What we were doing 1985

WHAT WE WERE DOING 1985

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.