Washington, D.C.
The year was 1980
It was the decade of President Ronald Reagan and the Mayor for life Marion Barry. John Lennon was assassinated, a new sound of rhythm and blues and funk called Go-Go music was born. Air Florida Flight 90 crashes, the Pac-Man Video Game was released. HIV/AIDS becomes an epidemic, E.T. Movie is released, the Berlin Wall Falls, and Students Massacred in China’s Tiananmen Square and Crack Cocaine enters into the universe that would be the beginning of sexual sins, crimes and murders.
Understanding the music
Get an extended look at WETA’s powerful documentary special “Washington in the 80s http://www.weta.org/tv/program/washington-80s
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