Happy 49th birthday to Songs In The Key of Life. TMSP6002, Motown Records. 1976. Love's in need of love today Don't delay Send yours in right away. 🧡

#TOTP catch up and Sad Cafe being very 1979 indeed. And of course this is one of pop legend Nick Heyward’s 1979 highlights of this poptastic year on the latest episode of Back to Now! What a guest! Available here or via our podcast provider! linktr.ee/poprambler

The weekend has landed and your soundtrack is here! The NOW team are revisiting their latest era, an iconic time for dance music. Such a good feeling indeed! 🪩

Here is your annual autumnal reminder that this album is still utterly fabulous and indeed, one year older than it was this time last year.

Back, once again. New episode coming soon. linktr.ee/poprambler

At the age of 17 I fell in love with Pink Floyd and set about discovering everything about their fascinating, complex musical legacy. 35 years later Mark Blake and @newmodernbooks.bsky.social are providing the book I’ve been waiting for. Utterly marvellous.

An ace feature for a fantastic compilation. Just the best music and time to be a saucy regional gay moving to London *mops down Recoil ‘outfit’*

Erotic writing workshop. Mass wild swim. Sauna in the bookshop garden. And Justin @delamitri.bsky.social in conversation with @rorycj.bsky.social. Something for everyone. Bring your trunks.

Sad news today about the passing of Stephen Luscombe. As featured on NOW3 in the summer of 1984. Thanks for the memories and music. x

Missed all the #totp chat earlier so catching up with 1988 now and will say nothing more than it’s all looking a bit thirteen and, er, suitcase.

Can I suggest, we make it mandatory to start the weekend with Dance Craze?

A wonderful evening at @monorailmusic.bsky.social with @bobpetesarah.bsky.social A room full of warmth, laughter and memories of the band’s journey since 1990 lovingly chaired by host Stephen Pastel. And @rockingbob.bsky.social on the decks too, what a night indeed! #saintetienne #monorailmusic

Happy 30th birthday to @warchilduk.bsky.social Help album, recorded in one day, released less than a week later on this day, 1995. A truly iconic slice of variously compiled pop. My copy, with the NME ‘cut out and keep’ tracklist. Stay tuned - more from 1995 and this album coming soon. 🎧

The latest episode of the Back to Now podcast is here and revisits the pop culture of 1979 in the company of very special guests @nickheyward.com & Daryl Easlea! Exclusive chat! Great pop memories! Listen & subscribe here: linktr.ee/poprambler

Big Pop Question! Does today’s fabulously found copy of Arcadia’s 1985 So Red The Rose sit with Duran Duran in the shelves or not?

In celebration of the release of their final album International, the weekend is now full on @bobpetesarah.bsky.social It’s an incredible LP that feels like it’s been here forever. Which in some ways, it kind of has.

Souvenir is utterly marvellous and another reason to post this pair of K-tel poppers coming soon in 1981. #totp

Dollar is now making this one of the best episodes of #totp in ages.

She’s Got Claws is also on Modern Dance, compilation fans. #totp

Passionate Friend is quite the number too. Cope looking his most 1981. #totp

Nope, I’ll stand by this Bucks Fizz track. Key changes and a dance routine. Decent. #totp

#totp 91 brought to you with the help of the number 20.

Which pop star did @nickheyward.com most want to be in 1979? And what did Daryl write in his diary about M’s Pop Muzik? Only the latest episode of the Back to Now podcast has the answers! Available for your listening delight at all podcast places or this very handy link: linktr.ee/poprambler

The postman has arrived and I’m now taking the rest of Thursday off. @bobpetesarah.bsky.social #saintetienne

Bringing Monday evening to a wonderful close courtesy of @debseyonbass.bsky.social and @garycrowleyonair.bsky.social. Make this fabulous book from @newmodernbooks.bsky.social your next pop purchase.

Nik Kershaw’s When a Heart Beats - Track 2 Side 1 of NOW6. A great song, probably should’ve been bigger! #forgotten80s

Victims is my favourite Culture Club track. Closing number on the first NOW of course. Epic. #forgotten80s

A wonderful read (behind the paywall) from Bob Stanley. My band Saint Etienne are bowing out after 35 crazy years in pop — here’s why www.thetimes.com/article/6b6e...

@nickheyward.com 90s albums are being reissued in October on Edsel records with vinyl copies for the first time. Nick is a special guest on Back to Now & talks about how he fell back in love with music to create some of his finest work. A wonderful guest! 🎧 Listen here: linktr.ee/poprambler

The fabulous thing about the Back to Now podcast is that every guest offers their own fascinating insight into a moment in time. So thank you Daryl & @nickheyward.com for reminding me about Deaf School. Theatrical 70s pop that is just wonderfully all over the place. Listen now: linktr.ee/poprambler

It’s a weekend of 70s pop brilliance! 🎉 The new episode of Back to Now heads back to 1979 and it’s a welcome to the newest edition of the Yearbook series - hello 1976! What a pop year! What a colour on that vinyl! 💚 linktr.ee/poprambler

The weekend is here and so is an all new Back to Now! ⭐️ @nickheyward.com! ⭐️ Daryl Easlea! ⭐️ NOW Yearbook 1979! All the good links you need in one handy place for a quite poptastic listen! 👇🏻 linktr.ee/poprambler

Chart veteran Cliff at 39. #totp

Oh, hello Eighties. #totp

Shameless plug again for today’s new episode of Back to Now revisiting 1979 with (yes really) special guests @nickheyward.com and Daryl Easlea. Plenty of these #TOTP stars are in there! linktr.ee/poprambler

Making that big Top 40 leap from 1 to 4 - it’s Boyzone! #TOTP

Tonight’s #totp 98 brought to you with the help of the number 40.

#totp viewers! As discerning purveyors of pop, look out for the new episode of Back to Now! ⭐️ @nickheyward.com ⭐️ Daryl Easlea ⭐️ NOW Yearbook 1979! All the good links you need in one handy place for a quite poptastic listen! 👇🏻 linktr.ee/poprambler And now back to your Friday #TOTP viewing…📺

The weekend is here and so is an all new Back to Now! ⭐️ @nickheyward.com! ⭐️ Daryl Easlea! ⭐️ NOW Yearbook 1979! All the good links you need in one handy place for a quite poptastic listen! 👇🏻 linktr.ee/poprambler

Back to Now! New episode! 🎧 Join @nickheyward.com & Daryl Easlea as we revisit the music & memories of the NOW Yearbook 1979. Also, find out about Nick’s latest boxset, tour + much more! Subscribe & listen here 👇🏻 or through your favourite podcast place. linktr.ee/poprambler

Tomorrow! 🎧 Join special guests @nickheyward.com and Daryl Easlea for the new episode of Back to Now, revisiting music and memories from 1979 and a whole lot more! Listen to the NOW 1979 Yearbooks and all previous episodes here: linktr.ee/poprambler

Back to Now! New Episode! 🎧 Join special guests Daryl Easlea & @nickheyward.com as we revisit the music & memories of 1979 and explore Nick’s wonderful new boxset, The Epic & Creation Years 93-98. Listen & subscribe at your podcast place of choice this Friday! linktr.ee/poprambler

Do you remember? #backtonow

Coming soon. #backtonow

A wonderful article about an incredible book. Very much looking forward to chatting with Justin at #Louder2025 in November.

Coming soon. #backtonow

Enjoying #totp 1982? Of course you are, and it would be completely remiss of me to not shamelessly plug the most recent Back to Now episode that - amazingly - is all 1982! With @wadeywade.bsky.social and @theelectricityclub.bsky.social Big leggy indeed! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Haysi Fantaysee being wonderfully subversive on prime time 1982 tv. Oh yes. #totp

The Associates, with Alan Rankine’s chocolate guitar. Friday night is now complete. #totp

Surprisingly Toto Coelo didn’t make it onto the 1982 NOW Yearbook. Perhaps the Vault? #totp