Music of the 1980’s
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Music of the 1980’s
1980 Hit Songs
Rock
with You
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Coming Up
Funkytown
It's
Still Rock and Roll to Me
Lost in Love
Do That to Me
One More Time
Grammy Awards
Sailing:
Christopher Cross-
record
Christopher Cross- Album
Sailing: song
Disco
continued to sell well in
1980 Songs like Blondie's "Call Me"
Diana Ross "Upside Down"
Irene Cara "Fame"
Listeners
tastes were changing
though
Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and
Bob Seger were all becoming
popular
Captain and Tennille: "Do That to
Me One More Time"
Kenny
Roger "Lady"
Christopher Cross "Sailing"---these were "mushy" ballads
that were also very popular
The
Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's
Delight" became the first rap
record to make the Top
Hundred (peaked at #36)
Digitally
recorded LP's were
widely marketed for the first
time
Introduction of the Sony
Walkman (portable stereo)
The
Walkman changed the
listening habits of the entire
country
Single handedly responsible for
the boom in cassette sales
during the early 80's
New
generation was
discovering Jim Morrison and
The Doors (thanks to the movie
Apocalype Now because it
used the song "The End" in it)
Morrison
became a popular
icon- Rolling Stone Magazine
did a cover story on him
Headline: "He's Hot. He's
Sexy. He's Dead."
John
Lennon: assassinated in
New York City by mental patient
Mark
David
Chapman
1981
Lady
Starting
Over
Kiss on My List
9 to 5
Take It On the Run
Morning
Train
Slow Hand
Grammy Awards
Bette
Davis Eyes: Kim Carnesrecord
Double Fantasy: John Lennon,
Yoko One- album
Bette Davis Eyes: song
MTV
MTV:
all music video cable
channel that was relatively
commercial free
Debut was with Buggles' song
"Video Killed the Radio Star"
Immediate sensation
Bars
drew in extra business by
hanging a sign out that said
"We have MTV"
Original veejays were: Alan
Hunter, Martha Quinn, JJ
Jackson, Mark Goodman, and
Nina Blackwood
Channel
was originally
dominated by English artists,
because American artists were
not in the habit of making
videos
Many critics noticed a lack of
black artists
Disco
backlash: many white
record buyers were considering
anything black to be "disco"
Black recording artists were
having a tough time crossing
over into the pop world
Rick
James: Top 20 hit with
"Super Freak"---couldn't get the
video played on MTV
Prince:
"Controversy" album--was booed off stage while
opening for Rolling Stones at
the LA Coliseum
Only
two records by black
artists topped the charts in
1981: Diana Ross and Lionel
Richie's "Endless Love" and
"Celebration"
Blondie experimented with rap
in "Rapture"
White
America was still
wanting: REO Speedwagon,
Styx, Journey and pop country
Eddie Rabbit and Dolly Parton,
and Daryl Hall and John Oates--
Styx and Hall & Oates
Also:
Rick Springfield:
Australian actor and musician
Fluke hit in 1972 with "Speak to
the Sky"
One of America's leading
heartthrobs
Had
a regular role as Dr. Noah
Drake on soap opera General
Hospital
Olivia
Newton-John: "Physical"
Christopher Cross: "Arthur's
Theme (Best That You Can
Do)"
1982
Any
Day Now
Jack and Diane
Abracadabra
Hard to Say I'm Sorry
Gloria
I
Can't Go for That
Hurts So Good
Grammy Awards
Rosanna:
Toto-record
Toto IV: Toto- album
Always on My Mind- song
Independent
film: Wild Style
came out this year
Explored rap music,
breakdancing, and graffiti art
scenes in the black community
of New York's South Bronx
Grandmaster
Flash and the
Furious Five- rap act that
appeared in the movie
They released single called
"The Message"
First
rap hit to comment on the
social issues and pressures
facing urban blacks
Not
a huge pop hit, but crossed
over just enough to start getting
white people to see that
something was starting to
develop in the ghettos of
America
Pretty
dull year for American
music:
Hall and Oates and Lionel
Richie dominated the charts
John Cougar starting to
become popular
Steve
Miller and Chicago still
popular from the 1970's
Joan Jett brought real rock and
roll to the charts
The
Blasters and The Stray
Cats were popular among
American kids too
The Go-Go's: products of LA
punk scene
Frank
Zappa: he and daughter
Moon Unit did "Valley Girl"
Used "valspeaking" residents of
LA and gave him the biggest hit
of his career
Liberace
his
chauffeur Scott Thorson
had been his companion
Filed a lawsuit against
Liberace- wanted his
belongings back
Liberace denied being
homosexual
Joan
Jett and The Blackhearts:
"I Love Rock N Roll"
Paul McCartney with Stevie
Wonder: "Ebony and Ivory"
Survivor:
"Eye of the Tiger"
J. Geils Band: "Centerfold"
Daryl Hall and John Oates:
"Maneater"
1983
Down
Under
Billie Jean
Every Breath You Take
Maniac
Total
Eclipse of the Heart
Say, Say, Say
Islands in the Stream
Grammy Awards
Beat
It, Michael Jacksonrecord
Thriller: Michael Jacksonalbum
Every Breath You Take- song
Michael
Jackson: Off the Wall
had been a huge hit in 1979
Came out with Thriller this year
Had
6 Top Ten hits on it:
"Billie Jean"
"Beat It"
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin"
"Human Nature"
"PYT"
"Thriller"
Quiet
Riot: LA: album "Metal
Health"
Popularity of heavy metal was
coming
Spandex pants and big hair
Styx:
Kilroy Was Here
Talking Heads: New York artrock combo- "Burning Down the
House" was in Top 10
REM:
Athens, Georgia- Top 40
with "Murmur"
The Velvet Underground: had
been popular in the late 60's
By '85 all records were back in
print, selling better than in the 60's
1984
Footloose
Jump
Time
After Time
Owner of a Lonely Heart
Ghostbusters
Uptown
Girl
Self Control
Grammy Awards
What's
Love Got to Do with It:
Tina Turner- record
Can't Slow Down: Lionel Richiealbum
What's Love Got to Do with Itsong
Breakdancing
was everywherein TV commercials, music
videos- even at the opening of
the LA Summer Olympics
Hollywood
made four lowbudget "Breaksploitation" flicks:
"Beat Street" "Body Rock"
"Breakin'" and "Breakin' 2:
Electric Boogaloo"
MTV
was a major influence on
music and film
Quick edits & lighting that had
been just in music videos were
now going into Hollywood filmsBeverly Hills Cop, Footloose,
Streets of Fire, Purple Rain
Executives
started realizing
that by putting scenes from the
film into the music video, you
could sell a movie better as
well as the soundtrack
Purple
Rain: blockbuster film
and a multi-platinum album
Born in The USA: Bruce
Springsteen
Heavy
Metal:
Van Halen: 1984 -band's final
album with David Lee Roth
"Jump"
"Panama"
"Hot for Teacher"
Ratt,
Motley Crue
"Out of The Cellar"
"Shout At The Devil"
Twisted
Sister: "We're Not
Gonna take It"
RUN-DMC: Joseph Simmons
and Darryl McDaniels
"Rock Box" mixture of street
raps and metallic guitars
Marvin Gaye
1983:
"Sexual Healing" comeback
working on a follow-up to "Midnight
Love" album
April 1 was shot and killed by his
father in an argument
Other
big hits of the year:
Madonna: "Like A Virgin"
Prince: "When Doves Cry"
1985
Wake
Me Up Before You Go-Go
I Feel for You
Glory Days
Crazy for You
Careless Whisper
One Night in Bangkok
Grammy Awards
We
Are the World- U.S.A. for
Africa- record
No Jacket Required: Phil
Collins- album
We Are the World: song
Live
Aid, Farm Aid, and
founding of the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame
Year of the compact disc:
higher priced than turntables
and LPs
CD
players and CDs were
immediately so successful that
it was predicted that vinyl would
be almost completely obsolete
by the end of the decade
PMRC:
self appointed moral
watchdog committee formed by
wives of several prominent
politicos
Began
to pressure record
companies to save the youth of
America by putting warning
stickers on records containing
"offensive" lyrical content
22
record companies pledged
to slap parental warnings on
any product containing
potentially offensive material
LL
Cool J: rap's newest superstar
with debut album "Radio"
Starship's "We Built This City"
Mr. Mister "Broken Wings"
Whitney Houston's "Saving All My
Love For You"
Lionel
Richie "Say You, Say
Me"
Madonna's: "Crazy For You"
John Parr: "St Elmo's Fire"
Huey Lewis and The News':
"The Power of Love"
More top songs
USA for Africa: "We Are The
World"
REO Speedwagon: "Can't
Fight This Feeling"
Dire Straits: "Money For
Nothing"
1986
How
Will I Know
Kyrrie
Greatest Love of All
Live to Tell
On
My Own
There'll Be Sad Songs
Sledgehammer
Grammy Awards
Higher
Love: Steve Winwood-
record
Graceland: Paul Simon: album
That's What Friends Are For: song
Madonna:
shortened hair and
tried to "class up" her image
Third album: "True Blue”
The
Bangles: all female
quartet
Two massive pop hits: "Manic
Monday" - which was written by
Prince
"Walk Like An Egyptian"
Bon
Jovi:
Sounded like a cross between
Bruce Springsteen and a metal
band
"You Give Love A Bad Name"
"Livin On A Prayer"
Metallica:
thrash metal classes
"Master of Puppets"
Momentum lost when bassist
Cliff Burton died in a bus crash
during the band's Swedish tour
Miami
Vice's Don Johnson:
Top 5 hit with "Heartbeat"
Janet Jackson: younger sister
of Michael Jackson
"Control"
James
Brown: 4th decade of hits
with “Living In America”
Paul Simon: South African
musicians on new Graceland
album---“world music” style
Run DMC: teamed up with
Aerosmith for a remake of “Walk
This Way”
More
top hits:
Dionne and Friends “That’s
What Friends Are For”
Falco: “Rock Me Amadeus”
1987
Nothing's
Gonna Stop Us Now
Alone
Here
I Go Again
The Way It Is
Shakedown
Livin'
on a Prayer
Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Grammy Awards
Graceland:
Paul Simon- record
The Joshua Tree: U2- album
Somewhere Out There- song
Top Albums
Dirty Dancing Soundtrack
Whitney Houston: Whitney
U2: The Joshua Tree
The Beastie Boys: Licensed to
Ill
Michael Jackson: Bad
Other
Top Singles:
George Michael: Faith
Los Lobos: La Bamba
U2: With or Without You
CD
market had sales of over
$102 million
Bad sold 8 million copies this
year, had 5 Number One
singles- including “Man In The
Mirror” and “Bad”
Tiffany:
Tiffany Darwinsch
16 years old
“Could’ve Been”
“I Think We’re Alone Now
Debbie
Gibson:
“Only In My Dreams”
“Shake Your Love”
Grateful
Dead: hit first Top 10 hit
with “Touch of Grey”
Deadheads complained that the
single was making the band too
popular
Newcomers were ruining the “vibe”
of he Dead’s concerts
Poison
Slayer
These replaced Twisted Sister
and Quiet Riot for the
headbangers
The
Beastie Boys: debut album by
New York white rap trio was
Licensed to Ill
Had hit “You Gotta Fight For Your
Right To Party”
Sold 5 million copies and became
the first rap record to top the pop
album charts
10
years after Elvis Presley’s
death:
20,000 fans from around the world
went to Memphis
Liberace died this year from AIDS
He had an outrageous sense of
onstage style
1988
Faith
Need
You Tonight
Sweet Child O'Mine
Hands to Heaven
One
More Try
Wild, Wild West
Groovy Kind of Love
Grammy Awards
Don't
Worry, Be Happy- Bobby
McFerrin- record
Faith: George Michael- album
Don't Worry, Be Happy: Bobby
McFerrin- song
More
Top Singles:
Steve Winwood: Roll With It
Poison: Every Rose Has Its
Thorn
Chicago: Look Away
Top Albums
George Michael: Faith
Def Leppard: Hysteria
US: Rattle and Hum
Guns N Roses: Appetite for
Destruction
Bon Jovi: New Jersey
Guns N’ Roses
Changing the face of music
No lipstick, teased hair, and
spandex
They had leathers, bandanas
and the look of “fresh from the
gutter”
Public
Enemy:
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To
Hold Us Back
Mixed rage with big beats
Will
To Power: “Free Baby”
Disco-muzak of Peter
Frampton’s “Baby I Love Your
Way” and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s
“Free Bird”
Beach Boys: “Kokomo”
Bobby
McFerrin: “Don’t Worry,
Be Happy”
George Bush would try to use
this song as his theme for 1992
campaign
James
Brown: arrested this fall
He lead several Georgia state
police cars on a chase while
under influence of PCP
6 year jail sentence was
reduced to a little over 25
months
1989
My
Prerogative
Straight Up
Giving You the Best that I Got
This Time I Know It's for Real
Fight
the Power
Cold Hearted
Cherish
Grammy Awards
Wind
Beneath My Wings:
Bette Midler- record
Nick of Time: Bonnie Raittalbum
Wind Beneath My Wings- song
Phil
Collins: Another Day in
Paradise
Janet Jackson: Miss You Much
Richard Marx: Right Here
Waiting
Madonna: Like a Prayer
Top Albums
Paula Abdul: Forever Your Girl
Milli Vanilli: Girl You Know It’s True
Fine Young Cannibals: The Raw and
the Cooked
Bobby Brown: Don’t Be Cruel
Madonna: Like a Prayer
Rap
music very popular now
Novelty rap singles like Young
MC’s “Bust A Move”
2 Live Crew
Tone Loc’s “Funky Cold
Medina”
Paula
Abdul, Richard Marx, and
New Kids on the Block
Madonna: Like a Prayer:
strongest album for her to that
point
Bobby Brown: left New Edition and
came out with “Don’t Be Cruel”
Harry
Connick Jr.: 22 year old jazz
pianist
When Harry Met Sally soundtrack
Guns N’ Roses: “Patience”
MTV:
came out with MTV
Unplugged
Debuted in November with singersongwriter Jules Shear