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Everybody knows the hits of 1984-pop music''s greatest year. From Thriller to Purple Rain, Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Like a Virgin, Hello to Against All Odds, Sister Christian to Love Is a Battlefield, What''s Love Got to Do with It to Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, they continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves-until now.

Can''t Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'

Cant Slow Down How 1984 Became Pops Blockbuster

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      Publisher Hachette Books
      Published 31 December 2020
      ISBN-13 9780306903373
      978-0306903373
      ISBN-10 306903377
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      Biography: arts and entertainment Entertainment Music

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Everybody knows the hits of 1984-pop music''s greatest year. From Thriller to Purple Rain, Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Like a Virgin, Hello to Against All Odds, Sister Christian to Love Is a Battlefield, What''s Love Got to Do with It to Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, they continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves-until now.

      Can''t Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'

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