Nena

  • 27 March 2006

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Wonder Women 1984: Musical Icons Of Their Age.

By Andrew Lockwood in Music / Festivals on 29 December 2020

Madonna Tina Turner Sade Alison Moyet Cyndi Lauper Gloria Gaynor Nena Deniece Williams Chaka Khan

As the feature film Wonder Woman 1984 has just been released we take a look back at the wonder women of music from 1984.

As Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman 1984 seems to be everywhere at the moment we thought we'd take a look back at the wonder women of music back in 1984. DC Comics inspirational character is strong, independent and driven, a quality possessed by our top ten female artists from 1984. Back then the UK had a woman PM (Let's not get into whether she was ever wonderful), the women of Tenko were still plotting their escape, Juliet Bravo was keeping the streets of Hartley safe and Miss Ellie, Sue Ellen and Pam were still keeping the men folk of Dallas in check. 1984 was also the year of Band Aid, Footloose, Ghostbusters and Frankie Goes To Hollywood. All girl groups were more popular than ever with Sister Sledge, The Pointer Sisters, The Weather Girls and Bananarama all making a significant contribution to the music of 1984. Other acts to feature a female lead also made their mark; Annie Lennox as part of Eurythmics, Alannah Currie as part of The Thompson Twins and Elizabeth Fraser (arguably the voice of a generation) with The Cocteau Twins. Today though we are focusing on the individual and wow what an incredible cast we've assembled.

Madonna in 1984. Picture by James Colburn.

Madonna.

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