If you hear either the names Annie Lennox or Dave Stewart, I would imagine within five seconds most people would think, ah Eurythmics and why would you not they were huge throughout the 80s and many of their hits are still instantly recognisable today. However, as I’m sure many of you know Eurythmics were not Annie and Dave’s first brush with fame, no that was The Tourists. The Tourists were a five piece band led by Peet Coombes (sadly no longer with us) who was their main s

We talk about our biggest stars from the UK in music, no one is arguing with McCartney, Jagger, Elton John and George Michael, here’s another one for you, Robert Smith. He has been making records since 1979, nearly fifty years and his most recent record went top ten across the world. Let’s not also forget that he slotted in a couple of years with Siouxsie and the Banshees whilst still pushing The Cure to further success. Here’s the news though, I didn’t like Disintegratio

In the 80s we had The Chart Show, The Tube, Whistle Test and Top of the Pops so although we didn’t have YouTube and seven thousand channels we were pretty well catered for hearing new bands and music. Channel 4 put out a late night show called Max Headroom which was a computer generated host who presented music videos (it was actually an actor Matt Frewer in prosthetic make up and a rubber suit). I personally found him quite annoying, but I used to watch it as it played video