1984: The Year George Orwell Met Prince, Madonna, Michael, and Bruce

Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year By Michaelangelo Matos 480 pp. $30 Hachette Books In late 1984, flush from the success of his work on Michael Jackson’s Thriller, super producer Quincy Jones told an interviewer from Radio & Records what he foresaw in music’s future. He envisioned…