I’m currently writing an essay. Well, two actually, but this first one is on:
“Pictorial representations of freedom and desire in the pre-pubescent child”
Or:
“When you were a kid, what kind of posters did you slap up on your door/walls?”
[The first one sounds so posh, eh? You want to use it? Sure, okay.]
The trouble is, I can’t remember exactly what posters I did stick up on my door. I do remember the MAIN one, which is the subject of my piece, but I can’t remember the others. Just who was big in 1989? My memory is a bit shonky - after all, I was only 10. Yet, at 10, I still had a big gallery of stars looking down on me, I know that for sure.
{Looking to my sister for help here, she might recall some names…}
But I look to you - if you were still of ‘that age’ (teen-ish) in 1989 - who did you have up on your wall? Who were your idols? Your dreamboats?
5:35 pm
Unfortunately I am a bit too old to answer - I remember what was on my walls 1982-1986, as I was at boarding school and a young teenager - but by 1989 I was an oh-so mature uni student and therefore my wall art was of a more political and righteous nature!!
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3:04 am
Alas, I too was way too old in 1989 (27). When I was 10 my walls had David Cassidy all over them. Seems like 90210 was popular around 1989, but I may have my years wrong. In 1989 I was working two jobs trying to pay off all my bills so I could quit my job and go to grad school. I missed a lot.
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10:18 am
Now you have opened the proverbial can of worms. Firstly I the source of my posters, Smash Hits, I used to lust over that magazine while shopping thinking of all the things I should have done to earn the brownie points to get it every week.
As mortifying as it is to now admit, I seem to remember Kylie Minogue with locomotion and Melissa Bell (?) with You Can Ring My Bell was a favourite. At the time I think everything Neighbours related, include Jason Donovan and Craig McLachlan (especially since I have Hey Mona running through my mind right now Blah!) wasn’t passed up. Oh and New Kids on the Block, Bobby Brown, Salt N Pepa, Love Shack, they guy who sang Ice Ice Baby and too many others to mention.
I think I was also heading into Jon Bon Jovi, who is still cute for an old guy.
PS: If I have Hey Mona running through my head all day after this, I will personally come and haunt you
Then there was the movie hunks, Tom Cruise was definitely a feature.
Aside: I just had a office conference about this post and we are all now walking around the plant singing songs from the 80’s. LOL so sad!
10:30 am
Update: we have just downloaded the list of top 100 hits in 1989 from music outfitters and reminiscing the influence and things that was going on at the time.
10:32 am
Patrick Swayze! It was probably a year or three after Dirty Dancing, but whoo that man was hot!
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11:01 am
Recall that lovely audio cassette we recorded one night in 1991 filled with a variety of nonsense and carry-on? At one point you did a tour of the house and you recorded each of the posters that you had up at the time.
I do happen to know exactly where that cassette tape is…
I can tell you who you had up but you might prefer it in a private email…there are some embarrassing 1980’s icons in there…
11:05 am
Milli Vanilli, new kids on the block, bobby brown ( i will add these were not on my wall but i reckon this is what was on my sisters wall) Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Kevin Costner
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12:52 pm
T - sounds like quite a topical and influencial debate! Wishing I was a fly on the wall. Think I might need to scout some lists myself
that is if:
shelly - doesn’t find the incriminating cassette tape first.
Some great ideas coming in. Some are ringing bells! Girls and guys alike
2:44 pm
Megadeth, Iron Maiden and photos of Beethoven and Charlie Chaplin. Oh, and my dad’s personal favorite, Stephanie Seymour.
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9:02 pm
Quite the contrast there, D
I like ecclectic tastes!
11:44 pm
Bon Jovi, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Guns n Roses, Poison, Alice Cooper, Def Leopard, gawd! What a trip down memory lane that is! lol
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