Monthly Archives: April 2008

Vote for the Greatest Power Ballad of the 1980s

Posted on April 29, 2008 by The Great 80s

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 … Continue reading →

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Steve Winwood, Carly Simon, Def Leppard Release New CDs

Posted on April 27, 2008 by The Great 80s

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 … Continue reading →

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Indiana Jones sparks nostalgia

Posted on April 25, 2008 by The Great 80s

  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 … Continue reading →

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Wild boys Duran Duran “cool” at last

Posted on April 23, 2008 by The Great 80s

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 … Continue reading →

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If It’s Good Enough for Shatner…

Posted on April 21, 2008 by The Great 80s

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 … Continue reading →

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Matt Making Like Magnum?

Posted on April 19, 2008 by The Great 80s

  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 … Continue reading →

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Johnny Depp despised his teen-idol status in 80s

Posted on April 17, 2008 by The Great 80s

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 … Continue reading →

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The A-Team Countdown Begins

Posted on April 15, 2008 by The Great 80s

  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? … Continue reading →

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“Brat Pack” films endure time

Posted on April 13, 2008 by The Great 80s

  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 … Continue reading →

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Expose is back together and touring

Posted on April 11, 2008 by The Great 80s

  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 … Continue reading →

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