Northampton Area High School - Amptennian Yearbook (Northampton, PA)

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Madonna puts on a great show for the audience, singing her hit song Holiday . Surrounded by controversy by posing for Penthouse last year. Madonna allows nothing to distract her from her music. Judas Priest’s lead singer Rob Halford rocks the audience with the smash hit You Got Another Thing Cornin’ . Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal of the English band Tears for Fears play one of their top hits for the fans. Their album Songs from the Big Chair” spent eight weeks at the top of the charts. An entire city block was destroyed in Philadelphia. Police tried to evict members of the radical group MOVE from their fortified rowhouse by dropping a small bomb on the building. A fire was started by the device and about 60 houses were destroyed.

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Prince leads the audience as he sings Take Me With You”. He was interviewed for the first time on Music Television this year. Members of Power Station. John Taylor. Andy Taylor, and Michael DesBarres. rock Live Aid with their song Bang a Gong”. The war in the Mid-East continued in 1985. A distraught Moslem man hugs his son moments after they survived a car bomb explosion outside a West Beirut restaurant in late August. They are shown being hurried away from the carnage by another man as cars burn in the rubble-strewn street. The Kansas City Royals won the World Series. Royals pitcher Bret Saberhagen embraces third baseman George Brett after pitching a five-hitter to give the Royals the World Series crown over the St. Louis Cardinals. Saberhagen. the winner of two series games, was named as the Most Valuable Player in the series.

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 A Trans World Airlines Jet with 145 passengers and eight crew members was hijacked in Athens. Greece, in June. The Shiite hijackers took the plane to Beirut, then to Algeria and then back to Beirut. Most of the hostages were released within days but the remaining 39 hostages were held for 17 days. One American hostage was killed. UO's lead singer Bono steals the spot light when he sings the song Sunday Bloody Sunday”. Four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro while on a Mediterranean cruise. One American was killed. After the ship was released the Eqyptian government agreed to return the hijackers to the PLO. However, the hijackers were intercepted by American jets as they were flown out of Egypt and returned to Italy to stand trial.