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Mick Jones

Mick Jones is a British guitar player and singer. He played lead guitar and sang for the punk band The Clash. He left The Clash in 1983 and fronted Big Audio Dynamite and Big Audio Dynamite II. Big Audio Dynamite were a ground-breaking band that brought together very different music styles. Their song E=MC2 is [...]

Belinda Carlisle

Belinda Carlisle was a founding member and the lead singer of the very popular all female band the Go-Gos. The band formed out of the LA punk scene, they were originally called “The Misfits“. They became the Go-Gos in 1979. They released two very successful albums, Beauty and the Beat (1981) and Vacation (1982).

Siouxsie Sioux

Born May 27, 1957 in Bromley, London In the mid-70s, Siouxsie Sioux was a member of the Bromley Contingent. A bunch of the teenagers that hung out with and followed the Sex Pitols. In 1976 Siouxsie formed and fronted the influential punk/new wave band Siouxsie & the Banshees and its splinter group The Creatures. All [...]

Berlin

Berlin is a new wave band from the USA. Their first incarnation was from 1979 – 1987. They were very successful with club and chart hits. They are most remembered for their hit “Take my breath away” that was featured in the Tom Cruise film Top Gun.

Bananarama

Bananaramawere an all female british pop band. They formed in 1980 and were discovered by Sex Pistol Steve Cook. Before their career took off they sang on a Fun Boy Threealbum. Their biggest hits were Venus, Cruel Summer, NaNa Hey Kiss Him Good-bye, and Robert De Niro’s waiting. They were part of the original Band [...]

Stacy Lattisaw

During the late 1970s and 1980s, Lattisaw had a string of R&B and pop hits, including “Jump to the Beat”, “Let Me Be Your Angel”, “Miracles”, and “Love On a Two Way Street”. She had back-to-back hit albums from 1981 to 1986, produced by Narada Michael Walden. But by 1987, after signing to Motown, her [...]

Carole Pope

Carole Pope is best known as the singer that fronted the Canadian rock band Rough Trade. She was one of the first out lesbian singers and her lyrics had homoerotic and BDSM themes. She and partner Kevan Staples won a number of awards and wrote songs for other acts as well as recording their own [...]

The Bay City Rollers

Scottish bubblegum boy band from the 1970s who dominated the UK charts and briefly had an impact in the US from 1975-1977 cracking the Top 20 three times including their #1 hit Saturday Night. By 1981, the group had dissolved.  

Cheryl Lynn

After being discovered on the Gong Show singing Joe Cocker’s “You Are So Beautiful”, the big-voiced Lynn was immediately signed to a record contract in 1977. The following year, her debut single Got to Be Real was unleashed on the record-buying public as disco was dominating the airwaves. It hit the Top 5 and her [...]

Nik Kershaw

Nik Kershaw was born in Bristol, UK and is a singer/songwriter. He is most famous for his singles Wouldn’t it be good, The Riddle, Don Quixote, Wide Boy, and I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me which were all top ten hits in the early eighties.