"People" Celebrates the 80s

From greed to glasnost, the '80s were the decade when brash was beautiful and the only sin was not to win.

Madonna declared there was nothing wrong with being a Material Girl and Cindy Lauper spoke for all girls who just wanted to have fun.

Did we say, Girls? Yes, the word took on new self-empowering meanings. At the same time, Princess Diana went from shy schoolteacher to world's most famous woman to thoroughly modern mum as her marriage slid from fairy tale to farce.

In this lavishly illustrated keepsake, you'll relive all the highs and lows of a decade that made Bill Cosby the king of prime-time, AIDS a household name, the Berlin Wall a pile of rubble, cable TV and the fax machine ubiquitous and two other worldly characters world famous - Michael Jackson he of the single white glove and ET, phoning home across the cosmos.