All posts tagged "80s"
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‘The Apprentice’ is Donald Trump’s Ugly Origin Story
Sebastian Stan captures the gestalt of Trump's ego, ambition, and bluster in Ali Abbasi's biting biopic "The Apprentice."
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‘Wham!’ Review: By George
Netflix's bouncy "Wham!" offers an inside account of the '80s duo's meteoric rise, sudden end, and not much else
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‘Empire of Light’ Review: Sight and Sound
Olivia Colman dazzles in "Empire of Light," writer-director Sam Mendes' complicated ode to movies, melancholy, and friendship
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Journey & Def Leppard bring the “Tour of the Year” to D.C.
The '80s icons are teaming up over a decade after their 2006 tour
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Duran Duran ring in the New Year at MGM National Harbor
Tickets still available for Saturday and Sunday night performances.
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Legendary dance/pop icon Giorgio Moroder returns with new album “Déjà Vu”
The last time Georgio Moroder put his name to an album was 1985. He had scored a surprise hit with Human League vocalist Philip Oakey...
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Review: Spandau Ballet spins Pure Gold at 9:30 Club
Tuesday night at 9:30 Club, British band Spandau Ballet, the iconic vanguard of the “new romantic” subset of the early ’80s new wave era, took...
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Spotlight: Hall & Oates coming to the Warner
The ’80s hit-making duo Daryl Hall and John Oates is still performing together, and not just on TV (specifically, American Idol and The Voice). The duo...
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Duran Duran: Ranking their albums Worst to First
One of the biggest bands to emerge from the early MTV era, Duran Duran was a perfect partner for the fledgling music network. Five sexy...
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Whitney Houston’s self-titled debut album turns 30
There can be no dispute that Whitney Houston is one of the great recording artists of the last three decades. The late singer sold millions...
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Fleetwood Mac’s 25 Greatest Tracks
Fleetwood Mac is back, and in a big way. Christine McVie has returned to the line-up for the first time since the band’s 1997 reunion,...
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25 Years of Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814
By the mid-80s, it seemed an unlikely prospect at best that Janet, the youngest sibling of the superstar Jackson family, would break through the long...
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Classic Album Revisited: The Cars, “Heartbeat City”
The Cars are one of the biggest and most important American bands to come out of the new wave scene of the late ’70s...
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Classic Album Revisited: Billy Joel’s “An Innocent Man”
Revisiting the classic Billy Joel album, An Innocent Man
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Flashback: Top 30 Hits This Week 30 Years Ago — July 21, 1984
1984 was one of the great years in pop music history. MTV had introduced a whole new wave of exciting and innovative artists that captured...
