The financial chaos of this past week makes a lot of people afraid to look at their 401K and IRA statements. It also may make you yearn for what is often seen as a simpler time: a decade when there was only one stock market crash. Whatever your politics in the era of Reaganomics, the eighties are a nostalgic trip back in time for many of us, and the music was an essential part of it. Soft Rock 106.5 WBMW has featured Awesome 80s Work Escape Weekends for most of this decade. My favorite year from the eighties was 1983. It was a great year for Top 40 radio, the format I was working in at that time. MTV was churning out videos - giving many artists their big break. Many videos were classics, but many more were pretty cheesy. Slick production or not, the music won out, which is why "video didn't kill the radio star." A few songs that are now my iPod musts: Peter Schilling's "Major Tom" and Split Enz with "I Got You." The list of superstars and one-hit wonders goes on. For some more Awesome 80s fun, check out "Like Totally 80s" and listen to the Awesome 80s Work Escape Weekend beginning Friday at 5:00pm with Loverboy's "Workin' for the Weekend" (I caught them at Toad's Place in New Haven way back then). The memories are flooding back!
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