50 Things You’ll Never Understand Unless You Lived in the 80s

15. The End of American Bandstand

The 80s was a time of goodbyes, and this was true with the ending of American Bandstand. Maybe this coincided with the era of the music video channel, and the show just couldn’t compete. This is interesting because, in the early 2000s, Soul Train struggled to compete in the digital age of music streaming and Youtube.