Come with me back to 1984...

[LadyOfTheCanyon]

I don't know whether it's simply nostalgia or whether as you get older you are able to see the past more clearly, but I was 14 in 1984 and I was simply in love with Eden by Everything but the girl ( massively underrated album!) The Unforgettable Fire by U2, The Smiths first LP had just come out, Brilliant Trees by David Sylvian- Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Coke and the commotions, Hatful of Hollow (remember waiting outside OurPrice in Hammersmith for that one!)

I was wearing DMs and dyeing my Levi's black because I couldn't find any in the shops, cutting sleeves off my brother's shirts and buying studded belts from Kensington Market. Taping The Tube on Friday nights before going out to meet my friends.
Free festivals in London Parks in the summers, saw so many great bands between 84-86. The Pogues, The Men they couldn't hang, The Boothill Foottappers, The Style Council, The Frank Chickens, The Communards...

Was just thinking about those years and wondering what other people's memories were of those years... no judgement here !

I was at Glasto in 84 as well. The line up the previous year had been brilliant and i was really disappointed with the 84 line up. In fact I only ventured out for the Smiths.

I was 13, also living in London but with much less cool musical taste than you, OP! I loved Wham, Culture Club and Madonna. I’d gone a lot more indie by the time I was 16.

Ooh I think I went to Glastonbury that year too! I remember Elvis Costello playing, and getting stuck in the mud. Don't remember much else about it tbh.

Pixie boots! Mine were burgundy suede and I lurrrrved them.

I was just a newborn baby in 1984.

You sound very cool though OP, I love the sound of your dyed jeans, studded belts and brothers ripped shirts, I was never that cool in 1998 when I was 14!

I was at uni, listening to Lloyd Cole, Frankie, Echo and the Bunnymen, OMD, U2 etc, wearing fingerless gloves, Bananarama-style dungarees and a curly perm, backcombed and hairsprayed rigid. Loved seeing live bands at uni, but was quite lonely, didn't really find 'my crowd'. Did start my first sexual relationship in 1984 though.

I was 14 too, I couldn't believe how cool sone of you were then I remembered I was in rural Lincolnshire and it was school disco and leg warmers and cycling to youth club. My sister would tape the Top 40 though.
Awesomely I still have the double LP of the first Now That's what I call Music which I got for Christmas 83. And a purple glittery scarf from the German exchange trip.

I was 10 and a massive Wham fan! Remember sat eating angel delight on my birthday sneezing reading sweet valley high books under the covers. Got my pink wallpaper with clouds on.

I was 5 and have a very clear memory of buying the Live Aid single on vinyl from Woolworths. I think we went to Greece that year, my first time on a plane. I mainly obsessed with my roller boots and my Raleigh Budgie bike, I used to play out on the street, wore leg warmers and ra ra skirts and loved Lional Ritchie.

I was 11 and loved Howard Jones as well so I've enjoyed reading about the other fans here. I saw him live in 1985.
School Discos and friends disco birthday partys were highlights of my life.
The A Team was my fav TV show and I adored Murdoch. I collected cuttings of him from the TV Times.

19, just started work in London and sharing a house in South London. One of my house mates had a really good voice and used to sing “There must be an angel” by the Eurhythmics. Also remember her singing “I feel for you” by Chaka Khan. Saw The Cure live in Nice when I was on holiday. Had an absolutely brilliant time until I moved overseas just after my 22nd birthday. Still in contact with most of my housemates and see them quite often.

I also remember the house always smelling of burnt hair from my sisters lethal hair crimpers!

I was 19. Second year at university in Blunkett's Sheffield. Full maintenance grant, 5p bus fares and could sign on in the holidays. Miners strike and The Leadmill
Too many memories for one post but thank you OP - you have made my evening.

That’s the one! Thank you

@LadyOfTheCanyon

I was also 14 in 1984 but lived in the US.
I, too, fell in love with the "Unforgettable Fire" and "Brilliant Trees". I haven't stopped being a huge fan of both for over 40 years.

1984 was such a fantastic year for me.
I loved the music, the fashions, hanging out with my friends and I was just so happy and that year has the best memories for me.

I was 10

I was obsessed with Wham and snogging posters of George Michael from my ‘Girl’
magazine:,

I spent a lot of time outside, free. My friends and me would go on long bike rides through the countryside finding the biggest hill we could to fly down. We were also obsessed with wildlife, camping out to see badgers, kidnapping baby rabbits (!) and I remember my teacher was Mrs Lee and I won the annual competition which was just to do a ‘project’ (I’d never heard that word before) about a topic of interest. I did mine on hedgehogs and somehow managed to glue real hedgehog spikes into the ‘project’. I still think that’s what will have won it for me! My vague recollection is a run over hedgehog and cutting off spikes!!

, it might also have been about the time we got into BMXing and trying to do jumps on the quarter pipe my dad had built for my brother. I was especially shit at that.

My childhood would be frowned upon on mn….I was rarely supervised!

I was 14 in 1984 too!

I remember wearing dungarees and thinking I was the BUSINESS in them, with one luminous orange sock and one luminous green sock. Good grief. That sounds bad when I type it. I also (omg) loved Wham.

What a lovely upbeat thread! I was in my first year at uni in 1984. Remember seeing the Smiths (complete with the daffodils Morrisey was so fond of!) I was very into U2 and Simple Minds but loved ETBG's Eden as mentioned in the OP. Played it all the time. I remember dressing mainly in black and grey and hobbling around the place in long calf length pencil skirts. Remember dancing a lot to Blue Monday at the uni disco!

I have had an enduring love of The Edge since 1982 as well.

Let's face it, there was a lot of beauty in the Japan boys and Charlie Burchill from Simple Minds is still my babe. sigh xx

I was working in greater london in supplementary benefits (the old version of universal credits). I had chairs lobbed towards me and people threatening to glue themselves to the counter. It was the time of strikes and recession. A bit deja vu.

Spent the summer making sure I was home to watch v.

I loved the new romantics music era stuff. I had white leather ankle boots studded with fake jewels. A favourite skirt was peach, long, fitted over waist and hips, Molly Ringwald was my style icon as i looked a bit like her. I had a wonderful pair of red button fly 501's. I had an eye shadow pallet with loads of different colours and I'd try to get as many in my eyes as i could at any one time. Hair was big and high and a fire risk! I was head over heels for a boy with big hair.

Oh wow, yeh, LOVED V

I was 24. Great job. Great flat. Having a wonderful time in London. and I was a size 8 to 10.

There were a lot of balls and a lot of flirting. It was the era of the ball gown and of staying up and watching the dawn.

I was 17 and doing A levels, studying 1984 and it had been released as a film plus the Eurythmics song.

Loved the music and was enjoying life