KXEL@80–1984

The Year Was 1984–On the pop music charts, “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper, Van Halen’s “Jump,” “Karma Chameleon” by Culture Club, and “Dancing in the Dark” by Bruce Springsteen…top movies included “Footloose,” “Ghostbusters,” “Terminator” and “Karate Kid”…television programs premiering included “Who’s The Boss” and “Murder, She Wrote”…and in the news, the 1984 presidential election included the first woman nominated as a major party vice-presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro…President Ronald Reagan answering concerns about his age during a presidential debate…India’s Indira Ghandi was assassinated…and Soviet leader Yuri Andropov died.