The Basket Case, Allison (Ally Sheedy), in a huge dark parker, complete with a hood for her to go turtle under. The Jock Andrew (Emilio Estevez) in his letterman jacket denoting high status. Nerd Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) in a perfectly cast anorak. The Princess, Claire (Molly Ringwald) greets us dressed in half a cowhide, brown leather dripping from every articulated body part. Just the computer kit alone dates this film, never mind the 80s feature wardrobe. Seven hours in a school library, in the era before mobile technology. Five high schoolers dropped into detention together for a variety of misdemeanours. You know the tagline вЂ“ the nerd, the jock, the princess, the basket case. Too young to see it at the cinema on release in 1985, we huddled around a borrowed VHS to watch it, fuelled by woodpecker cider, finding our own identification in our glamorous American peers. This song evokes so many memories for my generation, bursting into our consciousness as it did, from bookending the classic John Hughes movie, The Breakfast Club. One of the happiest memories of my teenage years. Including me, balanced precariously on my brotherвЂ™s shoulders, hands aloft, voice hoarse from singing. Simple Minds at the peak of their success, bellowing out DonвЂ™t You (Forget About Me) to a rapturous audience. A sultry night in Roundhay Park in Leeds. WeвЂ™ve put Jane Roberts in detention to write us an essay of no less than a thousand words about 1985вЂ™s The Breakfast Club and which, as always, contains spoilers. This time in #80sMC weвЂ™re going to try something a little different today.

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