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KIM WILDE

Kim Wilde

Kim Wilde is an English singer, author, DJ and television presenter who appeared on the music scene in 1981 with “Kids in America”. In 1983, she received the Brit Award for Best British Female. In 1987 Kim Wilde had a major hit in the US when her version of The Supremes’ classic “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” topped the charts. Worldwide, she has sold 10 million albums and 20 million singles. Kim Wilde released her debut single “Kids in America” in January 1981. It reached number two in the UK Singles Chart and scaled the Top 5 in other countries such Read more

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Thompson Twins

Thompson Twins

Thompson Twins were a British new wave group that formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved popularity in the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the United Kingdom, the United States, and around the globe. Thompson Twins were named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson in Hergé’s comic strip The Adventures of Tintin. The band had up to seven members though their best known incarnation was as a trio between 1982–86. In 1977, the original Thompson Twins line-up consisted of Tom Bailey on bass and vocals, Pete Dodd on guitar and vocals, John Read more

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Ultravox

Ultravox

Ultravox are a British new wave band, best known for a series of top ten single and album hits in the UK charts during the 1980s.The band has been led by two different frontmen who never played together in the band at the same time. From 1974 until 1979, John Foxx was frontman and main driving force behind Ultravox. Foxx left the band to embark on a solo career. Following Foxx’s departure, with the three remaining members in hiatus, Midge Ure took over as lead singer, guitarist, and frontman. Ure revitalised the band and drove it to commercial success lasting Read more

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Talk Talk

Talk Talk

Talk Talk were an English musical group, active from 1981 to 1991. The group was part of the English new wave movement that included bands like Duran Duran and had a string of early hit singles including “Today”, “Talk Talk”, “It’s My Life”, “Such a Shame”, and “Dum Dum Girl”. Always uncomfortable with the requirements and pressure of the pop industry, Talk Talk moved away from synthpop toward more experimental music in the mid-80s. A few more singles, including “Life’s What You Make It” and “Living in Another World”, achieved success in Europe and in the UK, but their commercial Read more

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Kajagoogoo

Kajagoogoo are a British new wave band, best known for their hit single, “Too Shy”, which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1983. Formed in Leighton Buzzard in 1979, the band were originally known as Art Nouveau, a four-piece avant-garde instrumental group, with Nick Beggs on bass guitar, Steve Askew on lead guitar, Stuart Croxford Neale on keyboards, and Jeremy “Jez” Strode on drums. Art Nouveau released a track called “The Fear Machine”. The single sold a few hundred copies, and was played on the John Peel show, Read more

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visage

Visage

Visage is a British new wave band. Formed in 1978, the band became closely linked to the burgeoning new romantic fashion movement of the early 80s, and are best known for their hit “Fade to Grey”. Founder members Steve Strange and Rusty Egan were hosting club nights at Blitz nightclub in Great Queen Street, London at the time and were eager to find new music to play, ultimately opting to create music themselves. Strange had briefly been in the punk/new wave bands The Moors Murderers and The Photons, and Egan was working with Midge Ure in the band The Rich Read more

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Spandau Ballet

Spandau Ballet

Spandau Ballet are a British band formed in London in the late 1970s. They were initially inspired by, and an integral part of, the New Romantic movement, becoming one of the most successful groups to emerge during the New Romantic era.Their debut single “To Cut a Long Story Short”, which reached number five in the UK in 1980, was the first of ten occasions in the 80s music that the band reached the top ten of the UK Singles Chart. They had a UK number one single in 1983 with the song “True”. They also had four albums which reached Read more

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WHAM 80S

Wham!

Wham were an English musical duo formed by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in the early 1980s.They were briefly known in the United States as Wham! UK due to a naming conflict with an American Wham band. Wham! have sold more than 25 million certified records worldwide from 1982 to 1986. Michael and Ridgeley met at Bushey Meads School in Bushey near the town of Watford. The two at first performed in a short-lived ska band called The Executive, alongside three of their former school friends David (Austin) Mortimer, Harry Tadayon and Andrew Leaver. When this group split, Michael and Read more

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DURAN DURAN 80S

Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful stars of the 80s music and a leading band in the MTV-driven “Second British Invasion” of the United States. Since the 1980s, they have placed 14 singles in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart and 21 in the Billboard Hot 100, and according to the Sunday Mercury, they have sold more than 100 million records. While they were generally considered part of the New Romantic scene along with bands such as Spandau Ballet when they first emerged, the band later shed Read more

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are English electronic band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. Depeche Mode’s original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke. They released their debut record in 1981, Speak & Spell, bringing the band onto the British new wave scene. Clarke left the band after the release of the album, leaving the band as a trio to record A Broken Frame, released the following year. Alan Wilder (keyboards, drums, occasional songwriter) officially joined the band in late-1982, replacing Clarke, while Gore took over lead songwriting duties, establishing a line up that would continue for Read more

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