Lakeview Centennial High School - Legacy Yearbook (Garland, TX)

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'85 ln Review The 1984-85 school year was a great year for teenage happenings. Rock-n-Roll shone through with the release of many new albums. Early in the year, Zebra came out with No Tellinl Lies, a follow-up of their first album, and Iron Maiden gave us a new LP, Powerslave. Former Led Zeppelin members Robert Plant and limmy Page got together again with the Honeydrippers, but a reunion of reunions took place at the end of 1984 with Deep Purple and their album Perfect Strangers. Later, a controversy in Styx brought out solo efforts from vocalist Dennis DeYoung and guitaristfvocalist Tommy Shaw, Then, after almost two years of silence, REO Speed- wagon turned out Wheels are Turnin', and the Canadian trio, Triumph, returned to the Rock scene with the powerful Thunder Seven after a long dispute with their record label. Along with others, these groups toured the country and the world to promote their albums. First of all, over the summer, Dallas saw Texas lam '84 with headliner Rush, on their Grace Under Pressure tour. Also at the lam were Oz- zy Osbourne, .38 Special, Bryan Adams, and Gary Moore. Not able to appear at the lam as was tradition, Sam- my Hagar appeared at Reunion Arena in September. lefferson Starship, Zebra, and Night Ranger made it to Six Flags at the beginning of the year also, Big Reunion concerts of the year were Ronnie lames Dio, Reo Speedwagon, Triumph, and Kiss with Queensryche, Music was not the only thing going on. Blockbuster movies were hitting the screen one after another. One of the big- gest: Dune, and Sting's movie debut. Another rock star, Gene Simmons, starred with Tom Selleck in the movie Runaway, and Grace lones appeared with Arnold Schwartzenegger in Gonan, the Destroyer. Later in the year Eddie Murphy re- turned, after his disappointing appearance in Best Defense, with the hilarious Beverly Hills Cop, Whenever records, con- certs, and movies are brought up in the same thought, no one can forget Prince, and Purple Rain. Knocking Michael jackson off the pedestal and taking his place in the limelight, his album spent an astounding 24 weeks as 111 on the charts. The movie spent months at the theatres, bringing in massive crowds. Touring with Shiela E., Prince came to Dallas for three con- secutive nights, December 30 and 31, and bringing in the New Year on lan, 1, Not only had music and movies abounded but 1984 was an election year, too, and many Seniors cast their votes in November for their favorite of the two candidates, Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan, who was running for his sec- ond term, Winning by a land- slide, as predicted, President Reagan was reinstated. The '84-'85 school year also marked the first year of House Bill 72, which made some major changes in the school format, including pep rallies, school day interruptions, and even an- nouncements, The Bill also added a few things, like tutorial services, all in order to return the emphasis of school to academics. Other events in- cluded the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and the beginning of the restoration of the Statue of Liberty. These events played a part in all of our lives, and they are all things that we will not soon forget. in Mr. LeMaster leaves no doubt as to his candidate. Some of the Movies that were out at the beginning of '85

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