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Posts Tagged ‘1980’
Madness: Baggy Trousers
And so let the March Madness begin. Do you have a bracket filled in for the NCAA Basketball Tournament? Is it as busted as mine is this morning? Fear not, your woes can be forgotten, because I have another Madness to present to you! Baggy Trousers is a 1980 song performed [...]
Queen: Flash Gordon
At the risk of my manhood, I am ready to admit I secretly like this movie. “Flash Gordon”, (did you know he is the savior of the Universe and King of the impossible) is a 1980 science fiction movie, based off of a comic strip, written in part by Lorenzo Semple, Jr. – the [...]
The Jam: Going Underground
Most of my regular readers will know I was recently in Boston – we were visiting one of my wife’s schooltime friends and celebrating her son’s birthday. For our own son, who has just turned one, it was his first ‘big’ city trip and did he see a whole new and exciting (but [...]
Madness: One Step Beyond
One…. Step…. Beyond!
How I want to be that guy in front of the red British Phone booths! How I want to be in Madness – no – how I could be in Madness! It seems like there were more members of Madness then there were instruments in the band. Cool! [...]
Blondie: Atomic
My wife often jokes that if it wasn’t for her, Debbie Harris would be my girl. It isn’t true, but Blondie are one of the only group’s that I follow that has a female in the lead role of the band. Atomic as a single was released in 1980, and enjoyed top [...]
