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- The Tet Offensive and Biafra, riots in Paris and the Red Army in Prague. MLK and RFK shot. Some decent music.
- The rock and roll era is born.
- The Hanratty case, the death of Marilyn Monroe and the escalation of the Space Race. Cliff Richard, Gene Pitney and The Beatles provide the soundtrack.
- The Profumo affair, the Civil Rights movement, Beatlemania and the assassination of John F Kennedy.
- Massacres in Munich and Derry. 61 hijackings. Vietnam rages. Bowie and Roxy Music.
- Reagan tells Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall", with backing music from Pet Shop Boys and The Mission.
- Elvis and Krushchev do their stuff.
- The Berlin Wall goes up, and the Cold War battlelines are drawn.
- The Rolling Stones play out the decade, with the moon landing, the Troubles and Charlie Manson grabbing the headlines.
- Glam rock and George Best.
- After 10 years of war and the loss of 58,000 lives, the Americans are finally pushed out of Saigon.
- Music from the Sex Pistols and Roxy Music, as Britain swelters in record heat and the Hunt-Lauda rivalry reaches a dramatic climax.
- Maria Callas, Marc Bolan and Elvis Presley bow out as violence hits London and New York. Music from The Stranglers and Elvis Costello.
- Terrible news, great music. The Jam, the Ruts and the Clash play out the decade, as the Soviets sweep into Afghanistan and the Winter of Discontent helps Thatcher sweep into Downing Street.
- The Undertones, Madness and Adam and the Ants provide the soundtrack to the Moscow Olympics, the Iranian Embassy siege and the death of John Lennon.
- The Specials bemoan the fighting on the dancefloor as Brixton and Toxteth burn.
- Mark Thatcher gets lost in the desert. His mum retakes the Falklands. Music from ABC and the Stranglers.
- Thatcher's landslide victory, the Greenham Common protests and the arrest of Dennis Neilsen, soundtracked by The Smiths, The Police and U2.
- Madonna gets into the groove and a Reagan wins a second term.
- A look back at the news of 1986, including Chernobyl, the Challenger disaster and Maradona's goals against England in the World Cup in Mexico. Peter Gabriel, Chris de Burgh and the Housemartins provide the soundtrack.
- The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and Bros wonder when they will be famous.