<DIV><B>A <I>Rolling Stone-Kirkus </I>Best Music Book of 2020</B><BR/><BR/><B>The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenes</B></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Everybody knows the hits of 1984 - pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It" to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," these iconic songs continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (<I>Boogie Nights</I>) and TV hits (<I>Stranger Things</I>). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves - until now. <B><I>Can't Slow Down</I></B> is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the