Johnny Mars revisited 1985 on this week's Saturday Morning Flashback. The year Nintendo Entertainment System and two classic games, Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt, arrived just in time for the holidays, Live Aid concerts in Philadelphia and London raised more than $50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia, and Route 66 was officially removed from the U.S. Highway System which effectively brought the Mother Road to an end. Here’s everything Johnny played:
John Fogerty - "Centerfield"
Kate Bush - "Running Up That Hill"
Sting - "Fortress Around Your Heart"
Dire Straits - "Money for Nothing"
John Mellencamp - "Rain On the Scarecrow"
Hooters - "And We Danced"
Tears For Fears - "Shout"
The Firm - "Satisfaction Guaranteed"
Howard Jones - "Things Can Only Get Better"
U2 - "Bad (live)"
Power Station - "Bang A Gong"
Big Audio Dynamite - "Medicine Show"
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "So You Want To Be a Rock and Roll Star"
Eurythmics - "It’s Alright"
Talking Heads - "Stay Up Late"
Simple Minds - "Alive and Kicking"
Pete Townshend - "White City Fighting"
The Cure - "Close To Me"
Alison Moyet - "Love Resurrection"
David Bowie and The Pat Metheny Group - "This Is Not America"
INXS - "Listen Like Thieves"
Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Change It"
Golden Palominos - "Boy"
The Smiths - "How Soon Is Now"
Til Tuesday - "Voices Carry"
Nick Lowe - "I Knew the Bride"
Dream Academy - "Life In a Northern Town"
The Replacements - "Swingin’ Party"
Prince - "Raspberry Beret"
Phil Collins - "Don’t Lose My Number"
New Order - "Love Vigilantes"
Next week, Frank E Lee takes us to 1991. When three of the most iconic grunge albums (Nirvana’s Nevermind, Pearl Jam’s Ten, and Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger) were released, the Chicago-set film Backdraft premiered in movie theaters across the country, and The Ren and Stimpy Show premiered on Nickelodeon.