Hello everyone Bear has allowed me to pick this weeks theme , I know I do not always join in but I do love to when I can! Well I have picked The Music Of The Eighties .
In 1983 I was 30yrs old I had three children, infact I had just had my last boy!
The first song I pick is Take On ME By A-Ha : It was revolutionary to me and the video so so clever.
Nothing says eighties more The Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor. The raw determinstiion in the song and the video ! WooW it takes me back to 1982 every time I hear it . I was pregnant with our youngest and my Mum was well and had not had any her strokes and was staying with us …… I miss my Mum!
Now 1983 The voice f the Eighties Bonnie Tyler . Boy she was something and she is still singing! I thought she was etheral and I wanted to be her!
Then of course another of my favourite female singer song writer in colaberation with her one time partner Dave Stewart in Eurithmics The lyrics the Look , someone else I want to emulate. I only manage to get the nerve to have my hair cropped and coloured in late forties! ..In my defence I did break out!
I seem to be stuck in 1983 here but t was a year and a half for music. The Police . Every Breath You Take. Everyone loved this and it was popular for wedding videos… we did not hav DVDs yet! Trouble was the song is not a love song it very threating and about a stalker.
The film of 1983 for me was Flash Dance I had jus had a child after an eight year gap and I started to panic …. so when the boys were at school and the baby was asleep I would dance to the sound track while doing the chores!! I have not picked the obvious track but my favourite Maniac By Michael Sombrello
Okay 1981 The Australian group Men at Work took us all by storm. The video alone is an eye opener not to mention the fabulous lyrics and tune ! Love love love .
I really must apologise I have got stuck in my own personal journey I do hope you have not been board. I could go on and on but I am going to top here with Toto‘s Africa ..just brilliant . Any song that in cludes the line “As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti I seek to cure what’s deep inside, frightened of this thing that I’ve become” is just awesome !
I do hope o enjoyed my trip down memory lane.
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Maddie