Rising From the Ashes Ashes to Ashes, the Follow-Up to Life On Mars, Starts On Bbc1 Tomorrow Night and It's Sparking a Wave of Shoulder- Padded 80s Nostalgia. Jonathan Rennie Looks Back at Glasgow in the Decade Taste Forgot

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MUSIC IT MIGHT have been the year that MTV went live in America, but back in Glasgow music meant the Apollo, vinyl and cassettes.

In 1981 Adam Ant was riding the crest of the new romantic wave, while before his brush with Live Aid, a Glaswegian called Midge Ure was causing a sensation with his band, Ultravox.

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Rising From the Ashes Ashes to Ashes, the Follow-Up to Life On Mars, Starts On Bbc1 Tomorrow Night and It's Sparking a Wave of Shoulder- Padded 80s Nostalgia. Jonathan Rennie Looks Back at Glasgow in the Decade Taste Forgot

The Stranglers played a legendary gig at the Apollo, as did the Human League. And in the days before King Tut's, The Fall (back in Glasgow next month) were playing at its predecessor, the Vaults.

Other Glasgow acts making a name for themselves in...

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