Share your memories of the 80s
Post categories: 80s Day,ÌýBehind the Scenes,ÌýEvents,ÌýMusic
| 12:00 UK time, Tuesday, 13 July 2010
On the 23 July 2010, Radio Scotland is turning back the clock to the . We'll be telling you more about what's planned over the next few days, but I thought I'd begin by asking what your memories of the decade are?
I asked my colleagues in the Radio Scotland music department the very same question...
'' the musical kick started a dance craze which saw some of us (me included I have to confess) don figure hugging lycra and woolly leg warmers to head to the nearest dance class. Just glad I have no photos!
Recording Top of the Pops off the telly onto our wee cassette recorder - so we could listen back to the pop music from that week's Charts!
and , Tukka Boots, Kickers (first time round), , winning the , , Simple Minds, Wham, The Pet Shop Boys and Madonna's True Blue. Oh, and trying to convince your Mum to buy you a school skirt from The Skirt and Slack Centre.
The ; the cliff hanger; ; coming into circulation; getting a digital watch for my 10th birthday; bad fashion accessories...Snoods (Nik Kershaw was responsible for them); a counselling service set up for fans when Kajagoogoo and Wham both split up; trying to collect all the different 12" remixes for Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Two Tribes single; and magazines with free badges!! ; joining the Howard Jones fanclub!!
Personally I remember gathering round a little portable radio at school with friends listening to (Ooh) announce the new No 1 on his Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio 1 show; loving "Our Tune" especially the really tragic ones, spending many hours creating cassette compilations of my favourite songs, being amazed at the graphics on the ZX Spectrum, camping out in the family lounge for the night to watch and recording the best bits on cassette (we didn't yet have a video player)... , , ...
...I'm going to stop now!
So those are a few of ours, what are yours?
Comment number 1.
At 13th Jul 2010, norriemaclean wrote:C'mon - name names!
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Comment number 2.
At 14th Jul 2010, Glen Miller wrote:Apart from the Berlin Wall coming down at their tail end, the Eighties are eminently forgettable, as confirmed by the above list of non-events.
Anyone with an interest in the music can relive the decade any night on Get It On.
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