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Music History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Music

4.7 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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This season the poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib explores the year 1980. It was the brilliant, awkward and sometimes heartbreaking opening to a monumental decade in popular music.

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0:00.0	The Voyager 1 had confirmed a new moon of Saturn.
0:05.0	The miracle on ice had happened in the country was still buzzing.
0:10.0	You believe in miracle? Yes!
0:12.0	The Empire Strikes Back and Pac-Man were released on back-to-back days.
0:18.0	Your destiny lies with me, Skywalker.
0:23.6	Sugar Hill Gang had written the success of rapper's delight to release a debut album.
0:29.0	Susie and the Banshees were ascending to their creative peak.
0:32.9	In 1980, the horizon was bursting with possibility.
0:40.3	Yet, is it ever that simple? David Bowie got divorced.
0:42.3	Lou Reed got married.
0:43.3	Ian Curtis died before Joy Division got to touch down on a U.S. tour, and by the end of the year,
0:49.3	John Lennon's death would signal the end of a rock and roll era.
0:53.3	I'm Henneuf of Dereke.
0:56.0	I'm a poet and essayist from Columbus, Ohio, and I'm hosting season three of Lost Notes from KCRW.
1:03.0	1980 was a monumental year in popular music.
1:06.0	It had immense losses, revolutions, redefinitions, and reformations.
1:12.5	The decade stumbled into its own brilliance as time went on, but we're going to spend this
1:16.9	season looking at its first year.
1:19.2	It's brilliant, awkward, and sometimes heartbreaking opening.
1:24.3	Stories about soul legend, Stevie Wonder, and Minnie Riverton. How New Order rose from the ashes of Joy Division.
1:30.3	The new home South African performers Miriam McCabe and Hugh Massacalla made for themselves on stage in Lesotho.
1:37.3	The one-two punch of losing Darby Crash and John Lennon on consecutive nights.
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