David Crockett High School - Texan Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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M ' df h' l Crazes rage .?5gEO?'l...ai.1.O.i525.1 Irridescent orange socks, answering rivial questions, aiding millions in frica and music stars turned movie tars all came into the limelight and ecame flashes in the pan. Purple Rain fthe albuml by Prince nd the Revolution was voted album of he year by Billboard Magazine. The lbum sold over a million copies in less han a week. There were man albums ike Purple Rain that gained fame hrough movies such as the Footloose oundtrack, Ice Cream Castles by The ime, Vision Quest soundtrack, and the ard to Hold soundtrack by Rick pring field. The plight of the Ethiopians and other drought stricken areas of Africa was heard and musicians, students, :eachers and others participated in iundraisers. English musicians got :ogether and formed Band-Aid. Bob Geldof, who co-wrote the song says: 'We're looking at three million sales in Britain alone. They're reportedly press- ng up six million fmonataryl units in :he U.S., already money made by sales pas exceeded the entire UNICEF budget for 1985 for the famine areas. Do they Know its Christmas became the biggest selling hit in Great Britain fselling over 2.4 million copiesb U.S.A. for Africa We are the World sold a million copies in a day. Producer Quincy Jones, full of excitement, said, nothing else surpasses it. Conducting that choir gave me goose bumps. It was unbelievable. Some powerful energy. Crockett raised money through various projects. Project Tejas fund drives rais- ed S1452 Cfeeds approximately 4100 people for a weekl. The year will be remembered as the year that numerous musicfmovie stars gave their time and energy to help the millions in Africa. The soundtracks increased the popularity of movies starring big name music prodigies. For example, the autobiographical movies showing the road to fame of Paul McCaurtney in Broadstreet and Prince Rogers Nelson in Purple Rain falong with Apollonia, The Revolution and The Timel. Cameo appearances were made by DeBarge in The Last Dragon and Madonna in Vison Quest. Vanity co-starred in the chart climbing The Last Dragon and Desperately Seeking Susan starring Madonna, suprisingly these two rising stars could act very well. Besides the musical influence on movies there was the blood and guts movies which were equally as popular, First Blood, Scarface and The Enforcer. These movies were a little less gory because the censors were getting tough on rating movies R, Pg, and a new rating Pg-13 which advises children under 13 should not see the movies. These movies rated Pg-13 popped on to the movie charts. Gremlins, Ghostbusters and Temple of Doom fall rated Pg-131 were popular for their horror with a tinge of humor. Also, Beverly Hills Cops became the biggest box office earner of the year. Movies and music stars influenced the fashion scene The Madonna look Cby the way, Madonna has started her own fashion linel consisted of wearing corsets and other undergarments on the outside and wearing 10 to 20 rainbow colors of little plastic bracelets on each arm and a skirt that comes down to the calves. In the hair 5 5 I A --Q., l .. 79 L, 5 2 5 if Y , gr I .wt gf ...4 !4BI1Pl!:-sltzu there was a lace bow fany shadel, a pair of earrings usually crosses, trinkets and other idols, rosary beads, the Risky Business type sunglasses and the trojan sandals top- ped off the outfit. Cyndi Lauper helped the vintage clothing shops sell out of the bizarre looking old clothes and shoes. Prince also influenced the fashion with his lace and leather look. Fluorescent colors were influenced by Culture Club. Frankie goes to Hollywood and Wham! expressed their political views in headline form on T-shirts, sayings on the s h i r t s w e r e CHOOSE LIFE and Frankie says: A R M T H E UNEMPLOYED. Hacky Sac con- tinued to grow in popularity as the weather was get- ting warmer. Break dancing was the biggest fad of the year. People were popping and spinning all over the place. Fashian!4I

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40!Fads fit 5' ni Mlm xx is . W V ffl QQ vi .5 ts..- .F Ad:F:!'AA'.? W7 v ' - T 4 U.S.A. for Africa, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper and Culture Club were musical acts which created many new classics. U.S.A. for Africa's We are the World sold over four million copies and profitted 86.2 million in its first two months, All the proceeds go for famine relief in Africa and to aide the homeless in U.S. Jane Taylor browes for that just perfect album. X ann. lf .... ,1- Above Joe Hernandez and Casey Maroney play the skill and co-ordination game of Hacky Sac in the courtyard. Hacky Sac is a game of kicking a little leather ball filled with little plastic beads. The game can be played as few as one up to as many as people as the players want. The Hacky Sac is like the yo' yo of the 80's. The little sac can do some damage to the pocketbook because it cost between eight and nine dollars. The object of the game is to keep the ball in the air without using your hands. Right Deb- bie Treece and Robbie Huttenhower show off a few of the new fashion of the year by Huttenhower's everlasting popular Porsche Carrera. Treece is wearing an oversized T-shirt with a silk print skirt. Huttenhower wears pleated wool slacks with a Polo sweater. People desperately try to get the right clothes. In one day U2 hoursj ofshopping a person can come away with just a pair ofshoes that do not really go with anything. iw- MAE: ...uv K, . K fl, l , , l,filZj Ai K f 7 1 335111 'i 3 x N Q

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