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My Top Ten

A list of my Top 10 of everything 80s, starts with-

Chart Hits

1. How Will I Know- Whitney Houston
2. Take My Breath Away- Berlin
3. Hand On Your Heart- Kylie Minogue
4. On My Own- Patti La Belle and Michael MacDonald
5. Borderline- Madonna
6. Everything She Wants- Wham!
7. Glory Days- Bruce Springsteen
8. The Way You Make Me Feel- Michael Jackson
9. Rain or Shine- Five Star
10. You Take Me Up- Thompson Twins

These are based on 1 singer/group, 1 song which was an 80s chart hit, a different list of 80s songs will be shown another time. The list could include more from Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson for example, but I would prefer to place them in their own separate artist only list.

What would be your Top 10 hits of the 80s, let everyone know with your own list.

Bridge of Spies- T'Pau (1987)

Bridge of Spies is the debut album by British pop group T'Pau, released in September 1987. For its US release, Virgin Records renamed Bridge of Spies to simply T'Pau.

The album was produced by Roy Thomas Baker. It spawned five hit singles – "Heart and Soul" (also a Top 5 in the US), the best-selling number one hit "China in Your Hand" (re-recorded especially for single release), "Valentine," a live version of "Sex Talk" (previously released in its original form as "Intimate Strangers") was issued in the UK, and "I Will Be with You". A further release, a remix of the title track "Bridge of Spies", was also released in the US, Canada, Australia and Germany.

The artwork for the release included the name "T'Pau" rearranged to form a face (similar to the Moai stone heads found on Easter Island). This practice was replicated with the titles of the band's follow-up albums Rage & The Promise.

The album spent one week at number one on the UK Albums Chart and was certified Gold on 14 October 1987 and Platinum on 18 November 1987. It was eventually certified 4x Platinum in September 1988.

A extended and digitally remastered version of Bridge of Spies was released in the UK and Europe in 2017. It includes remixes, b-sides and live versions of the album tracks. A companion album called The Virgin Anthology was released shortly afterwards, and this triple CD and DVD contains the radio edits and remixes of all the singles released from Bridge of Spies and digitally remastered versions of the follow up albums Rage and The Promise.

What an album to launch your chart career, superb vocals and arrangements on every song, Carol Decker arrived in style. 9/10

Track listing

All songs written by Carol Decker and Ron Rogers. (Copyright Virgin Music)

Side One

"Heart and Soul" – 4:15
"I Will Be with You" – 4:06
"China in Your Hand" – 5:06
"Friends Like These" – 3:45
"Sex Talk" – 4:07

Side Two

"Bridge of Spies" – 5:23
"Monkey House" – 4:24
"Valentine" – 3:53
"Thank You for Goodbye" – 3:54
"You Give Up" – 4.39
"China in Your Hand" (reprise) – 0:45

As featured on Now 4

As featured on Now 4

Now That's What I Call Music 4

Released 8th December 1984

TRACKS

    Side 1                                                                    Side 2

01. Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights (Special Dance Mix) 02. Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams 03. Bronski Beat - Why? 04. Limahl - The Never Ending Story 05. Nick Heyward - Warning Sign 06. John Waite - Missing You 07. Michael Jackson - Farewell My Summer Love 08. Lionel Richie - Hello 09. Culture Club - The War Song 10. Elton John - Passengers 11. Julian Lennon - Too Late For Goodbyes 12. The Style Council - Shout To The Top 13. Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! 14. Heaven 17 - Sunset Now 15. The Kane Gang - Respect Yourself 16. Tina Turner - Private Dancer

01. Queen - It's A Hard Life 02. Status Quo - The Wanderer 03. Big Country - East Of Eden 04. U2 - Pride(In The Name Of Love) 05. Feargal Sharkey - Listen To Your Father 06. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Tesla Girls 07. Kim Wilde - The Second Time 08. Nik Kershaw - Human Racing 09. Ray Prker Jr - Ghostbusters (Searchin For The Spirit) 10. UB40 - If It Happens Again 11. Pointer Sisters - Jump (For My Love) 12. Level 42 - Hot Water 13. Eurythmics - Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty Four) 14. Rockwell - Somebodys Watching Me

A list of the No1 singles of this week in The 80s

1980

ABBA- Super Trooper

1981

Julio Iglesias- Begine The Beguine (Volver A Empezar) 

1982

Eddy Grant- I Don't Wanna Dance 

1983

Billy Joel- Uptown Girl 

1984

Chaka Khan- I Feel For You 

1985

Wham!- I'm Your Man 

1986

Berlin- Take My Breath Away 

1987

T'Pau- China In Your Hand 

1988

Robin Beck- First Time 

1989

New Kids On The Block- You got It (The Right Stuff) 

As featured on Now 3

As featured on Now 3

Now That's What I Call Music 3

Released 11th August 1984

TRACKS

    Side 1                                                                    Side 2

01. Duran Duran - The Reflex 02. Nik Kershaw - I Wont Let The Sun Go Down On Me 03. Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You 04. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Locomotion 05. Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes 06. Howard Jones - Pearl In The Shell 07. Blancmange - Don't Tell Me 08. Phil Collins - Against All Odds 09. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes 10. Grandmaster & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) 11. Special A.K.A. - Nelson Mandela 12. Womack And Womack - Love Wars 13. Style Council - Youre The Best Thing 14. Bob Marley And The Wailers - One Love - People Get Ready 15. Bronski Beat - Small Town Boy

01. Queen - I Want To Break Free 02. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 03. Alison Moyet - Love Resurrection 04. Bluebells - Young At Heart 05. Bananarama - Robert De Niro's Waiting 06. Propaganda - Doctor Mabuse 07. Tina Turner - Whats Love Got To Do With It 08. Flying Pickets - When You're Young And In Love 09. Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go 10. Thomson Twins - You Take Me Up 11. Weather Girls - Its Raining Men 12. Gary Glitter - Dance Me Up 13. The Art Company - Susanna 14. Madness - One Better Day 15. David Sylvian - Red Guitar

Revenge- Eurythmics (1986)

Revenge is the fifth studio album by British new wave duo Eurythmics. It was released on 30 June 1986 by RCA Records. Following on from their previous album, Be Yourself Tonight, Revenge continued further in this direction as the duo embraced a more "rock band" style. The album spawned four singles and was a commercial success. Its release was supported by an extensive world tour. A 1987 concert from the Australian leg of the tour was also released on home video as Eurythmics Live.

On 14 November 2005, Sony BMG released remastered versions of each of Eurythmics' eight studio albums, containing bonus tracks and remixes. The bonus track "Revenge 2" is a radically different remake of "Revenge", the closing track of the duo's 1981 debut album In the Garden. A line from the song ("She said revenge can be so sweet") is also heard at the end of "A Little of You".

I was a huge Eurythmics fan and this was their best album, every song a classic. This would be in my top 10 of the decade. 10/10

Tracks-

1.	"Missionary Man"	4:28
2.	"Thorn in My Side"	4:15
3.	"When Tomorrow Comes"	4:28
4.	"The Last Time"	4:10
5.	"The Miracle of Love"	5:04
6.	"Let's Go!"	4:08
7.	"Take Your Pain Away"	4:30
8.	"A Little of You"	3:53
9.	"In This Town"	3:44
10.	"I Remember You"	5:00

As featured on Now 2

As featured on Now Music 2

Now That's What I Call Music 2

Released 7th April 1984

Side 1                                                                    Side 2

01. Queen - Radio Ga Ga 02. Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good 03. Thomson Twins - Hold Menow 04. Matt Bianco - Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed 05. Carmel - More,More,More 06. Madness - Michale Caine 07. Flying Pickets - Only You 08. Nena - 99 Red Balloons 09. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun 10. Tracey Ulman - My Guys Mad At Me 11. Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride 12. Julia & Company - Breaking Down (Sugar Mamba) 13. Joe Fagan - Thats Living Alright 14. Hot Chocolate - I Gave You My Heart (Didnt I) 15. Snowy White - Bird Of Paradise

01. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax 02. Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again 03. Howard Jones - What Is Love? 04. The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make? 05. Fiction Factory - (Feels Like) Heaven 06. Re-Flex - The Politics Of Dancing 07. Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive 08. China Crisis - Wishful Thinking 09. David Bowie - Modern Love 10. Culture Club - It's A Miracle 11. Rolling Stones - Undercover Of The Night 12. Big Country - Wonderland 13. Slade - Run Runaway 14. Duran Duran - New Moon On Monday 15. Paul McCartney - Pipes Of Peace

Top 10 Albums of 1989

Position

Artist/s

Title

1	Jason Donovan	Ten Good Reasons
2	Simply Red	A New Flame
3	Phil Collins	But Seriously
4	Gloria Estefan	Anything For You
5	Gloria Estefan	Cuts Both Ways
6	Kylie Minogue	Enjoy Yourself
7	Madonna	Like A Prayer
8	Fine Young Cannibals	The Raw And The Cooked
9	Tina Turner	Foreign Affair
10	Chris Rea	The Road To Hell

Make It Big- Wham! (1984)

Make It Big is the second and final studio album from British pop duo Wham!, released in 1984. It was mostly recorded at Studio Miraval in Southern France to escape the press and enable George Michael to work peacefully and mixed at Good Earth Studios in London and Marcadet Studios in Paris. In comparison to their earlier work, the duo had more control over the album's production, as George Michael became the sole credited producer, a position he would subsequently hold on all future releases until the group split in 1986. The album was a critical and commercial success, hitting number one in both the UK and the US and spawning four singles, all topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.

Outside the US, "Careless Whisper" was credited as a George Michael solo effort upon its release as a single, while "Everything She Wants" was released as a double A-side with "Last Christmas" which would later appear on the following album Music from the Edge of Heaven.

It was certified 6× Platinum in the US within weeks of the album's tenth anniversary.

To date, the album has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.

A perfect album, from the perfect band of the 80s, Wham! 10/10

Tracks-

1.	"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"	George Michael	3:50
2.	"Everything She Wants"	Michael	5:01
3.	"Heartbeat"	Michael	4:42
4.	"Like a Baby"	Michael	4:12
5.	"Freedom"	Michael	5:01
6.	"If You Were There"	Ernie Isley Marvin Isley Chris Jasper	3:38
7.	"Credit Card Baby"	Michael	5:08
8.	"Careless Whisper"	Michael Andrew Ridgeley	6:32

As featured on Now 1

As featured on Now 1

Now That's What I Call Music 1

Released 10th December 1983

Side 1 01. Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love 02. Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know 03. UB40 - Red Red Wine 04. Limahl - Only For Love 05. Heaven 17 - Temptation 06. K.C. And The Sunshine Band - Give It Up 07. Malcolm McClaren - Double Dutch 08. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart 09. Culture Club - Karma Chameleon 10. Men Without Hats - The Safety Dace 11. Kajagoogoo - Too Shy 12. Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow 13. Men At Work - Down Under 14. Rock Steady Crew - Hey You (Rock Steady Crew 15. Rod Stewart - Baby Jane 16. Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat

Side 2 01. New Edition - Candy Girl 02. Kajagoogoo - Big Apple 03. Tina Turner - Let's Stay Together 04. Human League - Fascination 05. Howard Jones - New Song 06. UB40 - Please Don't Make Me Cry 07. Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack - Tonight I Celebrate My Love 08. Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know 09. Will Powers - Kissing With Confidence 10. Genesis - That's All 11. The Cure - The Love Cats 12. Simple Minds - Waterfront 13. Madness - The Sun And The Rain 14. Culture Club - Victims

We have a brand new section on The all80s website.

Childrens TV

Relive all your favourite shows including detailed recollection with episode information, images, forgotten cast members (where are they now) and loads more.

Shows highlighted include-

• Grange Hill
• Crackerjack
• Jackanory
• Why Don't You
• Blue Peter
• Runaround
• Going Live!
• Multi Coloured Swap Shop
• Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade
• Tiswas
• Cheggers Plays Pop
• and more

Coming Soon to the all80s website.

Grange Hill TV Show

Grange Hill is a British television children's drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began its run on 8 February 1978 on BBC1, and was one of the longest-running programmes on British television when it ended its run on 15 September 2008. It was created by Phil Redmond who is also responsible for the Channel 4 dramas Brookside and Hollyoaks; other notable production team members down the years have included producer Colin Cant and script editor Anthony Minghella.

After 30 years, the show was cancelled in 2008 as it was felt by the BBC that the series had run its course.

The drama was centred on the fictional comprehensive school of Grange Hill in the equally fictitious North London borough of Northam. As well as dealing with school-related issues such as bullying, learning difficulties, teacher-pupil relationships and conflicts, Grange Hill "broke new ground over the years, with the kind of hard-hitting storylines not usually seen in children's dramas", such as racism, Zammo's heroin addiction, teenage pregnancy, AIDS, LGBT, knife crime, homelessness, rape and mental health.[5] The series was originally to have been called "Grange Park", which would go on to be used as the name of the school in another Redmond creation, the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside

Selected Cast-

Peter 'Tucker' Jenkins- Todd Carty

Suzanne Roass- Susan Tully

Samuel 'Zammo' MacGuire- Lee McDonald

Lucinda Oliver- Letitia Dean

Fiona Wilson- Michelle Gayle

Terence 'Tegs' Ratcliffe- Sean McGuire

Grange Hill was always must watch TV when you came home from school, hard hitting storylines and superb acting with memorable characters that were to go on to bigger and better things, loved it and never missed an episode. 9/10

A list of the No1 singles of this week in The 80s

1980

Blondie- The Tide is High

1981

Police- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 

1982

Eddy Grant- I Don't Wanna Dance 

1983

Billy Joel- Uptown Girl 

1984

Chaka Khan- I Feel For You 

1985

Feargal Sharkey- A Good Heart 

1986

Berlin- Take My Breath Away 

1987

T'Pau- China In Your Hand 

1988

Robin Beck- First Time 

1989

Lisa Stansfield- All Around The World 

Running In The Family- Level 42 (1987)

Running in the Family is the seventh studio album by British band Level 42, released in 1987. It features the UK hit singles: "Lessons in Love" (which reached No. 3 in May 1986), "Running in the Family" (No. 6 in February 1987), "To Be with You Again" (No. 10 in April '87), "It's Over" (No. 10, in September 1987) and "Children Say" (No. 22 at the end of 1987). All five singles peaked in the top 10 in the Netherlands. "Lessons in Love" peaked at #1 in Germany, South Africa, Switzerland and Denmark. This was the last Level 42 album of the 1980s to feature brothers Phil (drums) and Rowland 'Boon' Gould (guitar), who had cited dissatisfaction with the musical direction of the band and exhaustion as departure reasons.

Later in 1987 the Platinum Edition of the album was issued. The CD and cassette versions replaced "Lessons in Love", "Running in the Family" and "It's Over" with remixed versions, and added remixes of "Something About You" and "World Machine" from Level 42's previous album. On vinyl the remixes were featured on one 33rpm record which was shrink-wrapped to the standard edition of the album.

The bands best selling and most loved album, with some excellent songs and big top 10 hits, still one of my favourites of the whole decade. 9/10

The Top 10 Albums of 1988

Position

Artist/s

Title

1	Kylie Minogue	Kylie
2	Cliff Richard	Private Collection
3	Michael Jackson	Bad
4	Bros	Push
5	Various Artists	Now That's What I Call Music 13
6	Wet Wet Wet	Popped In Souled Out
7	Fleetwood Mac	Tango In The Night
8	U2	Rattle And Hum
9	Tracy Chapman	Tracy Chapman
10	Terence Trent D'Arby	Introducing The Hardline According To?

The Hits Albums in The 1980s

In Best Selling Order

1) The Hits Album 1
2) The Hits Album 2
3) The Hits Album 6
4) The Hits Album 10
5) The Hits Album 4
6) The Hits Album 5
7) The Hits Album 8
8) The Hits Album 7
9) The Hits Album 3
10) The Hits Album 9
11) The Hits Album 11

 

 

As featured on The Hits Album 11

As featured on The Hits Album 10

As featured on The Hits Album 9

As featured on The Hits Album 8

As featured on The Hits Album 7

As featured on The Hits Album 6

As featured on The Hits Album 5

As featured on The Hits Album 4

As featured on The Hits Album 3

As featured on The Hits Album 2

As featured on The Hits Album 1

The Top 10 Albums of 1987

Position

Artist/s

Title

1	Michael Jackson	Bad
2	U2	The Joshua Tree
3	Whitney Houston	Whitney
4	Various Artists	Now That's What I Call Music 10
5	Fleetwood Mac	Tango In The Night
6	Various Artists	The Hits Album 6
7	Rick Astley	Whenever You Need Somebody
8	T'Pau	Bridge Of Spies
9	Original Soundtrack	The Phantom Of The Opera
10	Level 42	Running In The Family

She's Having a Baby (1988)

She's Having a Baby is a 1988 American romantic comedy film directed and written by John Hughes.

The film portrays a young newlywed couple, Kristy and Jake Briggs played by Elizabeth McGovern and Kevin Bacon, who try to cope with married life and their parents' expectations.

This film looks at the lives of Jefferson "Jake" (Kevin Bacon) and Kristy Briggs (Elizabeth McGovern), from their wedding day until the birth of their first child, mostly through Jake's eyes, with his voiceover commentaries and several imaginary scenes. Jake asks his best friend, Davis McDonald (Alec Baldwin) before the wedding if he thinks he will be happy, to which his friend says, "Yeah, you'll be happy. You just won't know it."

After their wedding, Jake and Kristy head off for New Mexico, where Jake works towards gaining a Master's Degree, but leaves before finishing. They return to Chicago where Jake is hired as an advertising copywriter. Jake says he wants to be a writer, which amuses his boss. Kristy is hired as a research analyst, and they are able to buy a house in the suburbs.

Loved, loved, loved this film. Funny, tragic and heartwarming, with an amazing soundtrack. Another classic from John Hughes. 9/10

Cast

• Kevin Bacon as Jefferson "Jake" Edward Briggs
• Elizabeth McGovern as Kristen "Kristy" Briggs
• Alec Baldwin as Davis McDonald
• William Windom as Russ Bainbridge
• Holland Taylor as Sarah Briggs
• Cathryn Damon as Gayle Bainbridge (Damon's final role, released posthumously)
• John Ashton as Ken
• James Ray as Jim Briggs
• Bill Erwin as Grandfather Briggs
• Paul Gleason as Howard
• Dennis Dugan as Bill
• Larry Hankin as Hank
• Edie McClurg as Lynn
• Nancy Lenehan as Cynthia
• Michael Keaton as Himself (Cameo: End credits)
• Woody Harrelson as Himself (Cameo: End credits)
• Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller (Cameo: End credits)

Darklands- The Jesus and Mary Chain (1987)

Darklands is the second studio album by Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain. It was released on 31 August 1987 by Blanco y Negro Records. Unlike their previous album, Psychocandy, drum machines were used in place of drummer Bobby Gillespie, who had left to pursue a career as the frontman with Primal Scream. Lead vocals are performed by Jim Reid, with the exception of "Darklands", "Nine Million Rainy Days" and "On the Wall", which are sung by William Reid.

Darklands reached number five on the UK Albums Chart, the band's highest-peaking album on the chart to date.[11] The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Primal Scream later recorded a cover version of the album's title track as a B-side to their 1998 single "If They Move, Kill 'Em".

Not my style, but a hugely successful album nonetheless. 4.5/10

Tracks-

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Darklands"	5:29
2.	"Deep One Perfect Morning"	2:43
3.	"Happy When It Rains"	3:36
4.	"Down on Me"	2:36
5.	"Nine Million Rainy Days"	4:29

Side two
No.	Title	Length
6.	"April Skies"	4:00
7.	"Fall"	2:28
8.	"Cherry Came Too"	3:06
9.	"On the Wall"	5:05
10.	"About You"	2:31

As featured on The Hits Album 11

As featured on The Hits Album 11

Monster Hits- The Hits Album 11

The final Hits Album of The 80s

Tracks

Side One
Black Box	Ride On Time
Starlight	Numero Uno
Gloria Estefan	Oye Mi Canto (Hear My Voice)
Kaoma	Lambada
Lisa Stansfield	All Around The World
Raoul Orellana	The Real Wild House (Radio Mix)
Beloved	The Sun Rising
Martika	I Feel The Earth Move
Side Two
Madonna	Cherish
Eurythmics	Don't Ask Me Why
Chris Rea	The Road To Hell (part 2)
Cher	If I Could Turn Back Time
Aerosmith	Love In An Elevator
Alice Cooper	Poison
The Jesus And Mary Chain	Head On
Fuzzbox	Walking On Thin Ice
Side Three
Simply Red	You've Got It
Luther Vandross	Never Too Much ('89)
Sybil	Don't Make Me Over
Alyson Williams	I Need Your Lovin'
Prince	Partyman
Karen White	Secret Rendezvous
Donna Summer	Love's About To Change My Heart
Liza Minelli	Losing My Mind
Side Four
Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers	That's What I Like
London Boys	My Love
Big Fun	Blame It On The Boogie
Bros	Chocolate Box
Sam Dees	After All
Fast Eddie & Sundance	Git On Up
The Beatmasters & Betty Boo	Hey DJ I Can't Dance To That Music You're Playing
808 State	Pacific 707

The Top 10 Albums of 1986

Position

Artist/s

Title

1	Madonna	True Blue
2	Dire Straits	Brothers In Arms
3	Various Artists	Now That's What I Call Music 8
4	Paul Simon	Graceland
5	Whitney Houston	Whitney Houston
6	Various Artists	Now That's What I Call Music 7
7	A-Ha	Hunting High And Low
8	Queen	A Kind Of Magic
9	Eurythmics	Revenge
10	Five Star	Silk And Steel

Brookside

Brookside is a British soap opera set in Liverpool, England. The series began on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982, and ran for 21 years until 4 November 2003. Originally intended to be called Meadowcroft, the series was produced by Lime Pictures (then Mersey Television) and it was conceived by Phil Redmond who also devised Grange Hill (1978–2008) and Hollyoaks (1995–present).

Brookside became very successful and was often Channel 4's highest rated programme for a number of years in the mid-1980s and with audiences regularly in excess of nine million viewers. It is notable for realistic and socially challenging storylines. From the mid-1990s it began raising more controversial subjects under the guidance of new producers such as Mal Young and Paul Marquess. It is especially well known for broadcasting the first pre-watershed kiss on British television in 1994, as well as a powerful domestic abuse storyline resulting in murder. In 1996, the series experienced an extreme backlash from viewers when it featured a hugely controversial storyline of a consensual sexual relationship between two sibling characters.

Although the series had a long and successful run, by 2000 its viewing figures were in terminal decline and low ratings eventually led to its cancellation in June 2003. The final episode was broadcast on 4 November 2003 and was watched by around two million viewers.

The first episode of Brookside was repeated as part of Channel 4 at 25 on 1 October 2007. The episode aired on More4 in a season of celebratory Channel 4 programmes to mark the channel's first quarter-century. Several classic episodes have also been available to view on 4oD, an online service, since 2009.

After years of campaigning by fans led by Lee Brady, a special DVD was released in November 2012, just over 30 years after the series originally began, titled Brookside Most Memorable Moments. It features clips and episodes from the programme's 21-year history.

Loved this show, stunning acting from a superb cast, just terrific. 9/10

Alf- Alison Moyet (1984)

Alf is the debut studio album by British singer-songwriter Alison Moyet, released in 1984. The album launched Moyet's solo career following the disbanding of synthpop duo Yazoo. The album reached No. 1 in the UK and features the singles "Love Resurrection", "All Cried Out", "Invisible" and "For You Only".

A deluxe edition of Alf was released by BMG on 25 November 2016.

Alf was released in November 1984 and was a commercial success in the UK and worldwide. The album topped the UK chart, and by the beginning of December, the album had achieved a double platinum certification. In April 1985 it had gone triple platinum and in February 1987 it went quadruple. In 1985, the success of the album led to Moyet receiving her first Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist. Alf also reached No. 1 in New Zealand and would go eight times platinum there. In the United States, the album would prove to be Moyet's most successful commercially, peaking at No. 45. It was later reported by Billboard magazine.

An excellent album from Alison Moyet, Big fan. 7.5/10

The Top 10 Albums of 1985

Position

Artist/s

Title

1	Dire Straits	Brothers In Arms
2	Phil Collins	No Jacket Required
3	Madonna	Like A Virgin
4	Bruce Springsteen	Born In The USA
5	Tears For Fears	Songs From The Big Chair
6	Various Artists	Now That's What I Call Music 6
7	Various Artists	Now The Christmas Album
8	Various Artists	Now That's What I Call Music 5
9	Paul Young	Secret Of Association
10	Various Artists	The Hits Album 2

As featured on The Hits Album 10

As featured on The Hits Album 10

The Hits Album 10 -Released 1989

Tracks

Side One
Bangles	Eternal Flame
Donna Summer	This Time I Know It's For Real
Kon Kan	I Beg Your Pardon
Coldcut & Lisa Stansfield	People Hold On
The Four Tops	Indestructable
Boy Meets Girl	Waiting For A Star To Fall
London Boys	Requiem (Hamburg Edit)
Fuzzbox	Pink Sunshine
Side Two
Simply Red	If You Don't Know Me By Now
De La Soul	Me, Myself & I
Robert Howard & Kim Mazelle	Wait
Bobby Brown	Don't Be Cruel
Ten City	That's The Way Love Is
The Funky Worm	You + Me = Love
Jomanda	Make My Body Rock
Pat & Mick	I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet
Side Three
Mike & The Mechanics	The Living Years
Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine	Can't Stay Away From You
Luther Vandross	Come Back
Alyson Williams	SleepTalk
Rick Astley	Hold Me In Your Arms
1927	That's When I Think Of You
Aretha Franklin & Elton John	Through The Storm
Side Four
Deacon Blue	Wages Day
Guns 'N' Roses	Sweet Child O' Mine
Will To Power	Baby I Love Your Way (Freebird)
Johnny Nash	I Can See Clearly Now (Remix)
The The	The Beat(en) Generation
Pop Will Eat Itself	Wise Up! Sucker
Roachford	Cuddly Toy
Beatmasters With Merlin	Who's In The House (The Nip House Anthem)
Edelweiss	Bring Me Edelweiss

A list of the No1 single of this week in The 80s

1980

Blondie- The Tide Is High

1981

Police- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

1982

Eddy Grant- I Don't Wanna Dance

1983

Billy Joel- Uptown Girl

1984

Chaka Khan- I Feel For You

1985

Feargal Sharkey- A Good Heart

1986

Berlin- Take My Breath Away

1987

T'Pau- China In Your Hand

1988

Robin Beck- First Time

1989

Lisa Stansfield- All Around The World

The Top 10 Selling Albums of 1984

Position

Artist/s

Title

1	Lionel Richie	Can't Slow Down
2	Various Artists	The Hits Album 1
3	Bob Marley & The Wailers	Legend
4	Wham!	Make It Big
5	Various Artists	Now That's What I Call Music 3
6	Michael Jackson	Thriller
7	Sade	Diamond Life
8	Frankie Goes To Hollywood	Welcome To The Pleasuredome
9	Billy Joel	An Innocent Man
10	Various Artists	Now That's What I Call Music 4

Wheel of Fortune (1988)

Wheel of Fortune was a British television game show based on the American show of the same name created by Merv Griffin. Contestants compete to solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes. The title refers to the show's giant carnival wheel that contestants spin throughout the course of the game to determine their cash and/or prizes. The programme aired between 19 July 1988 and 21 December 2001 and was produced by Scottish Television (STV) for the ITV network - having effectively replaced Now You See It as STV's prime time game show offering for the ITV network. It mostly follows the same general format from the original version of the programme from the United States, with a few minor differences.

Unlike the American version, where the numbers on the wheel correspond to the amount of money won by each contestant, the British version instead referred to these amounts as 'points' – they had no cash value, their only purpose was to determine the grand finalist, or to choose a winner for a particular round. There was a reason for this; between 1960 and 1992, the Independent Broadcasting Authority and for the last two years its successor the Independent Television Commission imposed caps on the top prize game shows could give away per week, and standardising the prize on offer per episode ensured the program did not breach the set limits and be forced off the air for that reason like The Price Is Right had been in 1984. Points earned from all players carried on to proceeding rounds, and only scores for the current round were susceptible to Bankrupts, meaning a winner could be crowned that never solved a puzzle, but acquired a large amount of points. This rule would actually encourage sacrificing a player's turn if he or she didn't know the puzzle rather than risking his or her points by spinning again.

As featured on the Hits Album 9

As featured on the Hits Album 9

The Hits Album 9 -Released 1988

Tracks

Side One
Bros	Cat Amongst The Pigeons
A-Ha	You Are The One (Remix)
Kim Wilde	Never Trust A Stranger
Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine	1 2 3
Debbie Gibson	Foolish Beat
The Pasadenas	Enchanted Lady
Prince	I Wish You Heaven
Side Two
Enya	Orinoco Flow
Chris De Burgh	Missing You
Fairground Attraction	Find My Love
Deacon Blue	Real Gone Kid
Everything But The Girl	I Don't Want To Talk About It
Tanita Tikaram	Twist In My Sobriety
Robbie Robertson	Somewhere Down The Crazy River
Side Three
Yazz	Stand Up For Your Love Rights
Matt Bianco	Wap Bam Boogie
Royal House	Can You Party
The Funky Worm	The Spell
Kraze	The Party
Samantha Fox	Love House
Karyn White	The Way You Love Me
Rick Astley	She Wants To Dance With Me
Side Four
Whitney Houston	One Moment In Time
Bill Withers	Lovely Day
Alexander O'Neal	Fake '88
The Bangles	In Your Room
Angry Anderson	Suddenly
Londonbeat	9:00 AM
Proclaimers	Sunshine On Leith
Chris Rea	Driving Home For Christmas

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Rare version of her original work, copied by others (Michael Bolton), but never bettered. A true performance, classic.

One Upon A Time- Simple Minds (1985)

Once Upon a Time is the seventh studio album by Scottish pop rock band Simple Minds, released in October 1985 by record label Virgin (A&M in the US).

The record paired the group with music producer Jimmy Iovine. He had worked with artists featuring an aggressive guitar-based sound, including singer-songwriters Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Nicks, and he brought that approach to the band. Iovine particularly pushed frontman Jim Kerr, aiming for more energetic sounding vocals.

Although already successful in their native U.K. and various countries in Europe and Oceania, Simple Minds had also recently become popular in the U.S., mainly due to the Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff-penned "Don't You (Forget About Me)". That track appeared on The Breakfast Clubsoundtrack and had become a #1 hit there. However, the band deliberately left the track off the album due to their reluctance to record it. Still, the bombastic pop rock sound proved influential in the construction of much of Once Upon a Time, particularly the arena-friendly single "Alive and Kicking". Once Upon a Timealso shared many influences with their previous studio album, Sparkle in the Rain, which explored a similar songwriting style.

Tracks-

Side A

• 1. "Once Upon a Time" 5:45
• 2. "All the Things She Said" 4:15
• 3. "Ghost Dancing" 4:45
• 4. "Alive and Kicking" 5:26

Side B

• 5. "Oh Jungleland" 5:14
• 6. "I Wish You Were Here" 4:42
• 7. "Sanctify Yourself" 4:57
• 8. "Come a Long Way" 5:07

An excellent album from an excellent group, one of the biggest bands of the decade, Simple Minds. 8.5/10

As featured on The Hits Album 8

As featured on The Hits Album 8

The Hits Album 8- Released 1988

Tracks

Side One
A-Ha	Stay On These Roads
Eighth Wonder	I'm Not Scared
Michael Jackson & The Jackson Five	I Want You Back '88
Five Star	Another Weekend
Bros	I Owe You Nothing
Tiffany	I Saw Him Standing There
Taylor Dayne	Tell It To My Heart
Desireless	Voyage Voyage
Side Two
The Pasadenas	Tribute (Right On)
Matt Bianco	Don't Blame It On That Girl
Taja Sevelle	Love Is Contagious (Edit)
Pebbles	Girlfriend
Rose Royce	Car Wash
Whitney Houston	Love Will Save The Day
Glen Goldsmith	What You See Is What You Get
Luther Vandross	I Gave It Up (When I Fell In Love)
Side Three
Aztec Camera	Somewhere In My Heart
Prefab Sprout	The King Of Rock & Roll
Fairground Attraction	Perfect
Fleetwood Mac	Everywhere
Cher	I Found Someone
Sade	Paradise
Terence Trent D'Arby	Sign Your Name
Alexander O'Neal	The Lovers
Side Four
Eurythmics	You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart
Aswad	Don't Turn Around
S-Express	Theme From S-Express
Debbie Gibson	Shake Your Love
Erasure	Chains Of Love
Ofra Haza	Im Nin' Alu
The Primitives	Crash
The Sisters Of Mercy	Lucretia My Reflection
The Jesus & Mary Chain	Sidewalking

Belinda Carlisle- Circle InThe Sand (1988)

Rio- Duran Duran (1982)

Rio is the second studio album by English new wave/synthpop band Duran Duran, originally released worldwide on 10 May 1982. It reached #2 in the UK and #1 in Australia.

The album was re-released in the United States in November 1982. It earned a Gold disc on 1 March 1983, and went Platinum on 26 April 1983, eventually reaching Double Platinum status. It peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 album chart in the US on 12 March 1983, and remained on the chart for 129 weeks.

The first song to be recorded for Rio was "My Own Way", written and recorded in October 1981, and released as a single in November 1981. The rest of the album was recorded in the early months of 1982 at Air Studios in London, with producer and engineer Colin Thurston. "My Own Way" was re-recorded for the album and the newer version is significantly different from the 1981 single version.

The second single, "Hungry Like the Wolf", was released in the UK on 4 May 1982. It peaked at #5 in the charts on 26 June 1982.

The Rio album was first released worldwide on 10 May 1982, peaking at #2 in the UK in its second week of release. The image on the album's distinctive purple cover was painted by artist Patrick Nagel. The cover itself was designed by Malcolm Garrett.

John Taylor takes credit for the title. "[It] was something I had thrown into the mix," he recalled in 2012. He was particularly fascinated with the idea of Brazil, and "Rio, to me, was shorthand for the truly foreign, the exotic, a cornucopia of earthly delights, a party that would never stop."

The band had their own plans and ambitions for promotion. They reunited with director Russell Mulcahy (who had directed the music video for their first single, "Planet Earth"), and planned the release of a full length video album—eleven videos for the best songs off of the Duran Duran and Rio albums. The band travelled to Sri Lanka and Antigua between tour dates to film the memorable videos for the singles "Rio", "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Save a Prayer", as well as the lesser-known "Lonely in Your Nightmare" and "Night Boat" — the latter video being a creepy zombiefest set on a deserted island.

While filming the videos, guitarist Andy Taylor contracted a tropical virus and was hospitalised on his return to England. This forced the delay of the band's European tour, and the record company decided to hold the release of the third single until the band was ready to promote it again.

"Save a Prayer" was finally released on 9 August 1982, and peaked at #2 on the UK charts in mid September 1982. On 1 November 1982, the "Rio" single was released worldwide. It peaked at #9 in the UK in December 1982.

Not a huge Duran Duran fan, in fact not even a fan, but quality always shines through and no-one can deny this is a uality album. But for me it's 7.5/10

Tracks-

Side one

1. "Rio" – 5:33
2. "My Own Way" – 4:51
3. "Lonely in Your Nightmare" – 3:50
4. "Hungry Like the Wolf" – 3:41
5. "Hold Back the Rain" – 3:59

Side two

1. "New Religion" – 5:31
2. "Last Chance on the Stairway" – 4:21
3. "Save a Prayer" – 5:33
4. "The Chauffeur" – 5:10

First Blood (1982)

Upon returning to the United States, Vietnam veteran John Rambo has difficulty adjusting to civilian life and wanders the country as a drifter for almost a decade. In December 1981, Rambo travels to a small town in Washington, in search of a fellow U.S. Army Green Beret buddy. He learns that his friend died from cancer the previous summer due to exposure to Agent Orange.

He attempts to find a diner in town, and maybe a temporary job. The overconfident town sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy) does not welcome Rambo, judging the military hero negatively because of his long hair and scruffy look. Rambo disobeys the sheriff's order to stay away from town, as he has done nothing wrong to the community and he believes such banishment to be a violation of his freedom of movement, and is promptly charged for vagrancy and subject to harassment from the deputies.

The harassment triggers flashbacks of Rambo's traumatic memories of his torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese when he was a prisoner of war. Rambo fights his way out of the sheriff's department with his bare hands and makes his way into the wilderness. A manhunt ensues, with the sheriff and his deputies all badly wounded. Rambo chooses not to kill any of them, but unintentionally kills a police officer in self-defense by throwing a rock at a helicopter, causing the pilot to lose control and an officer to fall out. The State Police and National Guard are called in.

Colonel Samuel Trautman (Richard Crenna), Rambo’s former commanding officer, arrives. He suggests giving Rambo a chance to escape; if Rambo is allowed to slip away, he'll be given time to calm down and he can be arrested without incident. The authorities reject Trautman's recommendation and continue the manhunt, and Rambo's subsequent rampage culminates in the destruction of the sheriff's office and more of the town's main street. Rambo stands poised to eliminate the sheriff, but Trautman finally confronts Rambo face-to-face, and ultimately convinces his former soldier to surrender to the authorities.

Between the first and second films, Rambo is convicted and remanded to a civilian maximum-security prison where heavy duty labor is the norm. Despite being a convict, the rigid routine and discipline of prison life provides Rambo with some measure of much-needed stability, as it reminds him of his past in the military and its own rigid hierarchy.

First Blood (also know as Rambo and Rambo: First Blood) is a 1982 American action thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff. It was co-written by and starred Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled and misunderstood Vietnam veteran who must rely on his combat and survival senses against the abusive law enforcement of a small town. It is based on David Morrell's 1972 novel of the same name and is the first installment of the Rambo film series. Brian Dennehy and Richard Crenna also appear in supporting roles.

The film was released in the United States on October 22, 1982. Despite initial mixed reviews, the film was a box office success, grossing $125.2 million at the box office. Since its release, First Blood has received reappraisal from critics, with many praising the roles of Stallone, Dennehy, and Crenna, and recognizing it as an influential film in the action genre. The film's success spawned a franchise, consisting of three sequels (all of which were co-written by and starred Stallone), an animated series, comic books, novels, and a Bollywood remake. A fifth film, tentatively titled Rambo: Last Stand, was cancelled in January 2016 when Stallone stated that he was retiring the character.[4] In May 2018, a revised fifth film titled Rambo V: Last Blood[5] was announced, and is scheduled for a fall 2019 release.

Awesome film which kickstarted the "Macho Tough Guy" movie genre of The 80s with Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis all at the top of their game with bug budget blockbusting movies, how we all miss those days. 8.5/10

Cast

Just Good Friends TV Show (1983-1986)

Just Good Friends is a British sitcom written by John Sullivan. It starred Paul Nicholas and Jan Francis as former lovers Vincent Pinner and Penny Warrender, who meet in a pub five years after he jilted her at the altar.

Three series and a 90-minute Christmas special were produced for the BBC by Ray Butt. In 2004, it came 43rd in Britain's Best Sitcom.

Writer John Sullivan had previously written two successful sitcoms for the BBC, Citizen Smith and Only Fools and Horses. The lead roles in these series had all been male, and Sullivan felt he should base his new sitcom around a woman. His source of inspiration was a letter in a magazine read to him by his wife, written by a woman who had been jilted by her fiancé on the day of her wedding.

According to a 2007 Comedy Connections documentary on Just Good Friends, Sullivan was originally motivated to create the character by Cheryl Hall, the co-star of Citizen Smith. Hall complained that Sullivan was incapable of writing comedy for women, always giving the best of his material to the male characters. Sullivan was stung by the remark because, in his words, "she was absolutely right", and deliberately set out to create a strong and funny female lead.

Jan Francis, who had played Lisa Colbert in Secret Army, was cast as Penny, and established theatre actor Paul Nicholas was chosen to play Vincent, although this was his first major television role. Being a notable singer, Nicholas also performed the title theme song, written by John Sullivan and arranged by Ronnie Hazlehurst. For the end title music, Hazlehurst arranged the theme for flugelhorn.

A really enjoyable, funny show that was a joy to watch each week, the cast was amazingly funny and believable. 8/10

Cast-

• Paul Nicholas as Vincent Pinner
• Jan Francis as Penny Warrender
• John Ringham as Norman Warrender
• Sylvia Kay as Daphne Warrender
• Shaun Curry as Les Pinner
• Ann Lynn as Rita Pinner (Series 2 onwards)
• Adam French as Clifford Pinner

Recurring

• Charlotte Seely as Georgina "Gina" Marshall, Vince's wife (Series 3)
• Colette Gleeson as Elaine, Penny's friend and co-worker
• James Lister as Lennie, Vince's friend
• Bill Wallis as A.J. Styles, Penny's boss
• Sally Faulkner as Bev, Vince's secretary (Series 3)
• Andrew Tourell as Graham Pratt, Penny's husband

Slippery When Wet- Bon Jovi (1987)

After two moderately successful albums, the group changed their approach and hired professional songwriter Desmond Child as a collaborator. Bruce Fairbairn was chosen to produce and, in early 1986, Bon Jovi moved to Vancouver, Canada to spend six months recording a third album. They named it Slippery When Wet after visiting a strip club in Vancouver.

"We were getting a lot of hassle from everyone around us to make the perfect third album," Jon Bon Jovi recalled. "We kept being told that it had to sell, or the band's career would stall."

On August 16, 1986, Slippery When Wet was released. It spent eight weeks atop the Billboard 200.

Slippery… was named 1987's top-selling album by Billboard "Livin' On A Prayer" won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Stage Performance. The band won an award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band at the American Music Awards and an award for Favorite Rock Group at the People's Choice Awards. When Slippery When Wet was released in August 1986, Bon Jovi was the support act for 38 Special.

By the end of 1986, Bon Jovi were well into six months of headline dates in arenas across America. In August 1987, they headlined England's Monsters of Rock festival. During their set, Dee Snider, Bruce Dickinson and Paul Stanley guested to perform "We're an American Band". The band ended the year having headlined 130 shows in the "Tour Without End", grossing $28,400,000. Asked what this breakthrough to worldwide fame meant, Jon Bon Jovi said, "Everything is bigger, and it moves twice as fast. You're recognized twice as often. This is bigger, the whole world gets bigger. You have to sell more records, be huger. You get smarter and you understand the business a little more, so it's more responsibility. You understand it now, and you want to make sure everything goes right".

An amazing album 8/10

Tracks

Side one

1. "Let It Rock" Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora 5:26

2. "You Give Love a Bad Name" Bon Jovi, Sambora, Desmond Child 3:43

3. "Livin' on a Prayer" Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child 4:09

4. "Social Disease" Bon Jovi, Sambora 4:18

5. "Wanted Dead or Alive" Bon Jovi, Sambora 5:09 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Length

6. "Raise Your Hands" Bon Jovi, Sambora 4:17

7. "Without Love" Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child 3:31

8. "I'd Die for You" Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child 4:31

9. "Never Say Goodbye" Bon Jovi, Sambora 4:49

10. "Wild in the Streets" Bon Jovi 3:56

As featured on The Hits Album 7

As featured on The Hits Album 7

The Hits Album 7 -Released 1987

Tracks

Side One
Bee Gees	You Win Again
Rick Astley	Never Gonna Give You Up
Terence Trent D'Arby	Wishing Well
Five Star	Strong As Steel
Spagna	Call Me
Beastie Boys	She's On It
Full Metal Jacket	I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor
Shakin' Stevens	What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For
Side Two
Fleetwood Mac	Little Lies
Alexander O' Neal	Criticize
Prince	U Got The Look
Donna Summer	Dinner With Gershwin
Levert	Casanova
Pseudo Echo	Funky Town
Eric B & Rakim	Paid In Full
Chic	Jack Le Freak (Edit)
Side Three
A-Ha	The Living Daylights
Wax	Bridge To Your Heart
Scarlet Fantastic	No Memory
The Jesus & Mary Chain	Darklands
The Sisters Of Mercy	This Corrosion
House Master & Rude Boyz	House Nation
Desireless	Voyage Voyage
Nina Simone	My Baby Just Cares For Me
Side Four
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes	(I've Had) The Time Of My Life
Atlantic Starr	Always
Luther Vandross	So Amazing
Whitney Houston	Didn't We Almost Have It All
Ray Parker Jnr	I Don't Think That Man Should Sleep Alone
L L Cool J	I Need Love
Kenny G	Songbird
Simply Red	Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye

 

Suzanne Vega 

Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer, best known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.

Vega's music career spans more than 30 years. She came to prominence in the mid 1980s, releasing four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, including "Marlene on the Wall", "Left of Center", "Luka" and "No Cheap Thrill". "Tom's Diner," which was originally released as an acappella recording on Vega's second album, Solitude Standing, was remixed in 1990 as a dance track by English electronic duo DNA with Vega as featured artist, and it became a Top 10 hit in over five countries. The song was used as a test during the creation of the MP3 format.

Vega has released nine studio albums to date, the latest of which is Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers, released in 2016.

Solitude Standing was an excellent album, Luka and Tom’s Diner were great songs but sadly Suzanne drifted out of focus thereafter and was largely forgotten about. Still, class always shines through.

 I was a big fan and would award Suzanne Vega 6/10

Honey I Shrunk The Kids (1989)

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 American comic science fiction film. The directorial debut of Joe Johnston and produced by Walt Disney Pictures, it tells the story of an inventor who accidentally shrinks his and his neighbor's kids to a quarter of an inch with his electromagnetic shrinking machine and accidentally throws them out with the trash, where they must venture into their backyard to return home while fending off insects and other obstacles.

Rick Moranis stars as Wayne Szalinski, the inventor who accidentally shrinks his children, Amy (Amy O'Neill) and Nick (Robert Oliveri). Marcia Strassman portrays his wife, Diane, to whom he delivers the titular line. Matt Frewer, Kristine Sutherland, Thomas Wilson Brown, and Jared Rushton star as Russ, Mae, Russ Jr., and Ron Thompson, the Szalinskis' next-door neighbors.

The film became an unexpected box office success, grossing in excess of $222 million worldwide, and became the highest-grossing live-action Disney film ever, a record it held for five years. It was met with positive reviews from both critics and audiences, who praised the story, visuals and innovation. Its success spawned two sequels Honey, I Blew Up the Kid in 1992 and the direct-to-video Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves in 1997, which both received mixed critical reception, as well as leading to the creation of a TV show that ran from 1997 to 2000.

Another 80s movie ahead of its time 7/10

• Rick Moranis as Wayne Szalinski
• Matt Frewer as Russell 'Russ' Thompson, Sr.
• Marcia Strassman as Diane Szalinski
• Kristine Sutherland as Mae Thompson
• Thomas Wilson Brown as Russell 'Russ' Thompson, Jr.
• Jared Rushton as Ronald 'Ron' Thompson
• Amy O'Neill as Amy Szalinski
• Robert Oliveri as Nick 'Nicky' Szalinski
• Carl Steven as Tommy Pervis
• Mark L. Taylor as Don Forrester
• Kimmy Robertson as Gloria Forrester
• Lou Cutell as Dr. Brainard
• Laura Waterbury as Female Cop
• Trevor Galtress as Male Cop
• Martin Aylett as Harold Boorstein
• Janet Sunderland as Lauren Boorstein
• Craig Richard Nelson as Prof. Frederickson (uncredited)
• Frank Welker as Special Vocal Effects (voice)
• Isabel Del Puerto

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American live-action/animated fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. The film is based on Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?. The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, and Joanna Cassidy. Combining live-action and animation, the film is set in Hollywood during the late 1940s, where animated characters and people co-exist. The story follows Eddie Valiant, a private detective who must exonerate "Toon" (i.e. cartoon character) Roger Rabbit, who is accused of murdering a wealthy businessman.

Walt Disney Pictures purchased the film rights for Who Framed Roger Rabbit's story in 1981. Price and Seaman wrote two drafts of the script before Disney brought in executive producer Steven Spielberg, and his production company, Amblin Entertainment. Zemeckis was brought on to direct the film, and Canadian animator Richard Williams was hired to supervise the animation sequences. Production was moved from Los Angeles to Elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams and his group of animators. While filming, the production budget began to rapidly expand and the shooting schedule ran longer than expected.

Disney released the film through its Touchstone Pictures division on June 22, 1988, to critical and commercial success, becoming a blockbuster. The film brought a renewed interest in the Golden Age of American animation, spearheading modern American animation and the Disney Renaissance. [6]

In 2016, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

Stunning movie, even now 7.5/10

Cast-

T. J. Hooker TV Show (1982-1985)

T. J. Hooker is an American police drama television program starring William Shatner in the title role as a 15-year veteran police sergeant. The series premiered as a mid-season replacement on March 13, 1982, on ABC and ran on the network until May 4, 1985. The show was then picked up for a further single season by CBS.

The supporting cast includes Adrian Zmed as rookie Officer Vince Romano; April Clough as Officer Vicki Taylor (Season 1 only), replaced by Heather Locklear as rookie Officer Stacy Sheridan (season 2 onwards); and Richard Herd as Captain Dennis Sheridan, portraying officers in the fictional "LCPD" Police Department Academy Precinct.[1] Toward the end of the show's second season, James Darren became a regular cast member as Officer Jim Corrigan.

The background of Sergeant Thomas Jefferson "T.J." Hooker is that he, up until recently, was a plainclothes LCPD Detective Sergeant whose partner was killed in the line of duty while he and Hooker were trying to stop a bank robbery. An angry Hooker is motivated to rid the streets of criminals like those who murdered his partner, and he gives up his detective position to return to duty as a uniformed beat cop.

In "The Protectors," the series' pilot/TV movie, Hooker, back in uniform, trains a group of police academy recruits, including those played by Richard Lawson, Brian Patrick Clarke, Kelly Harmon, and Adrian Zmed. Hal Williams plays a senior officer, and Richard Herd makes a brief appearance as Captain Dennis Sheridan, Hooker's tough but understanding superior. During most of the series, Hooker is partnered with brash, sometimes hot-headed young rookie Vince Romano (played by Zmed). Hooker acts as his mentor both professionally and socially. The age difference generally being the key hook of the partnership, the pair quickly became fast friends and a good team.

Outside of his work, Hooker is divorced as a result of his work putting a strain on his marriage, but he is friendly with his ex-wife Fran, a nurse. A ladies' man, Hooker is still trying to adjust to being single again. Lee Bryant was the original actress to portray Fran; the part is later played by Leigh Christian.

Watchable 5/10

Main cast

• William Shatner as Sergeant Thomas Jefferson "T. J." Hooker
• Adrian Zmed as Officer Vincent "Vince" Romano (Seasons 1–4)
• April Clough as Officer Vicki Taylor (Season 1)
• Heather Locklear as Officer Stacy Sheridan (Seasons 2–5)
• Richard Herd as Captain Dennis Sheridan (main cast Seasons 1–2, occasional special guest star Seasons 3–4)
• James Darren as Officer Jim Corrigan (Seasons 2–5)

Top 10 Best Selling Albums of 1983

Position

Artist/s

Title

1	Michael Jackson	Thriller
2	David Bowie	Let's Dance
3	Culture Club	Colour By Numbers
4	Paul Young	No Parlez
5	Spandau Ballet	One
6	Wham!	Fantastic
7	Men At Work	Business As Usual
8	The Police	Synchronicity
9	Genesis	Genesis
10	Eurythmics	Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

As featured on The Hits Album 6

As featurd on The Hits Album 6

The Hits Album 6 -Released 1987

Tracks

Side One
Whitney Houston	I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
George Michael & Aretha Franklin	I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
Terence Trent D'Arby	If You Let Me Stay
Club Nouveau	Lean On Me
Five Star	The Slightest Touch
Donna Allen	Serious
George Michael	I Want Your Sex
Mel & Kim	Respectable
Side Two
Starship	Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now
Alison Moyet	Weak In The Presence Of Beauty
Chris Rea	Let's Dance
Whitesnake	Is This Love
Fleetwood Mac	Big Love
Carly Simon	Coming Around Again
Errol Brown	Personal Touch
John Farnham	You're The Voice
Side Three
Madonna	La Isla Bonita
Bruce Willis	Under The Boardwalk
Living In A Box	Living In A Box
Curiosity Killed The Cat	Ordinary Day
Level 42	To Be With You Again
Echo & The Bunnymen	The Game
The Jesus & Mary Chain	April Skies
Marillion	Incommunicado
Side Four
Labi Siffre	Something Inside (So Strong)
Elkie Brookes	No More The Fool
Johnny Logan	Hold Me Now
Judy Boucher	Can't Be With You Tonight
Wet Wet Wet	Wishing I Was Lucky
Johnny Hates Jazz	Shattered Dreams
Pepsi & Shirlie	Goodbye Stranger
The Firm	Star Trekkin'

Top 10 Best Selling Albums of 1982

Position

Artist/s

Title

1	Barbra Streisand	Love Songs
2	The Kids From Fame	The Kids From Fame
3	Madness	Complete Madness
4	ABC	Lexicon Of Love
5	Duran Duran	Rio
6	John Lennon	The John Lennon Collection
7	Dire Straits	Love Over Gold
8	Haircut One Hundred	Pelican West
9	The Human League	Dare
10	Roxy Music	Avalon

 

 

WarGames (1983)

WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham.

The film stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy. The film follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), a United States military supercomputer originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, believing it to be a computer game.

The computer, now tied into the nuclear weapons control system and unable to tell the difference between simulation and reality, attempts to start World War III.

The film was a box office success, costing $12 million and grossing $79 million after five months in the United States and Canada. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards. A sequel, WarGames: The Dead Code, was released direct to DVD in 2008.

During a surprise drill of a nuclear attack, many United States Air Force Strategic Missile Wing controllers prove unwilling to turn the key required to launch a missile strike. Such refusals convince John McKittrick and other systems engineers at NORAD that missile launch control centers must be automated, without human intervention. Control is given to a NORAD supercomputer, WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), programmed to continuously run war simulations and learn over time.

One of my all time favourites 8/10

Cast-

• Matthew Broderick as David Lightman
• Dabney Coleman as Dr. John McKittrick
• John Wood as Dr. Stephen Falken and the voice of Joshua/WOPR
• Ally Sheedy as Jennifer Mack
• Barry Corbin as General Jack Beringer
• Juanin Clay as Pat Healy
• Dennis Lipscomb as Watson
• Joe Dorsey as Col. Joe Conley
• Michael Ensign as Beringer's assistant
• William Bogert as Mr. Lightman
• John Spencer as Capt. Jerry Lawson
• Michael Madsen as Lt. Steve Phelps
• Alan Blumenfeld as Mr. Liggett
• Maury Chaykin as Jim Sting
• Eddie Deezen as Malvin
• Art LaFleur as Guard (Sgt. Ginzberg)
• Stack Pierce as Airman
• Stephen Lee as Sgt. Schneider
• Jesse D. Goins as Sergeant (as Jesse Goins)
• James Ackerman as Joshua Falken

The Lexicon of Love- ABC

The Lexicon of Love is the debut studio album by English pop band ABC.

It was originally released in June 1982, on the labels Neutron, Mercury and Vertigo. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number-one and has been certified Platinum by the BPI. It features four UK Top 20 hit singles, including "Tears Are Not Enough", "Poison Arrow", "The Look of Love" and "All of My Heart".

Though not a concept album, the album features repeated themes in which the singer experiences heartache as he tries and fails to have a meaningful relationship. A longform music video/film, Mantrap, featuring songs from the album was released in 1983.

The album was produced by Trevor Horn, engineered by Gary Langan and features orchestrations by Anne Dudley and Fairlight CMI programming by J. J. Jeczalik; Horn, Langan, Dudley and Jeczalik would later form the Art of Noisea year after the release of this album. Indeed, most of the production team and session players on the album would form the basis for the ZTT label, and their work with Horn meant all concerned would be in constant demand throughout the industry in years to come.

"Tears Are Not Enough" (in its initial release produced by Steve Brown), "All of My Heart", "Poison Arrow" and "The Look of Love (Part One)" were all Top 20 hits in the UK; the latter two also charted in the US, peaking at No. 25 and No. 18, respectively. The album reached No. 1 on the UK charts and peaked at No. 24 in the US charts.

ABC’s best album 6.5/10

Tracks-

Side one

1. "Show Me"

2. "Poison Arrow"

3. "Many Happy Returns"

4. "Tears Are Not Enough”

5. "Valentine's Day"

Side two

6. "The Look of Love" (Part One)

7. "Date Stamp"

8. "All of My Heart"

9. "4 Ever 2 Gether"

10. "The Look of Love" (Part Four)

The Kids From Fame

Kids from Fame was an American television series that ran from 1982 to 1987. The show was based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name that tells the stories of the students and faculty at the "New York City High School for the Performing Arts."

The show was produced by MGM Television and was first broadcast on the NBC television network in the U.S. and on the BBC in the United Kingdom. NBC cancelled the series in 1983, but the show continued for an additional four seasons in syndication.

The popularity of the film and television productions was such that its cast members went on the road to perform live concerts.

The show's self-titled theme song was a pop hit for singer Irene Cara, having been the featured piece in the motion picture. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, who currently holds the distribution rights for all MGM television series, released the first season of Fame on DVD on November 1, 2005.

Oh the memories with this show, superb 8/10

Top 10 Best Selling Albums of 1981

Position

Artist/s

Title

1	Adam & The Ants	Kings Of The Wild Frontier
2	Queen	Greatest Hits
3	Phil Collins	Face Value
4	Shakin' Stevens	Shaky
5	The Police	Ghost In The Machine
6	Cliff Richard	Love Songs
7	Human League	Dare
8	John Lennon	Double Fantasy
9	Neil Diamond	Jazz Singer
10	Starsound	Stars On 45

 

Bananarama

Do you remember Bananarama, a three piece girl group who enjoyed phenomenal success throughout The 80s.

From the early years with The Fun Boy Three, to their later success with Stock, Aitken & Waterman, this group had it all.

Favourite song was Robert De Niro’s Waiting with Love In The First Degree a close second.

They have placed ten singles in the top-ten of the UK singles chart to date, as well as three U.S. top-ten hits, one of which hit number one. Some of their biggest international hits include "Cruel Summer", "Venus", and "I Heard a Rumour".

To this day, I have no idea where they got there name from, still one of the most successful groups of The 80s.

Out of 10, I give Bananarama a well deserved 8.5

The Cannonball Run (1981)

The Cannonball Run is a 1981 American-Hong Kong comedy film starring Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, and an all-star supporting cast. Filmed in Panavision, it was directed by Hal Needham, produced by Hong Kong's Golden Harvest films, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film is based on the 1979 running of an actual cross-country outlaw road race beginning in Connecticut and ending in California.

It was one of 1981's most successful films at the box office. It was followed by Cannonball Run II (1984), and Speed Zone (1989). This and the 1984 sequel were the final film appearances of actor Dean Martin.

Not one for me 4/10

Cannonball Run featured an all-star cast, including these actors:

• Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise as racer J.J. McClure and his buddy, mechanic Victor Prinzi, a.k.a. "Captain Chaos."
• Roger Moore as Seymour Goldfarb, Jr., a self-parody of his role as James Bond. His car, an Aston Martin DB5, displays the UK registration plate 6633 PP, same as the one in the Bond films Goldfinger and Thunderball., although Moore's Bond never actually drove an Aston Martin in any of his seven Bond appearances. (The original UK registration plate was BMT 216A before being sold to businessman Gavin Keyzar.) Molly Picon portrays his mother. Several women ride with Seymour, including model Lois Hamilton, billed as Lois Areno.
• Farrah Fawcett as tree-loving photographer Pamela Glover. J.J. calls her "Beauty."
• Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. as race car driver Jamie Blake and scam artist Morris Fenderbaum, disguised as Catholic priests. Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder plays himself as Fenderbaum bets on his success. (Snyder was Dean Martin's neighbor when both were growing up in Steubenville, Ohio.) Blake's car, a Ferrari 308 GTS 1979, is the same as the model in the TV series TV Magnum, P.I..
• George Furth as Arthur J. Foyt, the uptight main antagonist of the film, who tries to have the race stopped.
• Jackie Chan and Michael Hui as drivers of a Subaru GL filled with gadgets. In the opening part of the film, Chan and Hui are introduced on a talk show (hosted by Johnny Yune) as the operators of Japan's entry into the race. (Both Chan and Hui were actually Chinese; furthermore, the credits mistakenly credit the two as "Mitsubishi Driver(s).")
• Jamie Farr as Sheik Abdul ben Falafel, a wealthy Arabian potentate determined to win the race, even if he has to buy it. Bianca Jagger makes a brief appearance as his sister. Farr's car is a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. This is the only character to appear in all three films in the Cannonball Run movie continuum.
• Mel Tillis and Terry Bradshaw are Mel and Terry, a couple of "good ol' boys" driving a thinly-disguised Chevrolet Malibu NASCAR Grand National race car, resembling the Hoss Ellington No. 1 Hawaiian Tropic car Donnie Allison drove in 1979, most famously in the 1979 Daytona 500 crash that led to the famous fight.
• Adrienne Barbeau and Tara Buckman as Marcie Thatcher and Jill Rivers, satin-Spandex-clad "hotties" in a black Lamborghini Countach. The same Lamborghini was used in the movie's opening credits as it was being pursued by a Nevada Highway Patrol car. Valerie Perrine has an uncredited cameo as a state trooper. (Their character names are not mentioned during the story, but appear in the end credits. Their names return in the sequel, though the parts were re-cast.)
• Peter Fonda has a cameo role referencing his character in The Wild Angels. The appearance of Fonda and his motorcycle gang during a halt in the race offered an excuse for Chan to demonstrate his martial arts skills during the fight sequence. Fonda's big, bald biker buddy is played by Robert Tessier.
• Bert Convy as wealthy but bored executive Bradford Compton, who planned to run the Cannonball by motorcycle with the help of an old friend, Shakey Finch (Warren Berlinger), once the world's greatest cross-country motorcyclist. The two planned to disguise themselves as newlyweds. His ally weighed heavily, forcing them into a wheelie for the entire race.
• Jack Elam as Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing, same name as the famous vampire hunter. This Van Helsing is a proctologist and graduate of the University of Rangoon, and the Knoxville, Tennessee College of Faith Healing.
• Rick Aviles and Alfie Wise as Mad Dog and Batman, tow truck drivers who jump the train flatcar.
• John Fiedler as the desk clerk.
• Joe Klecko as the Polish driver in the van who gets pulled over by Mr. Foyt. (Klecko was a player in the National Football League.)
• Car and Driver Magazine columnist and correspondent Brock Yates, who having created the real-life Cannonball Run, wrote the film directly for the screen, plays the race organizer of who lays down the rules at the starting line.
• Director Hal Needham appears uncredited as the ambulance EMT.
• Veteran Daytona 500 commentator Ken Squier appears as a California Highway Patrolman.
• Veteran voice actor June Foray provided the dubbed dialogue of several of the women who escort Goldfarb in the race ("Seymour's girls," as the opening credits list them) in an uncredited performance.

As featured on The Hits Album 5

As featured on The Hits Album 5

The Hits Album 5 -Released 1986

Tracks

Side One
A-Ha	I've Been Losing You
The Bangles	Walk Like An Egyptian
Don Johnson	Heartbeat
Paul Young	Wonderland
Julian Cope	World Shut Your Mouth
Bruce Hornsby & The Range	The Way It Is
Hollywood Beyond	What's The Colour Of Money
Nick Kamen	Each Time You Break My Heart
Side Two
Paul Simon	You Can Call Me Al
Eurythmics	Thorn In My Side
The Stranglers	Always The Sun
The Pretenders	Don't Get Me Wrong
Five Star	Rain Or Shine
Dead Or Alive	Brand New Lover
Haywoode	Roses
The Real Thing	Straight To The Heart
Side Three
Cyndi Lauper	True Colors
Boris Gardner	You Are Everything To Me
Rod Stewart	Every Beat Of My Heart
Peter Cetera	Glory Of Love
George Michael	A Different Corner
Shakin' Stevens	Beacause I Love You
Whitney Houston	The Greatest Love Of All
Lionel Richie	Love Will Conquer All
Side Four
Red Box	For America
Psychedelic Furs	Heartbreak Beat
Prince & The Revolution	Anotherloverholenyohead
The The	Revolution
Frankie Goes To Hollywood	Rage Hard
Meat Loaf	Rock N Roll Mercanaries
Spandau Ballet	Fight For Ourselves
Robert Palmer	Addicted To Love

 

Top 10 Best Selling Albums of 1980

Position	Artist/s	Title
1	ABBA	Super Trouper
2	The Police	Zenyatta Mondatta
3	Rose Royce	Greatest Hits
4	The Pretenders	Pretenders
5	The Police	Regatta De Blanc
6	Roxy Music	Flesh & Blood
7	Michael Jackson	Off The Wall
8	Genesis	Duke
9	Barbra Streisand	Guilty
10	Sky	Sky 2

 

Rolo Advert from The 80s, just awesome and great advertising gimmick.

The 80s Charts

A list of the No1 singles of this week in The 80s

1980-

Barbra Streisand- Woman In Love

1981-

Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin- It's My Party

1982-

Culture Club- Do You Really Want To Hurt Me

1983-

Billy Joel- Uptown Girl

1984-

Wham!- Freedom

1985-

Jennifer Rush- The Power Of Love

1986-

Berlin- Take My Breath Away

1987-

Bee Gees- You Win Again

1988-

Enya- Orinoco Flow

1989-

Jive Bunny- That's What I Like

Mork & Mindy

Mork & Mindy is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 14, 1978 to May 27, 1982. A spin-off after a highly successful episode of Happy Days, it starred Robin Williams as Mork, an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-Orkan egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate, and later his wife and the mother of his child.

Robin Williams was just awesome in this 8/10

Characters-

Mork (Robin Williams) – An alien from the planet Ork sent to observe human behavior. Mork mentions many times that Orkan scientists grew him in a test-tube.

Mindy McConnell (Pam Dawber) – A pretty female human who finds Mork and teaches him about human behavior. Eventually falls in love, marries Mork and raises an Orkan "child".

Fred McConnell (Conrad Janis) – Mindy's father, a widower with conservative values. In the first season, Fred owned a music shop with Cora. In the third season, Fred became the conductor of the Boulder Symphony Orchestra.

Grandma Cora Hudson[7] (Elizabeth Kerr) – Mindy's less-conservative, progressive grandmother and Fred's mother-in-law.

Franklin Delano Bickley (Tom Poston) – Mindy's downstairs neighbor. He has a job involving writing out greeting cards. At first, he is a total grump and always complains about noise. In time, however, he warms up and becomes a friend to Mork and Mindy and the gang.

Mearth (Jonathan Winters) – The "child" of Mork and Mindy and godson of Orson. Because of Orkan physiology, Orkans age backwards, starting with elderly adult bodies but with the mind of a child and regressing to feeble "old" kids.

Remo DaVinci (Jay Thomas) – The brother of Jeanie DaVinci co-owner of The New York Delicatessen in season 2 and DaVinci's Restaurant in season 3.

Jeanie DaVinci (Gina Hecht) – The sister of Remo DaVinci and co-owner of The New York Delicatessen in season 2 and DaVinci's Restaurant in season 3.

Nelson Flavor (Jim Staahl) – The strait-laced, driven, yet aloof cousin of Mindy with dreams of political power.

Orson (voiced by Ralph James) – Mork's mostly unseen and long-suffering superior who has sent Mork to Earth to get him off-world because humor is not permitted on Ork.

3-2-1

3–2–1 was a British game show that was made by Yorkshire Television for ITV. It ran for ten years, between 29 July 1978 and 24 December 1988, with Ted Rogers as the host.

It was based on a Spanish gameshow called Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez and was a trio of three shows in one: a quiz, variety and a game show. The show was a huge success, consistently pulling in large ratings. The first series, though intended as a summer filler, attracted up to 16.5 million viewers and subsequent years never failed to peak below 12 million. The show occupied a Saturday early evening slot for most of its run.

The final Christmas special, broadcast on 24 December 1988, attracted 12.5 million viewers, but an eleventh series was not commissioned. Ted Rogers claimed in an April 1996 interview that "The Oxbridge lot got control of TV and they didn't really want it. It was too downmarket for them. We were still getting 12 million viewers when they took it off after ten years. These days if a show gets nine million everyone does a lap of honour."

The overall objective of the game was to survive elimination through to part three of the show, and try to unravel a series of cryptic clues in order to win the star prize. One of the clues, however, referred to Dusty Bin who was the show's booby prize. If the contestants ended up with Dusty at the end of the show, all they got was a brand new dustbin. Each show had a theme, such as "Seacruise" or the "Swinging Sixties". All of the variety acts, quiz questions, stage sets and clues subsequently followed this theme. In later series, Dusty would appear at the start of the show dressed in a costume relating to that week's theme.

The changing themes were dropped for the final series where a more generic stage set was re-used each week.

6/10

License to Drive (1988)

License to Drive is a 1988 teen adventure film written by Neil Tolkin and directed by Greg Beeman in his feature film directorial debut. It stars Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Heather Graham, Carol Kane, Richard Masur, Michael Manasseri and Nina Siemaszko. The film was in production in late 1987.

It was released on July 6, 1988 in the United States and grossed over $20 million at the North American box office. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Les Anderson (Corey Haim) is a 16-year-old living in Southern California who tries to get his driver's license and falls in love with Mercedes Lane (Heather Graham). After failing the knowledge portion of his driver's exam, Les inadvertently causes a computer surge. The Department of Motor Vehicles lets him pass the exam as his failing score was thought to be irretrievable, assuming as his twin sister had scored so highly, that twins could not be too different. He eventually also passes the road test, but when his test scores are finally retrieved, his new license is torn up and he is officially failed. Les conceals this, but his mother finds out the truth and he is grounded for two weeks because he lied. That night, having already made plans to use his new license, he sneaks out of the house with his grandfather's prized 1972 Cadillac Sedan de Ville for a night on the town with Mercedes. After showing him how Los Angeles looks from far away on a hill, she tells him that her father used to bring her to the hill. While Mercedes is getting drunk, she and Les cause the hood of the car to slightly cave in by dancing on it. Mercedes then passes out. Les panics and goes to his best friend Dean's house, where Dean (Corey Feldman) fixes the dent in the car's hood. Dean persuades Les to go out for a joyride, along with their friend Charles (Michael Manasseri), who are both still unaware that Les does not have a license. The three, along with a blacked-out Mercedes (who they put in the trunk of the car), end up getting into all kinds of trouble and hilarity ensues as they cause even more damage to the Cadillac. Meanwhile, Les' extremely pregnant mother, late in the night, wakes up her husband, shouting that she is in labour.

A good comedy in its day, 6/10

• Corey Haim as Les Anderson
• Corey Feldman as Dean
• Carol Kane as Mrs. Anderson
• Richard Masur as Mr. Anderson
• Heather Graham as Mercedes Lane
• Michael Manasseri as Charles
• Parley Baer as Grandpa
• Harvey Miller as The Professor
• Michael A. Nickles as Paolo
• Nina Siemaszko as Natalie Anderson
• James Avery as Les' DMV Examiner
• Grant Goodeve as Natalie's DMV Examiner
• Grant Heslov as Karl
• Michael Ensign as School Teacher/Bus Driver
• Helen Hanft as Miss Hellberg
• Christopher Burton as Rudy
• Nanci Meek-Kusley as Shakey's Waitress
• Lewis Carr as Car Park Attendant

Sixteen Candles (1984)

Sixteen Candles is a 1984 American coming-of-age comedy film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall. It was written and directed by John Hughes.

High school sophomore Samantha "Sam" Baker struggles to go through the day on her 16th birthday, which her entire family has forgotten about because her older sister, Ginny, is getting married the next day. She is also infatuated with a popular and attractive senior, Jake Ryan. At school, she fares no better when she finds out that a completed "sex quiz" which she tried to surreptitiously slip to her friend Randy, never reached her and, unbeknownst to either of them, was picked up by Jake. Despite her name not being on the quiz, Sam is still a bit panicked because the quiz contains sensitive information, such as how she is a virgin and is saving herself for Jake. During gym class, Jake opens up to his friend Rock, admitting that he feels like things with his girlfriend Caroline have become stagnant. He also tells him how he thinks it is cool that he keeps catching Sam looking at him. Meanwhile, an outgoing geeky freshman named Ted is in love with Sam. On the school bus ride home, he tries to hit on her, only to have her spurn him with some trash-talk before she gets off. At home, Sam has a whole new set of problems when she discovers that all four of her grandparents are staying at the Baker home during the wedding. One set of grandparents has brought along a bizarre Chinese foreign exchange student, Long Duk Dong. The grandparents force Sam to take him along to her school's senior dance that night and, to Sam's amazement, it takes the "Donger" only five minutes to find an unlikely girlfriend—the tall, large-breasted jock, Marlene.

John Hughes can do no wrong 6.5/10

• Molly Ringwald as Samantha "Sam" Baker
• Michael Schoeffling as Jake Ryan
• Anthony Michael Hall as Ted, aka "Farmer Ted"
• Paul Dooley as Jim Baker
• Carlin Glynn as Brenda Baker
• Justin Henry as Mike Baker
• Haviland Morris as Caroline Mulford
• Blanche Baker as Ginny Baker
• Gedde Watanabe as Long Duk Dong
• Edward Andrews as Grandpa Howard Baker
• Billie Bird as Grandma Dorothy Baker
• Carole Cook as Grandma Helen
• Max Showalter as Grandpa Fred
• Liane Curtis as Randy
• John Cusack as Bryce
• Darren Harris as Cliff (Wease)
• Deborah Pollack as Marlene, aka "Lumberjack"
• Joan Cusack as Geek Girl
• John Kapelos as Rudy Ryszczyk
• Jami Gertz as Robin
• Brian Doyle-Murray as Reverend
• Zelda Rubinstein as Organist

Colour By Numbers- Culture Club

Side one

1. "Karma Chameleon" – 4:12
2. "It's a Miracle" – 3:25
3. "Black Money" – 5:19
4. "Changing Every Day" – 3:17
5. "That's the Way (I'm Only Trying to Help You)" – 2:45

Side two

6. "Church of the Poison Mind" – 3:30
7. "Miss Me Blind" – 4:30
8. "Mister Man" – 3:36
9. "Stormkeeper" – 2:46
10. "Victims" – 4:55

Colour by Numbers is the second album by the British new wave band Culture Club, released in October 1983. Preceded by the hit single "Karma Chameleon", which reached number one in several countries, the album reached number one in the UK and has sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. It has been certified triple platinum in the UK and quadruple platinum in the US. It was ranked #96 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Best Albums of the 1980s.

No a CC fan 6/10

As featured on The Hits Album 4

As featured on The Hits Album 4

The Hits Album 4 -Released 1986

Tracks

Side One
A-Ha	The Sun Always Shines On TV
Feargal Sharkey	A Good Heart
Wham!	I'm Your Man
Bangles	Manic Monday
Madonna	Borderline
The Blow Monkeys	Digging Your Scene
Belouis Some	Imagination
Side Two
Diana Ross	Chain Reaction
Whitney Houston	How Will I Know
Alexander O' Neal	If You Were Here Tonight
Five Star	System Addict
Paul Hardcastle	Don't Waste My Time
Whistle	(Nothing Serious) Just Buggin'
Full Force	Alice, I Want You Just For Me
Side Three
The Damned	Eloise
Fine Young Cannibals	Suspicious Minds
P I L	Rise
Bronski Beat	Hit That Perfect Beat
Eurythmics	It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)
Pet Shop Boys	West End Girls
Mr Mister	Kyrie
Side Four
Double	The Captain Of Her Heart
Latin Quarter	Radio Africa
Mike & The Mechanics	Silent Runnning (On Dangerous Grounds)
Howard Jones	No-one Is To Blame
Dee C Lee	Come Hell Or Waters High
Kate Bush	Hounds Of Love
Electric Light Orchestra	Calling America

True Blue- Madonna

Tracks

True Blue is the third studio album by American singer and songwriter Madonna, released on June 30, 1986, by Sire Records. She co-wrote and co-produced the entire album with Stephen Bray and Patrick Leonard. True Blue deals with her visions of love, work, dreams as well as disappointments, and was inspired by her then husband Sean Penn, to whom Madonna dedicated the album. Musically, the songs on the album took a different direction from her previous endeavours, incorporating classical music in order to engage an older audience who had been skeptical of her music.

Stunning album, Madonna at her best 9/10

 

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