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The 1980s were an extremely exciting time. It was a time of big hair, big cars, and big personalities. It was the Reagan era, and the United States was not taking anything from anybody.

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The United States was a country in flux. Having just come out of the Vietnam War, the country was looking at itself and who it really was. Was it a country full of grunge? Full of pop? Full of rock? Or a straight edged, straight laced country which would go out of its way in order to keep the worldwide status quo and keep the Soviet Union at bay?

There was great change as television really cemented itself in the life of the average American citizen in the United States. MTV came along and helped to show Americans what music could really do, how music could really united people.

Cities like Detroit were venerable factories of great music, and the big hair that many of these musicians wore helped to establish a giant musical following and genre (not to mention a huge hole in the ozone layer from all of the hairspray).

America was a lot more united as a country during this time, and this fact was of great help and importance when it came to the music, television, movies, and styles that were big in the United States at that time. And with comedic legends such as Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, Bill Cosby, and many more at their peaks, the 1980s certainly helped to establish America’s funny bone for years and even decades to come.

We really wanted to find out what had happened to all of these stars from the roaring and crazy 1980s. Were they still wearing their big hair, or did they leave the perms and the hair curlers to the side?

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