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Can't slow down : how 1984 became pop's blockbuster year

Matos, Michaelangelo2020
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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 and TV hits. 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.
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Brinnington LibraryAdult non-fiction hardback782.42164 MATAvailable
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : Hachette Books, 2020.
Collation:
xi, 468 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780306903373 (hbk)
Dewey class:
782.4216409048782.42164
Language:
English
BRN:
3036936
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