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1987 was the year that the stock market fell 23 percent on Black Monday, October 19th; Margaret Thatcher was reelected prime minister; Gary Hart's affair with model Donna Rice sabotaged his political career; and Randy Shilts's book AND THE BAND PLAYED ON… chronicled the history of the AIDS epidemic.


Significant Book of 1987:
Toni Morrison's Beloved

BOOK Morrison's fifth novel is set in Ohio after the Civil War, where an African-American woman named Sethe is haunted by the ghost of the baby daughter she killed rather than see her also become enslaved. Part ghost story, part history lesson, BELOVED won Morrison the Pulitzer Prize.

  Significant Music of 1987:
 Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction

BOOK Los Angeles sleaze rockers Guns N' Roses whetted the appetites of guitar-starved rock fans hungry after years of synthpop and hair metal, and ushered in the heavy metal boom. Meanwhile, George Michael's AIDS-era celebration of monogamy, the Top Ten hit "I Want Your Sex," appealed to other appetites.




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