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Title: Music of the 1980


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Music of the 1980s
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1980 Hit Songs
  • Rock with You
  • Crazy Little Thing Called Love
  • Coming Up
  • Funkytown

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  • It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
  • Lost in Love
  • Do That to Me One More Time

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Grammy Awards
  • Sailing Christopher Cross- record
  • Christopher Cross- Album
  • Sailing song

5
  • Disco continued to sell well in 1980-
  • Songs like Blondie's "Call Me"
  • Diana Ross "Upside Down"
  • Irene Cara "Fame"

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  • Listeners tastes were changing though
  • Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and Bob Seger were
    all becoming popular
  • Captain and Tennille "Do That to Me One More
    Time"

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  • Kenny Roger "Lady"
  • Christopher Cross "Sailing"----these were "mushy"
    ballads that were also very popular

8
  • The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" became
    the first rap record to make the Top Hundred
    (peaked at 36)

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  • Digitally recorded LP's were widely marketed for
    the first time
  • Introduction of the Sony Walkman (portable stereo)

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  • The Walkman changed the listening habits of the
    entire country
  • Single handedly responsible for the boom in
    cassette sales during the early 80's

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  • New generation was discovering Jim Morrison and
    The Doors (thanks to the movie Apocalype Now
    because it used the song "The End" in it)

14
  • Morrison became a popular icon- Rolling Stone
    Magazine did a cover story on him
  • Headline "He's Hot. He's Sexy. He's Dead."

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  • John Lennon assassinated in New York City by
    mental patient
  • Mark
  • David
  • Chapman

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1981
  • Lady
  • Starting Over
  • Kiss on My List
  • 9 to 5
  • Take It On the Run

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  • Morning Train
  • Slow Hand

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Grammy Awards
  • Bette Davis Eyes Kim Carnes- record
  • Double Fantasy John Lennon, Yoko One- album
  • Bette Davis Eyes song

20
MTV
  • MTV all music video cable channel that was
    relatively commercial free
  • Debut was with Buggles' song "Video Killed the
    Radio Star"
  • Immediate sensation

21
  • Bars drew in extra business by hanging a sign out
    that said "We have MTV"
  • Original veejays were Alan Hunter, Martha
    Quinn, JJ Jackson, Mark Goodman, and Nina
    Blackwood

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  • Channel was originally dominated by English
    artists, because American artists were not in the
    habit of making videos
  • Many critics noticed a lack of black artists

23
  • Disco backlash many white record buyers were
    considering anything black to be "disco"
  • Black recording artists were having a tough time
    crossing over into the pop world

24
  • Rick James Top 20 hit with "Super
    Freak"---couldn't get the video played on MTV

25
  • Prince "Controversy" album---was booed off
    stage while opening for Rolling Stones at the LA
    Coliseum

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  • Only two records by black artists topped the
    charts in 1981 Diana Ross and Lionel Richie's
    "Endless Love" and "Celebration"
  • Blondie experimented with rap in "Rapture"

28
  • White America was still wanting REO Speedwagon,
    Styx, Journey and pop country Eddie Rabbit and
    Dolly Parton, and Daryl Hall and John Oates---

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  • Styx and Hall Oates

30
  • Also Rick Springfield Australian actor and
    musician
  • Fluke hit in 1972 with "Speak to the Sky"
  • One of America's leading heartthrobs

31
  • Had a regular role as Dr. Noah Drake on soap
    opera General Hospital

32
  • Olivia Newton-John "Physical"
  • Christopher Cross "Arthur's Theme (Best That
    You Can Do)"

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1982
  • Any Day Now
  • Jack and Diane
  • Abracadabra
  • Hard to Say I'm Sorry
  • Gloria

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  • I Can't Go for That
  • Hurts So Good

36
Grammy Awards
  • Rosanna Toto-record
  • Toto IV Toto- album
  • Always on My Mind- song

37
  • Independent film Wild Style came out this year
  • Explored rap music, breakdancing, and graffiti
    art scenes in the black community of New York's
    South Bronx

38
  • Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five- rap act
    that appeared in the movie
  • They released single called "The Message"

39
  • First rap hit to comment on the social issues and
    pressures facing urban blacks

40
  • Not a huge pop hit, but crossed over just enough
    to start getting white people to see that
    something was starting to develop in the ghettos
    of America

41
  • Pretty dull year for American music
  • Hall and Oates and Lionel Richie dominated the
    charts
  • John Cougar starting to become popular

42
  • Steve Miller and Chicago still popular from the
    1970's
  • Joan Jett brought real rock and roll to the charts

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  • The Blasters and The Stray Cats were popular
    among American kids too
  • The Go-Go's products of LA punk scene

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  • Frank Zappa he and daughter Moon Unit did
    "Valley Girl"
  • Used "valspeaking" residents of LA and gave him
    the biggest hit of his career

47
Liberace
  • his chauffeur Scott Thorson had been his
    companion
  • Filed a lawsuit against Liberace- wanted his
    belongings back
  • Liberace denied being homosexual

48
  • Joan Jett and The Blackhearts "I Love Rock N
    Roll"
  • Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder "Ebony and
    Ivory"

49
  • Survivor "Eye of the Tiger"
  • J. Geils Band "Centerfold"
  • Daryl Hall and John Oates "Maneater"

50
1983
  • Down Under
  • Billie Jean
  • Every Breath You Take
  • Maniac

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  • Total Eclipse of the Heart
  • Say, Say, Say
  • Islands in the Stream

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Grammy Awards
  • Beat It, Michael Jackson- record
  • Thriller Michael Jackson- album
  • Every Breath You Take- song

53
  • Michael Jackson Off the Wall had been a huge
    hit in 1979
  • Came out with Thriller this year

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  • Had 6 Top Ten hits on it
  • "Billie Jean"
  • "Beat It"
  • "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin"
  • "Human Nature"
  • "PYT"
  • "Thriller"

56
  • Quiet Riot LA album "Metal Health"
  • Popularity of heavy metal was coming
  • Spandex pants and big hair

57
  • Styx Kilroy Was Here
  • Talking Heads New York art-rock combo- "Burning
    Down the House" was in Top 10

58
  • REM Athens, Georgia- Top 40 with "Murmur"
  • The Velvet Underground had been popular in the
    late 60's
  • By '85 all records were back in print, selling
    better than in the 60's

59
1984
  • Footloose
  • Jump
  • Time After Time
  • Owner of a Lonely Heart

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  • Ghostbusters
  • Uptown Girl
  • Self Control

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Grammy Awards
  • What's Love Got to Do with It Tina Turner-
    record
  • Can't Slow Down Lionel Richie- album
  • What's Love Got to Do with It- song

64
  • Breakdancing was everywhere- in TV commercials,
    music videos- even at the opening of the LA
    Summer Olympics

65
  • Hollywood made four low-budget "Breaksploitation"
    flicks "Beat Street" "Body Rock" "Breakin'" and
    "Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo"

66
  • MTV was a major influence on music and film
  • Quick edits lighting that had been just in
    music videos were now going into Hollywood
    films-Beverly Hills Cop, Footloose, Streets of
    Fire, Purple Rain

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  • Executives started realizing that by putting
    scenes from the film into the music video, you
    could sell a movie better as well as the
    soundtrack

69
  • Purple Rain blockbuster film and a
    multi-platinum album
  • Born in The USA Bruce Springsteen

70
  • Heavy Metal
  • Van Halen 1984 -band's final album with David
    Lee Roth
  • "Jump"
  • "Panama"
  • "Hot for Teacher"

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  • Ratt, Motley Crue
  • "Out of The Cellar"
  • "Shout At The Devil"

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  • Twisted Sister "We're Not Gonna take It"
  • RUN-DMC Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels
  • "Rock Box" mixture of street raps and metallic
    guitars

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Marvin Gaye
  • 1983 "Sexual Healing" comeback
  • working on a follow-up to "Midnight Love" album
  • April 1 was shot and killed by his father in an
    argument

75
  • Other big hits of the year
  • Madonna "Like A Virgin"
  • Prince "When Doves Cry"

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1985
  • Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
  • I Feel for You
  • Glory Days
  • Crazy for You
  • Careless Whisper
  • One Night in Bangkok

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Grammy Awards
  • We Are the World- U.S.A. for Africa- record
  • No Jacket Required Phil Collins- album
  • We Are the World song

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  • Live Aid, Farm Aid, and founding of the Rock and
    Roll Hall of Fame
  • Year of the compact disc higher priced than
    turntables and LPs

80
  • CD players and CDs were immediately so successful
    that it was predicted that vinyl would be almost
    completely obsolete by the end of the decade

81
  • PMRC self appointed moral watchdog committee
    formed by wives of several prominent politicos

82
  • Began to pressure record companies to save the
    youth of America by putting warning stickers on
    records containing "offensive" lyrical content

83
  • 22 record companies pledged to slap parental
    warnings on any product containing potentially
    offensive material

84
  • LL Cool J rap's newest superstar with debut
    album "Radio"
  • Starship's "We Built This City"
  • Mr. Mister "Broken Wings"
  • Whitney Houston's "Saving All My Love For You"

85
  • Lionel Richie "Say You, Say Me"
  • Madonna's "Crazy For You"
  • John Parr "St Elmo's Fire"
  • Huey Lewis and The News' "The Power of Love"

86
More top songs
  • USA for Africa "We Are The World"
  • REO Speedwagon "Can't Fight This Feeling"
  • Dire Straits "Money For Nothing"

87
1986
  • How Will I Know
  • Kyrrie
  • Greatest Love of All
  • Live to Tell

88
  • On My Own
  • There'll Be Sad Songs
  • Sledgehammer

89
Grammy Awards
  • Higher Love Steve Winwood- record
  • Graceland Paul Simon album
  • That's What Friends Are For song

90
  • Madonna shortened hair and tried to "class up"
    her image
  • Third album "True Blue

91
  • The Bangles all female quartet
  • Two massive pop hits "Manic Monday" - which was
    written by Prince
  • "Walk Like An Egyptian"

92
  • Bon Jovi
  • Sounded like a cross between Bruce Springsteen
    and a metal band
  • "You Give Love A Bad Name"
  • "Livin On A Prayer"

93
  • Metallica thrash metal classes "Master of
    Puppets"
  • Momentum lost when bassist Cliff Burton died in
    a bus crash during the band's Swedish tour

94
  • Miami Vice's Don Johnson Top 5 hit with
    "Heartbeat"
  • Janet Jackson younger sister of Michael Jackson
  • "Control"

95
  • James Brown 4th decade of hits with Living In
    America
  • Paul Simon South African musicians on new
    Graceland album---world music style
  • Run DMC teamed up with Aerosmith for a remake
    of Walk This Way

96
  • More top hits
  • Dionne and Friends Thats What Friends Are For
  • Falco Rock Me Amadeus

97
1987
  • Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
  • Alone
  • Here I Go Again
  • The Way It Is

98
  • Shakedown
  • Livin' on a Prayer
  • Everybody Have Fun Tonight

99
Grammy Awards
  • Graceland Paul Simon- record
  • The Joshua Tree US- album
  • Somewhere Out There- song

100
Top Albums
  • Dirty Dancing Soundtrack
  • Whitney Houston Whitney
  • U2 The Joshua Tree
  • The Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill
  • Michael Jackson Bad

101
  • Other Top Singles
  • George Michael Faith
  • Los Lobos La Bamba
  • U2 With or Without You

102
  • CD market had sales of over 102 million
  • Bad sold 8 million copies this year, had 5 Number
    One singles- including Man In The Mirror and
    Bad

103
  • Tiffany Tiffany Darwinsch
  • 16 years old
  • Couldve Been
  • I Think Were Alone Now

104
  • Debbie Gibson
  • Only In My Dreams
  • Shake Your Love

105
  • Grateful Dead hit first Top 10 hit with Touch
    of Grey
  • Deadheads complained that the single was making
    the band too popular
  • Newcomers were ruining the vibe of he Deads
    concerts

106
  • Poison
  • Slayer
  • These replaced Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot for
    the headbangers

107
  • The Beastie Boys debut album by New York white
    rap trio was Licensed to Ill
  • Had hit You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party
  • Sold 5 million copies and became the first rap
    record to top the pop album charts

108
  • 10 years after Elvis Presleys death
  • 20,000 fans from around the world went to Memphis
  • Liberace died this year from AIDS
  • He had an outrageous sense of onstage style

109
1988
  • Faith
  • Need You Tonight
  • Sweet Child O'Mine
  • Hands to Heaven

110
  • One More Try
  • Wild, Wild West
  • Groovy Kind of Love

111
Grammy Awards
  • Don't Worry, Be Happy- Bobby McFerrin- record
  • Faith George Michael- album
  • Don't Worry, Be Happy Bobby McFerrin- song

112
  • More Top Singles
  • Steve Winwood Roll With It
  • Poison Every Rose Has Its Thorn
  • Chicago Look Away

113
Top Albums
  • George Michael Faith
  • Def Leppard Hysteria
  • US Rattle and Hum
  • Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction
  • Bon Jovi New Jersey

114
Guns N Roses
  • Changing the face of music
  • No lipstick, teased hair, and spandex
  • They had leathers, bandanas and the look of
    fresh from the gutter

115
  • Public Enemy
  • It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
  • Mixed rage with big beats

116
  • Will To Power Free Baby
  • Disco-muzak of Peter Framptons Baby I Love Your
    Way and Lynyrd Skynyrds Free Bird
  • Beach Boys Kokomo

117
  • Bobby McFerrin Dont Worry, Be Happy
  • George Bush would try to use this song as his
    theme for 1992 campaign

118
  • James Brown arrested this fall
  • He lead several Georgia state police cars on a
    chase while under influence of PCP
  • 6 year jail sentence was reduced to a little over
    25 months

119
1989
  • My Prerogative
  • Straight Up
  • Giving You the Best that I Got
  • This Time I Know It's for Real

120
  • Fight the Power
  • Cold Hearted
  • Cherish

121
Grammy Awards
  • Wind Beneath My Wings Bette Midler- record
  • Nick of Time Bonnie Raitt- album
  • Wind Beneath My Wings- song

122
  • Phil Collins Another Day in Paradise
  • Janet Jackson Miss You Much
  • Richard Marx Right Here Waiting
  • Madonna Like a Prayer

123
Top Albums
  • Paula Abdul Forever Your Girl
  • Milli Vanilli Girl You Know Its True
  • Fine Young Cannibals The Raw and the Cooked
  • Bobby Brown Dont Be Cruel
  • Madonna Like a Prayer

124
  • Rap music very popular now
  • Novelty rap singles like Young MCs Bust A Move
  • 2 Live Crew
  • Tone Locs Funky Cold Medina

125
  • Paula Abdul, Richard Marx, and New Kids on the
    Block
  • Madonna Like a Prayer strongest album for her
    to that point
  • Bobby Brown left New Edition and came out with
    Dont Be Cruel

126
  • Harry Connick Jr. 22 year old jazz pianist
  • When Harry Met Sally soundtrack
  • Guns N Roses Patience

127
  • MTV came out with MTV Unplugged
  • Debuted in November with singer-songwriter Jules
    Shear
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