CTV is having a vote for the top 80s Power Ballad:
Maybe it was under the twinkling gaze of a disco ball as you danced with your one true love in the middle of the high school gymnasium to Triumph’s ringing, bombastic ballad “Magic Power” or perhaps, it was as you bid farewell to that Grade […]
Steve Winwood, “Nine Lives” (Columbia) 3.5 stars.
Hot on the heels of his triumphant Madison Square Garden shows with old friend Eric Clapton, the seemingly ageless Steve Winwood has a new album, filled with the soulful singing and rich keyboards that have been his calling cards throughout his career.
That career dates back a lot further than […]
New ‘Indiana Jones’ film recalls simpler, and safer, days
People have long been nostalgic when it comes to popular culture.
The “good old days,” some theoretical time and place when life was simpler, easier, somehow better, have been pined for ever since, well, the good old days.
But with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, […]
Pop stars Duran Duran, who shot to fame for a string of smash hits and dodgy suits in the 1980s, are officially cool at last.
Once panned for being pretty boys who used enough hairspray to blow a hole in the ozone layer, the British band have become a reference point for many of today’s chart-topping […]
PC world looks at Celebs who hocked computers in the 80s…
What do Bill Cosby, the cast of ‘MASH,’ and, yes, Captain James T. Kirk have in common? They all endorsed PCs in the 1980s.
When personal computers entered the mainstream in the 1980s, the American public was understandably uneasy. Most people didn’t know much about […]
Hollywood has come up with yet another excuse for Matthew McConaughey to walk around topless onscreen.
The Fool’s Gold star is on the shortlist of actors Universal Pictures is eyeing to don (doff?) the Hawaiian shirt in a big-screen version of Magnum P.I., Entertainment Weekly reports.
The popular CBS series, which ran from 1980-88, made a star […]
Johnny Depp hated his teen idol status so much during the 1980s that he shaved off his hair including his eyebrows to stop from posing with his top off for girls’ magazines.
The ‘Pirates Of the Caribbean’ star first touched fame when he appeared in U. S. teen show 21 Jump Street and became a female […]
If you’ve been holding your breath for The A-Team movie, well, we feel sorry for you.
But help is on the way for you and your oxygen-deprived brain. So just hold on. Until June 12. Of next year. Feel better? You should, actually.
The release date, as reported by Variety, is the first for the long-discussed, long-suffering project. […]
While so much fascination centers on the rise and fall of child stars, the true Hollywood horror story is that of an ’80s group full of teenage angst. The ’80s were years unique in their culture and atmosphere, but even with such a specific background, the movies of “The Brat Pack” remain timeless.
A group of […]
When it comes to girl groups of the ’80s, Exposé is the Rodney Dangerfield of the bunch. These women don’t get the respect they deserve.
Sentimental 40-somethings will wax nostalgic about the Go-Go’s or the Bangles. Even Bananarama gets more spins on radio stations devoted to the Breakfast Club generation.
But according to the Billboard singles chart, […]
