The 1980s was the most awesome decade in living memory, I'm not saying that because I grew up during them and have fond recollections of my childhood. I mean it, objectively. The movies were radical, the music was uplifting and fun, and the toys were classics. TV had passed from its age of innocence and had yet to plunge into the PC and banal depths of today and as such was worth watching. Computers were new on the block and the fashion was.... ok, so I'll concede on that one.
A decade that saw the rise of such Hollywood stalwarts like Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Willis and Ringwald. A decade where four men driving about in a snazzy black van with a red stripe didn't have to have gay overtones. A decade where people were happy with two colours on their computer screen and were entertained for hours by a cube with stickers on it. A decade where to get to number one in the charts you couldn't just add a bass beat to a song from twenty years prior. A decade where you didn't go to the gym to get big shoulders you went to a shop and bought them. 
This site is dedicated to looking back and remembering the fun, the fads, the fashion, the movies, the music, the TV, and the events. So kick back, and enjoy your nostalgic but crude, rude, and slightly irreverent look back at these great times. On this day in the 80s - 07 January
1980 - Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India.
1981 - Snow in Palermo and Sicily.
1982 - "Fame" premieres on NBC TV
1983 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win vs England.
1984 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate dies
1985 - Lewis Hamilton, British Formula 1 Driver born.
1986 - US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya.
1987 - Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest.
1988 - British actor Trevor Howard died in England at age 71.
1989 - Showa period ends with the death of Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Showa) after 62 years and 14 days of his reign in Japan.
