Let’s be the year 1979

I was just born, but people tell me that I look in-utero all the time.

I'm Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" double LP, one of the best-selling albums to close out the 70s.

I'm a sad cunt who still hasnt seen Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever or Grease

I'm the death of a DL icon.

I'm the death of disco.

I'm Florida Evans fingering herself to James' memory.

I'm Joan Collins in The Bitch

I'm Tusk. Though some didn't like me at first, I became a lot of people's favorite Fleetwood Mac album.

I'm the Iran Hostage Crisis, which brought Ronald Reagan upon us for most of the '80s.

I'm MJ being a playboy and fucking Billy Jean.

I'm the first female superstar hit duet "No More Tears" that stayed at #1 for two weeks in November, 1979 by Summer and Streisand, making pop history. Take that Mariah, Madonna, Janet, Whitney and all you other diva wannabes....

I'm Jennifer Hart and there is no way my screen husband killed Natalie Wood

Instrumental of the Year, "Music Box Dancer" by Frank Mills:

I have a 1979-1982 fetish

Introducing Tiffany Wells. Charlie’s brand-new Angel.

^^Tiffany Welles.

Shitty year for me, OP, no thank you.

I'm a big northeast storm canceling flights for only a day or 2 not weeks.

I'm also the great food on the flight.

I’m the many great albums that were released that year

And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues

And we don't know just where our bones will rest

To dust, I guess forgotten and absorbed to the Earth below

I'm TPOS.

I'm a few minutes that no one saw coming, and changed everything.

I'm one of Debbie Harry's heroin overdoses*

I'm American Airlines Flight 191.

I’m American Airlines Flight 151, the deadliest aviation accident to have occurred in the United States

I'm an Iranian hostage who the USA couldnt give two shits about because the CIA wanted to shit on Jimmy Carter

I'm the top-grossing film of the year, which also gave me my first Oscar.

I am racing off of the School Bus and opening up a carton of “Friendly’s Ice Cream” ( ah - the cigarettes would replace the addiction in 6 years or so….) I would plop down and soak in every thrilling second of Lara, Scotty, Luke, Bobbi - Jessie Brewer, The Quartermaines, the Webbers, The Floating Rib and Heather and the LSD laced Iced Tea …….. That drum beat that I was ALMOST a grown up.

Laura ^

I'm this song...

I'm the Jacksons' original noses.

r31 did they even have noses back then?

I'm Rochelle Fleming and I'm Holding My Horses as a member of First Choice

I'm in my second year of my first post-college job at the advertising agency.

I’m “London Calling”

I’m Angie starring Donna Pescow. Your number 5 show for 1979. I’m sure I’ll be a hit for years to come.

R32, yes they had their original beautiful black noses. Michael was the only with a truly huge knocker. Most of them didn't need rhinoplasty. Jermain and Janet look worst with their new noses especially as they have aged.

r37 Have they ALL had it done? I kmow LaToya and Michael did

If I was in 1st Grade then, I’d be approaching 50 now. Wait wait wait, let me guess, you’re 39!

With all due respect to ‘They’re Playing Our Song,’ the1979 theater season will always be best remembered for Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, perhaps the best musical ever written.

I'm all the extra girls on the first season of Facts of Life.

r40 wasnt she supposed to have been hiding her family from the Mansons back then?

I was in 1st and 2nd grade in 1979. I’m an old whore now.

I'm Debbie Allen groping Irene Cara on the set of Fame

I'm Margaret Thatcher about to give the British people the biggest fucking of their lives

I'm Streisand's WET album, which only peaked at #6 even though I have the "No More Tears" duet on me, and a bunch of water-drenched mushy songs.

I am Bea Smith and I was sentenced to life in Wentworth Detention Centre

I'm Patti Lupone making my star turn in "Evita" which everyone will still be talking about 40+ years from now, because a 'diva' was born.

I'm eleven and working on a TV show for the summer in NYC and screaming at my parents over the phone every time they go see a horror movie I want to see (Alien, Prophecy, Dawn of the Dead). When I return home, my parents take me to see The Main Event, but the air conditioner in the theater is broken, so we drive to another theater to see The Amityville Horror on opening night, which absolutely terrifies me and my reactions embarrass my father. I cajole him into taking me to see Alien a couple months later just before it leaves theaters and no matter how scared I get, I butch it up so he will still take me to see horror movies.

r48 isnt that Lucille Ball and Bea Arthur in the posted pic.

r48 Patti Who?

r48 "I don't know her"

I'm Playgirl Magazine, and finally into the groove of things with hot muscular guys who don't manscape and you'd actually want to fantasize about and have sex with their beautiful sausage hanging between their legs. This was 30 years before they turned to skinny gay twinks with eyeshadow, nail polish and lipstick, completely hairless like a plucked chicken with their little pencil dicks.

R48 you are insane if you think Lucille Ball could look that young in 1979.

Well my comment was for r50.

r54 not at all - it was a fucking joke you spacker.

Eat my arse you fkin bloke.

I’m the final Wings album, Back To The Egg.

I'm...

ALADDIN

I'm "Fear of Music" by Talking Heads. I came out that summer.

I broke up with my boyfriend of 3 years (he wanted to "explore") in preparation for meeting my lover of 40 years.

I’m a Billy Corgan. I turned 12 on March.

*IN March!

Where’s that edit button, Jack?

R52

I'm Rickie Lee Jones, who released one of the best albums of the 1970s and is now tragically forgotten even though she had one of the most unique and gorgeous voices in pop music.

sophomore in HS

I’m my freshman year in high school melancholy.

I am a Flower in the Attic

r66 i am ted bundy

I'm Louis Mountbatten and I'll get blowed up real good.

I'm the jerk.

I'm Dahnah Spensuh and I feel so oh-full fo the Prince Sawhales.

r69 by little boys or the IRA?

I'm the Ropers.

I'm The China Syndrome.

I am me. I just started 9th grade in September and I've heard the phrase, "Disco Sucks", a lot. When I listen to The Knack's, "My Sharona", I fret that disco is dead and in a few short years, I won't be able to be the hedonist, I aspire to be.

r73 I'm Yootha Joyce and HOW DARE YOU COPY MY SHOW

The Rose 🌹 starring Bette Midler. And that song.

R64 are you even aware Rickie Lee Jones has established a niche/cult following since her debut that includes many standout albums? If not, you’ve missed out.

[quote]I'm the Ropers.

OMG, that was that mean mean mean Rhoda Penmark in the Ropers.

I’m the death of Sid Vicious

I’m Disco Demolition Night

r79 is Rhoda Penmark now Susan Banks?

I'm Alien. In space no one can hear you scream.

I'm Kate Jackson, still fuming that blonde bitch at R27 took my role! Fuck Charlie and his angels!

R61 I'm sorry about your partner, hope you are okay X

R47 I thought Bea was coming to the end of her 10 year stretch at Wentworth when the show started? Are you her new sentence for brilliantly gunning down her foul husband right in his beer belly?

r86 yes - released and then went and shot the bastard. Great show woth Lizzie, Doreen and Vinegar Tits

R87 I always preferred Vera to goody-two-shoes Meg!

They warned me about working with a horse and a kid but I could handle it.

r88 meg uggh. was great when they got Joan Ferguson in to take over the nasty one.

I'm Dr Marlena Evans getting married to Don Craig. The first of my many marriages in Salem..

[quote] are you even aware Rickie Lee Jones has established a niche/cult following since her debut that includes many standout albums? If not, you’ve missed out.

Yes, of course I am. I own nearly all of Rickie Lee's albums, even some of the bootlegs. And I've seen her live a handful of times from 1989 on. But let's not pretend she's ever even mentioned as an influence on everyone from Edie Brickell to Adele. Hell, she had to record her last album via crowdfunding and had to do it in two weeks because of budgetary reasons. She has definitely been forgotten, and it's a real shame.

I'm David Geffen, ready to start my own record label within 12 months and ruin the careers of Donna Summer and Elton John when I sign them up. I'd ruin my girlfriend Cher's career, too, but she's doing a damn good job of it with her dud of an album 'Take Me Home'.

I'm the cringe of the 90s and the packed car sing-along with nostalgic people long since dead and now you're here, still here, clinging to what exactly?

I am graduating college and don't have a fucking clue what will happen to me.

I'm Diana Ross, with my big disco single "The Boss" which was largely ignored thanks to that duet with Streisand and Summer. Couldn't even get a top 10 pop hit with it. Bitches !

I'm all the power, privilege and opportunity... I'm the conquering of the universe with the driven pure thought of destroying the lives of the world's saviors, the millennials and gen z. Though they weren't even thought of at that point other than our elders hoping they'd come aong to replace our satanic asses, they were behind all my actions and why they suffer so now.

R96 it wasn’t largely ignored by anyone but maybe Donna Summer and Barbra .

We're deliberately burned, broken and exploded disco records!!!!

I'm Liza, staggering around Studio 54 in a fucked up haze.

I'm in the womb!

My first and last time being inside a woman's body.

I am the year I met my partner.

I'm used, you're used, we're all used

I'm The Village People at Gay Pride and will be claiming in the next few decades none of our songs are gay.

I’m Roger Thorpe, Springfield’s bad boy, and I’m presumed dead.

I'm Nancy Reagan, all ready to change the drapes and the china in the White House. I've been looking at color palettes and china patterns since 1977.

I'm graduating from high school in May 1979. The last golden days of the 1970's.

I'm Dame Magg's second Oscar.

You're all shallow. That's what you are...

In 1979 I'm still just a load of spooge floating around in my dad's nutsack.

I'm Farrah Fawcett cheating on Lee majors with Ryan O'Neal

I'm Lucy. Come on over to my house and we'll drink scotch and play Backgammon all afternoon. Hey, could you stop at the store and get me a carton of Pall Malls on your way over? Thanks, doll!

I'm the long lines at gasoline stations in the spring and summer of 1979.

I'm Olivia Newton-John, the most bankable actress in Hollywood right now because last year's "Grease" is the biggest hit musical in Hollywood. It's time for me to pick my follow-up movie to prove I'm a box office draw without Travolta...and I choose "XANADU!" A Greek muse who comes to life at a closed roller-disco ! What could possibly go wrong ? It will be the biggest hit of 1980, and solidify my name as an actress.

Dan Hartman’s disco hit

I'm Diana Spencer, an 18 year old shy lass from England who still has my virginity. I don't think I have any exciting future ahead of me...I'll just be a nursery school teacher and marry the first bloke who asks me down at the pub.

We're Bette Davis and Gena Rowlands, starring in Strangers: The Story Of A Mother and Daughter," the CBS Movie Of the Week.

I'm the start of stripping out teenage services, resources and just places to hang out as the perpetual scaremongering took hold... so, you'd have nowhere to go but underground and build your own community, network, incestuous fam of your own choosing... the reams of bad poetry, fingers stained with nicotine and ink... every clique defined and yet everyone undercover in a dozen others. starry skies and popcorn ceilings, drawing out lifestories in the curls of his chest hair.

I'm when Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins were fuckable

R119- He was good looking in 1979 but his singing was HORRIBLE.

I'm Brett Somers, side-eyeing Elaine Joyce and muttering "what a fucking dumb cunt," on the set of Match Game.

I'm Jean Harris.

Herman is working my last fucking nerve.

We are the number one show on television.

I'm Time magazine's comic genius.

I'm Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, tits bouncing as I'm running down the street.

I'm...

The Roches

R126 Lynda sure had lovely tits! Were they a requirement of the role?

I’m afternoon soap operas. There sure were a lot of me, and tens of millions of people watched me, even Supreme Court justices.

I'm the White Night riots

He certainly became a joke later on R125

I'm anarchy in the suburbs. With a great soundtrack.

I'm Pop Muzik by M. I should have been a British number one, but the idiotic public preferred Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel.

We're Tom Baker and Laila Ward.

Doctor Who will never be as good again.

R105 - my nine/ten year old self LOVED this. Doesn’t look nearly as great as it does in memory. Was it ‘79 or ‘80?

My cat is named Thorpe, which, I suppose, qualifies as a double MARY!

I'm The B-52's debut album.

They band will still be basing most of their live set on me in 2022.

This car

I promise I won't make this a soap thread, but as R135 mentions, the whole Roger story was pretty cool, and the scenes where one of his victims runs through a carnival's hall of fun house mirrors while "Enough is Enough" by Barbra & Donna plays in the background was as fucking amazing as any nighttime show's cliffhanger.

(That might have been early 1980 but I'm squeaking it in here)

I'm the death of another DL icon, R4. I can't believe you bitches forgot about me.

I am this wonderful minseries.

I’m actor David Naughton. My career is on the rise! My hit single, Makin’ It, will be in Billboard’s Top 100 for 16 weeks and in the top 10 for 5 weeks. The song will peak at #5. It is the theme song for the tv series of the same name that I star in.

Two years earlier I did a Dr. Pepper commercial that put me on the map. I sang and danced in that.

I’ll go on to work with John Landis in 1981’s acclaimed film An American Werewolf in London.

There’s no stopping me now! ⭐️

I'm Linda Lavin, starting the fourth season of my hit show 'Alice' on CBS. I told the network in September - "either Polly goes, or I go. I refuse to be upstaged by her any more. I'm the fuckin' star of the show but she gets all the laughs! It's either me, or her - this diner ain't big enough for the two of us."

So CBS relented, and knew better than to lose me from the show. They wrote Polly out at the end of 1979, and spun her off into her own series, which I heard from Diane Ladd - didn't do too well.

I'm Beth Howland. I'm just grateful for a steady gig and a steady paycheck. I keep my head down, my mouth shut, and I do my job. I'm not going to lose this gig because I got on Queen Cunt Linda's bad side.

I'm Mackenzie "Macky" Philips, one of the stars of the hit comedy "One Day At A Time". Even though I'm a gawky and awkward 20 year old, with a face full of acne and rotted teeth, the writers decided to write my character as some kind of 'sexy goddess' which the cutest guys fight over in storylines.

In reality, the only guys fighting over me are my drug dealers on Hollywood and Vine. I've got quite a cocaine habit which has gotten me arrested, and eventually fired from the show in the beginning of 1980.

^Not to mention the extremely tramumazing and awkward sexual relationship with my own father which can likely be traced to the beginning of my addiction.

R138

Rita recognizes Rogers voice around the 1:38 mark.

I'm Dennis Christopher and the only one of the four leads in "Breaking Away" who ended up with no career.

R144- They did the same thing to SJP - all sorts of good looking guy on SATC city LUSTING for Ms. Ed

I'm V'Ger, completely fucking Persis Khambatta's career.

I’m Skylab falling to Earth. The sky is falling!

No, r124...

Well, R151, R124 was correct for the first half of 1979. Laverne & Shirley was the #1 show for the 1978-1979 season, then moved to a different night for the 1979-1980 season and dropped to #42. I wonder if that's the steepest next season drop for a #1 show.

I'm Ann Miller, tappa-tappa-tappin' on Broadway in Sugar Babies. A good, wholesome show with lotsa singin' and dancin.' None of that filth and smut you see in entertainment these days.

Cruising was being filmed during the summer of 1979 in NYC

I bet Ashley Banfield is really juicy right now. She’s on Christmas break this week and has a sub doing her nightly NewsNation show that’s been almost exclusively focused on the case with her boy on the street in Moscow, Brian Entin.

R155 wrong thread, dearie.

R135, I’ll Mary right along with you. That’s Mart Hulswit as Ed Bauer and Michael Zaslow as Roger Thorpe. They were both so sexy in completely contrasting ways. I’ve always like the good guy/Boy Scout type, so Ed/Mart was more typical for me, but damn Roger was hot.

I'm Agatha.

I am Tony winning Carlin Glynn.

We're the Knack with "My Sharona". The Knack knocks Donna Summer 's "Bad Girls" out of the top position for #1 single of the year. We had a rather short shelf-life on the Top 40 after this, but Summer soldiered on.

I'm the colors yellow, brown and orange.

I'm a DL icon, and I was born on March 25 of this year.

I'm makeup that evokes WETNESS!

I'm Cristy Lane accepting my ACM New Female Vocalist Award...

August 1979. I will be a sophomore in high school. I play football on the varsity team due to my size, but I also play trombone in the marching band. (Don't laugh, there were six football players and eight cheerleaders who also did marching band.) On Friday of the first week of summer practice for both, football in the afternoon, band right after.

I finished band practice, packed my instrument up, then went to the boys locker room to shower and change clothes. All the coaches had left long ago. I walked in on the seniors hazing the underclassmen in the showers by spraying Nair on their crotches then using their hands to rub it in. The guys who popped boners had to squat or sit under the shower and the older boys peed on them.

I quietly skedaddled out of there and went home. I told my big brother what I'd seen (he did not play football) and he squealed to my mom and dad. Apparently this tradition dated back many years, but nobody ever reported it officially.

tl;dr I broke a scandal that resulted in the firing of two coaches/teachers a couple weeks before school started and suspension of all the seniors on the football team for the season.

I'm photographer Mario Cassili taking sexy glamorous photos of Streisand in her Jacuzzi for her album 'Wet'. Her hair and skin are dampened 'enough' to give the illusion she's 'Wet'. Everything is done in tones to mirror Degas' "Waterlillies" - pinks, purples, light blues and light greens. Once the shoot is over, I'll have to chase her into 1985 to get paid - and hopefully, the check will clear.

I'm. r165. My photo is in the dictionary next to the word KILLJOY :(

I'm the Soviet Union. I've invaded Afghanistan, a wise decision that will ensure that I will be a permanent Superpower, long after all of you silly queens are dead. Look upon my works ye mighty and despair!

R165 You did good.

I'm 11.3% inflation in the US. Those folks don't know I'm going to be even higher next year.

I'm the waiting lines to get gasoline for your cars. You had me in 1973, and here I am again in 1979.

I'm Andy Travis, a radio station program director.

I am also foremost in the minds of many fledgling young gay men. I'm not sure why, though?

I'm Sally Field as Norma Rae, and everyone is talking about my movie released in March. They're also talking about Mia Farrow's new movie, Hurricane, which came out a month later, but for all the wrong reasons.

I’m Blondie’s “Eat To The Beat” album.

I'm the Smashing Pumpkins.

[quote] I'm Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" double LP, one of the best-selling albums to close out the 70s.

"Bad Girls" was when I knew Disco was over. It's when Donna went mainstream.

I'm Miss August. In exactly 12 months time I will be murdered by my husband.

^The photos were taken in 1978 but published in August 1979.

I'm the HIV virus. Simmering in the testicles and rectums of gay dudes all over America. You'll be hearing more from me in a couple of years.

We’re in between the original and re-release….

I am "Deja Vu," a top-15 hit for Miss Dionne Warwick.

I'm "I'll Never Love This Way Again," Dionne's other big 1979 hit.

I will cause a minor scandal a few years later when Dionne obliviously sings me at a prominent early AIDS benefit.

I’m Lady Lindzebelle who is very popular in the SC club scene.

R182, I am Proust’s madeleine in the form of song not heard for 40 years and yet every word and every note of the arrangement is remembered before it even sounds.

I'm the first Walkman, and there's been no looking back.

I'm Helen Mirren, prancing around nude as a jaybird in Caligula. The movie is scandalous due to the copious amounts of hard shagging it shows!

r180 0/10

I'm All That Jazz.

Wonder Woman - Amazon Hot Wax aired February 16, 1979. Guest starring Judge Reinhold, Rick Springfield and Sarah Purcell.

I'm Dionne Warwick's comeback album "Dionne" for Clive Davis' Arista label. After being in the background for most of the 1970s, I ruled top 40 radio once again, and it would last through most of the 1980s.

She didn’t rule any radio format in the 80s outside of a few singles

The Bitch - starring Joan Collins

Roller skate with Hollywood stars at Flippers in LA!

[R141] She scored a number of Top 40 hits from 1979 - 88.

[quote] I'm the HIV virus. Simmering in the testicles and rectums of gay dudes all over America. You'll be hearing more from me in a couple of years.

r179 No, you're a weak pandering faggot who equates homosexuality to death.

The AIDS was a'brewin in '79 r195

I'm quite certain, r195, that a friend of mine was coming down with what we would eventually call AIDS in the summer of 1978 in Los Angeles.

R194 I assume you mean me not r141. I’m fully aware of the number of hits Dionne had during the 80s. She only had a few big singles and 2 of them were duets or with multiple performers.

Deja vu was from 1979

Heartbreaker

That’s What Friends Are For

Love Power

I'm the rangers at homecoming.

No Nukes. Madison Square Garden, 9/21/79

I'm...Makin' It.

[quote] The AIDS was a'brewin in '79

r196 It wasn't brewing. It was already pandemic in Africa.

AIDS doesn't define me and it certainly didn't define 1979.

The subtext of that post was that the burgeoning freedom of gay folks in 1979 predicated AIDS. It did not.

So go whine somewhere else. There are plenty of fundie Christian sites which will appreciate your self-hate.

Makin' It stole Happy Days Intro.

I ❤️ Different Worlds by Maureen McGovern! The hit single was also (of course) the theme song used on the ABC TV series Angie.

Get fucked r201. It's a fun nostalgia thread.

But it didn't steal its longevity, r202.

I'm Penny Marshall, doing lines of coke in my dressing room on the Laverne and Shirley set.

I'm Cindy Williams, on my way to the Laverne and Shirley set.

Who knew I'd be the one to steal Bill Hudson away from Goldie Hawn in a few years!!??!

[quote] It's a fun nostalgia thread.

r204 Yeah, that's my point. So stop beating the homophobic drum over a non-issue.

DL really needs to start zapping teh het trolls.

........

Get fucked harder r208.

I'm Bill Hudson. Goldie's pussy was tighter, but Cindy did anal.

I wish Goldie would've done anal, especially the night Kate was conceived.

I'm Jill. My movie star status is waning...already.

I'm dueling roller skating films Skatetown USA and Roller Boogie competing to see which one can suck harder, even though it's not really a contest. Any post-Exorcist feature film starring Linda Blair is automatically wet shit.

I'm The Warriors, one of the greatest fucking movies of all time.

I'm the tweedier woolly baggier fashions fashionable people are now wearing.

I’m Jimmy McNichol. My career is so white hot right now that I’m starring in the comedy California Fever! I’m even singing the show’s intro. My sister Kristy and I are being offered tv specials in which we sing and dance! Like David Naughton, the sky’s the limit with my career. 🚀

I moved to NYC at 24 and stayed 35 years. The clubs and bars were so much fun until after the Great Recession.

[quote]I'm The Warriors, one of the greatest fucking movies of all time.

I'm me sitting in the audience, playing truant from boarding school, with my hetero school friends, bored out of my mind.

r218 maybe Barbra in The Main Event was more to your liking.

N0, R219 - I was more Kramer back in '79. That ghastly poster put me off The Main Event.

I would have sucked off a few of those randy Warriors back in '79

The Main Event.

I'm Woody's '79 contribution...

I'm Meryl vowing to never work with Woody again after he rebukes her for not using the comma in one spoken sentence.

I'm Jill Clayburgh bouncing back with another Oscar nomination after the dire Luna.

I wonder if he's like that across the board, r224. or just in instances where the lack of the comma changes the timing and/or the intent of the line.

I'm Robert Benton, infuriating little Dustin by letting Streep write her own dialogue for the Kramer courtroom scene

R224 & R226 — I remember hearing that about Allen, Mamet, and Sorkin.

[R198] You're forgetting her other Top 40 hits (as I said she had Top 40 hits right through the 80s)

1980 - No Night So Long (#23) 1982 - Friends in Love (#38) 1983 - How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye (#27) 1983 - Take The Short Way Home (just nicked the Top 40, coming in at #41)

Plus the ones you mentioned: Heartbreaker, That's What Friends are For, Love Power

r214 you ever see the Italian rip off - Bronx Warriors?

I am the cast of Are You Being Served singing Shuffle Along in blackface

I'm Boney M and a Brown Girl In The Ring

I'm the song Ready For the 80s, and I'm a lie -- nobody was ready for the 80s

Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten's (@1:00) husband sure wasn't.

r233 poor bitch, shouldn't have happened to her - a lot more to that one though, links to the Chippendale murders and John Holmes

R179- Your remark sounds a bit homophobic.

r235 inconvenient facts. Get over yourself you sad little nancy boy

R236- I didn't say your remark was homophobic.

I said it was a BIT homophobic.

I am 4 years old but told I look 2.

r237 not even my comment. but realistic. did covid come from bats, soppy cunt?

Girls, girls! Why don't you both take some loads in your asses tonight and let's just SEE WHAT HAPPENS!

r240 I'll be Roy Cohn, r237 can be Donald Trump

[quote] I am 4 years old but told I look 2.

r238 Ewww. I hope you outgrew that. Too short legs and a big head are not attractive on a man. And definitely ditch the diapers.

[quote] but realistic.

r239 Huh? What's realistic about saying AIDS was a "gay" issue in 1979 when it was almost nonexistent here and was a pandemic in Africa among heterosexuals? And now globally the majority of those who have died from AIDS acquired it from heterosexual intercourse. What's realistic, dumbass? 🤣

I'm Blondie on American Bandstand in May, two weeks after Heart of Glass hit #1.

r243 the fact that the virus was swimming around in the testicles of gay men for years before actually becoming a problem. Nobody said it was a "gay" issue just that it lingered a lot longer in people's bodies until some fucker decided to die of it in 1981.

Why did they acquire it from "heterosexual" intercourse. Because you American fuckers sent tainted blood round the globe and infected everyone with HIV and Hepatitis. Dont come all moral, Mary

I'm the last disco song to hit #1: Good Times by Chic, on Aug. 18, 1979.

After that, "My Sharona" was #1 for six weeks, everyone jumped on the "rock is back" bandwagon, and disco was officially over.

t245 You're an uneducated moron. It began in Africa. Take your hate somewhere else.

I'm the highest-rated episode of Saturday Night Live ever: The fifth-season opener with Steve Martin and Blondie in October 1979.

40 million people tuned in. Blondie did "Dreaming" and "The Hardest Part" live.

r247 nobody knows where it started, likeliest is bad practice in American labs, but of course blame the black guys. Just like Covid - engineered in American labs then stories about Chinese students stealing samples and bang its all over the world. Can;t take any fucking responsiblity for anything, can you?

Half the posts in this thread are vulgarities posted by R249, who also is the aids troll in this thread.

R228 go jump in a toilet nobody but Dionne stans remember those barely top 40 hits with maybe the exception of Night So Long.

Apocalypse Now. The horror. The horror.

R251 - you've been proven wrong. Accept it like a man.

He wasn't wrong, though. He said very specifically that Dionne only had three big hits in the 80s. A duet w/ Luther Vandross that crawls into the lower rungs of the top 40 is NOT a big hit.

Neither of you Nancys is quite correct about Dionne. She didn't "rule the pop charts" in the 1980s like Whitney, but she was in the top tier of pop artists at that time, particularly for her age group. She hosted Solid Gold, which boosted her exposure.

"That's What Friends Are For" was Billboard's No. 1 single of 1986. It was a collaboration billed to Dionne Warwick & Friends but very much considered a Dionne Warwick song. She was prominently featured in "We Are the World," which was the #1 song of 1985, and she did a lot of publicity for it.

And chart performance isn't the only accurate measurement—"Heartbreaker," "Friends..." and "Love Power" played all day, every day, on adult contemporary stations for the whole decade.

I'm Richard Pryor Live in Concert.

I'm chest hair, currently making appearances peeking out beneath unbuttoned polyester disco shirts.

I've been the standard marker of masculinity and male sexiness since forever, and I will continue to be so until the world ends.

R255 she wasn’t like Whitney or even in the same ballpark. She wasn’t top tier for any part of the decade only briefly during Friends chart run. And mostly with adult contemporary audiences. As a 11 year old I was numbed by that shitty song and wished it away by listening to Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam and Madonna. Hosting solid gold was work and exposure but didn’t make her popular among young people in the 80s. So you need mental health help.

I'm...

Americathon

I...I don't remember. Did I flash my panties in this one?

I'm the 'oh my God they went disco' record every geek with a synthesizer cites as a game changer and the first official SynthPop template....

I was 13, Catholic school, was coming to terms with being gay, and thus AIDS happened because I confessed my attraction in Confession before getting Confirmed. Also disco died because I was too big of a fan, and Joe Gage peaked as a Director.

I was a 45 in that little gay white kids stack.. a weird early crush for completely unknown reasons.

I'm OG nepo baby Jamie Lee Curtis waiting for the phone to ring after my hit movie Halloween. I won't get another job until John Carpenter writes a throwaway role in The Fog because he felt sorry for me not getting work. I'll eventually have to go out of the country to film.

I'm in my freshman year at NYU and trying not to be obvious when I notice the attractive guys an campus.

I was a junior, in a Catholic high school. I just learned to drive, and Cher's disco hit "Take Me Home", filled the airwaves. I wore navy blue and brown, 3-piece suits, mailed ordered from the Spiegel catalog.

I laughed my ass off when I heard that Ronald Reagan was going to run for president.

[quote]I have a 1979-1982 fetish

Hah, me too, R14!

R267, he had already run in 1976 (lost the nom to incumbent President Gerald Ford) and had been the governor of California for 8 years. Or maybe you're a Californian, experienced those 8 years, and that's why you're laughing ...?

In the recent HBO documentary on the Iranian hostages, one of the hostages got a contraband magazine after being confined for a year and when he saw that Ronald Reagan had won the election and was now president-elect he couldn't believe it. "Ronald Reagan the old shitty actor is president? WTF?"

I forgot to say that this hostage was being interviewed for the doc.

I turned 3 that July. I don’t remember much.

R261- I loathed that type of trendy edgy music back in 1979 when I was 13 years old.

I’m me, somewhere in this crowd.

R274- Are the HOT HE MAN construction worker in the orange hard hat and plaid shirt?

Pardon me, I’m convicted bank robber Patty Hearst and got released from prison after my sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.

I’m the coke dealer that had to make daily deliveries to the stage door at the Broadway Theater, starting in the Fall.

Wow look at how white the UMASS crowd is in r274's pic. It's weird to look at a group of college students today and see so many white people.

I am Sophie, I am a third-rate midwestern Ethel Merman. I am this three-year-old baby gay's first Icon!

R259-What a HORRIBLE movie.

John Ritter is such a QWEEN

R280 many escorts have said otherwise.

The year 1979'Let the Good Times Roll"

Was freed form foster care(court orders etc), took the standard tests, passed them all. I wanted to graduate with my class. I told 1 person (my buddy Newton-Fig). The Dean allowed me to accept my diploma at the end of the ceremony. My speech was short My closing line was "To the Class of 1979...Let the Good Times Roll!" Congrats, everyone.

I found out later that my buddy Fig had the entire scene filmed on multiple cameras, plus his camera& Polaroid one shot. I saw the film& the polaroid's (I looked like DEATH).

Even we submitted a late entry into the disco act that year.

Yes, about as late as this reply is...

I am the first time I had anal. I was 14. I shot half way to the ceiling.

Kinda crappy year for cinema. Except...

1979 was my first year of entry to an adult book store.

I was 14, but I knew what I wanted...

Gosh, a lot of mature 14 year olds in 1979. I was too scared to do anything like this in 1995. I admire you!

I’m Tracy Austin. And John McEnroe. We won the US open.

I'm the poppers haze the last two minutes of this song always sounded like.

I'm Scrappy-Doo. I'll take the entertainment world by storm

I'm Molly Ringwald, about to be unemployed.

I'm a 9 year old gaybee, mimicking my sister's cheerleading routines, creating dance moves to Amii Stewart's "Knock on Wood", obsessed with Buck Rogers, Charlie's Angels and Price is Right.

I wanted Debbie Harry to be my mother instead of my own.

I'm 'Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker'.

I'm disco crazy!

^ You mean crisco crazy

I'm 14 year-old me buying 12" disco singles:

"Take Me Home" - Cher

"Boogie Wonderland" - Earth, Wind & Fire

"Goodnight Tonight" - Wings