Nostalgia sees '80s music improve...

All those denim jackets, awful mullets and synthesisers .

I wore my stonewash jeans and bat wing jumpers with the rest of them, but I was never really sure why George Michael posters were adorning the walls of most of my friends’ bedrooms The nearest I got to ’80s hero-worship was liking Shakin’ Stevens when I was nine.

By the time I was 12, I was putting the Beatles tapes in my walkman, sticking the earphones in and resolutely blocking out the music of my teenage years.

I heaved a huge sigh of relief in the ’90s when Blur and Oasis, and particularly Pulp, arrived on the scene – this was a party I could join.

But lately, I’ve started to think about the ’80s nostalgically. The music seems much better a few decades after the fact. I’ve even thought that going to an ’80s night might be quite fun – and there seem to be plenty of those to choose from so I can’t be the only one.

I interviewed one of the guys from Hue and Cry last week and it started me thinking about some of those old tunes that managed to make it into my head despite my attempts to drown them out with John Lennon.

And that maybe the fact that they’re still there means they weren’t so bad after all. On Monday, during the school run and the drive to work, I was listening to Spire FM for my usual 20 minutes of a morning.

They decided to celebrate Andy Murray’s awesome performance at the weekend by playing ‘the best of British’ for ‘Murray Monday’.

It seemed to be mainly Wham. OK. I admit it. I was singing along.

But I’m still never going to understand why George Michael was a pin-up.

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