80’s Teen Idols
March 18th 2008 23:21
The 80’s WAS the era for teen idols.
Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Scott Baio, Jon Bon Jovi, Johnny Depp, Ralph Machio...
Yes – this one’s for the girls.
Chances are, if you entered a teenage girls bedroom during the 80’s - or you infact lived in one – you might remember the posters.
The endless posters.
The mugshots of every MTV and primetime pin-up boy would be as far as the eye could see.
But back then it wasn’t enough to have the posters. There’d be pencil cases and folders too, plus there was no email or Myspace back then – there was fanmail.
Depending on your tastes, there were the baby-faces:
Tom Cruise
Scott Baio
Jon Bon Jovi
Kirk Cameron
Patrick Swayze
John Travolta
Kevin Bacon
Andrew McCarthy
John Cusack
Matthew Broderick
Ralph Macchio
John Stamos
C. Thomas Howell
Michael J Fox
Steve Guttenburg
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Matt Dillon
Sean Penn
Christian Slater
Mickey Rourke
Rob Lowe
Robert Downey Jnr
James Spader
Kiefer Sutherland
Bret Michaels
Sebastian Bach
River Phoenix
Billy Idol
Emilio Estevez
Charlie Sheen
David Lee Roth
The funny thing is, back in the eighties – even guys had guys on their walls! How often would you see Sly Stallone, Arnie or Axl Rose half naked on your brother’s wall!
Sean Connery
Harrison Ford
Richard Gere
Mel Gibson
Kevin Costner
Burt Reynolds
Tom Selleck
Paul Hogan
Tony Danza
Yeah, the blokes were really strutting their stuff back then.
Two of the biggest teen idols at the time managed to team up. The Corey’s.
Corey Haim and Corey Feldman even managed to co-star in several movies together – and are still best friends to this day (see 2007 reality show the 2 Corey’s).
There were so many idols back then that they could cast entire movies around them. The Brat Pack (Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy) almost created their own genre.
The Outsiders contained an entire cast of teen idols, as did Young Guns.
Then...the first boy band emerged with New Kids on the Block (NKOTB), consisting entirely of teenage pin-ups so every girl could have their own favorite (Joey...anyone?)
Now most of the world’s teen idols reside in these ‘boy bands’
I know what you’re thinking. - ‘I wonder if Scott Baio is still single...’
"Nobody puts baby in the corner"
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