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Heaven17 Live!

Heaven 17 continued their tour this weekend gone on Saturday April 18th with their annual outing at the Jazz Cafe in London. Go to the Heaven17.com website for more information on their tour or to the Jazz Cafe facebook page for photos of their amazing gig. If you’ve not caught them live, do so as more »

Are Friends… likely to turn up?

Let’s hope so! True 80s Legend Gary Numan has announced a new tour for the Autumn coinciding with the release of his new album ‘Dead Sun Rising’. See http://www.numan.co.uk/ for dates. Following two U.K. Number One hits, ‘Are Friends Electric?’ (with Tubeway Army) and ‘Cars’ in the Summer of 1979, Gary was at the fore-front of the more »

Fleetwood Mac on BBC4

Hot on the heels of OMD on Radio 2, there’s a great rockumentary on Fleetwood Mac this weekend on BBC4. Charting their 2009 tour, the documentary also sees the most popular line-up of the band, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, (Christine McVie sadly absent), Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham all talk about their lives, loves and losses. Their eternal more »

80slegends.com is back!

Yes, we’re back! We have experienced a recent outage of our site and loss of site content due to ISP problems. We will be adding back as much content as we can and in the meantime wish all of our visitors a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Born as… !!

Famously George O’Dowd went on to become Boy George and there are many more of the rich and famous who went on to change their names to find fame!

Happy Birthday, Debbie!!

Debbie Harry 2008 - courtesy Wikipedia

After an electrifying performance at The Isle Of Wight Festival, who’d have thought that this Rock Goddess will be eligible for a free Bus Pass on Thursday!

Rock on with our Rock Trivia!

A one, two.. a one, two, three, four… it’s more 80s Rock trivia!

It’s an 80′s rock Quiz, dude!

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Go get your bandana and your gui-tar as we’ve a rock quiz coming up!

Duran Duran

A quiz for all Durannies everywhere!

Happy Birthday Nick Rhodes!

One of the riginal and long standing members of Duran Duran enjoys a birthday today.

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