The 80s: Ten Years that Changed Britain

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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
  • C4 Documentary 10th January 2016

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  • @MollyBlueDawn
    @MollyBlueDawn 8 років тому +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!

  • @markfernandes9715
    @markfernandes9715 3 роки тому +8

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

  • @sflady5747
    @sflady5747 8 років тому +13

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

  • @ali1961ist
    @ali1961ist 7 років тому +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 років тому +4

      ali1961ist mine too fantastic

    • @danielmichaellister4625
      @danielmichaellister4625 6 років тому +3

      I wasn't even born till 98 haha

    • @rachelcontreraz6367
      @rachelcontreraz6367 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +1

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

    • @tonycrossley2465
      @tonycrossley2465 2 роки тому

      @@brainsmith3931 think your talking about the 80s !

  • @robwalker7575
    @robwalker7575 4 роки тому +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! 😀

  • @alicewonder7687
    @alicewonder7687 4 роки тому +5

    I lived it all...nostalgia

  • @davefreeman9847
    @davefreeman9847 6 років тому +4

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

  • @stormhawk3319
    @stormhawk3319 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @ebbhead20
    @ebbhead20 8 років тому +9

    where`s the rest of it ?

  • @thomasjcox
    @thomasjcox 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @CB394
    @CB394 8 місяців тому

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

  • @kesamek8537
    @kesamek8537 4 роки тому +4

    Adam Ant ruled 1980s videos completely.

  • @EmmMacken
    @EmmMacken 7 років тому +1

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

    • @Frazzleface
      @Frazzleface 7 років тому +2

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

    • @re7416
      @re7416 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @Frazzleface
      @Frazzleface 3 роки тому

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

    • @re7416
      @re7416 3 роки тому

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

    • @Frazzleface
      @Frazzleface 3 роки тому

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

  • @CARLIN4737
    @CARLIN4737 Рік тому

    81/85 Brixton riots? It wasnt all good?

  • @tablescissors
    @tablescissors 3 роки тому +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.

  • @S7EVE_P
    @S7EVE_P 6 років тому +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*

  • @onelove1968
    @onelove1968 2 роки тому +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 місяців тому +1

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

    • @SabrinaBelladonna
      @SabrinaBelladonna 8 днів тому

      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.

  • @platonicforms562
    @platonicforms562 3 роки тому +18

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

  • @shazanali692
    @shazanali692 4 роки тому +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

  • @Konsker
    @Konsker 5 років тому +16

    love 80s adam ant hits

  • @S7EVE_P
    @S7EVE_P 5 років тому +34

    80s was and still is the best decade.

    • @markusforsberg6741
      @markusforsberg6741 4 роки тому +4

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

  • @nature_photography_yukon
    @nature_photography_yukon 3 роки тому +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!

  • @kq8499
    @kq8499 4 роки тому +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 роки тому +1

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

    • @HarleyFirestorm
      @HarleyFirestorm 2 роки тому +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 роки тому +2

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

  • @cheechalker8430
    @cheechalker8430 4 роки тому +5

    Sane by comparison today

  • @georgia227
    @georgia227 4 роки тому +17

    Watched this video solely for Adam Ant. Cheers!

  • @tonyclifton265
    @tonyclifton265 6 місяців тому +2

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

  • @eleanor4759
    @eleanor4759 5 років тому +42

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

    • @cheechalker8430
      @cheechalker8430 4 роки тому +2

      You have good taste in music!

    • @endahynes2596
      @endahynes2596 3 роки тому +2

      But you wouldn’t want to live in it

    • @eleanor4759
      @eleanor4759 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +2

      @@octavius8562 ye but the economic times were tough

    • @mansamusa9922
      @mansamusa9922 3 роки тому +2

      America New York SOUTH BRONX 1980s
      ua-cam.com/video/mYoWSeflAYk/v-deo.html 👈🏽

  • @jasecox3912
    @jasecox3912 6 місяців тому +1

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

  • @bendover9663
    @bendover9663 4 роки тому +6

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

  • @alison__16
    @alison__16 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @alijessmai
    @alijessmai 4 роки тому +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

  • @MostRightWingManInBritain
    @MostRightWingManInBritain 3 роки тому +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

  • @WhiteTeeTurnip
    @WhiteTeeTurnip 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @maltesetony9030
    @maltesetony9030 9 місяців тому +1

    Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

  • @lisahastings2927
    @lisahastings2927 2 роки тому +1

    Ah Adam ant my 1st proper crush 😍

  • @joannehowe9211
    @joannehowe9211 8 років тому +7

    Have you got the rest by any chance?

  • @studiokohl1
    @studiokohl1 5 років тому +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 років тому

      Toto Coelo - seminal!

  • @wickedmirage
    @wickedmirage 7 років тому +5

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

    • @Nautilus1972
      @Nautilus1972 6 років тому +2

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

    • @tablescissors
      @tablescissors 3 роки тому

      Everyone around the world has been copying it since

  • @mikeawesome9212
    @mikeawesome9212 3 місяці тому

    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 місяців тому

    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

  • @swa406
    @swa406 5 років тому +5

    80's also changed the world

    • @bigdaddy4069
      @bigdaddy4069 3 роки тому

      Every decade changes the world

  • @astonelacfr1252
    @astonelacfr1252 5 років тому +7

    This video is very very interesting

  • @johnunderwood3132
    @johnunderwood3132 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @markgreet3543
    @markgreet3543 10 місяців тому

    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 місяців тому

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

  • @irishelk3
    @irishelk3 8 років тому +4

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

  • @gabriellaj.o.6180
    @gabriellaj.o.6180 4 роки тому +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 роки тому +1

      I like the hair

    • @torymiller8861
      @torymiller8861 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +2

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

    • @mikekaraoke
      @mikekaraoke 2 роки тому

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

  • @andybray9791
    @andybray9791 11 місяців тому

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

  • @julieschultz6363
    @julieschultz6363 5 років тому +3

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

  • @manubouhier8299
    @manubouhier8299 5 років тому +2

    I like wish To commander mes watches

  • @roomullan3050
    @roomullan3050 4 місяці тому

    Fantastic years, best of my life

  • @matthieu1640
    @matthieu1640 5 років тому +2

    This video is very very interesting

  • @manubouhier8299
    @manubouhier8299 5 років тому +2

    I very apprécier this vidéogrammes

  • @simheulot1454
    @simheulot1454 6 місяців тому

    Kaan Durgun

  • @EdVanMeyer
    @EdVanMeyer Рік тому

    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.

  • @kaanquelcrack
    @kaanquelcrack 6 місяців тому

    1:34 😂😂😂

  • @mj2208
    @mj2208 2 роки тому

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

  • @siobhan5948
    @siobhan5948 Рік тому

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

  • @georgethebear1812
    @georgethebear1812 3 роки тому +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 Рік тому +1

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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".

  • @H3LLBOY2006
    @H3LLBOY2006 4 роки тому +4

    Live Aid!!!

  • @astonelacfr1252
    @astonelacfr1252 5 років тому +3

    Bonjour

  • @AlmostReady504
    @AlmostReady504 2 роки тому

    Everyone was young and beautiful

  • @bestdisco1979
    @bestdisco1979 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @barbieblacksheep8440
    @barbieblacksheep8440 4 роки тому +8

    Margaret Hitler Thatcher.. I remember her

  • @hitchannel7777
    @hitchannel7777 5 років тому +3

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

  • @angrypiano8590
    @angrypiano8590 8 років тому +9

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

    • @mrvictorian4004
      @mrvictorian4004 6 років тому +3

      a racist one?

    • @robertkidd2361
      @robertkidd2361 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @jeannono7783
    @jeannono7783 5 років тому +2

    Mi life is potatoes

  • @person.X.
    @person.X. Рік тому +1

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