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The invisible Samurai

Michael Cretu – Samurai (Did You Ever Dream)

In the first days of September 1985, a very popular song entered the charts across Europe, sung by an artist that not everyone knew, perhaps because he often preferred to remain in the shadows rather than show himself in broadcasts and concerts.

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The King is Bad

Michael Jackson – Bad

What was Michael Jackson thinking in those nights between August and September 1987? Did he act like some commanders who manage to sleep soundly before a great battle, or was he consumed by anxiety like all mere mortals?

Think about it: you are the king of world pop,

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Timeless people

Robert Palmer – Johnny and Mary

We all know songs that, in a sense, have always existed. Maybe we Dinosaurs have an idea of when they came out, or we can tell the story behind them, as in this case, but when the songs have been able to overcome the time limit,

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Maria, or maybe Gina

Maria Vidal – Body Rock

What comes to your mind if I say Vidal? Well, it depends on when you lived your adolescence! In fact, if you were a teenager in the 70s, you probably remember a famous bath foam, and an ad with a white horse on a beach.

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A deal with God

Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill

In history there are many examples of literary characters who have made a deal with the devil, in its various manifestations, perhaps to secure fame, success, power, for the impossible pursuit of pleasure (think of Goethe’s Faust) or perhaps for eternal youth like Dorian Gray – a topic also quoted up in a very profound way by Alphaville in Forever Young.

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One name and many friends

Nathalie ‎– My Love Won’t Let You Down

In the 80s it was not so common for a female singer to use only her own name as stage name, also because if you had a rather common name you could have been mistaken for someone else.

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Love, cars and videos

The Cars – Drive

We have seen many times that the history of an artist or a group in the 80s often depended on a particular song, which at one point managed to break through, and from there on, that career changed. Sure, sometimes international fame was short-lived,

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Pyromaniac genius

Talking Heads – Burning Down the House

There were so many geniuses in the 80s. Outstanding and multifaceted talents who have sometimes driven the careers of entire groups. And there hasn’t been a better time for genius: from the talents of Steve Strange, Peter Gabriel and Midge Ure in the very early 80s (think of very original masterpieces such as Fade to Grey,

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Agents not too secret

a-ha – The living daylights

#quotefromthe80s
Hundred thousand changes, everything’s the same
I’ve been waiting long for one of us to say
Save the darkness, let it never fade away
Oh, the living daylights

#aha
#TheLivingDaylights

We have often said how the link between cinema and songs and also videos,

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