1987
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"I Shop, Therefore I Am" (1987) by Barbara Kruger "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"--Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev, Friday, June 12, 1987 |
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1987 is the 987th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1980s decade.
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Art and culture
Literature
Non-fiction
- Cut 'n' Mix by Dick Hebdige
- The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
- The Secret Museum by Walter Kendrick
Film
- Bagdad Cafe by Percy Adlon
- Bad Taste by Peter Jackson
- Amazon Women on the Moon by Carl Gottlieb and John Landis
- A Taxing Woman by Juzo Itami
- Raising Arizona by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Cherry 2000 by Steve De Jarnatt
- Tin Men by Barry Levinson
- Babette's Feast by Gabriel Axel
- Castaway by Nicolas Roeg
- Angel Heart by Alan Parker
- The Belly of an Architect by Peter Greenaway
Music
On the night of September 27, the Paradise Garage, the disco club closes its doors forever and famed DJ Larry Levan is out of a job. Todd Terry dispenses with vocal narrative altogether on Royal House's "Can You Party," and creates a dance classic out of a delirious, near chaotic collage of electronic samples. By releasing "Acid Tracks", Marshall Jefferson, DJ Pierre and Spanky invent acid house and in England Gilles Peterson coins acid jazz at Dingwalls.
Singles
- This Is Stranger Than Love by Mark Stewart and the Maffia
- Push It by Salt-n-Pepa
- Disco Death by Arbeid Adelt!
- You Used To Hold Me by Ralphie Rosario
- Strings of Life by Rythim is Rythim
- Pump Up the Volume by Marrs
- Party People by Todd Terry
- Wax the Van by Lola
- Promised Land by Joe Smooth
- Acid Tracks - Phuture
- This Is Acid - Maurice
- Sexuality by Blake Baxter
- The Sound by Reese & Santonio
- Work It To The Bone by LNR
Albums
- New Jungle Fever by Charlie Feathers
- Paid in Full by Eric B. & Rakim
- Sign o' the Times by Prince
- Pieces for Bandoneon by Evan Lurie
- Time Boom X De Devil Dead by Lee 'Scratch' Perry + Dub Syndicate
Classical
Visual art
- Ends of Bamboo by Andy Goldsworthy
- Piss Christ by Andres Serrano
- The Way Things Go by Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Dance
- What the Body Does Not Remember by Wim Vandekeybus
Births
Deaths
- Franju (1912 - 1987)
- Dalida (1933 - 1987)
- André Masson (1896 - 1987)
- Douglas Sirk (1897 - 1987)
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)