politics: 1980s Pop Stars bringing out new records and terrorism


Could it be that many moribund pop acts of the 1980s have only recently brought out new records for the first time in over a decade (not including the Rolling Stones and Mick Jagger solo album, - Madness, Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, Kate Bush,Enya, Simple Minds, Bananrama etc etc - Could this be in order to cash in on the mushrooming market in download i-tunes for the middle-aged online savvy population?

Another theory closely related to the Abba and Mamma Mia smash success and re-vival could be linked to same effect in the USA in the 1980s - a country humiliated by Iran hostage takers (although Jimmy Carter did do the right thing and stop propping up the Shah dynasty) and we could still be suffering the ripple effects of this with Iraq and Afghanistan being convenient stepping stones to invasion. In a world of uncertainity the USA (see later blog - USA Quo Vadis) looked to a historical certainty of childrens saturday morning movies (Indinana Jones) and the
iconically titled BACK TO THE FUTURE , thus the US voted for a cowboy hero but John Wayne had died of Cancer so the hat was passed on to Reagan.
Now in the same conditions of an implacable enemy in the form of religous fundamentalists we see the rush to the comfort of safety in NOSTALGIA, thus we have Abba and 1980s Pop wave revival in Europe and stand aghast as the US is swept by fascist sentiment linked to religous fundamentalism (mainly being the poor i.e. black). watch out soon for new blog on christian fundamentalist fascism and disaster movies!

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