Fuzzbox - International Rescue (1989)

The band were orginally called "We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It", but wisely decided to shorten it to just "Fuzzbox" for their US releases, and this soon caught on in the UK. This was the girl bands first hit from the 1989 album "Big Bang".

Visit the new Fuzzbox page - click here!

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power of Love 2009

This is the new 2009 version of "The Power of Love", performed here in Germany by Holly Johnson.

See the lead singer of Frankie Goes To Hollywood performing in the new Relax 2009 video - click here to see

80s Videos, 80s Music,  80s Video Games, 80s TV,  80s Fashion, 80s Cars, 80s Toys

This website is dedicated entirely to the 80's, Eighties and 1980's - or whatever you want to call them! Read on to discover what was hot, and what was not so hot in this amazing decade. 

Apart from Thatcherism, yuppies, miner's strikes, recession, shoulder pads, the mullet, multi-coloured leg warmers, puffball skirts, cabbage patch dolls, the ZX81 computer, Sinclair C5 and mobile phones the size of a brick, the Eighties were really rather good!

The intention of this site is to show people just what people were really up to in this brilliant decade, using videos wherever possible.

I have very fond memories of the 80s. I was at school until 1984, and the music and fashions of the time were just incredibly exciting.

Unlike today, you knew virtually every song in the pop charts. Every week kids up and down the country would eagerly await the new Top 40 on Radio 1, with a blank cassette in hand ready to tape each song off the radio.

Of course, the tricky part was editing out the DJ's voice and joining the songs together!

Men at Work

Sadly, "Land Down Under" has been taken off Youtube. However, this song "Who Can It Be Now" from 1981 is still a catchy tune and one that you may not of heard before outside of the U.S. and Australia. This failed to reach the top 40 in the UK, but was No.1 in the U.S. and No.2 in Australia.

Their biggest UK hit "Land Down Under" was one of my favourite tunes from the 80s, and was a No.1 in the UK singles chart in 1981.

MARRS (M/A/R/R/S) - Pump Up The Volume

This was a 1987 one-hit wonder and was considered to be the first UK number one to contain samples from other songs.

Remember Smash Hits magazine? They also released several compilation albums.

Actually, this T-Shirt logo was the unofficial one as the real one said "Frankie Say Relax", not "Frankie Says Relax" as Frankie was a band, not an individual!

So what's on this site?

Well, you'll find lots of great 80's piccies, classic 80's games, 80's music, 80's videos, free 80's widgets that you can add to your  own web pages, and a whole lot more!

Whatever age you are, you're sure to find something of interest on this site.Younger ones among you will be able to find something that you have never come across before. If you're a bit older (like me!), you'll be able to relive those golden moments of the 80s! You may also discover things that you have completely forgotten about, or maybe didn't know about in the first place!

Whatever your reasons for being here, please enjoy your experience!

Those wonderful retro TV Logos!

Wow! These eighties TV logos really bring back fond memories, that's for sure! I remember watching TVAM on ITV, just before I had to go to school, and getting a right rollicking for being late! Breakfast telly had only just begun and was a real novelty in the early eighties.

Most of these TV logos were animated, and are from the days when we only had three TV channels! Even though we now have dozens of channels, I still used to find more interesting stuff to watch then, than I do now!

          Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle       

This single was taken from Simple Minds' sixth studio album, New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84), which released in 1982. It was the first album to feature a slick and sophisticated sound, to the annoyance of hardcore fans!

Visit our Simple Minds page to see more videos

simplyeighties not simply80s

I thought I'd better mention this. If you type in simply80s to find us, the first listings that appear in most search engines will come up with the website for an 80's tribute band. If you want to find out more about them then visit the simply80s.com website. To listen to their tracks visit them at myspace.com

www.liketotally80s.com/80s-fashion.html


Hmm, she looks like a transvestite!

During the first half of the 1980s I was still at secondary school. Like many local kids, I used to walk to and from school every day. Sometimes I used to cycle to school,  but then you had the worry that some moron would try to vandalise your bike.

I didn't have that worry at primary school during the seventies, probably because it was a catholic school run by Nun's, and nobody would dare to upset Sister Jarleth! But everyone seemed very happy there, and very well disciplined. Sadly, this discipline was lacking at the local comprehensive school.

Computer lessons in the early eighties were only available to around half a dozen kids, and they were learning to program ZX81's! There were no home music keyboards around, which made music lessons extremely boring. The only instrument I learnt to play was the recorder, and no matter how well you played it, it always sounded awful!

However, I did join the Synthesizer Club, and that was pretty fascinating.  I can't remember what make of synth's were being used, but there there were only two available. I guess in those days they were incredibly expensive.

Today, virtually every child has an LCD colour TV in their bedroom. In the early eighties, I had one of those 12 inch black and white models with a large tuning knob on the front! It was great fun tuning in to all those channels - all three of them - just like on a radio. Whenever it was foggy outside, you could pick up some French channels - I loved foggy days!

There were no mobile phones, of course, but I did have a Citizens Band (CB) radio. They were great fun as you could speak to people totally free of charge for as long as you wanted! No worrying about call charges. The only downside was that you could only reach people within a ten mile radius! I had a cheap Audioline, but some of the CB geeks had really expensive models that could reach out much further.

In 1985 I actually got a Amstrad colour TV for my bedroom! Channel 4 was just becoming available in our area, too. It was a great TV and lasted for about ten years. I also remember having one of those Amstrad Tower Hi-Fi systems, with a record player on the top and storage space underneath to keep your vinyl.

I think the 80's were exciting times to live in. All of the exciting new technologies were just coming out, and I can remember just being really happy most of the time. Just like today, we ate a lot of junk food such as sweets, chocolates, fizzy pop and crisps. But the main difference is that we used to cycle or walk everywhere. The word "diet" just wasn't in our vocabularies.

Spandau Ballet - Through The Barricades (1986)

Spandau Ballet were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s, achieving ten Top Ten singles and four Top Ten albums in the UK between 1980 and 1990.

This was the excellent title track from the Through The Barricades album and it reached No.6 in the UK singles chart.