80's Pop Nuggets, With The Giddy Carousel Of Pop: Movements, Scenes, and Genres
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I am joined by not one but two guests, co-hosts of the excellent Smash Hits podcast, "The Giddy Carousel Of Pop" Gavin Hogg, and Simon Galloway. As 80's pop aficionados they chose to take me through some of the 80's unsung pop belters (though I did have to question them on whether a couple of the choices were obscure at all). There is a playlist on Spotify to the tunes we are talking about, here OR YOU CAN LISTEN FOR FREE WITH ALL THE MUSIC AT OUR HOME PAGE OR MIXCLOUD www.infrequency.co.uk https://www.mixcloud.com/tempfans/movements-scenes-and-genres-80s-pop-nuggets-with-the-giddy-carousel-of-pop/ From Adam Ant, Human League, Thomas Dolby, to Neneh Cherry , what we may lack in hard hitting issues we more than make up for with TUNES! Gavin has a new book coming out, "We Peaked At Paper: An Oral History of British Zines" https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911052071 Catch the Giddy Carousel of Pop and Charity Shop Classics on the pod players and Mixcloud, just have a google Incidental music by J Fisher
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