You ever hear a song on the radio from 1985 and think "Whatever happened to?" I do that all the time and usually a quick stop at Wikipedia will satisfy that particular thirst for knowledge.
By the way, you'd be suprised how many "One Hit Wonders" continue to record and/or tour to this day.
For example:
Paul Hardcastle, who's "19" dance hit about the Vietnam War epitomizes to me just how screwed up pop music was in the 1980s has continued to have an impressive career in the Smooth Jazz genre. The 52-year-old Hardcastle won the Billboard Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year in 2008.
In 2009, he released the album Zero One and Paul Hardcastle: the Collection and will release the Jazzmasters 6 in 2010.
'Til Tuesday, whose beautifully haunting Voices Carry was a Top 10 hit in 1985 broke up in 1990 after their 1988 album Everything's Different Now tanked. However, lead singer Aimee Mann continues to record (she released @#%&*! Smilers in 2008) and act (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, West Wing and the Big Lebowski). Former Til Tuesday member Michael Haussman is Mann's manager.
One of the most underrated songs of the 80s was Electric Blue which reached #7 in 1988 for the Australian band Icehouse. Well, I can't say I've heard anything out of Icehouse since but apparently Iva Davies has continued to record and perform with almost two dozen members of the band at one time or the other.
The band was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame in 2006 and has performed at the Grand Finale show of Battle of the Choirs in August 2008 (where Davies was a judge) and at the Sound Relief Benefit concert in March 2009.
One of my Dad's favourite 80s hits was "65 Love Affair" by Paul Davis. The single, which reached #6, came from Davis' last album, Cool Night after a career that began in 1970. He would make a couple of "guest appearances" on singles with Marie Osmond and Tanya Tucker. Believe it or not, he survived a Nashville shooting in 1986, but sadly passed away of a heart attack in April 2008.
Kelly asked me whatever happened to Tiffany. Well, in addition to posing nude for Playboy in 2002, moving to Nashville to attempt a comeback as a country singer, Tiffany appeared on several reality shows on both sides of the Atlantic including Celebrity Fit Club and...if you can believe it...Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling.
Tiffany has released albums in 2005 and 2008. In 2008, she had two singles "Higher" and "Dust Off and Dance" reach #19 on the U.S. Dance Charts.
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