The reunited Pogues played dates in the UK with support from the Dropkick Murphys in late 2005, and re-released their 1987 Christmas classic " Fairytale of New York " on 19 December, which went straight in at No. 3 in the UK Singles charts on Christmas Day 2005, showing the song's enduring popularity.

The movie Full Metal Jacket ( 1987 ) depicts black and white U. S. Marines enduring boot camp and later fighting together in Vietnam.

" Cars " remains Numan's most enduring song ; it was a hit again in 1987 ( remixed by Zeus B.

In 1987 Adrian Hilton acquired a Guinness World Record for reciting the Complete Works non-stop, enduring 5 days without sleep.

In 1987 Don Rosa, a long-time fan of Carl Barks and personal friend of Mark Worden, started creating his own stories featuring Scrooge McDuck and his various associates.

The band's 1987 official fan convention was held at The Royal Standard Convention, Walthamstow, London.

Jones also appeared at the 1986 and 1987 official Slade fan club conventions.

In 1987, Major League Baseball player Jim Walewander, a Detroit Tigers rookie, became a vocal fan of the band ; this was noted on his baseball card, which described the group as " an obscure punk-rock band ".

Steve Jobs insisted that the Macintosh ship without a fan, a marketing ( not engineering ) decision that persisted until the introduction of the Macintosh SE in 1987.

The first official Star Wars fan publication, Bantha Tracks, which existed for 35 issues from 1978 to 1987, is named after the bantha.

Hammarby 80s were consistently strong, finishing top 6 every year between 1981 and 1987 and having some of the biggest fan crowds for the time ( rather small compared to today ).

One such fan fiction story is " The Ring of Soshern ", which was probably written before 1976, and circulated as samizdat until 1987, when it was formally published in the anthology Alien Brothers.

Due to fan demand this sequence was later used in the Macross Flashback 2012 OVA ( 1987 ).

He became a fan of SF from childhood TV, began writing when he was 9, sold his first story to a local Belfast magazine when he was 22, and in 1987 became a full-time writer.

After Udo Dirkschneider left Accept in 1987, a large fan community followed him to U. D. O.

With only an alternate color version of the FAZZ model released, the fan community started to doubt the authenticity of Sentinel ( due to the display of a sample model kit at the 1987 Japan Hobby Show ).

Their debut album, Black and White ( originally titled Talking To God On The Great White Telephone ) and released by Epic Records in 1985 was critically well received, but by 1987 their record label was exerting pressure on the band to follow up with another album of a soulful direction, with the resulting album Moving Target alienating the band's fan base.

In 1987, upon the 50th anniversary of The Cinnamon Bear, a fan of the show started an annual newsletter called " Bear Facts " and put out by " The Cinnamon Bear Brigade ," which ran for five years.

During his solo triple circumnavigation of the globe in 1987, Jon Sanders pauses off Fremantle to receive fan mail

A New Theory of Urban Design ( 1987 ) coincided with a renewal of interest in urbanism among architects, but stood apart from most other expressions of this by assuming a distinctly anti-masterplanning stance.

Another event in 1987 helped promote interest in fuzzy systems.

By 1987, there was sufficient interest to stage the first furry convention.

Released in 1987, the unit had an innovative interface that attracted much interest but it did not become a commercial success.

In 1987 Church Point established a relationship with Church Point, Nova Scotia, bringing about a revival of interest in its French culture.

Manchester City Council decided in 1987 to demolish the house in which Brady and Hindley lived on Wardle Brook Avenue, and where Edward Evans was murdered, citing " excessive media interest the property creating unpleasantness for residents ".

The developer Regalian Properties approached the Government in 1987 to see if they had any interest in the proposed building.

Cesar Romero appeared from 1985 to 1987 on Falcon Crest as the romantic interest of Angela Channing.

JR West continues to be burdened by debt sustained by JNR up to 1987, although through refinancing, it has managed to halve its interest payments over the last ten years.

The Drexel interest was acquired by Centronics in 1987.

In 1987 Siemens sold off its interest in PolyGram, and Philips became the majority shareholder.

Her work also chimed with the interest of feminist writers on art such as Griselda Pollock in Freudian criticism in the 1990s, with works such as Girl Lifting up her Skirt to a Dog of 1986, and Two Girls and a Dog of 1987 appearing to have disturbing Freudian sexual undertones.

In 1987, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Harvey R. Sorkow formally validated the surrogacy contract and awarded custody of Baby M to the Sterns under a " best interest of the child analysis ".

The genesis of the Mackinac Center is described on its Web site as follows: “ The Mackinac Center was founded in 1987 by a group of citizens who met on Mackinac Island and shared an interest in making Michigan a better place to live and work.

At the same time Home was involved in a series of collective installations including " Ruins of Glamour " ( Chisenhale Studios, London 1986 ), " Desire In Ruins " ( Transmission Gallery, Glasgow 1987 ), " Refuse " ( Galleriet Läderfabriken, Malmö 1988 ) and " Anon " ( 33 Arts Centre, Luton 1989 ) which generated serious art world interest and art publication reviews and even coverage in British newspapers such as " The Observer " and " Independent ".

Sheen's interest in AIDS was first reported in 1987 with his support of Ryan White, an Indiana teenager who became a national spokesperson for AIDS awareness after being infected with AIDS through a blood transfusion for his hemophilia.

Nakajima grew increasingly frustrated with his boss, and in 1987 the two arrived at a means to part ways: Namco would sell part of its interest in Atari Games to Nakajima and the Atari Games employees, and the rest back to Warner.

In 1987, shortly before the release of the M1 Music Workstation, Yamaha acquired a controlling interest in Korg's stock.

In 1987 Olivia Munoz, the district's foreign language director, said that an increase in interest in foreign languages prompted the district to add foreign language languages to four high schools.

After the 1987 elections, when Labour was re-elected, he also became Minister of the Environment, an area in which he took personal interest.

It merged with the optical firm of Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar in 1987, acquired a majority interest in Kern in 1988, was renamed Wild Leitz AG in 1989, and became part of the Leica holding company in 1990.

Although the minor 1985 Series 2 changes did create initial interest from press and public alike, they did little to revive sales, only some 35, 000 units being produced in 1986 and the same again in 1987.

In December 1987, a special commission of inquiry headed by Justice William Parker ruled he had violated conflict of interest allegations on fourteen counts.

On 27 April 1987, Walden joined the Eyewitness News team at ATV-10 as a reporter and presenter of the segment Mal's Melbourne, presenting human interest stories.