{"id":10477,"date":"2020-01-24T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10477"},"modified":"2020-01-25T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T22:11:13","slug":"the-most-80s-thing-that-ever-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/24\/the-most-80s-thing-that-ever-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"“The most 80s thing that ever happened…”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Blinded by science: Remembering the surreal ‘Synthesizer Showdown’ of the 1985 Grammys<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by Lyndsey Parker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Herbie Hancock, Thomas Dolby, Stevie Wonder, and Howard Jones perform at the 1985 Grammy Awards. (Photo: YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thirty-five years ago, something totally awesome went down at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards that changed television \u2014 at least in the science-blinded eyes of members of the original MTV generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That fateful evening, onstage at Los Angeles\u2019s Shrine Auditorium, elder-statesmen keyboard icons Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock joined new-school new-wavers Thomas Dolby and Howard Jones (the former in a powdered Beethoven wig, the latter resplendent in billowing primary-yellow satin while brandishing a keytar). Together, they delivered a futureshocking performance that has come to be known as the Great Synthesizer Showdown of \u201885. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was probably the most \u201980s thing that ever happened.\u00a0Ever<\/em>. And yet, the grainy Betamax footage of that night still seems cooler than anything that has taken place at the Grammys in the three and a half decades that have followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Yahoo! Blinded by science: Remembering the surreal ‘Synthesizer Showdown’ of the 1985 Grammys by Lyndsey Parker Thirty-five years ago, something totally awesome went down at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards that changed television \u2014 at least in the science-blinded eyes of members of the original MTV generation. That fateful evening, onstage at Los Angeles\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}