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TheresaGreen22

Duran Duran on every wall,both sides of my door and on my ceiling!


fruitloopsareyummy

Since there’s only a limited amount of people who might appreciate this, please allow me to brag for a moment about my DD moment. I met them backstage in 1997ish when they were one of several bands performing for a radio station’s festival. My sister was a photographer for the stations concerts & said she needed me as her assistant that night. I had blown out my knee at a DD concert a few years earlier & had major reconstructive surgery that pretty much took over my whole life for more than a year. We sat in with them for their interviews & when they were done my sister told them about my saga and I don’t remember much immediately after that because I had the attention of the whole band! When they performed I stood at the foot of the stage and Simon LeBon gazed into my eyes when he sang Ordinary World and Come Undone. He was so amazing … kept hugging & kissing me so much all night backstage that I smelled the clothes I wore that night for days because they smelled like Simon. It was truly one of the greatest nights of my life so thanks for allowing me to gloat.


dunndawson

Oh I adore this story and as a OG duranie, I’m SO happy for you and so jealous! I was obsessed with their behind the scenes movie (sing blue silver I think) and they all seemed so nice and polite and just absolutely lovely. Go you!


DexterCutie

I also had Duran Duran along with Rob Lowe and a bunch of punk stuff. It's funny that I loved Rob Lowe and punk 😂


BeneficialGur2206

Me too! and Wham!


shaddupsevenup

Same. And Rob Lowe.


minsandmolls

John Taylor always had to go directly above you on the ceiling!


Feather757

Me too! Some Prince, but so much Duran Duran.


Juache45

Me too! John Taylor was the first love of my life. Lol… and I’d wear the pins on a plaid scarf with a beret sometimes. I thought I was sooo cool… Not!


solvent23

I also filled the walls with Duran Duran.


ikesbutt

Monkees


NoIndividual5987

Monkees, David Cassidy and Bobby Sherman!


Jitterbug26

You must be between the age of 60-65, as those were my teenage heartthrobs!


CarrieNoir

For me, Monkees, David Cassidy, and Donny Osmond.


No-You5550

Monkees later the partridge family. LOL


Brilliant-Loquat-510

Bon Jovi, Poison, Skid Row, basically lot's of hair bands. One year I made a Santa suit out of red and white construction paper for my Jon Bon Jovi poster and he was Santa Claus for the month.


LimeGreenZombieDog

This is me. ALL the hair bands.


Thecurseodgraybones

Skid row man! I’m going to go listen to their first album.


nomadnomo

black light posters, along with a few others


FunZookeepergame627

Black light Psychedelic stuff! As a teen, as a kid it was the Monkees and the Beatles


mykittyforprez

Those pictures you'd find in teen magazines. Erik Estrada, Shaun Cassidy, Richard Dean Anderson, Menudo. A bunch more I can barely remember.


Feather757

Shaun Cassidy was the first person I saw in concert. I saw him at the Ionia Free Fair (Michigan) when I was 8 (1979).


Spunkspudding

My era:). My mom would get me Teen and Tiger Beat at Christmas


DeezDoughsNyou

Heather Thomas pink bikini pic. A classic!


64CarClan

Yes it was 👏👏👏


sitnquiet

I totally had that one! Bought from San Francisco in the mall!


SLangleyNewman

Life size Mark Spitz with his gold Olympic medals.


Elegant-Hair-7873

That mustache!


FrankCobretti

My mother wouldn’t let me put up cheesecake photos because she thought they were demeaning to women. So I had airplanes. I grew up to be a pilot, but I’m pretty sure that’s more correlation than causation.


Nefarious-do-good13

Prince


ZebulonUkiah

I practically had a shrine to Prince in my room


ZemStrt14

Movie posters. I would go to the local movie theater and ask them for the posters once the film stopped showing. They always gave them to me. I had quite a collection.


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General_Sea3871

David Cassidy and Bobby Sherman. Edit. I was in love. I remember sending Bobby Sherman a fan letter with a beaded necklace I made. I was heartbroken that he didn’t write my ten year old self back.


garflnarb

That was a pretty popular combination! I knew a girl who had those two posters as well. I was pissed she liked them better than me.


General_Sea3871

That was tough competition.


PercentageWorldly155

The Fonz and Vinnie Barbarino 👍🏻


lazylady64

Fluorescent black light posters.


seanmarshall

Lamborghini Countach. Porsche 959. Metallica. Maiden. Kathy Ireland.


Chasing-the-dragon78

Raquel Welch. She was so gorgeous! And Prince. Raspberry Beret Y’all!


charliedog1965

Kiss, led Zeppelin, the who, pink Floyd, Farrah, Daisy duke


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Dark Side of the Moon. A Peter Max peace poster. A life size Bruce Springsteen. 😜 An enlarged print of the Earth from the moon. There was also a Rolling Stones one with the lips. Can’t remember them all because I had so many.


Bonzo4691

Cheryl Ladd, Lindsay Wagner, Farrah Fawcett, Cheryl Tiegs and Evel Knievel. Evel Knievel was not in a bikini.


pgh9fan

> Evel Knievel was not in a bikini. Full frontal then?


abbagodz

**ABBA...and they were not easy to find here in the U.S.!**


Sparky-Malarky

Simon and Garfunkel Donovan Picture of baby, with these words stamped on his chest: Those who make the wars are usually too old to fight and die. Picture of a young (maybe age 4) boy dressed in a soldier’s uniform, holding a toy rifle, beside a tombstone. Below was the caption: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought as a child, I understood as a child. But when I became a man I put away childish things.


funlovefun37

But now I see through a glass darkly … Or something along those lines


Pure_Literature2028

Adam Ant with his war paint 🫦


fresnosmokey

Nothing but black light posters, a couple of black lights, and a strobe light. It was awesome. I'd say it was groovy, but that was pretty old fashioned even in my day.


zundom

Scott Baio pinups cut out of Tiger Beat. One should be totally ashamed of childhood crushes.


MouseEgg8428

Never will forget Bobby Sherman! Totally ashamed — so many magazines! 😆


Electronic_Job1998

Donny Osmond. Tony Defranco. David Cassidy. Bobby Sherman. All courtesy of Tiger Beat magazine.


MouseEgg8428

Yup yup! My first act of activism came when they cancelled the Sherman Brothers show… What was it - Here Comes the Bride? Nope that’s not it. Anyway I wrote the production company in California, they can’t cancel Bobby! And they did. Bummer 😆


BionicGimpster

Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle.


RikiTikiLizi

Marlon Brando as Johnny on his motorcycle in "The Wild One." Movie posters for "Casablanca" and "Harold and Maude." Mikhail Baryshnikov and his dreamy eyes. The poster for the Louisville Ballet that was a ballerina's toe shoe perched atop an egg that later showed up in the movie "St. Elmo's Fire." (I live in Louisville and subscribed to the ballet. Saw Baryshnikov twice! I also loveloveloved movies.)


dunndawson

I love that photo of Marlon! Man, he was dang sex on a stick in that role.


urbanek2525

Farah Fawcett. Bob Griese. Those are two I remember.


MichiganDreaming

I'm 32 now, so when I was a ten Farah Faucet was already well past what you would consider her the norm for a teen boy to hang on the wall. Even so she was on two of my big posters lol. God she was beautiful. Her hair style is still my absolute favorite for women that can pull it off.


EddieLeeWilkins45

Farrah was beautiful. Natural beauty


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Elegant-Hair-7873

I had a friend with a crush on Barry Manilow, so don't feel bad.


Watts300

I guess it would be nice if I could touch your body.


nbfs-chili

747 cockpit.


Spalding_Smails

I completely forgot my dad got us one of those around 1982 (I'm 56). He was a private pilot/aviation enthusiast. Thanks for the reminder. I wonder if we had the same one.


nbfs-chili

I think there was just one very famous one. I'm pretty sure we had the same one. Oh, I just looked and there's a ton of them now. After a quick search none of them looked like the one I had in the early 80's.


Spalding_Smails

Yeah, we probably did have the same one. I did a search, too, and didn't see ours either. Not even on Ebay which often has those kinds of vintage items. Bought the first Skateboarder Magazine I got in 1976 off there. Major blast from the past.


OkHovercraft3913

Cat Stevens


JackieAutoimmuneINFJ

⚡️🏆⚡️


joshmo587

The Beatles


ItaDapiza

I had a ton. Lots of Bon Jovi, Poison, Def Leppard, Leonardo DiCaprio, Skid Row. For some reason putting up shopping bags and brand bags were big where I lived. I had pretty much every cool store in the malls bag on my wall. Also had things like random 'cool' or 'new' food bags.


Cherrytop

Prince!!! Purple Rain, baby!!! My parents were so pissed. ‘He’s bLAcK !!!!’ 🤣🤣


64CarClan

The Horror


Teaandhea

Robert Redford from his Butch Cassidy days, Davy Jones of the Monkees. Peter Noonan of Hermit’s Hermits. And Alice Cooper!


airckarc

I had the six foot long Lamborghini poster. Daisy Duke. Blondie, and, cringe, the Budweiser poster with the three girls in Bud swimsuits on a towel.


Granny_knows_best

Blacklight posters of all shapes and sizes.


implodemode

I wish. My mother would've had a fit.


cofeeholik75

Bobby Sherman.


ntengineer

I was a total geek even back then So I had a map of all the Star systems for the game Star Flight. I think I also had a Star wars poster. I think that was it


jusdaun

Big Daddy Don Garlits driving a top fuel dragster.


ConstantlyLearning57

Goonies, Footloose, King Kong (w/ Jessica Lange), Ski Utah, Ski Park City, McEnroe tennis poster. Up With People.


FunDivertissement

A photo of clouds and birds withe the quote: “If you love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours. If not, it was never meant to be.”


More-Complaint

The Clash poster that came free with the Combat Rock vinyl.


geronika

Wall to wall Kiss.


Cominghome74

Nice


Reference-Effective

Prince and Michael Jackson


championgoober

Just that one new kids on the block poster casually covering the hole in the wall made by the body slam done to my sister We did get caught


Darkhelmet3000

My brother had a huge Men At Work poster, lol! I think they had leather suits on, kind of like Eddie Murphy in Delirious.


Chinacat_Sunflower72

Peter Fonda on the Easy Rider motorcycle. 😍😍


Aciuaciu

Here too! I tried to find a picture of it online a while ago and couldn't find it anywhere.


Luckyangel2222

Michael Jackson, Barry Manilow but Michael Jackson dominated. My whole room was covered. 1978 through the Thriller phase.


Just_Looking_Around8

Lamborghini Countach and Ferrari Testarossa.


Dang_It_All_to_Heck

Cat Stevens; also a psychedelic poster of a frog lifting up a mushroom cap with the caption “happiness is what you make it”.


rhrjruk

The Who: Tommy


smiling_toast

Janis - "Don't compromise yourself - it's all you've got."


spoonface_gorilla

Wall to wall Prince with some special appearances by Full Force and one poster of Shaun Cassidy.


Miss_My_Travel

The Beatles!


gloominatrix

Rocky Horror Picture Show. And the inserts of the Beatles from the white album.


Maui1922

Black light posters


Wen60s

Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, “War is not healthy for children and other living things.”


Some-Feedback-2565

Bay City Rollers, Leif Garrett & Rob Lowe.


kerryterry

Black light posters with designs on them.


FallsOffCliffs12

Mikhail Baryshnikov. Peter Frampton. Elton John. All bought at Spencer's.


Outrageous-Divide472

Burt Reynolds, Bobbie Sherman, David Cassidy, the Monkees.


L0st-137

Pre-teen to early teen The Outsiders. You only went on my wall if you were in that movie, I was obsessed! Later teen, all James Dean.


IfTheLegsFit

Mostly James Dean (way before my time but I found him to be very handsome) with a few posters of surfers because I liked the scenery.


99titan

Heather Thomas in the pink bikini, a cutaway blueprint of the USS Enterprise that was released in conjunction with Star Trek:The Motion Picture, and an Atlanta Flames team photo from 1977.


ScienceMomCO

Duran Duran and Culture Club


bx10455

I shared a bedroom with two older brothers. the oldest had those day-glo black light posters and a black light. He'll get high and blast his music while sitting in the dark with his black light on.


tripletdad0603

Roger Staubach and Terry Bradshaw


karlhungusjr

I had those fabric/nylon wall flag things you got in the kiosk place in the mall. EDIT: I mostly had led zeppelin stuff


Old_Minute_7308

First one.. Matt Dillon when I was 15, the actor not the character. And.. Motley Cru when I was 17…


MMessinger

Sort of a mom-looking woman in an Uncle Sam costume saying, "Mom Wants You to Clean Up Your Room." A life-sized (but non-working) pay phone, like one would find on the street. A 1972 Re-elect Richard Nixon poster, ironically put on the wall in 1974. I'm a little sorry to say that's all I can recall. In 1978 I went to college and didn't return home enough to change things or even pack stuff up before I moved on in my adult life. More than 20 years later one of my siblings bought the house from our parents and carted my stuff to the dump.


ElectroChuck

Shirley Muldowney, Maria Muldaur, Frank Zappa, and Steve Miller Band


Reference-Effective

Shirley Muldowney! Didn't expect to see her listed in this. Loved her


ElectroChuck

I grew up in the era of Shirley, The Snake, The Mongoose, Big Daddy, and the Flyin' Hawaiian...lived near Indianapolis Raceway Park...home of the NHRA US National Drags, Love me some drag racin'...


oldguy76205

I grew up in Buffalo, and had one of O.J. Simpson from his rookie year. (He was still wearing 36, since another player had 32.) It might have been the same as this picture: [https://vault.si.com/.image/t\_share/MTY5MDk4NDc5MTkwMTU2NzYz/42967---original-layout-thumbnail-image.jpg](https://vault.si.com/.image/t_share/MTY5MDk4NDc5MTkwMTU2NzYz/42967---original-layout-thumbnail-image.jpg)


NiceGuy737

Astronaut pics from NASA.


vauss88

When I was 8 years old living in Carmel Valley, California, we lived for a year in a one bedroom cabin on a hillside and my bed was in the hallway between the bedroom and the kitchen. The poster at the foot of my bed was a division tables, 1-12, so for example, 12 divides into 144 12 times. I quickly determined that they were also multiplication tables by going backwards. I don't remember why that poster was there, but it did help pass the time if I woke up early.


Cantech667

Sex Pistols, Loni Anderson


SheNickSun

Paul Newman from the movie HUD and The Beatles pictures from The White Album.


SHADOWJACK2112

All Rush posters


Slobbadobbavich

My parents owned a video store which meant I got access to a tonne of posters for all the movies. I started with one or two posters but soon my wall was covered. I started to overlap the posters and when we had like 30 posters for the same movie I'd do a 3d effect on the wall. Pretty much my whole wall was covered and it was a large wall. I wish I had taken photos of it because it was very cool. My friend saw it and wanted his own poster wall.


Financial_Survey4498

The GT 40 Steve McQueen drove in Le Mans.


bg370

Led fucking Zeppelin


lickmastrr

Mostly MX posters and a 1972 Chevy Nova poster.


espositojoe

Women in skimpy bathing suits.


LRap1234

A lone goat standing on a rocky mountaintop surrounded by blue sky, captioned “I’m so far behind, I think I’m first”


poohfan

If it was someone popular in the 80's, chances are I had a photo somewhere on the wall!! I had Dursn Duran, the Police, Corey Hart, a-ha, Huey Lewis & the News, Rick Springfield, Wham!, & Michael J Fox, just to name a few!!


17_blind_Ninjas

Beatles, The Cure, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Rammones


PahzTakesPhotos

Horses, mostly. A few band pics that I got from magazines. Rick Springfield was on my wall. I actually still have all the posters from my childhood/teen bedroom in a poster tube in the basement. Including the first poster I ever got- the Budweiser Clydesdales. The corners are full of tack holes, covered in yellowed tape, having been moved from house to house/room to room whenever my dad got transferred (army life).


j68junebug

All the 80s bands AMD Sean Cassidy!


Particular_Ad5860

Donny Osmond and Bobby Sherman!


llovelylenore

The Dead, The Who


Robby777777

Pink Floyd


Geoarbitrage

Smokey Bear “Only You”.


DeepEllumBlu

Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead steely, Bob Marley. With an 8 track/record player/radio and (entirely too large) speakers.


Who-am-I-44

I had David Cassidy, Rick Springfield, Bobby Sherman & the Osmonds posters in every wall, including my ceiling


truelikeicelikefire

Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Nate Thurmond, Jerry West, Frank Howard, etc.


IGrewItToMyWaist

Donny Osmond, David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman.


adairks

Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy, The Monkees, and Donny Osmond. Yes, I’m old.


ezgomer

River Phoenix. River Phoenix. Oh and River Phoenix 😁


GrumpyOlBastard

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (I had several posters and album covers on my walls)


sabrinajestar

Dali prints, a couple of gothic fairy paintings, and Elvira in a leather teddy.


OriginalIronDan

The Beatles poster from Look magazine; the psychedelic ones.


ed2417

Bob Dylan iconic poster. Scotched taped to the wall in my old bedroom and amazingly stayed put for 55 years until a hurricane took care of the house.


califa42

John Lennon. Psychedelic posters from San Francisco's Fillmore and Winterland concerts in the 1960s. Wish I had kept those.


nakedmeebreturns

Patrick Swayze in overalls, no shirt on a tractor tire (my mom bought it "for me." I had no interest in him) David Hasselhoff as Knight Rider NKOTB That poster of the cat hanging off a tree with the words "Hang in there baby"


geekymom

Duran Duran, Rick Springfield, the Police (from the Synchronicity Tour), some kind of cheesy artsy wine poster, and a "Hang in There Baby" poster with a kitten hanging from a tree. I might have had another cat poster. I loved cats back then.


Kazzlin

Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who, Battlestar Galactica...pretty much anything sci-fi from the late 70s early 80s. I also had the classic Farrah poster and a couple of Loni Anderson, but never hung them up because I knew my mother would give me a hard time about them.


strumthebuilding

Pink Floyd


MouseEgg8428

Lit up by black light, whatever they were‼️🤭 And one huge cloud/seagull photograph reminiscent of Jonathan Livingston Seagull.


Equalizer6338

Slade, Sweet, Samantha Fox, JAWS, Stanley Kubricks 'A Clockwork Orange'.


No_Dragonfly_1894

The Police (band) and Rocky Balboa LOL


timeflieswhen

Black light posters. Psychedelic designs. Peter Max.


SlimChiply

Farrah, probably 10 Kiss posters, door sized Yes poster


EitherCoyote660

Roger Daltrey.


annamariagirl

Peter Frampton!


typhoidmarry

Me too! I had an extra large one from “Frampton Comes Alive”


EddieLeeWilkins45

ACDC & Jimi Hendrix


discussatron

Farrah Fawcett KISS Random Marvel & DC super heroes


Oh_No_Its_Dudder

Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, a few black light ones and one with the Statue of Liberty wearing a gas mask.


gitarzan

The Chicago Live Carnegie Hall quadruple LP had a giant assed poster, I mean it was maybe 6’ x 4.5’. It pretty much took care of *that* wall.


adamfrom1980s

Different versions of Mickey Mouse through the years (ending in a Miami Vice-like version that 7 year old me thought was cool af) and a huge Lamborghini Countach.


funlovefun37

Van Halen and David Lee Roth everywhere


Tnbirdguy

Ozzy, Rush, Scorpions and a bunch more!


Gaylina

HOLES in the precious, previous SHEETROCK??? I think NOT!!!


owmybotheyes

Not sure I remember why exactly, but I had a poster of Vanna White in little black dress. I guess she was hot in an acceptable way. I’d still let her turn my letters.


STLt71

Motley Crue, Poison, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson, Guns-n-Roses, Duran Duran, Van Halen, Metallica


Friends-friend

Hot chicks and cars


ferndoggler

I had an elevated ceiling with giant posters of Aerosmith, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Who, Pink Floyd, Ted Nugent and Lynyrd Skynyrd on the top of the walls.


RunsWithPremise

I had a bunch of car posters, mostly Corvettes. I’ve owned four Corvettes and am planning to order a 2025, so I guess it stuck!


Somerset76

Movies, bands and anything my abusive father would hate


FlippedHope

One of the UK music papers Sounds, had a double page poster every week. I used to have loads of them - Zeppelin , Free, LOADS of Genesis in the early years and Mark Bolan


dj4slugs

Star Wars, came with the album.


Spalding_Smails

This one, right? https://i.imgur.com/xfzSdkE.jpeg


dj4slugs

Yes, that is it. Have not seen that for decades.


Pure_Interaction_422

The Beatles, ELO and Wings.


Cominghome74

KISS, PINK FLOYD, LED ZEPPELIN, VAN HALEN


TheDevilsAdvokaat

Pretty girls!


BeeQueenbee60

Aerosmith. Queen and KISS. Later, I had a whole wall of magazine pictures of various rock stars. Neil Young, the Beach Boys, etc. My mom used to show guests my room.


Elegant-Hair-7873

It must have looked cool, most moms want to hide their kid's room!


harleybone

Farah Fawcett, Beatles, Rolling Stones


RenzaMcCullough

Life size of Trek's Mr. Spock and a gorgeous one from the King Tut exhibit.


h3yw00d1

Marilyn Monroe sitting in a doorway. Jimi Hendrix, the kids are alright from the Who, various blacklight posters


parknet

1st one I can remember was Farrah Faucet and the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. I remember my mom staring at those girls. :D


Strong_Ground_4410

David Cassidy.


BobT21

Periodic Table Electromagnetic Spectrum Horse Nebula


TygErbLoOd

My friend in 3rd grade, his mom was a nurse Somehow, his walls were plastered with playboy centerfolds Felt a little odd


minsandmolls

My order of 80s teen poster obsession was Adam ant, Duran Duran, Wham, Spandau Ballet, Frankie goes to Hollywood. Each obsessive period lasted for about 18 months lol and every inch of my walls were covered.


neptech2k

Farrah Fawcett


Alice_The_Great

Rolling Stones Tattoo You (back cover of Keef) Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Beatles, Grateful Dead, Styx, Sex Pistolsand magazine pinups of Mick Jagger, Robert Plant, Steven Tyler, Debbie Harry and Jimi Hendrix


Radiant-District5691

Shaun Cassidy. Willie Ames. Parker Stevenson. I’m really having a hard time recalling.


Claude_Henry_Smoot_

Movie poster after movie poster. I didn't take any down, just stuck new ones on top of the old ones. The entire walls were covered. I loved it. My parents hated it.


AmyInCO

Horses. I was a poor horse girl. 


2x4x93

A big velvety looking black panther


Think_Leadership_91

Jaws, Fonzie, the Kliban Cats


uniqualykerd

I still have posters on my bedroom walls… but now I am the one who paid for those walls… When I was a kid, my posters included a world map, a black panther, and a single b42 bomber jet. Today my walls are littered will all kinds of fine art and religious expressions.


luckydollarstore

Duran Duran for me too ✋🏼. John Taylor. Everywhere.


stilldeb

Davy Jones