“I still think it’s a great lyric. Probably the best I’ve ever written. Those first four lines are the most memorable in my entire catalogue”: The classic ’80s rock anthem and the ’70s hit that inspired it

“I still think it’s a great lyric. Probably the best I’ve ever written. Those first four lines are the most memorable in my entire catalogue”: The classic ’80s rock anthem and the ’70s hit that inspired it

In 1981, after his debut album had flopped, Bryan Adams joked about naming his second album Bryan Adams Hasn’t Heard Of You Either. But four years later he had considered one of the largest promoting albums of the ’80s in Reckless – and amongst its many hit singles was the classic rock anthem Summer Of…

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Molly Ringwald, 58, Has Barely Changed 40 Years After ‘Pretty in Pink’: ‘There’s My 80’s Crush’

Molly Ringwald, 58, Has Barely Changed 40 Years After ‘Pretty in Pink’: ‘There’s My 80’s Crush’

Molly Ringwald rose to stardom in the course of the ’80s in the movies of John Hughesand he or she’s nonetheless a surprising redhead over 40 years later. Ringwald, 58, turned immediately related to the Brat Pack because of her roles in Hughes’s beloved teen movies like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Cluband Pretty in Pinkwhich…

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“I should be dead, but someone up there likes me.” Billy Idol looks back on his wild adventures in ’80s New York, including the night he met David Bowie while covered in his own vomit

“I should be dead, but someone up there likes me.” Billy Idol looks back on his wild adventures in ’80s New York, including the night he met David Bowie while covered in his own vomit

The title of the new Billy Idol documentary, Billy Idol Should Be Deadspeaks volumes about the English rocker’s uninhibited and often reckless embrace of hedonism and debauchery at the top of his fame. Idol had a reasonably profitable profession in England with London punks Generation Kiss‘ wily supervisor Bill Aucoin, who inspired his new shopper’s…

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