Numbers still stack up for fidgety Australia captain Shakin’ Steven | Barney Ronay

Mar 17, 2017

If Steve Smith has a wider claim on some kind of ultimacy right now it is perhaps a minor role as the greatest Test batsman to be nobody’s favourite Test batsman

Shakin’ Stevens was the biggest-selling British singles artist of the 1980s. It is probably worth remembering this fact the next time a man with a greying beard tells you the 80s were the last real golden age of popular music, a starburst of youthful creativity, artistic collectivism and sad, pale people standing behind synthesisers pretending they’re not surrounded by balloons on Top of the Pops.

Forget all that. The rankings don’t lie. In reality the 80s were characterised by an apparently insatiable thirst for a handsome middle-aged Welshman miming to country music and wobbling his legs.

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