Whatever happened to....

neilruns .

Ultravox were a lot of fun eh! How's this for a dynamic lyric:

"We stood still.
We all stood still.
Still stood still.
We're standing still."

That's from the classic All Stood Still. I wonder if they're still standing there?

Mike S

OMD?
I used to do school X-C runs with Andy McCluskey at Calday Grange GS. Yes - he was a runner once.....

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What about Visage?

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Oh PB looks like we were thinking the same thing!!

neilruns .

Devenir gris, as we used to say Tim.

neilruns .

Steve Strange - strange by name....etc

Mike S

...but no stranger than Limahl or Marilyn, or Divine, or.....

Guestie

Human League - Open Your Heart was the other one from "Dare"

Anyone remember a band called "The Fixx"?

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I saw Midge Ure in the last year at Chatham Central Hall, he did a Visage number or too as well and the classic Vienna from Ultravox. It was quite funny as me (and my then boyfriend) were in the upper circle at the back and looked down on everyone's grey hair or bald heads (men only), I felt positively young. (He didn't as he is balding himself, he, he.)

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That should read two not too.

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"In The Year 2525" was, I think, by Zager and Evans, though I could be wrong.

I would bring up some other 80s bands, but I'm just.... TOO SHY-SHY, HUSH-HUSH, EYE-DOO-WHY!

Ouch...

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always was more into albums:
almost blue
born in the usa
graceland
upstairs at eric's
love over gold
so

see also http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/12333/77302
and
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/80s_pop_culture/75213

Mike S

correct Mr A - first released in 1969

neilruns .

Following is a list of all the singles that reached number 1 in 1980. What a Karaoke medley they would make! I reckon I could do all of them.

Another Brick in the Wall , Pink Floyd
Brass in Pocket , Pretenders
Too Much Too Young / Guns of Navarone , Specials
Coward of the County , Kenny Rogers
Atomic , Blondie
Going Underground / Dreams of Children , The Jam
Working My Way Back to You / Forever Me Girl , Detroit Spinners
Call Me , Blondie
Geno , Dexy's Midnight Runners
What's Another Year , Johnny Logan
The Theme from MASH (Suicide is Painless) , MASH
Crying , Don McLean
Xanadu , Olivia Newton-John / ELO
Use It Up and Wear It Out , Odyssey
Winner Takes It All , ABBA
Ashes To Ashes , David Bowie
Start , The Jam
Feels Like I'm In Love , Kelly Marie
Don't Stand So Close To Me , The Police
Woman in Love , Barbara Streisand
The Tide is High , Blondie
Super Trouper , ABBA
(Just Like) Starting Over , John Lennon
There's No One Quite Like Grandma , Saint Winifred's School Choir

Mike S

best single/12 inch of 1983 - but I thought we were dealing with 1 hit wonders or characters who belonged strictly to the 80s....

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new order(blue monday)were joy division once weren't they-wasn't love will tear us apart john peel's all time fave?

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I saw Mike Peters of The Alarm doing a solo spot supporting the (wonderful) Saw Doctors a few years ago. And very good he was too.

I seem to remember seeing Mike Scott from the Waterboys (they saw the whole of the moon, don't you know) about 5 years also supporting the (still wonderful) Saw Doctors at Battersea Power Station.

Mike S

who's looking it up on a website then?

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breaking glass was phil daniels best film,i thought....

Mike S

Love Will Tear Us Apart was Ian Curtis's attempt to sing like Frank Sinatra apparently. Joy Division did many better songs than that one.

Surely not John Peel's all time favourite - thought that was "Teenage Kicks" by the Undertones.

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this thread is moving too fast to follow-each time i look up there's three new threads....