The 80s changed everything. A shimmering, thrillingly mad landscape of hairspray, innovation and silly amounts of money, it’s hard to overestimate how deeply its waves penetrated music, culture, commerce and society. It was a decade of political turmoil and technological revolution. The Cold War. Live Aid. Two-handed tapping. VHS. The CD-ROM. Powerful corporations. Synthesisers. Liberation. Exploitation. Mobile phones. Underground scenes. Icons… So much in just 10 years.
Viewed in the context of its most famous, visually arresting ingredients, the 80s have sustained a powerful place in the hearts of those who were there – and plentyRampant excess. Kenny Loggins. Leg-warmers.
