2009 till now ➤ Archive of posts at Shapersofthe80s

1983 ➤ A True romance aboard Spandau’s triumphal Thames riverboat
2023 ➤ Join me recalling the heady days of Fleet Street’s newspaper industry
2023➤ Kemp Bros keep tongues firmly in their cheeks
2023 ➤ 80,000 items of Bowie baggage find final resting place in the Olympic Park
2023 ➤ Spitting Image puppeteers steal the live stage show in Birmingham
2023 ➤ Don’t let zeros dazzle you in front of Doig’s broody paintings
2023 ➤ Fond farewells to the glorious Queen of the Telegraph fashion pages
1984 ➤ How SAW pumped up the volume during the Swinging Eighties
2023 ➤ Bowie anniversaries: One fan’s teenage love remains undimmed
➤ Hottest Shapers during 2022
2022 ➤ Reunion with Martin Creed, the artist who might yet make me rich
➤ Captured in 1983: the Westwood-McLaren showdown
2022 ➤ Farewell Terry Hall, chronicler of social unrest in the Eighties
2022 ➤ Snatch your own Rondo moment at Sullivan’s solo show
➤ Rusty Egan: next stop, St Leonards-on-Sea?
2022 ➤ Martin Kemp on a life full of love but lacking two vital apologies
2022 ➤ Rock god Frampton comes home to make his final farewells
2022 ➤ After the op, Judi Frankland gets her boxing gloves on
2022 ➤ Steve Norman relives Spandau’s Glory days
2022 ➤ Out of chaos comes forth Grace Jones
2022 ➤ Spandau seek your help to create a major new showcase
1982 ➤ When fans first screamed for Spandau and two climbed up to their window
1982 ➤ Strange takes UK clubbing mainstream
2022 ➤ New Romantics? Here are some who won’t own to that name
2021 ➤ So what’s the Bowie premium as Judi’s Ashes hat goes for sale?
1966 ➤ The interview that made John Lennon US public enemy number one
2021 ➤ Steve Norman returns with The Sleevz and a surprise royal send-off!
2021 ➤ The man called Seven offers his skills to the next generation of music students
2021 ➤ New photos to rekindle the spirit of Brummie icons Kahn and Bell
2021 ➤ Who can identify the face in this Bowie painting up for auction next week?
2021 ➤ Spandau’s Gary Kemp goes solo with a love song for the Radio 2 audience
➤ Duran reveal secrets behind their songs
2021 ➤ Robbie Vincent wins Sunday radio slot!
2011 ➤ Relive Duran’s 30th-anniversary comeback with All You Need Is Now
1983 ➤ Who’d be a spy while the 80s were swinging?
2001 ➤ Blitz Kids nail the rites for a Tuesday night out
➤ Fond farewells to Joe Allen who revolutionised London’s restaurant scene
1980 ➤ When Duran Duran put Brummie Romantics on the map
2021 ➢ Famous last words from Frau Blücher and Nurse Diesel
➤ It’s A Sin reviewed: “Supporting the sadness there is an abundance of humour”
2021 ➤ Olly Alexander fronts new C4 drama series exploring Aids in the Eighties
2020 ➤ Premiering tonight: Spandau’s Parade tour from the Swinging 80s
2020 ➤ Farewell Daniella, the girl who inspired Ziggy’s fiery hair
2020 ➤ Sade’s 20 songs that ensure she remains a 21st-century star
➤ The day Harry Evans answered his interview question for me
2020 ➤ Saatchi hosts those Gen Z degree shows you missed
1980 ➤ Life on Mars as you’ve never heard Bowie before!
➤ Farewell Kansai the fashion genius who breathed the same colours as Bowie
1991 ➤ Supercool video found of Bowie duetting with Morrissey
2020 ➤ Yes, Midge Ure has Fleetwood Mac to thank for his landmark hit Vienna
2020 ➤ UK Madheads re-invent the Madness hit Our House
2020 ➤ Star drummers salute Ringo Starr in an ear-opening demonstration of his gifts
2020 ➤ Vocalist Hadley hammers final nail into the coffin of Spandau Ballet
2020 ➤ Gaz still rockin’ those blues a lifetime later
1980 ➤ Why Bowie came recruiting Blitz Kids for his Ashes to Ashes video
2020 ➤ Singer Ross reveals how Spandau drove him to try ending it all
➤ Why every Stephen Jones hat casts its own magic spell
1979 ➤ Ethereal Bowie sets the bar for one of his inadvertent hits
➤ Sullivan & Elms relive their clubland double act
2020 ➤ Sheeran and Radcliffe bag the big bucks in Sunday Times Rich List
2020 ➤ Steve Dagger recalls Spandau Ballet’s fifth gig and why it detonated their lift-off
2020 ➤ And now Bowie pays the ultimate tribute to Little Richard
2020 ➤ Bowie on Kraftwerk and his tribute to Florian Schneider
2020 ➤ Beyond: Learning how to be black and gay and blaze a trail to the future
1980 ➤ 40 years of musical freedom thanks to what we Brits enjoyed calling the Sony Stowaway
2020 ➤ Knife-edge TV doc shows Kemp tongues firmly in their cheeks
2020 ➤ Steve Norman takes up noodlin’ while Staying At Home… ditto Nick Heyward
2020 ➤ Hockney’s drawings lay bare the artist’s soul in the shifting sands of time
2020 ➤ “Every hat is opening night” – Stephen Jones 40 years on
➤ Stoppard’s superlative new play is a tearjerker echoing his own roots
➤ Thanks, Steve, for my invitation to the Swinging 80s
➤ Starman given new life by David McAlmont in concert
➤ Second time unlucky as fire ravages former Camden Palace nightspot
➤ Singer Tony Hadley wins royal gong for his services to charity
➤ Andy Polaris loads up his own fantabulous Yuletide jukebox
2019 ➤ Scott Walker: a singular figure in art and ideas
1979 ➤ Spandau’s manager Steve Dagger tells of two offers to sign his band at their debut
35 years since Band Aid’s monster Christmas single and the 80s ceased to swing
2019 ➤ The Boulevard rises from the ashes of the Raymond Revuebar
2019 ➤ Ever wondered how Rusty Egan does what he does?
2019 ➤ Mr and Mrs Kemp get into the swing together on disc
➤ A double act is born – Sulls & Elms, take a bow!
➤ After his Spandau ordeal, singer Ross shakes off the blues
➤ How Nile Rodgers “rearranged” Bowie’s Let’s Dance into a stonking hit single
➤ The makings of Scarlett, a perfect muse for the Eighties
➤ Ross Wild retunes to Gatsby’s Roaring Twenties
➤ New from Prince: Holly Rock single and video, plus album of demos
➤ Those ‘things’ Blade Runner’s Hauer had seen…
➤ Duran rock NASA’s Rocket Garden, feet firmly on Planet Earth
2019 ➤ Lawrie’s Eleven talk candidly of being young black and gay in ways many of us never knew
2019 ➤ The nerve of Neil Matthews! Offering bunny ears to those oh-so cool Eighties pop stars
➤ Ross leaps out of the Ballet into the cauldron of grunge
2019 ➤ This would have been Steve Strange’s 60th birthday
2019 ➤ Another Spandau bombshell – Kemp Brothers drive out Ross their ‘perfect’ new singer
➤ Sullivan’s manifesto for the Rebel Rebel life
2019 ➤ For three nights only, Ziggy’s stylist Freddie stars in his own musical
1967 ➤ Secret of how Scott Walker achieved a new adult voice as he went solo
➤ Elms the storyteller on why some stories are ‘too good to check’
2019 ➤ Spandau vocalist Ross rocks fans by announcing his own new band Mercutio
2019 ➤ George Michael’s art for sale: funky, X-rated and naughty as you’d expect
2019 ➤ Sounds of the 70s still cool in the heart of Soho
➤ A personal tale about the genius staring out from a painting expected to sell for £30m tonight
➤ My own Rondo moment immortalised by Sullivan, the grand Wag of Soho
➤ Bowie TV trilogy triumphs thanks to candour and a few tears
➤ Thanks, Steve, for my invitation to the Swinging 80s
➤ Four years on: How the Blitz Kids paid magnificent tribute to Steve Strange
➤ Topical issues enliven Leave to Remain, an innovative stage musical about gay romance
➤ Sullivan the wag changes hats at the touch of his paintbrush
➤ Magical glimpses into the unreal world of pop photographer Peter Ashworth
➤ Take two minutes to raise your spirits with this busking sax player
➤ Truly a once in a lifetime evening of pure joy with David Byrne
➤ Hadley v Spandau: Whose superb band is paying tribute to the other?
➤ How one fan came 11,000 miles for those Spandau smiles
➤ Milan says Ciao to snazzy Ross now fronting the flash dads of Spandau Ballet
2018 ➤ Big Tone live still raising the hairs on your neck
➤ 45 years of soothing egos and arresting our attention by portraitist Ridgers
➤ Silver fox Martin Kemp gives Piers Morgan a huggy hug for heaping on the flattery
2018 ➤ At the seaside Blitz Kids gather to toast unseen photos of their heyday
2018 ➤ Dad band Spandau preen with pride for Ross their newly adopted son
2018 ➤ Revealed: The secret role of Shapersofthe80s in the rise and rise of Spandau Ballet
2018 ➤ The Spandau show must go on and Oh, the Wild voice! Oh, the Wild biceps!
2018 ➤ That Spandau comeback: breaking news about the venue
➤ Still more unseen pix from the 1980 Blitz Club up for sale next week
➤ Mix and match 70s retro clothes go up at eBay
➤ Meanwhile, a big treat for fans of Tony Hadley
2018 ➤ First glimpse of the Spandau new boy
1980 ➤ Day Four of Terry Smith’s unseen photos inside the Blitz Club – exclusive
➤ A happy Norman family outing on the eve of some big Spandau news
➤ Whither Spandau? Expect a bombshell today!
➤ Day Three of Terry Smith’s unseen photos inside the Blitz Club – exclusive
1968 ➤ Why Ogdens was little Stevie Marriott’s ejector seat out of the Small Faces
➤ Day Two of Terry Smith’s unseen photos inside the Blitz Club, exclusively at Shapers of the 80s
1980 ➤ Unseen photos inside the Blitz Club, exclusively at Shapers of the 80s
➤ V&A celebrates Steve Strange as the poser who put the pazazz into 80s nightlife
➤ Zayn falls behind as UK popsters grow richer
➤ Glimpses into the minds of Bowie and his photographer
2018 ➤ Vogue promotes pot-stirring Linard as inspiration for its Met Gala creatives
2018 ➤ Spooky or what? When two bands went by the name of Spandau Ballet
➤ Nutty scientist finds himself out of his depth in the shallows of pop
2018 ➤ Judy Blame dies: cherry-picker of cultural detritus
➤ Modern pop: godlike Quincy Jones tells it like it is
➤ A big red hand please for this tiny rare fish!
2018 ➤ Peel on Smith and The Fall: the band by which all others must be judged
2018 ➤ Bayeux Tapestry to be displayed in UK for the first time
➤ Maxine and Marr: heard the deeply serious tale about the actress and the rock star?
2017 ➤ “It may be false, It may be true” – The life and times of Christine Keeler
1983 ➤ When The Face led the cultural agenda
2017 ➤ His name is Prince and his London tribute is downright spunky
➤ Double drama of the 60s pop dream by Ray Connolly
➤ Celebs turn out for ‘Scoop’ Simper’s pop pantry party
2017 ➤ Nightlife’s Polaris comes out as fan of the hot girl bands of the 70s
2017 ➤ Touring USA Tony Hadley admits his flabber has never been so gasted
2017 ➤ My pantry, my memoir – ‘Scoop’ Simper relives the flamboyant decadent 80s
2017 ➤ So who can fill Tony Hadley’s big Ballet shoes?
2017 ➤ Tony Hadley pulls the plug on Spandau Ballet – but the band will rise from the dead
➤ When the Blitz Kids blessed Abba and conferred their cult status
➤ Princess Julia: More tales from 80s clubland
➤ How Bowie threaded blue notes through his final surge of creativity
➤ The Kemp quartet: a happy family George Michael helped to create
➤ Thank you, George, says Paul Simper. You left me wanting to dance like you
➤ Farewell George Michael: London’s young guns remember their pal from 80s clubland
2016 ➤ Britain stunned by sudden death of George Michael, our biggest pop superstar of the 80s
➤ Ex-Blitz Kid Rusty Egan and friends dress 80s electro-pop in brilliant new clothes
➤ London Design Museum’s new home is a wow!
➤ Escape to the Nightlifers’ Shangri-la just in time for Christmas
➤ Sotheby’s first David Bowie art auction raises twice the expected total sales figure
➤ Bowie’s taste in art: respectable, with bargains to be had at Sotheby’s auction
2016 ➤ Britain’s first robot Eric comes back to life
➤ A chapter of Bowie’s musical legacy best forgotten
2016 ➤ On film: two electrifying hours of The Beatles as they’ve never been seen and heard
2016 ➤ Bowie’s passionate eye for art proves to be not bad at all
➤ 40 years on, Ridgers casts an honest spotlight on the birth of punk
2016 ➤ Bid for your own rare photo of David Bowie
2016 ➤ Telling it like it is, Mister Nightlife aka Swindells Junior
2016 ➤ Prince Rogers Nelson: his raunchy earliest videos and his last
2016 ➤ Van Jones reveals Prince’s humanitarian activities to CNN
1958–2016 ➤ Prince RIP: ‘A funny cat’ and ‘sole authentic genius’ of the 1980s
➤ Remembering Steve Strange: Today’s tweet from Midge Ure
➤ A sensational portrait of Bowie as the man who shaped our responses to an age of shattered dreams
➤ Come on, Davie Jones – it’s time you cheered us all up
Bowie: “He collapsed” at his last public appearance
➤ “I’m not a rock star” Bowie often said – No, David, you were a messiah
➤ David Bowie 8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016
➤ Now David Bowie’s landlady tells her story of the lodger from Mars
2016 ➤ Shakespeare announces tour dates for US comeback
➤ Steve Strange remembered by Martin Kemp
➤ “How it should be” bombshell from Hadley to Spandau
➤ Thanks to Neil McCormick for the only Bowie Blackstar review we need to read
➤ Lovey-dovey Shia LaBeouf says: Ring me today and touch my soul
➤ Who’s that man in the black jumper and spectacles? Wowie, it’s Bowie
➤ Burretti movie adds an epic and essential chapter to the Bowie story
➤ Spicy new survey from Derek Ridgers celebrates the wild hours between dusk and sunrise
2015 ➤ Weird and wonderful new Bowie – his Blackstar man is set to blow our minds
➤ 75 Ballet gigs later, Gary Kemp tackles serious theatre but denounces its obsession with class
1980s ➤ The Ridgers lens lays bare the pursuit of love
➤ “Just a Friday night at a rock show,” by a survivor
2015 ➤ Another three days inside the head of Shia LaBeouf
1982 ➤ Discovered: Lost footage of PX and Steve Strange in drag
➤ Princess Julia relives the day when 1980 went Boom!
2015 ➤ All in one room – more Blitz Kids than you could shake a New Romantic frill at
2015 ➤ Hot revelations from the Flexipop book party
2015 ➤ Brace positions! Flexipop aims to drag us all back in time
2015 ➤ Pitch now to make a video for Duran’s slinky come-back party single
Spandau 2010 ➤ Normski says Hola! to Barcelona
2015 ➤ Seven’s easy stages: from jelly parties to saviour of the rock scene
➤ A dance sensation: Baryshnikov meets Lil Buck to music by Venetian Snares
A Strangely Steve farewell: the funeral video, 2015
➤ Today’s pix from Steve Strange’s funeral
➤ Steve Strange’s family ask fans to respect his funeral service
2015 ➤ Blow me! Talking Heads’ David Byrne to curate Meltdown Festival
2015 ➤ TV doc pits Boy George versus the rest in Culture Club reunion
➤ Fashionista Webb plays Sherlock to shed light on the mysteries of a smart invitation
➤ Steve Strange talkative as ever in his last interview
2015 ➤ Original Blitz Kids say farewell to Steve Strange, their host, pivot, style icon, friend
➤ Steve Strange: deciphering the pen portraits of the man of masks
➤ Steve Strange RIP: the great provocateur who led from the front and inspired a generation
➤ Return to the Blitz 2011 – London Tonight reports
➤ Nowt so Strange as Stephen John Harrington
➤ Kerpow! Splat! Remix wizard Rusty unleashes all barrels on the music industry slackers
➤ A Duranie showers praise on Spandau’s Soul Boys gig in Los Angeles
2015 ➤ So no pressure then, as Spandau’s world tour kicks off
➤ Spandau fan Jan says Yes that’s me shinning up the drainpipe in 1982
How James Brown revolutionised music and became the voice for Black America
1980–2014 ➤ Ten inspirational reminders from the 80s to stir today’s young to action
2014 ➤ Who’s Hot and Not in Popjustice annual music awards
➤ It may be winter outside but here’s a feast of girl groups who put spring in our hearts
➤ Wise words for Only The Young from PJ (he’s The Daddy)
1983 ➤ Video gem unearthed from the Blue Rondo vaults
➤ Celebrating Midge Ure: the big-hearted old poser behind Band Aid
➤ How Marilyn lost a million and ended up on benefits
➤ Forsooth, Master Bowie, what art thou banging on about?
2014 ➤ Harry Styles signs up for Band Aid 30
➤ Is the sun setting on Westwood’s Worlds End?
2014 ➤ Spandau Ballet’s world tour reunion updates
➤ Catch up on New Romantic landmarks reported here at Shapers of the 80s
➤ Soul Boys Spandau rise like a phoenix from the flames of their film premiere
1982 ➤ “Who?!” Peter Capaldi’s first interview (probably) as a green young stand-up
➤ After Anna’s drenching, Gaultier leads the world’s fashionistas for more ice-bucket madness
1929–2014 ➤ Bacall slouched, she simmered and she gave as good as she got
1978–87 ➤ British nightlife snapped by Ridgers as it came out of the closet
This week: Culture Club’s first live show in 15 years
2009 till now ➤ Archive of posts at Shapersofthe80s
2013 ➤ Bobby Womack’s last interview with Old School Robbie
ss2015 ➤ Yohji upstages the world with wild impudent vagabond princes
➤ Rik Mayall, fireball of comic energy, is dead
➤ Glasgow art school fire appeal launched by Edinburgh College of Art
➤ The non-Bowie tribute super-duper group Holy Holy to stage The Man Who Sold The World
➤ Fearsome Louise, head of fashion at St Martin’s, dies suddenly
➤ 40 years on from Abba, Austria fields a bearded drag artist for Eurovision
➤ Fab Abba, a far cry from the days of Ward-ahloo
➤ Launching tomorrow, Soho’s new radio station gives Sullivan the wag a place in its shop window
➤ Mad man dies after skewering the American Dream and bequeathing us Alfred E Neuman
➤ Martin Kemp’s new hooligan movie all a bit too Lock-Stock for us!
➤ Another emotional gem on Spandau’s long walk to freedom
➤ Calling fashionistas for their tales of Spandau Ballet in the New Romantic 80s
➤ Gaultier celebration trumps all else in London this summer
1955–2014 ➤ Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of House Music, is gone
2014 ➤ At last, Kemp reveals Spandau to tour UK and US in the fall – and tomorrow The World!
2014 ➤ Curtain up on Spandau’s rollercoaster saga of war and peace
➤ Rock god Lovatt exits TV talent show with charisma intact
➤ Life inside the head of Big Frank and Little Frank will make you weep
➤ Warts-and-all revelations now that Spandau want the truth to be known
2014 ➤ Tweets that tell the tale of Spandau Ballet’s road to Redemption
➤ The Voice’s rock god Lovatt surprises Britain and shocks himself
➤ Spandau confirms one-off live reunion gig in Texas – for a tiny elite!
➤ Blue Rondo’s fat has been a long time a-chewing but May is now the month
➤ Happy 92nd to suave Avenger Patrick Macnee
➤ Prince live in London puts the afro back in fashion!
2014 ➤ Video gems unearthed by the Spandau Ballet biopic premiering at SXSW
2014 ➤ Reunion in the air for Culture Club – again
2014 ➤ Spandau together again as their ‘surprise’ movie is slated for Texas premiere
➤ Thief duo take a trip into the 90s
➤ Double whammy for cabaret comeback Eve
➤ Mr Porter asks the expert about: bomber jackets
➤ Toasting the Blitz Kid dynamos who have driven the success of Shapers of the 80s
➤ Essential pop-cultural landmarks reported here at Shapers of the 80s
➤ Beeb turns Nightlife Andy into Dalston superstar
➤ The curious high-pressure timeline of Tom Daley’s coming out
➤ Vincent the master of hot cuts denied a farewell by Jazz FM
1963 ➤ With The Beatles the day Kennedy was shot
➤ Deejay Sullivan declares war on the “Wayne and Shirley” jazz-funkers
2013 ➤ Gary Kemp’s video message for posterity on TV this Saturday
2013 ➤ Canvey Gold Miners polish up their dancing shoes
➤ RIP Lou Reed… Today we lost another legend
2013 ➤ There goes the great British summer
➤ George still in denial over a deed that ‘almost didn’t happen’
➤ Dress UP while Sullivan selects sounds from the 80s at the V&A’s Friday Late
30 years ago ➤ The day Vivienne and Malcolm realised the end was nigh
2013 ➤ Paris RTW throws up pure anarchy from London in the 80s
➤ Martin Kemp discreet about his moist moment with Piers Morgan
➤ Who is the foot-stampiest nation of them all?
➤ Vivienne brings Cool Britannia to Last Night of the Proms
➤ How black British music brought a nation to its dancing feet
➤ No flash, no mob, as Occupy Bowie proves a damp squib
➤ Normski sweats it out in Ibiza wishing for a nice cold shower
➤ Bowie blockbuster goes abroad after 20 weeks wowing London
1982 ➤ How Spandau put Capaldi on the road to play the new Doctor Who
1959 ➤ When beans defined bohos and cappuccino tasted of coffee
➤ The original Wag sets the scene for Club to Catwalk at the V&A
1983 ➤ A turning point in David Hockney’s vision of the world
➤ Babyboomers at war with their kids: sad fact of recession or generational theft?
➤ Bowie ’n’ Lexi papped taking Serenissima taxi
➤ Book now for the Bowie finale – if you can
1980 ➤ Club to Catwalk: when fashion became an arena for all the arts
➤ Gary Kemp and Tony Hadley in two-man Spandau reunion
➤ Book domino chain sets new world record
➤ Big Sue meets herself and Freud in miniature
➤ Another eyeopener from always-there Ridgers
➤ ‘Duck and cover’ translates as ‘Vanish and dazzle’ for 21st-century security
➤ The day the Royal We photobombed the Beeb
2013 ➤ Buzzing, bonkers and bold – the CSM degree show in pictures
➤ Teens as masters of the glottal fricative
➤ The Rite that caused a riot: shocking in 1913, thrilling still
➤ The Norman-Egan squad blitzes sunny Ibiza
➤ 2013 Westminster’s BA fashion on the runway
➤ Farewell Trevor the mutton-chopped Spider from Mars
➤ Revealed! The crucial Bowie diary date: May 25
➤ Webb’s flipside of the 80s fashion revolution as seen last night at the ICA
➤ Rusty and Steve raise a storm on the Croisette
➤ You can eat your hat, if you’re Stephen Jones
➤ College egghead out-hamlets Hamlet with mighty movie mash-up
➤ Magic! A million views up for Commander Chris sitting in his tin can singing Bowie
1666 ➤ Pepys reveals a courtly fashion in the ashes of the Great Fire of London
➤ Reborn Alison Moyet lets herself off the mainstream leash
➤ Material Girl Madonna pops up in LA
➤ 20 years ago today the free world wide web was born
1983 ➤ A True romance aboard Spandau’s triumphal Thames riverboat
➤ Synthpop cabaret from a right romantic pair of poseurs
➤ Playlists to keep us foot-tapping into May
➤ 14,000 words on Bowie’s album – responding to Bowie’s own 42 words telling what it’s all about
2013 ➤ A ‘blistering’ picture hoard from punk’s formative years
➤ Visage: out of the 80s frying pan into the 21st-century fire
➤ Shock horror, popstar Jarvis takes public transport
➤ Farewell QWERTY as KALQ keyboard brings speedier thumbing to the touchscreen generation
➤ Linard’s twist on classic Levi – add the kitchen sink
2013 ➤ Double whammy from the Spandau boys
➤ Pereno’s tale: Life as a car crash
➤ Glenda Jackson silences Tories in Commons tirade against Thatcher
➤ Searching for that last kiss  on the third anniversary of McLaren’s death
2013 ➤ RIP Milo O’Shea: to some Leopold Bloom, to us Durand Durand
➤ Fin Munro plunges into love and takes a walk on the wild side
2013 ➤ Remembering why Mick Ronson’s talent deserves to be celebrated
➤ Bowie at V&A: more than a rock star, Bowie reveals the process of art and design
➤ Who better than PJ to take Timberbloke to task for his new Mirrors video?
2013 ➤ Bowie is Go! Tasters for this week’s record-breaking V&A exhibition
2013 ➤ Duran’s Rhodes exhumes a 90s art-rock project that anticipated the downside of the internet
➤ Bowie as the human equivalent of a Google search
➤ 26 million hits for 1D’s music movie 4RND
2013 ➤ Bowie’s psychodrama The Stars mocks the rockiness of godliness
➤ Mixes of the moment, Feb into March
➤ Bowie’s first album for a decade is beautiful, obsessive and deliciously cruel
➤ Sussex hosts its first boutique green-field jazz festival
➤ German director invites you to join him in Lee Scratch Perry’s paradise
➤ A rave for Alison Moyet’s comeback single – ‘my happiest studio experience’
➤ A glamorous date with Margot Fonteyn and a feast of fabulous frocks
➤ The world asks, Who is Boy George these days? And he answers
2013 ➤ Want to know the future of nearly everything? Vice magazine has the answers
➤ A couple of slaps in the Visage
➤ Fassbender is the new man inside Big Frank’s papier-mâché head
➤ Webb lays bare the subversive story of British fashion in the 80s
➤ Stomping like the 70s but with Nutter style
➤ The Bowiesconti proxy has spoken: only second-hand interviews from here to eternity
➤ Riddle of the train Bowie could not have taken in Where Are We Now?
2013 ➤ Shock and awe verdicts on Bowie’s born-again masterpiece
➤ A quick treat for Big Bang fans (but probably not for real Trekkies)
➤ Tyler ‘Timbalike’ simmers from the heart but who can light his fire?
➤ Enter the Hipster Quiz and lose your Facebook friends
➤ Barcelona celebrates Adriá, magician of edible art, and a totally useless machine
2012 ➤ Why Brains, Parker and Lady P stayed cults long after Thunderbirds had Gone!
➤ Do they know? How modest Midge wrote the biggest selling pop single of his generation
1970s ➤ Yowsa! A crackly festive vinyl top ten from Chic, James, Minnie, Funkadelic and friends
➤ Smash Hits and other mould-breakers of the 80s
2012 ➤ Gongs for newbies and oldies creating the UK’s new golden age of TV comedy
➤ RIP Patrick Moore: the last great Englishman, astronomer and xylophonist with a monocle
➤ A pregnant silence over Bryan Ferry’s next tour
2012 ➤ A brighter Bluer Rondo for the 20-tweens
➤ Swagger on up the Junction for Dalston’s Vintage Designer Sale
➤ David Frost salutes TW3, the TV show that pioneered satire 50 years ago tonight
2012 ➤ Soho’s nightowls revisit the club that sifted the Artex monkeys from Bowie’s Heroes
➤ Another knees-up while Amazon discounts We Can Be Heroes second edition
➤ K West sign ‘possibly’ for sale in Bowie memorabilia show
2012 ➤ Shapersofthe80s clocks up half a million page views
➤ The most ferocious Today grilling despatches the Beeb’s top cat
2013 ➤ From Essex, Depeche Mode announce: Tomorrow the World
2012 ➤ Style.com nods to Sade Adu’s fashion legacy
➤ £41 buys no diploma in Bowie-ana but you will be ready to compete on Mastermind
2012 ➤ Will the newly restored Magical Mystery Tour rewrite our view of the Beatles?
➤ Prof Brian Cox riotiously funny at stand-up debut, just in case the TV career doesn’t work out
➤ Ain’t no stoppin’ Chris Sullivan as hashtag_coolest_DJ_in_town
2012 ➤ Pet Shop Boys show today’s pop pretenders the view from atop Mount Olympus
2012 ➤ How Duran’s Nigel John Taylor could have been happy in a shoegazer band
➤ No humble pie for Olympian god Martin Kemp as Big Brother boots him out
➤ Big Brother mystery: whose hand is behind Lorenzo’s showstopping gold lamé outfit?
2013 ➤ Bowie officially not “devastated” as fab retrospective show goes ahead at the V&A
➤ Hold your breath! 50 glowing quadrocopters set world record for flying in formation
➤ Shock, horror! Martin Kemp teeters on the brink of eviction from Big Brother house
2012 ➤ Blue Rondo breathe fresh life into Mr Sanchez a whole aeon later
2012 ➤ Hahahahaha — the funniest pay-off in 50 years: “Doctor…WHO?” Hahahaha
1988 ➤ Nights out when Jennifer Saunders learned to fall like a Nana
➤ What’s what at Fashion’s Night Out next Thursday
➤ Big Brother turns Martin Kemp’s son Roman into a shooting star
➤ “Nice” Martin Kemp promises to make trouble on CBB but is upstaged by Bet Lynch — twice
2012 ➤ A stream of audio Gold on Absolute Radio’s Spandathon
➤ Dylan’s journey from A Tribe Called Quest to the last word on Zappa
2012 ➤ Fashionistas Jones and Webb lay on Teesdale treat
1938–2012 ➤ Robert Hughes: the greatest art critic of our time
2012 ➤ Grace Jones celebrates the day she met the Queen, two months on
2012 ➤ Come on, Tone! Only another 142 chart places until musical Gold!
➤ Godlike Bowie proves mortal by hailing cab in NYC — but colour coordination flawless
2012 ➤ Ding-dong! Martin Creed wants to hear the bells, the bells
➤ When crisis looms, send for the Bard and a little touch of Harry in the night
2012 ➤ Royal Ascot: top-to-toe dress code for a quintessentially British day out
➤ If it’s June 16, it’s Bloomsday in Dublin, again
➤ Lest we forget the Falklands: this is the day the war ended
➤ 40 years of Ziggy + another feast of Bowie
➤ Six rewrites punk history with an outlandish claim about the Not-Really-From-Bromley Contingent
2012 ➤ This happy breed of Brits: keeping kings and queens in line and knowing how to throw a party
➤ Fresh pix from the “14 months” of punk and the last word on what it all meant
➤ Ziggy’s 40 fabulous years of being not alone, cos you’re won-der-ful
➤ Edison’s wax cylinder throws beatboxer Singh back to the age of acoustic recording
2012 ➤ Central Saint Martins fashionistas graduate with street vibes, fantasy and outlandish colours
2012 ➤ Boogie on down, Your Maj, with three British maestros of the club mix
2012 ➤ S’Express adds pizzazz to an alternative Pageant playlist for HM The Queen
➤ Sir Harold’s memories of Fleet Street: cut and thrust, or be cut dead
2012 ➤ “Very doubtful” — Tony Hadley on the future of Spandau
➤ The day Gary Kemp reduced hard-nosed Guardianistas to tears
➤ Will Hawking give Sheldon the funniest bang since the Big One?
1928–2012 ➤ Sassoon’s revolution: No teasing. No hair spray. Just the cut.
➤ Sukita-san’s eye view of the weird world according to Bowie
➤ Shapersofthe80s is declared an “invaluable website” by British historian
2012 ➤ Welcome JLS to the pop millionaires club
2012 ➤ How guitar wizard Bert taught two million young Brits to “play in a day”
2012 ➤ East London hipsters: leave your mark on Dazed’s instant history map
1912–2012 ➤ My pal Tucker’s Titanic moment and the truth about the “Unsinkable” Molly Brown
➤ Lest we forget the 907 Falklands dead and the 1,965 injured
➤ Trimphone aside, can you spot the designs that changed the look of Britain over 60 years?
➤ Proustian frissons aplenty as Derek Ridgers’ photographs revisit three decades
➤ Uh-oh! Vice lifts the lid on the untold dramality of Dalston Superstars
2012 ➤ Hockney paints Hawking — watch a glittering new portrait emerge as a movie
2012 ➤ A change of life for Gary Kemp: actor, popstar, biker, curator
2012 ➤ All about reclusive Sade, the singer who trumps Adele in US list of top earners
➤ That Boy George bio-drama gets a repeat — take it all with a large pinch of salt!
➤ Dan Stern keeps an eye on the street in London Fashion Week
1972 ➤ Berger’s Ways of Seeing revolutionised the way we view art and is still an eye-opener today
2012 ➤ Video celebrating Blur’s reunion at the Brit Awards
2012 ➤ Adam Ant: sex, subversion, style, humour but don’t nobble me as a New Romantic
➤ Duran drummer Taylor turns his eye to art
2012 ➤ When Kate the duchess met Lucian Freud’s “most famous sitter” Sue
➤ Super Bowl’s gilded Madonna deconstructed as Babylonian goddess and emblem of illuminati
➤ OMG! George and Fadi trigger what the Telegraph calls a “marmalade-dropper” over breakfast
➤ Smile please, Derek — you’re one of the Sunday Times Mag’s 60 ace snappers in its birthday show
2012 ➤ February News Splurge at Shapersofthe80s
➤ Dazed and i-D hipsters go head to head: cool sounds versus even cooler!
➤ Quietly, quietly, lensman Ridgers talks about capturing life in the margins
2012 ➤ Can this be the year Pulp and Jarvis start delivering classic reissues?
SS12 ➤ Season of the “Anna Wintour Look”
1938–2012 ➤ Blues icon Etta James dies after influencing everyone from Janis Joplin to Beyoncé
➤ Rolling Stone puts Ziggy on its cover but has nothing new to say about ‘How Bowie changed the world’
2012 ➤ Hockney tops bigger paintings than ever with hi-tech moving photo-collages
➤ Spare a thought for the Sad Apostrophe who’s putting on a brave face at Twitter
➤ DJ Mark Moore’s 40 tracks and 8 albums from the old year
2012 ➤ If David Jones hadn’t become Bowie what would have become of the rest of us?
➤ Johnny Marr takes his own personal flight to the moon — on his new Fender
2011 ➤ Downloads explosion plus new definition of singles results in biggest sales for years
2012 ➤ Moss misses Culture Club’s new dawn in Australia
➤ Crack open the Bolly: Ab Fab puts BodyMap back on the map
➤ Record numbers visit Shapersofthe80s for the best Blitz Kid photos and eye-witness memories
2011 ➤ Other picky people’s year-ending Best Ofs in music of all styles
2011 ➤ Picky people’s year-ending Best Ofs from fashion, TV, web and film
1970 ➤ Hey Rudolph! It’s The Temptations, starring James Jamerson
➤ Robbie Vincent: 35 years as master of hot cuts and getting our “rhythm buds” going
➤ Smith & Sullivan sign off We Can Be Heroes with a sigh
➤ Festive greetings to the newest most northerly reader of Shapersofthe80s
➤ Dalston Superstars get down with a Poundland People’s Christmas feast
2011 ➤ I danced in Bowie’s Jean Genie video but have never seen it, says his friend Wendy
➤ Dress (and undress) your own paper Bowie or Gaga
➤ Bowie’s “lost” Jean Genie from 1973 to be aired on Top of the Pops this week
➤ Steve Norman vidz one minute of magic by London blues buskers
➤ Taste Masters throw another party to show Cowell there’s real music up North
➤ Schama gives us a taste of the ambassador’s life
➤ Dalston Superstars pit Shoreditch irony against beanie brigade realness
➤ Postmodern Coupland is painting coded messages for Generation A
2011 ➤ Party of the year recreates the Swinging 80s at the legendary Beat Route (down, down past the Talk of the Town)
➤ The true story of how love helped Gary Kemp write the next line
1980 ➤ Why Face founder Nick Logan said: Publish and be Dammers
2011 ➤ The Hadley bombshell no Spandau Ballet fan will welcome
➤ Boy George gives another interview about me, me, me and la-la land
➤ Nathan Barley walks again in Vice’s video serial Dalston Superstars
➤ Le Bon takes wing during Duran’s return to Brighton
➤ UK spymasters set puzzle to recruit the web-savvy — without breaking the law
➤ Daily Mail shock as Palace admits the Ferry gang to see dad accept his CBE
➤ Join Rusty Egan & Steve Norman for music and a pint to help the kids at GOSH
➤ Ten killer videos to celebrate Duran’s live return to unfinished business in the UK
➤ Katy’s Firework finally falls to earth but the gay kiss will live happily ever after
1965 ➤ Teenage Bowie flashes priceless smile to an amateur cine camera
2012 ➤ Diamond Dogs snarl denial over Bowie / Heroes The Musical
1984 ➤ Band Aid: The smash hit that earned 47 artists three platinum discs each
➤ Spandau’s Gold enlisted to sell chocolate and boost the Olympic spirit
2012 ➤ Boy George reunites with Culture Club for New Year’s Eve — and a new album
➤ Student verdicts on the new Central Saint Martins, contrasted with LCC’s sad home
➤ Step up Dr Nick Rhodes, honorary scholar at Luton in Beds
2011 ➤ Wham!’s cunning plan for a Christmas No1 as climax to the 80s revival
➤ Robert Pereno: My road to recovery in the recession
1972–2009 ➤ Andrew Logan’s glistening vision of Planet Earth and all its creatures
2011 ➤ Peter Frampton: how Bowie changed my life at Bromley Tech
1980 ➤ Ribald tales of excess as the kids from The Blitz took over West End clubbing
➤ No panic at Duran HQ — when you want glamour, glitz and shiny just outsource your video
➤ Toyah’s odyssey from Viennese Woods to Wicked Queen
➤ Vision On, Sound On: 75 years since BBC TV beamed out ‘a mighty maze of mystic, magic rays’
➤ On iPads, mobiles and tablets, you’re not even seeing half the story
2011 ➤ Stand and deliver: Adam Ant versus Marco in a battle of bands
➤ Meet Smith & Sullivan, the wags behind the story of the heroic 80s
➤ Tut-tut, Your Maj, that Aussie tram ride was a missed music video opportunity
2011 ➤ Pay now — so We Can Be Heroes goes ahead!
2011 ➤ Duran Duran are the Wild Boys of Madison Square Garden
➤ The Bowie factor at the Blitz: glamour, drama and collage couture
➤ Happy golden anniversary to Lord Gnome, Glenda Slagg, Topes, O’Booze, Knacker, Knee and especially Gnome-Mart’s theme tune
2011 ➤ Oo-er, Metamodernists say: Go forth and oscillate
➤ Big Tone Hadley feeling good(-ish) as his Australia tour kicks off
2011 ➤ Leee Childers interviewed: risqué tales of Warhol, glitter and Iggy’s best feature
➤ Ferry Re-Makes/Re-Models himself as the Sinatra of the rock era
➤ Jarvis as heir to Alan Bennett: If I’m a national treasure, dust me off
➤ Calling all heroes, zeroes and cowboys — this will be the party of the week
➤ Lux’s first official video: Morrissey meets The Monkees
➤ Warhol chronicler Leee Childers brings his slice of 70s New York to London
➤ Jarvis Cocker joins Faber: national treasure as literary arbiter
➤ A taste of the 80s Blitz Kids — this photo book captures their unseen glory
➤ The Blitz Kids WATN? No 37, Judith Frankland — Aufwiedersehen Geordieland, pet
➤ Gary Kemp steps onstage to join London’s theatre critics
➤ Fire up the Lada! Gene Hunt is off to Moscow in British TV exports boom
➤ Boy George says the 70s were the best time ever to be a teenager — yep, really!
1976–1984 ➤ Creative clubbing ended with the 80s and Smithy’s book needs your help to tell the tale
2011 ➤ Johnny Marr “very very happy” with Smiths Complete, despite grumbles from fans
➤ Enigmatic Scott Walker lets loose a revealing rush of answers
2011 ➤ Jubilant Seattle welcomes back Wild Boys Duran, spiced with a touch of Frankie
➤ Boy George flashes the cheekbones and gives the pop scene a tongue lashing
➤ Aaaah, bricolage, stealing and pasting — all the fun of postmodernism on show at the V&A
➤ None is more singular than the chap who knows his Stephen Potter (*wink*)
➤ Ten killer videos to celebrate Duran’s return to the live stage this week
2011 ➤ Highlights from Princess Julia’s London Fashion Week
➤ Steve Norman steers Cloudfish into an edgier urban groove
➤ Martin Kemp in the hot seat talking about food hell and gothic horror
2011 ➤ The other design festival running alongside London Fashion Week
➤ The clubs are alive to the smells of music
➤ Crooner Bennett defers to the rootsy tigress that was Amy Winehouse
➤ All milk and honey as Paxo and Dawkins dispute myth versus truth
1922–2011 ➤ Richard Hamilton: second thoughts about his definition of Pop Art
2011 ➤ Tony Hadley sings out for the 67 Brits who died on 9/11
2011 ➤ Kraftwerk now: from machine music to visions in 3D
➤ What it’s like working with Martin Kemp
2001 ➤ The other 9/11 assassination: could Massoud have become his nation’s spiritual leader?
2011 ➤ Duran win Lifetime Achievement gong in GQ Men of the Year awards
2011 ➤ i-D Now reveals trade secrets and catches up with Scarlett from Cha-Cha
2011 ➤ England’s dotty Simpson who inspired the Pythons
➤ Bombshell for Spandau Ballet fans as Hadley unwinds after US solo tour
2011 ➤ Sukita taster of unseen Bowie pix
➤ George Michael remembers Amy Whitehouse, live in Prague
➤ “Yes this is a Wag rerun” — Sullivan on his Sussex alternative to London’s carnival
➤ The four catastrophes Martin Luther King foresaw
➤ Bananarama still living the pop life, woteva
➤ Digital beaver grills the stars of The Inbetweeners Movie
➤ “I always wanted to be a model”
2011 ➤ On video: US debut for Tony Hadley’s own new song
➤ Gaga alert: PJ baffled by fishy Young Fronkensteen video, but predicts a step-change
2011 ➤ Mother of all disco divas Grace fans her hurricane to new depths of wickedness
2011 ➤ Hadley’s US debut wows New York and fills the room with love
➤ “It will happen again” says London teenager who predicted riots
➤ As Big Tone Hadley goes West he tosses out a few interview squibs
➤ After the looting, the London clean-up has started in Hackney and Clapham
2011 ➤ Images of London in the hands of the mob
➤ Steve Strange puts on an Essex face for Ascot
➤ Inbetweeners, bring your wellies — Christos hits the cutting-room floor and he’s gutted
➤ 30 years ago today: “The Day the Middle Class Died”
2011 ➤ Soho House purges suit-and-tie man while the Groucho laughs all the way to the bar
➤ Does chart-topper Adele really need to be on the Mercury shortlist?
1981–2011 ➤ Atlantis heads home — now space travel is down to Jeff Bezos and the marketplace
2011 ➤ Telling the Truth: a TV doc with a message for the times we live in
2011 ➤ Open your wallet for a Vintage sting on London’s Southbank
➤ Nick Davies declared “the greatest living British journalist” as Carl Bernstein declares “Murdoch’s Watergate?”
➤ Oh, Steve you old villain, what big fangs you’ve grown!
1981 ➤ Chant No 1: Spandau revive the rumble of funk while hard times loom
1981 ➤ “Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals” — the world is alerted to the Aids epidemic
➤ Get up! James Brown is now the The Godfather of Soup
➤ The incomparable Hilary Alexander makes her own front-page news by throwing in the trowel
➤ INDEX of posts for June 2011
➤ Jarvis takes his lyrics to Eliot’s publisher Faber
➤ Too cool to crow — Paradise Point just happen to be gigging in Hyde Park before Grace and Pulp
➤ Lest we forget: man has changed his ways since Peter Wyngarde cracked the sickest joke on vinyl
➤ Irrational, Professor Cox! Discussing science in a tent at Glastonbury?
➤ Martin Kemp’s Stalker set for autumn release
➤ Will the magical blasts from the past follow St Martin’s out of Soho?
2011 ➤ Heaven 17 remind us how electronic music can send the soul soaring!
➤ The Blitz Kids WATN? No 28, Stephen Linard
1981 ➤ Hot days, cool nights, as Blue Rondo join the new Brits changing the pop charts
2011 ➤ When Shirl asked Peps if she fancied an arena tour, Peps said to Shirl, Why not?
2011 ➤ EPIC forecasts for the 2015 media landscape loom closer than we think
➤ Aside from the freaks, George, who else came to your 50th birthday party?
➤ One million people think Charlie really is SoCoolLike
1904 ➤ The day Nora made a man of Joyce
2011 ➤ Boy George hits the big Five-0 and he now says, yes, he has ‘lots of regrets’
2001 ➤ Hear about the many lives of Midge Ure, the Mr Nice of pop
➤ Wise-cracking Sallon shimmies back onto London’s party scene
➤ Mix your own version of Bowie’s Golden Years
2010 ➤ Lady Gaga ousts Lily Allen as UK’s most played artist
➤ Martin Rushent — the man who made stars of the Human League — is dead
2011 ➤ What happens when retromania exhausts our pop past
➤ Up close and cool — Paradise Point’s first official video
➤ FHM says “Pass the sick bucket” after readers vote Andrej Pejic one of the “Sexiest Women”
➤ Taste Masters from oop North aim to put passion back into pop
➤ Knock-knock, fashion gems on a shoestring
➤ Brett on the love that created “a Suede landscape” in the tribal 80s
2011 ➤ Duran’s round-the-world adventure reaches the UK
2011 ➤ Barefoot Sade lets her hair down for Europe
2011 ➤ The ghosts of Fac and Hac walk tall again
2011 ➤ The on-off brotherly rivalry that drove John and Scott Walker apart
1982 ➤ Spot the faces at Phil and Rob’s bleeding-edge Dirtbox
1981 ➤ Ballet on Broadway, leading the British invasion of America, spring 1981
2011 ➤ Soprano Jenkins tops pop’s young Rich List
➤ Bin Laden raid becomes Twitter’s CNN moment
➤ When digital downloads mean lost income for stars like Eminem
2011 ➤ Rutter’s anthem affirms romance of the royal wedding
➤ Dear oh dear! Thoughtless Cameron PM swats women’s 200-year struggle from the history books
➤ “Warrior of the night” Frankland bounces back with London Fashion Week in her sights
➤ Morrissey detonates bidding war for his memoirs
➤ OMG and LOL — it’s the slang gang sheening their way into the English dictionary
➤ Judith Frankland experiments with power and femininity
➤ Did London’s £15m security cameras really fail to record attack on Boy George’s best friend?
➤ A swelle hello from upstart Judith, returning in an explosion of colour
➤ Index of posts for March
➤ Adam Ant reveals his terrifying years in purgatory
➤ Martin Kemp’s live tutorial via bass cam
2011 ➤ Clarke and Wilder pile in for Depeche Mode’s ultimate remix album
➤ Mick Karn takes a last journey in Dalis Car 2
➤ Anna’s Army — how the English-born editor of Vogue became her own global brand
➤ Crazee or crazed? Lynch’s view of Duran from within his hellish cave
1932–2011 ➤ Liz Taylor — glamour to a T
➤ 22 territories tune in for tonight’s Duran Duran concert live on the web
2011 ➤ Despite sniffy critics, ultimately Duran’s best album since their glory years
➤ Smartphones become UK shoppers’ essentials
2011 ➤ Spandau and Duran square up for battle just like the old days
➤ Gary Kemp puts his neck on the block — Spandau ‘the best live British band of the Eighties’
➤ Haunting video catches grim carnage of the Japanese tsunami
Revolver Maps – Click on the map to see who visits Shapers of the 80s
1981 ➤ The day Duran’s fortunes really took flight
➤ The Kid’s in pink so he’s ready for the funk
➤ Index of posts for February
1981 ➤ New Romantics have their day — rearranging the deck-chairs at the posers’ ball
1944 ➤ “Go to work, Slim” — Lauren Bacall offers a musical treat for Valentine’s Day
➤ Guardian makes Shapersofthe80s an internet pick of the week
1961 ➤ No wonder The Beatles changed the shape of music after 456 sessions practising in public
➤ The Kemp Brothers cook up a mystical morsel
➤ EMI chief confirms record company sale highly likely
➤ Rivals sniffy about Murdoch’s Daily — more an iPad magazine than a newspaper
1981 ➤ Birth of Duran’s Planet Earth — when other people’s faith put the Brummies into the charts
➤ Index of posts for January
➤ George Michael celebrates his golden years of Faith
2011 ➤ Reliving the Blitz: two pocket fanzines and a request from Rusty Egan
➤ “Too posh for pop” — Grandpa Waterman condemns two decades of musicmakers
➤ Index of posts for December 2010
1981 ➤ Why naked heroes from antiquity stood in for Spandau on their first record sleeves
➤ Ferry backed by three bass players, Roxy back on the road — how cool is that?
1981 ➤ The day they sold The Times, both Timeses
➤ George makes saintly gesture over stolen icon
1981 ➤ How Adam stomped his way across the charts to thwart the nascent New Romantics
2011 ➤ Life? Tough? At the Blitz reunion, Rusty delivers a message to today’s 20-year-olds
2011 ➤ The unknown Mr Big behind London’s landmark nightspot makes his return to the Blitz
➤ Va-va-vooom! goes the world’s smallest portable record player
➤ F-A-B! Thunderbirds stamps are go!
➤ Julia and Gaz share their secrets for ageing disgracefully
2011 ➤ Strange and Egan return to the Blitz to kick off the 20-tweens
➤ 200 new acts tipped for the new year in music
2010 ➤ Most popular bits of Shapersofthe80s during the past year
2011 ➤ Farewell Mick Karn, master of the bass and harbinger for the New Romantics
➤ Prescott says Postlethwaite’s Brassed Off speech inspired New Labour in 1997
➤ Discover Ubu while Christopher Walken takes flight to Fatboy Slim
➤ Happy New Year from Frosty The Snowman — and The Ronettes
2010 ➤ Index of posts for December
➤ 80s shapers win 2010 New Year Honours for fashion, music and walking in space
1980 ➤ Secrets revealed about the SAS, arming Afghanistan and death of the tanner
1980 ➤ As Spandau play in Heaven, all around we can hear the new sounds of 1981
1980s ➤ So many shapers shaped the decade that people think was all down to Margaret Thatcher
What larks! Festive fun and games and British ways to make merry
A jolly festive tree by Andrew Logan
2010 ➤ Duran no turkey: here’s the Bacofoil video, plus two tracks premiered at East Village Radio
1980 ➤ How Duran Duran’s road to stardom began in the Studio 54 of Birmingham
2010 ➤ A feast of Bowie-ana served in waffeur-thin slices
➤ Whatta they like? Essex reality stars shake their vajazzles in the face of Hollywood
1980 ➤ The Lennon we knew: unfulfilled talent with a genius for making friends the world over
1980 ➤ The week the Swinging 80s clicked into gear
➤ Live online now, mad hatter Stephen Jones
➤ This £5m iPhone has to be a spoof! Yes, that’s $7.8m or €6m or 52m Chinese Yuan or 245m Russian Rubles
2010 ➤ Index of posts for November
➤ Rottweiler Dawkins croons his way into our hearts and minds
1984 ➤ Band Aid, when pop made its noblest gesture but the 80s ceased to swing
➤ If Paradise Point aren’t the pop tip for 2011, you decide who is!
➤ How Roman Kemp helped his dad Martin to pick up the bass again
1918 ➤ War: the 20th-century way to build a new world
➤ The Princess known as Julia becomes an art object for sale
➤ Hear a clip from Duran Duran’s new album — lucky No 13?
➤ Status update: QueenLiz2 goes live on Facebook, though Her Maj will not be abused
➤ Killing a king tells you who you are — so do your haircut and shoes
2011 ➤ Pulp: the Britpop comeback everyone’s been waiting for, hooray!
➤ 20 gay kisses in pop videos that made it past the censor
➤ Why Lady Gaga “gets it”, Pixie Lott doesn’t, and the jury is out on Rihanna
➤ Was the Band With No Past truly wafted here from Paradise?
2010 ➤ Index of posts for October
➤ Classics of 80s graffiti revived by campaigning collective in New York
➤ Final spin confirmed for the Technics 1200, the DJ’s top turntable
On this day in 1980 ➤ Spandau fired the starting gun for British clubland’s pop hopefuls: dada didi daaa!
➤ A second squadron of high-octane British artists zaps the Saatchi space
➤ Facebook may well be the mother of all networks but one man needs to check his maths
➤ Cool 21st-century branding for Channel 4, but when will it junk those clunky Bladerunner idents?
➤ A step up in the world for graffitist Eine, thanks to Potus and lady friends who shop in high places
➤ Miss Parkin regrets that she said no to Cary… and can’t wait to meet Orson, Lee and Walter
➤ How Keith Richards’s life of debauchery became an inexplicable sign of alien invasion at The Times
30 years ago today ➤ First survey of their private worlds as the new young trigger a generation gap
2011 ➤ Sade comes home to tour UK but even a cheap seat will cost you £158 !
1980 ➤ The day Spandau signed on the line and changed the sound of British pop
1980 ➤ Rik and pals detonate a timebomb beneath another kind of strip for Soho
1976 ➤ When Iain met Stephen, London traffic stopped and St Martin’s stood still
➤ Britain’s top hatter, Stephen Jones OBE, celebrates 30 years of Jonesmanship
2010 ➤ Index of posts for Sept
1925-2010 ➤ Tony Curtis — for ever hot
➤ In the face of Cowell X-culture, Polhemus discovers the style supermarket afresh
➤ Six things some people might not know about Bowie
➤ Egan on Bowie’s legacy: ‘It’s not rocket science and it is music’
➤ Slashed! Wallinger’s knife demonstrates a 25% cut on a Turner masterpiece
➤ Anna declares McQueen a pioneer of dreams and drama
The 1980s ➤ A new history of that most turbulent of decades
2010 ➤ Robinson takes the Cowell shilling — so whose bum is on the throne at Popjustice?
2010 ➤ Egghead versus bimbo: Paglia demolishes Gaga
2010 ➤ The xx steal away with the Mercury Music Prize … a quiet storm for uncertain times
2010 ➤ Index of posts for July-Aug
➤ A big wink to i-D on its 30th birthday
For one year only, £75m deal reunites Take That dormice with mega-millionaire Robbie Williams
2010 ➤ Kylie dazzles London with laser-love
2010 ➤ Cheers to Peter and Chris – two nice unassuming radio listeners (among the many*) who clinched the rescue of 6Music
2010 ➤ Vince Clarke on how to make the perfect pop song
JULY ➤ 30 or so years ago today
2010 ➤ Index of posts for June
➤ UK web stats that show why you find shopping online such a chore in your lunch-hour
1970 ➤ Where to draw a line between glitter and glam – naff blokes in Bacofoil versus starmen with pretensions
1979 ➤ Unbelievable! The voice of sweet reason in George’s TV debut
2010 ➤ Spandau Ballet turn east for their final furlong
2010 ➤ Is it goodbye or merely au revoir? Spandau’s questions, questions give us no answers
2010 ➤ Step up Martin Kemp – movie mogul
1966 ➤ When John Lennon became US public enemy number one
1984 ➤ 2010, RIP Big Frank and Little Frank. You’ll be missed. You know you will, you really will
2010 ➤ Ure rallies support for Japan’s bassist Karn
1980 ➤ Can birthday-boy George tell his Boudica from his Britannia?
2010 ➤ Duffy, the man who shot Aladdin Sane
2010 ➤ Manc agog at Gaga’s Monster Ball tour
1980 ➤ 2010, Taylor-made magic that can inspire Romantics ancient and Neo
2010 ➤ After Queen quits, who can save EMI – private equity boss or creative maverick?
JUNE ➤ 30 or so years ago today
2010 ➤ Index of posts for May
2010 ➤ Spider-woman Bourgeois created her art as meditations on sexuality
2010 ➤ Foxx celebrates his life as the Duchamp of electropop
2010 ➤ Rich Kid Steve New (aka Stella Nova) dies at 50
2010 ➤ Just the birthday present Steve Strange really wanted this week of all weeks
2010 ➤ ‘A triumph’ – Boy George’s verdict before transmission of his Worried biopic, but then . . .
2010 ➤ How real did 1980 feel? Ex-Blitz Kids give verdicts on tonight’s TV play, Worried About the Boy
2010 ➤ Three key men in Boy George’s life, but why has TV changed some of the names?
2010 ➤ Can Generation Y be bovvered to vote?
1982 ➤ Lest we forget, on this day Britain sank the Belgrano
1980 ➤ Birth of The Face: magazine that launched a generation of stylists and style sections
2010 ➤ Index of posts for March-April
➤ Kemp ‘sets a new standard for rock memoirs’
2010 ➤ Grace Jones turns her back on London ;-)
2010 ➤ Rich List puts George Michael top of the popstars from the un-lucrative 80s
2010 ➤ In Australia, Spandau make Jason feel like a kid again: one true pop fan reviews their show
2010 ➤ What a tear-jerker! McLaren mashes up his own musical ‘Requiem to Myself’
2010 ➤ Punk glitterati see McLaren noisily to his grave
1985 ➤ Nnnnn-na-na-na, nnnnn-na-na, Nineteen
1978 ➤ Midge stakes his claim as the weathervane of synth-pop who helped shape the British New Wave
2010 ➤ Sci-fi’s coolest Number 6 finds Gandalf in charge and relocated to 93-6-2-oh!
2010 ➤ McLaren – Svengali of Pistols and punk remembered by those who knew him
2010 ➤ Uh-oh, A2A is back and we’re about to be Quattroed in HD!
2010 ➤ Ex-jailbird George takes his first trancey steps on the path to sainthood
2010 ➤ A giant dies: Charlie Gillett, the man who defined rock’n’roll and world music
2010 ➤ Barcelona: Spandau wow lifelong fans in their other spiritual home
➤ Albums that defined the new 80s funk
2010 ➤ Rusty decrees who’s in, who’s out and what’s up
2010 ➤ Feast of remixes on new ‘Very Best’ of Visage album
2010 ➤ Comeback Shard comfy as ‘Auntie Sade’
2010 ➤ OMM goes out celebrating all our heritages
2010 ➤ Lady Gaga spices up i-D’s 30th birthday
1978 ➤ To the edge and back with the lovely Julia
2010 ➤ ‘Missing Link’ Kids roar back to life
2009 ➤ Onstage, Spandau’s Hadley and Kemp finally get huggy
WELCOME ➤ TO THE SWINGING EIGHTIES
1980 ➤ Birth of the New Romantics and the band who made it hip to play pop
1980 ➤ Strange days, strange nights, strange people
1980 ➤ One week in the private worlds of the new young
1980 ➤ How the rhythm of the pop charts changed
1980 ➤ How many people does it take to launch an electro-diskow band?
1980 ➤ Mankind’s first taste of musical freedom
1980 ➤ For an angry new decade a new breed of comedy puts trendiness itself within its sights
1981 ➤ Ballet on Broadway, leading the British invasion of America, spring 1981
1981 ➤ Blue Rondo create a new buzz with Latin sounds and an extreme suited dude look
1981 ➤ Fourratt’s six golden rules for the hottest club of all
1982 ➤ Never a week without a fashion show
1983 ➤ Who’s who in the New London Weekend
1983 ➤ 69 Dean Street and the making of UK club culture
1983 ➤ Hockney discovers a truer way of seeing, with help from Proust
1983 ➤ Showdown for Worlds End, Vivienne and Malcolm
Six magazines that changed the course of postwar British journalism
➤ Townshend waxes lyrical on Hendrix’s grace as the all-time guitar great

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