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

I remember Gary Davis on Radio One announcing that he was playing the new Wham record, Wake me up before you go go. I sat and waited ages until he finally played it as I was a massive fan.

Charlie (Blue) perfume
Lace perfume
Eastenders omnibus Sunday afternoon
Brookside Saturday teatime
Bullseye and Howard's way ( loved the theme tune)on a Sunday.
Roller skates
Permed mullet
Feeling very grown up in silky blouse with necklace attached from 'Kylie' in M&Co.
Jeans with Flintstones transfers.
The England shell suit
Reebok 'The Pump' trainers ( late 80,'s I think) I lusted after- but never got.
Bangles with water and glitter in them.
Sweet secrets toys
Keepers toys ( pink snail)
Care bears
My little Pony
Jem and the misfits.( Flashing earrings)

I remember my mum and aunt on the cottage cheese diet all the time

Indulge your inner 80s kid Rollerball lip glosses are back.

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Having to wait nearly a year to see new episodes of a TV programme you liked if it was made in America.

This guy tweets out screenshots of programme details from old TV guides hes saved going right back to the 60s.

twitter.com/Adrian_Dalby

Fascinating.

Frosted denim
Wimpy fast food
Body Shop strawberry or kiwi lip balm in glass pots

Watching TOTP with all my pals on Thursday night
Charts followed by Annie Nightingale, used to listen to that while soaking in the bath on Sunday night
Buying Top Deck and sweetie cigs to pretend to be drinking and smoking
Going to the shop for Malibu and 20 Consulate when we actually started drinking and smoking
Rimmel Black Cherry lipstick and Wella Shock Waves hairspray (goth)

Baby shrimp lipstick
Just 17 magazine
Mizz magazine
The young ones
Ra Ra skirts / dresses
White stilletos
Top of the Pops on a Thursday
Charles in charge
Pacers ( sweets )
Driving an hour to try a Macdonalds
C4 starting
Breakfast tv starting
Dallas
Duran Duran
Later 80 ‘s .......
Snakebite and black
Mad dog 20/20
Soul to soul
Bright red vamp lipstick
Levi 501’s
Doc martens
REM
Boys

Bright coloured plastic jewellery.
Wearing bodies out under your jeans - murder to do up again, especially when pissed.

Falklands conflict. Miners' Strike. Margaret Thatcher was PM, and Labour had a succession of leaders including Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock.

Frizzy perms. I had them. You just raked your hair with an affro comb each morning.

Big shoulder pads. Blouses with big frilly necks and sleeves.

Punk rock.

Most of today's Radio 2 presenters were on Radio 1 in those days.

Dewberry and White Musk perfume from the body shop.
Leg warmers.
Massive shoulder pads.
Soda streams (if you were a posh family)
Big yellow teapot (kids toy)

Puffball skirts
McDonalds birthday parties (if you were really lucky)

The new charts were released every week on Tuesday lunchtime on Radio 1. We used to sneak off with transistor radios to listen at the other side of the school field. We used to post a lookout because the radios were banned (that never stopped us)

White cowboy boots with tassle fringes as decoration.

Early 80’s - ra ra skirts & pixie boots. New Romantics. Tainted love. Girls on Film. ( long bleached fringes and blouses that buttoned up diagonally like a dentist). Shaders and toners. Scarves draped. Blue eye liner on the waterline. Back combed hair. Multicoloured eye shadow. Roller discos. Woolworths. Blue Jeans and Jackie magazines. Plastic earrings. Taping the Top 40 countdown from the radio. Walkmans. Later 80’s - Oversized T shirts with low slung plastic belts and pencil skirts. Stilettos in pastel shades. Taboo and Lemonade or Diamond white. Perms. Footloose.

Lipcote
Live Aid
Radio 1 roadshows with Smiley Miley.
Watching Dallas and Dynasty.
Watching the Young Ones (it was filmed locally, I've been in the pub that they used as The Kebab and Calculator)
Robin of Sherwood with Michael Praed.
Casuals.
Sloane Rangers.

Grew up in Glasgow, born 1980.

Remember Razzle Dazzle and Wimpy parties where everyone would pile on to whatever poor sod had the misfortune to be wearing the Mr Wimpy costume that day

Attending the Smash Hits party. Aha concerts. Going to the WHAM FINALE. Belinda Carlisle. Tracey Chapman concerts....#GoodTimes

Art college in the '80s, great times!

'The Face' magazine was my bible
The Tube on telly was a must watch
Crimpers and backcomb to buggery
Crazy colour
Buckle boots and fishnet tights
Siouxsie Sioux and Pete Murphy (and Ian Astbury from The Cult of course)
Clubbing
Sobranie black russian cigarettes
Latex dresses and the necessary baby powder

Walkmans
Calculator watches
Garbage Pail Kid stickers
Going Live, Edd the Duck and the Broom Cupboard on Saturday mornings
Austin cars
Teasmaids
Bullseye on telly (where you could win a teasmaid!)
Hostess trolleys
Rod Hull and Emu (and Grot Bags, of course)
Russ Abbott
Paul Daniels
Only 4 channels - and if you didn't see a programme when it was on (unless you had a VHS or Betamax recorder), you'd missed it
Video lending libraries
Normal libraries that had books and nothing else (other than the odd journal or periodical) - they also carried a full set of UK phone books which took up several massive long shelves
As a PP said, taping the charts from the radio - and having to have everybody stay completely quiet whilst you did so!
Spooling cassettes to the end before turning them over
Corona pop bottles, which always had sticky sugar-residue around the outside of the neck - and with a returnable deposit charged
Little yellow metal sweet machines on the outside of corner shops
Huge charity collecting boxes outside shops in the shape of a disabled girl or boy - or a guide dog
No internet
No mobile phones

St Moritz cigarettes - so beautiful and sophisticated with that gold band around the white cig with the turquoise writing and the turquoise and gold pack. Or at least, I thought so when I was 16.

Saturday night TV. Snug with parents in sitting room. Catch phrase, knight rider, gladiators, Baywatch. Good old days....

What was that french soap / drama that was on the TV? It had a really catchy opening song... Does anyone recall?

I remember neil kinnock always seemed to be shouting at thatcher, and the news always seemed to be about strikes and recession and IRA bombs. And the Berlin Wall came down.

Shell suits.

Mummyshark2019 Chateauvallon? I remember the song .