Anyone watching I love the '80s on BBC2?

[thornrose]

Oops upside your head, get on the floor...

I remember rumours about his gf Pat Hernandez not really being a gf but I don't remember being aware of beards etc then. And yes Rock Hudson had only died the year before and people were genuinely shocked

I loved the duet with Aretha Franklin and the one with Mary J Blige too.

That last hour has made me really happy. But a teeny bit sad IYKWIM.

Actually I'm surprised he's that young!

Me too Sparkling. Such great music but where did the time go..?

The 80s were just such a brilliant time for me, and that was basically the soundtrack to it.

I might go in the loft tomorrow and get my memorabilia down. I offered to show the DSs but they didn't want to see it all.

Great times for me too. I'm getting sentimental because I'm aware my dd probably won't look back at her teenage years in the same way. She has AS and she's just not making those memories

Yep, me too. The friend that I mentioned down thread, who was a diehard Durannie like me, came to all the gigs with me, memorised every move and word of the videos, with whom I spent hours and hours discussing the finer points of Nick's latest eyeliner and slagging off John's many supermodel girlfriends ...she died about eight years ago and this stuff always reminds me of her... But in a good way!

It was so much fun being in love with pop music in the eighties!

I'm sorry thornrose. What is she into?

Oh just ignore me Sparkling I'm being silly. She loves music and it will trigger great family memories for her.

I have said this a lot on here, but we actually lived not far from JT's and NR's parents. We used to sit on the wall outside JT's parents' house and chat to his Mum.

One day he came home in the car. I just stood there like this.

Or we would hang about in Brum to try and see them at the Holiday Inn.

I think we were very sane and subdued compared to nowadays with 1D etc. I wasn't a hysterical screamer.

It's weird because in the 60's fans screamed over the Beatles and then they screamed over Justin Bieber then 1D etc but I don't remember screaming being big in the 80's!

I went to Duran Duran's nightclub in Birmingham, the Rum Runner in the early 80s. It was v cool and trendy and I was most excited that there were beautiful men doing their make up in the ladies toilets! Never saw Duran there tho :(

Thorn I think we were too cool to scream in the 80s!

I am sure there's film of Duran Duran getting screamed at getting into cars etc, footage of fans fainting at concerts?

I wonder how some people are reduced to tears and fainting and some aren't. Even as a young teen i thought it was a bit of a strange way to carry on.

I went to. Haircut 100 concert and 14 teenage girls fainted and had to be dragged out of the crowd by the security guards!

I think by the time I was a huge fan the Rum Runner was closed down Scarlet, we used to go on a Broad St pilgrimage and people had written all over the walls- messages to DD.

I haven't been into Birmingham centre for years now, I imagine it's very different.

It probably just didn't get the tv footage back then. I went to see Howard Jones he probably didn't make people want to scream

that 1980 prog. shocked they didn't mention the death of John Lennon yet went onb and on about JR/

sheena Easton and her hybrid American/Scottish accent!