Okay 80's fans I was born in '87 so I was just wondering what were you guys up to that year?

I think I was in 2nd grade going into 3rd. I don't really remember a whole lot that happened that year except that Reagan was president and when a baby girl named Jessica fell in the well in Texas. Did the shuttle disaster happen in '87 or was it '86? I also remember songs from Beastie Boys "License to Ill", Run DMC, Michael Jackon's "Bad" album, and that song from "Dirty Dancing" playing on the radio and MTV that year.

Did the shuttle disaster happen in '87 or was it '86?



The challenger disaster happed in Jan. '86 I think.

In 1987, I was in Grade 5.  I was listening to Platinum Blonde and Glass Tiger ;D

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Deborah Gibson came "Out of the Blue" , though was "Debbie Gibson"


Guns N' Roses debut with "Appetite For Destruction"
REM, The Cure, Motley Crue, INXS, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Poison, released albums


Dirty Dancing, Lethal Weapon, The Lost Boys, and La Bamba were released in theaters

Okay 80's fans I was born in '87 so I was just wondering what were you guys up to that year?


In '87 I was in fifth grade and trying to make sense of the new world --it was called middle school.  :) Stupid combination lockers!

Pop culture: Bon Jovi was huge among many of my classmates, though I can't say I was a big fan. Of current stuff, Def Leppard was more my speed, though I discovered R.E.M. shortly thereafter. Mullets for guys and "big" hairstyles for girls (a.k.a. "fluff chicks") weren't uncommon among the more fashion-concious...of which I was not.  :-\\

Mullets for guys and "big" hairstyles for girls (a.k.a. "fluff chicks") weren't uncommon among the more fashion-concious...of which I was not.  :-\\


I may regret admitting this, but...

...I had a mullet back then...

What was I (and my mullet) doing?

Probably being one of 'Thatcher's children'...!

I too had a mullet ! I had just finished college and was looking for a job, I was 19 that summer.

I was in 5th grade.....

Building a tree fort in the woods with my friends during my free time while listening to our "Boom Boxes"
Bon Jovi "Slippery when wet".........Beastie Boys "Licensed to Ill"......Van Hagar "OU812"

I was 11 yrs old and loving my first year in high school. I also started going to my first "late night" parties without my folks at friends houses. Listening to Rick Astley, watching Dirty Dancing, Michael Jackson's Bad. Great great times!

I was 12 years old and in the 7th grade. Had alot of great friends. Time seemed to move much slower then. A great time to be alive. It felt like anything was possible. Alot of great music(GNR,VH,Def Leppard,Metallica,etc.) and some great scary movies then(Hellraiser,Friday13th,Freddy,etc). 1987 and 88 were the last years of innocence for me, since I got into drugs really bad when I entered high school. If I could choose one year of my life to relive, it would be 1987.

I was in grade school, and didn't do awhole lot.

I may regret admitting this, but...

...I had a mullet back then...

What was I (and my mullet) doing?

Probably being one of 'Thatcher's children'...!


*L* As I alluded to in my original post, I was probably the least fashion-oriented kid in my school. My hair was still in the traditional "feathered over and no gel" phase. To be honest, it didn't change much until high school. These days, my hairstyle is something rather like that of the the guy pictured to my left.  8)

I met Lady Thatcher once...

I was two years old, living briefly in Georgia. I remember going to the beach a lot with my parents.

(I was 3 three years old)


Also Tiffany came onto the scene...though wasn't familiar with her until a few years ago...


Nirvana formed, but wasn't mainstream until 1991

Fox network debut with shows like  "Married...with Children", "21 Jump Street", and "Tracey Ullman Show"

I had just moved to my house in Waterford,Michigan & I was going into 2nd grade & I was 7 years old

I was 5 and my sister was born that year.



Basically, I was lamenting the loss of my only child status. 

Fox network debut with shows like  "Married...with Children", "21 Jump Street", and "Tracey Ullman Show"


Don't forget "Mr. President".  ;D

I turned 5 years old and graduated Pre-school. I started an infatuation with Harrison Ford at that tender age.  ;D

I was at work, having started the previous summer.  Cannot remember any films I went to see or concerts or anything

First part of the year at Amherst College.  Graduated in May.  Home to Kansas, worked in a men's store in Topeka for the summer.  In the fall to graduate school at the University of Nebraska.

I was 21 and in college at the time.  I flew to Los Angeles that summer to visit a boyfriend (that is a time that I'd like to forget).