who really

In the nineteen-eighties they had music.
Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson, Corey Hart, Cyndi Lauper, the Pogues, the Bangles, etc.
How, or why, did Ronald Reagan manage with all of this going on?
Dez Dickerson jumped the Prince ship, seems it was due to the loveless eroticism, typified by the Nelson/Melvoin/Coleman smash 'raspberry beret.'
It was a long time ago.
But who really ruled the 1980s?
a) Madonna
b) Prince
c) Corey Hart
d) Cyndi Lauper
e) Michael Jackson
f)  Shane MacGowan