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The winter of 1981–1982 in the United Kingdom (also called The Big Snow of 1982 by the press) was a severe cold wave that was formed in early December 1981 and lasted until mid-late January in 1982. It was one of the coldest Decembers recorded in the United Kingdom. [2]
Fashion were a British new wave band, primarily active from 1978 to 1984, with a brief revival in 2009.They began as a post-punk band, before developing into a new wave/synth-pop ensemble that placed three singles on the lower reaches of the UK chart in 1982–84.
[14] [15] Women's pants of the 1980s were, in general, worn with long inseams, and by 1982 the flared jeans of the 70s had gone out of fashion in favor of straight leg trousers. Continuing a trend begun during the late 1970s, cropped pants and revivals of 1950s and early '60s styles like pedal-pushers and Capri pants were popular.
How the economy, politics and pop culture looked 40 years ago.
Clothing companies established in 1981 (17 P) Clothing companies established in 1982 ... Pages in category "1980s fashion"
The 1981 Christmas number-one, "Don't You Want Me" by The Human League, remained at number-one for the first two weeks of 1982. The first new number-one single of the year was " The Land of Make Believe " by Bucks Fizz , who won the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom the previous year.
UK release of the film animation The Plague Dogs based on the novel of the same name by Richard Adams; the film is controversial as it contains some violence. 6 December – Droppin Well bombing : The Irish National Liberation Army kills seventeen people in a bomb attack at the Droppin Well Inn, Ballykelly, County Londonderry .
5 April – The 1981 UK Census is conducted. 10 April – Bobby Sands, an IRA member on hunger strike in the Maze prison, Northern Ireland, is elected MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in a by election. [21] 11 April – More than 300 people (most of them police officers) are injured and extensive damage is caused to property in the Brixton ...