80sneverend
Posted in 1981, 1981 April, May, June, United States
Bruce Springsteen – The River
Many of Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics, such as the entire Nebraska album or the legendary Born in the USA, enter the existentialist strand of 80s, but certainly the firstborn in this stream for the Boss belongs to the 1980 album The River and the song of the same name.
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Funkytown – Lipps, Inc.
Funkytown is a song of the early 80s… but thinking about it … when did the 80s start?
Certainly not on new year’s Eve, 1980. That was a typical year of the 70s: US boycotting the Moscow Olympics, trains and planes exploding in Italy…
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Between 2020 and 2021, after a quick tweet exchange, I had the honor and the pleasure to be in contact with Karel Fialka, the author of one of the absolute pearls of the 80s, “Hey, Matthew“. This hit, released in August 1987, entered the top ten in a lot of countries,
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