REWIND

Fuelled by a greed-is-good philosophy, driven by or perhaps borne of an enormous economic boom, the 1980s saw some in the banking and investment sectors literally earning enough to buy a house each and every week.

If you were a successful musician or producer at that time, you were probably earning enough in royalties to buy a modest property – but where’s the fun in that? What self-respecting musician would fritter away money