Again, the magpie imagination was in evidence: the futuristic soundscapes of German groups, Kraftwerk and Neu!, aligned to the cut-up style of lyrical composition that Bowie had absorbed years before from the Beat writers.
It was another 13 years before the Lakers beat the Celtics, in the 1985 finals, with West as the general manager.
A particularly outrageous incident one year before had been the beating to death by the South African police of Steve Biko, a black activist.
It took 23 years before they beat the Celtics in the finals, in 1985.
Korea beat Japan en route to winning the gold medal at last summer's Beijing games, but two years before, Japan beat Korea in the semifinals of the inaugural W.B.C. and went on to win it.
Tech won a total of nine games last season and had just one conference tournament victory in five years before beating Texas A&M and No. 14 Oklahoma State.
The former insurance company lawyer, who had never before held elected office, was a prosecutor for six years before beating incumbent State Attorney Gregg Bernstein in January.
Last year we needed to beat Johns Hopkins in the last game to make the playoffs, and the year before we beat Hopkins and North Carolina to make it.
But the year before Rodriguez beat him, Lidge saved the World Series clincher for J. C. Romero, who was soon revealed to have tested positive for a banned substance that August.
EADS revealed on Thursday that 2011 sales rose 7% to €49.1bn from €45.7bn the year before, beating analysts' expectations of around €47.9bn.
