Mazama High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Klamath Falls, OR)

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New Groups There were several new groups in ‘85-'86. Two of the biggest were Mr. Mister with their second album Ready For The Real World, and Hooters with their album Nervous Night. Nervous Night featured sev- eral big hits such as Where Do The Children Go. Day By Day. And We Danced, and All You Zombies. The Bangles returned with their second album Different Light which fea- tured Manic Monday. Miami Sound Machine made a big hit with their song Bad Boy. Two groups who also made it big were 1NXS with their album Listen Like Thieves and Sly Fox with their LP Let's Go All The Way. Nu Shooz, a band from Port- land. Oregon had success with their hit single I Can't Wait. Janet Jackson Whitney Houston Van Halen Last year the fate of Van Halen was on the ropes after David Lee Roth, the lead singer, left the group. Sammy Hagar was chosen as Roth's replacement. Some felt Hagar was a desperate choice until the release of Why Can't This Be Love, the First single released from the first album of the newly reconstructed group. The album's name - 5150 (the Cali- fornia police code for the criminally insane.) Though the reformation of the band could have had a devastat- ing effect on its popularity, music critic. David Hiltbrand said it all when he said, Van Halen is still the most vital, intense rock band in the land. ' New Faces A few new individuals made names for themselves with smash hits in ‘85 -'86. Whitney Houston was one of the biggest new singers of the year. With her first album Whitney Houston she had several hits with You Give Good Love. Saving All My Love For You. Thinking About You. How Will I Know, and Hold Me. To top it off she won a Grammy for her performance. One of the big - gest songs of the year was Rock Me Amadeus by Falco. Falco 3 became one of the Top 5 albums in America. Another new face on the scene was Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson's lit- tle sister. Janet had a Top 10 album smash with What Have You Done For Me lately!. Falco Music-171

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Music New Albums Boy George Sade Sade, whose first two albums have reached the National Top V also gathered rave reviews for her distinc- tive looks. In 1984. Sade and her hand released their first LP. Diamond Life. In two years she and her band went from zero to platinum. Dia- mond Lite had a couple of hit singles - Smooth Operator and Hang On To Your Love - and sold more than five million copies. Her follow-up album was released in October. 198V Prom- ine rose to Number 2 in the U.S. and produced another hit single, The Sweetest Taboo. Several top groups had new al- bums this year. ZZ Top came back with a Top 10 album Afterburner. featuring the Top 10 smash hit Sleep- ing Bag. plus the hits Stages and Rough Boy. Heart's new album Heart was a smash with its single These Dreams. Bon Jovi's album 1700° Parenheit had a smash hit In and Chit of Love. Lovcrboy had a Top 10 album featuring hits like Dangerous and This Could Be The Night. Julian Lennon returned with his second LP The Secret Value of Dreaming which featured Stick Around. Prince's album Parade al- lowed him to try a new style. And Culture Club came back with not only a new LP but a new look as well. Judas Priest made a comeback with their hit album Turbo. 170-Music

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Movies Oscar Winners This year there was a wide variety of Academic Award winners. Out of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Rcdford won seven awards including the Oscar for Best Picture. Sydney Pollack, who directed Our of Africa, won the Oscar for Best Di- rector. The Best Actress award went to Geraldine Page for her perfor- mance in The Trip to Bountiful. Wil - Iiam Hurt won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Best Supporting Actress went to Anjelica Huston for her role as mafia princess in Prizzi's Honor. Don Amcche won the Best Support- ing Actor award for his performance in Cocoon. The controversial film. The Color Purple, had received 11 nominations, but won no awards. Director. Steven Spielberg, tailed to gain a nomination for Best Director. Some felt the movie was ignored because of the controversial issues while others felt it was due to the fact that the film's cast was made up mostly of black actors and actresses. K K S I) 0 N A TRUE STORY. ROBERT MERYL REDFORD STREEP Out Of Africa Rocky IV And Rambo 172-Movies Rocky IV was one of the year’s most popular movies. In the film Syl- vester Stallone returned as Rocky in the fourth installment of the Rocky films. In the movie Rocky must face his greatest challenge yet — the Rus- sian fighting machine Ivan Drago. Sylvester Stallone also starred in the equally popular Rambo: First Blood Part II. Stallone stars as Rambo who returns to Vietnam for revenge.