Like Totally 80s: What Life Was Like in 1985
The year was 1985, and the rest? Well, that’s history. Do you remember this year? Here’s some facts to trigger your memory. TV Shows: Growing Pains Moonlighting The Golden Girls MacGyver 227 Mr. Belvedere Amazing Stories Misfits of Science Movies: Back to the Future The Goonies The Breakfast Club Weird Science Fletch Pale Rider Clue People Born in 1985: Ciara Chrissy Teigen Kris Humphries Haylie Duff Reggie Bush Lana Del...
Why Summer Rental is the Quintessential 80s Summer Movie
We had free HBO last weekend and as usual we recorded (or “taped” as I like to say…) a bunch of movies so we’re all stocked up for a while. I’ll finally see Dallas Buyers Club, that great/weird documentary on Scientology, and the Melissa McCarthy/Sandra Bullock cop movie. As my husband and I were scrolling through the guide filling up our hungry DVR something special caught my eye. “Ooooh Summer Rental! Record Summer Rental! I...
1985: Thirty Year Retrospective (Music Edition)
Bowling for Soup sure picked the right year to celebrate in its song “1985.” Now, I know that I once proclaimed, on this very site, that 1983 was the best year in music ever. And last fall, Rolling Stone magazine called 1984 “pop’s greatest year.” But 1985’s got some game as well. So why, thirty years on, are we still preoccupied with 1985? Well, 1985 was the year of… Defining the Decade: Quintessential 80s tracks were released...
Live Aid (1985)
Live Aid was a two-part fundraising concert that took place on July 13, 1985. Bob Geldolf (who starred in the 1982 movie “Pink Floyd The Wall” and was lead singer of The Boomtown Rats) and Midge Ure (of Thin Lizzy and Ultravox) organized the mega-event to raise money for the Ethiopian famine. They billed it as a “global jukebox.” 72,000 fans in the United Kingdom attended a concert at Wembley Stadium in London, while 100,000 fans went...
What Happened in 1985?
In world events and culture, 1985 can be characterized as heralding in the new. Windows 1.0 is released, the FDA develops a test for screening blood for AIDS, the first successful artificial heart transplant occurs, Gorbachev becomes the de facto leader of the Soviet Union, and the NES game system hits the US. Heck, even Coke was new in 1985. On the music front, this was the year of both “We Are the World” and “Live Aid.” Big singles...
