METAL MANIA: THE '80s (SO FAR) & INTO THE '90s!
Did anybody get the license number of that decade? The 1980s, I mean. Can you believe they’re already half over? After all those years of waiting to see what 1984 would be like it turns out to be a mere Van Halen album! I must admit that, before I hit the Archives (repeatedly with an impact wrench) I didn’t think anything had happened in the '80s.
METAL MANIA: THE '80s (SO FAR) & INTO THE '90s!
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Rick Johnson
Did anybody get the license number of that decade?
The 1980s, I mean. Can you believe they’re already half over? After all those years of waiting to see what 1984 would be like it turns out to be a mere Van Halen album!
I must admit that, before I hit the Archives (repeatedly with an impact wrench) I didn’t think anything had happened in the '80s. Oh sure, a bunch of people died and some of ’em weren't even in Friday The 13th movies, but that about covers it.
The ’80s did spit up a few developments, however. An unknown English band named Def Leppard went from their very first American LP to seven million Pyromanias sold to disaster. Kiss went from the top of the heap to the bottom and back up to the top again (see ya in the next pit, guys). And David Lee Roth went through more girls’ underpants than the rest of us did nosehairs.