Video Archive: Next Week On The Tube 1985

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A little snippet previewing next weeks acts on The Tube from sometime in 1985.Shame I don’t have next weeks show eh.

Video Archive:Top 40 March 1985

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A pop chart rundown for March 1985.There’s some good and some equally very dire moments here.

Television The Drug of The Nation

The disposable heroes of hiphoprisy
Despite its age and a few dated references the content is still, sadly very relevant today.
(My partner accuses me of re visiting this track after she’d started watching this years Big Brother… Saying nothing)

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