Colin Braithwaite, a northern vicar, has bought some trainers that were briefly popular in the 1980s. He told us 'I saw these trainers on-line on eBay and thought that what I need as a trendy vicar, is some trendy trainers, to go with my trendy ta...
80s band Kajagoogoo have released their long-awaited assessment on the economic effects of Brexit, and how it will affect the band. The report was written by a set of academic experts and lead singer Limahl. The report concludes that Kajagoogoo w...
Los Angeles, CA - Max Headroom never imagined that the girl he once dated in college, a nerdy know-it-all named Siri, would go on to become the voice of Apple's iphone. We sat down with the '80's icon, who was dumbfounded by her success. "I j-j-j...
Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday stated emphatically that he has never been on The Ritz and in fact is not and has never been associated with The Ritz. "I do not know what Ritz is," said Putin, "I have not been on Ritz."...
With Operation Yewtree cutting a swathe through the childhood nostalgia of 30 and 40 somethings up and down the land, it may surprise many to learn that creepy 1980s children's entertainer Uncle Jake McRaffles was not a nonce, as many had suspected,...
I well remember a holiday that I spent with my family in Cornwall when I was a boy. Oh, those glorious summer days when the whole of my body was covered in soft downy hair and I knew that I would grow up to be rich, or famous, or both. About half-way through the holiday, Sally and myself went for a walk along the cliff tops. After an hour we stopped and sat on the grass, and gazed across the se...
Popular eighties tree piece band fronted by Marty Pellow are set to hit the come back trail and reform. "We've been working on a new album," said Marty Pellow, who's real name is Martin Pellow. "It's got some good stuff on it." The band are to...
Long thought to be an American President without any significant or positive societal impacts to his credit, Former President Gerald R. Ford has recently been identified as one of the primary influencers of the break dancing boom in the early 1980's. Known more for his reluctant acceptance of the Presidential office as a result of Richard Nixon's resignation, President Ford admitted then that h...
Larry Hagman, best known as JR Ewing on Dallas, has whipped up some quite specific instructions for what he would like to see happen after he passes away. "At death, I want to be fed through a wood chipper, spread over a wheat field and a cake baked...
Reports that the body of pop star Michael Jackson has gone missing have spurred one celebrity watcher to make a startling counter-claim: there never was a body to begin with. "The 80s phenom known as Michael Jackson was a chimera," claims pop cul...
Former inmates of Spandau prison are to reunite for a special world tour. The tour has come as a surprise but those involved say that it is just what they need right now. Tony Von Hadlei, a former inmate said "Ya, it is true. So true. Funny how it se...
Barrack Obama's wife and Republican presidential corpse John McCain have admitted they both had sex during the heady days of the 1980's. Not with each other, of course, but with their respective partners. The evidence proving that sexual inter...
Vice presidential loser Sarah Palin says she and pop singer Madonna shared many intimate moments together during the crazy days of the early 1980's. "We had so much in common back then. We both had big, bleached bouffant hairstyles, both wore pink...
The German pop singer Falco*, who penned a 1980's hit about composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is to release a new song which he hopes will again reach the upper echelons of the billboard charts. The one-hit-wonder who can't walk down the street wi...
The well known and much loved bald dwarf Phil Collins has had a sudden fall back to earth. After huge hits in the 1980's and a revival with Genesis last year Phil has been told by his Doctor that it is the new millennium and not 1987. Phil (68)...
Seb Coe, the Olympic medal winning athlete has launched a brand new business venture, Seb Coe's 1980's Disco. In a venture aimed at increasing funding for the Olympics in 2012, and Tony Blair's attempts at being Britain's Tiddly Wink's champion, t...
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