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Posted in 1980, 1980 January, February, March, United Kingdom
Pink Floyd – Another brick in the wall
Shifting to a new decade has always been a special moment in time. At the end of an year with the ending 9, and with the beginning of a new decade, we feel the need to summarize the ten past years in few words,
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Posted in 1983, 1983 January, February, March, Europe - other countries
U2 – New Year’s Day
I mean, when a song has a title like “New year’s day”, it definitely becomes the song for every New Year’s Eve in the 80s, just like “Last Christmas“, only a week later! U2 released this hit in January 1983,
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Posted in 1989, 1989 October, November, December, United States
Belinda Carlisle – La Luna
I was wondering how many moons we saw in the 80s. I mean, from an astronomic perspective, if I’m not wrong, it’s about 123 full moons in the whole 80s. The last full moon was on Dec 12, 1989, and there was another new moon on Dec 28,
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Posted in 1989, 1989 October, November, December, United Kingdom
Queen – The Miracle
Queen released “The Miracle” at the end of November 1989. Generally you release the song that names the album as the first single, or maybe the second; in this case they had released the album six months before, and har already released four other singles, “I want it all”,
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Posted in 1989, 1989 October, November, December, Europe - other countries
Scorpions – Wind of change
We already saw that the 80s did not begin on January 1, 1980, and of course they did not end on December 31, 1989, but few weeks earlier. They ended on a rainy Thursday evening. I was with some friends in the house of a girl of our group of friends.
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Posted in 1989, 1989 October, November, December, United States
Madonna – Oh Father
At the end of October, 1989, Madonna released “Oh father”, one of her most beautiful songs, and, if we know the story behind, definitely an extremely sweet and moving. The video is clear: Madonna, now a woman, lives back to her 5 years, the tragedy of losing her mother,
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Posted in 1989, 1989 October, November, December, United States
Terence Trent D’Arby – To Know Someone Deeply Is To Know Someone Softly
Terence Trent D’Arby was definitely one of the icons and purest talents of the 80s. We have seen how he reached a sudden and worldwide success in 1987. In don’t say unexpected because I think he actually expected it,
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Posted in 1989, 1989 October, November, December, United Kingdom
Queen – Scandal
A couple of months after the release of “The Invisible man“, on Oct 9, 1989, the Queen released a new single and a new video. “Scandal” was the fourth release from the album “The Miracle”, after “I want it all“,
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An old hit
Jimmy Somerville & June Miles Kingston – Comment te dire adieu
November 1989 was coming to the end when Jimmy Somerville released his new hit. It was a duet between the former Bronski Beat and Communards leader, and June Miles Kingston, a vocalist and drummer who played also for Everything But the Girl.
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