Showing posts with label 80s music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 80s music. Show all posts
July 11, 2025

LIve Aid at 40: Personal Reflections from the Day Pop Music Reached Its Pinnacle: Part 1

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As we reach the 40th anniversary of Live Aid, many articles are being written and CNN is planning a multi-episode documentary about what was...
April 8, 2025

5 Films Hollywood Needs to Get to Work On

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Back in 1990, my friend Steve and I were riding down the New Jersey Turnpike in a rented truck, delivering furniture to his parents' ne...
December 10, 2024

The 80's Will Never Die #5 (Roxette/Repatha)

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  The music in this commercial for Repatha, a drug used to treat high cholestrol, is a cover of the 1988 power ballad "Listen to Your...
May 4, 2024

1984's Breakin' Brought Urban & Inner City Art Forms to the Big Screen

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I have a tremendous memory when it comes to things pop culture related (hence the name of this blog.) So even though it was 40 years ago (to...
March 20, 2024

Great Album Covers: A Momentary Lapse of Reason, Superman & Dookie

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Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason --  unlike many of the band's greater efforts ( The Final Cut, Dark Side of the Moon, The...
December 31, 2023

Happy New Year (from Belinda Carlisle!)

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From the Pop Culture Fiend Archives , here are a couple of rare photos from a 1980's shoot with Belinda Carlisle. Happy 1989 everyone! R...
December 27, 2023

Great Album Covers: Breakfast in America, Big Lizard in My Backyard and She's So Unusual

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The cover for Supertramp's 1979 smash Breakfast in America is nothing short of a masterpiece of composition. It features the view from ...
October 16, 2023

And the Most Beloved (but Embarrassing) Artist of the 80's is... Adam Ant!

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Started an open-ended  discussion on Reddit recently asking which 80's band or artist do/did you love BUT are kind of ashamed to admit....
September 25, 2023

The Pop Culture Fiend Photo Gallery is Finally Here!

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The Pop Culture Fiend Archives includes an extensive collection of popular (and obscure) periodicals dating back as far as the early 1980...
July 24, 2023

40 Years Ago, Risky Business Legitimized Teen Comedy

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With due respect to the John Hughes' classic The Breakfast Club , the most important teen movie of the 1980's may very well be Risky...
August 9, 2022

Farewell Olivia

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This one is a gut punch.  I'll start with this: Olivia Newton-John was... IS... one of the best of all time. The sweet-voiced Australian...