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THE ULTIMATE ARTIST FOR THE 80S
Patrick Nagel was an American artist best known for his illustrations and paintings featuring stylized, graphic depictions of women. His...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Mar 7, 20232 min read


"We Are the World" or "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
"We Are the World" and "Do They Know It's Christmas?" are iconic songs created in the 1980s to raise awareness and funds for famine...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Mar 2, 20232 min read


"Well Tonight Thank God It's Them Instead Of You" Bono 1984
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a charity single originally recorded by the supergroup Band-Aid in 1984 to raise money for famine...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Mar 2, 20232 min read


"There Should Be More Girl Bands" Vix Perks 2022
We've Got a Fuzzbox, and We're Gonna Use It! (often shortened to Fuzzbox) was an all-female British rock band formed in 1985. The band...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Mar 2, 20232 min read


I Sang On A Face's Album When I Was 12" Sam Brown 2022
Sam Brown is a British singer, songwriter, and musician born in Stratford, East London, on October 7, 1964. She grew up in a musical...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Mar 2, 20232 min read


"He Just Played The Guitar Part, And There It Was" David Grant OBE 2022
David Grant is a British soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and vocal coach. He was born on August 8, 1956, in Hackney, London. He grew up...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Mar 2, 20232 min read


" I Felt It Was My Duty To Write A Hit Song" Ed Tudor-Pole 2022
Ed Tudor-Pole is a British musician, actor, and television presenter born in London, England, on December 6, 1954. He is best known for...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Mar 2, 20232 min read


"I Don't Remember Some Of The Nineties" Francis Dunnery 2022
It Bites is a British progressive rock and pop fusion band formed in 1982 in Egremont, Cumbria, England. The original lineup consisted of...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Mar 2, 20232 min read


"I Went Feel's, Like Heaven...It Just Came Out." Kevin Patterson 2022
Fiction Factory was a new Scottish wave band formed in 1983 in Perth, Scotland. The band consisted of Kevin Patterson on vocals, Chic...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Mar 2, 20231 min read


"The Album Took Ages To Make" Peter Coyle 2022
The Lotus Eaters were a British new wave band formed in Liverpool in 1982. The band was made up of Peter Coyle (vocals), Jeremy Kelly...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Mar 2, 20232 min read


"The Name Was a Reaction To The Clubs" Ivan Doroschuk 2022
Men Without Hats is a Canadian new wave/synth-pop band formed in 1977 by brothers Ivan and Stefan Doroschuk in Montreal, Quebec. A...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Feb 25, 20232 min read


" I Was a Shoe Maker" Junior Giscombe 2022
Junior Giscombe is a British singer, songwriter and musician born on 29 June 1957 in London, England. He first gained fame in the early...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Feb 25, 20232 min read


"George and Andrew were one unit" Simon Naper-Bell 2022
Simon Napier-Bell is a British music manager, writer, and songwriter who has played a significant role in the music industry since the...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Feb 25, 20231 min read


"We Went To Dinner At Micheal Jackson's House" Dennis Seaton 2022
Musical Youth was a British reggae band formed in 1979 in Birmingham, England. The original group members were two sets of brothers:...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Feb 25, 20232 min read


What is the best arcade game of the 80s?
The 1980s is widely regarded as the golden age of arcade gaming. It was a time when arcades were everywhere, and people would flock to...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Feb 25, 20233 min read


Why do people like the 80s so much?
The 1980s are often remembered with fondness by those who lived through them and by those who didn't but have become fans of pop culture...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Feb 25, 20232 min read


Is "Je Suis Un Rock Star" the strangest song from the 80s?
Is "Je Suis Un Rock Star" the strangest song from the 80s?

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Feb 24, 20232 min read


"I've Written More Books Than I've Read" Garth Marenghi
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a British horror comedy television series premiered in 2004. While the show is set in the 1980s, it was...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Feb 24, 20232 min read


"The Blokes Wanted To Hit Us Because Their Girlfriends Fancied Us" Andy Kyriacou 2022
Modern Romance was a British pop group that formed in 1980. The band was founded by Geoffrey Deane and David Jaymes, who met while...

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Feb 24, 20232 min read


I Signed Johnny Hates Jazz, But I Didn't Remember" Rusty Egan 2022
Rob, "The Face for Radio" Burgess, is chatting with Rusty Egan about DJ'ing and the legendary Blitz Club.

Robbie & Andy - Chatting Tracks
Feb 24, 20232 min read
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