9 h. ago 80s music icon dies after health battle as 'heartbroken' bandmate pays six

An 80s music star has sadly died and his bandmate has issued a short statement following the announcement as fans gather on social media to pay tribute

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18 h. ago 9 things we all wish we did in the 80s but you probably didn't

There were some things we almost all did in the 80s, like experimenting with big hair and neon clothing.

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3 d. ago The Newsreader review – if this powerful Aussie drama were a US show, it’d be a smash hit

This 80s-set Australian show about rival newscasters is the best kind of period drama. It’s soapy, highly dramatic and wonderfully campThe Newsreader is the best kind of period piece in that it makes you reflect not only on the past but on the present. The first two seasons of this Australian drama about rival newscasters managed to cram in some of the biggest events of the 80s: the Challenger disaster; the Aids crisis; rumours of the end of Charles and Diana’s marriage.As well as seeing the impact those stories had on the world, the series hinged on some perennial themes, too – women being sidelined in the workplace; homophobia; mental illness; and what drives people to stay in their jobs even when everything around them is dripping with toxicity. To watch The Newsreader in an age of boundaries and therapy-speak is to feel at once privileged not to be working in broadcast television in the 1980s, and acutely aware that many of the problems still persist today. As unsettling as it i...

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5 d. ago Club that had Boy George working its cloakroom shaped the 1980s

The Blitz nightclub in Covent Garden was only open for 18 months and only on Tuesday nights - but it become the crucible for a cultural revolution and launched the careers of some of the biggest stars of the 80s

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6 d. ago Bruce Loose brought his own unique blend of complexity and a menacing darkness to San Francisco punks Flipper | Stevie Chick

The singer, who died from a heart attack on 5 September, ripped up the two-minute hardcore song blueprint and won over a legion of fans including Kurt Cobain and Jane’s AddictionAs the blitzing tempo and mosh pit violence of hardcore swept the US in the early-80s, San Francisco punks Flipper – whose frontman, Bruce Loose, died this weekend of a heart attack – assumed a provocative stance, choosing sarcastic nihilism over dumb machismo and swapping high-velocity thrash for menacing, slow-as-sludge post-punk jams. In an era of 7in singles packed with 30-second screeds, Flipper would draw their tunes out to 20-or-more minutes of grind, fielding spiteful comparisons to hated hippies the Grateful Dead as bassist and founder Will Shatter warned audiences, “the more you heckle us, the longer this song gets”.But the true “culprit for any pissing off of audiences”, as drummer Steve DePace told Scene Point Blank in 2022, was Loose. Born Bruce Calderwood, in the late 70s Loose cashed in a life...

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7 d. ago Doja Cat grosses out fans with bizarre act on the 2025 MTV VMAs red carpet

Rocking a funky 80s-inspired look, the Grammy Award-winning hitmaker, 29, undoubtedly turned heads upon her arrival at the starry event in New York City.

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7 d. ago Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review – whodunnit threequel is murderously good fun

Toronto film festival: after Glass Onion underwhelmed, Rian Johnson’s self-aware, star-packed Benoit Blanc series makes a barnstorming return to formIf Glass Onion wasn’t quite the deserving follow-up to Knives Out that many of us had hoped it would be (it was more focused on the bigger rather than better), it was at the very least a deserved victory lap. Writer-director Rian Johnson’s 2019 whodunnit brought us back to the starry, slippery fun of the 70s and 80s, when films like this would be a dime a dozen and it was a surprise hit, making almost eight times its budget at the global box office. While Kenneth Branagh had seen commercial success already with his Poirot revival two years prior, his retreads felt too musty, and the actor-director too miscast, for the genre to truly feel like it was entering an exciting new period.Johnson’s threequel, Wake Up Dead Man, is the second as part of his Netflix deal (one that cost an estimated $450m) and arrives as the whodunnit genre has fou...

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8 d. ago Eurythmics legend Dave Stewart creates history with huge accolade

A music icon made history after a legendary member of 80s band Eurythmics was inducted into a brand new Wall of Fame and shared their pride at the accolade

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9 d. ago Hiker, 85, trampled to death by herd of cows in front of his horrified wife

A couple, aged in their 80s, were hiking in Austria's Styria province with their dog when a herd of nine cows suddenly attacked them and trampled the man to death

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9 d. ago Scotland retro: 34 intoxicating photos of popular pub landlords and landladies from the 80s to the noughties

Let’s raise a glass to these fine men and women who have kept the beer flowing at much-loved pubs around Scotland over the years.

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1 week ago Tragedy that left Giorgio Armani 'indifferent to love': Designer who dated 'women and sometimes men' lived with his business partner until his death

The Italian fashion designer, who has passed away aged 91 , dated both men and women, but only commented on his relationships a mere handful of times during his lifetime.

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1 week ago Portobello review – Marco Bellocchio’s glorious saga of TV stars, mafia prisoners and lace doilies

Venice film festivalIn the first two episodes of a six-part series, the stardom of 80s primetime host Enzo Tortora is cleverly crosscut with the scramble of a mob secretary who implicates him – and his parrot – in drug traffickingMarco Bellocchio, the tireless warhorse of Italian cinema, kicks up a swirling dust cloud of corruption with this fabulous, stranger-than-fiction account of an 80s TV star convicted of conspiring with the Camorra. Shot for the streaming service HBO Max, it is the director’s second historical miniseries after 2022’s Exterior Night, about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, and features the same lead player in Fabrizio Gifuni, an actor who has surely cornered the market in playing glossy public figures whose lives are about to take a hellish turn. Bellocchio’s dramas typically inhabit this kind of shonky, venal moral universe. The ground is liable to drop away pretty much at any moment.Gifuni stars as Enzo Tortora, a primetime TV presenter in the twinkling Terry Wog...

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1 week ago Pensioner left injured after horrific home invasion as police hunt suspects

A woman in her 80s was attacked after three suspects broke into the house

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1 week ago 12 famous mascots and logos you may remember from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and noughties that have disappeared

They were some of the most recognisable characters and logos of their day

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1 week ago Nostalgic watches from the 70s and 80s that could sell for a small fortune now

Watchmakers are urging owners of certain models, particularly from the late 70s and early 80s, to check their collection.

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1 week ago Trendy watches from the 1970s and 1980s that could fetch up to £800 now

Watchmakers are urging owners of certain models, particularly from the late 70s and early 80s, to check their collection as some could be worth a small fortune

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2 w. ago Lucky escape for pensioner, 92, and woman as their car overturns near Lord’s Cricket Ground

Man and woman in her 80s taken separately to a major trauma centre and a nearby hospital following St John’s Wood incident

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2 w. ago Punk 80s legend Ray Mayhew dead as bandmate pays tribute to 'best friend'

Sigue Sigue Sputnik were a British new wave band formed in 1982 by former Generation X bassist Tony James.

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2 w. ago Iconic 80s synth pop pioneer dies as bandmate pays tribute to a 'force of light'

Ray Mayhew, who was the drummer in the iconic 80s band Sigue Sigue Sputnik, has died, it has been confirmed. His bandmate Martin Degville has paid tribute to the star

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2 w. ago 11 things you'll only remember if you worked in an office during the 80s or 90s, including sounds and smells

When it comes to office life, some things never change.

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