Kathy Valentine is leaving The Go-Go's...let's not make this more dramatic than it is...

I am a huge fan of The Go-Go's and of each 5 members, they simply are my favorite group of alltime. I love their music, they rock, they look great, they make me feel good. Reading that bass player Kathy Valentine is leaving (or kicked-out depending the way you read it) affected me of course. Let's not forget that the band kept their original line-up since 1980! That's quite an accomplishment! I was more astonished by all the comments fans are leaving on the group's Facebook page than the fact in itself. The big question fans are choosing right now is weather or not they should continue to follow The Go-Go's. WHY NOT? I agree that The Go-Go's will never be the "same" but I will follow them and listen to them ultil the day I die. I feel bad for those who will act like babies by sulking them. Enjoy that they are more active than many 80's band that dissapeared from the map. They still tour, they communicate with us fans each day. I feel lucky to be a Go-Go's fan and you should feel lucky too. I wish good luck to both Kathy and the 4 members left who will be touring with The B-52's this summer. I'm very curious who they will choose as their new bass player...their choice will be mine.

FOREVER A GO-GO'S FAN - MissEighties

Happy Birthday Sarah Jessica Parker

When you think about Sarah Jessica Parker of course you think Sex and the City but we must not forget her 1985 movie Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Can this movie be more 80's than this?  It's writen 80s 80s 80s all over the movie; the clothes, the music, the decor, etc.  - MissEighties

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARAH!

Happy Birthday NENA!

To tell you the truth, the only song I knew from her was 99 Luft(or Red)Balloons...until recently.  I bought her whole "99 Luftballons" album on vinyl and discovered a great album filled with much more than a one hit wonder.  More than this, her discography is so impressive!  I have to listen to her new album "Du Bist Gut".  Did you listen to it? Did you like it?

99 Red Ballons is still one of my favorite 80s videos along with A-ha "Take on me", Human League "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", Prince "When doves cry" and Michael Jackson "Thriller", I've seen it so many times in the 80's recorded on a Beta videotape!  - MissEighties

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NENA!

My story about The Cars

Today is Ric Ocasek's Birthday and I ask myself what should I say for this special day. Well, here is a true story of a young girl who wanted to be a radio jockey.

In 1984, the year The Cars "Heartbeat City" was released I was 14 years old and knew a little about life but I knew damn well my love for music. My dad didn't have to give me chocolate or a dress to make me smile. When he came home with a vinyl in his hand, he knew his young girl would have a big smile on her face. So that year I listened both sides of The Cars album again and again. My dad took me to the radio station to see if I could have own radio show. I knew the man standing in front of me, a well respected radio jockey. I was quite nervous and he asked me to make a playlist and he would see if I could do the job. The only thing I remember is that my list had at least 5 songs of The Cars "Heartbeat City" album, I mean, it was good music!!! Of course, the man must have laughed or smile with empathy to my list....of course I didn't have the job! Thing is, in 1988 I got a call from the record store asking me if I would like to work there and that same night my music career started and never stopped. Today I work for a record label and each time I hear The Cars "Hearbeat City" it brings me good souvenirs.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIC! - MissEighties

Billy Idol is sooooo chillllll

Here's the story. I'm doing big clean-up in my CD collection and this morning I grabbed Claude Challe "Happiness" album to play in my car. The first song to appear on my car screen is Billy Idol  "Adam in Chains". I told myself it might be a bug, Billy Idol on a Chillout album, yeah right! The first half of the song was a real Chillout music arrangement with this kinda Barry White voice telling to breathe, fix your eyes on a spot, begin to relax, free your mind...no singing...almost dangerous when driving! Then at the very middle of the song I hear Billy's voice, I woke up, look at my car screen and yes, it was still that Billy Idol's song "Adam in Chains" from 1993 Cyberpunk album. I really do prefer his good 80s ballads like "Eyes Without A Face" but it made me smile.  I added two versions of the song below; the original I heard with a longer spoken introduction and the video with a shorter spoken intro.  - MissEighties

 

Stephanie Mills

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHANIE MILLS!

 

She entered the 80s by winning a Grammy Award for "Never Knew Love Like This Before" in the category Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance in 1980.  She won the American Music Award in 1981 for Favorite Female Artist in the Soul / Rhythm & Blues.  And I'm not even talking about the 7 other nominations she had.  She is without a doubt one of the best R&B singer who did great in the 80s with hits like "Never Knew Love Like This Before", "Two Hearts", "Pilot Error", The Medecine Song", "Something in the Way You Make Me Feel" (I really like this one!) and the ballad "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love" among others.  - MissEighties

 

                                                1980 - Never Knew Love Like This Before

 

1989 - Something in the Way You Make Me Feel

 

 

Matthew Broderick - Happy Birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mr. FERRIS BULLER!!!

Hey 80s fans! One of our 80s movies icon; Matthew Broderick is turning 51 today! 

LET'S CELEBRATE!!!

 

How did you discovered him? What is in 1986 Ferris Buller's Day Off? Or 1983 WarGames with Ally Sheedy? Or Ladyhawke in 1985 with Michelle Pfeiffer? Or were you lucky enough to discovered him in Broadway playing in Brighton Beach Memoirs for which he won a Tony Award in 1983.  Yeah well, I just realised that I haven't seen Ladyhawke yet.  But I sure did enjoy Ferris Buller's Day Off and WarGames, I could watch them again and again!   - MissEighties

 

                                                             1983 - WarGames (David)

                                                                        
                                             1986 - Ferris Buller's Day Off (Ferris Buller)

 

Kathy Ireland 50th anniversary

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 50th TO KATHY IRELAND!

This very wealthy 2 billion lady made the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover in 1989.  This 25th SI anniversary issue is still the best selling issue ever from the magazine.  But how did she become that...rich?  It began with putting her name on a Kmart line of socks.  How's that!  She then found kathy ireland Worldwide (kiWW).  She also published fitness videos. 

In 2012 Ireland was on Forbes cover and according to this magazine her products sells 2 billion a year. What? That's a good chunk of $$$

She also had an acting career mostly in the 90s but she began in the 80s with these movies; Alien from L.A, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Worth Winning.   - MissEighties

1987 - Mobira Cityman 900 aka Gorba

What are all the possibilities we can do today with a cellphone? Almost anything; listen to music, watch videos, social network, chat, play games, surf on Internet...all in bright colours and Oh Yes...call someone. Looking back to this massive Mobira Cityman 900 brick mobile phone released a little more than a quarter of century ago brings me a smile. It wasn't the girl next door who could afford this phone (not even the dude nextdoor). Businessman, rich people and...Gorbachev who was seen using this phone in a Moscow conference in 1987 could afford bying thins. But you must ask yourself, how much was the price tag? NEARLY 6000$ US!!! And that was the price tag back in 1987! - MissEighties 

Enya - March of the Celts (1986)

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

In 1986 Enya released her first solo album. This album is also known as BBC soundtrack to  documentary "The Celts" the same year.   The first time I heard Enya was with her song "Orinoco Flow" in 1987...like most of us!  I then bought her "Watermark" cassette.  In 1992 when "The Celts" was reissued, I also bought it.  I still listen and love these first two Enya albums, it really calms me down.

 

March of the Celts (1986)

 

 

BBC The Celts documentary (1986)

 

Enya - Orinoco Flow (1988)

In Tua Nua - Seven Into The Sea (1986)

On this Saint-Patrick day I'm posting a 1986 song I like very from from Irish group In Tua Nua.