I wanna be sedated

Put me in a wheelchair. Get me to the show. “I wanna be sedated”. Great party music from the Ramones, 1980.

speaking of money – it’s what I want

“Money” from The Flying Lizards, 1980, a wonderfully twisted version of a song originally recorded by The Beatles.

1980 Olympics – Nadia Comaneci

The amazing boneless wunderkind, Nadia Comaneci, from Romania, competing in the 1980 Olympics. You know, the year the United States chose to boycott and didn’t attend the Olympics in Moscow. A few years later, the Cold War officially ended and the USSR broke into a number of independent republics. Go Nadia!