The big thing they did with the cartoon, that other toy companies would soon follow, was they gave G.I Joe a backstory.

People endless talked about how much their mortgage was costing them or how much their car was, were they were going /had been on holiday, how stressed they were.

There were so many over the top, sugar-laden cereals with intensive marketing that you couldn’t resist. You think of Madonna and U2 and it was the era where we were introduced to a new art form called Hip-Hop (which I’ll cover more in a second.

The extra pay was phenomenal. And the post-war prosperity that provided the foundation for Wolfe’s story seems, in retrospect, to have been disappearing even as Wolfe wrote. Saved By The Bell started as a show called Good Morning, Miss Bliss. The '80s saw the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court and unprecedented international cooperation to combat the disappearing ozone layer. VHS won out over the competing Betamax standard, becoming the leading standard in home video systems, The most basic CD was first introduced in October 1982 for the purpose of distribution and listening to digital audio. In 1984, as a police officer (now retired), did three 1 week "tours" in Nottinghamshire policing the miners strike. It provided no immediate pleasure.

That cosy community feel of the 1950s had been vanishing slowly for the two previous decades, the 1980s finally killed it off in a rush. Her nickname the "Iron Lady" was very apt, but one thing I did like about her was that she did not want Britain to be like a "nanny state" which it is now. West Germany won the 1980 UEFA championship. They also would release the Happy Meal in the ‘80s by using this same approach. Apple superseded its Apple II and Lisa models by introducing the first Macintosh computer in 1984.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W309oLMoT8qUENHTzWQK_w, “There’s nothing united about these States any more, except Standard Oil and discontent.”- Owen Wister, 1906 #usih. The 1980s were a time of great pop culture including some of the best movies, music, TV shows, and toys of all time. I think electorate saw in Mrs T someone who spoke her mind and had a very clear vision of where she wanted to take the country. Last week, Gary Dahl, creator of the Pet Rock, passed away at the age of 78.

Wait, what the hell is deregulation?

But among the hundreds of written memories you e-mailed to us, it was clear that the way society changed was key to your recollections of the 1980s. War in the Falklands and civil war in the UK with race riots, the Miners' Strike and the IRA. Privacy Notice |  Pop artists such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Duran Duran, Prince, Cyndi Lauper and Madonna mastered the format and helped turn this new product into a profitable business.

With bands leading the significance of this period such as Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Suicidal Tendencies, D.O.A., Bad Religion, Minutemen, Social Distortion, and Dead Kennedys, it gave birth to many subgenres like hardcore, which has continued to be moderately successful, giving birth in turn to a few counterculture movements, most notably the Straight Edge movement which began in the early era of this decade.

The Rights Holder for media is the person or group credited. It was a fantastic time particularly the early 80s.

Champagne flowed freely nearly all the time but there was still the underlying feeling that one had to continue to 'do the business' to stay in a job, as it should be really.

John Lennon was shot outside his home in New York City on the night of December 8, 1980. There's some interesting material here in terms of constructing historical memory. Atari had no control over the video games that were being released and this resulted in a ton of crap that flooded the market. Chrysler introduced its new compact, front-wheel drive K-cars in 1981.

We can go on and on about all these glorious movies and some other notables that round out the decade are.

Jackson had the most number-one singles throughout the decade (9), and spent the most weeks at #1 (27 weeks). The movie killed off a lot of beloved characters as a way to clear out old inventory and then introduce a bunch of new ones for the upcoming toy line. The “Memphis Style” was a big influence behind the design and aesthetic of the 80s. It might be hard to argue that.