The Buggles was ostensibly bass-playing production titan Trevor Horn, joined by keyboardist Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley. The three began recording a selection of demos…
Browsing: New Wave
The Cars were the most successful American New Wave band in the late 70s/early 80s. With their sleek, mechanical pop-rock, the band racked up a string of…
The New York club that propelled American rock into the 1970s by launching unsigned and untried bands such as Television, Talking Heads and The Ramones was started by a…
Gary Daly and Eddie Lundon formed China Crisis in Liverpool after leaving school in 1979. Their first releases, African and White (1981) and Scream Down At…
The Cretones were a Los Angeles-based new wave and power pop group in the early 1980s. Led by singer/guitarist Mark Goldenberg (who also wrote the…
George Alan O’Dowd was born in 1961 in Eltham, Kent, England. George idolised David Bowie and Marc Bolan and frequented the London clubs which were to be the focal…
The Cure were one of the most pivotal and musically diverse post-punk bands to emerge from England. Reincarnated continually throughout their history by main man…
Irritating, unsexy and unable to pronounce her R’s, Cyndi Lauper was one of the biggest stars of the early MTV era, selling five million copies of…
Devo was formed in Akron, Ohio (the rubber town 40 miles away from Cleveland) in 1972 by Kent State art students Jerry Casale and Mark…
On a hot night in July 1978, Kevin Rowland and Kevin “Al” Archer set out to round up a like-minded bunch of men to have…
The band that most surely have come closest to being The Beatles of their day, since (like The Beatles) they were a blonde five-piece from Birmingham .…
The origins of this renowned Liverpool-based band can be traced back to the spring of 1977 when vocalist Ian McCulloch was a member of the…
Born Declan McManus in Paddington in 1954, his family moved to Liverpool when he was 13 where he began writing songs. His father, Ross McManus, was a singer…
Keyboard player and arranger Vince Clarke (born in 1960 in South Woodford, London) had already enjoyed success as a member of Depeche Mode and Yazoo…
Annie Lennox was born in Scotland and raised in the North Sea port of Aberdeen. The paternal side of her family was musical (her father…
This British New Wave band formed in London in 1978 when songwriter Jimme O’Neill met guitarist Cha Burns. After backing Rachel Sweet on her tour…
College friends Cy Curnin and Adam Woods formed the group in London in 1979, initially calling themselves Portraits. The pair placed an advert for additional…
The Fleshtones formed in 1975 when Jan Marek Pakulski, fresh from a job on a Maine chicken farm, moved in with his friend Keith Streng…
This new wave electro-pop act from Liverpool, England, had remarkable success in the USA before finding a large following in Britain. Originally called Tontrix the band comprised Mike…
This Coventry (UK) based band enjoyed a minor league role in the new wave but owed more to power pop and astute songwriting than the…