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Mar 24, 20153 min read

This Week In 1985: March 24, 1985

Most bands will forever be associated with one or two key songs — and unfortunately that means their other singles become sidelined as...

Mar 17, 20154 min read

This Week In 1985: March 17, 1985

There are some songs that are so much a part of pop culture that it's hard to remember a time before they came into existence. The...

Mar 10, 20154 min read

This Week In 1985: March 10, 1985

Lady Gaga excepted, they just don't make pop stars like they did in the '80s anymore. Flamboyant fashion sense, overblown egos,...

Mar 3, 20154 min read

This Week In 1985: March 3, 1985

It's an important career move to get right — when should the singer of a successful band go solo? In the last few weeks, we've seen...

Feb 24, 20154 min read

This Week In 1985: February 24, 1985

When we looked back at the ARIA singles chart from 1985 last week , it was all about the guys, with new entries exclusively from male...

Feb 17, 20154 min read

This Week In 1985: February 17, 1985

It was a bad week for female performers this week in 1985, with the new entries on the ARIA top 50 singles chart performed exclusively by...

Feb 10, 20154 min read

This Week In 1985: February 10, 1985

If you've looked around this blog at all, you may have noticed I have a bit of a thing about one-hit wonders — especially when acts are...

Feb 3, 20155 min read

This Week In 1985: February 3, 1985

Image was everything in the '80s and this week in 1985, an artist who'd previously been known for her squeaky clean, girl-next-door look...

Jan 27, 20154 min read

This Week In 1985: January 27, 1985

One of the things that annoys me most about retro music television programming is that the same old hits get wheeled out over and over —...

Jan 20, 20156 min read

This Week In 1985: January 20, 1985

A few years back, when music was in the throes of a major '80s revival (think La Roux, Goldfrapp's Head First , Little Boots,...

Jan 13, 20154 min read

This Week In 1985: January 13, 1985

For the past couple of years, I've been taking a look back 25 years to what was happening on the ARIA top 50 singles chart — and I've...

A Journey Through Aussie Pop - green light.png

A Journey Through Aussie Pop is shining a light on classic Australian pop artists and releases from the 1980s, '90s and 2000s.

A Journey Through Stock Aitken Waterman is working its way through every single produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman in chronological order.

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