1985
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Art and culture
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Technology
- CD-ROM (read-only memory) was introduced
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Literature
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Fiction
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
- The Voyeur by Alberto Moravia
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
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Non fiction
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver W. Sacks
- The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton
- Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Attali
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind E. Krauss
- Reflexivity in film and literature: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard by Robert Stam
- A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway
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Film
- Miranda by Tinto Brass
- Titus Andronicus by Jane Howell
- Purple Rose of Cairo by Woody Allen
- Lust in the Dust by Paul Bartel
- Insignificance by Nicolas Roeg
- After Hours by Martin Scorsese
- Tampopo by Juzo Itami
- The Funeral by Juzo Itami
- Kiss of the Spider Woman by Hector Babenco
- Into the Night by John Landis
- Runaway Train by Andrei Konchalovsky
- Better Off Dead by Savage Steve Holland
- My Life as a Dog - by Lasse Hallström
- Desperately Seeking Susan by Susan Seidelman
- Pee-wee's Big Adventure by Tim Burton
- Stephen King's Cat's Eye by Lewis Teague
- The Falcon and the Snowman by John Schlesinger
- The Angelic Conversation by Derek Jarman
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Music
- Metroplex Records founded
- Sean Penn marries pop star Madonna
- L'Amour fou : Photography and Surrealism
- William Socolov founded Fresh Records
- "Tunes from the Missing Channel" by Adrian Sherwood
- The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC)
- Norman Jay's who coins the rare groove genre in his late 1985 show 'The Original Rare Groove Show'
- House music
- And house music was born with ‘Mysteries of Love’ by Mr. Fingers; The 110bpm original instrumental becomes an anthem at the Paradise Garage after Larry Levan gets hold of it on acetate.
- demise of Salsoul records
- DJ International
- A Chicago label that was founded by Rocky Jones in 1985. DJ International focused on releasing mainly vocal house, while the other big Chicago label, Trax, is known for rougher tracks. Label's hits include "Music is the key" by J. M. Silk (the first release), "Acid Thunder" & "Can U dance" by Fast Eddie, "It's allright" by Sterling Void, and Chip E's "Like This".
- MDMA Exposed
- The Face magazine runs the first in-depth article on MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine), which is the basis for the party drug Ecstasy. It was first synthesised and patented before World War I by German company Merck as a diet aid. In the 60s it was rediscovered by Alexander Shulgin, a US biochemist, who used it for theraputic purposes. It was banned in the USA in 1985.
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Singles
- No UFOs by Juan Atkins
- Your Love by Jamie Principle and Frankie Knuckles
- My Loleatta by Loleatta Holloway
- Wax the Van by Arthur Russell
- Ring the Alarm by Tenor Saw
- Under Me Sleng Teng by Wayne Smith
- Fingers, Inc. - Mysteries of Love
- Chip E. - Like This
- Gwen Guthrie - Seventh Heaven/Getting Hot/Peanut Butter
- T. C. Curtis - You Should Have Known Better
- J. M. Silk - Music Is the Key
- Steve Hurley - Jack Your Body
- Tramaine - Fall Down (Spirit Of Love) with the famous 'I Need You' sample
- Tony Paris - Electric Automan
- Colonel Abrams - Trapped
- Carl Bean - I Was Born This Way
- Alexander Robotnick - Problemes D'Amour
- Nile Rodgers - State Your Mind/Stay Out Of The Light (Levan 12" Remix)
- Rochelle Fleming - Love Itch
- Serious Intention - You Don't Know
- Farley Jackmaster Funk - Farley Knows House (Chicago has the rawest tracks)
- Wally Badarou - Chief Inspector
- Roberta Gilliam - All I Want Is My Baby
- Skipworth & Turner - Thinking About Your Love
- Jenny Burton - Bad Habits
- Chocolate - It's That East Street Beat
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Albums
- Army Arrangement by Fela Kuti
- Sing & Shout by Chosen Brothers
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Births
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Deaths
- Italo Calvino (1923 – 1985)
- Ado Kyrou (1923 - 1985)
- Louise Brooks (1906 – 1985)
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- March 28 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
- May 8 - Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (b. 1918)
- May 12 - Jean Dubuffet, French artist (b. 1901)
- July 16 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
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