Posted on 12/04/2013 11:44:21 PM PST by beaversmom
Pics at link of 80s artists now...
Absolutely.
Works for me. Not as pretty as the Go-gos or Bananarama, though.
Cindy Wilson of the B-52s lives about 20 houses away from me. I don’t hear much about her.
None of it is helped by the fact that as music sales drop the industry gets less fond of experimentation (which of course is exactly the wrong move), we forget now because so much of it became so popular but New Wave was throwing a lot of sounds out there that nobody had done before. Probably the labels aren’t fond of the potential “drama” that comes with bands either, solo acts rarely have interview wars in the press or breakup in the middle of their sales peak.
Love his cover of Song to Siren and Jealous Guy. And Avalon is a great album.
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She became one of Them Heavy People.
Can was an excellent band; influential even today...
Andy Summers of The Police is going to be 71 this month ! Sure doesn’t look it .
Yello
I remember them. They had a neat/weird one I liked. Gotta look up now.
This is the one I used to see on MTV. :)
Yello - I Love You [Original Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h9VW4ugXqM
Wow 71! I kinda had a crush on him as a teen.
My mother-in-law has no idea how completely she screwed the pooch when she arbitrarily denied my wife permission to see the Police in concert almost thirty years ago.
I have reaped untold rewards for taking her to two of their reunion concerts (one with VIP tickets), and sending her to New York City for their final show at Madison Square Garden, and audience at their Elvis Costello show interview.
Today we own one of a thousand signed lithographs from the tour promotion hanging above our bed, and one of Stewart Copeland’s broken drumsticks from the Costello show framed over my night table.
The Police always meant a lot to us, but they came through once again when their reunion tour gave us a shared distraction as we endured the agonizing wait for our daughter to be matched to us.
Susanna is very active on her Facebook page, always posting unseen photos of the Bangles and a funny comment or two.
She and 90s rocker Matthew Sweet have made 3 ‘Under The Covers’ albums featuring their favorite tunes from the 60s, 70s and 80s respectively. Good stuff.
Keren Woodward for the win!
All you people who mock Andrew Ridgeley as the ‘other one’ out of Wham! should bite your tongues, since Andrew has been married to Keren for a long time.
JEALOUS!
They were the backing band in the first Austin Powers movie.
True story about The Police , when still unknown , played at the club of some friends of mine in my hometown .
Some guys I know , The Foster Brothers , used to run a club in Willimantic , CT called The Shaboo Inn . Lots of top class talent such as Miles Davis , Weather Report , NRBQ , Dire Straits , etc...played there in the 70’s , and early 80’s , when it burned down . Check out this story :
The Police, October 1978 - The band’s show at the Shaboo was just its third in the United States, and Foster did it as a favor to drummer Stewart Copeland’s brother Ian Copeland, who booked the band. “He goes, `Lefty, do you want Iggy Pop in six weeks?’” Foster remembers. “I said yes. He did the agent thing where he said, `If you want Iggy Pop, then you’ll take my brother’s band.’” So Foster took a band he had never heard of and set the cover charge at $1. “The record hadn’t come out yet, so we knew it was going to be dead,” Foster says. Plus, the World Series was on, and the Yankees were playing the Dodgers. This didn’t sit well with Sting.
“It’s a tie game, and Sting is in the barroom pacing, completely bored, going, `I really want to play,’” Foster says. “He was driving everybody nuts, so finally, I say, `Look, what’s your name? Sting? Sting, look, we’re all going to watch your band, but it’s a tie game; it’s the World Series. Wait until 10 o’clock, and then go on.”
Shortly thereafter, the band broke on the radio.
“At the end of the night, we handed him $12,” Foster says. “They get in the car, and they drive away. Two days later, all of a sudden, `Roxanne,’ every 2 minutes on the radio. WHCN was all over it. To make a long story short, one year later, they sold out Madison Square Garden for a week.”
Actually I do like disco! It wasn’t cool at the time because I’m a 1975 high school graduate, but I’ve come to like it a lot. I’m a 70’s rock and roller but I also like the 70’s funk bands. Good stuff!
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