was shot, and in world news, Paul McCartney was arrested for possession of Marijuana in Japan (back then it was illegal) and Israel and Egypt decided to give peace a chance. land, the Cable News Network (CNN) was launched and J.R.
In 1980 in the United States, a movie actor became President, a volcano erupted, Olympic Games were boycotted and although hard to believe, the Philadelphia Phillies won a World Series. Artists popular in the late 1970s (and some from the 1960s) still dominated the charts, “Soft Rock” was still an actual thing and the world had no concept that there could someday be a bad Star Wars movie. As the calendar of the 20th Century initially flipped from 1979 to 1980, nothing really changed in regard to popular music.
