Here is a list of the 12-inch singles that I bought, or otherwise came into my possession in the eighties.
| 1981 | |
| Simple Minds | Love Song |
| 1985 | |
| Alarm | Spirit of 76 |
| Madness | Yesterday’s Men |
| 1986 | |
| Bruce Hornsby and the Range | The Way It Is |
| Curiosity Killed The Cat | Down To Earth |
| Erasure | Sometimes |
| Falco | Vienna Calling |
| Five Star | Rain Or Shine |
| Gregory Abbott | Shake You Down |
| Kim Wilde | You Keep Me Hangin’ On |
| Mel & Kim | Showing Out |
| Police | Don’t Stand So Close To Me ’86 |
| Run DMC | Walk This Way |
| Uvox | All Fall Down |
| 1987 | |
| Abigail Mead and Nigel Goulding | Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor) |
| Alexander O’Neal | Criticize |
| Aztec Camera | How Men Are |
| Belinda Carlisle | Heaven Is A Place On Earth |
| Black | Sweetest Smile |
| Black | Wonderful Life |
| Erasure | Live In Hamburg (Disc 3 of 3: The Circus – Gladiator Mix) |
| Jackie Wilson | I Get The Sweetest Feeling |
| Joyce Sims | Walk Away |
| Labi Siffre | (Something Inside) So Strong |
| Level 42 | Running In The Family |
| Marillion | Incommunicado |
| Mel & Kim | FLM |
| Mel & Kim | Respectable |
| Midnight Oil | Beds Are Burning |
| Squeeze | Hourglass |
| Stranglers | All Day And All Of The Night |
| Taja Seville | Love Is Contagious |
| The Christians | Forgotten Town |
| U2 | Where The Streets Have No Name |
| U2 | I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For |
| UB40 | Maybe Tomorrow |
| 1988 | |
| Enya | Orinoco Flow |
| Liverpool FC | Anfield Rap |
| Primitives | Way Behind Me |
| The Bangles | In Your Room |
| Sydney Youngblood | If Only I Could |
| U2 | All I Want Is You |