Here is the answer to the 80s timeline:
1) President Reagan famously demanded "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" after anti-American protests in West Berlin.
2) Jason Bateman was howlingly unsuccessful in attempting to fill Michael J. Fox’s shoes in Teen Wolf Too.
3) The Price is Right surpasses Concentration as the longest running daytime game show in history in 1987, and in that year this song was released which features some of the members of the Mamma's and the Papa’s on background vocals. Here is Belinda Carlisle "Heaven Is A Place On Earth"
