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So by the standards of the time, you were quite a restrained dresser? Did the fashion for Brylcreeming your hair not catch on in the USA? [In case that doesn't translate well - hair that was greased. Brycreem was the brand name of the hair cosmetic of choice in the UK]. It was a mid- to...

I've just been reminding myself of the work in question. She is well worth a listen. A high proportion of the songs have stood the test of time (which is more than can be said for a lot of acts that started in the 80s).

I wasn't exactly the most attentive fan of pop music in the eighties, and I knew who Stacey Q was. She's done some good stuff.

We share the same graduation and marriage dates. I can't say they were boring for me, but a great deal of the social trends were what happened to other people. At the time I was very envious of college acquaintances less academically gifted [in fact, brain dead would be a more accurate...

Garrett, you are right. In the UK in the 80s, the Rolex was suddenly *the* thing to have. And wine consumption went through the roof over here. Previously, wine was something you had on special occasions. Suddenly, even the humblest Brit supermarket not only had a wine section, but a section...

Oh God, I feel old. I got my BA and PhD in the first part of the eighties and then it was a series of research jobs before my first permanent post in 1989 followed by marriage in 1990. My memories of the Eighties: (1) video games suddenly got a lot better than Pong (2) the gigantic hair...