Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
#quotefromthe80s
Running down underground
To a dive bar in a West End town
In a West End town, a dead-end world
The East End boys and West End girls
#PetShopBoys #WestEndGirls
At the end of October 1985 a song came out that would have determined the success of a group still considered absolutely cult today.
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Duran Duran – The Wild Boys
#quotefromthe80s
They tried to tame you, looks like they’ll try again
Wild boys never lose it
Wild boys never chose this way
Wild boys never close your eyes
Wild boys always shine
#DuranDuran #TheWildBoys
The golden period of the 1980s,
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Chaka Khan – I Feel for You
#quotefromthe80s
I’m physically attracted to you
This feeling that I got for you, baby
There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do
I feel for you
#ChakaKhan #IFeelForYou
In October 1984 a great Rhythm’n’Blues performer who was in the second phase of her career broke into the charts and into the history of the 80s,
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Posted in 1985, 1985 October, November, December, United Kingdom
Eighth Wonder – Stay With Me
The music of the 80s saw a number of female singers who were successful at a very young age, let’s say before the age of twenty. Apart from the babies Nikka Costa and Vanessa Paradis, there was a group of young girls between the ages of sixteen and eighteen who,
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Feargal Sharkey – A Good Heart
#quotefromthe80s
My expectations may be high
I blamed it on my youth
Soon enough
I’d learned the painful truth
#AGoodHeart #FeargalSharkey
If you ask me which artist of the 80s had the most sensational name of all,
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Sade – The Sweetest Taboo
#quotefromthe80s
There’s a quiet storm and it never felt like this before
There’s a quiet storm that is you
There’s a quiet storm and it never felt this hot before
Giving me something that’s taboo
#Sade #TheSweetestTaboo
Everyone has their own taboos,
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Posted in 1983, 1983 October, November, December, United Kingdom
Yes – Owner of a Lonely Heart
Sometimes fate is strange, and it sends us signals. It also happened in the 80s, when every song often hid beautiful stories. In October 1983 a very particular song was released. A beautiful song, certainly, very pop … but here was its peculiarity.
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Culture Club – The War Song
#quotefromthe80s
This world of fate
Must be designed for you
It matters what you say
It matters what you do
#BoyGeorge #CultureClub #TheWarSong
The antimilitarist song wave of the 1980s included hugely successful songs,
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