Balloonfest 1986: when Cleveland was colonised by balloons
Event planning. It’s important.
1986
Bob Dylan’s frankly surreal rap on a Kurtis Blow album, 1986
“Kids starve in Ethiopia / And we are gettin’ greedier”.
Stop what you’re doing and watch footage of The Cure in Orange in 1986
Some of you reading this may have already had the good fortune to have seen this vintage footage of The Cure performing at the breathtaking…
‘I find them very depressing’: 80s pop tart Samantha Fox reviews The Smiths and The Fall in 1986
Samantha Fox and Lemmy Kilmister. Samantha Fox was technically still a very popular topless Page 3 girl in The Sun and not yet an 80s…
When the drugs were still working: Cheerfully insane footage of the Butthole Surfers backstage, 1986
This laugh-out-loud funny footage of backstage mayhem at a Butthole Surfers show was taped at Atlanta’s 688 Club on February 28 1986. It’s probably one…
Watch The The’s innovative ‘Infected: The Movie’ music video album, 1986
In 1986 the well-nigh un-Google-able musical outfit known as The The, the thinking person’s dance band formed by English musician Matt Johnson, released its second…
Jello Biafra and ‘uptight prude’ Tipper Gore fight it out in the pages of CREEM, 1986
In the 1980s, the elected-to-nothing wife of then-Senator Albert Gore Jr. made quite a splash for herself when she formed the Parents Music Resource Center…
‘Kenneth, what is the frequency?’ The weird connection between AC/DC and the 1986 Dan Rather assault
Dan Rather’s career as a network news anchor was full of memorable moments, but perhaps the single most surreal incident was the time he had…
That time Chris Elliott took a huge crap on artsy mime troupe Mummenschanz on ‘Letterman,’ 1986
In his long career as a giant smartass pretending to be a know-it-all idiot, Chris Elliott has pissed off many, many people, including directors Francis…
Mike Kelley fronts Sonic Youth, 1986
The first time I visited New York’s SoHo district in 1992 I remember seeing a large print of the cover art for Sonic Youth’s Dirty…