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Post by pieter on Jan 27, 2019 9:47:47 GMT -7
A typical early eighties British song was " Come On Eileen" is a song by English group Dexys Midnight Runners (credited to Dexys Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express), released in the United Kingdom on 25 June 1982 as a single from their album Too-Rye-Ay. It reached number one in the United States, and was their second number one hit in the UK, following 1980's " Geno". The song was written by Kevin Rowland, Jim Paterson and Billy Adams, and was produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley. " Come On Eileen" won Best British Single at the 1983 Brit Awards and in 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's sixth favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. It was ranked number 18 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s. ( Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_On_Eileen ) " Take On Me" is a song by Norwegian synthpop band A-ha, first released in 1984. The self-composed original version was produced by Tony Mansfield, and remixed by John Ratcliff. The second version was produced by Alan Tarney for the group's debut studio album Hunting High and Low ( 1985). The song combines synthpop with a varied instrumentation that includes acoustic guitars, keyboards and drums. The original " Take On Me" was recorded in 1984 and it took two versions and three releases to finally chart in the United Kingdom, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart in October 1985. In the United States in October 1985, the song became the only A-ha song to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100, due in no small part to the wide exposure on MTV of its innovative music video, directed by Steve Barron. The video features the band in a live-action pencil-sketch sequence. The video won six awards and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards. ( Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_On_Me )
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Post by pieter on Jan 27, 2019 9:52:21 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jan 27, 2019 9:53:16 GMT -7
"Once in a Lifetime" is a song by the American rock band Talking Heads, produced and cowritten by Brian Eno. The lead single from Talking Heads' fourth studio album, Remain in Light (1980), it was released on February 2, 1981, through Sire Records.
Eno and Talking Heads developed "Once in a Lifetime" through extensive jams, inspired by Afrobeat musicians such as Fela Kuti. David Byrne's lyrics and vocals were inspired by preachers delivering sermons. The music video, co-directed by Toni Basil, has Byrne dancing erratically over footage of religious rituals.
A live version, taken from the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, charted in early 1986. In January 2018, the single was certified Silver for 200,000 sold copies in United Kingdom. NPR named "Once in a Lifetime" one of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lists it as one of the "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll".
"Once in a Lifetime" is a song that staid with me all these years. It touches some innerlayers inside me. Being different than your environment, feeling different, and recognising that and living that. Reappropriation in the sense that the Talking Heads represented not the mainstream, the usual or the accepted norm, but the 'other side', the Bohemians, the outcasts and the creative few.
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Post by pieter on Jan 27, 2019 10:15:04 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jan 27, 2019 10:19:59 GMT -7
Steel Wheels is the 19th British and 21st American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1989. Heralded as a major comeback upon its release, the project is notable for the patching up of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' relationship, a reversion to a more classic style of music and the launching of the band's biggest world tour at the time. It is also long-time bassist Bill Wyman's final full-length studio album with the Stones, preceding the announcement of his departure in January 1993. Wyman's final tenure with the band would be on two studio tracks for 1991's Flashpoint. Steel Wheels was the final album of new material the band would record for Columbia Records. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Wheels )
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Post by pieter on Jan 27, 2019 10:34:54 GMT -7
"State of Shock" is a 1984 hit single by the Jacksons featuring frontman Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger. It was written by Jackson and Randy Hansen, a guitarist. "State of Shock" charted at number 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 14 on the UK Singles Chart. The track was originally to be sung with Freddie Mercury as a duet with Jackson, and was later slated for the Thriller album; however, due to differing time schedules, Jackson ended up recording it with his brothers and Jagger. A clip of the song (an instrumental part) was used on the Immortal album in 2011.
This is the Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury version:
"Under Pressure" is a 1981 song by the British rock band Queen and British singer David Bowie. It was included on Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. The song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Queen's second number-one hit in their home country (after 1975's "Bohemian Rhapsody", which topped the chart for nine weeks) and Bowie's third (after 1980's "Ashes to Ashes" and the 1975 reissue of "Space Oddity"). The song only peaked at No. 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1982, and would re-chart for one week at No. 45 in the US following Bowie's death in January 2016. It was also number 31 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s. It was voted the second best collaboration of all time in a poll by Rolling Stone.
The song was played live at every Queen concert from 1981 until the end of Queen's touring career in 1986. It is recorded on the live albums Queen Rock Montreal and Live at Wembley '86. The song was included on some editions of Queen's first Greatest Hits compilations, such as the original 1981 Elektra release in the US. It is included on the band's compilation albums Greatest Hits II, Classic Queen, and Absolute Greatest as well as Bowie compilations such as Best of Bowie (2002), The Platinum Collection (2005), Nothing Has Changed (2014) and Legacy (2016).
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Post by pieter on Jan 27, 2019 11:06:51 GMT -7
I was addcited to this American sitcom in during the eighties. Saw nearly every episode of this series. I liked Debbie Allen, the beautiful, energetic, intelligent dance teacher Lydia Grant. The charismatic Grant told her students: "You've got big dreams? You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying ... in sweat."
Ofcourse I also like Carol Mayo Jenkins as Elizabeth Sherwood, the liberal and stern but fair-minded English teacher at New York City's High School for the Performing Arts in these T.V. series Fame. I liked Erica Gimpel as Coco Hernandez, Lori Singer who played the cellist student Julie Miller, Lee Curreri as the keyboard maven Bruno Martelli in Fame, Valerie Landsburg as the student Doris Schwartz, the character of the typical Central/Eastern-European jewish music teacher Benjamin Shorofsky, played by Albert Hague.
Gene Anthony Ray (May 24, 1962 – November 14, 2003) was an excellent American actor, dancer, and choreographer. He was known for his portrayal of African American dance student Leroy Johnson in both the 1980 film Fame and the 1982–1987 Fame television series based upon the film.
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Post by pieter on Jan 27, 2019 11:14:24 GMT -7
Maybe Fame fed my curiosity and fondness of New York city during the eighties. I had posters of the New York skyline in my teenage boy room and images of stars the played at broadway, New York concert halls, clubs (CBGB; Country, BlueGrass, and Blues) and parks. That New York City's High School for the Performing Arts for me was a dream of culture. Dance, music, the arts, theatre and Freedom. I loved the atmosphere, the humanity and the energy of this sitcom. Maybe it inspired me to study art too.
The freedom you feel in dance is one of the greatest things in life. Gene Anthony Ray as the dance student Leroy Johnson is briljant in this video, shocking some dance teachers and students and charming others with his energetic and rather sexual masculine dance.
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Post by pieter on Jan 27, 2019 11:22:11 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jan 27, 2019 11:28:40 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jan 27, 2019 11:55:51 GMT -7
For me the late seventies were connected to the eighties, because some musical developments were in the era of 1977-1985 and therefor this 1979 song Sara of Fleetwood Mac in the eighties music thread:
This is a beautiful song. Stevie Nicks lead vocals and tack piano are great. But her fellow musicians Lindsey Buckingham (acoustic guitars, the backing vocals), Christine McVie (keyboards, backing vocals), John McVie (bass guitar), and Mick Fleetwood on drums are great too.
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Post by pieter on Jan 27, 2019 12:00:55 GMT -7
"Fade to Grey" is the second single by the British new wave band Visage, released on Polydor Records in 1980.
The song was the band's most successful single. It entered the singles charts in late 1980, peaking at no. 8 in the UK Singles Chart and reaching no. 1 in Germany and Switzerland. Steve Strange was on lead vocals; the French lyrics were spoken by Rusty Egan's Belgian girlfriend Brigitte Arens.
The music video became one of the first videoclips that Kevin Godley and Lol Creme directed, before they became known for their works with the Police, Duran Duran and Herbie Hancock.
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