1987: The year begins with Enid Blyton's publishers replacing Golliwogs with Gnomes due to accusations of racism, Terry Waite is taken hostage in Beirut, Margaret Thatcher is reelected. The fifteenth James Bond film The Living Daylights with Timothy Dalton as 007. David Owens stands down as SDP Leader and the party merges with the Liberals.
IKEA open's it's first UK store in Warrington and October see's two storms, a hurricane that kills 23 people and Black Friday wipes out billions on the London Stock Exchange after Wall Street crashes. The government announces the creation of the Poll Tax and Fireman Sam begins broadcasting.
Madonna had two number one singles, La Isla Bonita & Who's That Girl, whilst T'Pau hit the top spot with China In Your Hand. The American band Hooter had it's only Top 30 entry with the very much under-rated (IMO) with Satellite.
Madonna of course featured as the Centre piece in this issue but not with the usual pin-up, rather a gallery of photo's. The front page of Look-in alluded to her number one single Who's That Girl!
The big TV show we all watched (regardless of age) was The A-Team who also had a strip in Look-in at this time....as did Inspector Gadget!
Plus the comics:
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And return here tomorrow for the last part of this mega-series of posts (phew) with A "Look-in" to 1988!
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