THE
ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF CLASSIC 80s POP By Daniel Blythe Allison & Busby - December 2002 ISBN 0749005343 HB Non-fiction / Music Reviewed by Rachel A Hyde, MyShelf.com Buy a If, like this reviewer, your
formative years fell during this decade then you will remember the sounds
that provided a soundtrack for your lives. Top of the Pops was awash with
flamboyant music videos and New Romantics, Stock, Aitken & Waterman
(they still sound to me like a firm of solicitors) ushered in the 90s
with their ready mix tunes and Bucks Fizz won the Eurovision. This was
the decade that gave us the Eurythmics, Pet Shop Boys, U2, George Michael
& Madonna, as well as The Birdie Song, Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers,
Bros and Black Lace. So if you want to settle that dispute down at the
pub as to what record prevented Ultravox' Vienna getting to No 1 or Who
got to that coveted spot back in 1980 with There's No-One Quite Like Grandm,a
then this may well be the book for you. You also probably live in Britain,
as although there are many US inclusions, and a few others too this is
mainly a book for the Brits. |
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