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1980
Paul McCartney gets busted for travelling without a Lennon in Japan.
"I've
Been To Bali Too" - Redgum
1980 - 1988
Ronald Reagan leads America, although whether as President or stand-up
comedian remains unclear
"The
Fletcher Memorial Home" - Pink Floyd
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
"Russians"
- Sting
1980
Bon Scott scores most embarassing OD for any Australian: too much
beer
"(He'll
Never Be An) Old Man River" - This Is Serious Mum
1980
John Lennon is shot and killed, while Yoko Ono stands next to him
unharmed, thus illustrating the essential injustice of life
"I
Just Shot John Lennon" - The Cranberries
"Far
Side of Crazy" - Wall of Voodoo
1980 - 1989
Airline hijacking continue.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1980 - 1989
Teen suicide epidemic largely blamed on Heavy Metal music rather
than doing anything about it.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1980 - 1989
"Wheel of Fortune" becomes one the decade's top rating
US tv shows.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1980 - 1989
A statistically disproportionate number of Vietnam vets become homeless.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1981
Trevor Chappell resorts to under-handed tactics to salvage cricketing
victory for Australia
"The
Power and the Passion" - Midnight Oil
1981
Nothing much happends, but Ross Wilson writes a song about it anyway
"Summer of '81" - Mondo Rock
1981 - 1984
Many find no help, but AIDS instead, initially
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
"Sign
O' The Times" - Prince
1982
The Vietnam memorial in Washington DC in constructed.
"Civil
War" - Guns N Roses
1982
Israel invades Lebanon.
"Get
Your Filthy Hands Off My Dessert" - Pink Floyd
1982
The Falklands War.
"Get
Your Filthy Hands Off My Dessert" - Pink Floyd
"Southhampton
Dock" - Pink Floyd
"The
Post War Dream" - Pink Floyd
"Not
Now John" - Pink Floyd
1983
Sally Ride becomes the first woman in space.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1983 - 1991
A new weapon is deployed in the Cola War - celebrity endorsements
from rock stars.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1984
Bernhard Goetz innaugrates a new era of vigilante justice.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1985
Ricky Nelson falls victim to Cliched Rick Star Death #3: plane crash
"Air
Crash Museum" - The Dead Milkmen
1985
Reagnomics leads to the US having a net foreign debt for the first
time in decades.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1985
The crack cocaine epidemic begins.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1988
Harrison Ford stars in "Frantic", yet another of his inexplicable
career moves
"One
Week" - Bare Naked Ladies
1988
Used syringes and other trash wash up on the New York and New Jersey
shores.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1989
A pro-democractic uprising in China is ruthlessly crushed
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
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