Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, a satirical rockumentary about a band called Spinal Tap.

Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in Rob Reiner's 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap.

Gelbart also co-wrote the golden-era film spoof Movie Movie ( 1978 ) starring George C. Scott in dual roles, the racy comedy Blame It on Rio ( 1984 ) starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore, and the 2000 remake of Bedazzled with Elizabeth Hurley and Brendan Fraser.

After touring Germany in the early 1980s, Capra co-wrote a book on Green Politics with ecofeminist author Charlene Spretnak called Green Politics, in 1984.

In 1984, Keaggy and Randy Stonehill co-wrote and sang the duet " Who Will Save the Children?

During the Bee Gees hiatus in the mid-1980s, he worked with Robin on the albums How Old Are You ?, Secret Agent and Walls Have Eyes and Maurice co-wrote " Shine, Shine " and " The Hunter ", both songs were released on Barry's 1984 album Now Voyager.

His best-known film acting roles are as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters ( 1984 ) and Russell Ziskey in Stripes ( 1981 ), both of which he also co-wrote.

At this time, Ure also co-wrote and helped produce the 1984 Band Aid single " Do They Know It's Christmas ?".

In 1984, Ure co-wrote the Band Aid hit, " Do They Know It's Christmas?

Within the broader field of popular non-fiction, Langford co-wrote Facts and Fallacies: a Book of Definitive Mistakes and Misguided Predictions ( 1984 ) with Chris Morgan.

Into 1984, his various talents were employed on recordings as diverse as James Young's ( Styx ) first solo album, City Slicker for which he co-wrote and produced ; John Abercrombie's Night ; Mick Jagger's first solo album, She's the Boss ; and Jeff Beck's Flash which included Hammer's song " Escape ", winner of the 1985 Grammy award for " Best Rock Instrumental Performance ".

Gradually a regular line-up evolved around Simon Jeffes and Helen Liebman: Neil Rennie, who joined in 1975 on ukulele ; Geoffrey Richardson, who had joined in 1976 and co-wrote three pieces on Broadcasting from Home ( 1984 ), played viola, cuatro, guitar, clarinet, mandolin and ukulele ; Julio Segovia answered an advert in the Melody Maker and joined in 1978 on percussion ; Paul Street joined in 1984 playing guitar, cuatro and ukulele, leaving in 1988 ; Jennifer Maidman joined in 1984 on percussion, bass, ukulele and cuatro ; Steve Fletcher replaced Steve Nye in 1988 on piano and keyboards and Annie Whitehead, who had also appeared on Broadcasting from Home ( 1984 ), joined the live band in 1988 on trombone.

Winger's first commercial break came in 1984, when he co-wrote a song for KIX's third album, Midnite Dynamite.

In 1984, he started developing his first game, Skyline Attack for the Commodore 64 and also co-wrote a book called Quantum Theory ( about the Sinclair QL ).

Grazer and Howard teamed up again for Splash in 1984, which Grazer produced and co-wrote, the latter earning him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay of 1984.

In 1984, Besser co-wrote with authors Jeff and Greg Lenburg his autobiography, Not Just a Stooge, for Excelsior Books.

In 1984, she starred in Obsessive Love, a television movie about a female stalker which she co-wrote and co-produced.

Woodson began his tenure in the group on a high note when he co-wrote, co-produced, and sang lead / played keyboards on the 1984 Temptations single " Treat Her Like a Lady ," which appeared on his first full album with the group, Truly for You, and was a # 2 hit on the U. S. R & B charts.

Swayze and Stacy Widelitz co-wrote the song in 1984, originally for the soundtrack of Grandview, U. S. A. and was meant to be about Jamie Lee Curtis's character in the film.

Campbell also co-wrote the music and lyrics for the children's TV series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends and TUGS with Mike O ' Donnell, composing all music and songs during the classic period of Thomas films from 1984 – 2003.

* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

However, in the use section of the entry it states that the more common plural is mice, and that the first recorded use of the term in the plural is mice as well ( though it cites a 1984 use of mice when there were actually several earlier ones ).

He died in February 1984 of kidney failure after disappearing from public view for several months.

After several on-again / off-again talks with Atari in May and June 1984, Tramiel had secured his funding and bought Atari's Consumer Division ( which included the console and home computer departments ) in July.

Spain, Portugal ( 1974 ), and several of the military dictatorships in South America returned to civilian rule in the late 1970s and early 1980s ( Argentina in 1983, Bolivia, Uruguay in 1984, Brazil in 1985, and Chile in the early 1990s ).

This video was played several times at the 1984 Democratic National Convention.

This method ( and the general idea of an FFT ) was popularized by a publication of J. W. Cooley and J. W. Tukey in 1965, but it was later discovered ( Heideman & Burrus, 1984 ) that those two authors had independently re-invented an algorithm known to Carl Friedrich Gauss around 1805 ( and subsequently rediscovered several times in limited forms ).

in 1984 was highly successful, leading to the two games becoming fixtures in the prime time " access period " and several failed attempts at imitation.

Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in the early 1970s, and following his Jewish nationalist ideology ( subsequently dubbed Kahanism ), the party entered the Knesset in 1984 after several electoral failures.

The first full letterboxed CED release was Amarcord in 1984, and several others followed.

In the 20th century there was also renewed interest in Machiavelli's La Mandragola ( 1518 ), which received numerous stagings, including several in New York, at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976 and the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1979, as a musical comedy by Peer Raben in Munich's antiteater in 1971, and at London's National Theatre in 1984.

These UCLA ’ s would “ sabotage ports, refineries, boats and bridges, and try to make it look like the contras had done it .” In January 1984, these UCLA ’ s performed their most famous, or infamous, operation, the last straw that led to the ratifying of the Boland Amendment, the mining of several Nicaraguan harbors

In 2010, several liberal congressmen raised accusations about the FSLN presumably attempting to buy votes in order to pass constitutional reforms that would allow Ortega to run for office for the 6th time since 1984.

After the Baht devaluation in 1984 and the Plaza Accord in 1985, although the Government sector continued to be in trouble in the first stage due to several fiscal constraints, the Thai private sector began to soar.

Let It Be < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s release had attracted attention from the major record labels, and by late 1984 several had expressed interest in signing the Replacements.

* Most of the American telephone system was formerly operated by a single monopoly, AT & T, which was split up in 1984 into a long distance telephone company and several local " Baby Bells.

Notable athletes are Whitehorse born hockey players Bryon Baltimore, who made it to the Los Angeles Kings in 1974, and Peter Sturgeon who played for the Colorado Rockies in 1974, Whitehorse born olympic cyclist Zachary Bell, Whitehorse raised olympic weightlifter Jeane Lassen who won medals in several world competitions, Whitehorse born basketball players Aaron Olson, and 1984 Olympics centre for Team Canada Greg Wiltjer.

On the other side of the world in 1983, Howard Jacobs created several wakeboards by mounting windsurfing foot straps and partial hydroslide pads on some smaller surfboards that he had shaped ; by 1984, he was throwing backflips on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida.

On 14 March 1984 in central Belfast, Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt when several Ulster Freedom Fighters ( UFF ) gunmen fired about 20 shots into the car in which he was travelling.

Varying from arcane to combative to humorous, and ranging from midshipmen to very senior naval aviators who sought command of aircraft carriers ( which sometimes lapsed into ego battles ), the content of most of these interviews has been lost to history, though some were later chronicled in the several books on Rickover's career, as well as in a rare personal interview with Diane Sawyer in 1984.

From 1984 to 1990, he served as Minister of Defence in several national unity governments led by prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres.

The DNA profiling technique was first reported in 1984 by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester in England, and is now the basis of several national DNA databases.

She died on September 14, 1984, at the age of 77, due largely to the aftermath of a traffic accident in San Francisco two years earlier ; specifically, her death resulted from complications following several operations.

In a 1984 interview for Polyhedron Newszine, Gary Gygax revealed several " alternate Oerths " while explaining the setting for his HEROES CHALLENGE game books, co-written with author Flint Dille and published under the aegis of the Dungeons & Dragons Entertainment Corporation by the Wanderer Book division of Simon & Schuster.

As BMW became the team's engine supplier in 1983, he qualified well on several occasions in 1983 and 1984, but the car was rarely reliable, so there were few results and a lot of accidents.