Gender Bending in the 1980s

Gender Bending in the 1980s! If you've read my 80s Murder Mystery novels, you may wonder why Brigitte's pronouns keep changing. Here's an insight!

Go Back To the 80s in These Novels!

If you want a good 80s fix may I humbly suggest my three 80s Murder Mysteries. The narrator of these novels is a pop music journalist (just like I was) in the early 1980s. In fact, I've done my best to describe the music scene, the clubs of early 80s London exactly as I experienced them - plus a few murders! If you want a fun 80s read, give them a try!

More info here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08MQYB837

Flexipop! Magazine - The Inside Story

Why was the 80s pop magazine, Flexipop!, seized by the police? And why was hard-rock singer, Zodiac Mindwarp, working in a Flexipop! basement room? Here's the lowdown from someone who was there at the time...

80s Pop Music Interviews - the Sony Walkman Connection

My latest video explains how I went aboyut doing interviews in the 80s. This includes some audio clips from interviews I did with Adam Ant and Sheen Easton.

 

How To Be a 1980s Pop Music Journalist

Ah, the glamour! The celebrities! The music! The nightclubs!

So what was it really like to be a pop music journalist in the days of the New Romantics? I've just started a new YouTube channel that will explain everything. If you've read any of my '80s Murder Mysteries' novels, these videos will explain some of the real-life background. Be sure to subscribe so that you will receive notification whenever I post some new videos. Here are the first three...

80s Picture Discs – Divine Decadence

One of the joys of being a pop journalist in the early '80s was being given promotional items by record companies. Often these were rather boring singles or albums. The ones that were really fun, though, were the picture disks. My favourite picture disk of all was this one to promote Divine’s Walk Like A Man.

Supposedly in the shape of men’s underpants, this featured Divine trying to rip the trunks off a hunky young man (according to the credits on the disc, Divine’s ‘playmate’ was Scott McCray). Anyway, this is one of my most treasured items of early '80s pop junk.

And here’s the song it was promoting…

80s Bands From Australia

A discussion on Facebook recently got me thinking about all those bands that made it big in Australia in the 70s and 80s but never seemed to make much of an impression elsewhere – anyway, not hgere in the UK. A few did have success. INXS, Men At Work Midnight Oil and (of course!) AC/DC sold a few records!

But what about Cold Chisel? Or Mi-Sex? If you don’t know them, go to YouTube and look them up. Here’s a quick blast from Mi-Sex to whet your appetite…