To ask for your Eighties memories

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Hi! I'm starting a project based on my mum's memories of being a teen/ young woman in Eighties Glasgow, and would be delighted if anyone who lived there at the time would share any memories or stories. Especially about what you wore, the music you liked, your memories of the city at the time.
This thread is also open to anyone who lived elsewhere in the UK and fancies sharing what their Eighties were like! Thanks everybody, I can smell the Cacharel LouLou from here grin

Adam Ant was my god.
I’d go out with Eddie Kidd but only if Adam was busy bit then Jon Bon Jovi came into my life.

Greeborising

I bet you were

I had forgotten about scented rubbers!

Also played Marbles!

I had THE BEST ra ra skirt EVER!
It had a print of big leaves on it
Helena I bought all the cherry roller ball lipgloss- sorry.
I also loved the watermelon lip salve.
It was red with black bits in it

Oooooh King scented rubbers!
Marbles was brilliant, I loved collecting them and beating everyone
Mind you that was probably in the 70’s when you would flick them into holes in the mud

I wasn't living in glasgow but family are weegie so visited regularly, my memories are:

What every woman wants
Razzle dazzle - fashion shops somewhat akin to primark now cheap & cheerful latest fashion, weww was clothes and shoes, razzle dazzle shoes, hosiery and accessories

Tower records - massive record shop could easily spend hours browsing

Garden festival

Full sugar irn bru and creamola foam

Non glasgow memories:

Wham! Huge George fan
All the other great music - Madonna, Whitney, a-ha, wet wet wet but also the crap really cheesy stuff like black lace, tight fit, the birdy song, bad manners' can can...

Illicitly recording the charts on a Sunday eve, needing to be quick with the pause button so you didn't record djs voiceover

Fashion - ski pants, pixie boots, white stilletoes, scrunchies, banana clips, power dressing, baggy jeans, ripped jeans, "snazzy" braces and ties, batwing sleeves, pedal pushers, perms galore! Massive overuse of "styling products" (mousse, then gel then spray - no wonder the ozones fucked), strong perfumes and colognes, Top shop used to be cheap like primark is now!

Shops - Chelsea girl, dolcis Shoes, our price records, woolies for records too (cheaper but only really carried chart stuff), Tammy girl, Athena (for fabulous prints of naked men holding babies 😂)

"Appointment tv" - didn't get a vcr till late 80's but enjoyed programmes as they screened, I especially liked "watershed dramas" the equalizer, Cagney and Lacey, the gentle touch, the Sweeney, Londons burning etc

Magazines - smash hits, blue jeans, Jackie, look in, just 17...

Tech - Walkmans, game and watch, zx spectrum

Negatives:

Miners strike
Riots
AIDS scare
Thatcherism

Helena I liked blackcurrant gloss.

London - huge Scottish music fandom, we bought the vinyl, went to the gigs at various London student unions and occasionally somewhere a bit grander like the Hammersmith Palais, Camden Palace or The Lyceum - Bluebells, Deacon Blue, Altered Images, Friends Again, Orange Juice, Love and Money, The Associates, Aztec Camera (still one of my favourite bands), The Blow Monkeys, Hue and Cry (also still one of my favourite bands), Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Hipsway, The Waterboys - but never ever Wet Wet Wet. Maybe we'd been brainwashed into loving all things Scottish by having Pippa Dolls with Bay City Roller outfits in the 70s! Muriel Gray also did a fine job of promoting Scotland every Friday night on The Tube during the 80s and Gary Crowley championed Scottish bands on Capital Radio.

There was a blackcurrant one???????????

I was a teenager in the 80’s and lived in Glasgow in the late 80’s when I was 18.
We went to lots of gigs at the amazing Barralands Lloyd Cole, Love and Money, Hipsway, Housemartins loads of others. We went clubbing at the Sub Club (still there) Fury Murray’s Bennett’s and all the Student Unions. We drank in Curlers on Byres Road and the Rock Garden. We used to meet at Boots corner and hang out in the Virgin Megastore then shopping in Miss Selfridge and Chelsea Girl before going to the Wimpy in George Square. Happy, carefree times.

Midlands

Constance Carroll make up
Boots 17 make up, electric blue mascara and fuschia pink lips
Insette Spikey hairspray
Studded belts
C&A Clockhouse
Harrington jackets
Snow washed denim
Sun In
Wedge haircuts
Shaders and Toners sachets
Obsession perfume
Pringle jumpers worn by teenage boys (I remember around 1984 that the mother of a boy in my class died so we all clubbed together and bought him a Pringle )
Drinking Bezique and lemonade and being let into a local nightclub at the age of 14 by one of the bouncers who was a PE teacher at school.

Gonna withdraw ma labour of loooove
Gonna strike for the right to get into your heart yeah
Rum and black, reapplying my cherry lipgloss and getting my groove on
Oh the days

Harrington jackets!!
Oh I’m going to have to stop!

is anyone else feeling old and wondering what the hell happened?

Or is it just me.

You know what Helena ?
I’m feeling empowered!
Really I’m remembering the person I was then and am channeling it now to get my body in a reasonable shape for summer and be as brave as I was then

Realising that these memories are all over 30 years ago ..yup feeling pretty old

Levi's 501 jeans. Getting your hands on a pair of those when you lived in a country town in N Ireland made you the coolest person in town.

And what were those T shirts that changed colour according to the heat?

isabelle Global Hypercolour?

Yes, Global Hypercolour, that's what I was thinking of. Thank you, that was driving me mad.

YY @tothesea

thirty years prior to the 80s was the 50s and that felt like a historical era to me then as a kid.

I had a moment recently when I realised that the Falklands war, which I remember as a child, was as distant to my children, in terms of occurring X number of years before they were born, as WW2 was to me (born mid 70s).

Anyone ever sat in a cold bath in their Levi’s rubbing them with a Brillo pad?

YES Ive been having a few moments like that lately.

Watching vintage TV shows ive remembered some scenes and quotes really vividly and it doesnt SEEM like 30 + years ago but it is. Time is a strange thing.

I had one of the TV tie in novels of The Equalizer Book 3 Blood and Wine.

I had loads of the Sweet Valley High books.

I had some of the TV tie in novels of Neighbours as well

isabelle I felt old when my son was studying the Cold War up to 1991 for his History A Level
1991 can’t possibly be history, it just feels like last week!

I was born in 1968..that was only 23 years after the end of WW2 .
23 years ago from now is only 1996.
Wrap your head around that!

I was born in1973 In 1989 when i was sixteen 1973 seemed a lifetime ago.

Sixteen years ago from now was 2003 which seems two minutes ago.