19 September 2008
Newsdesk
Thirty years ago, children’s TV changed forever with the arrival of hard-hitting school drama series, Grange Hill.
The first episode was broadcast on Wednesday 8 February 1978 and its young target audience immediately loved it. The final episode was aired on Monday 15 September 2008. Fans all around the country were devastated to say a final goodbye to this piece of TV history.
To celebrate this extraordinary feat, EMI are releasing a whopping triple CD album of songs that reflect the early (and some say the best) years from 1978 to 1985, Grange Hill: The Album – a nostalgic collection of the hits that defined the era. Grange Hill: The Album is a step back in time to the biggest ska, rock and pop tunes of the decade, when all we had to worry about was holding on to our lunch money, whether the dog had eaten our homework or who was snogging who behind the bike sheds!
Grange Hill, like Rubics cube, leg warmers and Maggie Thatcher, sums up an era. It was a changing time for music, when influences from 70s punk and pop were morphing into the early 80s new romantics, rock and ska bands that remain iconic to this day. Didn’t we all snarl into the mirror as we copied Billy Idol’s, ‘Rebel Yell’, back-combed our hair like Cyndi Lauper on ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’, do the Madness dance to ‘Baggy Trousers’, played our air guitar as though we were Brian May on ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ or swooned over our pin-ups Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet as we sang along to ‘Girls on Film’ and ‘True’?
Grange Hill: The Album will be available to buy at all major high street and online retailers from 3 November.
Grange Hill: The Album – 3 CD box set: Track listing:
ABC The Look Of Love
Adam & The Ants Stand And Deliver
B.A. Robertson Bang Bang
Billy Idol Rebel Yell
Blondie Heart Of Glass
Boney M Brown Girl In The Ring
Culture Club Church Of The Poison Mind
Cyndi Lauper Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
David Bowie Boys Keep Swinging
Depeche Mode Just Can’t Get Enough
Dexy’s Midnight Runners Come On Eileen
Duran Duran Girls On Film
Eddy Grant I Don’t Wanna Dance
Flying Lizards Money
Frankie Goes To Hollywood Relax
Fun Boy 3 & Bananarama It Ain’t What You Do It’s The Way That You Do It
Grange Hill Cast Just Say No
Grange Hill Theme Grange Hill Theme
Haircut 100 Favourite Shirts
Ian Dury & The Blockheads Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Imagination Just An Illusion
Irene Cara Fame
John Paul Young Love Is In The Air
Kenny Loggins Footloose
Kim Wilde Kids In America
M Pop Muzik
Madness Baggy Trousers
Martha & The Muffins Echo Beach
Men At Work Down Under
Musical Youth Pass The Dutchie
Oakey & Moroder Together In Electric Dreams
Pink Floyd Another Brick In The Wall (Pt 2)
Queen Don’t Stop Me Now
Shakin’ Stevens This Ole House
Soft Cell Tainted Love
Spandau Ballet True
Stephen ‘Tin Tin’ Duffy Kiss Me
Stray Cats Stray Cat Strut
Survivor Eye Of The Tiger
Ten Pole Tudor Swords Of A Thousand Men
The Bluebells Young At Heart
The Buggles Video Killed The Radio Star
The Clash Rock The Casbah
The Human League Don’t You Want Me
The Jacksons Blame It On The Boogie
The Jam A Town Called Malice
The Nolans I’m In The Mood For Dancing
The Pretenders Brass In Pocket
The Specials Too Much Too Young
The Undertones Teenage Kicks
The Vapors Turning Japanese
The Weather Girls It’s Raining Men
Thompson Twins Doctor Doctor
Toni Basil Mickey
UB40 Food For Thought
Ultravox Vienna
Wham! Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
