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Art and culture

• CD-ROM (read-only memory) was introduced
• Sean Penn marries pop star Madonna
• Norman Jay's who coins the genre in his late 1985 show 'The Original Rare Groove Show' on

• Kinbiken was organized in 1985 by photographer Akio Fujii, Chimuo Nureki

• "Tunes from the missing Channel" by Adrian Sherwood

• The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC)

• L'Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism, ...
• William Socolov founded Fresh Records

Literature

• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
• The Voyeur by Alberto Moravia
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver W. Sacks
• White Noise by Don DeLillo
• Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre
• Jacques Attali Noise: The Political Economy of Music
• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) - Neil Postman
• The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (1985) - Rosalind E. Krauss
• Reflexivity in film and literature: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard (1985) - Robert Stam

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 Derk Jarman

Music

• 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.

Singles

• "My Loleatta" by Loleatta Holloway
• "Wax the Van" by Arthur Russell
• Like a Virgin by Madonna
• 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
• Model 500 - No UFOs
• 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
• Under Me Sleng Teng - Wayne Smith

Albums

• Army Arrangement by Fela Kuti
• Sing & Shout by Chosen Brothers

Births

Deaths

• Italo Calvino (1923 – 1985)
• Ado Kyrou (1923 - 1985)
• Louise Brooks (1906 – 1985)
• Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)