Video Killed the Radio Star.......
And now our biggest video stars of the 1980's are dead. It's hard to believe two such amazing icons of my teen years are gone. So many memories. So much nostalgia.
Farrah Fawcett. Honestly, it's impossible to even think of her without flipping my hair back hoping for those perfect feathers. Of course, my mind goes right from there to Lee Majors, The Six Million Dollar Man. And then the poster - you know the one, she is sitting on a striped blanket wearing a red swimsuit. Her perfectly curled and feathered hair blowing around her even more perfect smiling face. Every teen boy AND girl had it hanging on their wall. I think it was somewhere between Scott Baio and Henry Winkler in my room.
Cancer is an ugly, horrible thing. I should know. I've watched my mother-in-law and my husband go through it. It is truly sad to know such a beautiful person was taken in such an ugly way. RIP Farrah, Rest In Peace.
Michael Jackson. We watched his entire family grow up before our eyes. We saw them cry on camera. Made for great late night laughs later on with Eddie Murphy. We tried to moon walk and learn all the steps to Thriller (still don't know them). We watched his life unravel too. It wasn't very pretty. The drugs, the sexual abuse allegations, the plastic surgery. It was so surreal and so very sad.
One of our local stations has been playing his music all evening. Every song brings back a different memory. BBYO dances, mostly. Oh, and boyfriends - naturally. Remember calling in requests to your favorite radio station and them saying who it was going out to? We would sit by the radio waiting to find out who was sending songs to whom and if anyone was sending one to us. Those days have gone and now, so has the King of Pop!
Although we've lost 2 legends, their stories, their lives and their impact on us will never die. Besides, as a teen of the 80's, I will forever be preoccupied with 1985!
This is an original post to Rocky Mountain Moms Blog. When Aviva isn't being nostalgic here, you can catch her wandering down memory lane in an effort to relate to her own kids at Parentopia!
