Simon Rueben

@SaucySeventies Incredible. I guess the modern day equivalent is Stephen mulhern and the gang leading us all in a britpop melody

Christmas telly was ok, but it missed a good old fashioned celebrity singalong with all the top showbiz stars of the day.

@1967lrjones This is a superb story, I love how you still own and treasure these records and still get pleasure from them after all these years. Have a great Christmas, sending good feelings your way

Christmas Eve 1979 Mum & Dad hinted I might be getting my 1st record player. I wanted London Calling, but we couldn't find it, so they let me buy 10 singles instead. It's one of my happiest memories. Mum & Dad are long gone, but I play the singles every year and remember them.

@simon_price01 @Manics Didn’t ever trash all their gear on the last night? Was that the Astoria?

@FactoryRecCol @peterhook Great single, love this track

Fac 247 Revenge Peter Hook Seven Reasons 12" Vinyl single 1st press 1989 @peterhook #factoryrecords #fac247 #sevenreasons

@hellothisisivan Greatly enjoyed the comment under his confessional apology asking if this was from a film or a tv show

I know sex pests are not funny but the Muppet sex pest is still one of the funniest things here in ages for me. It’s the absolute dead seriousness of people posting about ‘the Muppet community’ etc

@paulybengali Paul you were amazing in taskmaster, one of my favourite series. You were SO funny

@peterhook @RollingStoneUK Totally with you on this Peter, you deserve so much to be part of the credit here. You are a true legend and deserve respect

Bah Humbug! 🎅 @RollingStoneUK

@anon_opin Plus Daniel miller needs some sort of recognition for his contribution to pop culture, think how different the world would sound now without his masterful involvement

Depeche Mode are without doubt the most underrated and underappreciated band in the UK. The lack of recognition they receive here is embarrassing. Starting with Basildon council.

@hellothisisivan @OldRoberts953 Likewise, I hope the podcast and his other work doesn’t mean he going to stop his history volumes into the 80s, who dares wins was his best yet

@OldRoberts953 I think he’s absolutely fantastic. His histories of 60s & 70s Britain are almost sacred texts to me.

Dominic Sandbrook gets it.

@Britpopmemories @Ricktw1tter Just when I thought I couldn’t love Rick more, I find out he’s a fan of thee hypnotics ❤️

What music rocks the world of Rick Witter? Well, in 1994 it was this…

@five_mile_films @BBCiPlayer Watched all three in one sitting, absolutely superb. Can’t wait for part 2 ❤️Neil❤️

Our brand new 3-part documentary series, 'Lucan', is now available on @BBCiPlayer! Watch the first episode on BBC2 tonight, or stream the whole series now on @BBCiPlayer #BBC #BBCiPlayer #Lucan #TrueCrime #DocumentarySeries #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeCommunity

@hellothisisivan I have a clear memory of trick or treating in the early 80s aged 12

So bored with grumpy “Nobody in Britain saw a pumpkin till 2003” discourse. I was born on the south coast in 1980 & Halloween was a thing for my whole childhood

@dovesmusicblog Hope everyone is doing well, you mean so much to so many people, take care

@anon_opin Hard disagree

A huge number of great and not-so-great eighties tunes could be made significantly better if they went back and replaced their shitty LinnDrums with actual drum performers, Last Christmas definitely coming to mind alongside many others. It'd give them so much more heart and soul.

@SaucySeventies Every time you post this I watch it without fail. Sorry for you loss, your dad raised a great guy

Thank you all on here for your kind messages about my dad. Truly heartwarming! I'll leave you today with Billy Dainty, I know it would would have cheered him up!

@looksunfamiliar I would love to know what Jon Minson does these days… his Fear and Loathing column in Crash and his writing in LM was always really over the top, more of a gossip column. I wonder if he’s still in journalism

LM was a mid-eighties Cult TV and Movies-leaning lifestyle magazine that ran to less than a dozen issues, but I *loved* it and it probably had a huge influence on me as a writer. What similarly short-shelf life magazines did you buy religiously? timworthington.org/2017/09/08/loo…

@CureGig Am I not as much of a fan as I thought, or were those actually quite tough

The Cure specialist subject on Mastermind

@RealPaulPutner @robertpopper Like how if you made Hi De Hi now it would be set during the years of Pop Idol

@robertpopper Unsettling to think that LAY was set between 1979 and 1981, satirising that era of tv making. Now we are at that distance today, you can't imagine anyone now trying to satirise the BBC hot air ballon idents or The Top 100 Greatest Britons or Vets In Practice.

Thanks Russty_Russ. Thrussty_Russ.

@mileshuntTWS @BBCBreakfast Something you do in bucket loads Miles, and one of the reasons we love you, your band, and music

@BBCBreakfast Absolutely. It's all about caring for the people that appreciate your music.

'If you want control of that you have to be at the meetings that decide ticket prices' Singer songwriter Paul Heaton told #BBCBreakfast musicians need to be actively involved to stop fans being hit by expensive concert tickets and dynamic pricing bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

@CraigatCoF I don’t think I have ever been more excited about an album release since being a teen in the 80s.

Classic Pop gives The Cure's Songs of a Lost World a 5 star review.