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April 1980

Number 1 single: The Jam - "Going Underground/Dreams of Children"
Number 1 single: Detroit Spinners - "Working My Way Back to You"
Number 1 single: Blondie - "Call Me"
Number 1 album: Genesis - "Duke"
Number 1 album: Rose Royce - "Greatest Hits"

duke

NEWS... Post-It notes introduced

On TV: Not the Nine O'Clock News, Seconds Out, Cheggers Plays Pop, Swish of the Curtain

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April 1981

Number 1 single: Shakin' Stevens - "This Ole House"
Number 1 single: Bucks Fizz - "Making Your Mind Up"
  Don't let your indecision take you from behind...
Number 1 album:  Adam & the Ants - "Kings of the Wild Frontier"

kings of the wild frontier

NEWS... The first ever US Space Shuttle is launched... Brixton is ablaze after race riots; more than 50 police officers are injured and at least 20 people arrested...

On TV: The Bagthorpe Saga, Ask the Family, Sorry!, You Must Be Joking!

 

At the movies: Clark Kent gives it all up for love in "Superman II"

 

April 1982

Number 1 single: Goombay Dance Band - "Seven Tears"
Number 1 single: Bucks Fizz - "My Camera Never Lies"
Number 1 single: Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder - "Ebony & Ivory"
Number 1 album:  Iron Maiden - "The Number of the Beast"
Number 1 album:  Status Quo - "1982"

number of the beast

NEWS... Argentina invades the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic and Britain goes to war... the £1 coin introduced as legal tender in the UK...

On TV: Maggie, Drak Pack, Open All Hours, and Bardo manage a miserable 7th place in the Eurovision Song Contest, despite being No.2 in the charts...

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At the Movies: Sting in Brimstone and Treacle

Sting, Spreading a Little Happiness...

 

April 1983

Number 1 single: Duran Duran - "Is There Something I Should Know"
Number 1 single: David Bowie - "Let's Dance"
Number 1 album:  Pink Floyd - "The Final Cut"
Number 1 album:  Bonnie Tyler - "Faster Than the Speed of Night"
Number 1 album: David Bowie - "Let's Dance"

faster than the speed of night  lets dance


NEWS... dodgy CIA activity in Nicaragua comes under world scrutiny... 'Gandhi' dominates the Oscars... the US Embassy in Beirut is bombed....

On TV: The Kids from Fame - Live!, The Toni Basil Show, Cagney & Lacey

 

At the Movies: Tootsie, The Wicked Lady

 

April 1984

Number 1 single: Lionel Richie - "Hello"
Is it me you're looking for...?
Number 1 album:  Lionel Richie - "Can't Slow Down"
Number 1 album:  Various Artists - "Now That's What I Call Music II"

    can't slow down 

NEWS... after 11 days, the siege at the Libyan Embassy in St James's Square in London ends... the AIDS virus is identified (HTLV-3 is renamed HIV in 1987)...

On TV: Robin of Sherwood, Remington Steele, Fame

At the Movies:   Tom Cruise in "Risky Business"

 

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