Archived entries for 1980's

Malcolm Mclaren - Madame Butterfly

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Malcolm Mclaren the man who discovered the Sex Pistols and managed to milk a fairly good career off the back of it, did come up with a few classic along the way, this being one of them..Madame Butterfly

Malcom Mclaren - Madame Butterfly

P.S I know this might sound hideously dated but hey thats what the 80’s was all about..the soundtrack to a bratpack movie..

The 80’s - what you missed - Classix Nouveaux

Check out this very low budget Classix Nouveaux video from the 80’s, dry ice, rubber suits and sub Spandau Ballet guitars..and of course a very bald man..dont you wish you were there..

Whilst we’re on the 80’s..

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Well we couldnt resist, the hair, the make, the androgyny..what a decade..yes its Visage - Fade to Grey..superb!

In The Line of Beauty

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The Booker Prize winning tale of life, love and obsession set against the greed and corruption of Thatcher’s decade of excess - the 80’s. Strangely touching and poignant, especially if you were around during those vacuous times.

“It’s 1983. Margaret Thatcher has just been reelected. The economy’s in ruins. AIDS hovers in the background. And 20-year-old Nicholas Guest, a naïve, gay, Henry James scholar about to start his doctorate, has just moved into the Freddens’ blissful Kensington Park Gardens mansion. And he’ll do just about anything to stay.”

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