1983
Silvio Berlusconi has been running Italy since the 80’s!
Look at this advertisement. “We dedicate the new Casio FX-750P pocket computer to Silvio Berlusconi.” It would be one thing (although a weird thing nevertheless) to dedicate a computer to him if he had been president in the 80’s, but he was merely a media tycoon. I guess it would be like […]
If you are what you drive…
Then you’re in the shop weekly, French designed by built in Wisconsin by angry AMC employees, and 0–60 in 12 seconds!
Don’t get me wrong, I love Renaults, I really do, I just can’t think of a worse time in US history for them to have hit the domestic market.
The most obscure pop standard
The most obscure pop standard of the 80’s must be John Paul Young’s “Soldier of Fortune”. I say pop standard because it exhibits every element of “popness” that should have ostensibly brought about an adult contemporary hit for Mr. Young. It contains a very memorable and addictive obbligato with a par-four synthesizer on […]