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?
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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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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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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!
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.
Patrick Swayze! It was probably a year or three after Dirty Dancing, but whoo that man was hot!
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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…
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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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
Megadeth, Iron Maiden and photos of Beethoven and Charlie Chaplin. Oh, and my dad’s personal favorite, Stephanie Seymour.
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Quite the contrast there, D
I like ecclectic tastes!
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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