I recently discovered that my son created a Google doc of the musical references which can be found within my 80s coming-of-age novel, Your Silent Face. It’s pretty impressive; I was touched by the gesture. Check it out!

(I don’t want The Clash to feel left out—you were in there, Joe Strummer! But it was subtle.)

Smiths-how soon is now (morrissey), reel around the fountain

Tainted love

Video killed the radio star

New order - Leave Me alone, Your Silent Face, elegia, blue monday

Fine young cannibals

The cure- Close to me, Faith/Seventeen Seconds, a night like this

Joy division (ian curtis)- Shadowplay, Something Must Break, she’s lost control, love will tear us apart, heart and soul, new dawn fades, dead souls, insight, add all of unknown pleasures, novelty, digital, day of lords

Duran Duran- save a prayer

Flock of Seagulls- I ran 

Prince

Thompson Twins- hold me now

Depeche Mode- everything counts

Parliment - Flashlight

U2 (bono) 

The Police (Sting)- every breath you take

Madonna- Borderline, Lucky Star, Into the Groove

Blade Runner (Movie)

Rod Stewart

Wham- Everything she wants

Hall and Oates

The Cars- just what i needed, best friends girl, moving in stereo

Tina Turner

The Go Gos

Adam and the Ants- ‘kings of wild frontier’, Goody two shoes

Eurythmics-1984

The Fixx

Van Halen - aint talkin bout love, hot for teacher, panama

Bon Jovi

Bruce Springsteen

Aretha Franklin

Peter Gabriel- Sledgehammer

Culture Club- Do You really want to hurt me 

Tears for fears- pale shelter, mad world, change, memories fade

Michael Jackson-  billie jean, beat it

Jim morrison

The doors

Please please let me get what I want 

Rock you like a hurricane 

Joan Jet

Paul hardcastle - 19

Frankie Goes to Hollywood- Two Tribes

Erasure

The Romantics

Sisters Of Mercy

Howard Jones

Rick Springfield

INXS - dont change

Echo and The Bunnymen- the killing moon

10,000 maniacs

Pet Shop Boys- West End Girls, king’s cross

Led Zeppelin

Love and Rockets- Ball Of Confusion

B52’s- Give me back my man, rock lobster

The bridge on river kwai, movie

Hank Williams

Don Henley - boys of summer

Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in my eyes

Dead or Alive- you spin me right round

J Geils band

Whitney houston- saving all my love

Sheena Easton

Beastie Boys

Phil Collins

Huey Lewis

Falco

Janet Jackson

Robert Palmer

Def Leppard- Pour some sugar on me

Bow Wow Wow

Beach boys

Iron maiden

Killing Joke- 80s

Al Stewart- Year of the cat

Mr Mister - Broken Wings

Crucifucks - democracy spawns bad taste

Blancmange

Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy

James taylor

Patridge Family

The church - under the Milky Way, reptile 

Sex Pistols 

David Bowie 

Billy idol

Marine Girls

Simply red

Sade

Bryan Adams

Joe Jackson- is she really going out with him

The pretenders

Talking heads

Jim croce

Janis ian

Yaz- winter kills

Skinny puppy 

Spandau ballet - True

A-ha- take on me

Ready for the world

Pat benatar-you better run

Kraftwerk

Howard Jones

Black flag

Hotel california

Modern English- machines

Dexy’s Midnight Runners

Throbbing gristle- hamburger lady

Blondie

Missing persons

Jimi hendrixx

The ramones

Bob seeger

Clan of xymox

Brain eno

The human league- dont you want me 

Naked eyes- ‘burning bridges’

Visage - fade to grey

The vapors- Turning Vapors

Aimee mann

Bangles- hero takes a fall

Simple minds - orgasm addict

Agnostic Front

Pink floyd - ‘darkside of the moon’, comfortably numb

John Cougar- jack and diane, ‘american fool’

The fall - a new face in a hell

Stray cats- ‘built for speed’

William shatner - ‘the transformed man’

Cyndi lauper- Time after time, girls just wanna have fun

T. rex - Bang a gong (get it on)

Anne murray - Just one look

Barbara streisand - Woman in love

Bronski beat- smalltown beat

Minor threat- seeing red

Angry samoans- my old man’s a fatso

Harry nilson- coconut

The style council- youre the best thing

George thoroughgood- Bad to the bone

Ave maria

Grease- Hopelessly devoted to you,

Summer nights, Beauty School Drop out, you’re the one that I want

Stevie nicks - stop draggin my heart around

Joan jett - do you wanna touch me, i love rock and roll

The cars- Moving in stereo, All mixed up

Ll cool j - momma said knock you out 

Simon and garfunkel - The sound of silence 

Japan - gentleman take the polaroids

Run DMC - It’s like that

Reo speedwagon- time for me to fly

Kissing the pink - maybe this day

Beatle’s- ‘abbey road’

The who- who are you

Murray head- one night in bangkok

Janis joplin - piece of my heart

Roxy music - More Than This

Sigue sigue Sputnik - twenty first century boy

U2-Gloria

Blancmange-waves

ABC - poison arrow

Romeo void - a girl in trouble

Til Tuesday- coming up close

Scritti politti - perfect way

George Michael - Careless whisper

Mozart-requiem

Rex tremendae 

Undertones- teenage kicks 

Berlin - take my breath away

Missing persons - destination unknown

REM - fall on me 

Laurie Anderson- sharkeys day

Culture club - do you really want to hurt me

The Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt 

Grandmaster flash - White lines 

Afrika Bambatta - Planet rock

Prince- When doves cry

David Bowie - let’s dance

Hall and Oates- I can’t go for that 

George Romero - dawn of living dead

Naked Raygun - Rat Patrol

Bananarama - Cruel Summer

Aztec Camera - Oblivious

Quiet Riot - Cum on Feel the Noise

Cameo - Shake Your pants

Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot

Bauhaus - dark entries

Cheap trick - I want you to want me

AC/DC - Hells Bells

The scorpions - ROck you like a hurricane

Loverboy - working for the weekend

Minor threat - i dont wanna hear it

Shock Therapy - new wave party

Gary numan - Cars

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