- 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
- ➤ 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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