Christmas 1984
Ben_Fisher1
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I just realised today that this year marks the 30th anniversary of my favourite Christmas of all time, 1984. I was six years old and it has kind of become the template of a perfect Christmas in my memory. It is the one which cannot be surpassed mainly because of my age at the time, and the excitement of that year.
I got every present I wanted, including a Care Bear ( I know, I know):D also I was in the school nativity playing an in-keeper. The TV that year was great, the TV premiere of One of our 'Dinosaurs is Missing' on Christmas Eve, and 'Mary Poppins' on Christmas Day. Also the series 'The Box of Delights' was must see for me. Add to that the first Band Aid, and Wham's 'Last Christmas' and it all made quite a memorable Christmas. What are other people's recollections of Christmas 30 years ago? was it a good one for you too?
I got every present I wanted, including a Care Bear ( I know, I know):D also I was in the school nativity playing an in-keeper. The TV that year was great, the TV premiere of One of our 'Dinosaurs is Missing' on Christmas Eve, and 'Mary Poppins' on Christmas Day. Also the series 'The Box of Delights' was must see for me. Add to that the first Band Aid, and Wham's 'Last Christmas' and it all made quite a memorable Christmas. What are other people's recollections of Christmas 30 years ago? was it a good one for you too?
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Just the opening jingling notes of the theme tune takes me back when I hear it aaaghh!:)
That was 1987
Yes it was, it was certainly a year for iconic Chrissy tunes.
My '1984' was 1977, brilliant Christmas, had some pretty classic toys that year from the Denys Fisher range and Action Man, it was also the first year I got Star Wars figures, a Luke Skywalkers Land speeder and X-Wing.
I was just 16 in 1984, so a year for records really, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, Thompson Twins and Cyndi Lauper. Great Christmas for movies too...Gremlins!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzNvZPH-RXI (shameless plug for my video)
It certainly was. One of the best Christmas songs ever. i remember being enthralled by the video on TOTP, with the angels etc.
Best Christmas song ever? Yet Christmas is never mentioned in the song
You don't remember ANYTHING? maybe my memories just very clear lol. The care Bear was the brown one with the love heart on its chest
Aaahh that's the genius of it!
Maybe best Christmas music video ever?
This was number 1.
But hey, that's 2 year olds for ya.
There is something haunting,hypnotic in that opening part
''iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Feels like fire
I'm so in love with you
Dreams are like angels
They keep bad at bay-bad at bay
Love is the light
Scaring darkness away''-
Mine was 1974, when I was not-quite six. Got some good games and goodies to eat, plus two great annuals, Pippin and Spiderman, the latter which I read and reread for about five years running. One of the games I got involved two people, one firing a ping-pong ball from a handheld plastic receptacle, while the other caught it within an identical receptacle before firing it back. .One receptacle was green, the other pink. Both were made out of horizontal and vertical strips of thick plastic in rows, making a grid, attached to a cylindrical handle with a spring-like firing device, Anyone else remember this or what it was called?
I did pretty rubbish in my A levels that year and got nowhere near uni,whilst all my mates did and left home.
Instead of resitting them I lazed around alone feeling sorry for myself before starting a really really rubbish job as a (very) junior office clerk!
That Christmas I spent in various pubs listenening to my mates who had returned from various Unversties for the holidays telling me,and each other, none stop just how great student life was! I remember feeling really jealous and left out!
For some reason Paul McCartney's Frog Chorus sticks in my mind that Christmas.
What I didn't know then was that my best Christmas was still to come!!
Ahhh, that's quite a sad, yet uplifting little tale