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Music
Casey counted them down and we danced to them in the Commons. Here is the Billboard list of the top 40 songs of 1985. So which of you were buying all of those Wham! albums?
1 CARELESS WHISPER, Wham! Featuring George Michael
2 LIKE A VIRGIN, Madonna
3 WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO, Wham!
4 I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS, Foreigner
5 I FEEL FOR YOU, Chaka Khan
6 OUT OF TOUCH, Daryl Hall and John Oates
7 EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD,Tears For Fears
8 MONEY FOR NOTHING, Dire Straits
9 CRAZY FOR YOU, Madonna
10 TAKE ON ME, A-Ha (Warner Brothers)
11 EVERYTIME YOU GO AWAY, Paul Young
12 EASY LOVER, Philip Bailey with Phil Collins
13 CAN'T FIGHT THIS FEELING, REO Speedwagon
14 WE BUILT THIS CITY, Starship
15 THE POWER OF LOVE, Huey Lewis and the News
16 DON'T YOU (Forget About Me), Simple Minds
17 CHERISH, Kool and the Gang
18 ST. ELMO'S FIRE (Man In Motion), John Parr
19 THE HEAT IS ON, Glenn Frey
20 WE ARE THE WORLD, USA For Africa
21 SHOUT, Tears For Fears
22 PART-TIME LOVER, Stevie Wonder
23 SAVING ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU, Whitney Houston
24 HEAVEN, Bryan Adams
25 EVERYTHING SHE WANTS, Wham!
26 COOL IT NOW, New Edition
27 MIAMI VICE THEME, Jan Hammer
28 LOVER BOY, Billy Ocean
29 LOVER GIRL, Teena Marie
30 YOU BELONG TO THE CITY, Glenn Frey
31 OH SHEILA, Ready For the World
32 RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT, DeBarge
33 ONE MORE NIGHT, Phil Collins
34 SEA OF LOVE, The Honeydrippers
35 A VIEW TO A KILL, Duran Duran
36 THE WILD BOYS, Duran Duran
37 YOU'RE THE INSPIRATION, Chicago
38 NEUTRON DANCE, The Pointer Sisters
39 WE BELONG, Pat Benatar
40 NIGHTSHIFT, The Commodores
SPORTS
Super Bowl
San Francisco d. Miami (38-16)
World Series
Kansas City d. St. Louis Cardinals (4-3)
NBA Championship
LA Lakers d. Boston (4-2)
Stanley Cup
Edmonton d. Philadelphia (4-1)
Wimbledon
Women: Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert Lloyd (4-6 6-3 6-2)
Men: Boris Becker d. K. Curren (6-3 6-7 7-6 6-4)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Spend A Buck
NCAA Basketball Championship
Villanova d. Georgetown (66-64)
NCAA Football Champions
Oklahoma (11-1-0)
The biggest sports story in Cincinnati for the year occured on September 11th when Pete Rose became the career hit leader with his 4192nd hit to break Ty Cobb's record. Rose lined a 2-1 pitch off San Diego Pitcher Eric Show to left-center field for a single in the first inning.
MOVIES
While Out of Africa won Best picture, it came in fifth at the box office. The highest grossing films of the year were:
Back to the Future
Rambo:First Blood Part II
Rocky IV
The Color Purple
Out of Africa
NEWS
Ronald Reagan 73, takes oath for second term as 40th President (Jan. 20).
Soviet leader Cherneko dies at 73 and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev, 54 (March 11). Under the slogans of glastnost and Perestroika, Gorbachev initiates a broad program of reform and liberalization.
Two Shi'ite Muslim gunmen capture TWA airliner with 133 aboard, 104 of them Americans (June 14); 39 remaining hostages freed in Beirut (June 30).
PLO terrorists hijack Achille Lauro, Italian cruise ship, with 80 passengers, plus crew (Oct. 7); American, Leon Klinghoffer, killed (Oct. 8); Italian government toppled by political crisis over hijacking (Oct. 16).
Reagan and Gorbachev meet at summit (Nov. 19); agree to step up arms control talks and renew cultural contacts (Nov. 21).
Terrorists seize Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner after takeoff from Athens (Nov. 23); 59 dead as Egyptian forces storm plane on Malta (Nov. 24).
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