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1983 ➤ Showdown for Worlds End, Vivienne and Malcolm
On the runway the day the King and Queen of Outrage realised the end was nigh An Evening Standard exclusive breaks the news of an acrimonious power struggle that threatens to split the infamous couple...
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1983 ➤ Hockney discovers a truer way of seeing, with help from Proust
“Have you been to the cubism exhibition at the Tate?” David Hockney enthuses during a trip to London. “I’ve been seven times!” An impromptu tutorial ensues in which the painter tests his new ideas ➢➢...
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1983 ➤ 69 Dean Street and the making of UK club culture
69 Dean Street is an address implanted somewhere in the folk memory of every Face reader. During the four years when the launchpad for musical experiment shifted from traditional rock gigs to the...
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1983 ➤ Who’s who in the New London Weekend
By the summer of ’83, a new pop establishment ruled the mainstream music charts while a new executive ruled London’s burgeoning clubbing scene after dark. Meet the jacks and jokers who fronted the...
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2010 ➤ Uh-oh, A2A is back and we’re about to be Quattroed in HD!
➢➢ See the Hamster run away with the car ❚ MICHAEL PARKINSON’S “FAVOURITE COP DRAMA” is the one where a car is the star – the turbo-charged 4WD Audi Quattro – and both returned on Good Friday for a...
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2010 ➤ McLaren – Svengali of Pistols and punk remembered by those who knew him
❚ MALCOLM McLAREN, THE SVENGALI OF PUNK, DIED YESTERDAY AGED 64. One of his most quotable quotes was delivered to Shapersofthe80s in 1983: “What we create on the streets out of the dustbins of England...
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1983 ➤ A True romance aboard Spandau’s triumphal Thames riverboat
❚ YES IT’S 30 YEARS SINCE Spandau Ballet scored their only No 1 chart hit single with True, coinciding with their epic “Spandau Over Britain Tour”. By May 3, True the album reached No 1, while the...
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