Top Singles

Lionel Richie: Say you, Say me

USA For Africa: We are the World

WHAM!: Careless Whisper

REO Speedwagon: Can't Fight this feeling

Dire Straits: Money for Nothing

Top TV Shows

The Cosby Show

Family Ties

Dallas

Dynasty

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Remember When: 1985

Nintendo Entertainment System hits America.

Rock Hudson dies of Aids.

Coca-Cola pulls New Coke from the shelves.

President Reagan has a cancerous tumor removed

PMRC holds hearings regarding music lyrics. Dee Snider and Frank Zappa are the only musicians with guts enough to face them. Doesn't matter! The music agrees buckles like a cheap suit and begins putting warnings on potentially offensive music!

Live Aid and Farm Aid concerts

The "cassingle" makes its debut

CD's are released for the first time

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland Ohio

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New TV Shows:

Growing Pains, Moonlighting, MacGyver, The Golden Girls, Putting on the Hits.