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MONY MONY - BILLY IDOL - 1987


NEWS

• The “Black Monday” stock market fall.

• The Iran-Contra affair was big news.

• Gary Hart playing hanky panky with Donna Rice.

• The Rev. Jim Bakker admitted committing adultery with a church secretary Jessica Hann.

• Prozac would hit the market

 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES:“3 Men & a Baby” “Beverly Hills Cop II” “Fatal Attraction” and “Good Morning Vietnam”

• T.V.: “Cosby Show”,  “Roseanne” and “Murder She Wrote”

• Shelly Long Quit the popular NBC TV Show Cheers

• Spuds MacKenzie first appeared in Bud Light beer advertisement

• Aretha Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

• Pi is calculated out to 134 million decimal places with no end in sight.

 

DEAD

• Liberace

• Andy Warhol

• Rita Hayworth

• Fred Astaire

• Jackie Gleason

 

#1@1

• This can be found on the Vital Idol live Album.

• Originally done in 1968 by Tommy James & the Shondells, it only peaked at number 3 on the charts for them. 

• The title of the song is said to have been inspired by Tommy James's view of a MONY sign atop the “Mutual of New York” Building on the New York City from his Manhattan apartment.

• It brought the song to a new generation who had never heard the original. 

• Here’s Billy Idol and Mony Mony, your #1 @ 1 from November1987.



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