Forty years ago, what new music was emerging...
I previously (back in May) shared details of the Peter Gabriel album 'So'. This was a real highlight of 1986 and I still listen to this regularly today.
This was a year when I started training to be a teacher having spent the first part of the year completing a computer science course back in Rotherham. I'd graduated but wasn't sure what to do, and luckily graduated at a time when that was less of an issue than it is for young people
Here's Gabriel's own reminiscences of the album.
And the first track on the album is epic.
The hi-hat really makes this one come to life... from Stewart Copeland of the Police.
Sledgehammer was the real break out hit with its video made by Aardman animation studios.
The dancing chickens were animated by Nick Park, who later won several Oscars.
I went to the premiere of the latest Chicken Run movie at the London Film Festival a couple of years ago and he walked past me.
The album that I remember most of all from this year though was Bruce Hornsby and the Range's album 'The Way it Is'.
The title track was all over MTV and used as music for several TV programmes. There are some classic tracks on this album, which doesn't really have a duff song on it...
Pierre Moerlen's Gong made a 'Breakthrough'... I had this on vinyl... great percussion as always from Pierre Moerlen...
Steve Winwood has a distinctive voice, and this year he was 'Back in the High Life' again....
What were you listening to back in 1986?
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