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Whitesnake – Fool For Your Loving

Whitesnake – Fool For Your Loving

Whitesnake's Fool For Your Loving is a Rock classic. This wasn't really the best time for raw Rock in the UK - the early 80s were very much the time for the New Romantics. But this song is a legend, as you can see from the video.
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The Cure – A Forest

The Cure – A Forest

A wonderfully atmospheric song by Indie band The Cure. I never remembered hearing it when it actually came out in 1980 and it was only about 8 years later when an Indie-crazy friend of mine named Derek (Del) played it that I heard it... and loved it!
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Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Geno

Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Geno

Another one of my all time favourites and Dexy's best song in my humble opinion. Fantastic horns throughout the song, it just gets to your very soul (which of course, it is meant to do, given who the song is about!).
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Siouxsie And The Banshees – Happy House

Siouxsie And The Banshees – Happy House

Indie music, great indie Music, was a big feature of the early 1980s in the UK. Siouxsie And The Banshees with their soulful and melancholic Happy House was the first big Indie track of 1980. In a way, they paved the way for other Indie bands like The Cu...
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UB40 – Food For Thought

UB40 – Food For Thought

Simply brilliant, UB40's debut single Food for Thought. Unbelievable talent shining through and you just knew they were going to be big. I don't really have that feeling listening to new bands these days... It's a pity the leaders started to argue and we...
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