Chronology: Pre-Stone Roses THE STONE ROSES MUSIC CURRENT AFFAIRS CULTURE 1980 Art created by John 45s: David Bowie, Ashes Cinema: Squire in this year: to Ashes; Joy Division, The Empire Strikes Back; N/K Love Will Tear Us Apart; Raging Bull; Superman II; Michael Jackson, She's Fame; Airplane!; The Out of My Life; Visage, Elephant Man; The Fade to Grey; Bruce Shining; The Blues Springsteen, Hungry Brothers; Dressed to Kill; Heart; AC/DC, You Shook Nine to Five; Flash Me All Night Long; The Gordon; Heaven's Gate; Clash, Bankrobber; The Caddyshack; Friday the Jam, Going Underground; 13th; The Long Good Pink Floyd, Another Brick Friday; Ordinary People. in the Wall (Part II); The d. Alfred Hitchcock (Apr Police, Don't Stand So 29), Peter Sellers (Jul 24), Close To Me; Blondie, Steve McQueen (Nov 7), Atomic & The Tide Is High; Mae West (Nov 22), Madness, Baggy Trousers; George Raft (Nov 24), Kelly Marie, Feels Like I'm Raoul Walsh (Dec 31). In Love; The Specials, Too Much Too Young; Dexy's Fiction: Midnight Runners, Geno; Frederick Forsyth, The The Pretenders, Talk of Devil's Alternative; L. Ron the Town; Bob Marley and Hubbard, Battlefield Earth; the Wailers, Could You Be Umberto Eco, The Name Loved; Tom Petty and the of the Rose; Robert Heartbreakers, Here Ludlum, The Bourne Comes My Girl; Diana Identity. Ross, Upside Down; Pop Musik, M; Roxy Music, Non-fiction: Over You; Paul Carl Sagan, Cosmos. McCartney, Coming Up. d. Jean-Paul Sartre (Apr LPs: Adam and the Ants, 15). Kings of the Wild Frontier; Talking Heads, Remain in TV / Media: Light; Queen, The Game; Millions of viewers tune Genesis, Duke; The into the U.S. TV soap Pretenders, Pretenders Dallas to find out who shot U2, Boy; Joy Division, lead character J.R. Ewing Closer; Kate Bush, Never (Nov 21). for Ever; David Bowie, Debuting: Magnum, P.I. Scary Monsters (and (CBS). Super Creeps); Prince, Ending: The Rockford Dirty Mind; Stevie Wonder, Files; Shoestring. Hotter than July; Dexy's d. Marshall McLuhan (Dec Midnight Runners, 31). Searching For The Young Soul Rebels; John Lennon Fashion: & Yoko Ono, Double Power dressing, Fantasy; Devo, Freedom epitomised by the wide of Choice. shoulder of TV’s Dallas. February February Visual arts: 19 Bon Scott, lead singer 9 Eric Bristow wins his first Enzo Cucchi, Ferocious of AC/DC, dies of alcohol world darts championship, Painting; Rainer Fetting, poisoning. defeating Bobby George. Large Shower. 22 The United States Exhibitions: Pablo Picasso Olympic Hockey Team Retrospective at the defeats the Soviet Union in Museum of Modern Art, the semi finals of the New York City. Winter Olympics, in the d. Tamara de Lempicka ‘Miracle on Ice’. (Mar 18). March March The Patrol play their first 4 Robert Mugabe is gig, at Sale Annexe Youth elected Prime Minister of Club, (admission 30p). Zimbabwe. Support is provided by 21 U.S. President Jimmy Suburban Chaos. Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the 1980 Date N/K Ian Brown and Summer Olympics in Pete Garner attend the Moscow. recording of The Clash’s 24 Archbishop Óscar 'Bankrobber' in Romero is killed by Manchester. gunmen while celebrating Date N/K The Patrol play Mass in San Salvador. At at The Mayflower in his funeral 6 days later, 42 Gorton, replacing Adam people are killed amid and the Ants, who had gunfire and bombs. broken down on the April motorway. 7 The U.S. severs Date N/K The Patrol diplomatic relations with record their only demo, on Iran and imposes a 4 track in a Rusholme economic sanctions, in studio. Limited to one response to the hostage hundred copies, the demo taking of November 1979. has 3 songs: Jail Of The 30 Iranian Embassy Siege: Assassins, Too Many Six Iranian-born terrorists Tonnes and 25 Rifles. It is take over the Iranian the first recording of Ian embassy in London. (bass) and John (guitar) May May together. 18 Ian Curtis of Joy 4 Yugoslav President Tito Date N/K The Patrol play Division hangs himself in dies. Dunham Massey village his Macclesfield home. 5 The SAS retake the hall, where they share a His death comes just days Iranian Embassy; 1 bill with Suburban Chaos before Joy Division are terrorist survives. and Corrosive Youth. scheduled to begin their 18 Eruption of Mount St. first U.S. tour. Helens kills 57 people. June 10 The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela, calling for an end to Apartheid. July 11 The Patrol (and Stray Dogs) provide support for Corrosive Youth on school playing fields at Selby Road, Stretford. September 25 Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham is found dead at age 32. October 15 James Callaghan announces his resignation as Leader of the British Labour Party. 27 Six Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners in Maze prison refuse food and demand status as political prisoners; the hunger strike lasts until December. November November The Patrol play their final 4 In the U.S. presidential gig, at South Trafford election, Republican College, Altrincham challenger and former (admission 50p), sharing a Governor Ronald Reagan line-up with Scorched of California defeats Earth and Strange incumbent Democrat Behaviour. President Jimmy Carter in 16 Gary Mounfield’s 18tth a landslide victory. birthday. 12 The NASA space probe 24 John Squire’s 18th Voyager I makes its birthday. closest approach to Saturn, when it flies within 77,000 miles of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high- resolution images back to scientists on Earth. 20 The Gang of Four trial begins in China. December 8 John Lennon is shot dead outside his apartment building in New York City. 1981 Art created by John 45s: Adam and the Ants, Cinema: Squire in this year: Stand and Deliver; The Raiders of the Lost Ark, N/K Specials, Ghost Town; Superman II; Mad Max 2: Kim Carnes, Bette Davis The Road Warrior; An Eyes; Madness, The American Werewolf in Return of the Los Palmas London; Chariots of Fire; 7, Grey Day, Shut Up & It Nine to Five; Arthur; Must Be Love; The J. Excalibur; Clash of the Geils Band, Centerfold; Titans; Blow Out; Ultravox, Vienna; The Mephisto; Escape from Jam, That’s Entertainment; New York. Blondie, Rapture; Men at d. William Holden (Nov Work, Down Under; The 12). Go-Go's, Our Lips Are Sealed; Queen & David Fiction: Bowie, Under Pressure; Samuel Beckett, Ill Seen Ill AC/DC, Back in Black; Said; Thomas Harris, Red Altered Images, Happy Dragon. Birthday; Rush, Tom Sawyer; Olivia Newton- Non-fiction: John, Physical; Alasdair MacIntyre, After Psychedelic Furs, Pretty in Virtue; Maya Angelou, The Pink; Billy Idol, Dancing Heart of a Woman; Viktor with Myself; Tom Petty Suvorov, The Liberators. and the Heartbreakers, The Waiting; The Rolling TV / Media: Stones, Start Me Up; Debuting: Only Fools and Icehouse, Icehouse; Jon Horses (BBC1); Dynasty and Vangelis, I'll Find My (ABC); The Wogan Show Way Home. (BBC1); Brideshead LPs: Duran Duran, Duran Revisited (Granada); Duran; The Human Bullseye (ITV); The League, Dare; Prince, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Controversy; Adam and Galaxy (BBC2); Postman the Ants, Prince Charming; Pat (BBC1); Pigeon Street Phil Collins, Face Value; (BBC); Smurfs (NBC); The The Psychedelic Furs, Kids of Degrassi Street Talk Talk Talk. (CBC). Ending: Charlie's Angels; January The Waltons; The Muppet 4 Sheffield police arrest Show. Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. Fashion: 19 U.S. and Iranian The New Romantic officials sign an agreement fashions, with great hair to release 52 American experimentation, hostages after 14 months characterised by an of captivity. extravagance of strange 20 Ronald Reagan hair colours and cuts. succeeds Jimmy Carter, to d. Edith Head (Oct 24). become the 40th President of the U.S. Visual arts: 21 The first De Lorean Fred Williams, Drifting DMC-12 automobile rolls Smoke; Anselm Kiefer, off the production line in Innenraum; Richard Serra, Dunmurry, Northern Tilted Arc. Ireland. February February February 20 Ian Brown’s 18th 14 Billy Idol leaves 13 Rupert Murdoch buys birthday. Generation X to pursue a The Times and The solo career. Sunday Times for £12 million. 14 A fire at the Stardust Nightclub in Artane, Dublin, ROI, kills 48 and injures 214 people. March 1 Bobby Sands, an IRA member, begins a hunger strike for political status in Long Kesh prison (he dies on 5th May, the first of 10 men). 11 Chilean President Augusto Pinochet is sworn in for another 8-year term. 30 U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.. April April 4 Bucks Fizz wins the 10 IRA hunger-striker Eurovision Song Contest Bobby Sands wins the with Making Your Mind Up. Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election. 11 Brixton riot: rioters in South London throw petrol bombs, attack police and loot shops. 12 Space Shuttle Columbia launches. May May 11 Bob Marley dies. 13 Pope John Paul II is The musical Cats begins shot and nearly killed by its 8949 performance run Mehmet Ali Ağca, a on London's West End. Turkish gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Rome to address a general audience. 21 Socialist François Mitterrand becomes French President. June 5 Five homosexual men in L.A., California are found to have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (the first recognized cases of AIDS). July 3 - 11 Rioting in Handsworth, Southall, Toxteth, and Moss Side. 17 Israeli bombers destroy the PLO headquarters in Beirut. 29 Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales.