Memories of 1983 - Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise...
I've been thinking a lot about 1983 lately. I have my reasons! But a good one I can share with you is the fact that the summer of 1983 was much nicer than this one! And tangled up with the memories of...
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More 1980s Sports Wear For Men - The Way Things Changed - 1981 And 1989....
UGH! 1981! Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... "Sporty mix 'n' match separates in a comfortable jersey-knit with 'tennis' motif". Never fear. As the 1980s continued, sportswear would never look the same...
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1980s Fashions... Suitable Trends For Today?
1986 - posing overdrive for women... Looking around, I see many 1980s-influenced fashions around me. The leggings. The deelyboppers. The blonde hair streaks. The gelled or moussed look. '80s...
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BANG! How The 1980s Began... Tabloid Snippets From The First Two Years...
1980 - Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please... The anthem of that summer. LOVE IT!!!! Listen to it whilst you're reading through this article - it'll help bring that early 1980s vibe...
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E-Mails: Henry's Cat, 1980s Tabloids, And Sportswear...
Dinky has written to say he/she is fed up:Why no Henry's Cat here? It was a brilliant '80s cartoon, first broadcast in 1982, and from the fabulous Bob Godfrey and Stan Hayward stable. I like this site...
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"Language, Timothy!" "Sorry, Father!" - The Adventures Of Timothy Lumsden
Sorry! - the novel. Ronnie Corbett as hapless librarian Timothy Lumsden is the cover star. Timothy desperately wanted to leave home, and sought "full board without scotch eggs".Towards the end of 1980,...
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1981 - Mr Rubik - The Barron Knights
The Barron Knights gave us the album Twisting The Knights Away in 1981, and reflected the year's main craze on the cover and in one of the tracks - the Rubik's Cube! The Cube blasted out from behind...
View ArticleHouse Music And Garage Music... Separate, Not The Same...
Joanne has written:Were the dance music genres of the 1980s, House and Garage the same thing? I remember as a kid them being referred to separately, but I recently read of something called "Garage...
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Brookside - Groundbreaking Soap - Real Houses, Soap Bubbles And Lots More!
The Collins family faced the trauma of Paul's redundancy and a downwardly mobile route to Brookside Close; Jimmy Corkhill was up to no good; Barry Grant wanted dosh and fell into bad ways; Pat, Sandra...
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Henry's Cat
When the TV broke down, Henry's Cat gave it a thump...The TV set immediately started working, and the Prime Minister came on giving a speech. This seemed worse than not having it working, so Henry's...
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Coronation Street 1989 - Transformation Time, But No Yuppies Allowed!
What's goin' on 'ere, lovey? Well, it's October 1989... and the Street is undergoing a revolution. A whole new street is coming to the old street, with new houses, shops and industrial units...The...
View ArticleWikipedia - Is House Music Derived From Garage?
An e-mail from Sam:Seems to be some sort of editing war going on on Wikipedia, with one editor insisting that modern day House Music is derivative of Garage Music (without backing this up with any...
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1982 - Slim Jim and Stardust Lil - Citizens Band Radio Comes To Coronation...
CB radio was one of my favourite crazes of the 1980s. To be sure, it was a decade packed full of crazes, but CB stands out as one of my fondest memories. CB had been invented in America by a man called...
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My Wonderful Wife (And Chris Rabbit!)
My wife puts up with an awful lot. Not least my passion for the 1980s. In the last few weeks alone, she's endured me swanking around Cromer with her in my best Miami Vice garb, repeated playings of Now...
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'80s Emmerdale Farm: Amos Brearly - The Marrying Kind?
Emmerdale Farm: Amos Brearly (Ronald Magill) - marriage plans in 1988.Sheila writes:Much is made of Amos's proposal of marriage to Annie Sugden - purely for business reasons - in 1972. But was Amos...
View ArticleLet's Go Back To The '80s - To Iron Maiden And 7-Up, Bananarama And Breakfast...
"Hooray for Cosby and Rubik's Cube..." - fun song - a tribute to the 1980s by Aqua, with a great video by a YouTube user. Enjoy!
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Remember 1980, When Men Dressed Like Men And Rave Was A New Soft Perm?
1980. Before the yuppies. Before the mobile phones. Before the ZX Spectrum. Before the Apple Mac. Before the C5 car. Before the deelyboppers...Men's fashion at Foster's, December 1980 - with Tootal and...
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Here Comes Christmas!
Memories! A Now That's What I Call Music Volume 5 cassette, £7-99 from Woollies in 1985. A snip! We were fair hornswoggled here at '80s Actual Towers to realise that Chrimbo was on yonder horizon...
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The Great BIG 1980s Pop Lyrics Quiz - Part 1!
In the 1980s, Frankie said "Relax". The pig said 'Oink'. After our lovely long break, listening to those rascally popstrels Duran Duran belting out Rio and other "legendary" 1980s pop sonnets in a...
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The Great BIG 1980s Pop Lyrics Quiz - Part 2!
The pig's back and so is '80s Actual with the second part of our totally tubular Great BIG 1980s Pop Lyrics Quiz! Can you match the gems below to the '80s pop ditties in which they featured? Go on,...
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1980-1986: The Adventure Game - Patrick Dowling And "Alice In Wonderland...
Welcome to Arg! Darong played Moira Stuart, Gandor played Christopher Leaver and Gnoard played Charmian Gradwell.Ah, what a delight! Without further ado, let's say: "Nepo emases!" Maddie Smith...
View Article1986 - "Hands Up If You Use Right Guard, Hands Down If You Don't..."
You know, here at '80s Actual, we always go the extra mile for our adoring fans (bless you both!), but a question we received in early December had us stumped:'80s were the decade of the Shake and Vac...
View ArticleHELP! Desperately Seeking 1980s "Happy Bird Day" card...
Here's a plea from me: when I turned twenty in 1985, amongst my mammoth crop of birthday cards (I was soooo popular!) was one showing a load of birds flying around or standing around on telephone...
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Great Feats Of The 1980s: Herring Juggling...
The 1980s were simply wondrous. I mean, the World Wide Web, Microsoft Windows, DNA fingerprinting, and other simply hornswoggling inventions were invented, the likes of Eddie The Eagle had us...
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The Thompson Twins
One of my favourite bands of the 1980s was the Thompson Twins. In fact, I even joined their fan club. I liked their music, which I found to be quirky and original (“I bought you sentimental roses, but...
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