The Wonder Years : 1980

1. ACDC - Back In Black
2. Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
3. Blondie - Atomic
4. Julian Cope and the Teardrop Explodes - Bouncing Babies
5. The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You
6. Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
7. Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards
8. Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr
9. Elvis Costello - Love For Tender
10. Adam & The Ants - Antmusic
11. The Jam - That's Entertainment
12. The Sound - Heyday
13. Joy Division - A Means To An End
14. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
15. Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart
16. The Cure - 10.15 Saturday Night
17. The Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing
18. Specials - Stereotype
19. Young Marble Giants - Credit In The Straight World
20. The Cramps - I Was A Teenage Werewolf
21. Feelies - Loveless Love
22. Suicide - Mr. Ray

It’s 1980! And we’re Rollerblading whilst wearing legwarmers and listening to Sheena Easton on our brand new Walkmans…

Who Shot JR? is talked about heavily from the TV show Dallas. On November 21, the conclusion draws more viewers than any other show in TV history up to that point.

The Summer Olympics are held in Moscow, USSR. The USA boycotts. The favour was returned 4 years later.

Ronald Reagan is elected, defeating Jimmy Carter, and takes credit for freeing the Iranian hostages in his innaugural speech.

Bjorn Borg defeated John Mcenroe in the Wimbledon mens singles final to claim his fifth title in a row.

Mount St. Helens (in Washington) erupts, darkening the skies with ash and destroying the surrounding area for many miles

We said Hello to Christina Aguilera, Macauly Culkin, Alicia Keys, Christina Ricci, Conor Oberst, Ryan Gosling, Steven Gerrard and Jake Gyllenhaal..

We said Goodbye to John Bonham, Ian Curtis, Tim Hardin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steve McQueen, Jesse Owens, Colonel Sanders, Bon Scott, Peter Sellers, Jean Paul Sartre and of course John Lennon….

1980