ORIGINS

➤ Key landmarks as foundations for the decade were laid

◆ Betty Page in 2009 recalling her first tutorial on the Spandau Manifesto

◆ Madonna’s live debut at New York’s Danceteria in 1982 singing her future hit Everybody

◆ Touchy? Mr Bowie won’t be answering questions today…

◆ Soul Boys and Soul Girls of the underground dance scene that spread the word in the 80s

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◆ Spandau play Live Aid 1985 ♫ ♫

◆ The Spandau manifesto: band members reflect on the “pop moment” that defined their meteoric rise. Early clips plus sustained UK TV interview from 1988(?) rescued by TheWonderfulRyan from his mum’s old VHS tapes

◆ Claire, Tich and Altered Images go pure laldy at Futurama in Leeds, Sept 1980

◆ David Bowie Video Clip Museum

◆ Did I mention Shapersofthe80s at YouTube for ♫ ♫ videos by the slipstream bands who defined the new pop?

◆ 80s clubland’s homegrown radio deejay, Gary Crowley, Saturdays at noon on BBC London 94.9

◆ Depeche Mode TV documentary by 20th Century Box in 1981 – we’re told they are “a blend of the two styles: electronic futurism and disco”

◆ The Electricity Club was founded in 2010 as a website that “likes to talk about the best of the new sounds that are emerging in an invigorated music scene. A site that prefers not to employ phrases such as 80s”. Woteva.

◆ Pete Scathe’s History of Goth

◆ One choice playlist: The House of Diabolique Top 80s Club Songs

◆ Really quirky titbits about “clown prince of pop” David Bowie from Top Ten 1980

◆ Relive the hedonism at Facebook’s Museum of Club Culture, all flavours catered for

◆ Frankie Knuckles, the legend

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