40 From 40: 1985

The year of Live Aid, of course, and with it and We Are The World came the birth of the superstar, so much so that by September Michael Jackson could outbid Paul McCartney for the Beatles' publishing. Wham! went to China, Brothers In Arms popularised this strange and bijou 'compact disc' format, 19 made Vietnam into a cut-up pop groundbreaker. Also, all this. (We should also mention a mistake in an earlier 40, where we put 1985 release Take The Skinheads Bowling by Camper Van Beethov...

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