1981-what was best about this year...

[IKDRF]

have been listening to some music comelations of what for me was my favourite year for music...but my vote would go to the ashes triumph over australia

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I gave up sucking on the breast of my mother.

 

[IKDRF]

I gave up sucking on the breast of my mother.

...

 

[IKDRF]

*thinks of sick and highly inappropriate comment but decides to decline *

 

[IKDRF]

errrr

 

[Laughing Gravy]

1981 has always been my fav year .
I met a girl in Ilfracombe and fell head over heels in love with her.
Still think about her 100 times a day.

Soppy old c@@t I am, but it was a cracking year.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Be fair, I was going to University and I was faced with bottled pumped milk.

I would love to have been older (than one) and around to watch Botham's Ashes. I've watched it all on DVD/replays and so on. As much as I enjoyed 2005, it does seem to pale in comparison a bit to the drama of '81.

 

[IKDRF]

Be fair, I was going to University and I was faced with bottled pumped milk.

I would love to have been older (than one) and around to watch Botham's Ashes. I've watched it all on DVD/replays and so on. As much as I enjoyed 2005, it does seem to pale in comparison a bit to the drama of '81.

ill never forget his 5-11 at edgbaston

 

[drew]

Left school, Princess Di married the mad gardener (which meant me and some friends went on massive pub crawl), the Albion still playing in the top flight of English football. Got my first job and spent my first paycheck on a decent hi-fi. Had a booze cruise on the Norfolk broads with 6 friends.

Downside = Mullery walked out.

 

[seagullwedgee]

the night before the royal wedding with fireworks in london was one almighty pissup, never to be forgotten.

but surely, botham and willis and headingley beats everything.

 

[IKDRF]

the night before the royal wedding with fireworks in london was one almighty pissup, never to be forgotten.

but surely, botham and willis and headingley beats everything.

and dennis lillee's wager on the poms at 500/1

 

[Barrel of Fun]

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[brakespear]

R G D Willis

 

[fire&skill]

The Jam. Guildford Civic Hall. 'Funeral Pyre' Summer Tour. July 1981.

 

[Austrian Gull]

Ricky Villa

Bob Willis

Royal Wedding - day off school!

Appalling England football team - defeat in Norway ("your boys took a hell of a beating etc.")

Some of the best and worst number ones - Specials' Ghost Town, Joe Dolce's Shaddap Your Face

Ronnie Reagan - cold war kicking in

 

[Icy Gull]

Music was mostly shite though, in fact every single one of the top 10 records of the year come into the shite category

Best Selling Songs of 1981 (UK)

 

[Badger]

3 years before I was born so I probably won't have too much input here.

My parents did get married that year though so it was a step towards my existence!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

The Ashes is the immediate thing that comes to mind if I hear "1981", was also the year I did my A-Levels, but that is best forgotten !!

 

[Austrian Gull]

Music was mostly shite though, in fact every single one of the top 10 records of the year come into the shite category

Best Selling Songs of 1981 (UK)

Controversial!

I'll give you Shakin Stevens, Joe Dolce and One Day In Your Life

but Vienna, Tainted Love, Stand And Deliver

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

First (and only in the UK) time I got arrested. Girlfriend dumped me on the night of the royal wedding. Got pissed with a mate on gin (last time I drunk the stuff) and headed down the Lanes to take down some bunting..... pc constable got us before we could do much damage. Driven home with a warning and a clip round the ear from my stepdad.

Bad year.