1985 Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Someone found footage of 16-year-old Dave Grohl playing live

By the time Dave Grohl was in his mid-teens, he’d not only discovered the drums but was also beginning to

After achieving some success with the release of Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas,” the organizer of the project,

Back in the 80s, it was fashionable for musicians to get together to create a charity single in an effort

This comes from Yahoo! Music. If you remember Saturday, July 13, 1985, you need to read this. They were the

I remember Live Aid well: Saturday, July 13, 1985. It’s hard to overstate just how big an event this was.

The other piece of John Hughes-related news this weekend (the other being the death of Flesh for Lulu singer Nick

This comes courtesy of DAEMON, a San Francisco producer who thought it would be cool to remember Christmas 1985 when