{"id":5299,"date":"2015-06-12T08:29:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T08:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/henry-rollins-in-the-80s-even-i-listened-to-madonna\/"},"modified":"2015-06-12T08:29:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T08:29:21","slug":"henry-rollins-in-the-80s-even-i-listened-to-madonna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/henry-rollins-in-the-80s-even-i-listened-to-madonna\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Rollins: In the &#8217;80s, Even I Listened to Madonna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xpt1\/v\/t1.0-9\/11078261_605074612927401_7009825077815392715_n.png?oh=63257c18b9dc5227afac07eecf950be0&amp;oe=55F0DCC4\" border=\"0\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" \/><br \/>&#8221; I have several Remember the \u201980s compilation CDs. I don\u2019t keep them as a joke. I find them to be a fascinating time capsule and a great vantage point by which to view a decade that is not all that far behind us yet sometimes seems centuries in the past.For the last few weeks, I\u2019ve been listening to a lot of 1980s records by  artists who emerged in that decade, like Madonna,  <!--more-->  as well as acts such  as Bowie, Springsteen and ZZ Top, who found themselves suddenly verging  on the archaic as the decade almost ran past itself at MTV warp speed.  These three changed their sound radically and, by doing so, not only  survived the \u201980s but fairly exploded in popularity, with records that  sound alien to what they did before.In the 1980s, even I used the music at times as a narcotic.<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, a  particularly grueling year of touring \u2014 fraught with violence, tough  living situations and an overall aura of hostility \u2014 I taped music at  the homes of two different industry people who got sent everything. I  hauled Culture Club, Duran Duran, ABC, Cyndi Lauper and others through  one American city after another. I bought a used cassette of Madonna\u2019s <em>Like a Virgin<\/em> and played it multiple times a day to prepare for the ashtrays whizzing by my head that night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: La Weekly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; I have several Remember the \u201980s compilation CDs. I don\u2019t keep them as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}