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Peaking at number one on the Billboard Hot One Hundred US singles charts on this day in 1985, “Miami Vice Theme” was an electronic composition by Czech-American musician and record producer Jan Hammer, which would go on to win a Grammy the following year. Along with “You Belong to the City” by Glenn Frey reaching number two, the show’s soundtrack remained on album charts for eleven weeks, the most successful until displaced in 2006 by Disney’s High School Musical. The accompanying music video is a mini-episode of the series featuring Hammer playing a fugitive fleeing from the detectives as he performs on his keyboard.

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synchronoptica

one year ago: assorted links worth the revisit (with synchronoptica), WotY: Vibe-Coding plus the fiction of Benito Mussolini 

two years ago: a monument to the Armenian diaspora, the Carrington count, backstage customs plus US presidential numbering 

three years ago: an AI wearable, a rediscovered species of echidna plus a montage of international traffic signs

four year ago: the Lateran Basilica, an archaeological discovery in the muddy ruins of a bath house plus more links to enjoy

five years ago: another MST3K classic plus prioritising driverless technology over pedestrian safety

six years ago: World Freedom Day, unfortunate juxtapositions, a vaccine for COVID under development, a synonym for Schadenfreude plus Poe’s Dream-Land

seven years ago: the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) 

eight years ago: a resort on the Adriatic, single-use as Word of the Year, the veil of ignorance plus Kristallnacht (1938)