NOW Yearbook '79: Nick Heyward and Daryl Easlea

Back to NOW! by Iain McDermott

Aug 29, 20251:01:36Music

It’s the end, the end of the Seventies. It was a decade that had started with Edison Lighthouse and ended with Another Brick in the wall. After 221 number one singles, the decade that had given us everything from Bowie t...

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