Ahhh.... The Eighties

Eighties are the times when we were teenagers... The time of maybe what your sons' and daughters' age now!

Are those memories still vivid or are they seem a little faded?

Remember when we still ride our bicycle around, not so much traffic, fly kites during [Kite Flying Season], going to Pasar Malam just for the sake of "going to pasar malam" and when most importantly the weather is not as HOT as now....

Come to think of it, if I'm not mistaken, The Eighties was the time of the first Space Shuttle Mission. All that awe and excitement. That was when we first heard "Mission Control... This is Columbia... [crack]".

FYI the 1st space shuttle mission was Columbia (OV-102), launched on 12th April 1981.


Nasa Orbital Vehicle Designation
: OV-102

Designation
: STS-1

Launch Pad
: 39A

Landing Location
: Edwards Air Force Base


Fond memories.

And of course the songs of the eighties.... Songs by Madonna, Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Tears for Fears, Leslie Cheung (the late), Jacky Cheung, Alan Tam, Anita Mui (the late, again), just to name a few.

So I will try to put an eighties song a day here so that we can all reminisces the days of better weather (less global warming)

For today, I want to suggest "In A Big Country" by Big Country
Was this band BIG then? I'm not sure cos' during that time there was no internet or Wikipedia. We only rely on US & UK Billboard reports in newspapers and how many of us read the newspapers at that age...

Song : In A Big Country
Album : The Crossing
Release : 1983
(info got from Wikipedia : you see how good is the World Wide Web)



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