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Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Sex, drugs and...pop music?

BOFFING! Sex In The 80s, Channel 4, 11.05pm

We have no idea what sex was like in the '80s. We were only eight years old when they finished, so if we did know, it would be a bit sick and wrong. Unless we owned a time machine or something. But then, nobody needs to know about this, do they? Phew. So instead we're going to rely on the input of this very shiny programme about how pop music changed the way we look at sex in the 1980s.

It's probably a bit ludicrous to think of Bucks Fizz as the epitome of sexy pop in this day and age where we're all familiar with the role of tit-tape in the making of the iconic video to 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head', and we've all seen Holly Valance in the nothing, and Girls Aloud have recorded songs all about the joys of bondage in the afternoon. But we're reliably informed that the infamous skirt-ripping moment from Eurovision was some kind of sexual epiphany for popular music. Blimey.

And that's before we even get to Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Duran Duran and the New Romantic wave and all of those songs that were actually properly about sex and got banned by Radio 1 for being all racy. Ahhh, good times. So, this programme is going to chart how we got here from there, and now we all want to watch it, don't we? Good.

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