The media faced a huge challenge covering the 1981 riots but ENG technology was revolutionising TV news as Tony McMahon discovers
The media faced a huge challenge covering the 1981 riots but ENG technology was revolutionising TV news as Tony McMahon discovers
The great sound of 1980s Liverpool music was celebrated in the first half of the 80s at a festival called Larks in the Park in Sefton Park
1979 and 1980 were the glory years of the so-called “second wave” of ska music – first wave in Jamaica twenty plus years before and now the 2Tone wave came crashing out of Coventry. The Specials seized the charts by the scruff of the neck with a string of hits. And even WH Smith felt …
David Bowie – it wasn’t always adulation. Critics of Bowie could often be very harsh and bitter.
Pop faces of the early 1980s
Paul Weller justifiably tortures a terrible TV presenter
Paul Weller takes the news badly
Our Lips Are Sealed – Go Go’s and Fun Boy Three
The Beat – Too Nice To Talk to
Ranking Roger in the Record Mirror – lead vocalist in The Beat or The English Beat as the band is called in the United States