It’s the year when Falco was rocking Amadeus and the Housemartins were flying high in the charts with the Caravan of Love.
We watched Top Gun and The Golden Child on the big screen and loved The Bill and Last of the Summer Wine on the small screen.
It all happened in 1986 and meanwhile back on South Tyneside, you were busy too.
To prove it, here are nine photos from life in the area 38 years ago. We’ve got the cast of a Boldon Comprehensive School stage production and runners in a South Shields race.
We have a Nativity scene at St Oswald's RC Primary and a new mini bus at Whitburn.
Take a look and see if you can spot someone you know.
It all happened in 1986 and meanwhile back on South Tyneside, you were busy too.
5. A new mini bus in Whitburn
Pupil Sarah Shiel accepts the keys to the new minibus from deputy head Edward Brett, at Whitburn Comprehensive School. Are you in the picture? Photo: Shields Gazette
South Shields General Hospital catering staff in August 1986. Pictured are: left to right: Simon Bruce; Tony Steele; Aika Miller; Raymond Ali, catering superintendent; Tommy Church, head chef; Tony Bray; Elaine Jeffel; Julie Shephard; Karen Stephenson and Mike Smith, district catering manager. Photo: Shields Gazette
Some of Boldon Comprehensive School's cast of All the King's Men set in the time of the English Civil War. Can you spot someone you know? Photo: Shields Gazette
Bedewell Junior School six a side team in December 1986. Pictured with coach Mrs Gillian Brittain are back, left to right: Mark Coates, Stephen Hymers, Chris English, Anthony Johnson, Front: Jon Robson, Stephen Ormston, Neil Rutherford and John Oughton. Photo: Shields Gazette