Month: May 1981

*The Week That Was – 25th May 1981

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Single of the week: Jam – Funeral Pyre, Siouxsie and the Banshees – Spellbound, Squeeze – Is That Love?

25th May 1981
STILL QUITE ILL
The Exploited are #20

26th May 1981
THE EXPLOITED
I got Punk’s Not Dead and Splodgenessabounds

27th May 1981
PUNKS NOT DEAD
Euro Cup
Liverpool 1 – Real Madrid 0

28th May 1981
John Peel’s gone mad after yesterday
TOO DRUNK TO FUCK

29th May 1981
I can’t remember
May 1st

must’ve been June 1st

30th May 1981
Wales 0 – USSR 0
Switzerland 2 – England 1

31st May 1981
Cut the dog
God-dog

This week’s chart-topper is: Adam and the Ants – Stand and Deliver
ROTM: Killing Joke – Follow The Leader, Vice Squad – Young Blood, Dangerous Girls – Man in the Glass

*The Week That Was – 18th May 1981

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Single of the week: Killing Joke – Tension, Stiff Little Fingers – Silver Lining

18th May 1981
It rained part 2

19th May 1981
Mrs Neeves gave me a talk!
I must (illegible)

20th May 1981
AZ67 Alkamaar 4 – Ipswich 2 (agg 4-5)
High Jump Final – I won

21st May 1981
WE WON THE CUP

22nd May 1981
Long Jump – I won
Triple Jump – I won

23rd May 1981
Hurrah
England 0 – Scotland 1
Well done Wattie

24th May 1981
Hey Vicks – he came yesterday
I’M ILL

This week’s chart-topper is Adam and the Ants – Stand and Deliver

*The Week That Was – 11th May 1981

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Single of the week: Altered Images – A Day’s Wait, Toyah – I Want to be Free

11th May 1981
It’s now Friday
I don’t know what happened

12th May 1981
Adam’s still #1

13th May 1981
KNACKERED

14th May 1981
EVEN MORE SO
A GOOD DAY OTHERWISE

15th May 1981
Pope shot on Wednesday

16th May 1981
Replay FA Cup from last Thursday
Manchester City 2 – Spurs 3

17th May 1981
It rained
Nick came down yesterday
Went to Horton Tower

This week’s chart-topper is: Adam and the Ants – Stand and Deliver

*The Week That Was – 4th May 1981

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Single of the week: Vice Squad – Young Blood, Dangerous Girls – Men in Suits

4th May 1981
Off school MAYDAY

5th May 1981
GO FOR IT
What a shit holiday yesterday
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS

6th May 1981
We are the champs
We hope
Ipswich 3 – AZ67 Alkmaar 0

7th May 1981
No one dropped the bomb
But only just

Operation RYAN
At a secret meeting of top Soviet officials in May 1981, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev condemned Reagan, whose aggressive rhetoric was decidedly anti-communist. Yuri Andropov, the head of the KGB and the future General Secretary, furthermore explained that the Reagan administration was preparing for a possible preemptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. Andropov announced that the KGB was launching an intelligence program, Operation RYAN, which was an acronym for Raketno-Yadernoe Napadenie, or “nuclear missile attack.”

8th May 1981
I’m dead
Hoare’s read my story

9th May 1981
FA Cup Final
Spurs vs City 1-1 replay Thurs
PiL

10th May 1981
SID VICIOUS LIVES (Sid Vicious born 1957)

This week’s chart-topper is: Adam and the Ants – Stand and Deliver
straight into top 75 (at number 1)