PHILL Jones arrived at the Faslane Peace Camp in the same month as Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s anti-nuclear anthem Two Tribes went to number one in the British charts.
PHILL Jones arrived at the Faslane Peace Camp in the same month as Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s anti-nuclear anthem Two Tribes went to number one in the British charts.
Gallery above: early protesters at the camp in 1982.
The camp had been going two years by then. Margaret Thatcher was in Downing Street, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, the Soviet Union was still in existence and fears of nuclear destruction were the stuff of Hollywood movies and BBC drama.
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