IT’S A common misconception that the Eighties were all about shoulder pads and leg warmers, Dynasty and Duran Duran.

PUNK legend and ex-Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren had a showy send-off yesterday, with a spray-painted coffin, “Too fast to live, too young to die” and Sid Vicious vocals marking his funeral.

Boy George’s days as a chart idol are to be dramatised in a BBC biopic featuring Gavin and Stacey star Mat Horne, it was announced today.