Who’da thunk it? This week back in 1984 George Harrison made a rare public appearance, joining Deep Purple on stage read more

It’s December so I unlocked my 80’s Christmas tunes and played a couple out on the first show of the read more

On the last show of the month I play DOUBLES! Two songs from each 80’s artist back-to-back PLAYLIST George Michael read more

NEWS THIS WEEK 1980 – Iron Maiden play their first gig with new guitarist Adrian Smith in Uxbridge. Despite little read more

Number 1’s this week: 1980 Blondie The Tide Is High 1981 Police Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 1982 read more

This week in 1988… BBC1 airs Episode 523 of Neighbours, featuring the wedding of Scott Robinson and Charlene Mitchell (played read more

On the last show of the month I play DOUBLES – that’s two songs from each artist back-to-back! List again read more

NEWS THIS WEEK 1981 The British Phonographic Industry takes out newspaper ads unveiling its new slogan: “Home Taping Is Killing read more

PLAYLIST Elton John – Wrap Her Up Thompson Twins – Doctor Doctor Tears for Fears – Woman in Chains Spandau read more

Thanks for listening today – sorry about the croaky voice!! PLAYLIST Billy Idol – Mony Mony Duran Duran – Girls read more

NEWS THIS WEEK 1982 – Madonna’s debut single, “Everybody”, is released on Sire Records. Critically, the song did not receive read more

It’s the last show of the month, so I play DOUBLES, that’s two songs from each 80’s artist back to read more

NEWS THIS WEEK – 1982 The Who begin their only formally announced “farewell” tour in Washington, D.C with the Clash read more

This week it was all about the covers! Songs from 80’s artists that had originally been hits for someone else! read more

Listen again to this special extra show from Xanthe Bearman! Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop rock band. The bands read more

News This week in 1980 The Heatwave festival near Toronto featured The B-52’s, Talking Heads, The Pretenders, Elvis Costello and read more

Another celebration of women in music from the 1960’s through to 2014. Includes several songs in tribute to Aretha Franklin. read more

SO many tunes on today’s show that somehow I haven’t played before on GR80’s! Listen again here: PLAYLIST Phil Collins read more

THIS WEEK in 1986 Lionel Richie released his 3rd studio album “Dancing on the Ceiling” in the US where it read more

Listen again to two hours of great 80’s music here PLAYLIST Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love Depeche Mode – read more