Bon Jovi are The 80s Forum Star for This Week.

Bon Jovi are The 80s Forum Star for This Week.

Bon Jovi is a hard rock band originating from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s. The band has continued its success as one of the world's most successful rock acts throughout the 1990s and 2000s, selling over 120 million albums worldwide.

The song began to get airplay in the New York metro area, then other sister stations in major markets picked up the song. Suddenly, the record labels who had passed on the demo were scrambling to find out who this unsigned artist was. WAPP was doing showcases and Bon Jovi now desperately needed a band. The soon-to-be-members of the band had crossed paths in their earlier days, but the current lineup didn't come together until March 1983. Bon Jovi gave David Bryan a call, who in turn called bassist Alec John Such and an experienced drummer named Tico Torres.

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Duran Duran, The 80s Forum Star for this week.

Duran Duran, The 80s Forum Star for this week.

The raunchy video created an uproar and was banned by the BBC and heavily edited for MTV. The band unabashedly enjoyed and capitalised on the controversy, and the album peaked in the UK Top Twenty at Number 3.

Later in 1981, the band embarked on their first United States club tour, followed by more dates in Germany and the UK. This second tour of Britain coincided with a wave of riots sparked by unemployment and racial tension, including those of Moss Side and Toxteth. The band played an eerily quiet Birmingham the day after the Handsworth riots.

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The 80s Forum Star for this week is The Boss, Bruce Springsteen

The 80s Forum Star for this week is The Boss, Bruce Springsteen

It is one of the best selling live albums of all time. It summed up Springsteen's career to that point and displayed some of the elements that made his shows so powerful to his fans: the switching from mournful dirges to party rockers and back; the communal sense of purpose between artist and audience; the long, intense spoken passages before songs, including those describing Springsteen's difficult relationship with his father; and the instrumental prowess of the E Street Band, such as in the long coda to "Racing in the Street". Despite its popularity, some fans and critics felt the album's song selection could have been better. Springsteen concerts are the subjects of frequent bootleg recording and trading among fans.

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The 80s Forum Newsletter October '07

Welcome To the third edition of The 80s Forum Monthly Newsletter. Designed to keep you up to date with the very latest issues concerning The 80s Forum.




It's Halloween time again.

October (aka the scary month) is now upon us, with that certain date just around the corner, but remember, it's not just for the kids.

To celebrate Halloween, we have loads of things planned throughout this month, including:

Paranormal Activity Where you can chat about séance's, UFO's and other unexplainable things.

Ghost Stories Scare everyone with a horrific tale of torture and terror.

Halloween Games Learn some new party tricks to play at Halloween, or tell everyone your own ideas.

So come along and help us to scare ourselves silly this Halloween.

80s Image of the Month

Whitney HoustonProbably the greatest 80s singer of them all. Read all about Whitney Houston in the 80s here

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The Bill, classic 80s TV

The Bill, classic 80s TV

Perhaps we should be grateful for those few minutes, which those attracted to the programme for other reasons may ignore while making or taking bets on which of the Sun Hill staff will soon have a child kidnapped, or prove to be corrupt, have a serious problem with alcohol or drug abuse, turn out to be either adopted or the parent of a long-lost illegitimate child, become unfaithful or a bigamist, go mad or murder several colleagues...

If only we'd known.

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Todays 80s Star is ..Frogger.

Todays 80s Star is ..Frogger.

The game was originally going to be titled "Highway Crossing Frog," but the executives at Sega felt it did not capture the true nature of the game and was changed simply to "Frogger". Frogger is regarded as one of the "Top 10 Videogames" of all time by the Killer List of Videogames (KLOV).
The original "Highway Crossing Frog" was actually an exact copy of an earlier game called Freeway, developed in 1971 at the University of Washington Psychology Department on an IMLAC PDS-1 graphics minicomputer, as the "reward" part of a project related to studies of human short-term memory. Apparently, someone at Konami saw it and commercialized it. The Atari version was released in 1981, developed for the company by Ed English, who was also the programmer for Coleco's Mr. Do.

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Back To The Future is our 80s Star of Today.

Back To The Future is our 80s Star of Today.

The film that made bodywarmers (basically sleeveless Puffa jackets) and skateboarding fashionable again. Michael J Fox played the teenage hero with the time-travelling DeLorien car, who returns to the 1950s to make sure his teenage mum and dad get together and so ensure his future survival. The film spawned two sequels and a hit single - The Power of Love - from US rockers Huey Lewis and the News.

When Ronald Reagan first saw the joke about him being president, ie. "Ronald Reagan? The actor? Ha! Then who's Vice President, Jerry Lewis?", he made the projectionist of the theatre stop the reel, roll it back, and run it again. He also considered accepting a role in the third film as the 1885 mayor of Hill Valley but eventually declined.

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Grange Hill is our 80s Star of Today.

Grange Hill is our 80s Star of Today.

Grange Hill's golden period was undoubtedly the middle to late 1980s. This period attained the highest ratings in the show's history and one of the most popular storylines was of fans' favourite Zammo and his addiction to heroin. This storyline ran for two series (1986-87) and focused on Zammo's descent into drugs and his strained relationship with his girlfriend Jackie and friend Kevin.

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Depeche Mode are our 80s Stars of Today

Depeche Mode are our 80s Stars of Today.

Soon after the formation of "Composition of Sound", Clarke and Fletcher switched to synthesizers, working odd jobs, including a carpentry, to buy them, or borrowing them from friends. Gahan joined the band in 1980 after Clarke heard him perform at a local scout-hut jam session, crooning to a rendition of David Bowie's 'Heroes', and "Depeche Mode" were born. The new name was taken from a French fashion magazine, "Dépêche mode", which translates to "Fashion News".

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The 80s Forum Star for Today is...Ally Sheedy

The 80s Forum Star for Today is...Ally Sheedy

Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American screen and stage actress, possibly best known for her roles in the "Brat Pack" films The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire. Sheedy was born in New York City to John J. Sheedy, Jr. a Manhattan-based advertising executive, and Charlotte Baum, a notable press agent who was involved in women's and civil rights movements. Her parents divorced in 1971. She has two siblings, Patrick and Meghan.

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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV is he a good actor?

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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV is he a good actor?

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV is he a good actor? Your views people, and why you think so, and in your opinion his best Movie. All replies will be taken into account before i rip in to this little ...ologist

Tom cruise is .................TBC

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Challenge Anneka is our 80s Star of Today.

Challenge Anneka is our 80s Star of Today.

Anneka Rice was a majorly under-rated presenter in my eyes, from Treasure Hun, to Challenge Anneka she always gave us excellent viewing. I may be biased when I say this, but I thought she was excellent in both these shows, perhaps I should have used Treasure Hunt instead of Challenge. Sticking with Challenge Anneka, may use Treasure Hunt at a later stage. Absolutely loved watching this show, used to always look forward to it on tv, think it was the BBC it was on. All the stuff she used to get up to, having to ask all those people for freebies, used to totally embarrass me, never mind her.

Challenge Anneka is our Star of Today.

Snooker Maximum for Burnett at Prestatyn

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Snooker Maximum for Burnett at Prestatyn

Jamie Burnett has become the seventh Scottish snooker player to compile a competitive maximum break. The 32-year-old from Hamilton knocked in the 147 during his 4-3 win over Liu Song at the Royal London Watches Grand Prix qualifiers at Prestatyn.

Amazingly, the break is not Burnett's highest as he constructed a 148 - made using a free ball - in the UK Championship qualifiers in 2004. It remains the highest in the history of the professional game.

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The 80s Forum Star of Today is The Rubik's Cube.

The 80s Forum Star of Today is The Rubik's Cube.

The one symbol that tyoifies the 80s is this, The Rubik's Cube, the most annoying little cube in the world. How many days did we all sit trying to solve this, I know I used to sit for ages trying to do it and still can't to this day. Eventually, I gave up and just took the stickers off and placed them back to give the impression that I solved the damn thing, of course when you do that, you cannot put them back the exact way they should be, so everyone noticed and knew what you did, but just kept quiet and said well done, what a plonker!! Anyway, it's our 80s Star of Today, The Rubik's Cube.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street is our Star of Today.

One of the scariest films ever, A Nightmare on Elm Street is our Star of Today.

A Nightmare on Elm Street is an American horror film directed by Wes Craven about several teenagers being terrorized in their nightmares by a mysterious man named Freddy Krueger in the fictional Midwest town of Springwood, Ohio. Released on November 9, 1984 by New Line Cinema, the film stars Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson, Ronee Blakley as mother Marge Thompson, John Saxon as father Lt. Donald Thompson, Amanda Wyss as Tina Grey, Nick Corri as Rod Lane and Johnny Depp as Glen Lantz.

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Blockbusters, do you remember it.

Blockbusters, do you remember it.

Star of Today is the best gameshow of the 80s, probably. It's the one we all remember the most, I think.

Buzzing in and answering the question correctly meant that space would be turned your colour. One player had the white spaces, and a team of two players had blue. The idea of the game was to fill in as many spaces as necessary so that a contiguous line of your colour went across the board horizontally (for the blue team) or vertically (for the white player, who could make the journey in one less space than the blues to compensate for their single-ness).

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Todays 80s Star is Alison Moyet.

Todays 80s Star is one of my favourite singers, Alison Moyet.

She has had some excellent tunes, all of which were sung superbly.
Think of Yazoo (Don't Go) and her solo stuff (All Cried Out, Is This Love?), superb, a worthy entrant I think.

Alison Moyet was born in Billericay, Essex, England to a French father and English mother. She grew up in Basildon, where she attended school. After leaving school at 16, she worked as a shop worker and a piano tuner.

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