1980's Arts & Aesthetics
Michael Jackson was a popular entertainer of the 1980s and his leather jacket, glove, and moonwalk dance were often imitated. His 1982 album Thriller became the best selling album of all time.
Madonna was regarded as the most ground breaking female artist of the decade; she was also noted for her many fashion incarnations.
The Cosby Show began in the mid-1980s and it enjoyed several years as the #1 television program because it was a witty and realistic rendering of family life during the era.
The highest-grossing films of the 80s was E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Two notable music artists died of unnatural causes in the 1980s. John Lennon was shot outside of his home in New York City on the night of Dece,ber 8, 1980. Bob Marley died from a skin melanoma on May 11, 1981.
Of 13 books of the 1980s which sold over one million copies, Stephen King, Tom Clancy, and Danielle Steele wrote 10 of them