Con l’emergere del movimento del New Romanticism e le scelte di moda audaci, gli anni ’80 sono stati un’era fondamentale per la musica. Da Bowie a Cobain a Mercury, ecco la scena musicale di Londra degli anni ’80.
Madonna al Camden Palace, 1983 (Madonna Scrapbook)
Peckings Studio, Askew Road (Flashback.com)
Kurt Cobain firma autografi al Rough Trade record shop, 1989 (History of Sound)
Jesus and Mary Chain all’Ambulance Station, 1984 (Playlist Ist)
Bowie dà un’occhiata alla collezione di dischi di un fan a Park Royal (Bowiesongs)
My Bloody Valentine, Kevin Shields, 1988 (BFI)
David Bowie, Wembley Arena, 1983 (London Historians)
The Asylum Club, 1986 (Punk and Stuff)
Live Aid, Wembley, 1985 (Vintag)
Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, Pauline Black, Poly Styrene, and Chrissie Hynde, August 1980 (Punk and Stuff)
Sir Jules Sound Table al Gossips, Dean Street (Rob Baker)
Ray’s Jazz Shop su Shaftesbury Avenue (Rob Baker)
Il palco del Live Aid, Wembley, 1985 (Vintag)
Gente felice al party Il mago di Oz, Heaven nightclub (Mashable)
Club Hell, Steve Strange, 1980 (Red Bull Music Academy)
I Pet Shop Boys a King’s Cross (Electric Pet Shop Boys)
Il Batcave Club a Meard Street, Soho — un noto ritrovo Goth (The Raw Skin)
Groove Records a Greek Street (Rob Baker)
I Guns n Roses fecero il loro debutto live in UK con un sold out al Marquee Club, Oxford Street, 19 giugno 1987 (This day in metal)
Freddie Mercury a Wembley, 1986 (Blender Gallery)
Gli Ska twins, Chuka & Dubem, 1981 (RBMA)
Le registrazioni del video di Ziggy Stardust al The Roundhouse (Playlist Ist)
I Mods mentre ballano al Etta James’ Mellow Fellow (Tony Schokman)
Bono, Paul McCartney e Freddie Mercury. Live Aid, 1985 (Lost in History)
U2, Hammersmith Palais, 1981 (Old London)
HMV su Oxford Street, 1985 (Flickr)
New Romantics al The Blitz Club, 1980 (Flashback.com)
The Fall in HMV Records (Si Wolstencroft)
Il reggae prende posto sugli scaffali al Dub Vendor, Clapham Junction, 1988 (Flashback.com)