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1988
Events
On a London to New York flight, a terrorist bomb explodes aboard a Pan Am 747, flight 103, killing all 259 people aboard.

George Bush is elected President.

Elvis' 20-year old daughter Lisa Marie Presley marries musician Danny Keough.

James Brown is jailed for trying to run down a police officer.

Jane Fonda apologizes on TV for any hurt she caused with her antiwar comments during the Vietnam era.

Burt Reynolds marries Loni Anderson; Michael J. Fox marries Tracey Pollan.

Madonna complains to cops that Sean Penn beat her and tied her to a chair.

"Minoxidil," a reputed remedy for baldness, is approved by the FDA.


Breakthrough Acts


Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians
Tracy Chapman
DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince
Guns N Roses
Bobby McFerrin
New Kids On The Block
Erasure
Bobby Brown


And The Grammy Went To...



Album: "Faith," George Michael
Song: "Don't Worry, Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin
Best New Artist: Tracy Chapman


At The Movies


The top five movies of the year:

  1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  2. Coming To America
  3. Good Morning, Vietnam
  4. Crocodile Dundee 2
  5. Big


Tube Time


Our eyeballs were glued to these favorites!

  • Roseanne
  • Perfect Strangers
  • The Wonder Years
  • Beauty and The Beast
  • China Beach

Celebrity Morgue


Andy Gibb
Roy Orbison
Divine



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