1982 headlines

#WhereWereYouIn82?

PLAYLIST:
(Hour 1)
"Centerfold" - The J. Geils Band
"The Message" - Grandmaster Flash
"Maneater" - Hall & Oates
"Rock the Casbah" - The Clash
"Rosanna" - Toto
"Allentown" - Billy Joel
"The Heat of the Moment" - Asia
"Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor
"Little Red Corvette" - Prince
"Save a Prayer" - Duran Duran

(Hour 2)
"Ebony and Ivory" - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder
"I Ran (So Far Away)" - A Flock of Seagulls
"Don't Talk To Strangers" - Rick Springfield
"Hearts" - Marty Balin
"Love Plus One" - Haircut 100
"I Know What Boys Like" - The Waitresses
"Abracadabra" - The Steve Miller Band
"Body Language" - Queen
"Physical" - Olivia Newton-John
"Up Where We Belong" - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
Theme from "Magnum P.I." - Mike Post, featuring Larry Carlton
"Vacation" - The Go-Gos
"And I'm Telling You I'm NOT Going" - Jennifer Holliday (a Tony Award Winner in 1982!)

COLUMBUS in 1982:
- (Columbus) Central High School closes its doors after 58 years in June.
- State Representative John Kasich (R, Westerville) is elected to the 12th District of the U.S. Congress, defeating the only Democrat to serve the 12th since the 1930s, one-term incumbent Robert N. Shamansky (D, Bexley).
- Richard Celeste is elected Governor of Ohio.
- The Capitol South Plan is laid out by City Officials in the Downtown area.
- The City of Columbus hiked the Income Tax up to 2 percent.
- Gahanna Mayor John Breen is recalled from Office after an altercation with a youth at a local fast food restaurant.
- COTA goes on strike for 17 days in November.
- A young Denison University freshman, Laura Carter, is killed by a stray bullet in the Near East Side, inspiring the Christopher Cross song "Think of Laura".
- A young 20 year old firefighter, Maurice Gates, is killed in a fire in Franklinton in 1982.