Dirty Stop Out's Guide to 1980s Sheffield By Neil Anderson Paperback 1908431067 9781908431066 Dirty Stop Outs Guide to 1980s Sheffield The Sheffield of the eighties wasnt a place for the faint hearted.The socialist Town Hall was a war with the Thatcher Government and Scargill was masterminding the Miners Strike 400 yards up the road. A whole generation was left traumatised following the first public airing of Threads the 1984 docudrama of Sheffield in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. A former hospital porter and two schoolgirls with zero vocal or dancing training did much to rescue the sanity of the citys youth and provide a soundtrack for a generation in Cold War charged trauma.Phil Oakeys Human League introduced the world to electro pop in jaw dropping style as the Dare album hit the shops in autumn of 1981 and Dont You Want Me, their most successful single ever, followed in December. The city had stranglehold on the UK charts like never before for much of the era. We might have had no money, no jobs and no future but we could shift vinyl like it was going out of fashion. Whilst many venues were struggling in the early eighties as the redundancy pay packets ran out for thousands of steelworkers thrown onto the dole, Josephines thrived with its own in house champagne league.Mass market entertainment was provided at the sprawling Roxy, Cairo Jax and others whilst The Leadmill became a beacon for protest, utopian ideology and a cheap night out.Rebels did it for the rockers; The Limit did it for anyone and everyone left of centre whilst Def Leppard took Sheffield metal to the States and the Bailey Brothers conquered Europe. X Clothes and Rebina were fashion Ground Zero whilst the Hole In The Road, once a proud symbol of civic pride and post war regeneration, was left to fall into rack and ruin and became eerily symbolic of the mood in the city for much of the era.

Neil Anderson is a Sheffield based author and journalist who first came to prominence in the mid 1990s with the Dirty Stop Out s Guide to Sheffield which was published at the height of the dance club explosion of the era site_link Note There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name Neil Anderson is a Sheffield based author and journalist who first came to prominence in the mid 1990s with the Dirty Stop Out s Guide to Sheffield which was published at the height of the dance club explosion of the era site_link Note There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name site_link The Sheffield of the eighties wasn t a place for the faint hearted. The socialist Town Hall was a war with the Thatcher Government and Scargill was masterminding the Miners Strike 400 yards up the road A whole generation was left traumatised following the first public airing of Threads the 1984 docudrama of Sheffield in the aftermath of a nuclear attack A former hospital porter and two schoolgirls with zero vocal or dancing training did much to rescue the sanity of the city s youth and provide a soundtrack for a generation in Cold War charged trauma. Phil Oakey s Human League introduced the world to electro pop in jaw dropping style as the Dare album hit the shops in autumn of 1981 and Don t You Want Me.

Their most successful single ever followed in December The city had stranglehold on the UK charts like never before for much of the era We might have had no money no jobs and no future but we could shift vinyl like it was going out of fashion Whilst many venues were struggling in the early eighties as the redundancy pay packets ran out for thousands of steelworkers thrown onto the dole Josephine s thrived with its own in house champagne league. Rebels did it for the rockers The Limit did it for anyone and everyone left of centre whilst Def Leppard took Sheffield metal to the States and the Bailey Brothers conquered Europe X Clothes and Rebina were fashion Ground Zero whilst the Hole In The Road once a proud symbol of civic pride and post war regeneration was left to fall into rack and ruin and became eerily symbolic of the mood in the city for much of the era Dirty Stop Out s Guide to 1980s SheffieldWell written and informative Great bit of nostalgia for those of us who experienced Sheffield in the 80 s More colour photos would be nice 9781908431066

Dirty Stop Out's Guide to 1980s Sheffield By Neil Anderson

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. Mass market entertainment was provided at the sprawling Roxy Cairo Jax and others whilst The Leadmill became a beacon for protest utopian ideology and a cheap night out