[Closed] Summer of 84

Finishing o-levels I think.

I was at school. I thought the song was garbage.

Relaxing 8)

I was 2, so i was probably soiling myself.

Getting married 🙂

I was wondering why it was banned, as a rather naive 12 yr old 😳

Simon Bates objected to one word IIRC

Rode my first 10 mile time trial in 1984. I was 11 at the time and managed 30 minutes 29 seconds.

Great track, 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' is a Great album.

Mark O'Toole of the band about where he grew up: "If you slash 250 people you get a silver Stanley knife. We can be suave if we want to ya know."

In 84 I was busy trying to leave childhood behind and wasting some of the best years of my life smoking fags in bush shelters and doing unspeakable things with village sluts.

Starting my apprenticeship in machining and still bloody at it 26 years later.

Didn't really understand quite what all the fuss was about. I was 11 at the time.
But listening to it on the vinyl copy of Now That's What I Call Music II I did get an inkling that 'when you want to suck to it' meant something I wasn't old enough to understand 😉

I was on the dole in Bristol, spending a lot of time skateboarding, going to many awesome gigs (at the Trinity, the Granary, Bierkeller and Colston Hall) and producing underground magazines.

I thought Relax was shite then and I still do.

I was too cool to be doing anything

Listening to the Smiths and discovering girls and snakebite. 8)

This has got to me as I can't remember what I was doing when I was 10

Sweet 16, just finished exams and spent most of the summer windsurfing

Tracey

Simon Bates objected to one word IIRC

I remember seeing them on The Tube some time before it went stellar with the original video (it was probably the year before). I did think WTF at the time.

Saw AC/DC at Castle Donnington - 17th August 1984

I was wondering what all the fuss was about whilst knowing exactly what all the fuss was about, at 10 years old.

serves me right for hanging about with older boys. I think by that time I'd already seem most of one of my mates dad's copies of deep throat.

an interesting childhood...

9 years old - trying to BMX, well into karate, starting a vague interest in girls, starting to get in trouble.

SST - Member
Saw AC/DC at Castle Donnington - 17th August 1984

Me too, it was also the first time I drove a car I owned on the motorway.

Previous to that I shared a car with my mum

I was on a kibbutz, throwing oranges at students who'd travelled a long way to find themselves. Maaan

[i]SST - Member
Saw AC/DC at Castle Donnington - 17th August 1984

Me too, it was also the first time I drove a car I owned on the motorway.

Previous to that I shared a car with my mum [/i]

AC/DC, Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Moore.......... What a day!!

Still in school, but enjoying the heatwave. Thats the year Mardale was uncovered by a receding Haweswater.

16; trying to impress Belinda Brabham with my dingy handling skills. As a Smiths fan, Frankie was beneath contempt...

Wheelies on my raleigh Budgie, lego.

In them days TOTP was a famileeee occasion with Dad and everything. I don't remember Relax (did he ever get on the telly with it?) but I remember my dad being very unimpressed with Morrisey and the Gladioli.

If your christian you'd be a bit puzzled by what I was upto

Being atheist I like to think a little part of me was hanging arround in the reactor of a hithertoo unremarkable nuclear powerplant located in the southern USSR near a small town called Chernoble 🙂

Thisisnotaspoon: upsidedown, overweight and late since 1986 😀

I was 13, so i was probably nosing with interest in the Kays catalogue womens underwear section when my parents were out

mastiles_fanylion - Member

Simon Bates objected to one word IIRC

Mike Read wasn't it?

Yeah, MIke Read.

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Saw AC/DC at Castle Donnington - 17th August 1984

That weekend I was camping with a some friends in Pembrey Country Park. Lovely weather, good friends, some under age drinking and wandering around the woods in the dark pretending not to be scared. Iirc there was some 'controversial' programme on the BBC about a teenage girl finding her sexuality - they probably showed her buttock or something daring like that. We watched that in somebody's caravan.

I would be 16 the following week (I had the new Ultravox, Big Country, and U2 albums I think, but I may be wrong), and we'd pick up our O level results that week as well. We could give up school if we wanted - for a few weeks we were somewhere between being childen and adults.

One of the few specific times that I remember all that time ago..

I was 19 and in my second year as an exchange student with Ohio State Univerisity ag intern, working the harvest from Texas to Montana, 2 of the best years of my life.

A whole 2 weeks in the Lake District and it just drizzled for
half an hour. 😯 The rest of the time it was hot and sunny.
What a ace trip that was.

I was at Art College in Edinburgh. A couple of years later I painted this for Holly Johnson

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Being born...

I started Montain biking in 1984 the hills were peaceful and the trails empty. How I wish it were the same now as then when only a few people had even heard of mountain biking

Getting all rebellious and worked up, signing on,listening to music, seeing bands and festivals (Glastonbury, York)generally having a great time....

at 19 I was at uni, meeting lots of girls & watching lots of bands - and being in one too. The bands took over & I lost interest in the degree course.

1984 I was crashing bikes...

... oh that applies to any year after 1980! 😆

13 at the time and pulling rad tricks on my BMX 😆 Music didn't really interest me and still doesn't to an extent.

Passing my driving test 8)

Er, 20, in a band. Doing a fair bit of "relaxing". 😉

holidaying in kirk levington dc............. 😥

Playing footie and riding my Raleigh Tomahawk and BMX!

And reversing my casette player as the Spectrum had a load error-only another 3 hrs to wait...ahh!

Life was great then and I feel bloody depressed now lol heh

It involved this;
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I was busy being a slightly geeky 7 and a half year old...

summer of 84 was mainly spent running around with a ****ing great gun in preparation for the earls court tournament

i was breakdancing in the local underpasses using a piece of lino and a ghettoblaster what fun!. 14 yrs old.

I was busy being ten.

I remember the music vividly though, my brother is ten years my senior and he kept a well stocked music room in my parents' house.

Listening to marillion and riding bmx

being 21 and meeting Mrs beabZ 8)

In the lakes - 2 camping weeks on an island on windermere. Climbed my first mountain. Did climbing, canoeing, developed my hatred of abseiling, learned to sail. Spent the rest of the summer doing farm work for the folks - driving tractors, haytime, roofing buildings, walling, fencing the usual for a 14year old farm kid. The water went off for about 6 weeks, daily trips to the local auction mart to get water for us and the livestock.

Definately one of my best summers - 85 was just a let down, it just never stopped raining.

Touring the states* - did 44 of the 50 that year.

*with my parents

Sanding down f00king rowing eights in a boat yard for a boss who communicated only in expletives. Was the basis of my hatred of DIY and people who row....

FGTH Born to Run - what a cover!

Cycling to Yugoslavia & back before starting uni - what a year.

Is it only me that thinks that Holly Johnson has a passing resemblance to George W ?

riding my mag burner, skateboarding and listening to the beastie boys & motorhead I think, I can't really remember!

17/18, 6th form, probably the best year of my life, not a care in the world.

Left School that year.
BMX was all there was to life.

And then I came across what Debbie Bishop had concealed under that baggy Sweatshirt... 😉

I was 8, so I don't specifically remember much other than playing out....

I do remember Frankie Goes To Hollywood tho.. I thought they were rubbish, turns out I was right!!! but there again there doesn't seem to be much else that I would say is a great example of music from that year, with the exception of '1984' by Van Halen and Purple Rain by Prince. Brewing up with Billy Bragg maybe? Born in the USA by Springsteen

I was well up to no good, probably lucky to survive some of it 🙂

Recording this:

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23, living in Manchester, partying hard, final year of nurse training, growing BIG hair

I spent the summer of '84 watching the LA 'lympics. up all night slept all day! 16 and just done me o levels.

I was seven... and rocking the casual race googles look. 8)

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Loving Magnum, Miami Vice and wishing I was on Kellogs BMX series.

Paid a deposit on a Ridgeback mountain bike,still waiting for it 6 weeks latter, so cancelled and got a Motobecane one,sold it and bought a Saracen, then another Saracen.

Swimming up my mums 😯

I was failing my O-levels 😀

Song was ace and still is, "Frankie says ....." Tee shirts were for c0ck5.