Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

* This is My Night ( Music Video ) ( 1985 ) – Mimi in Chaka Khan's music video

In 1985, the Winter Music Conference started in Fort Lauderdale Florida and became the premier electronic music conference for dance music disc jockeys.

In 1985, Ramone joined Steven Van Zandt's music industry activist group Artists United Against Apartheid, which campaigned against the Sun City resort in South Africa.

* 1894 – Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher ( d. 1985 )

His 1985 album, America, garnered praise for its title track's music video.

The earliest karaoke-based music video game, called Karaoke Studio, was released for the Nintendo Famicom in 1985, but its limited computing ability made for a short catalog of songs and therefore reduced replay value.

SuperStation WTBS launched Night Tracks on June 3, 1983, with up to 14 hours of music video airplay each late night weekend by 1985.

As she continued to promote " Just Say No ", she appeared in an episode of the popular 1980s sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes and in a 1985 rock music video, " Stop the Madness ".

New Wave band XTC published records under the pseudonym, The Dukes of Stratosphear from 1985. and even Gothic rock band The Damned incorporated psychedelic music.

According to Dusted Magazine, Sakamoto's use of squelching bounce sounds and mechanical beats was later incorporated in early electro and hip hop music productions such as “ Message II ( Survival )” ( 1982 ) by Melle Mel and Duke Bootee, “ Magic ’ s Wand ” ( 1982 ) by Whodini and Thomas Dolby, Twilight 22 ’ s “ Electric Kingdom ” ( 1983 ), and Kurt Mantronik's Mantronix: The Album ( 1985 ).

* 1985 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U. S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.

The Bangles have contributed to several compilations, as well as to many other artists ' works: They provided the song " I Got Nothing " to the soundtrack album for the 1985 film The Goonies, and made a cameo appearance in Cyndi Lauper's music video for " Goonies ' R ' Good Enough ".

American heavy metal band, Metallica has run " The Ecstasy of Gold " as prelude music at their concerts since 1985 ( except 1996 – 1998 ), and recently recorded a version of the instrumental for a compilation tribute to Morricone.

In 1985 and 1986, Vangelis wrote music for two more ballets: " Frankenstein – Modern Prometheus " and " The Beauty and the Beast ".

In 1985, the group reformed as a " beat combo " ( a joking reference to early 1960s beat music ), with greater use of electronic musical instruments.

In 1985, she appeared with Starship's Mickey Thomas in the music video for the song " Sara ".

* Rock bands – Jeff Wayne and Rick Wakeman with Kevin Peek did a Progressive Rock version of the entire suite with added incidental music on an album called " Beyond The Planets " which also contained occasional narration by Patrick Allen. An arrangement of " Mars " by progressive-rock trio Emerson, Lake & Powell appeared on their eponymous album ( 1985 ) and was played in their 1985 – 86 live shows. King Crimson, Greg Lake's first successful band performed a rock arrangement of " Mars " live in 1969.

Newton-John's music career cooled again with the release of her next studio album, the gold Soul Kiss ( No. 29 Pop ), in 1985.

In addition to his own music career he directed a 1985 music video for The Bangles ' " Going Down to Liverpool ".

Most Hanna-Barbera series through 1985 had original theme music by Hoyt Curtin, with lyrics ( when used ) by Hanna and Barbera themselves.

In 1985 Prince announced that he would discontinue live performances and music videos after the release of his next album.

Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

Over the next 18 months, the Coleco company ramped down its video game division, ultimately withdrawing from the video game market by the end of the summer of 1985.

* Chimera ( video game ), a 1985 isometric maze arcade adventure

* 1985 – Philip DeFranco, American video blogger, YouTube celebrity

Over time, Godzilla 1985, though not a hit, was partially profitable for New World only with the addition of home video and television syndication ( the film debuted on television on May 16, 1986 ).

Godzilla 1985 has been released on home video several times in the U. S. The first release was by New World in the mid 80's, another by Starmaker video ( who had acquired some of New World's library ) in the 1992, and again by Anchor Bay in 1997 All home video releases include the Bambi Meets Godzilla animated short with the exception of the Starmaker release.

* Gauntlet ( arcade game ), a video game originally produced in 1985 by Atari Games

** Gauntlet ( NES video game ), the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System game based on the original 1985 Atari game

* Hex ( video game ), a 1985 computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST

* The Perfect Kiss ( 1985 )-Music video for New Order, Director.

Mecha have been featured in video games since the 1980s, particularly in vehicular combat and shooter games, including Sesame Japan's side-scrolling shooter game Vastar in 1983, various Gundam games such as the first-person shooters Mobile Suit Gundam: Last Shooting in 1984 and Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble in 1986, the run and gun shooters Hover Attack in 1984 and Thexder in 1985, and Arsys Software's 3D role-playing shooters WiBArm in 1986 and Star Cruiser in 1988.

The 1984 film The Cotton Club was the first video to be encoded with Macrovision technology when it was released in 1985.

His big break came when he directed the Grammy-nominated concert video 9012Live for the rock band Yes in 1985.

Despite an initial reluctance to develop for video game consoles, Square entered the Nintendo Famicom market in December 1985 with the porting of Thexder.

Space Battleship Yamato was a 1985 Japanese exclusive Laserdisc video game designed by Taito which was based on the television series of the same name.

In 1985, Playhouse Video released a collection of video compilations under the Jim Henson's Muppet Video banner.

After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work — including his final two epics, Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 )— continued to win awards, including the Palme d ' Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

A draw in the final Test gave England victory in an Ashes series for the first time in 18 years and their first Ashes victory at home since 1985.

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities.

" Apple reportedly obtained an eight-year license for Applesoft BASIC from Microsoft for a flat fee of $ 21, 000, renewing it in 1985 through an arrangement that gave Microsoft the rights and source code for Apple's Macintosh version of BASIC.

AppleTalk was released for the original Macintosh in 1985, and was the primary protocol used by Apple devices through the 1980s and 90s.

Unguarded ( 1985 ) surprised some fans for its very mainstream sound ( and Grant's leopard-print jacket, in four poses for four different covers ).

In April 1985 Sakharov started a new hunger strike for his wife to travel abroad for medical treatment.

In December 1985 the European Parliament established the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, to be given annually for outstanding contributions to human rights.

The HARM missile was approved for full production in March 1983, and then deployed in late 1985 with VA-72 and VA-46 aboard the aircraft carrier USS America.

In Texas, for example, blue laws prohibited selling housewares such as pots, pans, and washing machines on Sunday until 1985.

On July 12, 1985, in conjunction with a credit card fraud investigation, the Middlesex County, NJ Sheriff's department raided and seized The Private Sector BBS, which was the official BBS for grey hat hacker quarterly 2600 Magazine at the time.

In the essay section of his novel 1985, Anthony Burgess states that Orwell got the idea for Big Brother from advertising billboards for educational correspondence courses from a company called Bennett's, current during World War II.

* The Association for Computing Machinery Software System Award ( 1985 )

The Burroughs 5000 computer series is discussed by individuals responsible for its development and marketing from 1957 through the 1960s in a 1985 conference sponsored by AFIPS and Burroughs Corporation.

Previously in the United Kingdom, under the Companies Act 1985, protections for non-member stakeholders were considerably more limited ( see for example, s. 309 which permitted directors to take into account the interests of employees but which could only be enforced by the shareholders and not by the employees themselves ).

Lilith Sternin starts as a one-time character in the Season 4 episode, " Second Time Around " ( 1985 ), but then she becomes a recurring character since Season 5 ( 1986 – 87 ), although she is a permanent character for Seasons 10 and 11 ( 1991 – 93 ).

Development began in 1985 and is now the foundation for many machine ontologies.