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  • 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 30m
  • 2h (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
Documentary series examining the music and the musical icons of the 80s.

4 episodes

Series Premiere

1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

1x01 Culture Club

Series Premiere

1x01 Culture Club

  • 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z30m

The group fronted by gender-bending Boy George achieved huge chart success worldwide in the late eighties.
Now back together, all four members talk about the glamour, the success, the drugs and the love affair that split the band.

1999-01-08T00:00:00Z

1x02 The Human League

1x02 The Human League

  • 1999-01-08T00:00:00Z30m

Members past and present talk about the three distinct groups that have existed under the banner of The Human League, the Sheffield synthesiser band that enjoyed huge commercial success.

1999-01-15T00:00:00Z

1x03 Bananarama

1x03 Bananarama

  • 1999-01-15T00:00:00Z30m

In the aftermath of the punk era, three girls decided on a career in pop music - they called themselves Bananarama and became one of the most successful British girl groups ever. Original members Siobhan Fahey, Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward, plus Pete Waterman, Malcolm McLaren and Terry Hall reflect on how the girls became stars and how they almost lost their friendships in the process.

1999-01-22T00:00:00Z

1x04 The Smiths

1x04 The Smiths

  • 1999-01-22T00:00:00Z30m

With their saturnine vocalist Morrissey and radical lead guitarist Johnny Marr, the Smiths were a sharp contrast to the glossy, synthesised sounds that dominated the eighties. In this final programme ex-members Marr, Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke help trace the Mancunian quartet's complicated story.

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