"Bailey's Dad" <baileyears@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Neil wrote:
> > It's quaint, but when I heard of the passing of former President
> > Reagan, what really came to my mind and my memories was that he was
> > President in 1984, when I first heard and saw Cyndi Lauper. That
> > bright orange-red hair, that piercing child-like voice, and the
> > gyrations of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" - it all got me blissfully
> > hooked. We could debate his presidency, but Reagan - like Cyndi - is
> > one of those 80's icons who defined the decade misfits like me dare
> > to have nostalgia for.
>
> Don't mean this the way it sounds; I am genuinely curious. How old are
you?
>
> BD
>
Curiously enough, I am nearly 50. So, almost thirty in '84 was just about
right
to fit into the mod scene. Actually, I went dancing a lot at the places
that
were still stuck in the SNF disco scene, but that just made it more
colorful and
complicated. I know, I know, Cyndi is supposed to have been a "young
girl's
favorite", and she was. But she was charming, and rather cute and amusing.
It
was camp, it was funny. Not just her, but early Madonna (that vampy "Lucky
Star"
stuff), Tears for Fears, Thompson Twins, Berlin, Duran Duran, Eurythmics,
Boy
George, "Thriller" Michael when he was still normalish and handsome,
Prince
(another one who still looks good at 40-something), Weird Al (ditto), the
little
OHW's like "Somebody's Watching Me", and on and on, radio and the Golden
Age of
MTV. That whole thing was a gas. (Your permission to post out to
alt.culture.us.1980s, ?)
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