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2011 ➤ Clarke and Wilder pile in for Depeche Mode’s ultimate remix album
❚ ESSEX BOYS DEPECHE MODE TODAY offer an audio stream exclusively at Facebook as a taster for the release of their newest compilation album titled Remixes 2: 81–11, through Mute Records on June 6. Both...
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➤ Crooner Bennett defers to the rootsy tigress that was Amy Winehouse
+++ ❚ IT’S PRETTY CLEAR who is the jazz singer in this much-anticipated video (above), released today. The old croaker Tony Bennett may be the last living legend in the crooner tradition, but he is...
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➤ Lux’s first official video: Morrissey meets The Monkees
+++ ❚ THE FIRST OFFICIAL VIDEO from the north London band Lux marks an impressive leap forward in musical confidence since their live debut in April. Though they call themselves an indie band, they are...
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➤ Big Tone Hadley feeling good(-ish) as his Australia tour kicks off
+++ ❚ LAST NIGHT IT WAS HOBART, TASMANIA, the first of eight dates in Australia for Tony Hadley and His Band, with John Keeble on drums and Go West sharing the bill. Facebook is awash with admiration...
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➤ Boy George gives another interview about me, me, me and la-la land
❚ SIX THINGS WE HAVE LEARNED from today’s 2,000-word interview in The Observer Magazine: 1 — George O’Dowd opens his mind the way others open their front door. Not that he answers everything – but he...
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2012 ➤ If David Jones hadn’t become Bowie what would have become of the rest...
❚ HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR BOWIE. And thanks for the boggling, inspirational, poptastic ride so far —140 million albums sold and the rules of rock rewritten. You will be the genie waiting at the end of time....
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➤ Ziggy’s 40 fabulous years of being not alone, cos you’re won-der-ful
❚ THE KING OF UK POP HITS HIS 40th ANNIVERSARY, just as HM The Queen completes her sixth decade on the throne, but we don’t imagine she planned it that way. The most famous Martian in history landed on...
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➤ Lest we forget the Falklands: this is the day the war ended
❚ TODAY WAS THE DAY 30 YEARS AGO that Britain accepted the Argentine surrender on the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, 74 days after going to war. This returned the islands to British...
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1970s ➤ Yowsa! A crackly festive vinyl top ten from Chic, James, Minnie,...
+++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ ❏ iPAD, TABLET & MOBILE USERS PLEASE NOTE — You may see only a tiny selection of items from this wide-ranging website about the 1980s, not chosen by the...
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➤ Bowie as the human equivalent of a Google search
➢ David Bowie’s role was an unlikely form of education for a teenager in thrall to the Zen-master popstar – Paul Morley recalls his influence in The Telegraph Review, March 2, 2013 “ When I was a...
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➤ College egghead out-hamlets Hamlet with mighty movie mash-up
❚ THE MOST QUOTED PLAY in the English language now becomes a YouTube mash-up. Ex-Balliol Oxford graduate Geoff Klock is an assistant prof teaching English at BMCC in New York City who set out to show...
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