Just You and Me, Babe: Romantic Duets of the 80s
The music of the 80s wasn’t just about hair bands, wailing sax, and stalker music. We had our share of songs that celebrated the tenderness and angst of true love, too. I am so in love with these romantic duets from the 1980s. First off, we have the best selling single of Diana Ross’s entire career: “Endless Love”, her duet with Lionel Ritchie. It was for the movie of the same name starring Brooke Shields, but the movie was nowhere...
80s Rebellion Songs
We’re Not Gonna Take It: When Authority Gives You a Bad Reputation, You Have Fight for Your Right to Smoke in the Boys Room June 13, 2011 Nothing feels quite like the exhilaration of letting your rebel flag fly. The thrill of doing the thing that you know you’re not supposed to do is timeless and not at all unique to one generation or another. I am sure there is some philosophical or more likely psychological theory that explains our...
The Joy of Sax: Sax Solos in 80s Music
By Julie Anderson When I signed up for seventh grade band in the fall of 1984, I desperately wanted to play the saxophone. Forget flute or piccolo or clarinet, the girly instruments: I wanted to wail on a tenor sax. They seemed mature, expressive, and totally sexy. Something a girl might play in a smoky jazz bar, sporting a slinky black dress and dark Wayfarers. Alas, my parents put the kibosh on my saxophone dreams and insisted on...
Interview with original MTV VJ, Martha Quinn
May 16, 2011 Among the original 5 VJs on MTV when it launched in the Summer of 1981 (almost 30 years ago!), Martha Quinn charmed music fans everywhere with her adorable style and upbeat attitude. At 52, she is still charming us on the radio with the 80s music we love. We’d like to thank Martha for taking the time to answer our questions about the early days of MTV, her Fountain of Youth secrets, her take on 80s music and what she’s up...
Interview with “St. Elmo’s Fire” singer, John Parr
May 12, 2011 We are so pleased to have had the opportunity to interview 80s hit maker and all around cool guy, John Parr. He hit the 80s music scene in 1985 with the very awesome “Naughty Naughty” which went to #23 on the US charts. He followed it up later that year with his highest charting song, the #1 hit, “St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion).” In this interview, John talks about touring England in his early teens with his first band...
