Simon was in rare form on the title track on his pivotal 86 album.

Words: Ben Hewitt, Matthew Horton, Priya Elan. Here, however, we whittle down a decade of societal decadence and political decay into the 100 tracks that defined it. We had New Order and Frankie Goes To Hollywood, U2, Prince and Cyndi Lauper, Springsteen, INXS, Bananarama, Duran Duran and the list goes on. Whether you were donning your finest spandex and getting tiddly on Cinzano or putting on the leathers and devil-fingering to Guns’n’Roses, it’ll still go down as the most diverse, eclectic and extravagant decade in recent cultural history.