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In The 80s is a pop culture site devoted to the music, movies, television, fashion/fads and world events of the 1980s. We started out as ChuckyG's 80s Page way back in 1995 and have grown larger with every passing year. Material on this site has been contributed by visitors to the site, and we welcome new submissions.
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Was the ‘80s the golden age of movies? It might be hard to argue that. It gave us some of the biggest movies and trilogies of all time and gave rise to the blockbuster. Star Wars would get the ball rolling when it was released in 1977 but the momentum and the fandom really took shape in the ‘80s with the Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. ...
G.I Joe is one of a handful of iconic toys and cartoons from the ‘80s. If you were a kid growing up in this decade G.I Joe was one of the biggest parts of your life. Your day would be centered around getting home intime to watch it on T.V. Birthdays and Christmas would be based around asking for, and hopefully getting, any of the toys. I’m still go...
The ‘80s brought us so much new variety when it came to music along with some brand new genres. Up until then, everything had been pretty much rock-based. Heavy metal was becoming more prominent in the ‘70s and pop music has always been in the mix but the ‘80s brought us some new categories and variations we hadn’t heard before. It’s obviously impo...
If you want to put the ‘80s, in a nutshell, it may be the mixtape. There was no such thing as MP3, Apple Music or Spotify. If you wanted to capture music you would have to sit diligently by your tape deck just waiting for whatever song you wanted to hear. You would call up radio stations to request it and just hope you had a good trigger finger. Th...
The Walkman changed the way we consumed music. It allowed us to take it on the go and it was also a style statement. Portable music and transistor radios have existed for years but you were forced to listen to whatever the radio station was playing. With the Walkman, you now had something that was catered to you. Every tape you put in was your choi...
Hip Hop has its roots in the Bronx. DJ Kool Herc was credited as the godfather of hip-hop and it came together quite naturally. At house parties, Herc wanted to always keep the people dancing. The funky records he would play, like James Brown, contained “breaks” where there wouldn’t be any lyrics and you would mainly hear drums and a beat. People l...
Is there any other decade that gets as mocked as much as the ‘80s do for the fashion? When you think of the ‘80s it may conjure up images of a lot of fluorescent pinks and greens, like that image above… There were a lot of velvet scrunchies and crimped hair that was being held by them also. Converse high tops were still big but so were any type of ...
Arguably the best toy and cartoon of the ‘80s. If it’s not then it is at least right up there. The Transformers toys, made by Hasbro, were a rip off the Diaclone toys made in Japan. Hasbro basically took them straight up and changed around some coloursand accessories. But they saw the success that happened with G.I Joe and created a 3-part TV serie...
A bunch of classic sitcoms came our way in the ‘80s and would eventually lead to the advent of “Must See TV”. Certain nights like Thursday and Friday would become must-watchnights where they would stack a bunch of top shows together. You did not want to miss these nights if you wanted to know what the hell everyone was talking about. Some of the no...
What a time to be alive. If you were a kid in the ‘80s breakfasts could be an event. There were so many over the top, sugar-laden cereals with intensive marketing that you couldn’t resist. They were colourful, novel and probably had some sort of free toy inside. This was a big era for interactive cereal boxes and you probably spent your whole break...
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- Biz Markie, ‘Just a Friend’ Lighters up for the late, great Biz Markie, one of the most beloved music heroes of the Eighties or any other decade. The Diabolical One.
- Nena, ’99 Luftballons’ A German girl sings about nuclear apocalypse in a perky New Wave bop about the end of the world. Yet it’s also a doomy teen romance, at a time when half the hits on the radio were about the end of the world.
- My Bloody Valentine, ‘Feed Me With Your Kiss’ The dawn of the shoegaze era. My Bloody Valentine give an early taste of their power on their debut album, Isn’t Anything: Irish guitar madman Kevin Shields’ tremolo overdrive and feedback-loop noise, Belinda Butcher’s breathy vocals, awesome power-klutz drumming.
- Bobby Brown, ‘My Prerogative’ The sound of New Jack Swing. Bobby Brown dishes the dirt on celebrity gossip, as the young Harlem prodigy Teddy Riley soups up a beat that would rule the radio for the next few years.
What Happened in 1980 History. Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington state. John Lennon is shot and dies. The popular video arcade game "Pac-Man" is released. Ronald Reagan is elected as the President of the United States. The United States boycotts the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
- Koosh Balls. Who remembers these toys appearing in the playground? They were balls made of rubber filaments and attached to a soft core, which came in lots of different colours.
- Jelly Shoes. Credit: Antonangelo De Martini via Flickr. Who remembers jelly shoes? For 80s girls everywhere, these shoes were a delight to wear! They were light and airy, meaning your feet never got too sweaty (which is always a positive), plus they came in many different styles and colours.
- Car Surfing. Credit: Jim Kelly via Flickr. The Teen Wolf movie had a lot to answer for with this craze, after showing Michael J. Fox‘s character surfing on the roof of his friend’s van as a werewolf!
- Shoulder Pads. Credit: r Nadir Chanyshev via Wikipedia Commons. Joan Collins eat your heart out! With Dynasty rocking the 80’s TV screens, shoulder padded garments wide enough to make an American footballer jealous quickly became all the rage.
Jun 15, 2022 · 80 Iconic Moments from the 80s Forever In Our Minds. The 80s were a time of materialism and consumerism as Madonna sang about it, thanks to the emergence of major cable networks like MTV. The rise of the yuppie came in the 1980s while blockbuster movies were everywhere.
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