Welcome to Awesome80s.com!

Welcome to the Super70s family of websites: There is Super70s.com, which covers the 1970s. There is Awesome80s.com, which covers the 1980s. And there is Virtual90s.com, which will cover the 1990s starting in late summer of 2008. The fourth site is BaseballChronology which covers the history of baseball from the 1840s to the present. Do you see the set of colored boxes on the right labeled 70s, 80s, 90s, and BC? These are at the top of every page and allow you to quickly switch between all four sites!

Have you checked out our new discussion forums? Now you can discuss anything related to the Super70s, Awesome80s, or Virtual90s. There are literally thousands of your messages dating back to the last century already there and I am copying over more every day. I think you will agree that this is a much better way to allow you to share your memories with others and read others comments as well.

There are over 400,000 pages combined on these sites, and we're hardly going to stop there! We constantly add new information, so come back soon! (Don't forget to add Awesome80s.com to your favorites, so you can find us again. You can also make Awesome80s.com your home page.)

January 8 in 70s/80s History:

Happy Birthday:
On this date 74 years ago, singer Elvis Presley was born.
On this date 62 years ago, pop star David Bowie was born.
We have a complete list of current and former Baseball players who are celebrating birthdays today.

Movies released on January 8:
Couch Trip in 1988
Hysterical in 1983

The #1 Songs for January 8:
1970: 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' by B.J. Thomas.
1971: 'My Sweet Lord' by George Harrison.
1972: 'Brand New Key' by Melanie.
1973: 'You're So Vain' by Carly Simon.
1974: 'Time in a Bottle' by Jim Croce.
1975: 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' by Elton John.
1976: 'Saturday Night' by Bay City Rollers.
1977: 'You Don't Have to be a Star (To be in my Show)' by Marylin McCoo & Billy Davis Jr..
1978: 'How Deep is your Love' by Bee Gees.
1979: 'Too Much Heaven' by Bee Gees.
1980: 'Please Don't Go' by K.C. and the Sunshine Band.
1981: '(Just Like) Starting Over' by John Lennon.
1982: 'Physical' by Olivia Newton-John.
1983: 'Maneater' by Daryl Hall & John Oates.
1984: 'Say Say Say' by Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson.
1985: 'Like a Virgin' by Madonna.
1986: 'Say You, Say Me' by Lionel Richie.
1987: 'Walk Like an Egyptian' by Bangles.
1988: 'Faith' by George Michael .
1989: 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn' by Poison.
These were the most popular songs on January 8 of each year.

Do you remember Miami Vice, Cheers and the Cosby Show, Gorbachev and the Evil Empire, The Empire Strikes Back, E.T., and Beverly Hills Cop, Debbie Gibson, Rubik's Cube, the Atari 2600, and Pac-Man, Mount St. Helens, the Exxon Valdez, and Chernobyl, Cosmos and the Space Shuttle Challenger, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Sadat Assassination, the Subway Vigilante, Abscam, Iran-Contra and the Stock Market Crash, or Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson and MTV? Then this site is FOR YOU!