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 Culture of the 1980’S

Music


 * MTV first aired on August 1, 1981 in the United States . The very first song that they played was Video Killed The Radio Star by the Buggles, which many people thought was ironic. MTV and other music channels actually helped boost the popularity of them and music sales.


 * 1983 was the first year you could by compact discs. Nearly 800,000 compact discs were sold in the United States.


 * A boombox is a portable stereo system that is able to play radio stations or recorded music. They were first introduced in the 1970's but became very popular in the 80's. They would usually be found on the shoulder of teens or even on the street while people were breakdancing. After input and output jacks were added to the boombox, the industry went soaring. With the jacks people were able to plug in microphones and headphones.

Films  Trends 
 * Sixteen Candles (1984) - Starred: Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall
 * Footloose (1984) - Starred : Kevin Bacon
 * The Breakfast club (1985) - Starred: Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall
 * Back to the Future (1985) - Starred: Michael J. Fox
 * Pretty in Pink (1986) - Starred: Molly Ringwald
 * The Goonies (1985) - Starred: Sean Aston, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Jeff Cohen, and Jonathon Ke Quan
 * The Karate Kid (1984) - Starred: Ralph Macchio, and Pat Morita
 * Dirty Dancing (1987) - Starred: Jennifer Grey, Patrick Shwayze, and Jerry Orbach
 * Gremlins (1984) - Starred: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates
 * Top Gun (1986) - Starred: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and Tom Skerritt
 * Ghostbusters (1984) - Starred: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis
 * Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) - Starred: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, and Mia Sara
 * The Lost Boys (1987) - Starred: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Weist,
 * Leg warmers were originally made only from wool, but after the fad in the 80's began they started to become available in cotton and synthetic fiber blends. Professional dancers were the first who used leg warmers, to keep the lower half of their legs warm. But once after they were worn in movies, people started wearing them daily as a new trend, no matter how hot the weather was outside.




 * In the mid 80's neon colors became another popular trend. Mostly all of the neon shirts were over sized sweatshirts usually in hot pink, yellow, orange, and green. Not only clothing became neon but so did accessories such as dangling earrings, sunglasses, jelly bracelets, even fingerless gloves and coats.




 * Ray Ban's Wayfarer sunglasses were big on popularity, that it's still even around today. They werent popular just because of being seen on Movies and on Television but it was part of celebrities everyday wardrode.




 * Reebok High Tops were the shoes everyone was wearing. They were basketball shoes, but in the 80's they became a fashion statement. When they first came out, you could only buy them in black and white. But with the 80's craziness you were soon able to buy them in pink, red, blue, and green.




 * Another kind of basketball shoe was the Converse All Star High Tops. They came a variety of colors. The Converse shoe company has been making them since 1917 but it wasn't until basketball super star Chuck Taylor wore them in the 1920's that they caught everyones attention. In the 80's they were either worn with a different color on each foot, plain, or with writing all over them.




 * If you were going to style your hair anyway in the 80's, it was going to be big and curly for the girls or maybe even the valley girl side pony tail. If you were a guy, you would have a mullet and if really dedicated to the decade even a rat tail.






 * Work Cited:**

http://www.eightyeightynine.com/music/80s-music-trivia.html http://beginnersguide.com/mobile-electronics/boomboxes/the-history-of-the-boombox.php []