The subtitle of Can't Slow Down reflects a reality that's become increasingly clear as the decades pass: there was something special about that year. In Can’t Slow Down, Matos writes about the unease and resentment with which Eagles Glenn Frey and Don Henley entered the video realm, and how ZZ Top found a new chapter in their career by doubling down on their hairy, dusty age. Can't Slow Down has the full untold story of how rockers and rappers and dance-floor rebels came together to invent the future, changing how music has sounded ever since. Matos doesn’t open his study with a splashy awards ceremony, but starts off with a description of the recession the music industry weathered in … Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year By Michaelangelo Matos 480 pp. Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year by Michaelangelo Matos available in Hardcover on Powells.com, also read synopsis and reviews. Can't Slow Down has the full untold story of how rockers and rappers and dance-floor rebels came together to invent the future, changing how music has sounded ever since. Can't Slow Down is the second solo studio album by American recording artist Lionel Richie.It was released on October 11, 1983 by Motown Records.It has sold over 20 million copies, and is Richie's best-selling album of all time.Five singles were released from Can't Slow Down, all of which hit the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including two that reached No. Michaelangelo Matos takes illuminating stock of the mid-’80s music boom with Can’t Slow Down, a retrospective on the blockbuster year of 1984. Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large - one hit at a time. Can't Slow Down has the full untold story of how rockers and rappers and dance-floor rebels came together to invent the future, changing how music has sounded ever since. As Matos points out, when people think about how great music was in the '80s, they're overwhelmingly thinking about the peak period from 1983 to … CAN'T SLOW DOWN HOW 1984 BECAME POP'S BLOCKBUSTER YEAR. Can't Slow Down has the full untold story of how rockers and rappers and dance-floor rebels came together to invent the future, changing how music has sounded ever since. But Matos ranges widely within those confines and writes authoritatively and entertainingly about a host of genres, whether it’s R.E.M. “Duran Duran stood out from Rod Stewart on MTV,” Matos says. Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large - one hit at a time. $30 Hachette Books.

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