Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius That Defined the '80s Jones Dylan
Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius That Defined the '80s Jones Dylan The Eighties were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the…
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Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius That Defined the '80s Jones Dylan
The Eighties were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop, and ultimately geopolitical chaos. So we move seamlessly from Rapper's Delight and the genre defining moment of hip hop into The Specials' spectral, Ghost Town; from ABC and the apotheosis of New Pop (The Look of Love) to Madonna's breakthrough moment with Like a Virgin, and so on. Using a big narrative approach, Dylan Jones' history of the decade in pop frames the decade through some of its most important and popular hits, choosing records which either epitomised their time, or ushered in a new cultural shift.
In the '80s each year brought a new twist as technology shifted and genres snowballed, MTV reigned supreme and the story of pop became globalised. It was