<p>Oh, that’s bad!</p><p>No, that’s good!</p><br><p>If you know your 80s dancefloor bangers, you’ll recognise that S-Express vocal insert and will already be donning your sparkly bellbottoms, possibly even getting <em>right-on one </em>(matey) because it’s Summer 1988!&nbsp;</p><br><p>What was making the headlines? (shuffles papers, looks directly into camera in a serious way):</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Poll tax announced!</li><li>Gay rights activists invade the six o'clock news and mildly fluster Sue Lawley!</li><li>Glasgow Garden festival takes place! Every school in Scotland goes on a trip (not like that!)</li><li>England finish bottom of their Euro88 group having lost all three games! (Sports presenter wink to camera)</li></ul><p><br></p><p>But, BUT, amidst all of this and many other exciting things, POP was still very important indeed and - hurrah - <strong>NOW That’s What I Call Music 12 </strong>was here to make a splash! (Yes, the one with the pool on the cover, ahem).</p><br><p>And a young, impressionable starry-eyed journalist from Dundee was starting his glittering career at Smash Hits, in London Town! With the BIG names! Yes, even Tiffany and Glenn Medeiros!</p><p>Yes, head back to a very eventful summer for acclaimed music journalist, author and Smash Hits alumnus Tom Doyle!</p><br><p>Join us as we dive into the swimming pool of pop (enough already!) and meet amongst others Climie Fisher having a picnic, Carol Decker playing poker, Bananarama being a trio (just) and Jermaine Stewart not being in Shalamar.</p><br><p>And on top of this, get ready for some fantastic 1988 anecdotes from Tom’s giddy time at Ver Hits (and possibly Patches before that!).&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Wet Wet Wet on an open-top bus in Glasgow with lots of rock n roll mouthwash!</li><li>Aswad’s recreational horticultural escapades!</li><li>Sitting next to Hollywood royalty (well, Richard Gere) at the Nelson Mandela concert!</li><li>Rubbing shoulders with U2 AND David Bowie in a factory! (Possibly, no actually!)</li><li>Tom’s first singles reviews - and what was his single of the fortnight?? (it’s not on NOW12)</li></ul><p><br></p><p>And also stay around for lots of fabulous pop reminiscing about the truly wonderful Danny Wilson, the truly bonkers Bill Drummond and the truly hairy (!) Glenn Medeiros.&nbsp;</p><br><p>All of this - delivered in Tom’s inimitable fashion - and so much more that we could just about fit it into Natalie’s Pink Cadillac (oo-er!)</p><br><p>Summer 1988 - what a lark eh pop kids?</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>