Publisher's Synopsis
A comprehensive timeline of pop culture, news events, football, television and pop music from England in the 1980s. Over 300 pages (containing 5,000 headline bullet points) of memories and nostalgia for people that lived in England between 1980 and 1989. From the days of Margaret Thatcher, Trevor Francis, The Police and Raleigh Grifters, through to the times of Margaret Thatcher (still), Gazza, The Stone Roses and 18-gear mountain bikes, this book recaptures events, sights and sounds of everyday life in the 80s.
A quick run through of events, from Christmas 1979 to Christmas 1989... A pint of lager in the Red Lion costs 64p, Mrs Thatcher is at No. 10, Telex machines, ZX80 home computers, Mork & Mindy on TV, West Ham win the cup, Business Enterprise Zones, Alan Sugar, Amstrad tower hi-fi, Asteroids, Bob Paisley's Liverpool are champs, Who shot JR? Ford Escort XR3, CND, Protect and Survive, Austin Metro, John Lennon murdered, Adam and the Ants, Flash Gordon at the pictures, Hi-Di-Hi on TV, Thatcher meets Reagan, New Romantics, Two million unemployed, Street riots, Lilt, Charles and Di get married, Botham wins the Ashes, Only Fools and Horses, Don't You Want Me Baby, CB Radio, Rubik's Cube, Two point five million unemployed, Greenham Common, Erica Roe, ZX Spectrum, Pac Man, Three million unemployed, Falklands War, Bananarama, Spurs win the cup, Villa conquer Europe, Fame, Legwarmers, Three point one million unemployed, Boys from the Blackstuff, Young Guns - Go For It, Daley Thompson, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, The all new Ford Sierra, Boy George, Channel 4, Commodore 64, Breakfast TV, Sam Fox on Page 3, Kajagoogoo, Wispa chocolate bar, Pound coin, Blue Monday, Tucker's Luck, Landslide victory for Mrs. Thatcher, Um Bongo, Vauxhall Astra GTE, Blockbusters, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Acorn v Sinclair, BMX bikes, Now That's What I Call Music, Torvill and Dean, FGTH, Crafty Cockney, Break Dancing, The Miners strike, The Smiths, Joe Fagin's Liverpool are champs, Flying pickets, The enemy within, Choose Life, YTS schemes, Mario Bros, Indiana Jones, Virgin Atlantic, Brighton bomb, Vauxhall Astra MKII, Do They Know It's Christmas, Amstrad CPC 464, Trivial Pursuit, Filofaxes, Racal Vodafone, Next, Tears for Fears, Mullet hairstyles, Sinclair C5, EastEnders, Fire at Bradford City, You Spin Me Round, Max Headroom, Howard Kendall's Everton are champs, 19, Band Aid Concert, A View To A Kill, Madonna, Gary Lineker, Money For Nothing, Hole in Ozone Layer, Back to the Future, Amstrad PCW8256, Maria Whittaker on Page 3, West End Girls, Today newspaper, Dalglish's Liverpool do 'the double', Wham! split up, Jossy's Giants, The Hand of God, Privatisation, Tell Sid, Yuppies, BMW 325i, M25, House music, Don't Die of Ignorance, Dirty Den divorces Ang, Cynthia Payne, Gatting's England win the Ashes, Castlemaine XXXX, Herald of Free Enterprise sinks, Everton are champs, Coventry City win the cup, Grolsch flip top beer, Rita, Sue and Bob too, Terence Trent D'Arby, Timothy Dalton is 007, Never Gonna Give You Up, Third term for Mrs. Thatcher, Black Monday, Share prices plummet, Hilda Ogden says 'Ta-ra', Fairytale of New York, Eddie the Eagle, Red Nose Day, Simon Mayo on Radio One, Hello magazine, Crazy Gang win the cup, Loadsamoney, Acid, E's and Wizz, Scampi Fries, Rolling Rock beer, The all new Vauxhall Cavalier, Jason and Kylie, Lockerbie, Mistletoe and Wine, Del Boy falls through bar, Dirty Den shot dead, Sky TV, Frank Bruno, Nick Faldo, Hillsborough Disaster, Arsenal are champs (just!), Jive Bunny, Batman at the pictures, Terry Butcher's blood soaked head bandage, Ulrika on TV-AM, Ambulance drivers on strike, Happy Mondays, Baggy jeans, Bucket hats, Stone Roses, A pint of lager in the Red Lion costs £1.22
