FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday 1985 ~ 01 July 2005

[MoJo2001]

 

 

~ Flashback Friday ~
Year: 1985

Welcome to Flashback Friday!
Each Friday we will take a journey back in time.
We will highlight a year and then you'll have the opportunity to give your thoughts, opinions, and stories.
This week we're jumping back to 1985.

1985 Questions!
We Want To Know

1. Were you in school?
2. Were you in the military?
3. What kind of music were you listening to?
4. What do you recall as the best memory from 1985?

Events that occurred in 1985

- Live Aid attempts to raise funds for famine relief.

- January 20 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term in office.

-February 1 - AM stereo broadcasting starts in Australia.

-March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.

-March 20 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog sled race.

June 6 - The body of Josef Mengele is located and exhumed in Brazil.

June 14 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.

July 10 - The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents

September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. 

October 7 - The passenger ship Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestinians.

December 27 - American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda. 

December 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union

December 26 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union

December 31 - Soviet Union officially ceases to exist
 

Entertainment/Sports

Super Bowl XIX: San Francisco 49ers won 38-16 over the Miami Dolphins

April 1 - Villanova University's "perfect upset" of Georgetown University and Patrick Ewing for the NCAA Basketball Championship.

World Series: The Kansas City Royals defeat the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3, becoming the first team to come back from a 3 to 1 deficit to win a series in baseball

February 8 - After 5-1/2 years, the television series The Dukes of Hazzard goes off the air.

June - Alexey Pajitnov develops Tetris at the Moscow Academy of Science for the Electronica 60 computer.

November - Microsoft releases the first version of Windows.

The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the U.S.

 

Hit Music From 1985

Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing

Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls*

USA For Africa - We Are The World

Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover

New Edition - Cool It Now

Honeydrippers - Sea Of Love

Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok

Sade - Smooth Operator

Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine

Madonna - Dress You Up

Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA

The Time - Jungle Love*

 

* denotes music that isn't suitable for children or Ma!

 

 

[StarCMC]

It's been ungodly hot all week. Supposed to cool down a little this weekend.

[clyde asbury]

This is from a kid born in 1987, but, did the USSR cease to exist until 1990?.... I thought the USSR retained their control until after the BErlin Wall fell.

I noticed that, too. The USSR existed until 1991 - I was in my mid-20s then. It probably should read that Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union, which eventually led to the USSR's evaporation.

But, in 1985 my view of MAD world politics was best elucidated by Klaus Meine, elder statesman:


Crossfire

Music :rudolf schenker
Lyrics:klaus meine

It seems to me a nightmare becomes reality
The last days of the paradise are gone for you and me
We're living in the crossfire
And we'll be killed at first
Why cannot people that we made the leaders of the world
Understand that we don't wanna fight
Understand that we are mush too young to die
Understand no one will survive
Understand that we love our life


Can I trust the meaning of the life line in my hand
Which is as long as exciting hundred years
I could be a lucky man
But I'm living in the crossfire
Of a time that starts to burn
Why cannot people that we made the leaders of the world
Understand that we don't wanna fight
Understand that we are mush too young to die
Understand no one will survive
Understand that we love our life

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Well, speaking of 1985, that was the year New Coke came out. I can't believe they're still using "Coke Classic" 20 years later-what, are they hoping for a New Coke comeback? It was also the year that the wreckage of the Titanic was found. When I first saw the footage the thing that came to my mind was a TV movie, "Goliath Awaits," about the discovery of a luxury liner that had been sunk during WW2 and which still had people, the descendents of the original passengers and crew, living on it.

1985 was also the year of those music-lyrics hearings on Capitol Hill, where Dee Snider, John Denver, and Frank Zappa all testified before a committee led by Tipper Gore. Al Gore claimed at the time that he was a fan of Zappa's music. These were the infamous hearings which led to warning lables being placed on albums.

[bannie]

My daughter was crazy about New Kids on the Block at about this time.

[StarCMC]

YEs she did. Ugh - makes me gag to even think about it. A clueless moonbat she definitely is!

[Senator Pardek]

OK - I kinda feel normal now. G'night!

[Army Air Corps]

"...can you imagine me nice little Generxer with pink hair being Republican LOLOLOL!"

I recall during the funeral last year that several media outlets had commented on Reagan's impact on young Americans and how youth gravitated to him. I saw him as a cool grandfather figure who was pleasant but did not take any crap off of anyone. Also, the man simply "Rocked." Viva la Regan Revolucion!

[radu]

Howdy y'all!

To all our military men and women past and present, military family members, and to our allies who stand beside us
Thank You!

[FlingWingFlyer]

I sure hope it wasn't Men Down Under. LOL

[GodBlessUSA]

My husband was furious. The building he worked in is fairly new and the AC wasn't working. Are you looking forward to the 4th?

[luvie]

Well, it sounds like y'all are going to have a wonderful time together. I would be totally shocked if my family ever all got together. The last time we had a reunion was 5 years ago and everyone promised to stay in touch. Of course, they didn't.

[StarCMC]

LOL!! Goodnight!

[Army Air Corps]

New Kids?! Ack! I trust that you have performed a musical exorcism on your daughter. :-)

In 1985, I was into Van Halen (and similar groups) and New Wave. I have a heck of a New Wave CD collection; dang, now I feel an urge to play some Thompson Twins while I participate on this thread.

[StarCMC]

EWWW!! That would have been purely AWFUL!! It's been extremely humid to go with the heat - so much that it's been icky hazy with it.

The 4th will be spent entertaining hubby's family at the farm. It has it's good and bad points! LOL!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Let me see. 1985. I was flying out of Ft. Wainwright, Alaska, spending a lot of time in Kotzebue and fighting with my branch manager at DA about going to the Maintenance Test Pilot Course at Ft. Eustis and not back to Mother Rucker.

[GodBlessUSA]

LOL!
I was a President Reagan Republican for certain. My friend from the 80's still tells people, Her, she's a little right of Ronald Reagan. LOL. There I was, Big hair/ then very blond, polkadotted Mini Skirt talking politics. LOL!

[StarCMC]

Ok - because I'm totally lazy and don't want to look it up - didn't they sing "Hold Me Now"?

[bannie]

She was just 11 years old! It was totally appropriate. She got to go to one of their concerts in Sacramento. I consider it a rite of passage.

She's grown into a wonderful young woman and mother. The effects of the New Kids, apparently, was not fatal.

LOL! Besides, they had some cute music.

[laurenmarlowe]

[Army Air Corps]

When you listen to the lyrics, you realise just how nationalistic it is (I mean that in a good way). After listening to it, I feel like opening a Foster's and saying, "This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand."