Dylan Jones - Sweet Dreams: The Story of The New Romantics
Season 1, Episode 60, Oct 27, 2020, 04:03 PM
We travel through time with British GQ's Editor-in-Chief, Dylan Jones - to a decade that waved away the glum, angry gloom of the seventies with a glamorous, techno-confident keyboard swagger. When the line outside a single London nightclub called The Blitz was more important that the line between rich, poor, gay, straight, trans, black or white. Everyone under the age of 25 was caught up, in some way, by the same new wave of culture sweeping through 1980’s Britain…
From the dismal dereliction of the Sex Pistols to peak-eighties gloss with Wham, coloured throughout by Margaret Thatcher’s politics of self-improvement, 1979-1985 was a moment in history that made UK culture what it is today.
Join Richard Kilgarriff as he shares OMI with Dylan Jones, top magazine editor (British GQ) and author of Sweet Dreams - The Story of The New Romantics.
Even if you don't want to remember the music, the keyboards and the make-up, you will no doubt appreciate the transition from tense, grim aggression to flamboyant, entrepreneurial excess at the beginning of 1980's Britain.
Join Richard Kilgarriff as he shares OMI with Dylan Jones, top magazine editor (British GQ) and author of Sweet Dreams - The Story of The New Romantics.
Even if you don't want to remember the music, the keyboards and the make-up, you will no doubt appreciate the transition from tense, grim aggression to flamboyant, entrepreneurial excess at the beginning of 1980's Britain.