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The Eighties: One Day, One Decade | Dylan Jones
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One Day: Saturday 13 July 1985, nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose. Nearly a third of humanity knew where they were going to be that day. Watching, listening to, attending: Live Aid. One Decade: Britain in the Eighties was different. The culture was different, the politics were different, and our engagement with the world was different. And it was just one day in 1985 that showed how different it was. In One Day, One Decade Dylan Jones tells the story of the Eighties through that day at Wembley, sweeping backwards to the end of the Seventies, and forward to the start of the Nineties. It draws on his personal reminiscences and perspective of music, media, fashion, politics and all forms of pop culture to frame the decade. This is a big book but not a exhaustive and dry social history. Live Aid was the decadee(tm)s pinch point, when a nation's attitudes and expectations were somehow captured and changed forever. The author suggests that before Live Aid, Britain was one place, and after Live Aid it was another. Britain in the Eighties was a juxtaposition of militancy and profligacy, a country where industry was being broken down, societies were being demolished, and unemployment became an inevitable lifestyle choice: yet the Eighties was also the apotheosis of pop culture, a decade where entertainment, opinion and subjectivity were more important than ever before. Dylan Jones was at the heart of the 1980s editing the seminal magazines i-D and The Face. He was one of the Blitz Kids and was both a commentator and one of the style-makers of the time. This is a controversial book, a story told from the inside by one who was at the centre of events.
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TheEllieMo
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❄️ Duran Duran

❄️ ❄️ Big hair, footless tights and off-the-shoulder jumpers

#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs

Eggs 😎 🎶😉 1y
Jerdencon Woo hoo - fellow Durante here!! Just saw them on 12/30! 1y
dabbe Oh, those jumpers! 🤣 1y
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TheEllieMo @Jerdencon I must admit, I wasn‘t so keen on their later stuff and drifted away from them 1y
TheEllieMo @dabbe I loved those jumpers!🤣 1y
dabbe @TheEllieMo They're making a comeback, though probably not with one off-the-shoulder. Remember carrying backpacks only on one shoulder, too? We thought we were so cool! 🤣 1y
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TheEllieMo
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One that‘s been on my TBR pile forever and finally I‘ve read it! Jones uses Live Aid as a structure in which to hang a history of the 1980s, covering much ground from the birth of style magazines to the AIDS epidemic - the latter being a particularly moving chapter. My only gripe is that Jones does like to let us know he was at the centre of the action throughout the decade, and the loud clangs as he drops yet another name do get a bit deafening!

TrishB I remember hubby saying that about this one! 2y
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TheEllieMo
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Saturday 13 July 1985, nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose. Nearly a third of humanity knew where they were going to be that day. Watching, listening to, attending: Live Aid.

Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, England (72,000 people) and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (100,000).

The single most important #concert ever.

#LetsFlyJuly

OriginalCyn620 I remember watching it! 🎶🎶🎶 5y
TheEllieMo @OriginalCyn620 me too, really wish I‘d gone! But I was still at school and my parents would never have allowed me! 5y
aa_guer2021 That must have been incredible. I was 2 days old. 😂😂 5y
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Going the same way as @squirrelbrain and @Cinfhen - the 80s #mygeneration #anglophileapril

squirrelbrain 😁👍❤️ 5y
Mdargusch Live Aid! Ah the good old days. 😄 5y
Reviewsbylola This looks like a good way to relive the 80s. 5y
emilyhaldi Love it ❣️❣️❣️ 5y
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This is #mygeneration (I was born in the seventies but did my growing up in the 80s)...

Also, can I just say, how organised am I to take my photos before I left for the #readingretreat?! #smugface 🤣

#anglophileapril

gradcat I, for one, am taking note of, and complimenting you on, your organizational abilities. You rock! 5y
TrishB Cool 👍🏻 us 80s girls sticking together ❤️. And , yes, very organised, hope you‘re all enjoying yourselves. 5y
Cinfhen Impressive 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Hope you‘re enjoying and #EightiesGirlsReign 💄💋 5y
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Cathythoughts That is very impressive indeed 👍🏻♥️ 5y
LeeRHarry Smash Hits 💕 #EightiesGirlsReign for sure @Cinfhen 😊 (edited) 5y
Bookgirl Born in 70s, grew up in 80s - yes!!! 5y
squirrelbrain @TrishB @Cinfhen @LeeRHarry - I used to cut all of the song lyrics out of Smash Hits, stick them to the wall, then learn them! 5y
squirrelbrain Thanks @gradcat @Cathythoughts - I do like to be organised! 😁 5y
Mdargusch Ha! I did the same thing! I‘m on vacation and took all my photos ahead of time. (Pat on my back) 5y
Reviewsbylola Way to be organized!! 5y
emilyhaldi So impressed!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 5y
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TheEllieMo
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1. The 80s, when I was a teenager

2. I have a thing for hardbacks at the moment

3. Older

4. Yes, about 80 miles away.

5. ❤️❤️

#FriyayIntro
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MidnightBookGirl Oooh! I was lucky enough to have older brothers so even though I was only 3 when the 80s started, my 80s music education is pretty good. I'll have to check out this book! ❤ 6y
TrishB @MidnightBookGirl can‘t beat a bit of 80s music! 6y
Purrfectpages I ❤️ the 80s! 6y
TNbookworm ❤ the 80s! 6y
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#laislabonita #JuneTunz
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Huge amount of Madonna in this one. It's about the whole decade but with a particular focus on Live Aid.

Cinfhen Live Aid 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻#BlastfromthePast 7y
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