1980 Was A Very Good Year

[Vince Sinister]

1980 was a very good year
Telekon, Closer and McCartney II
1980 was a very good year
Fireside Favourites and 154

1980 was a very good year
Kilimanjaro and Gabriel III
gender benders, Scary Monsters
1980 was a very very good year

1980 was a very good year
Remain In Light and Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Seventeen Seconds and Mutant Moments
1980 was a very very good year

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Second Edition and More Specials
Argy Bargy, Zenyatta Mondatta
Travelogue and Never For Ever

Sandanista, Flesh and Blood and Get Happy
Kaliedoscope and Absolutely
Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Sound Effects, Soldier and The Ace Of Spades

The death of Ian Curtis and John Paul Sartre
Cowboy Ronnie won the race against Carter
Decided to boycott the Moscow Olympics
Freed the Iranian Embassy hostages

If it wasn't for Lennon in a bag
Macca wouldn't have said "it's a drag"
If it wasn't for Bonzo getting fried
The drum solo would have survived

Hi De Hi, Ho De Ho
the Kids From Fame and Hawaii 5-0
Eddie Shoestring, Juliet Bravo
McCartney busted with 7 ounces in Tokyo

Robert Mugabe Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
Linda Chamberlain said "a dingo ate my baby"
Nigel Short became an International master
Mount St Helens erupted in disaster

Dukes Of Hazzard, Hammer House Of Horror
Rubik's Cube and Who Shot JR?
Roller disco skates and Flash Gordon
Voyager 1 got close to Saturn

Mantovani Hitchcock and Peter Sellers
Hattie Jacques Steve McQueen and Henry Miller
Richard Pryor burned himself freebasing cocaine
Solidarity born and the Gang of Four on trial

If it wasn't for Catcher In The Rye
Lennon didn't have to die
Mark Chapman took a cheap shot
And McCartney got busted for pot

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[quote][i]Originally posted by Vince Sinister[/i]
1980 was a very good year
[/quote]Who are you Billy Joel with "We didn't start the Fire 1980" [:D][;)]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Vince Sinister[/i]
1980 was a very good year
Freed the Iranian Embassy hostages[/quote]Actually the hostages were freed in 1981

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis
The Iran hostage crisis was a 444-day (about 14 months) period during which student proxies of the new Iranian regime held hostage 52 diplomats and citizens of the United States, [b]which lasted from November 4, 1979 until January 20, 1981.[/b] It is believed by many to have caused President Jimmy Carter of the United States to lose his re-election attempt, and punctuated the first Islamic revolution of modern times.

On January 20, 1981, twenty minutes after President Reagan's inaugural address, the hostages were formally released into U.S. custody, having spent 444 days in captivity.

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[Vince Sinister]

Thanks for pointing that out - accuracy is paramount - what about "gave some thought to the embassy hostages"? [:D]

[Mechi]

Hey, it was!!!
I'm also noticing that it was the year in which many of fav albums came out... Closer, Seventeen Seconds, great great great Kaleidoscope, Zenyatta Mondatta, Mc Cartney II and Remain in light.

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