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The Nation's Favourite 80s Number One

ITV spins us right round baby, right round, with a headrush-inducing carousel of 1980s hits. At one point in the run-down, former Smash Hits editor Mark Ellen observes that Dexys Midnight Runners’ Come on Eileen is a song you can put on at a wedding reception and get all ages flooding the dance floor. The same could be said for most songs in this lovingly assembled chart, based on a public vote: Human League’s Don’t You Want Me (we meet that heavy-fringed waitress in a cocktail bar today); Madness’s House of Fun (all about buying condoms, we’re told); True (we see home video of the recording in Nassau). And whenever the music pauses there’s another 80s star looking 30 years older but recognisably the same person as in the video we fondly remember. And Pete Burns, too.

English
  • Originally Aired July 25, 2015
  • Runtime 90 minutes
  • Network ITV1
  • Created April 4, 2018 by
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