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The Eighties

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Along with guests Pauline Black of the Selecter, writer and performer Adam Buxton and journalist Mark Ellen, Danny Baker celebrates British rock in the 1980s.

Along with guests Pauline Black of the Selecter, writer and performer Adam Buxton and journalist Mark Ellen, Danny Baker celebrates British rock in the 1980s. With the popularisation of the synthesiser, the arrival of Goths, New Romantics and 2 Tone, the definition of what constituted rock was stretched to the limit.

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Wed 12 Feb 2014 02:45
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Music Played

  • New Order

    Blue Monday

  • Scritti Politti

    Wood Bez

  • Pet Shop Boys

    West End Girls

  • Iron Maiden

    Run To The Hills

  • Samson

    Biceps of Steel

  • Soft Cell

    Sex Dwarf

  • Sigue Sigue Sputnik

    21st Century Boy

  • Bow Wow Wow

    Go Wild in the Country

  • D.A.F.

    Der Rauber und Der Printx

  • John Foxx

    Underpants

  • Spandau Ballet

    To Cut a Long Story Short

  • Heaven 17

    Temptation

  • Pretenders

    Brass in Pocket

  • The Specials

    Too Much Too Young

  • The Police

    Don't Stand

  • New Order

    Temptation Riverside

  • Depeche Mode

    Just Can't Get Enough

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Two Tribes

  • Symarip

    Skinhead Moonstomp

  • The Exploited

    Dead Cities

  • Stray Cats

    Sexy and Seventeen

  • The Polecats

    Rockabilly Guy

  • Shakin鈥� Stevens

    Hot Dog

  • The Beat

    Whine and Grine / Stand Down Margaret

  • The Selecter

    Three Minute Hero

  • Saxon 747

    Strangers In The Night

  • Visage

    Fade To Grey

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Christine

  • The Specimen

    Beauty Of Poison

  • The Sisters of Mercy

    This Corrosion

  • Bauhaus

    Kick in the Eye

  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Reward

  • Orange Juice

    Rip It Up

  • The Fall

    Hit The North

  • The Smiths

    William

  • Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan

    Especially For You

  • The Darling Buds

    Hit The Ground

  • The Jesus and Mary Chain

    In A Hole

  • The Stone Roses

    Fools Gold

  • M|A|R|R|S

    Pump Up The Volume

  • Eurythmics

    Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

  • Buggles

    Video Killed The Radio Star

  • Spandau Ballet

    Gold

  • A Flock of Seagulls

    I Ran (So Far Away)

  • The Beach Boys

    Kokomo

  • Gary Numan

    Are Friends Electric?

    Performer: Tubeway Army.

  • Alice Cooper

    Clones (We're All)

  • Michael Jackson

    Thriller

  • The Human League

    Love Action

  • Duran Duran

    Rio

  • The Redskins

    Kick Over The Statues

  • The Jam

    Malice

  • The Special A.K.A.

    Nelson Mandela

  • Gary Numan

    I Die You Die

  • The Redskins

    Keep On Keepin' On

  • Robert Wyatt

    Shipbuilding

  • Culture Club

    War Song

  • Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

    Born To Run

  • David Bowie & Mick Jagger

    Dancing In The Street

  • Simply Red

    Money's Too Tight To Mention

  • Simple Minds

    Don't You (Forget About Me)

  • Queen

    Radio Gaga

  • Dire Straits

    Money For Nothing

  • U2

    Where The Streets Have No Name

  • Simple Minds

    Alive and Kicking

Credits

Presenter Danny Baker
Participant Pauline Black
Participant Mark Ellen
Participant Adam Buxton
Series Producer Allan Campbell
Executive Producer Pauline Law

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Related Links

  • (www.theselecter.net)
  • (en.wikipedia.org)
  • (adam-buxton.co.uk)