It was the era of the New Romantics, Blitz Kids and Gender Benders. From the UK club scene came the likes of Boy George and Steve Strange. Fashion went wild with pirate shirts, kilts, glitter and makeup. Huw Collingbourne was there - a writer for ‘80s music magazines such as Number One, Kicks and Flexipop!, he interviewed all the stars of the day. In neon 80s, many of those interviews are printed for the first time in decades. Whether you were there at the time or only know the period through its music, neon 80s gives you a unique flavour of that luminous decade... neon 80s Includes original interviews with: Steve Strange, Marilyn, Divine, Pete Burns, Boy George, Spandau Ballet, Depeche Mode, Limahl, Midge Ure, David Sylvian of Japan, Adam Ant, Toyah, Modern Romance, Matt Bianco, Heaven 17, Duran Duran, ABC, The Thompson Twins, Kim Wilde. Plus new articles about the styles, fashions, musical trends and memorable events of the 1980s...
Long before Pete Burns blurred the sexual boundaries there was DIVINE - Read
our extremely frank interview and
follow Divine's Beauty Tips!
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:: INSIDE
:: :: INTERVIEWS
:: with :: Adam Ant, Altered
Images, The Beat, Belle Stars, Boy George, Captain Sensible, David Sylvian, Depeche
Mode, Divine, Dollar, Duran Duran, Haircut 100, Howard Jones, Kim Wilde, Limahl,
Modern Romance, Morrissey, Motorhead, Pete Burns, Tony Hadley, Tight
Fit, Toyah
...and many more
PLUS :: 80s TRIVIA :: Cartoons, photo stories and all manner of other nonsense with Adam Ant, Tight
Fit, Spandau, Judas Piest and others... :: POSTER LIBRARY :: Exclusive photos for your desktop: Lloyd Cole,
Kajagoogoo, Classix Nouveaux, China Crisis, David Jaymes, Captain Sensible and
others... :: AUDIO ARCHIVES :: Listen to 80s interviews
with Spandau Ballet,
Divine and ABC
Free! 1980s adventure game: Golden Wombat Of Destiny.
