The 1980s had many twists and turns musically. We were still very much in classic rock territory. New Wave had taken us on from punk rock and added in more keyboards and electronics. Power ballads ...

Though these songs are all hits, they never broke the Top 5, and that's a shame. These rock anthems from the 1980s should've been bigger.

From girlhood anthems to genre-bending art pieces, the three songs from the 1980s below predicted what pop music would sound like today.

Stephen Luscombe, who has died aged 70, was a musician who teamed up with the singer Neil Arthur to form Blancmange, the duo who loomed large in the synthpop movement that became so emblematic of the ...