1980
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Art and culture
Film
- Return of the Secaucus 7 by John Sayles
- Bad Timing by Roeg
- Cannibal Holocaust by Ruggero Deodato
- Deathwatch by Blier
- Elephant Man by David Lynch
- Dressed to Kill by Brian De Palma
- Forbidden Zone, by Richard Elfman
- Alligator by Lewis Teague
- The Shining by Stanley Kubrick
- Sitting Ducks by Henry Jaglom
- Battle Beyond the Stars by Jimmy T. Murakami
- Altered States by Ken Russell
- Spetters by Paul Verhoeven
- Airplane! by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
- Used Cars by Robert Zemeckis
Literature
Fiction
- The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole first published
Non-fiction
- The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler
- The Shock of the New
- A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
Visual art
- Tramonto a New York by Gaetano Pesce
- After Edward Weston by Sherrie Levine
Music
- Disco is a Dirty Word
- By 1980, disco had become a dirty word. The term was banished from the language as an added security measure [because remember, the disco that Ron and Frankie played was called 'house' even before house was], but the music was exported to England, where it was de-gayed and re-exported to the States under a new name: "new wave dance music." The rock majority was satisfied by the replacement of explicitly gay Sylvester with flamboyantly closeted Boy George. As the playlist segued from "I'm Coming Out" into "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me," the pulverization of the liberal imagination became a political fact. Ronald Reagan was elected president, and the following June, a mysterious new "gay cancer" appeared. - by Peter Braunstein
- Adrian Sherwood
- In 1980, Adrian Sherwood launches On U Sound records.
- Grace Jones
- With the dawn of the '80s came a massive anti-disco movement across the U.S., leading to Grace Jones focusing on more new wave and experimental-based work produced by the noted reggae team of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare.
Singles
- "Is It All Over My Face" - Loose Joints
- "You've Got to Have Freedom" - Pharoah Sanders (started the whole acid jazz thing)
- Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation
- Sylvester - I Need You
- Ramona Brooks - I Don't Want You Back
- Taana Gardner - Work That Body (Levan Remix)
- More Bounce to the Ounce - Zapp
- Kinky Foxx - So Different
- Sylvia Striplin - Give Me Your Love
- First Choice - Breakaway
- La Colegiala -
- Gayle Adams - Stretchin' Out
- Geraldine Hunt - Can't Fake The Feeling
- Trussel - Love Injection
- Invisible Man's Band - All Night Thing
- Sparkle - Handsome Man (Levan Mix)
- Fantastic Aleems - Hooked On Your Love
- Edwin Birdsong - Rapper Dapper Snapper
- Visage - Fade To Grey
- Sharon Redd - Can You Handle It
- MFSB - Mysteries Of The World
- Chico Hamilton - Magic Fingers
- Chaka Khan - Clouds
- Two Tons Of Fun - Just Us
- Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - Super Rappin' Theme
- Brothers Johnson - Stomp
- The Fantastic Aleems feat. Leroy Burgess - Hooked On Your Love
- Billy Frazier & Friends - Billy Who?
- Talking Heads - Born Under Punches
- Yello - Bostich
- Ryuichi Sakamoto - Riot in Lagos
- Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved
- High Frequency - Summertime
- Richie Havens - Going Back To My Roots
- Kurtis Blow (1980) - Kurtis Blow
- The Police - Don't Stand So Close to Me
- The Jam - Going Underground/ Dreams of Children
Albums
- Kurtis Blow by Kurtis Blow
- Remain in Light by Talking Heads
- B2-Unit by Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Closer by Joy Division
- Love Sensation by Loleatta Holloway
- Lesson 1 for Electric Guitar by Glenn Branca
Births
Deaths
- Roland Barthes (1915 - 1980)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- Cecil Beaton (1904 - 1980)
- Henry Miller (1891-1980)
- Mario Bava (1914-1980)
- Antony Balch (1937 - 1980)
- Kroger Babb (1906 - 1980)
- Tamara de Lempicka (1898 - 1980)
- Terence Fisher (1904 - 1980)
- Oskar Kokoschka (1886 - 1980)
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