IT was the decade that spawned some of the biggest music stars ever to grace the planet.
Now a new book looks back at how the 1980s was a non-stop jukebox of pop and rock hits, from Madonna to Dire Straits and The Human League.
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Into The Groove: The 1980s also features an extensive quiz.
Here, we show some of the questions. So how into the groove were you in the Eighties?
The answers are below.
1. WHOSE first-ever single released in October 1982 was called Everybody?
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a) Cyndi Lauper
b) Luther Vandross
c) Madonna
d) Janet Jackson
2. WHAT was the first UK Top 10 single written and produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman?
a) You Spin Me Round (Like a Record), by Dead or Alive
b) Never Gonna Give You Up, by Rick Astley
c) Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go), by Hazell Dean
d) Venus, by Bananarama
3. IN February 1983, which act became the first since 1971 to top the singles and albums charts in the UK and the US at the same time?
a) David Bowie
b) Culture Club
c) Bonnie Tyler
d) Men At Work
4. WHICH movie soundtrack from 1983 was the first in the Eighties to spawn two US No1 singles?
a) Footloose
b) Flashdance
c) Purple Rain
d) Ghostbusters
5. WHICH future superstar made their lead vocal debut in 1980 on a Star Wars novelty record called R2-D2: We Wish You A Merry Christmas?
a) Whitney Houston
b) Jon Bon Jovi
c) Axl Rose
d) Madonna
6. TWO days before the 1981 Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, which group provided the cabaret at a celebratory Buckingham Palace ball?
a) The Electric Light Orchestra
b) Hot Chocolate
c) Adam And The Ants
d) The Three Degrees
7. WHICH of these singles did not reach No1 in Britain?
a) The Edge Of Heaven, by Wham!
b) Take On Me, by A-ha
c) Is There Something I Should Know?, by Duran Duran, above
d) House Of Fun, by Madness
8. WHICH duo, who reached the UK Top 10 in 1985, consisted of Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall?
a) Go West
b) Mai Tai
c) Strawberry Switchblade
d) The RAH Band
9. IN May 1983, which Beatles album was the first in the world to appear on compact disc?
a) Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
b) Revolver
c) The Beatles/1962–1966
d) Abbey Road
10. A ROLLING Stones concert in Berlin in June 1982 inspired the writing of which future UK No1 single?
a) Hello, by Lionel Richie
b) 99 Red Balloons, by Nena
c) Careless Whisper, by George Michael
d) The Reflex, by Duran Duran
11. LIFE in a Northern Town, by The Dream Academy, was dedicated to the memory of which singer-songwriter?
a) Nick Drake
b) John Lennon
c) Janis Joplin
d) Tim Buckley
12. WHICH of these artists achieved a UK No1 single earliest during the 1980s?
a) Culture Club
b) Musical Youth
c) Dexys Midnight Runners
d) Soft Cell
13. WHICH filmmaker directed the video for Pet Shop Boys’ It’s A Sin?
a) Derek Jarman
b) Sam Peckinpah
c) Jonathan Demme
d) Ridley Scott
14. WHICH group’s line- up in the late 1980s consisted of Posdnuos, Trugoy the Dove and Pasemaster Mase?
a) Cookie Crew
b) Public Enemy
c) NWA
d) De La Soul
15. WHICH single of 1989 was inspired by the Molly Bloom monologue section of James Joyce’s Ulysses?
a) Sowing The Seeds Of Love, by Tears For Fears
b) Manchild, by Neneh Cherry
c) The Living Years, by Mike And The Mechanics
d) The Sensual World, by Kate Bush.
16. WHICH is the only band to have had at least one UK Top 40 hit single in every year in the decade from 1980 to 1989?
a) Level 42
b) U2
c) UB40
d) The Cure
17. THE classic film A Star Is Born, featuring Judy Garland, inspired the creation of which Christmas No1 single?
a) Don’t You Want Me, by The Human League
b) Reet Petite, by Jackie Wilson
c) Always On My mind, by Pet Shop Boys, left.
d) Save Your Love, by Renee and Renato
18. WHICH British group were sponsored for one tour by Cadbury’s Crunchie, and for their next tour by Ultrabrite toothpaste?
a) Duran Duran
b) Five Star
c) Eurythmics
d) Simply Red
19. BEFORE becoming world famous in 1984, which singer fronted the US group Blue Angel?
a) Cyndi Lauper
b) Gloria Estefan
c) Belinda Carlisle
d) Celine Dion
20. WHICH singer’s album of 1981 had cover versions of songs first recorded by The Police, Marianne Faithfull, Bill Withers and Iggy Pop & David Bowie?
a) Grace Jones
b) Rod Stewart
c) Julio Iglesias
d) Bonnie Tyler
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ANSWERS
1: c) Madonna
2: c) Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go), by Hazell Dean
3: d) Men At Wor
4: b) Flashdance (Flashdance . . . What a Feeling, by Irene Cara, and Maniac, by Michael Sembello
5: b) Jon Bon Jovi
6: b) Hot Chocolate
7: b) Take On Me, by A-ha
8: c) Strawberry Switchblade
9: d) Abbey Road, in Japan
10: b) 99 Red Balloons, by Nena
11: a) Nick Drake
12: c) Dexys Midnight Runners (April 1980), then Soft Cell (Sept 1981), Musical Youth (Sept 1982) and finally Culture Club (Oct 1982)
13: a) Derek Jarman
14: d) De La Soul
15: d) The Sensual World, by Kate Bush
16: c) UB40
17: a) Don’t You Want Me, by The Human League
18: b) Five Star
19: a) Cyndi Lauper
20: a) Grace Jones (namely Nightclubbing)
