❚ HERE’S A REVIEW OF THE NEW OUTLAWS SHOW, written by Franceska Luther King at Facebook yesterday… << Fabulous night at the private view of Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London at the F...
❚ IN AUGUST WAS BOWLED OVER by an evening of 16 (I think!) fresh and original magical illusions under the title of Jamie Allan’s Amaze at London’s Marylebone theatre. This month it rightly ...
https://shapersofthe80s.com/2024/09/18/2024-%E2%9E%A4-thrill-to-amaze-now-in-the-west-end/
❚ MOST OF US have fond memories of Blue Rondo a la Turk, the seven-piece jazz/salsa band created by Chris Sullivan in 1981 and their first album Chewing the Fat, which I still consider the most...
❚ ANY FAN OF DURAN DURAN remembers the very first photographs of the band in 1980 as they finalised their line-up which was to win a recording contract by year’s end and secure their first ch...
❚ WHETHER YOU LIKE ABBA’s SONGS or not, the scale of the West-End musical MAMMA MIA!’s success is staggering. Over 25 years it has been seen by 70 million people in 450 cities across the wo...
❚ A LAVISHLY DESIGNED OBITUARY of Stephen Linard written by me appears in today’s Evening Standard online and stands as a well-deserved memoir for one of my best friends… ➢ The life of St...
INCREDIBLE!!!! Update – Shapersofthe80s has received 8,100 hits during the three days since Stephen’s death. Thank you to his fans ❚ HARD TO ACCEPT THAT STEPHEN LINARD has now died from the...
https://shapersofthe80s.com/2024/03/10/2024-%E2%9E%A4-farewell-to-linard-the-craziest-man-ive-known/
❚ ONE OF THE GREATEST post-war crusading journalists has died after a lifetime of championing frank journalism and regularly criticising the mainstream media. In 2002, John Pilger said that “...
❚ HOW MANY OF US CAN CLAIM to have read the whole of Marcel Proust’s literary masterwork, originally titled for its English edition Remembrance of Things Past, in seven volumes, containing 1....
https://shapersofthe80s.com/2023/12/04/2023-%E2%9E%A4-whos-the-keenest-fan-of-marcel-proust/
❚ WATCH OUT FOR two live performances of classics and fan favourites brought to life as A Night with the Johnny Marr Orchestra, a new, expanded sound as the one-time Smiths guitarist takes to t...