This Week in 80’s History!

Posted on August 27, 2022

It’s time to take a look back at this week in 80’s history!

It was on this week in:

1982 – “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor would hit the #1 spot on the Billboard charts!

1986 – Paul Simon Released Graceland, his seventh studio album featuring “You Can Call Me Al” and one of my favorite videos of the 80’s featuring Chevy Chase lip singing the song as Simon plays various instruments. The album would go on to win album of the year at the Grammy’s.

1988 – The First WWE SummerSlam took place at Madison Square Garden. In the main event Randy Macho Man Savage and the immortal Hulk Hogan joined forces as the Mega Powers to take down the Mega Bucks, Million Dollar Man Ted Debiasi and Andre the Giant.

1989 – The story of a curious cat and a pug nosed pup, The Adventures of Milo and Otis, debuted in theaters.

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