Word: 80s
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...time when worldwide music sales are suffering - they dropped 5% in 2001 - classical music is feeling the pinch. It now accounts for under 6% of the total audio market. But fans remember a golden age. From the 1960s through the '80s, the major labels regularly recorded the central repertoire with top conductors and orchestras. Vinyl and tapes wore out, so people bought new performances since at that time reissues were less common. When new recording techniques like digital came along, consumers acquired their favorite works with better sound quality. But the durability of CDs - and the emergence of top-selling...
Series books were hardly new by the time they reached the ’80s. The Bobbsey twins had been around since 1904; they had already been to several Camps and Carnivals and had safely solved the Smoky Mountain Mystery. Then there were all those “sleuths” and “adventurers” of earlier years, spry youngsters with names like Betty Gordon, Poppy Ott and the Girl Aviators—to say nothing of Nancy Drew...
...hour-long show was specked with music video sequences, each one carrying the mark of MTV. Even Starlight Records was a beacon of hope to young women. Through her work as Jerrica the CEO, Jem showed young girls that the booming big business world of the ’80s was not a male-only affair...
When other 21-year-olds in the ’80s were crushing on Michael J. Fox, Britta Phillips was getting paid to be the singing voice of Jem. The current bassist for the band Luna—fronted by Harvard’s own M. Dean Wareham ’85—looks back on her fast times as a singing diva on the USA Network and reflects on Jem’s ongoing influence...
...sure they were. The musical bits even had the little MTV titles. The songs I sang for the doll series were made into trippy ’80s-style videos, like fantasy pieces. They had all those insane colors, and makeup that looked like war paint, which was of course totally ’80s...