1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). It is the 1981st year of the Common Era, or A.D.; the 981st year of the 2nd millennium; the 81st year of the 20th century; and the 2nd year of the 1980s decade.
Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is a former American NBA basketball player and coach. Drafted into the NBA sixth overall by the Boston Celtics in 1978, Bird started at small forward and power forward for thirteen seasons, spearheading one of the NBA's most formidable frontcourts that included center Robert Parish and forward Kevin McHale. Due to chronic back problems, he retired as a player in 1992. Bird was voted to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996 and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998. He served as head coach of the Indiana Pacers from 1997 to 2000. In 2003, he assumed the role of president of basketball operations for the Pacers, which he currently holds. He is the only person in NBA history to be named Most Valuable Player, Coach of the Year, and Executive of the Year.
Larry Bird was born in West Baden, Indiana, the son of Georgia (née Kerns) and Claude Joseph "Joe" Bird. He grew up in both West Baden and the adjacent town French Lick, which earned him the nickname "the Hick from French Lick" in his professional basketball career. Bird recalled how his mother would make do on the family's meager earnings: "If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first." According to Bird, his being poor as a child "motivates me to this day". He sometimes was sent to live with his grandmother due to the family's struggles. The Bird family's struggle with poverty was compounded by the alcoholism and personal difficulties of Joe Bird, who likely suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder from serving in the Korean War. Joe Bird committed suicide on February 3, 1975, when Larry was 18 years old.
Camilo Blanes Cortés (born September 16, 1946), better known as Camilo Sesto, is a Spanish singer, composer and producer who enjoyed fame during the 1970s and the 1980s. Probably the most prominent male voice of Spanish pop music at that time, he became famous for his powerful, carefully arranged ballads, pop and rock. He has the world record of more number ones in the world: 52 overall and 18 in the list of 40 Principales.
Camilo Sesto was born in Alcoi, a city located in the province of Alicante, on September 16, 1946. Sesto sang in two pop bands during the 1960s and won a contest in a Madrid TV show. He also played a part in the Spanish filming of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Later, he teamed up with singer and producer Juan Pardo.
Sesto took a rest in 1987 to take care of his newborn son. In Mexico, DJs stopped playing his music and most of his fan base was lost. This bulletin did not make it to TV or radio in the United States due to marketing.
Sesto has or had homes in Torrelodones, near Madrid, and Coconut Grove (Miami area), Florida.
Robert Gerard "Bobby" Sands (Irish: Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh; 9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981) was an Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and member of the British Parliament who died on hunger strike while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze.
He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. During his strike he was elected as a member of the British Parliament as an Anti H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner candidate. His death resulted in a new surge of IRA recruitment and activity. International media coverage brought attention to the hunger strikers, and the republican movement in general, attracting both praise and criticism.
Sands was born into a Catholic family in Abbots Cross, but also lived in a house in Doonbeg Drive, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and lived there until 1960 whereupon the family were forced to move to Rathcoole, Newtownabbey. His first sister, Marcella, was born in April 1955 and second sister, Bernadette, in November 1958. His parents, John and Rosaleen, had another son, John, in 1962. On leaving school, he became an apprentice coach-builder until he was forced out at gunpoint by loyalists.[clarification needed]
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer, record producer, and actress.
Diana Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that has included successful ventures into film and Broadway. She received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues (1972), for which she won a Golden Globe award. She has won seven American Music Awards, was honored with a 2012 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, and won a Tony Award for her one-woman show, An Evening with Diana Ross, in 1977.
In 1976, Billboard magazine named her the "Female Entertainer of the Century." In 1993, the Guinness Book of World Records declared Diana Ross the most successful female music artist in history due to her success in the United States and United Kingdom for having more hits than any female artist in the charts with a career total of 18 number one records in the United States. Diana Ross has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
Here's what I think about you and how your friends
How your friends adore your sudden glory
Heres what I know about you and all your trends
And all the times we made believe a story
Heres what I think about making face
Without a grain of doubt its all I think about, its all in my mind
Its best I make a sound before I hit the ground
Run away from it all
Its what I think about, its what I know about, its what I care about
Pain wont go away even when the drugs say, I wont regret
Time heals so Im told, I could never be sold, I dont forget
And if I should start to wonder, pull me out from the rock Im under
Heres what I think about vacant space
Without a grain of doubt its all I think about, its all in my mind
I better hit the town before the rain comes down
Run away from it all
Far away from it all
Pain wont go away even when the drugs say, I wont regret
Time heals so Im told, I could never be sold, I dont forget
Hey Dave, youre so brave, I can never be saved, take it from me
He said, she said, even if theyre not dead, bring them to me
Run away from it all, from it all
Pain wont go away even if the drugs stay, I dont regret
Time heals so Im told, I could never be sold, I wont forget.
I wont forget.
I could be desperate
I think I'm brave
Could stay and watch you
(repeat)
You gave me nothing
An early grave
I'm vegetating I want more, more, more
I want everything in 1981
Anywhere
Any place will do
I'm leaving England
We're near the ending
You gave me nothing
No more pretending
I'm looking forward
To our parting in 1981
1981
We're near the ending
I'm just pretending
It's all been said before
I want more, more, more in 1981
1981
1981
You gave me nothing
I want more, more, more
I want everything in 1981
I'm leaving England
We're near the ending
You gave me nothing
No more pretending
1981 (repeat)
I want everything in 1981
1981 (repeat)
stuck in the middle of 1981
seek deviation I am hiding from the sun
run from the poison, factories and graves
spray paint heroes and middle class white slaves
crypt, crashing, bruised and bashing
crawling creep never go away
shaved and sliding, scared and broken
joking cause I am angry in all my days
zombie teen insurgence, leather jacket smile
black boots of combat, I am super juvenile
no nazi guises, no tracks up my sleeve
no corporate lies, no intention to deceive
crypt, crashing, bruised and bashing
crawling creep never go away
shaved and sliding, scared and broken
joking cause I am angry in all my days
scars of the stories, smoking burning years
don't break the circle, bleeding restless ears
tanquaray and tonic, secret rebel truce
a worldwide playground to steal forbidden fruit
crypt, crashing, bruised and bashing
crawling creep never go away
shaved and sliding, scared and broken
joking cause I am angry in all my days
crypt, crashing, bruised and bashing
crawling creep never go away
shaved and sliding, scared and broken
Siamo cambiati in fretta
dietro a sogni spenti che
hanno trasformato
un presente che non c'è
E grandi alla sera
colazione alle tre
abitudine importante
per sopravvivere
E allora a questo crescere
mi sento dire che
quei giorni son finiti
ma non chiedo mai perché
Ora sono così perso
e vulnerabile
e troppo indifeso
ma pronto a correre
(RIT.)
Ho voglia di gridare
ma senza piangere
soffocare ogni respiro
questa città lo fa per me
cerco solo di affrontare
questo silenzio dentro me...
C'è troppa confusione
e troppi amici che
sono degli sconosciuti
fino al prossimo week end
Non importa cosa ho scelto
c'è chi pensa già per me
e decide cosa è giusto
e cosa è inutile
(RIT.)
Lasciami gridare
ma senza piangere
contare ogni respiro
questa città lo fa per me
cerco solo di affrontare
questo silenzio dentro me...
E continuo ad ignorare
le preoccupazioni che
spogliano i miei giorni
dal sorriso fragile
Comune sentimento
scoprire in fondo che
nascondo ogni paura
per sempre dentro me
(RIT.)
Ascoltami gridare
ma senza piangere
non voglio più fuggire
questa città lo fa per me
Cerco solo di affrontare
questo silenzio dentro me
(Cerco solo di affrontare
questo silenzio)
Ascoltami gridare
ma senza piangere
non voglio più fuggire
questa città lo fa per me
(Cerco solo di affrontare)
Cerco solo di affrontare
questo silenzio senza te
I could be desperate.
I think I'm brave.
Could stay and watch you.
(repeat)
You gave me nothing, an early grave.
I'm vegetating. I want more, more, more.
I want everything in 1981.
Anywhere, any place will do.
I'm leaving england.
We're near the ending.
You gave me nothing.
No more pretending.
I'm looking forward to our parting in 1981, 1981.
We're near the ending.
I'm just pretending.
It's all been said before.
I want more, more, more in 1981, 1981, 1981.
You gave me nothing.
I want more, more, more.
I want everything in 1981.
I'm leaving england.
We're near the ending.
You gave me nothing.
No more pretending.
1981. (x6)
I want everything in 1981.
1981. (x2)
I could be desperate
I think I'm brave
Could stay and watch you
(repeat)
You gave me nothing
An early grave
I'm vegetating I want more, more, more
I want everything in 1981
Anywhere
Any place will do
I'm leaving England
We're near the ending
You gave me nothing
No more pretending
I'm looking forward
To our parting in 1981
1981
We're near the ending
I'm just pretending
It's all been said before
I want more, more, more in 1981
1981
1981
You gave me nothing
I want more, more, more
I want everything in 1981
I'm leaving England
We're near the ending
You gave me nothing
No more pretending
1981 (repeat)
I want everything in 1981
1981 (repeat)
I found another letter
This one was not much better
From a girl so long agaon
A girl I used to know in Reno
Yea things they kinda happened
But I flunked her test
Or something
Punk rock cured my misery
She said it ruined her and me
Back in the day
We played in 1981
What's done is done
I thought
In 1981 I should explain the chorus
There was no future for us
She made life feel ok
We hung out every day
Then things got kinda creepy
She started getting weepy
Our things grew really odd
As soon as she found God
She moved to Sacramento
Gave back all my mementos
Stood there and watched her go
Stayed with my band in Skeeno
We tried to keep things friendly
So hard when things have ended
Punk rock blamed for our decline