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"

NEWS... Post-It notes introduced

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

Number 1 single: Shakin' Stevens - "This Ole House"
Number 1 single: Bucks Fizz - "Making Your Mind Up"
 
Number 1 album:  Adam & the Ants - "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"

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"

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...

At the Movies: Sting in Brimstone and Treacle

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"

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

Number 1 single: Lionel Richie - "Hello"

Number 1 album:  Lionel Richie - "Can't Slow Down"
Number 1 album:  Various Artists - "Now That's What I Call Music II"

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"