Oh, the eye shadow, hair gel and strange trousers – the turn of the 80s was all about the New Romantics. I remember in 1981 going to something that called itself a ‘futurist’ party. Seemed to involve a lot of guys in sixteen pleat Bowie trousers – which you could buy in the NME classified …
Brilliant Record Mirror cover featuring The Motors. These were pained front covers not photographs.
California Über Alles was an American punk onslaught by The Dead Kennedys on Democrat governor Jerry Brown in 1979