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1984, the greatest year in pop by Mark Hemingway Print this article
Thanks to George Orwell, the year 1984 immediately conjures up unpleasant associations. But hindsight is,
ahem, 2020, and those of us old enough to remember the year can tell you it was actually pretty great. America was finally busting out of an economic slump. The Cold War loomed large, but President Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were at the height of their popularity. On the cultural front, it’s long been a parlor game for music critics to try and argue what year was the best for music, and 1984 has always been a leading contender. In the introduction to
Thriller, super producer Quincy Jones told an interviewer from
Radio & Records what he foresaw in music’s future.
He envisioned a time coming soon when music consumers could see an album or single on a computer screen, then click to listen to or purchase it. Or pick and choose which songs from an album to do either with. And that accessing music through satellites, computers, and TV sets would be the norm and might even mean the demise of physical media entirely.
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Those predictions might have seemed bizarre when records (and cassettes!) by megastars Michael Jackson, Prince, Lionel Richie, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Wham!, Phil Collins, Tina Turner, Huey Lewis and the News, Cyndi Lauper, and Duran Duran were flying out of record store bins. And MTV played and played and played the accompanying videos.
Michelangelo Matos s Can t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop s Blockbuster Year. (Jay Gabler/MPR)
Michaelangelo Matos and I are almost exactly the same age, and we both grew up in Minnesota, but his childhood was privileged in a way mine wasn t: in 1984, he had a cassette deck that could record straight off the radio. Until I finally got a boom box in 87, I was consigned to holding our tape player up to the TV if I wanted to record the theme to
Knight Rider or
In the summer of 84, Matos writes in his new book
Can t Slow Down (buy now), he hit record and decided to keep the tape rolling until the two pop radio stations he was switching between (in St. Paul, must ve been KDWB and WLOL) played a bad song. Hours passed, and he never had to hit pause.
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