Staying alive in 85: looking back on a fascinating end-of-year roundup

‘OK, you stayed alive in 85, now get a fix on 86’: the Observer Magazine cover from 29 December 1985 Photograph: Unknown/The Observer

The Observer Magazine’s end-of-year round-up for 1985 riffed on an anti-nuclear Katharine Hamnett slogan T-shirt of the time: ‘OK, you stayed alive in 85, now get a fix on 86.’

A picture of a newborn baby just about staying alive days after the disastrous earthquake in Mexico City was a reminder of the dozen or so such ‘miracle babies’ that were rescued.