Tag Archives: 80’s

To mark the 25th anniversary of its release. (Via – Pop In Stereo)

Madonna’s True Blue was released June 30th, 1986. And 25 years later, every single track from an album I never owned remains burned into my brain, each song irrevocably linked to images of bars, boys, cars, and vacations. That, to me, is the hallmark of superstardom – when casual or even non-fans cannot help relating personal timelines to an artist’s …

When did Topher Grace get so hawt? By the way, the original Don’t You Want Me came out thirty freakin’ years ago. Now help Paw-Paw to his rocker.

Yup, same song.

Their first record in 24 years. Like time stood still.

In an phone interview on Larry Flick’s SiriusOutQ show today, Boy George announced a Culture Club reunion tour for later this year. “Oh absolutely, it is happening, we have planned it. We are having our big launch to announce it in October. We’re going to do a big thing in London and then we are going to come on tour …

Here’s a touching account of the early years of AIDS and the Reagan administration as told by the son of a then-budding lesbian activist.

Today Alex Pareene notes at Salon that Ronald Reagan was far more concerned about the potential of aliens attacking from outer space than he was about the AIDS pandemic, which he completely ignored. Reagan frequently spoke on the threat from little green men, an issue he brought up at the United Nations and one that he even discussed with Russian …

The first single from the album of the same name, which is out today. I’m hearing echoes of Rio buried in here.

Reggie Jackson or Wesley Snipes as Geordi? Denise Crosby as Troi, not Tasha? Madness, all of it!

From the coming album History Of Modern. This is OMD’s first release since 1996’s Universal. My all-time favorite OMD single remains 1984’s Talking Loud And Clear.

(Tipped by JMG reader Michael)

Troubled former child star Gary Coleman, best known as the smart-mouthed Arnold on the hit ’80s sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, has died at the age of 42 after a fall at his Utah home. Coleman’s pudgy cheeks and flawless comic timing made him the break-out star of the popular series, which ran from 1978-86. His signature line, “Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?” …

I realized that many of you tender kittens are too young to remember the original video, so you might want to check it out for comparison.

Meredith Baxter, star of the 80s sitcom Family Ties and numerous Lifetime movies about bulimia, came out this morning on the Today Show. “I am a lesbian and it was a later-in-life recognition,” she told Matt Lauer on TODAY. “Some people would say, well, you’re living a lie and, you know, the truth is — not at all. This has …

Nick Kamen, Each Time You Break My Heart, 1986. When Madonna got a look at British model Nick Kamen in a very hot Levi’s commercial, she went all Jesus Luz on him, co-writing and co-producing this, his first hit single – even adding her own vocals to the end of the track. The single went Top Ten in most of …

The Human League, Love Action (I Believe In Love), 1981. The second single from its landmark breakthrough album Dare, Love Action topped out at #3 on the UK pop chart, but saw no such success in the U.S. where the band would remain virtually unknown until Dare’s fourth single almost two years later brought the band global success with Don’t …

Jeremy Hooper at Good As You digs up the best stuff. In this 80’s clip from the horrible Morton Downey Show, dig who’s waiting at the microphone to attack feminist lawyer Gloria Allred. Maggie doesn’t speak in this clip, which is too bad because we’d love to hear how she sounded when she only hated her own gender.

Yazz, Stand Up For Your Love Rights, 1988. This #2 UK pop smash from Yasmin Evans, which became something of an LGBT rights anthem, seems very appropriate for today. (Oh, the confused records store clerks of the 80’s, when faced with Yazz, Yaz, Yazoo.) You may be more familiar with Evans’ earlier hit from 1988, The Only Way Is Up, …