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Posted in 1981, 1981 October, November, December, United States
Daryl Hall & John Oates – I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)
Mid December 1981 marked the outcome of one of the most famous songs in the incredibly long career of a duo that was certainly underestimated in Europe, because they always aimed more at the American market than the European one,
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Posted in 1983, 1983 October, November, December, ItaloDisco, Italy
Valerie Dore – The Night
In the final part of 1983 a song was recorded and produced that could be defined as “a disco dream”, or maybe an Italo-disco dream. Actually, the first impression was that there was very little Italian in this song: the title and the lyrics were in English,
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Murray Head – One Night in Bangkok
In the first days of November 1984, a very original song entered the English charts and it soon became very famous throughout Europe. It was a very particular song, because it was part of the soundtrack of a musical expected to be on stage in London;
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Posted in 1982, 1982 October, November, December, United Kingdom
Duran Duran – Rio
November 1, 1982 was a very important day for the pop musical iconography of the 80s, thanks to the release of a single and a video that really marked the culture and imagination of us teenagers of the time, and we are of course talking about Duran Duran’s Rio.
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Posted in 1982, 1982 October, November, December, United Kingdom
Billy Idol – White Wedding
Every time I attend a wedding, which for obvious age reasons rarely happens anymore, even if a new generation will sooner or later follow the same steps, this song comes to my mind. An important song, because it determined the turning point in the career of one of the most original and creative performers of the 80s,
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Posted in 1987, 1987 October, November, December, United Kingdom, United States
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Terence Trent D’Arby – Dance little sister
In the 80s, we surely saw many artists who were truly brilliant, really exceptional. Many were also underrated at the time, and only as the years went by did we understand how ahead of their time they truly were.
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Posted in 1983, 1983 October, November, December, Europe - other countries
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Fake – Donna Rouge
We all know how important it is to speak or at least understand foreign languages. And if it is certainly increasingly indispensable in today’s global and interconnected world, already in the 80s there were songs to make us understand how important it was.
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Posted in 1986, 1986 July, August, September, ItaloDisco, United Kingdom
Eddy Huntington – U.S.S.R.
In the 80s many songs talked about more or less exotic, distant, fascinating, mysterious places, or simply places to celebrate. We could go on for hours mentioning London Calling by The Clash and Vienna Calling by Falco, Murray Head’s One night in Bangkok,
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Michael Cretu – Samurai (Did You Ever Dream)
In the first days of September 1985, a very popular song entered the charts across Europe, sung by an artist that not everyone knew, perhaps because he often preferred to remain in the shadows rather than show himself in broadcasts and concerts.
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