Age Of Chance were most notable for their cover of Prince’s Kiss, but there was a plank-like quality to their version that served as an adequate summary…
Browsing: Music – 1980s
This trio from Fullerton in Orange County, California, specialised in the unlikely combination of punk and surf music. Led by vocalist/guitarist Mike Palm, the band…
Formed in Australia through the partnership of Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell, soft-rockers Air Supply produced a solid run of seven US Top 5 singles.…
Before Alabama, bands were usually relegated to a supporting role in country music – nearly every popular recording country artist was a vocalist, not a…
Alan Parsons had acted as Assistant Engineer on The Beatles’ albums Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), engineered Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side…
After playing together for four years in Rhyl, Wales, first, as a punk band called The Toilets and then as a mod group called Seventeen,…
The tabloid idea of what Goths are supposed to look like, Alien Sex Fiend were the demented brain-spawn of flamboyant Batcave employee Nik Fiend (real…
The Aliens were one of the first Australian bands of the late 70s to adopt the New Wave “uniform” of black clothes and skinny ties. Originally…
Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet was born in Billericay, Essex, in June 1961 and grew up in Basildon with a strict French father. After leaving Basildon…
This London quartet featured the rather lovely – and often multi-tracked – voice of Coventry-born music journalist Julianne Regan (an early bassist in Gene Loves Jezebel)…
During the late 70s/early 80s a small pub in downtown Sydney, called the Sussex Hotel, was the birthplace of the Australian mod revival. When the…
Formed in 1979, this Glasgow band centred around 17-year-old Clare Grogan who appeared in the film Gregory’s Girl (1981) directed by Bill Forsyth. In 1980 Altered Images toured…
Amazulu had an early break in 1984 when they scored one of the musical slots on anarchic TV comedy show The Young Ones to perform their single Moonlight Romance (it’s…
Angel Witch formed in Kent, England in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) movement. Their track Baphomet was included…
The Angelic Upstarts were formed in South Shields (Tyneside) in 1978 after the initial punk explosion had hit London. Their first single The Murder of Liddle…
Alongside Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil and Rose Tattoo, The Angels had a profound effect on the Australian live music scene of the late 70s/early 80s.…
Although die-hard fans stuck by Anthrax no matter who their singer was, it is widely agreed among metalheads that the band was at their peak…
In good punk tradition, the Anti-Nowhere League formed in Kent, England, in 1980 out of sheer boredom. The band members were old friends, congenital troublemakers…
Hailing from Derbyshire, England, Anti-Pasti were part of the commercially successful but critically reviled second wave of punk. The group signed to the punk/heavy metal…
Stiff Records had great commercial hopes for this Manchester quartet, led by balding, bespectacled singer/guitarist/pianist Clive Gregson, whose songs – mostly about the unhappy side of…