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What we’ve been talking about
As we proudly celebrate The List’s 750th issue, what else was going on in the cultural life of Scotland and beyond in the glorious year of 1985?
Max Headroom makes his heavily sarcastic computer-generated debut on Channel 4
later to receive a TV adaptation that has ‘morality watchdog’ Mary Whitehouse
getting her knickers in
Oliver Sacks becomes a right twist
a sensation in the world of neurology when The Man Who
Mistook His Wife for a Hat is published
A memorial to Hugh
MacDiarmid is unveiled near his home at Langholm
Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and
Born In The USA and Phil Collins’ No Jacket
Orville the Duck Required
Amadeus sweeps the board at the
Oscars taking eight gongs away on the night while Sylvester Stallone is similarly
dominant at the Golden
Roland Rat makes a high-profile transfer from ITV to the Beeb The 100th Scottish Cup Final takes place with Celtic beating Dundee
Raspberry Awards United 2–1
Live Aid takes place
Everyone starts thanks to his work on
in London and stocking up for the
Philadelphia raising apocalypse when
Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV Studio Ghibli is founded in Tokyo
over £50m for Ethiopia BBC2 screens nuclear
while simultaneously war docudrama
saving a few ailing Threads
BBC2 has its highest ever ratings of 18.5m viewers as the World
After the notorious
success of The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
music careers
Little Sparta creator Ian Hamilton Finlay is nominated for the Turner Prize
EastEnders begins the march to misery with its BBC debut
Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is published,
The Jesus and Mary Chain release
Snooker Final between Dennis ‘Funny Glasses’ publishes his second novel, Walking on Glass
Psychocandy and play a troubled gig at North Taylor and Steve ‘Interesting’ Davis
London Poly which erupts into violence
Shakin’ Stevens takes the coveted Christmas number one slot with
‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ beating off stiff competition from
reaches its dramatic Super Mario Bros is unleashed upon the
finale in the early gaming world
hours
The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder reaches the top of the UK album charts for one week, squeezed between Springsteen’s
Some future stars are
born in ’85: Dizzee Rascal, Lily Allen,
Eleanor Catton, Keira Knightley, Carey
Mulligan
1985 4 THE LIST 1 Sep–31 Oct 2018
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