Perhaps more than ever before, were the 1980s, a time when popular music was used to a more or less to make political statements. In response to Thatcherism in Britain and to a lesser extent Reaganism in the U.S., the production of events such as Live Aid in 1985, were the 80’s over a period of activism. This does not mean that the songs of love, not good in the pop charts of the day. Far from it – there are a number of fantastic love songs of the 80 electives. Here is a mini-review of five of my favorites.
A singer of the time with the Northern Ireland punk stars The Undertones, Fergal Sharkey scored his first solo exhibition met with a good heart. It was the number one singles in the UK for two weeks of 16 November 1985. Famously Maria McKee written – the theme of the 1988 Deacon Blue Real Gone Kid hit, it took a good heart about her relationship with Benmont Tench, keyboardist with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Sharkey’s solo hit, you little thief, gives a version of events tench! As a big fan of The Undertones, I just went crazy for this song – it is quite in the sense that later would Undertones singles anyway, so it is to say, the natural successor, Julie Ocean, or Wednesday of the week.
The Style Council Paul Weller was the next major project after The Jam. This song, you’re the best, created in 1984 in the United Kingdom as a double A-side with the groove Big Boss and rose to the level of No. 5 Weller was perhaps the original angry young man of 80’s pop music, so it was a bit of a surprise – a beautiful love song. This is a song that his love, that Weller was tried told, but nothing could move her – “I would shoot to win and commit the sin … I am not with the wealth that will make you happy.
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