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Lisa Stansfield – All Around the World
If you ask me who was the last star born in the 80s, I probably say Lisa Stansfield. She was actually quite experienced, but se had never reached the great fame with the groups she had been a member of.
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Around the world from Ireland
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Posted in 1988, 1988 October, November, December, Europe - other countries
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Posted in 1988, 1988 October, November, December, Europe - other countries
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Enya – Orinoco flow
No doubt “Orinoco flow” is one of the most famous songs of the late 80s. Many dinosaurs like us remember perfectly the face of the girl who sang it in October 1988. And we remember even her name, Enya. Before releasing this song she was not so famous outside of her Ireland.
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Tags: Enya, Orinoco flow
A genius in my neighbourhood
Krisma – Many Kisses (Tirana Love Lunch)
One of the most fantastic memories of my childhood related to 80s music involves my grandfather. In his Milanese dialect he used to tell me that in a street not far from home lived a weird guy.
He was such a good boy,
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Tags: Krisma, Many kisses
The song that lived twice
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Posted in 1983, 1983 October, November, December, United Kingdom, United States
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Posted in 1983, 1983 October, November, December, United Kingdom, United States
The Romantics/Bucks Fizz – Talking in your sleep
There are songs that needed to be launched three or four times before they were successful, until eventually something changes, maybe an arrangement, or part of the chorus, or simply the introduction of electronics made more modern sounds available, and in the end they find a success that completely obscures the previous versions.
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It’s alive!!!
Simple Minds – Alive And Kicking
… and kicking! He’s fine! He’s an album that was coming out in October 1985. Born in Scotland to a group of five musicians and a very good backing singer, and as the first sound, exactly these days, he has a beautiful song that will go down in history.
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Tags: Alive and kicking, Simple Minds
Unreachable
by 80sneverend
Posted in 1984, 1984 October, November, December
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Posted in 1984, 1984 October, November, December
Daryl Hall & John Oates – Out Of Touch
Imagine one day in the 70s, in Philadelphia there is a music band contest. Imagine that in the middle of the contest, between rehearsals, two non-musical gangs arrive, two gangs like Hell’s Angels, Montreal Canadiens, things like these, and they start a rioting fight,
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A hand at midnight
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Posted in 1984, 1984 July, August, September
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Posted in 1984, 1984 July, August, September
Flash And The Pan – Midnight Man
Flash and the Pan are famous among us dinosaurs especially for this success, released in October 1984. In fact, they were artists with a good experience: in the 1960s the two main components George Young and Harry Vanda were part of an Australian group called the Easybeats,
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Tags: Flash and the Pan, Midnight man
You need to be physical!
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Posted in 1981, 1981 July, August, September, United Kingdom
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Posted in 1981, 1981 July, August, September, United Kingdom
Olivia Newton-John – Physical
Olivia Newton-John was one of the absolute stars of the early 80s. Three years after the worldwide success of Grease, which was released in the summer of 1978, Sandy, who by the end of the film had already transformed with leather clothes and seductive attitudes,
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Tags: Olivia Newton-John, Physical
In a purple sky
Prince – Purple Rain
When we talk about the greatest artists of the 80s, however difficult, there is always a song that represents them more than any other song. Through dozens of albums and hundreds of songs, there is almost always one that becomes the signature song. It’s not always the one that sold the most or was the most successful,
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Tags: Prince, Purple Rain, Wendy and Lisa