Remember the 1980s? When Margate’s Bembom Brothers and Folkestone’s Rotunda were pleasure palaces we thought could never be beaten?
When TV channels were limited to just four and if you wanted music on demand you could call ‘dial-a-disc’ on the telephone and hear a random hit single in all the clarity a crackly old phone line could muster?
No wonder many of us consider the younger generation to be spoilt when it comes to the sheer breadth of entertainment available today at the touch of a button.
But did you know of Kent’s influence on some of the decade of excess?
Firstly, let’s talk fashion.
In 1984, the pop charts were set ablaze by Liverpool five-piece Frankie Goes To Hollywood who burst on the scene with three of the finest singles of all time – the sex-crazed Relax, the ode to armageddon that was Two Tribes, and the sublime ballad, The Power of Love.
And while they dominated the charts for most of the year with finely crafted, and well-produced pop, they…
