The 1980s was a special time for music, as new wave and glam rock battled with mainstream pop for the public’s attention, rap had just started to make its presence felt. The musical landscape was also littered with the fizzled-out careers of the “one-hit wonders”, who became known for a single song and were never heard from again. The Best…
Your Guide To 80s Fashion And Culture
January 2021
It is with sad hearts we pronounce that 80’s legendary baseball coach and commercial icon Tommy Lasorda has died today, he was 93. The younger generation these days may not be familiar with Tommy Lasorda, but if you grew up in the 1980s you knew exactly who he was. Best known of course for managing the Los Angeles Dodgers from…
If you’re an 80s kid, chances are that growing up you had a Rubik’s Cube. In fact, the Rubik’s Cube was one of the most popular toys of the 1980s selling about 350 million units back in the heyday. As someone who fiddled for hours with a Rubik’s Cube as a kid, it blew my mind when I came across…
Arguably one of the most memorable movies of the 1980s was “The Karate Kid” (1984) starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita, and over 30 years later in 2018 a spin-off called “Cobra Kai” starring former high school bully Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) burst onto the scene on Youtube. It garnered rave reviews from both young and older audiences, and eventually…
In a fitting ending to 2020, eighties fashion and music icon Cyndi Lauper closed out the year with a widely panned New Year’s Eve performance at Dick Clark’s New Years’ Rockin Eve. The 67 year old “True Colors” singer and eighties legend performed both “True Colors” and her new song “Hope” which she had debuted earlier in the year. While…