{Welcome to the

80’sBy Zainab, April, Kiran

and Isabella

Music Styles & Trends

The 1980s saw the emergence of pop, dance, hip-hop, and new wave music, as disco fell out of fashion. Rock music still appealed to the vast majority of people.

Feathered mullets and crimpled hair stayed a trend during the 80’s

Neon clothing and jewellery were very popular too

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Fashion in the 80’s1980's fashion had heavy

emphasis on expensive clothes and fashion accessories.

Apparel tended to be very bright and vivid in appearance; women expressed an image of wealth and success through shiny costume jewellery, such as large faux-gold earrings, pearl necklaces, and clothing covered with sequins and diamonds.

Punk fashion began as a reaction against both the hippie movement of the past decades and the materialist values of the current decade.

Music Distribution- Music was put in cassettes in the

80’s. Starting in the early seventies, 3M Corporation started to make cassettes that were much better for musical use.

- The music sounded excellent on high fidelity cassettes and players.

Major Artists of the 80’sDepeche Mode

The CureQueen

The SmithsGuns N' Roses

Michael Jackson.Joy DivisionDavid Bowie

Political occurrences In the 1980s' historical timeline, Margaret

Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Mikhail Gorbachev were the three leading names.

Margaret Thatcher reigned as the Prime Minister throughout the 1880’s in Britain. She was the only lady to ever hold the position and went on to become the longest-serving prime minister in the United Kingdom.

Ronald Reagan was the President of the United States for around eight years, spanning a majority of this era.

John Lennon, lead vocalist from the ever-famous and loved band Beatles, was shot dead by Mark Chapman on December 8, in New York City. The murderer later pleaded "not guilty" by stating insanity as the reason.

Hostages taken captive from the US embassy in Tehran were finally released by Iran on January 20, 1981 after a total of 444 days.

On January 20, Ronald Reagan was ushered in as the President of the United States.

An extremely harsh heat wave killed over 1,250

people in the United States. Over 9,000 were

injured and 3,000 were killed by a

powerful earthquake in

Italy.

• Smallpox was eradicated.

Major social changes

Abortion pill invented

Human growth hormone genetically engineered.

MTV

Nicotine patch

The Space Shuttle

HDTVDNA Fingerprinting

1988 Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987

NICKELODEON

Cultures and subcultures

- New Romantics were invented; a group whose preferred music was synthesiser electropop

- Clothing styles demonstrated a return to the freak scenes

This evolved into a harder, faster genre called hard-core punk came the straight edge subculture, relating to tobacco, alcohol and recreational drug use

This related to psychotive and stimulant drug use, and for some people, led to a promiscuous sexual behaviour