How will the 80s be understood in 30, 40, 50 years' time? This is the second of six personal guesses at how future generations may interpret the past ten years. Fantasy Island
The 80s were the age of parody. Novelist and rock biographer Philip Norman takes an acerbic look at
British lifestyle in the past ten years.
'When I was young, I used to watch a television series about a place of make-believe. Whatever disguise you wanted was possible - however absurd, however childish. This, for me, is what Britain became in the 1980s -
Fantasy Island.'
From American rock diners to
Medieval banquets - every exotic and nostalgic style has been adopted and sold.
Marketing was all, the 'logo lout' ruled. Philip Norman 's heroes have shunned self-delusion and spoken out with sincerity - among them, paradoxically, the future king of Fantasy Island.
Producer MARGY KINMONTH Series producer SAM ORGAN BBC Bristol