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14/09/2025

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Heartbroken. RIP Stephen. Love you forever.

11/09/2025

30/08/2025

August 30, 1985 🎶

25/08/2025

'Bob's Smash Hits story is sheer fantasy and makes me sound like a stalker."

‘I had moved down from Glasgow and was sharing a council flat with the girls from Bananarama. We wrote the song after watching the Frank Sinatra film’

22/07/2025

"I've woken up in jail more times than I have in hotels. Mind you I'm not complaining because the food's better."

16/07/2025

July 16, 1986: Samantha Fox vs. The Fall and The Smiths - just lovely 🤣

11/07/2025

"Europop smashes often live on in the mind, partly because they are unusual, and partly because that novelty makes them powerful signifiers, easy to use in films to mark a time and place."

Europop acts from Opus to Baltimora to Nena got huge after Brits brought their songs home from their summer breaks. But despite returning to obscurity, the artists say they’re not (sun)burnt by fame

04/07/2025

"Into the blue again, into the silent water...." 🎶

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