Few days ago we said that only in 1986 it could happen that three fantastic groups released their albums on the same day, such as Rolling Stones, Pet Shop Boys (the wonderful “Please”, unreachable) and even Van Halen! Maybe this was their first world-class album, but they went far beyond,
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Sure, because it’s the birthday of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour! Today, rather than 80s, we speak about 70s, not only because of Pink Floyd’s success in the 70s, but also because Gilmour turns 70 today! It’s a fact that Pink Floyd influenced so much the music of the 80s: they probably started the whole electro-pop trend of Kraftwerk,
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The Blow Monkeys – Digging your scene
Maybe not like Duran Duran… but they became the Blow Monkeys nevertheless! Yet they were cool, and very peculiar.. maybe if they insisted a little bit more, and found some more lucky clovers in their way… who knows!!
I think Dr Robert showed plenty of courage and talent in 1986,
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Dear Dinosaurs, March 1986 started with this fantastic song, summarizing how an 80’s song should be:
– a brand new, good looking group
– nice group name, nice song title
– extremely pleasant sound and rhythm
– absolutely nonsense lyrics
OK, Hipsway go directly to the 80’s semi-finals!!!
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