2. • Watching Back To The Future
• Because everybody knows the iconic time-
travelling saga was the best film of 1985.
And even if you missed it first time around
it still seems to be on ITV2 every 14
minutes so no excuses on that front.
3. if you’re too young to remember, that epic fund-raising
concert – organised by Sir Bob Geldof off the back of
the Band Aid single – which took place in multiple cities
around the world and featured pretty much every
famous pop star ever. Including Madonna, who became
a global household name after she’d taken to the stage.
4. American power ballads were socially
acceptable in 1985, and none more so than this
little number from American songstress Jennifer
Rush, which went on to be the biggest selling
single of the year. Whether or not that was a
good thing is a matter of opinion.
5. Moonlighting the show which first introduced us to
Bruce Willis, it featured him and Cybill Shepherd
as detective agency owners cracking increasingly bizarre
crimes (and occasionally breaking off to talk to camera
in a way which reminded us all it was just a TV show, ho
ho). All of that however took second place to the
question of when the mismatched duo would actually
end up in bed together.
6. The first ever mobile phone calls were made in 1985. Granted,
they were on devices that resembled large bricks and probably
took up most of your handbag, but the concept was still
awesome (even if most of us would probably still be confined
to landlines and the phone box at the end of the street for, ooh,
years yet).
7. GOING TO SEE BREAKFAST
CLUB....Yes everybody, it’s 30 years
old (breaks into sentimental chorus
of Don’t You Forget About Me…)
Culled from Metro News Paper UK.
