I will echo the people above and say that putting on a specific song wasn't super likely (unless he was playing it himself...) Putting on a mixtape that was relevant to the relationship or putting on the radio and fixating on a song that just happened to come on and resonate both seem more in-period, though an album would also work.
There are websites that have all the radio charts for the UK historically - looking at the UK charts for May 1985 I would have him tape "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" by Jimmy Nail off the radio.
(Also, Wikipedia said he left in "summer" 1985. That might be as specific as you get, since it looks like they weren't really recording or touring at the time, so it might have been a sort of gradual process; it looks like the last time he was on stage with them was September 1984.)
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I will echo the people above and say that putting on a specific song wasn't super likely (unless he was playing it himself...) Putting on a mixtape that was relevant to the relationship or putting on the radio and fixating on a song that just happened to come on and resonate both seem more in-period, though an album would also work.
There are websites that have all the radio charts for the UK historically - looking at the UK charts for May 1985 I would have him tape "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" by Jimmy Nail off the radio.
(Also, Wikipedia said he left in "summer" 1985. That might be as specific as you get, since it looks like they weren't really recording or touring at the time, so it might have been a sort of gradual process; it looks like the last time he was on stage with them was September 1984.)