It may be hard for people who weren't born yet in the late '70s and early '80s to appreciate just how dominant a figure Kenny Rogers was in both the pop and country scene in those years.
Rogers, who died on Saturday (March 21) at age 81, was arguably the hottest star in the music business in 1980, the year that "Lady" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits topped the Billboard 200 album chart for two weeks.
Rogers turned 42 that year, which is old to be the hottest act in the business. Michael Jackson, who turned 25 in 1983 -- the year Thriller electrified the pop world -- better fits our collective image of what the hottest pop star in the business should look and move like.
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