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April 1 – After months of squabbling, David Lee Roth leaves Van Halen to begin a solo career. [6]April 7 – Wham! becomes the first Western pop group to perform in China when they play a concert in Beijing's Workers Stadium during an historic 10-day visit.
Wham! (pictured) had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including the year's biggest hit, Careless Whisper.Madonna (pictured) had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1985.
July 3 – Back to the Future opens in American theaters and ends up being the highest-grossing film of 1985 in the United States, and the first film in the successful franchise. July 13 Live Aid pop concerts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and London raise over £50,000,000 for famine relief in Ethiopia.
By the mid-1980s, country music audiences were beginning to tire of country-pop. Although some pop-country artists continued to record and release successful songs and albums, the genre, in general, was beginning to suffer. By 1985, a New York Times article declared country music "dead". However, by this time, several newcomers were working ...
The Kate Bush song "Running Up That Hill" (1985) reached number 1 on the UK singles chart in 2022 as a result of being included in the fourth series of Stranger Things. [100] In 2017, 1980s music was more popular than that of other decades. [101] 1980s retro albums include Goldfrapp's Head First (2010) and Duran Duran's Future Past (2021). [102 ...
4 May – With the song "La det swinge" ("Let it swing"), Norway's Norwegian pop duo Bobbysocks! wins Eurovision Song Contest 1985.16 September – Norwegian Pop band A-ha releases a new version of their single Take On Me, which debuted last year, featuring a cartoon music video of a motor race; within weeks it is a number one hit worldwide in countries including the United Kingdom and the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 December 2024. 1985 January February March April May June July August September October November December Clockwise from top-left: Royal Air Force C-130 airdropping food during the Ethiopian famine ; reductions of up to 70 percent in the ozone column observed in the austral (southern hemispheric ...
The biggest British musical event of 1985 was the Live Aid concert in London's Wembley Stadium on 13 July. Held to follow up the previous year's charity record "Do They Know It's Christmas?", the biggest-selling single ever at the time, popular acts such as The Who, U2 and Queen performed in front of an estimated audience of 1.9 billion viewers.