SirHenryLeeChaChing's For Original Fans - Favorite Moments In NTTD (spoilers)

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• Thunderfinger Das Boot Hill

  January 2015 Posts: 45,489

  Thanks for the Devo video. Love them.
• CrabKey

  January 2015 Posts: 1,979

  1980 ends with the murder of John Lennon. Not one of my favorite decades.
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  January 2015 edited January 2015 Posts: 12,480

  You are right, @Crabkey; terrible end to that year. The sad tear in my heart is still there, and always will be, for John.
  
  ~ ~ ~
  
  But moving on, probably my last post for today, I offer this question:
  
  Have we mentioned 80's hair bands enough yet? No, I don't think so.
  
  
  
  
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  January 2015 Posts: 12,480

  And of course:
  
  
• chrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm

  January 2015 Posts: 17,789

  Now you're speaking my language.
• OHMSS69

  February 2015 Posts: 2,341

  Eighties
  Star Trek Movies came back with a Vengeance beginning with The wrath of Khan 1982
  Two Star Wars Sequels 1980 and 1983
  Three Indiana Jones movies
  Star Trek TNG premiered in 1987
  Magnum P.I. made Tom Selleck a household name and heartthrob
  John Delorean
  Ronald Reagan and to criticize government hijinks was called "Un American" (a dark chapter indeed)
  The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Cheers made Thursday primetime the best for TV
  Dallas made us fall in love with prime time soaps
  The San Francisco 49ers dominated pro football
  Stephen King was at the height of his popularity
  The Brat Pack
  Music was truly Eighties
  Michael Jackson and Thriller revolutionize music videos and made MTV trendy and watching music videos for hours on end was a fun pastime. (VH-1, Nighttracks)
  Arnold Scharzenegger hit movies: The Terminator (1984), Predator (1987) his best films.
  Friday the 13 and slasher films had teens lining up.
  Miami Vice
  Goodbye to Roger Moore and Hello Timothy Dalton
  
  
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  Great, @Beatles! Thanks. :)
  
  and we shall continue our 80's Bonding with:
  
  
  
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  This is for Benny ...
  
  (if I can get it to work ... no regular url available; let's just try the link)
  
  http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xu82ii_rita-coolidge-all-time-high-from-octopussy_shortfilms
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 edited February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  And this:
  
  
• CommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea

  February 2015 Posts: 8,250

  ah, finally a decade I managed to live thru. ;-) for the list of world politics there was the ever raging Afghan War which would give us the US backed Taliban to fight against later. The Pet Shop Boys were my favorite group and in movies we had the Reaganesque Top Gun to go to. Well not me, I was too young, my parents wouldn't let me. But that film lead to an interesting situation, when I was applying for the Air Force a decade later the question was asked why I wanted to fly fighter jets. I told the lady in question that flying had been a passion of mine for a long, long time and there was nothing better. She replied: 'good! You know we get a lot of applicants coming over and stating as only reason to fly warplanes they have seen Top Gun over and over again and still love it!'.
• OHMSS69

  February 2015 Posts: 2,341

  You know looking at this photo of Rog from OP and how good he looks, then see him two years later in AVTAK. My goodness, what a difference two years make.!!
  
• chrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm

  February 2015 Posts: 17,789

  OHMSS69 wrote: »

  You know looking at this photo of Rog from OP and how good he looks, then see him two years later in AVTAK. My goodness, what a difference two years make.!!

  It's not the years, it's the face lift. He should have trusted nature more than trends.
  
  
  
  
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  Thanks for the reminder, @Birdleson. :)
  
  
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  And rounding out the Bonds of the 80's:
  
  
• chrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm

  February 2015 Posts: 17,789

  I really shouldn't like that one as much as I do...
• CommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea

  February 2015 Posts: 8,250

  thanks 4Ever for that one. However, I like this one better:
  
• OHMSS69

  February 2015 Posts: 2,341

  Ah the tunes of the Eighties. They were so...in their own world. Then I guess we could say that about all the decades.
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 edited February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  Some books from the 1980's:
  
  The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum
  Firestarter, Stephen King
  Cosmos, Carl Sagan
  Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith
  The Valley of Horses, Jean M. Auel
  The Little Drummer Girl, John Le Carre
  The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
  The Fourth Protocol, Frederick Forsyth
  The Sicilian, Mario Puzo
  Yeager: An Autobiography, Chuck Yeager & L. Janos
  The Bourne Supremacy, Robert Ludlum
  It, Stephen King
  Red Storm Rising, Tom Clancy
  Patriot Games, Tom Clancy
  Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow
  Misery, Stephen King
  The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
  The Russia House, John Le Carre
  The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
  All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum
  While My Pretty One Sleeps, Mary Higgins Clark
  The Skull Beneath the Skin, P.D. James
  Indemnity Only, Sara Paretsky
  There Are No Spies, Bill Granger (new Brosnan film The November Man is based on part on this one)
  The Lonely Silver Rain, John D. MacDonald
  
  
  
• chrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm

  February 2015 Posts: 17,789

  4EverBonded wrote: »

  Some books from the 1980's:
  
  Firestarter, Stephen King

  My favourite King book. Even more than The Stand. The movie was pretty good too, if you fill in parts with your book memories.
  The fact that Firestarter is George W Bush's favourite movie has always perplexed me. It's in no way pro-Authoritarianism. :-?
• OHMSS69

  February 2015 Posts: 2,341

  My favorite King book would be "It" published in the Fall of 1986 and I was hooked from that point on with Stephen King. It was then I started to read all the King I could.
  Some of his 80's books:
  Dead Zone
  Fire Starter
  Cujo
  It
  Misery
  The Tommyknockers
  The Dark Half
  And of course there was the Dark Tower series.
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  I remember this one so well when it came out; I couldn't get it out of my head.
  
  
  
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  And I remember this vividly ... the year I went back to college fulltime.
  
  Ah Joe, I love the way you play.
  And your outrageous singer ain't too bad either. Does hog the camera, though. ;)
  
  
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 edited February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  Wrapping up our look at the 1980's today.
  
  Some more brief nods for the 80's:
  
  Hair styles - (I couldn't resist; I mean really ...!!!)
  
  This is not a famous person, but she did come in 2nd place in an 80's hair contest sponsored by National Geographic
  
  
  And this guy won that contest:
  
  Fine example ... however I'm still putting our own SirHenryLeeChaChing in this category as Special Ginger Winner with this shot:
  
  
  
  Oh, the 1980's! It gave us Madonna, Prince, Michael J., U2, The Police, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Back to the Future, ET, Lethal Weapon ... and so much more. Including:
  The space shuttle
  The "war on drugs " ... "just say no"
  Rubik's cube
  The Brat Pack
  AIDS :(
  The Miracle on Ice - Olympics
  Calvin Klein's underwear
  Farewell to Sir Roger and hello to dashing Timothy as Bond
  
  ... ETC!! Letting Mr. T have his say now:
  
  
  "I pity the fool who thinks the 80's were not memorable!"
  
  So if there is anything else you'd like to mention or chat about concerning that colorful and tech revolutionary decade, please do. Tomorrow we shall move on.
  
  Cheers!
  
• Mrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.

  February 2015 Posts: 3,144

  Did we miss The Falklands War by any chance.
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 edited February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  Maybe mentioned way earlier.
  Undoubtedly that was a factor in the 80's!.
  
  Falkland War
  Miner's strike in England
  Apartheid - Africa
  Japan's economic golden bubble
  
  (Note: I'm American, so that is always my strongest perspective, and memories. And I know a little about Britain - but I'd still like to hear about the decades we've discussed from people in other countries ... Italy? Brazil? France? India? Canada? South Africa? Please feel free to add any bits and pieces; I'm interested, as I'm sure more people would be, too.)
  
  What else?
  David Bowie begins his journey into stepping away from the spotlight after hugely popular Let's Dance album (granted he made more albums, but he left the decade rather quietly). Feel free, Bowie enthusiasts, to detail this decade for Bowie better than I've just stated. :)
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  No, we did not miss the Falklands War. Thank you, Birdleson. ;)
  
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 edited February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  That is a fine pic, Birdleson!
  
  I'd still love to hear any tale - short or long - about your time following The Dead in the 80's. Anything at all would be interesting. :)
  
  P.S. - for me, if you look at my avatar (taken 3 years ago) my hair has remained the same since 1976. And yes, I will end up an old, tiny, wispy haired lady with a long white braid. Long hair is part of who I am.
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  So write your book later, dear Birdleson; you can do it. :)
  
  But for here, oh just give me one moment that you remember vividly - 200 to 800 words is fine with me. Pretty please. :D
• CommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea

  February 2015 Posts: 8,250

  Well for me the most vivid memory is the fall of the wall. I remember distinctly learning in school about the Deutsche Demokratische Republik and the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, and those tensions inbetween. and then there was something happening, many east-germans trying to flee through to Austria, and then this odd day Gorbatchev said the USSR wouldn't interfere. People standing on that wall. Would there be any shootings? The answer was no! So many people, and all in full anticipation, and then the borders were opened. That was increadable!
  
  and it set the stage for those arrogant nineties we'd end up with, with the dessilusion not far behind. Just. One. More. Decade.
• 4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars

  February 2015 edited February 2015 Posts: 12,480

  Very nice, @CommanderRoss. That is a great way to remember the end of the 80's.
  Very important indeed, and a true spectacle. You are right - at the time, apprehensions were high, how things would turn out were unknown.