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1980 The first home computer,The Sinclair ZX80   
goes on sale for £99.95p                                       

The Sinclair Spectrum

  1983 See's the start of a battle between the Sony betamax
   and JVC vhs home video formats. vhs is the victor.The betamax
  system dies !

                                           
1983 And the classic arcade game Pacman by Namco begins
its domination of the world                                                                                   

In the early part of the eighties the top selling game was the electronic
game Simon.It involved the matching of coloured light's and weird      
electronic sounds.                                                                             

  1981 and the marriage of Prince Charles to Diana Spencer takes place at
   St Pauls Cathederal in London , in front of a world tv audience

                    July 13 1985 and at midday Status Quo kick off a pop concert at                      Wembley to raise funds to help the people of Ethiopia, who are     
     experiencing the worst droughts in living memory           

DECEMBER DIARY

                                                                                               
1989
The winner of the NME best album award goes to De La Soul for' Three Feet High & Rising'.
Sales of UK No1 singles reach an all time low, but sales of casette singles are up 700%.

1988
Soul singer James Brown is jailed for six years.
Roy Orbison die's of a heart attack.
George Micheal is to be paid £5 million to promote Diet Coke.

1987
Agnetha and Bjorn from Abba are prosecuted in Sweden for tax evasion.

1986
Mtv is launched in the UK.
Top of The Pops is syndicated to tv companies in the USA.

1985
Fifties superstar Ricky Nelson dies.
Dire Straites release the worlds first cd single 'Brother's in Arms'.

1984
Star's including Bob Geldof & Midge Ure record the charity record 'Do they Know its Christmas'.

1983
The Police's 'Synchronicity' notche's up it's 17 week at No 1 in the US albums chart.

1982
The Everly Brothers announce that they are to reform after christmas.
The No1 album in the UK is 'The John Lennon Collection'.

1981
Rod Stewart becomes the first rock star to beam his live concert from the USA to Britain via sattelite.

1980
U2 play support to Talking Heads at London's Hammersmith Palais.
The Human League split up.
Dec 8 and John Lennon is shot by Mark Chapman, in New York.

                ON TV YOU COULD WATCH      
                                 

The Professionals

                              Moonlighting starring Bruce Willis and Sybil Shepherd

   1981 and the first episode of Only Fools and Horses
    is transmitted on BBC 1. It starred David Jason and
    Nicholas Lindhurst as Del Boy and Rodney Trotter.

                   AT THE MOVIES YOU COULD SEE            

  Harrison Ford stars in the film Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom

  ET the extra terrestrial is released   
in 1982.It was directed by Steven  
Spielberg,and was one of the most 
successful movies of all time           

  1984 Freddie Kruggar makes his screen debut in
   what is to become a successful run of horror movies,
   Nightmare on Elm Street

                         1984 The release of the movie Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger