The 80s: Ten Years that Changed Britain

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  • Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
  • C4 Documentary 10th January 2016

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  • @markfernandes9715
    @markfernandes9715 3 года назад +8

    Music was great, the last great decade for pop. Thatcher sold too much off though. Not everyone became rich in that decade.

  • @stormhawk3319
    @stormhawk3319 2 года назад +3

    It was the last of the four crucial decades in music (the 90s was overrated, derivative and retro).

  • @S7EVE_P
    @S7EVE_P 6 лет назад +37

    I remember the 80s....a very special time, I would love to go back. If I'm having a particularly "festive" time, I can close my eyes and actually remember how the 80s *felt*

  • @robwalker7575
    @robwalker7575 4 года назад +12

    Just remembering the very first time I saw the thriller vid, I was 16, I was blown away....boy did I want that jacket, and everyone in school the next day was moon walking into assembly! 😀

  • @MollyBlueDawn
    @MollyBlueDawn 8 лет назад +22

    Thanks for posting this here! It's good to see recognition of the unique role Adam played in the musical world of the 80s!

  • @platonicforms562
    @platonicforms562 3 года назад +18

    How do we bring back the 80s and keep them? This needs to happen, ASAP.

  • @onelove1968
    @onelove1968 2 года назад +15

    Whenever some tech genius figures out how to build a time machine, buying tickets to travel back to the 80's will sell out within an hour.

    • @littlejackrussell01092
      @littlejackrussell01092 11 месяцев назад +1

      I really hope some tech genius does figure it out soon!!!

    • @SabrinaBelladonna
      @SabrinaBelladonna 10 дней назад

      It´s just too bad that the same time machine will not make you younger on your journey there, though. And to be honest, I would not like to be 54 in the 1980s; imagine being expected to wear an ugly old lady perm and people giving you weird looks whenever you go to the gym.

  • @Konsker
    @Konsker 5 лет назад +16

    love 80s adam ant hits

  • @S7EVE_P
    @S7EVE_P 5 лет назад +34

    80s was and still is the best decade.

    • @markusforsberg6741
      @markusforsberg6741 4 года назад +4

      It was radical awsome dude bogis dead meat.:D🤘😎🤘

  • @cheechalker8430
    @cheechalker8430 4 года назад +5

    Sane by comparison today

  • @shazanali692
    @shazanali692 4 года назад +7

    The brits sold the best cranes and tunnel boring machines back then bringing in billions and for some reason they sold it all off, today south Korea and Germany make those industrial machines, yes the 80s when for some reason the Brits sold off all there best assets that employed men, just weird

  • @ali1961ist
    @ali1961ist 7 лет назад +66

    I miss the 80s! Despite some dodgy fashion choices and the occasional bad hairstyle it was my favourite decade, nothing will ever come close!

    • @terrybarnhurst7119
      @terrybarnhurst7119 7 лет назад +4

      ali1961ist mine too fantastic

    • @danielmichaellister4625
      @danielmichaellister4625 6 лет назад +3

      I wasn't even born till 98 haha

    • @rachelcontreraz6367
      @rachelcontreraz6367 3 года назад +4

      @ali1961ist The dodgy fashion choices and bad hairstyles were some of the best parts of the 80’s. Most definitely the best of times!!!!

    • @brainsmith3931
      @brainsmith3931 3 года назад +1

      People were happy in the 80s and today 2021 everyone is greedy selfish and full of hate in the UK .

    • @tonycrossley2465
      @tonycrossley2465 2 года назад

      @@brainsmith3931 think your talking about the 80s !

  • @georgia227
    @georgia227 4 года назад +17

    Watched this video solely for Adam Ant. Cheers!

  • @sflady5747
    @sflady5747 8 лет назад +13

    Not only unique but he also added personality, class and style. Yes, I love your style.

  • @eleanor4759
    @eleanor4759 5 лет назад +42

    My parents were teens in this decade! I am jealous of the music they had !!

    • @cheechalker8430
      @cheechalker8430 4 года назад +2

      You have good taste in music!

    • @endahynes2596
      @endahynes2596 3 года назад +2

      But you wouldn’t want to live in it

    • @eleanor4759
      @eleanor4759 3 года назад +6

      @@endahynes2596 Maybe, maybe not. Pros and cons. The amount of time my generation spends in front of screens and alone is slightly terrifying

    • @endahynes2596
      @endahynes2596 3 года назад +2

      @@octavius8562 ye but the economic times were tough

    • @mansamusa9922
      @mansamusa9922 3 года назад +2

      America New York SOUTH BRONX 1980s
      ruclips.net/video/mYoWSeflAYk/видео.html 👈🏽

  • @nature_photography_yukon
    @nature_photography_yukon 3 года назад +4

    Brings back some fond memories, glad to have grown up then, not all roses but some really fun times!! The music was so good!

  • @tonyclifton265
    @tonyclifton265 6 месяцев назад +2

    i was there and i loved it. the 80s were great

  • @kq8499
    @kq8499 4 года назад +14

    I was a kid..what a great decade to grow up in
    You could play all day on.the front and your mum didnt even need to check on you. I wouldn't let my son out my sight the way life is now. The music and fashion was fab 😍😍

    • @bigdaddy4069
      @bigdaddy4069 3 года назад +1

      Its far safer now fella, dont believe the hype.
      Nanny state sanitised life !!!!!!

    • @HarleyFirestorm
      @HarleyFirestorm 2 года назад +1

      It wasn't safer then we just thought it was growing up as most people were more relaxed, you may not remember charley says and stranger danger. There was also a lot of cars on the road even back then.

    • @HarleyFirestorm
      @HarleyFirestorm 2 года назад +2

      @@bigdaddy4069 I would say it hasn't really changed, just the perception.

  • @bendover9663
    @bendover9663 4 года назад +6

    The 80s were good but the 90s were better imo.... i guess it's all subjective

  • @alijessmai
    @alijessmai 4 года назад +15

    Real pop/rock groups, music that had originality - yes men wearing makeup as much as women, flamboyancy and Adam ant-proud to grow up in the 80’s

  • @jasecox3912
    @jasecox3912 6 месяцев назад +1

    We were very lucky to have lived in this era ,i so wished i could go back in time 😢

  • @alison__16
    @alison__16 2 года назад +3

    I still have that Adam and the Ants LP. No record player to play it on 😁 but I will never let it go.

  • @alicewonder7687
    @alicewonder7687 4 года назад +5

    I lived it all...nostalgia

  • @davefreeman9847
    @davefreeman9847 6 лет назад +4

    The 80's broughy -- Greetings Earthlings from FLAT EARTH Highlands of Scotland

  • @MostRightWingManInBritain
    @MostRightWingManInBritain 3 года назад +4

    If you think the 1980s were wild, you should take a look at the 1960s, the closest the world's ever been to nuclear war via the Cuban missile crisis, major political assassinations such as John F Kennedy or Martin Luther King and then there were people fighting to end segregation, people being arrested for protesting, beaten, or even unlawfully shot. Oh and the Vietnam war and the moon landings and tension between the USA and Russia were at an all time high because of the space race

  • @lisahastings2927
    @lisahastings2927 2 года назад +1

    Ah Adam ant my 1st proper crush 😍

  • @maltesetony9030
    @maltesetony9030 9 месяцев назад +1

    Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

  • @WhiteTeeTurnip
    @WhiteTeeTurnip 2 года назад +1

    Baggy sweaters smiley face t-shirts dungarees and kicker shoes, take me back.

  • @joannehowe9211
    @joannehowe9211 8 лет назад +7

    Have you got the rest by any chance?

  • @ebbhead20
    @ebbhead20 8 лет назад +9

    where`s the rest of it ?

  • @tablescissors
    @tablescissors 3 года назад +1

    These asses still had to call him Jacko. Pfft. Some good clips, but could live w/o the politico.
    P.S. dang, Thriller is still good.

  • @studiokohl1
    @studiokohl1 5 лет назад +6

    I was in high school in 81 and watched the first few hours of MTV. Until they quit playing videos. But my friends and I never liked the flasy polished videos. Always went for the obscure I guess. I remember videos that only played a few times like Total Corlo, I eat cannibal.

    • @Stiffd1
      @Stiffd1 5 лет назад

      Toto Coelo - seminal!

  • @wickedmirage
    @wickedmirage 7 лет назад +5

    Thriller is probably the "mic drop" video of all time.

    • @Nautilus1972
      @Nautilus1972 6 лет назад +2

      How the fuck does a video do a "mic drop"?

    • @tablescissors
      @tablescissors 3 года назад

      Everyone around the world has been copying it since

  • @swa406
    @swa406 5 лет назад +5

    80's also changed the world

    • @bigdaddy4069
      @bigdaddy4069 3 года назад

      Every decade changes the world

  • @mikeawesome9212
    @mikeawesome9212 3 месяца назад

    I wish i had been born 10 years earlier than i was. I was born in 1985 and eas too young to enjoy the 80's and it looked like a hella good time. The 90's was great too though.

  • @tonyclifton265
    @tonyclifton265 6 месяцев назад

    2:06 in the striped tie and glasses that looks like bond broker roger makhlouf! wow. i did business with him in the 90s and into the 21st century in US treasury bonds. nice bloke. roger confirms that it is him.. he was at the corney and barrow around the back of the bank of england he told me

  • @astonelacfr1252
    @astonelacfr1252 5 лет назад +7

    This video is very very interesting

  • @johnunderwood3132
    @johnunderwood3132 3 года назад +1

    Is Chief Inspector Thursday speaking? I think it is! Love it

  • @CB394
    @CB394 8 месяцев назад

    I only remember the latter part of the 80s because I was born in 1982

  • @thomasjcox
    @thomasjcox 3 года назад +2

    What’s the song for spandau Ballet in this movie?

  • @irishelk3
    @irishelk3 8 лет назад +4

    This Adam Ants page? what a legend haha, wheres the rest man?

  • @markgreet3543
    @markgreet3543 10 месяцев назад

    Im going to see adam live next year, 8 times now since 2013, i collect items as well to do with adam 70 items in total.

  • @Happytruth
    @Happytruth 5 месяцев назад

    It was a great era especially music wise but Thatcher was the worst and we are still paying for her policies now.

  • @matthieu1640
    @matthieu1640 5 лет назад +2

    This video is very very interesting

  • @CARLIN4737
    @CARLIN4737 Год назад

    81/85 Brixton riots? It wasnt all good?

  • @manubouhier8299
    @manubouhier8299 5 лет назад +2

    I like wish To commander mes watches

  • @gabriellaj.o.6180
    @gabriellaj.o.6180 4 года назад +4

    The 80's was a good and or bad decade depending who you were. It was also a period of mass unemployment, dreadful hair and clothes and the era of Laura Ashely who were then very popular.

    • @Firusdhf
      @Firusdhf 3 года назад +1

      I like the hair

    • @torymiller8861
      @torymiller8861 3 года назад +1

      I was lucky to have a great time in the 80s. Still my favorite decade because I was young, had just enough money, and the cost of living hadn't yet gotten totally out of hand. We could afford to go out. Go to concerns and restaurants. Nowadays, everything is so expensive that we need to concentrate on paying rent and bills with little left after that.

    • @markfernandes9715
      @markfernandes9715 3 года назад +2

      Back then young people could get on the housing ladder in London easily if the started a career

    • @mikekaraoke
      @mikekaraoke 2 года назад

      Some of the hair + clothes were dreadful, and others were fine.

  • @roomullan3050
    @roomullan3050 4 месяца назад

    Fantastic years, best of my life

  • @manubouhier8299
    @manubouhier8299 5 лет назад +2

    I very apprécier this vidéogrammes

  • @kesamek8537
    @kesamek8537 4 года назад +4

    Adam Ant ruled 1980s videos completely.

  • @andybray9791
    @andybray9791 11 месяцев назад

    Wish I was around at the time but died as an oap in my last years

  • @julieschultz6363
    @julieschultz6363 5 лет назад +3

    5:49 If that interview is from 2016, he doesn't look half-bad.

  • @H3LLBOY2006
    @H3LLBOY2006 4 года назад +4

    Live Aid!!!

  • @simheulot1454
    @simheulot1454 6 месяцев назад

    Kaan Durgun

  • @kaanquelcrack
    @kaanquelcrack 6 месяцев назад

    1:34 😂😂😂

  • @georgethebear1812
    @georgethebear1812 3 года назад +15

    Proud to have been a part of the 80s, no decade will ever come close to being the best ever in every way, shape or form, fashion, music, culture or anything else. Simply the best time to be alive in the UK

    • @scottandrewbrass
      @scottandrewbrass Год назад +1

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka Год назад +2

      Everybody who ever lived thinks the era you were young in was best. Remember our parents and grandparents saying how awful the 80s were compared to their time? It's being young that magical, not the era we were young in. If we're honest, a lot of the 80s (like other eras) was bloody awful.

    • @lisazoria2709
      @lisazoria2709 Год назад +1

      @@zeddeka No, the 80's seemed way more fun than the era I grew up in (2000s~2010's) and I'm willing to bet much of the younger generation feels the same, that's why nostalgia/vintage everything is so big right now among younger people. The quality of life was better by just about every metric (at least in the US, probably the UK too). Just go to any popular 80's music video and see how many teens are talking about how they were born in the wrong generation, it's literally a meme at this point. It's gone a bit beyond just thinking whatever era you were young in was the "best".

  • @EdVanMeyer
    @EdVanMeyer Год назад

    The 80's were in the main really good times, living near London and going there, I worked for a while near the World's end shop in the King's Road which Adam's wife managed I was told.

  • @mj2208
    @mj2208 2 года назад

    I hate how they implied that Duran Duran were tories 😭💔 couldn’t be further from the truth

  • @siobhan5948
    @siobhan5948 Год назад

    I just made it to the 80s party, 88 baby, but would have loved to see it as an adult.

  • @barbieblacksheep8440
    @barbieblacksheep8440 4 года назад +8

    Margaret Hitler Thatcher.. I remember her

  • @astonelacfr1252
    @astonelacfr1252 5 лет назад +3

    Bonjour

  • @bestdisco1979
    @bestdisco1979 2 года назад +2

    By and large the 80s was a fun decade. Experimental in every way.

  • @AlmostReady504
    @AlmostReady504 2 года назад

    Everyone was young and beautiful

  • @hitchannel7777
    @hitchannel7777 5 лет назад +3

    without the rest it's a waste of peoples time.

  • @angrypiano8590
    @angrypiano8590 8 лет назад +9

    I'm a skinhead now but I wish I was in the 80s

    • @mrvictorian4004
      @mrvictorian4004 6 лет назад +3

      a racist one?

    • @robertkidd2361
      @robertkidd2361 4 года назад +1

      Mr Victorian you do know the original skinheads were far from racist ? Many were black kids they all listened to reggae , ska music .

  • @EmmMacken
    @EmmMacken 7 лет назад +1

    whats the name of the song about 2:30 in?

    • @Frazzleface
      @Frazzleface 7 лет назад +2

      That's Spandau Ballet's ballad called 'True' :-)

    • @re7416
      @re7416 3 года назад +1

      @@Frazzleface Hey! U seem 2 know ur music 👍🏻 Can u help me with the track that starts @ 2:55? 🙏🏼🙏🏼

    • @Frazzleface
      @Frazzleface 3 года назад

      @@re7416 Howdi! It’s David Bowie’s ‘Ashes to Ashes’ 👍🏻

    • @re7416
      @re7416 3 года назад

      @@Frazzleface 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 You Super 🌟🌟 | Thank you so, so much!!! I owe you a 🍻 | Live long and prosper 💛💛💛

    • @Frazzleface
      @Frazzleface 3 года назад

      @@re7416 I’m glad I’ve made someone happy 😃
      You’re very welcome, my friend 👍🏻

  • @jeannono7783
    @jeannono7783 5 лет назад +2

    Mi life is potatoes

  • @person.X.
    @person.X. Год назад +1

    It is difficult to appreciate now how Adam and the Ants dominated pop and videos in the early 80s. What a legend.