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2012

2012 ➤ If David Jones hadn’t become Bowie what would have become of the rest of us?original ↗
8 Jan 2012
➤ Johnny Marr takes his own personal flight to the moon — on his new Fenderoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2012
2011 ➤ Downloads explosion plus new definition of singles results in biggest sales for yearsoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2012
2012 ➤ Moss misses Culture Club’s new dawn in Australiaoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2012
➤ Crack open the Bolly: Ab Fab puts BodyMap back on the maporiginal ↗
1 Jan 2012
➤ Record numbers visit Shapersofthe80s for the best Blitz Kid photos and eye-witness memoriesoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2012

2011

2011 ➤ Other picky people’s year-ending Best Ofs in music of all stylesoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2011
2011 ➤ Picky people’s year-ending Best Ofs from fashion, TV, web and filmoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2011
1970 ➤ Hey Rudolph! It’s The Temptations, starring James Jamersonoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2011
➤ Robbie Vincent: 35 years as master of hot cuts and getting our “rhythm buds” goingoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2011
➤ Smith & Sullivan sign off We Can Be Heroes with a sighoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2011
➤ Festive greetings to the newest most northerly reader of Shapersofthe80soriginal ↗
23 Dec 2011
➤ Dalston Superstars get down with a Poundland People’s Christmas feastoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2011
2011 ➤ I danced in Bowie’s Jean Genie video but have never seen it, says his friend Wendyoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2011
➤ Dress (and undress) your own paper Bowie or Gagaoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2011
➤ Bowie’s “lost” Jean Genie from 1973 to be aired on Top of the Pops this weekoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2011
➤ Steve Norman vidz one minute of magic by London blues buskersoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2011
➤ Taste Masters throw another party to show Cowell there’s real music up Northoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2011
➤ Schama gives us a taste of the ambassador’s lifeoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2011
➤ Dalston Superstars pit Shoreditch irony against beanie brigade realnessoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2011
➤ Postmodern Coupland is painting coded messages for Generation Aoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2011
2011 ➤ Party of the year recreates the Swinging 80s at the legendary Beat Route (down, down past the Talk of the Town)original ↗
9 Dec 2011
➤ The true story of how love helped Gary Kemp write the next lineoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2011
1980 ➤ Why Face founder Nick Logan said: Publish and be Dammersoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2011
2011 ➤ The Hadley bombshell no Spandau Ballet fan will welcomeoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2011
➤ Boy George gives another interview about me, me, me and la-la landoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2011
➤ Nathan Barley walks again in Vice’s video serial Dalston Superstarsoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2011
➤ Le Bon takes wing during Duran’s return to Brightonoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2011
➤ UK spymasters set puzzle to recruit the web-savvy — without breaking the laworiginal ↗
1 Dec 2011
➤ Daily Mail shock as Palace admits the Ferry gang to see dad accept his CBEoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2011
➤ Join Rusty Egan & Steve Norman for music and a pint to help the kids at GOSHoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2011
➤ Ten killer videos to celebrate Duran’s live return to unfinished business in the UKoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2011
➤ Katy’s Firework finally falls to earth but the gay kiss will live happily ever afteroriginal ↗
27 Nov 2011
1965 ➤ Teenage Bowie flashes priceless smile to an amateur cine cameraoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2011
2012 ➤ Diamond Dogs snarl denial over Bowie / Heroes The Musicaloriginal ↗
27 Nov 2011
1984 ➤ Band Aid: The smash hit that earned 47 artists three platinum discs eachoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2011
➤ Spandau’s Gold enlisted to sell chocolate and boost the Olympic spiritoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2011
2012 ➤ Boy George reunites with Culture Club for New Year’s Eve — and a new albumoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2011
➤ Student verdicts on the new Central Saint Martins, contrasted with LCC’s sad homeoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2011
➤ Step up Dr Nick Rhodes, honorary scholar at Luton in Bedsoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2011
2011 ➤ Wham!’s cunning plan for a Christmas No1 as climax to the 80s revivaloriginal ↗
15 Nov 2011
➤ Robert Pereno: My road to recovery in the recessionoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2011
1972–2009 ➤ Andrew Logan’s glistening vision of Planet Earth and all its creaturesoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2011
2011 ➤ Peter Frampton: how Bowie changed my life at Bromley Techoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2011
1980 ➤ Ribald tales of excess as the kids from The Blitz took over West End clubbingoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2011
➤ No panic at Duran HQ — when you want glamour, glitz and shiny just outsource your videooriginal ↗
4 Nov 2011
➤ Toyah’s odyssey from Viennese Woods to Wicked Queenoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2011
➤ Vision On, Sound On: 75 years since BBC TV beamed out ‘a mighty maze of mystic, magic rays’original ↗
2 Nov 2011
➤ On iPads, mobiles and tablets, you’re not even seeing half the storyoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2011
2011 ➤ Stand and deliver: Adam Ant versus Marco in a battle of bandsoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2011
➤ Meet Smith & Sullivan, the wags behind the story of the heroic 80soriginal ↗
27 Oct 2011
➤ Tut-tut, Your Maj, that Aussie tram ride was a missed music video opportunityoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2011
2011 ➤ Pay now — so We Can Be Heroes goes ahead!original ↗
26 Oct 2011
2011 ➤ Duran Duran are the Wild Boys of Madison Square Gardenoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2011
➤ The Bowie factor at the Blitz: glamour, drama and collage coutureoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2011
➤ Happy golden anniversary to Lord Gnome, Glenda Slagg, Topes, O’Booze, Knacker, Knee and especially Gnome-Mart’s theme tuneoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2011
2011 ➤ Oo-er, Metamodernists say: Go forth and oscillateoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2011
➤ Big Tone Hadley feeling good(-ish) as his Australia tour kicks offoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2011
2011 ➤ Leee Childers interviewed: risqué tales of Warhol, glitter and Iggy’s best featureoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2011
➤ Ferry Re-Makes/Re-Models himself as the Sinatra of the rock eraoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2011
➤ Jarvis as heir to Alan Bennett: If I’m a national treasure, dust me offoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2011
➤ Calling all heroes, zeroes and cowboys — this will be the party of the weekoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2011
➤ Lux’s first official video: Morrissey meets The Monkeesoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2011
➤ Warhol chronicler Leee Childers brings his slice of 70s New York to Londonoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2011
➤ Jarvis Cocker joins Faber: national treasure as literary arbiteroriginal ↗
12 Oct 2011
➤ A taste of the 80s Blitz Kids — this photo book captures their unseen gloryoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2011
➤ The Blitz Kids WATN? No 37, Judith Frankland — Aufwiedersehen Geordieland, petoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2011
➤ Gary Kemp steps onstage to join London’s theatre criticsoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2011
➤ Fire up the Lada! Gene Hunt is off to Moscow in British TV exports boomoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2011
➤ Boy George says the 70s were the best time ever to be a teenager — yep, really!original ↗
2 Oct 2011
1976–1984 ➤ Creative clubbing ended with the 80s and Smithy’s book needs your help to tell the taleoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2011
2011 ➤ Johnny Marr “very very happy” with Smiths Complete, despite grumbles from fansoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2011
➤ Enigmatic Scott Walker lets loose a revealing rush of answersoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2011
2011 ➤ Jubilant Seattle welcomes back Wild Boys Duran, spiced with a touch of Frankieoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2011
➤ Boy George flashes the cheekbones and gives the pop scene a tongue lashingoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2011
➤ Aaaah, bricolage, stealing and pasting — all the fun of postmodernism on show at the V&Aoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2011
➤ None is more singular than the chap who knows his Stephen Potter (*wink*)original ↗
21 Sept 2011
➤ Ten killer videos to celebrate Duran’s return to the live stage this weekoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2011
2011 ➤ Highlights from Princess Julia’s London Fashion Weekoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2011
➤ Steve Norman steers Cloudfish into an edgier urban grooveoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2011
➤ Martin Kemp in the hot seat talking about food hell and gothic horrororiginal ↗
17 Sept 2011
2011 ➤ The other design festival running alongside London Fashion Weekoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2011
➤ The clubs are alive to the smells of musicoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2011
➤ Crooner Bennett defers to the rootsy tigress that was Amy Winehouseoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2011
➤ All milk and honey as Paxo and Dawkins dispute myth versus truthoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2011
1922–2011 ➤ Richard Hamilton: second thoughts about his definition of Pop Artoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2011
2011 ➤ Tony Hadley sings out for the 67 Brits who died on 9/11original ↗
11 Sept 2011
2011 ➤ Kraftwerk now: from machine music to visions in 3Doriginal ↗
9 Sept 2011
➤ What it’s like working with Martin Kemporiginal ↗
8 Sept 2011
2001 ➤ The other 9/11 assassination: could Massoud have become his nation’s spiritual leader?original ↗
8 Sept 2011
2011 ➤ Duran win Lifetime Achievement gong in GQ Men of the Year awardsoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2011
2011 ➤ i-D Now reveals trade secrets and catches up with Scarlett from Cha-Chaoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2011
2011 ➤ England’s dotty Simpson who inspired the Pythonsoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2011
➤ Bombshell for Spandau Ballet fans as Hadley unwinds after US solo touroriginal ↗
27 Aug 2011
2011 ➤ Sukita taster of unseen Bowie pixoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2011
➤ George Michael remembers Amy Whitehouse, live in Pragueoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2011
➤ “Yes this is a Wag rerun” — Sullivan on his Sussex alternative to London’s carnivaloriginal ↗
25 Aug 2011
➤ The four catastrophes Martin Luther King foresaworiginal ↗
25 Aug 2011
➤ Bananarama still living the pop life, wotevaoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2011
➤ Digital beaver grills the stars of The Inbetweeners Movieoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2011
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