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January 1st
Movies
1982 MadMan was released.
1985 Rockin' Road Trip was released.
Television
1982 Headline News was launched.
1985 VH1 (Video Hits One) and WWF Prime Time Wrestling premiered.
Music
The Stranglers 7th album Feline was released.
1986 Riders in the Sky 6th album New Trails...
If you're like me and love to know what was life like for different countries and people during the 80s than here is a good video. An 80s video documentary on how the 80s were like for black Americans.
November 1
Music
1980 Slade's compilation album Slade Smashes! was released.
1982 Night Ranger's debut album Dawn Patrol was released.
1984 Pat Benatar's 5th album Tropico and Cocteau Twins 3rd album Treasures were released.
1985 Simply Red's single Holding Back the Years was released.
1986...
Today during the 80s in the month of September.
September 1st
1980 The Shadows’ Change of Address and Supertramp‘s Paris (live) albums were released.
1981 Hall & Oates‘ Private Eyes album was released.
1982 Cocteau Twins‘ Garland album was released.
1983 Tom Waits‘ Swordfishtrombones album...
Today on August 31 1988 Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during take off killing 14 people and injuring 76. Thankfully more people didn’t die. The plane was a Boeing 727-200 series.
From Wikipedia:
At 08:30, Flight 1141 departed from the gate at DFW and was cleared by the ground controller...
So you lived and grew up during the 80s. Consider yourself lucky that you got to experience the greatest decade ever. I‘m sure that just like me from time to time you’ll see something and think yourself holy cow I remember that! Right? It’s happened to all of us. It’s an awesome feeling to...
On May 18 1980 the volcano known as St. Helen’s in Skamania County, Washington. That day around 57 people lost their lives. The eruption, which had a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 5, was the most significant to occur in the contiguous United States since the much smaller 1915 eruption of Lassen...
This section will be dedicated to old 80s ads. I’ll start off the thread with this one.
Imagine how far we’ve come. A 10mb PC priced at roughly $6,000 dollars!
July 1st
1980 John Anderson‘s self debut album John Anderson was released.
1981 SOB premiered in theaters.
1983 Manowar’s Into Glory Ride album was released. Stroker Ace premiered in theaters.
1984 Loudness’ Disillusion album was released.
1985 Clan of Xymox‘s self debut album Clan of Xymox...
The eighties decade was a special time. Events that happened during that decade helped influenced us till this day. Sure it's safe to say that every decade has and will continue to do that but since this is an 80s community it's only natural that we focus on it.
Aids = In 1981 Aids was made...