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Pocket Rockers was a brand of personal stereo produced by Fisher-Price in the late 1980s, aimed at elementary school-age children. [1] They played a proprietary variety of miniature cassette (appearing to be a smaller version of the 8-track tape) which was released only by Fisher-Price themselves.
Like Omigod! The 80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) is a seven-disc, 142-track box set of popular music hits of the 1980s. Released by Rhino Records in 2002, the box set was based on the success of Have a Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box, Rhino's box set covering the 1970s. Original release sets had a 3D rubber cover.
Madonna pulled up to the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards in 1984 wearing this now-iconic bridal-inspired look. She would later perform "Like A Virgin" and immediately become an MTV icon.
Her crossover appeal on the popular music charts as well as her prominence on MTV influenced generations of African American artists. [20] Paula Abdul hit it big in 1988. With her debut album Forever Your Girl, she was the first female to have four number-one singles from a debut album (only The Jackson 5 had done the same with their debut ...
Influential on the development of the neo-psychedelia and college rock music genres and on a number of bands, especially R.E.M. [24] [25] Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1980s: #65 [6] FACT's The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s: #47 [5] Rolling Stone's "80 Greatest albums of 1980": #63 [4] Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die ...
I Love the '80s (2001), Sounds of the Eighties (1996) and Match of the Eighties (1997) are 1980s nostalgia documentaries. 1980s music was rebroadcast in the music archive programme Top of the Pops 2 (1994), and 1980s episodes of Top of the Pops were repeated on BBC 4 from 2015 to 2020. [99]
Thanks in part to "Top Gun 2," the 1980s are roaring back to the big and small screen, with shows like "Bridge and Tunnel" and "Gordita Chronicles."
If you grew up in the '80s, '90s, or the 2000's, it's safe to say there were plenty of heartthrobs over the years. SEE ALSO: 11 TV stars from the '90s that you most definitely had a crush on.