Tag Archives: ’80s Music Week

’80s Music Week: Five Great British Music Videos

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on November 11th, 2011

The ’80s was the decade of the music video, what with MTV and the rise of the aristocratic pop star that refused to flog their wares in TV studios all over the world. And it’s fair to say that the British pop acts realised ...

’80s Music Week: Five Great ‘Fire and Ice’ Electropop Duos

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on November 10th, 2011

Once upon a time, the most efficient way to make pop music involved a guitar or two, a bass, a set of drums and some voices. You could get away with only employing three people without sacrificing the bottom end or the rhythm, but ...

’80s Music Week: Five Great British Gender-Bending Pop Stars

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on November 8th, 2011

Although the glam-rock campery of the early ’70s had already started asking serious questions about dress codes and gender roles of men and women in showbiz, it was usually fairly easy to spot which was which, with the possible ...

’80s Music Week: Five Great Depeche Mode Songs

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on November 7th, 2011

This week has officially been designated as ’80s Music Week on Anglophenia. And to kick us off, here’s a brief stone-skip across the career of a band who could not be more ’80s if they tried.