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Ah, the Christmas songs are coming out, and the obvious first choice from the 80’s is “Last Christmas” from Wham! Although we did ROCK OUT this week with ADCD, Aerosmith and Guns ‘N’ Roses!
News this week in the 80’s:
1982: The gates isolating the people of Gibraltar from Spain were opened to pedestrians after 13 years.
Spain’s new socialist government opened the frontier for “humanitarian reasons” at one minute after midnight on the 15th December 1982.
1989 – The first episode of television series The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”, airs in the United States, since then the show has broadcast 561 episodes.
Matt Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name!
SONGS PLAYED
Terence Trent D’Arby – Dance Little Sister
Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
The Cure – The Love Cats
Chris Rea – Driving Home for Christmas
Curiosity Killed the Cat – Down to Earth
Robert Palmer – Addicted to Love
Queen – Play the Game
Spandau Ballet – Gold
Owen Paul – My Favourite Waste of Time
Billy Idol – Hot In The City
Voice of the Beehive – Don’t Call Me Baby
ABC – When Smokey Sings
ACDC – You Shook Me All Night Long
Aerosmith – Love In An Elevator
Guns ‘N’ Roses – Paradise City
Wham – Last Christmas
Flying Pickets – Only You
Jam – Beat Surrender
Kim Wilde – You Keep Me Hangin’ On
Huey Lewis and the News – Hip To Be Square
Colonel Abrams – Trapped
The Style Council – Shout to the Top
Haircut 100 – Fantastic Day
Donna Summer – She Works Hard For The Money
Kajagoogoo – Too Shy
Duran Duran – Is There Something I Should Know
Prince – Little Red Corvette
Fine Young Cannibals – Ever Fallen In Love
