All 80s Radio broadcasters believe in providing music, so listeners can enjoy 80’s music. I don't think people give older people the same respect that they used to. So the question of work is crucial. 19. [8] A promo 12-inch single was also released with the proper track list, with side A containing the first three tracks and side B containing the remaining three. I go swimming and do Pilates and the housework. 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Younger people can be patronising to old people - they think we haven't lived, even though over the last 80 years we've probably seen a lot more than they ever have or will. You are unlikely to charm anyone at a party with the melting invitation of your smile, and you're preoccupied with wondering about a hearing aid, considering a cataract operation, being begged by your children to hold on to the banister going down stairs. I was lucky enough to meet someone recently who I could talk to. Ah, the children. Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh and Glenn Gregory (with Carol Kenyon providing guest vocals) reached number 2 in the UK charts in 1983 with the second single from their second album, The Luxury Gap. I feel fit, so I have nothing to complain about. Copyright: Writer(s): Martin H. Frederiksen, Damon Johnson Lyrics Terms of Use. [5], The CD copies featured a misprinted track list on the rear of the disc case. All 80s broadcasts a diverse range of locally and nationally produced programs. 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All 80s official website address is www.all80s.ie Lots of pensioners are struggling and have to choose between eating or putting the heating on. big hair, shoulder pads, rah rah skirts, champagne, cocaine, clubbing.... Margaret Thatcher.... great music….. it had it all. The truth about life after 80. I was a consultant physician, an endoscopist, and I was there when the NHS started in 1948.It was very exciting - morale was high. Pensioners now outnumber under-16s in Britain - and the over-80s are the fastest-growing age group. It was sad to leave my house - I had lived in it for 50 years - and especially my garden. Don't You Want Me is Philip Oakey, Joaznne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley's most successful song to date. [1] "Human After All" peaked at number 93 on the French Singles Chart. I'm leavin' tomorrow Bangalter cited the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell as an inspiration for the record. They say, "Oh, you old git, still doing it?" Nothing can turn me around “Human” is the first single from the band’s 1986 album, Crash. Fine Young Cannibals—Suspicious Minds. And I know, I'm moving in circles I come here, play dominoes, have a chat, make some noise. It was re-released in 1992, reaching number 40. Would I like to start my life again now? I used to read one book a year, but now I read two a week and the papers from front to back. New Order was formed by ex-Joy Division band members, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris in 1980 following the death of Ian Curtis. was one of the band's first significant chart hits, peaking at number 12 in the UK charts in 1984. But thanks to the weekly hit show, Top of The Pops and their super cheesy music video, Young Guns (Go For It) became a chart topper in 1982…. I'm also very forgetful, but I think I'm probably allowed to be. Breathing hardly, need releasing How am I holding on? I don't need to labour the fact that there is going to be a crisis when the diminishing number of young are asked to prop up the pensions of the vast expanding army of the old; it seems perfectly obvious that the old are going to have to work longer, and I would be astounded if anyone under 60 thought anyone older should be able to just sit back and put their feet up at their expense. In 1985 it went to number 13 on the UK charts and 28 on the Billboard pop chart three years later. Fri 29 Aug 2008 00.01 BST House of Fun was released by Graham “Suggs" McPherson, Chris Foreman, Mike Barson, Lee Thompson, Chas Smash and Daniel Woodgate as a one-off single in 1982, it reached number 1 and stayed on the UK charts for 9 weeks. We don't necessarily expect our small ailments to go away - just to be treatable. 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I saw a few of my Post Office friends recently and we were talking about the old days and how not many of us are still around now. At first, it's a great psychological change to give up work, and unless you take a positive attitude you begin to wonder what you're living for, but I don't really mind being retired. After leaving ska band The Specials Terry Hall, Neville Staple and Lynval Golding formed Fun Boy Three and their biggest hit came in 1983 with their cover of the Go-Go's hit Our Lips are Sealed. Everyone was interested in where I had come from and asked how I was dealing with the cold. This is the moment when you can no longer think of yourself as "promising", when you can no longer huffily say "elderly", or use the dread phrase "I'm 78 years young." First published on Fri 29 Aug 2008 00.01 BST. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe released West End Girls twice—first in 1984 then again in 1985 where it reached number 1 in the UK—it hit the number 1 spot in the U.S in 1986. Family maybe; neighbours perhaps; members of the book group or the cricket club (you can always do the scoring); other people who are also barmy about cats - and maybe someone to love. What has fundamentally changed, between my generation and that of our parents, is that the dependence of one generation on another - either way round - is negotiable, not laid down. Here I am alone Money's Too Tight To Mention was the first UK hit for Mick Hucknall, David Fryman, Tony Bowers, Fritz McIntyre, Tim Kellett and Chris Joyce. These days I am physically restricted - I have to use a wheelchair if I'm going somewhere. 6. I worked in our fish-and-chip shop for 30 years and when I retired, started volunteering at the Cancer Research shop, where I've been for 21 years. I would like to have been a teacher but my father died down the mine when I was nine and I had to leave school and make money for the family. ), There's no denying that the over-80s are terribly concerned about health.