➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2026 ➤ Hockney RIP: How Proust helped him understand cubism

2026 ➤ Seven definitive books about the 80s subcultural revolution in the UK

2026 ➤ Sunday at 6pm: Share your grief over Finbar Sullivan

2026 ➤ What made Molly the inimitable

2025 ➤ No telling how often I fell in love at Maggie’s…

2025 ➤ Love is in the air once more for Jon and George

2025 ➤ The New Romantics history book currently turning heads

➤ Possibly the first post here at Shapersofthe80s in 2009

➤Six magazines that changed the course of postwar British journalism

2025 ➤ Finally a candid insight into the glittering New Romantics revolution

2025 ➤ Champagne all round!

2025 ➤ Here’s an extravaganza of a show to confirm the Blitz Kids’ place in history

2025 ➤ In a busy week, Derek Ridgers relives his addictive past

2025 ➤ Here’s to those Faces who created a new breed of journalism for the 1980s

2015 ➤ Steve Strange’s anniversary: deciphering the pen portraits of the man of masks

2024 ➤ Andy Polaris reminds us of Quincy Jones’s legacy as a titan of 20th-century showbiz

2025 ➤ 50 years on: Celebrating the world’s first pose band

2024 ➤ Original outlaws celebrate their blasts from the past

2024 ➤ Thrill to Amaze now in the West End

2024 ➤ Chris Sullivan re-lives Blue Rondo’s second album at a Soho party