Musically speaking, the decade encompassed an ever-expanding mix of styles, including new romantic, new wave, thrash and glam metal, synth pop, techno, house, and old school rap. The ‘80s saw the birth of MTV, the space shuttle program and those creepy Cabbage Patch Kids and the increasing popularity of video arcades, personal computers and the walkman – all set against a dramatic backdrop of pastel and neon fashion blunders, and garnished with outrageous hair. Global events included the fall of the Berlin Wall, the stock market crash of ‘87 and the identification of AIDS. Ah, the ‘80s… remembered locally for Rogernomics, the Nuclear Free policy and the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, it was a decade of immense change - political, economic and technological.
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