Fronted by the floppy-fringed Mick Ryan, The Bodines emerged from Glossop, Derbyshire, England, in 1985. Their debut single, God Bless, was an early release by Creation…
Browsing: Music – 1980s
Seven-piece all-girl ska/reggae band, The Bodysnatchers, were brought together in September 1979 by bass player Nicky – then a part-time veg seller in Berwick Street…
Frozen in the collective memory as poodle-haired pretend cowboys, Bon Jovi released their self-titled debut album in 1984. Runaway was the band’s first single -…
Gaynor Hopkins was born in June 1951 and raised in the village of Skewen, just outside Swansea in Wales. Her mother (an excellent singer herself)…
Australian band Boom Crash Opera played heavy drum-driven dance-oriented rock, much in the manner of INXS, but with just enough angst and bombast to live up…
The Boomtown Rats were formed in Dun Laoghaire (near Dublin), Ireland in 1975 by former NME journalist Bob Geldof (after he was thrown out of Canada…
Boston leader and guitarist Tom Scholz got a masters degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a researcher and product…
Bow Wow Wow was born when the remaining members of Adam and the Ants, Leigh Gorman, Dave Barbarossa and Matthew Ashman, sought the advice of Sex Pistols’…
This Australian band formed in Sydney in March 1982 as ‘Box of Fish with Tartare Sauce’ (the name was taken from a line in the…
Sydney-based Box The Jesuit formed in October 1986 from the ashes of underground angst merchants Madroom. Box The Jesuit was headed up by the infamous…
Guitar-playing brothers Lino and Camillo Del Roio formed The Rockhouse Corporation whilst still at high school in Perth, Australia, in 1977. They started out as a…
The Breakfast Club’s drummer, Stephen Bray, helped write and produce several hits for his former college friend, Madonna, including True Blue and Into the Groove. Madonna actually played drums in…
Always a little bit different, Leeds band The Bridewell Taxis (named after the slang term for a police van) featured a trombone player and were…
Playing electronic instruments and singing openly gay lyrics in a shrill falsetto, this London trio burst onto a complacent music scene in 1984. Scottish-born Jimmy…
Platinum-haired twin brothers Matt and Luke Goss formed a group with school friend Craig Logan. The group was originally called Caviar before changing to Bros (pronounced ‘Bross’).…
Brother Beyond formed in 1985 and signed to EMI Records in 1986. Their first four singles, I Should Have Lied, How Many Times?, Chain Gang…
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen grew up in an average middle-class family; his mother, Adele, was a secretary, and his father, Douglas, was a bus driver.…
Born in Ontario on 5 November 1959, Canadian Bryan Adams started in club groups around Vancouver, British Columbia, at the age of 16. Within a…
Miner’s son Bryan Ferry left his native North-East in 1968, a slick young Geordie with a degree in fine arts, down to seek his fortune…
Bucks Fizz was formed in January 1981 by songwriters Nichola Martin and Andy Hill specifically to perform their song Making Your Mind Up in the Eurovision Song Contest.…