 2 A.M.
10. Freddie Jackson – Rock Me Tonight

Duran Duran are the latest in a long line of bands to release their new album on vinyl. ‘All you need is now’, available digitally since December, will be released in March on vinyl and as a special deluxe edition on CD! Produced by Mark Ronson, it’s a return to form and the album is already being heralded by those in the know as one of their best for years. What next, a re-make of High Fidelity?

A Flock of Seagulls - Image: Wikipedia

From Madonna in Into the Groove to the Flock of  Seagulls, it was an iconic decade for hair. Here’s my Top10:

1. Madonna – Into the Groove which spurned so many look-a-likes

2. Phil Oakey – THE look in the clubs

3. Annie Lennox – the original ‘sister’. In orange in Touch

4. Brian May – the same since time began I know!

5. Flock of Seagulls – just plain mad!

6. Billy Idol – always wanted to but I never had the courage

7. Gary Numan – when black was in. What do you mean it never went out?

8. Springsteen – well, not the hair but the bandanna

9. Adam Ant – complete with kiss-curl

10. Midge Ure – suaveness personified

Eli Stone - Image: Wikipedia.com

British actor Johnny Lee Miller, of Trainspotting and Angelina Jolie ex-hubby fame, finally goes stateside in a TV comedy drama with a heart. He’s hard-bitten lawyer Eli Stone who starts to have visions and here’s the 80′s Music link ~ he’s having nuptials in the bedroom when he hears music from the other room. When he goes into his living room there is George Michael in full swing, complete with backing singers and dancers, singing ‘Faith’ – right there in front of him. It’s an epiphany – okay it’s a brain aneurysm really – that changes his life and after a number of similarly surreal visions starts to see life differently. It’s already in Season 2 in the States now but Season 1 comes to the UK and FIVER next week, starting Wednesday. One for those who like their Boston Legal mixed with an Ally McBeal twist!