This Week In The 80’s: Young Love & Nuclear Bombs February 7th, 1987. I’m a junior in high school. I drive a hot car (’71 Matador Red Chevelle Malibu), I’m in a band and I’m CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: It’s Only Love It’s January of 1986. I’m a sophomore in high school and about six weeks from getting my drivers license. There’s A LOT of great music on the CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: The Death of Simon Le Bon Was Greatly Exaggerated. Or Was It? It’s the end of January, 1985. Second semester of my freshman year of high school. Madonna is spending CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Ground Control To Major Tom. It’s 1984. Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney sat near the top of the charts (#2) at the beginning of 1983 and now they sit at CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Toni Basil Sues ‘Em All! It’s 1983. It’s 1983. Men At Work supplant Daryl Hall & John Oates’ “Maneater” in the #1 spot (which has been there for the past CONTINUE READING…
This Week In The 80’s: Olivia Newton-John Gets “Physical”. It’s 1982. MTV had only been around for a short five months and was only available in a few markets because conservative cable operators refused to CONTINUE READING…
TRN Time Machine time jumps across many years this week as Jason and Mickey get ready to rumble yet again! Using suggestions from our listeners, VIPs, TRN staff and our own, the hosts once again CONTINUE READING…
Music videos have been a part of my life since I was a very young child. The first time I ever saw MTV was at my grandparents’ house in Chicago. I don’t remember watching cable CONTINUE READING…
TRN Time Machine is away this week but we are opening the VIP Vault once again to replay episodes from the old TRN Podcast. On the heels of MTV’s 40th anniversary, listen to our MTV CONTINUE READING…
“Ladies and Gentlemen, rock and roll.” Those were the first words spoken by creator John Lack as Music Television aka MTV launched on Saturday, August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m. eastern time. The first images were CONTINUE READING…
The earliest ancestor of the modern music video was the soundie, a black-and-white 16mm film recording of a musician performing before a live audience. The first soundies appeared in 1940, and all the big singing CONTINUE READING…
Jason welcomes special guest Tim to travel in this week’s TRN Time Machine back to 1985 and relive the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards show. As in our previous episode covering the 1996 VMAs, we’ll CONTINUE READING…
This installment of the Retro Network’s Bracket Madness tournament podcast is a unique one! Join Mike (@FallWestMike of @AdventCalHouse), Stacey (@geeky_vixen), Tim (@oldschool80s), Karen (@KarenFlieger8), Eric (@Eric_Vardeman), and Gary (@MileHighSamurai) with host Jason (@RD80s) as they pick the 2ND CONTINUE READING…
Recurrent Events is back with retro pop culture headlines taken from news sources across the web between Feb 7 – Feb 13, 2021. Listen (or watch) as Jason gives you the latest stories on topics CONTINUE READING…
1983: The Year End Wrap Up Well, kids…here we are. The final post in our year long look at the music of 1983. Several times this year, I’ve been asked why I consider 1983 as CONTINUE READING…
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