Music of the 1980

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Music of the 1980s
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1980 Hit Songs

• Rock with You
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• Coming Up
• Funkytown

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• It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
• Lost in Love
• Do That to Me One More Time

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Grammy Awards

• Sailing Christopher Cross- record
• Christopher Cross- Album
• Sailing song

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• Disco continued to sell well in 1980-
• Songs like Blondie's "Call Me"
• Diana Ross "Upside Down"
• Irene Cara "Fame"

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• Listeners tastes were changing though
• Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and Bob Seger were
  all becoming popular
• Captain and Tennille "Do That to Me One More
  Time"

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• Kenny Roger "Lady"
• Christopher Cross "Sailing"----these were "mushy"
  ballads that were also very popular

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• The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" became
  the first rap record to make the Top Hundred
  (peaked at 36)

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• Digitally recorded LP's were widely marketed for
  the first time
• Introduction of the Sony Walkman (portable stereo)

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• The Walkman changed the listening habits of the
  entire country
• Single handedly responsible for the boom in
  cassette sales during the early 80's

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• New generation was discovering Jim Morrison and
  The Doors (thanks to the movie Apocalype Now
  because it used the song "The End" in it)

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• Morrison became a popular icon- Rolling Stone
  Magazine did a cover story on him
• Headline "He's Hot. He's Sexy. He's Dead."

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• John Lennon assassinated in New York City by
  mental patient
• Mark
• David
• Chapman

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1981

• Lady
• Starting Over
• Kiss on My List
• 9 to 5
• Take It On the Run

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• Morning Train
• Slow Hand

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Grammy Awards

• Bette Davis Eyes Kim Carnes- record
• Double Fantasy John Lennon, Yoko One- album
• Bette Davis Eyes song

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MTV

• MTV all music video cable channel that was
  relatively commercial free
• Debut was with Buggles' song "Video Killed the
  Radio Star"
• Immediate sensation

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• Bars drew in extra business by hanging a sign out
  that said "We have MTV"
• Original veejays were Alan Hunter, Martha
  Quinn, JJ Jackson, Mark Goodman, and Nina
  Blackwood

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• Channel was originally dominated by English
  artists, because American artists were not in the
  habit of making videos
• Many critics noticed a lack of black artists

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• Disco backlash many white record buyers were
  considering anything black to be "disco"
• Black recording artists were having a tough time
  crossing over into the pop world

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• Rick James Top 20 hit with "Super
  Freak"---couldn't get the video played on MTV

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• Prince "Controversy" album---was booed off
  stage while opening for Rolling Stones at the LA
  Coliseum

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• Only two records by black artists topped the
  charts in 1981 Diana Ross and Lionel Richie's
  "Endless Love" and "Celebration"
• Blondie experimented with rap in "Rapture"

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• White America was still wanting REO Speedwagon,
  Styx, Journey and pop country Eddie Rabbit and
  Dolly Parton, and Daryl Hall and John Oates---

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• Styx and Hall Oates

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• Also Rick Springfield Australian actor and
  musician
• Fluke hit in 1972 with "Speak to the Sky"
• One of America's leading heartthrobs

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• Had a regular role as Dr. Noah Drake on soap
  opera General Hospital

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• Olivia Newton-John "Physical"
• Christopher Cross "Arthur's Theme (Best That
  You Can Do)"

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1982

• Any Day Now
• Jack and Diane
• Abracadabra
• Hard to Say I'm Sorry
• Gloria

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• I Can't Go for That
• Hurts So Good

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Grammy Awards

• Rosanna Toto-record
• Toto IV Toto- album
• Always on My Mind- song

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• Independent film Wild Style came out this year
• Explored rap music, breakdancing, and graffiti
  art scenes in the black community of New York's
  South Bronx

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• Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five- rap act
  that appeared in the movie
• They released single called "The Message"

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• First rap hit to comment on the social issues and
  pressures facing urban blacks

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• Not a huge pop hit, but crossed over just enough
  to start getting white people to see that
  something was starting to develop in the ghettos
  of America

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• Pretty dull year for American music
• Hall and Oates and Lionel Richie dominated the
  charts
• John Cougar starting to become popular

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• Steve Miller and Chicago still popular from the
  1970's
• Joan Jett brought real rock and roll to the charts

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• The Blasters and The Stray Cats were popular
  among American kids too
• The Go-Go's products of LA punk scene

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• Frank Zappa he and daughter Moon Unit did
  "Valley Girl"
• Used "valspeaking" residents of LA and gave him
  the biggest hit of his career

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Liberace

• his chauffeur Scott Thorson had been his
  companion
• Filed a lawsuit against Liberace- wanted his
  belongings back
• Liberace denied being homosexual

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• Joan Jett and The Blackhearts "I Love Rock N
  Roll"
• Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder "Ebony and
  Ivory"

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• Survivor "Eye of the Tiger"
• J. Geils Band "Centerfold"
• Daryl Hall and John Oates "Maneater"

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1983

• Down Under
• Billie Jean
• Every Breath You Take
• Maniac

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• Total Eclipse of the Heart
• Say, Say, Say
• Islands in the Stream

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Grammy Awards

• Beat It, Michael Jackson- record
• Thriller Michael Jackson- album
• Every Breath You Take- song

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• Michael Jackson Off the Wall had been a huge
  hit in 1979
• Came out with Thriller this year

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• Had 6 Top Ten hits on it
• "Billie Jean"
• "Beat It"
• "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin"
• "Human Nature"
• "PYT"
• "Thriller"

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• Quiet Riot LA album "Metal Health"
• Popularity of heavy metal was coming
• Spandex pants and big hair

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• Styx Kilroy Was Here
• Talking Heads New York art-rock combo- "Burning
  Down the House" was in Top 10

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• REM Athens, Georgia- Top 40 with "Murmur"
• The Velvet Underground had been popular in the
  late 60's
• By '85 all records were back in print, selling
  better than in the 60's

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1984

• Footloose
• Jump
• Time After Time
• Owner of a Lonely Heart

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• Ghostbusters
• Uptown Girl
• Self Control

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Grammy Awards

• What's Love Got to Do with It Tina Turner-
  record
• Can't Slow Down Lionel Richie- album
• What's Love Got to Do with It- song

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• Breakdancing was everywhere- in TV commercials,
  music videos- even at the opening of the LA
  Summer Olympics

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• Hollywood made four low-budget "Breaksploitation"
  flicks "Beat Street" "Body Rock" "Breakin'" and
  "Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo"

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• MTV was a major influence on music and film
• Quick edits lighting that had been just in
  music videos were now going into Hollywood
  films-Beverly Hills Cop, Footloose, Streets of
  Fire, Purple Rain

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• Executives started realizing that by putting
  scenes from the film into the music video, you
  could sell a movie better as well as the
  soundtrack

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• Purple Rain blockbuster film and a
  multi-platinum album
• Born in The USA Bruce Springsteen

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• Heavy Metal
• Van Halen 1984 -band's final album with David
  Lee Roth
• "Jump"
• "Panama"
• "Hot for Teacher"

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• Ratt, Motley Crue
• "Out of The Cellar"
• "Shout At The Devil"

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• Twisted Sister "We're Not Gonna take It"
• RUN-DMC Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels
• "Rock Box" mixture of street raps and metallic
  guitars

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Marvin Gaye

• 1983 "Sexual Healing" comeback
• working on a follow-up to "Midnight Love" album
• April 1 was shot and killed by his father in an
  argument

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• Other big hits of the year
• Madonna "Like A Virgin"
• Prince "When Doves Cry"

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1985

• Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
• I Feel for You
• Glory Days
• Crazy for You
• Careless Whisper
• One Night in Bangkok

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Grammy Awards

• We Are the World- U.S.A. for Africa- record
• No Jacket Required Phil Collins- album
• We Are the World song

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• Live Aid, Farm Aid, and founding of the Rock and
  Roll Hall of Fame
• Year of the compact disc higher priced than
  turntables and LPs

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• CD players and CDs were immediately so successful
  that it was predicted that vinyl would be almost
  completely obsolete by the end of the decade

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• PMRC self appointed moral watchdog committee
  formed by wives of several prominent politicos

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• Began to pressure record companies to save the
  youth of America by putting warning stickers on
  records containing "offensive" lyrical content

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• 22 record companies pledged to slap parental
  warnings on any product containing potentially
  offensive material

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• LL Cool J rap's newest superstar with debut
  album "Radio"
• Starship's "We Built This City"
• Mr. Mister "Broken Wings"
• Whitney Houston's "Saving All My Love For You"

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• Lionel Richie "Say You, Say Me"
• Madonna's "Crazy For You"
• John Parr "St Elmo's Fire"
• Huey Lewis and The News' "The Power of Love"

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More top songs

• USA for Africa "We Are The World"
• REO Speedwagon "Can't Fight This Feeling"
• Dire Straits "Money For Nothing"

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1986

• How Will I Know
• Kyrrie
• Greatest Love of All
• Live to Tell

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• On My Own
• There'll Be Sad Songs
• Sledgehammer

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Grammy Awards

• Higher Love Steve Winwood- record
• Graceland Paul Simon album
• That's What Friends Are For song

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• Madonna shortened hair and tried to "class up"
  her image
• Third album "True Blue

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• The Bangles all female quartet
• Two massive pop hits "Manic Monday" - which was
  written by Prince
• "Walk Like An Egyptian"

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• Bon Jovi
• Sounded like a cross between Bruce Springsteen
  and a metal band
• "You Give Love A Bad Name"
• "Livin On A Prayer"

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• Metallica thrash metal classes "Master of
  Puppets"
• Momentum lost when bassist Cliff Burton died in
  a bus crash during the band's Swedish tour

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• Miami Vice's Don Johnson Top 5 hit with
  "Heartbeat"
• Janet Jackson younger sister of Michael Jackson
• "Control"

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• James Brown 4th decade of hits with Living In
  America
• Paul Simon South African musicians on new
  Graceland album---world music style
• Run DMC teamed up with Aerosmith for a remake
  of Walk This Way

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• More top hits
• Dionne and Friends Thats What Friends Are For
• Falco Rock Me Amadeus

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1987

• Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
• Alone
• Here I Go Again
• The Way It Is

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• Shakedown
• Livin' on a Prayer
• Everybody Have Fun Tonight

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Grammy Awards

• Graceland Paul Simon- record
• The Joshua Tree US- album
• Somewhere Out There- song

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Top Albums

• Dirty Dancing Soundtrack
• Whitney Houston Whitney
• U2 The Joshua Tree
• The Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill
• Michael Jackson Bad

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• Other Top Singles
• George Michael Faith
• Los Lobos La Bamba
• U2 With or Without You

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• CD market had sales of over 102 million
• Bad sold 8 million copies this year, had 5 Number
  One singles- including Man In The Mirror and
  Bad

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• Tiffany Tiffany Darwinsch
• 16 years old
• Couldve Been
• I Think Were Alone Now

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• Debbie Gibson
• Only In My Dreams
• Shake Your Love

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• Grateful Dead hit first Top 10 hit with Touch
  of Grey
• Deadheads complained that the single was making
  the band too popular
• Newcomers were ruining the vibe of he Deads
  concerts

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• Poison
• Slayer
• These replaced Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot for
  the headbangers

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• The Beastie Boys debut album by New York white
  rap trio was Licensed to Ill
• Had hit You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party
• Sold 5 million copies and became the first rap
  record to top the pop album charts

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• 10 years after Elvis Presleys death
• 20,000 fans from around the world went to Memphis
• Liberace died this year from AIDS
• He had an outrageous sense of onstage style

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1988

• Faith
• Need You Tonight
• Sweet Child O'Mine
• Hands to Heaven

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• One More Try
• Wild, Wild West
• Groovy Kind of Love

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Grammy Awards

• Don't Worry, Be Happy- Bobby McFerrin- record
• Faith George Michael- album
• Don't Worry, Be Happy Bobby McFerrin- song

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• More Top Singles
• Steve Winwood Roll With It
• Poison Every Rose Has Its Thorn
• Chicago Look Away

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Top Albums

• George Michael Faith
• Def Leppard Hysteria
• US Rattle and Hum
• Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction
• Bon Jovi New Jersey

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Guns N Roses

• Changing the face of music
• No lipstick, teased hair, and spandex
• They had leathers, bandanas and the look of
  fresh from the gutter

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• Public Enemy
• It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
• Mixed rage with big beats

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• Will To Power Free Baby
• Disco-muzak of Peter Framptons Baby I Love Your
  Way and Lynyrd Skynyrds Free Bird
• Beach Boys Kokomo

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• Bobby McFerrin Dont Worry, Be Happy
• George Bush would try to use this song as his
  theme for 1992 campaign

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• James Brown arrested this fall
• He lead several Georgia state police cars on a
  chase while under influence of PCP
• 6 year jail sentence was reduced to a little over
  25 months

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1989

• My Prerogative
• Straight Up
• Giving You the Best that I Got
• This Time I Know It's for Real

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• Fight the Power
• Cold Hearted
• Cherish

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Grammy Awards

• Wind Beneath My Wings Bette Midler- record
• Nick of Time Bonnie Raitt- album
• Wind Beneath My Wings- song

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• Phil Collins Another Day in Paradise
• Janet Jackson Miss You Much
• Richard Marx Right Here Waiting
• Madonna Like a Prayer

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Top Albums

• Paula Abdul Forever Your Girl
• Milli Vanilli Girl You Know Its True
• Fine Young Cannibals The Raw and the Cooked
• Bobby Brown Dont Be Cruel
• Madonna Like a Prayer

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• Rap music very popular now
• Novelty rap singles like Young MCs Bust A Move
• 2 Live Crew
• Tone Locs Funky Cold Medina

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• Paula Abdul, Richard Marx, and New Kids on the
  Block
• Madonna Like a Prayer strongest album for her
  to that point
• Bobby Brown left New Edition and came out with
  Dont Be Cruel

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• Harry Connick Jr. 22 year old jazz pianist
• When Harry Met Sally soundtrack
• Guns N Roses Patience

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• MTV came out with MTV Unplugged
• Debuted in November with singer-songwriter Jules
  Shear