The Whole Nine Yards Ep 83 28.8.22 Surviving the Eighties with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Season 2 Episode 83

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio Sussex 103.8FM

Sunday August 28th 2022 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listenlive

Surviving the Eighties

(Image: Sharbat Bibi, taken by photojournalist Steve McCurry for June 1985 cover of National Geographic magazine)

It was the best and worst of times. A tale of two music scenes.

On  the one hand it was the time of the great pop behemoths like Madonna,  George Michael and Michael Jackson. On the other, the  back streets and  suburbs were packed with post punk bands, acid jazz revellers, Indie  kids and the first head-spinning hip-hop moves.

It  was the age of the synthesiser and New Romantics. It was also the time  of The Miners’ Strikes and bands like Half Man, Half Biscuit and The  Fall.  I remember walking past the Grand hotel on the 13th October 1984,  the day after the IRA bombing and thinking ‘How will we survive this?’

The music helped. Here’s some of it..

Playlist:

Hour One

The Outfield – No Surrender (Bangin’ 1986)

Real Life – Catch Me I’m Fallin’ (Heartland 1980)

The Pursuit of Happiness – I’m an Adult Now (Love Junk 1988)

The Romantics -What I Like About You (The Romantics 1979)

Magazine – A Song From Under the Floorboards (The Correct Use of Soap 1980)

Swansway – Soul Train (The Fugitive Kind 1984)

Boom Boom Room – Here Comes The Man (Stretch 1987)

Ten City- That’s The Way Love Is (Foundation 1989)

The Railway Children – Because (Native Place 1989)

Fra Lippo Lippi – The Distance Between Us (Songs 1986)

Wendy & Lisa – The Life (Waterfall 1987)

Hour Two

Young MC – Bust a Move (Stone Cold Rhymin’ 1989)

Tone Loc – Funky Cold Medina (Loc-ed After Dark 1989)

L.A. Boppers – Watching Life (L.A. Boppers 1980)

Boz Scaggs – Jojo (Down Two Then Left 1977)

Zodiac – Zodiac (Disco Alliance 1980)

Private Lives – Living in a World (Turned Upside Down) (Prejudice and Pride 1984)

David & David – Welcome to the Boomtown (Welcome to the Boomtown 1986)

Ambrosia – How Much I Feel (Life Beyond L.A. 1978)

Fairground Attraction – A Smile in a Whisper (First of a million Kisses 1988)

The Escape Club – I’ll Be There (12” mix) (Dollars and Sex 1986) — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roy-stannard/message

Transcription

Published by Roy Stannard

I'm someone who doesn't like parameters, barriers or fences. I'll try and climb over them, burrow under them or just pretend they don't exist - until they don't. Sometimes I'll write about the mind in a poetic way, or poetry with neural undertones, or I'll proselytise endlessly about my favourite new band - or one of the old ones. My Blog will give you the keys to the kingdom. A kingdom with no borders, no expectations and, therefore, no failure.. Because I am endlessly empathetic with people, their motivation, their behaviour,their problems and their quest for knowledge, I work with the pioneering Brighton-based homeless, vulnerable women and disempowered school students charity Off The Fence Trust that has tried to redress the equality deficit for over two decades. I produce, host and promote two radio shows a week: The Whole Nine Yards Sundays 3-5pm on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM (www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen) - and Lost Immortals on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM on Sundays 5-7pm.

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