Thanks for visiting the 80's at 8 blog, updated daily with each shows content and songs. If you ever convinced your mom to buy you liquid center gum even though it causes cancer in lab animals, if, despite the warnings, you just kept slapping that slap bracelet until you cut yourself, If you'd rather be with someone for the wrong reasons than be alone for the right, or if you ever got hit in the face by a dodge ball but had no one to cry to since you were a latchkey kid, you've come to the right place!The 80's at 8 is powered by The Hospital of Central Ct, learn more @centraltoyourlife.org. Nick Rhodes got Kajagoogoo signed to Duran Duran’s record label and co-produced their one and only hit, "Too Shy"

From 1982 Frida "I Know There's Something Going On" on the River 1059 If your own grandmother has ever felt you up, If you're still trying to figure out whether Schwarzenegger or DeVito was the cuter twin, or If you ever raided the Tootsie Pop bag for the bow, arrow and star wrappers in hopes of getting a free one , you are on the right station, this is the 80's at 8, from 1980 Devo "Whip It"

From 1983 Taco "Puttin on the Ritz" on the River 1059 if you've ever slid into a room in your skivvies and socks, or if or you were always thankful to Judge Reinhold for serving no fries before their time, you are in the right place, this is the 80's at 8, from 1988 Robert Palmer "Simply Irresistible”

Here is the answer to the 80’s timeline, in which year did the following things take place?

Ronald Reagan fired over ten thousand striking air traffic controllers who ignored his orders to return to work.

We learned it’s good to be the king from Mel Brooks in History of the World Part 1.

And Video Killed the Radio Star with the debut of MTV, in 1981 and that year, this song and the accompanying video got major airtime during MTV’s first year, partly because the girls were showing off their fun side and partly because the new channel didn’t have a lot of videos, here’s the GoGo's "Our Lips Are Sealed"

From 1984 Prince and the Revolution "I Would Die 4 U" If you were ever tempted to create the perfect woman on your computer, if you'd change political parties for Alex P. Keaton, or if you still want to give a paternity test to My Two Dads, you are on the right site, from 1983 Sheriff "When I'm With You"