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 !

1984 - fond memories - I was 18 and moved away from my rural village to start uni that year. I thought the halls of residence were a riot and I loved every minute. My student grant (no loans then) was about £600 for the term I think to cover rent bills food etc.

I was into Bruce Springsteen, Thin Lizzy, Prince, Lionel Ritchie and Wham to name a few - varied taste!

I went home once or twice a term but couldn’t afford the fare so hitch hiked including on the motorway slip roads!

i queued up for a phone box once every week or two to make a call to my parents for a few minutes - otherwise they never heard from me or I from them. No news was good news in those days.

I’d forgotten the sock craze! Round my way you were only something though if you had Kickers shoes. My neighbour had both and was sooooo much the Alpha Girl of the school because of it!

I was 10 but wow yes things were so different- good to remember!

I was 8yo. My over riding memory of that year is going to hospital because I had an ingrowing abcess in my armpit that could have given me sepsis if it had burst! I was in hospital for a few days and got a Sprite soft toy as a gift to make me feel better. A boy in my class had an op to have his appendix removed around the same time so we both got out of PE lessons and just messed about in thd class room while the others did PE. I still have a large scar in my armpit.

Other memories are only having a gas fire in the living room and a calor gas one at top of stairs so house was cold in winter and having to huddle near fire when first getting up or getting home.

We always watched children's TV while dinner was getting made and then dad would take over TV at 6pm for the news.

And the M25 being built, going on a bike ride and seeing it in progress

I graduated in 1984. Went to glasto (1985 was the muddy year, not 1984, was lovely that year). I loved all sorts of music but the one that takes me back to that last summer as a student is 99 Red Balloons

I was born!

I was at Manchester Poly age 21. It was the place to be. Sat opposite Mozza on a bus.

New Order, Smiths, Simply Red, Tony Wilson. All down the Hac all the time. We’d see them in all the clubs and pubs just hanging out.

We used to see the name ‘Stone Roses’ graffitied everywhere. And used to ask each other ‘Who are they?’😂

Those days of back combing my hair, spraying it, smoking a fag and feeling it all crackling in my throat😂

OMG, I can identify with this!!
My husband looks a lot like The Edge 😉pure coincidence of course!
He even wears a beanie and plays guitar, can't do an Irish accent though.....

Impressed by all you cool folk going to Glasto in its heyday

I can honestly say I hadn’t even heard of it until 1993 when I went to uni. I was a proper country bumpkin

I was 17 left school 10 days before 18th. Was a shy teen didn’t fit in loved Duran Duran Bronski beat Howard jones. 007 fan massive no posters on walls not allowed out at night. First job yts scheme was happy there allowed there for 18 months instead of 12.

Wow what memories!

@Appalonia why was an air raid siren going off in 1984?!

I was 16 and taking O level Eng Lit which included "1984"!

I love this because it was so different to my experience but I can totally see people a couple of years earlier for whom this sort of thing was their arc.

Oh my goodness the stress of the school disco!

I can assure you I wasn't cool by any stretch of the imagination! My friends were all into Wham and FGTH and I had to keep my love for U2 and The Cult on the downlow!

Started at liverpool poly in 1984 to study modern languages. Met my ex partner at freshers and little did I know we'd be together almost 30 years 😮 Remember seeing Aztec camera in the student union, then The Cult and Here and Now. Absolutely loved liverpool and studying languages.

Ha ha, JanglyBeads I was doing O levels in 1984 then too and sure I didn’t make the connection between the book and the year!!

Just remember a long, long summer lying down and dreaming. My friend and I snuck into Reading festival as it was easy to get in in those days without a ticket, or with a couple of tickets between several of us! Weekend tickets were £25..

I was 7 in 1984. I don't have many specific memories. I remember watching Daley Thompson at the Olympics, being at primary school and not much else. It's so interesting to me because my DD is currently 7. I can't help but wonder what she will remember in 38 years time!

I was 4. But I was listening to the unforgettable fire today for the first time in ages, forgot how good it was.

This is all so wonderful! I had no idea when I started the thread that people would respond with so many fantastic memories'

Married 7 years and was 28. Went to France to stay in a gîte for the first time. Had a 1.8 Astra gte and kept getting overtaken by race-tuned 2cv's.

I was only 4 but I have memories of the miners strike.
I remember being very poor, eating meals like cabbage soup and asking my mum why she wasn't eating with us. She would feed us but sometimes didn't have enough for herself.
I remember the coal wagon coming and giving my Dad free sacks of coal and I also remember we had to go in the house through the back door for weeks because my mum lost her front door key and couldn't afford to get one cut.

I was getting married in a meringue and haunting many local and not so local pubs as a diversion from getting to grips with the expenses of running a house, actually paying for food then cooking it all set to a backdrop of the best music ever.

80's are my favourite decade.

Oh my goodness, everything about this resonates with me. I had such a crush on a big haired, slim hipped individual at the time.