IF you were young in the eighties then you will remember the men dressed like peacocks and freeze-dried synthesizer sounds dominating the airwaves.
There were compensations.
The arrival of MTV coincided with the New Romantics sharp visual sense, meaning that videos from British bands were in heavy rotation in the channel's early days.
Start at www.pure80pop.co.uk, where you can browse through the different genres and test your trivia knowledge.
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