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January

• January
• Daniel Amos
  Daniel Amos
  
  Daniel Amos is a rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars....
   and Randy Stonehill
  Randy Stonehill
  
  Randy Stonehill is an United States singer/songwriter from Stockton, California, best known as one of the so-called "fathers of contemporary Christian music." His music is primarily folk rock in the style of James Taylor, but he has assayed other styles, with various albums focused on new wave music, pop rock, roots rock, and children's mus...
   wrap up the first part of the Amos and Randy Tour in Toronto
  Toronto
  
  Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
  . Both artists are joined on stage by Larry Norman
  Larry Norman
  
  Larry David Norman was an riddle United States Christian musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and humorist. Norman's recordings are noted for their Christianity and social subject matter, and he is often described as the "father of Christian rock music"....
   for an encore. The event makes the news on local television and newspapers.
• The Buggles
  The Buggles
  
  The Buggles was a New Wave band formed in 1977 consisting of Trevor Horn , Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley....
   created their Music video
  Music video
  
  A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
   for their song Living in the Plastic Age
  Living in the Plastic Age
  
  "Living in the Plastic Age" is a synthpop song by The Buggles recorded in January 1980 and only available on the album The Age of Plastic. Although it is the first track on The Age of Plastic, it was recorded after Video Killed the Radio Star....
  .
• January 1
• The year begins with a strong disco
  Disco
  
  Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in and was initially popular among African American, gay and Hispanic and Latino Americans communities in the United States in the late 1960s....
   backlash, which causes the majority of musicians to abandon the use of acoustic and analog instruments in an attempt to distance themselves from anything related to disco (with the exception of, ironically enough, the drum machine). The decade will be dominated by digitally synthesized music and numerous musicians who had played in disco orchestras find themselves unemployed. Cliff Richard
  Cliff Richard
  
  Sir Cliff Richard Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, actor and entrepreneur.With his backing group The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during The Beatles' first year in the charts....
   is appointed an MBE
  British honours system
  
  The United Kingdom honours system is a means of rewarding individuals' personal bravery, achievement, or service to the United Kingdom. The system consists of three types of award: honours, decorations and medals:...
   by Queen Elizabeth II
  Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
  
  Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Australia, Monarchy of New Zealand, Monarchy of Jamaica, Monarchy of Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Sain...
  . The only other pop music acts to be created MBEs are the Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
   and Elton John
  Elton John
  
  Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  .
• The Melbourne Music scene explodes with independent bands, with various influences from US and UK Punk/New Wave. The Zorros
  The Zorros
  
  The Zorros were an Australian rock band, formed in 1979. They were popular in the Melbourne, Australia music scene of the early 1980s, playing at venues such as the Crystal Ballroom , Exford Hotel Russel St City, Sydenham Hotel Richmond, Pier Hotel Frankston, Sorrento Hotel, Piccadilly Hotel Kings Cross, Le Tote Fitzroy, Derby Hotel Nth Fitz...
   audition Drummer Greg Pedley on new years day.
• January 7 - At the age of 45, songwriter Larry Williams
  Larry Williams
  
  Larry Williams was an United States rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana. Williams is best known for writing and sound recording and reproduction some rock and roll Traditional pop musics from 1957 to 1959 for Specialty Records, including "Short Fat Fannie", "Bony Moronie" a...
   is found dead in his Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
  
  Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
   home of a gunshot wound to the head. Investigators are never able to determine whether his death was a murder or suicide.
• January 13 - The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys
  
  The Beach Boys are an American rock band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close harmony and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of cars and surfing....
  , Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
  , and Jefferson Starship
  Jefferson Starship
  
  Jefferson Starship is an American rock band that was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. It evolved from a Paul Kantner album project entitled Blows Against the Empire , featuring an ad-hoc group of all-star musicians who called themselves Jefferson Starship....
   perform at a benefit concert
  Benefit concert
  
  A benefit concert is a concert, show or gala featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable organization purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis....
   at Oakland Coliseum for the people of Kampuchea.
• January 16 - Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
   is arrested in Tokyo for possession of a half pound of marijuana
  Cannabis (drug)
  
  Cannabis, also known as Marijuana or marihuana, or ganja , is a psychoactive drug extracted from the plant Cannabis sativa, or more often, Cannabis sativa subsp....
  . The remaining part of McCartney's tour had to be canceled.
• January 25 - Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
   is released from a Japanese jail and ejected from the country by Japanese authorities.

February

• February 8 - David Bowie
  David Bowie
  
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
   and his wife of nearly 10 years, Angie, file for divorce. Bowie gets custody of their 9-year-old son, Zowie
• February 14 - Lou Reed
  Lou Reed
  
  Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
   marries Sylvia Morales in New York City's Greenwich Village
  Greenwich Village
  
  Greenwich Village , often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the lower west side of southern Manhattan in New York City....
  
• February 19 - Bon Scott
  Bon Scott
  
  Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott was an Australian rock musician, best known for being the lead singer and lyricist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980....
  , lead singer of AC/DC
  AC/DC
  
  AC/DC are an Australian rock music rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy metal music, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"....
  , dies in London. Although common folklore cites pulmonary aspiration
  Pulmonary aspiration
  
  In medicine, aspiration is the entry of secretions or foreign material into the Vertebrate trachea and lungs.The patient may either inhalation the material, or it may be blown into the lungs during positive pressure ventilation or CPR....
   of vomit as the cause of his death, the official cause was listed as "Acute alcohol poisoning" and "Death by Misadventure".
• February 29 - Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  's trademark eyeglasses
  Glasses
  
  Glasses or specs, more formally known as eyeglasses or spectacles, are frames bearing lens worn in front of the eyes, normally for Corrective lens, eye protection, or for UV Coating....
   and the Big Bopper
  The Big Bopper
  
  Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr. , called JP by his friends but commonly known as The Big Bopper, was an United States disc jockey, singing, and songwriter whose big voice and exuberant personality made him an early rock and roll star....
  's wristwatch
  Watch
  
  A watch is a timepiece that is made to be worn on a person. The term now usually refers to a wristwatch, which is worn on the wrist with a strap or bracelet....
   are "rediscovered" in old police files by the Mason City, Iowa
  Mason City, Iowa
  
  Mason City is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, Iowa, United States. The population was 29,172 at the 2000 census and has stayed close to 30,000 since 1995....
   Sheriff. Holly and the Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959 along with singer Ritchie Valens
  Ritchie Valens
  
  Ritchie Valens was an singer, songwriter and guitarist of Mexican origin born in the U.S.A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens' recording career lasted only eight months....
  .

March

• March 1 - Patti Smith
  Patti Smith
  
  Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an United States singer-songwriter, poet and artist who was a highly influential component of the punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses ....
   marries former MC5
  MC5
  
  The MC5 was an United States rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan in 1964 and active until 1972. They played hard rock music that also included blues-rock, psychedelic rock, rock & roll and garage rock....
   member Fred "Sonic" Smith
• March 3 - Sotheby's
  Sotheby's
  
  Sotheby's is the world's third oldest auction house in continuous operation....
   auction house in London auctions off a Rivera Hotel, Las Vegas napkin signed by Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   for £500. Other items auctioned included four American dollar bills autographed by the Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  , for 220 pounds and a collection of personal letters belonging to the Rolling Stones, also for 220 pounds
• March 8-March 16 - Tbilisi Rock Festival (1980)
  Tbilisi Rock Festival (1980)
  
  The "Spring Rhythms. Tbilisi-80" was a musical event held in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian SSR, Soviet Union, from March 8 to March 16 1980....
  : the first state-sanctioned rock music
  Rock music
  
  Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
   festival in the Soviet Union.
• March 14 - Record producer
  Record producer
  
  In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
   Quincy Jones
  Quincy Jones
  
  Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
   receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame
  Hollywood Walk of Fame
  
  The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment hall of fame....
  
• March 19 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  's autopsy is subpoenaed during the trial of Dr. George Nichopoulous, who would later be found guilty of overprescribing drugs to Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis
  Jerry Lee Lewis
  
  Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
   and other clients.

April–December

• April 13 - The Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
   musical Grease
  Grease (musical)
  
  Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....
   closes its run of 3,388 performances, making it the longest running show on Broadway up until that time.
• April 14 - A member of the New Jersey
  New Jersey
  
  New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
   State assembly introduces a resolution to make Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Springsteen
  
  Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
  's "Born to Run
  Born to Run
  
  Born to Run is the third album by the American Rock music singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen. It was released on August 25, 1975 through Columbia Records....
  " the official state song.
• April 17 - As the "official guests of State", Bob Marley
  Bob Marley
  
  Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley Jamaican Order of Merit was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers and Bob Marley & the Wailers ....
   and the Wailers perform at Zimbabwe
  Zimbabwe
  
  Zimbabwe , is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo River rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east....
  's Independence festival. Marley calls the event the "greatest honor of my life."
• April 30 - The Roger Daltrey
  Roger Daltrey
  
  Roger Harry Daltrey Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock music band The Who....
   film, McVicar, opens in London.
• May 4 - America's Top 10
  America's Top 10
  
  America's Top 10 was a television program of music hits based on Billboard magazine's Hot 100, with the exception of the last season in 1992 which used the Radio and Records chart....
  , the television version of radio's American Top 40
  American Top 40
  
  American Top 40 is an internationally-radio syndication, independent radio programming created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs....
   and hosted by Casey Kasem
  Casey Kasem
  
  Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem, is an United States radio personality and voice actor. Mr. Kasem is a graduate of Northwestern High School in Michigan and the Wayne State University....
  , debuts this week in syndication.
• May 18 - Ian Curtis
  Ian Curtis
  
  Ian Kevin Curtis was the vocalist and lyricist, as well as occasional guitarist and keyboardist, of the band Joy Division, which he joined in 1976 after meeting with Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook at a Sex Pistols gig....
  , vocalist of pioneering post-punk
  Post-punk
  
  Post-punk was a popular musical movement with its roots in the mid to late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the early 1970s....
   group Joy Division
  Joy Division
  
  Joy Division were an English Rock music band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris ....
  , hangs himself in his Macclesfield
  Macclesfield
  
  Macclesfield is a market town in Cheshire, England with a population of about 50,688 . It is the largest settlement and administrative centre of the Macclesfield ....
   home. His death comes just days before Joy Division are scheduled to begin their first U.S. tour.
• June - Rock and Roll pioneer Bill Haley
  Bill Haley
  
  Bill Haley was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the mid-1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song "Rock Around the Clock"....
   performs for the last time during a tour of South Africa
  South Africa
  
  The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
  . After this tour, his health deteriorates and he dies in February 1981. July 1980 marks the 25th anniversary of Haley's "Rock Around the Clock
  Rock Around the Clock
  
  "Rock Around the Clock" is a 12-bar blues from 1952 in music, written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers . The song is ranked #158 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time....
  " reaching No. 1 on the American singles charts.
• August 23 – The Heatwave
  Heatwave (festival)
  
  Heatwave was a rock festival August 23, 1980, outside of Toronto, Canada at Mosport, Bowmanville, Ontario. The slogans used to promote the show were variously the "Punk rock Woodstock Festival", the "New Wave music Woodstock", or "The 1980s Big Beat Rock and Roll Party"....
   festival near Toronto featured The B-52's
  The B-52's
  
  The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
  , the Talking Heads
  Talking Heads
  
  Talking Heads was an American rock music rock band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison....
  , The Pretenders
  The Pretenders
  
  The Pretenders are a United Kingdom rock music band. The original band consisted of group founder and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde , James Honeyman-Scott , Pete Farndon , and Martin Chambers ....
  , Elvis Costello
  Elvis Costello
  
  Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
   and many others.
• August 31 - Karen Carpenter
  Karen Carpenter
  
  Karen Anne Carpenter was a highly successful United States singer and drummer. She and her brother, Richard Carpenter , formed the popular 1970s duo The Carpenters....
   marries Thomas Burris. "Because We Are in Love
  Touch Me When We're Dancing
  
  "Touch Me When We're Dancing" is a song written by Terry Skinner, J. L. Wallace, and Kenny Bell. Skinner and Wallace headed the Muscle Shoals, Alabama session group Bama, who first recorded this song and released it as a single in 1979 in music....
  " is played at their wedding.
• September 20 - Ozzy Osbourne
  Ozzy Osbourne
  
  John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
  's breakthrough debut album Blizzard of Ozz
  Blizzard of Ozz
  
  Blizzard of Ozz is a heavy metal music album by Ozzy Osbourne, recorded in Surrey, UK and released on September 20, 1980 in the United Kingdom and on January 15, 1981 in the United States....
   is released in the UK.
• November 21 - The Eagles' Don Henley
  Don Henley
  
  Donald Hugh " Don " Henley is an United States rock music singing, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful Grammy Award-winning solo career....
   is arrested when cocaine
  Cocaine
  
  Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine....
  , Quaaludes, and marijuana
  Cannabis (drug)
  
  Cannabis, also known as Marijuana or marihuana, or ganja , is a psychoactive drug extracted from the plant Cannabis sativa, or more often, Cannabis sativa subsp....
   were found in his hotel room after a nude 16-year-old prostitute had drug-related seizures. Henley is also subsequently charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
• December - Duran Duran
  Duran Duran
  
  Duran Duran are an English music group from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most commercially successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States....
   signs with EMI
  EMI
  
  The EMI Group is a United Kingdom music company comprising the major record label EMI Music ? which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in London, England, United Kingdom ? and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York City....
   after finalizing its lineup and touring as a support act for Hazel O'Connor
  Hazel O'Connor
  
  Hazel O'Connor is a United Kingdom singer-songwriter and actor. Daughter of a sailor from Galway who settled in England to work in a car plant, she went to Coventry Art College after leaving school....
  .
• December 4 - Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
   disbands following the death of drummer John Bonham
  John Bonham
  
  John Henry "Bonzo" Bonham was an English drummer and member of the band Led Zeppelin. He was renowned for his power, fast right foot, distinctive sound and "feel" for the groove ....
  .
• December 7 - Darby Crash
  Darby Crash
  
  Darby Crash was an United States Punk rock musician who, along with long time friend Pat Smear , co-founded The Germs....
  , leader of seminal L.A. punk band The Germs
  The Germs
  
  The Germs are an influential American punk band from Los Angeles, California, originally active from 1977 to 1980 and reformed in 2005. Their 1977 single , "Forming"/"Sexboy", is generally regarded as the first punk record from Los Angeles....
   dies of a heroin overdose in a suicide pact.
• December 8 - John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
   is shot dead outside of his apartment building in New York City.

Other events

• Record labels established in 1980
• Record labels disestablished in 1980
• The single "Groovy Ghost Show" by Casper is one of the first recorded hip hop music
  Hip hop music
  
  Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
   from Chicago
• The Hee Bee Gee Bees release a cutting parody of a Bee Gees' disco-style single. Though not a hit in the UK, it is a huge success elsewhere, particularly in Australia, and helps to encourage the Gibb brothers to diversify stylistically
• Network Riddum Band's Breaking Out is the first occurrence of the term
• Phil Collins
  Phil Collins
  
  Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, Royal Victorian Order, is an England singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of England progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy Award and Academy Award-winning solo artist....
   signs a contract with Atlantic Records
  Atlantic Records
  
  Atlantic Records is an United States record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz. Long one of the most important American independent labels, Atlantic now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group, which consolidated Atlantic Records and the Elektra Entertainment Group into one...
   to distribute his solo records in the US and in Europe outside the UK (on WEA
  Warner Music Group
  
  Warner Music Group is the third-largest of the big four music industry, the others being Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and Universal Music Group....
   label).

Bands formed

Bands disbanded

• Seals & Crofts
• Bachman-Turner Overdrive
  Bachman-Turner Overdrive
  
  Bachman-Turner Overdrive is a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums just in that decade....
   break up (they reform periodically over the years)
• The Eagles break up (they reform in 1994)
• The Germs
  The Germs
  
  The Germs are an influential American punk band from Los Angeles, California, originally active from 1977 to 1980 and reformed in 2005. Their 1977 single , "Forming"/"Sexboy", is generally regarded as the first punk record from Los Angeles....
   (later reformed in 2005 with actor Shane West as their singer)
• George Clinton
  George Clinton (funk musician)
  
  George Clinton is an United States musician and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the musical bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and is a solo funk artist as of 1981....
   dissolves Parliament-Funkadelic
  Parliament-Funkadelic
  
  Parliament-Funkadelic is a funk music collective headed by George Clinton . It specialized in the style of music known as P Funk and performed under the names Parliament and Funkadelic , but also in a score of List of P Funk members....
  
• Horslips
  Horslips
  
  Horslips were a 1970s Ireland Celtic rock band that composed, arranged and performed their music based on traditional Irish jigs and Reel . They were one of the first, if not the first, of the Celtic rock bands....
  
• Gentle Giant
  Gentle Giant
  
  Gentle Giant was a United Kingdom progressive rock band , one of the most experimental of the 1970s. Textually inspired by philosophy, personal events and the works of Fran?ois Rabelais, the group was noted for their collective multi-instrumental virtuosity and the particular complexity and sophistication of their musical material ....
  
• The Buggles
  The Buggles
  
  The Buggles was a New Wave band formed in 1977 consisting of Trevor Horn , Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley....
   (Trevor Horn
  Trevor Horn
  
  Trevor Charles Horn is an English pop music record producer, songwriter and musician. He was born in Hetton-le-Hole, England.Horn has produced commercially successful songs and albums for numerous British and international artists....
   and Geoff Downes
  Geoff Downes
  
  Geoffrey Downes is an England rock and roll musical keyboard player, songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the keyboardist for the bands Asia , The Buggles, and also his stint with Yes in 1980....
   join Yes
  Yes (band)
  
  Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
  )
• The Tourists
  The Tourists
  
  The Tourists were a United Kingdom pop band, but are better known for two of their members who went on to achieve great success as Eurythmics....
   disband and become Eurythmics
  Eurythmics
  
  Eurythmics are a United Kingdom musical duet, formed in 1980 by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart.The pair have achieved significant global, commercial and critical success, selling 75 million records worldwide, winning numerous awards, and have undertaken several successful world tours....
  
• Boys Next Door disband and become The Birthday Party
  The Birthday Party (band)
  
  The Birthday Party was an Australian post-punk group, active from 1977 to 1983.Despite being championed by John Peel, The Birthday Party found little commercial success during their career....
  
• Wire
  Wire (band)
  
  Wire are an English rock music band formed in London in October 1976, by Colin Newman , Graham Lewis , Bruce Gilbert , and Robert Gotobed .c) Despite little attention in the beginning, Wire's first three albums are among the most influential on the postpunk era, cited by Michael Stipe of R.E.M....
   disband (they reform in 1985)
• Joy Division
  Joy Division
  
  Joy Division were an English Rock music band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris ....
  
• Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
   (Rejoin in 2007)

Albums released

• A
  A (album)
  
  A is an album by Jethro Tull . It was released on August 29, 1980 in the United Kingdom and September 1 of the same year in the United States....
   - Jethro Tull
  Jethro Tull (band)
  
  Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
  
• Absolutely - Madness
  Madness (band)
  
  Madness are an English Pop music/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in 1976. As of 2008, the band have continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although their lineup has varied slightly over the years....
  
• Ace of Spades
  Ace of Spades (album)
  
  Ace of Spades is the fourth album by the United Kingdom Heavy metal music band Mot?rhead. Released on November 8, 1980, it peaked at #4 on the United Kingdom album charts....
   - Motörhead
  Motörhead
  
  Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
  
• Acnalbasac Noom
  Acnalbasac Noom
  
  Acnalbasac Noom is an album by Germany/United Kingdom avant-pop group Slapp Happy, recorded in W?mme, Germany in 1973 with Faust as their backing band....
   - Slapp Happy
  Slapp Happy
  
  Slapp Happy was a Germany/England avant-pop group consisting of Anthony Moore , Peter Blegvad and Dagmar Krause . They formed in Germany in 1972, moved to England in 1974 where they merged with Henry Cow, but the merger ended soon afterwards and Slapp Happy split up....
  
• Adventures in Utopia
  Adventures in Utopia
  
  Adventures in Utopia is an album released in 1980 by Todd Rundgren's band, Utopia ....
   - Utopia
• After Dark
  After Dark (Andy Gibb album)
  
  After Dark is an album by Andy Gibb. It was his final studio album, and was released in 1980.With drugs impeding his previous ability to write and even fully sing the tracks on his own record, Gibb was only able to forge his performance with nearly intrusive support from brother Barry Gibb....
   - Andy Gibb
  Andy Gibb
  
  Andy Gibb was an England singer and teen idol, and the youngest brother of Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb, also known as the Bee Gees....
  
• Against the Wind
  Against the Wind (album)
  
  Against the Wind is the twelfth album by United States rock and roll band Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, released in 1980 . It is Seger's only Number 1 album to date, spending six weeks atop the Billboard 200....
   - Bob Seger
  Bob Seger
  
  Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.After years of local Detroit-area success, recording and performing in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved superstar status by the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band....
  
• Alibi
  Alibi
  
  Alibi is a USA crime film written by Elaine Sterne Carrington, J.C. Nugent, C. Gardner Sullivan, Roland West and John Griffith Wray from the stage play, Nightstick, by Carrington, Nugent and Wray....
   - America
  America (band)
  
  America is an English-American folk rock band, originally composed of members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek. The three members were barely past their teenage years when they became an overnight musical sensation in 1972....
  
• All Shook Up
  All Shook Up (album)
  
  All Shook Up is a 1980 in music album by Cheap Trick. It was their fifth studio album and sixth release overall. It was produced by former Beatles producer George Martin....
   - Cheap Trick
  Cheap Trick
  
  Cheap Trick is a United States Rock music band formed in the 1970s and consisting of Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E. Carlos ....
  
• Amar Como Jesus Amou
  Amar Como Jesus Amou
  
  'Amar Como Jesus Amou' was the first debut solo album by Portuguese American singer Jorge Ferreira and his orchestra Conjunto Venus released in 1980 on Henda Records & Videos in America and Metro-Som in Portugal....
   - Jorge Ferreira
  Jorge Ferreira
  
  Jorge Ferreira is a Portuguese American singer-songwriter who lives in Massachusetts. According to New Bedford, Massachusetts's The Standard-Times , he is among the top 20 artists in Portugal and has had dozens of gold and platinum albums....
  
• Animal Magnetism - Scorpions
  Scorpions (band)
  
  Scorpions are a heavy metal music/hard rock band from Hanover, Germany, probably best known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change "....
  
• Arc of a Diver
  Arc of a Diver
  
  Arc of a Diver is the second solo album by blue-eyed soulster Steve Winwood. The album was performed entirely by Winwood.Featuring Winwood's first solo hit, "While You See a Chance" , this was Winwood's true breakthrough album as a solo artist....
   - Steve Winwood
  Steve Winwood
  
  Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an England singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic , Blind Faith, and Go ....
  
• Argybargy
  Argybargy
  
  Argybargy is a 1980 album by the British New Wave music group Squeeze. It represented a leap from Cool for Cats in its emphasis less on English lad-ship and more on musical quality....
   - Squeeze
  Squeeze
  
  Squeeze are an England musical ensemble that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s....
  
• Army Life - The Exploited
  The Exploited
  
  The Exploited are a Scotland punk band from the UK82, formed in 1979.They started out as an Oi! band, before transforming into a faster street punk and hardcore punk band....
  
• The Art of Walking
  The Art of Walking
  
  The Art of Walking is the fourth Pere Ubu full-length. Mayo Thompson of The Red Krayola joined as guitarist for this album, and slanted the proceedings further towards deconstruction and abstraction, and away from the primal rock that former guitarist Tom Herman had facilitated....
   - Pere Ubu
  Pere Ubu
  
  Pere Ubu is an experimental rock music group from Cleveland, Ohio.P?re Ubu may also refer to:* Ubu, the enigmatic central figure of a series of French plays by Alfred Jarry, including Ubu Roi, and subsequent plays Ubu Cocu and Ubu Encha?n? ...
  
• Audio Visions
  Audio Visions
  
  Audio Visions was a new age music channel on XM Satellite Radio. It was available in both the United States and Canada as well on DirecTV channel 856....
   - Kansas
  Kansas (band)
  
  Kansas is an United States progressive rock band which became a popular arena rock group in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind"....
  
• Authority Stealing - Fela Kuti
  Fela Kuti
  
  Fela Anikulapo Kuti , or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of afrobeat music, human rights Activism, and Politics maverick....
  
• Autoamerican
  Autoamerican
  
  Autoamerican is the fifth studio album by the US new wave band Blondie . It was released in November 1980 and reached no.3 in the United Kingdom charts, and no.7 in the US....
   - Blondie
  Blondie (band)
  
  Blondie is an United States rock music band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 30 million albums. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave music and punk rock scenes....
  
• Autumn
  Autumn
  
  Autumn is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, usually in late September or late March when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier....
   - George Winston
  George Winston
  
  George Winston is an United States pianist who was born in Michigan, and grew up in Miles City, Montana, and Mississippi. He is a graduate of Stetson University in Deland, Florida and lives in San Francisco, California....
  
• Avoid Freud
  Avoid Freud
  
  Avoid Freud is the debut album by Canada New Wave music band Rough Trade , released in 1980.The album's most famous single is "High School Confidential ", which was intensely controversial for its explicitly sexual lyrics, which include references to lesbianism....
   - Rough Trade
  Rough Trade (band)
  
  Rough Trade was a Canada new wave music rock band in the 1970s and 1980s. The band is most famous for their 1981 hit "High School Confidential ", one of the first explicitly lesbian-themed Top 40 hits in the world....
  
• Baby's Got a Gun
  Baby's Got a Gun
  
  Baby's Got a Gun is the third album released by the power pop group The Only Ones....
   - The Only Ones
  The Only Ones
  
  The Only Ones are an England rock and roll band. They were initially active in the late 1970s and were associated with punk rock, yet straddled the musical territory in between punk rock, power pop and hard rock, with noticeable influences from psychedelia....
  
• Back in Black
  Back in Black
  
  Back in Black is the 7th studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released on 25 July 1980. Back in Black was the first AC/DC album recorded without former lead singer Bon Scott, who had died at the age of 33 on 19 February 1980....
   - AC/DC
  AC/DC
  
  AC/DC are an Australian rock music rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy metal music, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"....
  
• Back On The Streets - Donnie Iris
  Donnie Iris
  
  Donnie Iris is an United States rock musician known for his work with The Jaggerz and Wild Cherry during the 1970s, and for his solo albums during the 1980s....
  
• Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
  Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
  
  Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School is the fourth album by United States singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released in 1980."Play It All Night Long" is a satire/homage to the dead band's song ....
   - Warren Zevon
  Warren Zevon
  
  Warren William Zevon was an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician noted for weaving his offbeat, sardonic view of life into his music, composing dark, sometimes humorous songs often laced with political or historical themes....
  
• Barry
  Barry (album)
  
  Barry is the self-titled album released by singer and songwriter Barry Manilow in 1980. The album reached Platinum status. The tracks were recorded at Evergreen Recording Studios in Burbank, California....
   - Barry Manilow
  Barry Manilow
  
  Barry Manilow is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, arrangement, record producer and conducting, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy ", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana "....
  
• Bass Culture
  Bass Culture
  
  Bass Culture is an album by dub poetry Linton Kwesi Johnson, released in 1980 on the Island Records label. It was produced by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Dennis Bovell ....
   - Linton Kwesi Johnson
  Linton Kwesi Johnson
  
  Linton Kwesi Johnson is a United Kingdom based dub poetry. He became the second living poetry to be published in the Penguin Books series. His poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican Patois over dub -reggae, usually written in collaboration with renowned British reggae producer/artist Dennis Bovell....
  
• Beat Crazy
  Beat Crazy
  
  Beat Crazy is the third album by Joe Jackson ....
   - Joe Jackson
  Joe Jackson (musician)
  
  Joe Jackson is an England musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, described as a unique and critically acclaimed recording artist, whose five Grammy Award nominations span 1979 to 2001....
  
• Beatin' the Odds
  Beatin' the Odds
  
  Beatin' the Odds is the third studio album by United States southern rock band Molly Hatchet, released in 1980 ....
   - Molly Hatchet
  Molly Hatchet
  
  Molly Hatchet is an United States southern rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1971. They are widely known for their hit song "Flirtin' with Disaster " from the Flirtin' with Disaster....
  
• Bebe Le Strange
  Bebe Le Strange
  
  Bebe le Strange is the fifth studio album by the hard rock band Heart , released in 1980. It was the first album without Roger Fisher on lead guitar, who left the band months prior....
   - Heart
  Heart (band)
  
  Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
  
• The Beginning
  The Beginning
  
  The Beginning may refer to:* The Beginning , an album by rapper Trae* The Beginning , an album by Mercyful Fate* The Beginning , an album by Jandek...
   - Midnight Star
  Midnight Star
  
  Midnight Star is a synthpop-funk musical ensemble that had a string of Contemporary R&B hit record in the 1980s....
  
• Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
  Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers (EP)
  
  Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers EP is a 1980 release of a 1977 recording session by the England Heavy metal music band Mot?rhead....
   (EP) - Motörhead
  Motörhead
  
  Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
  
• The Best of Top of the Pops '80
  The Best of Top of the Pops '80
  
  The Best of Top of the Pops '80 is a 1980 compilation album released by the Top of the Poppers, who were well-known for their cover-versions of popular songs during the 1970s....
   - Top of the Poppers
• Between a Hard Place and the Ground - Mike Bloomfield
  Mike Bloomfield
  
  Michael Bernard Bloomfield , an United States musician, guitarist, and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation entirely on his instrumental prowess....
  
• Bird Noises
  Bird Noises
  
  Bird Noises is an Extended play by Midnight Oil that was released in 1980 under Midnight Oil's Sprint Music independent label, and manufactured & distributed by the CBS record label....
   - Midnight Oil
  Midnight Oil
  
  Midnight Oil, or the Oils to fans, was an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drum kit Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard instrument/lead guitarist Jim Moginie....
  
• The Birthday Party
  The Birthday Party (album)
  
  The Birthday Party was the first album by The Idle Race, a psychedelic pop band, released in 1968 .This quasi-concept album was the first to be comprised almost entirely of songs by a young Birmingham guitarist/singer named Jeff Lynne....
   - The Birthday Party
  The Birthday Party (band)
  
  The Birthday Party was an Australian post-punk group, active from 1977 to 1983.Despite being championed by John Peel, The Birthday Party found little commercial success during their career....
  
• The Black Album - The Damned
  The Damned
  
  The Damned are an English Rock music band formed in London in 1976. They are notable for being the first punk rock band from England to release a single , an album , and to tour the United States....
  
• Black Market Clash - The Clash
  The Clash
  
  The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
  
• Black Sea
  Black Sea
  
  The Black Sea is an inland sea sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolia and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Seas and various straits....
   - XTC
  XTC
  
  XTC were a New Wave band from Swindon, England, active between 1976 and 2005. Though the band enjoyed some significant chart success , they are more known for their long-standing critical success than for making hit records....
  
• Blizzard of Ozz
  Blizzard of Ozz
  
  Blizzard of Ozz is a heavy metal music album by Ozzy Osbourne, recorded in Surrey, UK and released on September 20, 1980 in the United Kingdom and on January 15, 1981 in the United States....
   - Ozzy Osbourne
  Ozzy Osbourne
  
  John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
   (solo debut)
• Blue Angel
  Blue Angel (album)
  
  Blue Angel is an album released in 1980 by the Blue Angel . They were fronted by a pre-fame Cyndi Lauper and sang a combination of Rockabilly and R&B cover songs....
   - Blue Angel
  Blue Angel (band)
  
  Blue Angel was the musical band that featured Cyndi Lauper before her rise to fame as a solo singer. The lineup also included John Turi on keyboard instrument and saxophone, Arthur "Rockin' A" Neilson , Shadows of Knight and Tuff Darts ....
  
• Blue Kentucky Girl
  Blue Kentucky Girl
  
  Blue Kentucky Girl was a 1979 album by Emmylou Harris that found the singer delving much more deeply into traditional country than the country-rock sound of her previous releases....
   - Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris
  
  Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
  
• The Blues Brothers
  The Blues Brothers
  
  The Blues Brothers are a Grammy Award-nominated United States blues music and soul music Revivalist artist founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a Saturday Night Live musical sketches on Saturday Night Live....
   - Original Soundtrack
• Borderline - Ry Cooder
  Ry Cooder
  
  Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder is an American guitarist, singer and composer.He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in the American American folk music, and, more recently, for his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries....
  
• Boy
  Boy (album)
  
  Boy is the debut album from Republic of Ireland rock and roll band U2, released October 20, 1980. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, the album received generally positive reviews....
   - U2
  U2
  
  U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
   (debut)
• Boys Don't Cry
  Boys Don't Cry (album)
  
  Boys Don't Cry is an album by The Cure, released in August 1980 . It is the U.S. version of their UK debut album, Three Imaginary Boys, differing slightly in track order and missing three of that album's songs while adding others ....
   - The Cure
  The Cure
  
  The Cure are an English Rock music band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several lineup changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member....
  
• The Brains
  The Brains
  
  The Brains were an Atlanta-based New Wave music band who released two albums in the early eighties. Both albums were produced by Steve Lillywhite Their most memorable release "Money Changes Everything" was later covered by Cyndi Lauper on her debut album, She's So Unusual....
   - The Brains
  The Brains
  
  The Brains were an Atlanta-based New Wave music band who released two albums in the early eighties. Both albums were produced by Steve Lillywhite Their most memorable release "Money Changes Everything" was later covered by Cyndi Lauper on her debut album, She's So Unusual....
  
• British Steel
  British Steel (album)
  
  British Steel is the sixth album by Judas Priest, released on April 14 1980 . The album was remastered in 2001, with two bonus tracks added....
   - Judas Priest
  Judas Priest
  
  Judas Priest is an England Heavy metal music band formed in 1969 in Birmingham. Judas Priest's core line-up consists of bass player Ian Hill, vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K....
  
• Brother Ray is at it Again - Ray Charles
  Ray Charles
  
  Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  
• Bryan Adams
  Bryan Adams
  
  Bryan Adams, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Canada Rock music singer-songwriter and photographer. Rolling Stone magazine describes Adams as having an ?unerring gift for radio-friendly pop hooks" and in 1992, Adams won the Grammy Awards of 1992, for "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" fo...
   - Bryan Adams
  Bryan Adams
  
  Bryan Adams, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Canada Rock music singer-songwriter and photographer. Rolling Stone magazine describes Adams as having an ?unerring gift for radio-friendly pop hooks" and in 1992, Adams won the Grammy Awards of 1992, for "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" fo...
  
• Bunny Wailer Sings the Wailers - Bunny Wailer
  Bunny Wailer
  
  Bunny Wailer, also known as Bunny Livingston , is a singer songwriter and percussionist and was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh....
  
• Burning Blue Soul
  Burning Blue Soul
  
  Burning Blue Soul is an album released under the artist name of Matt Johnson . This album was re-released in 1983 under Matt Johnson's band's name, The The featuring on some tracks, very different mixes from the original 1981 "psychedelic eye" cover release....
   - Matt Johnson
  Matt Johnson (singer)
  
  Matt Johnson is the founder and only constant member of the multimedia band , The The.Matt Johnson / The The rose out of the post-punk industrial music scene of late 1970s Great Britain....
  
• Butcher Baby (EP) - Plasmatics
  Plasmatics
  
  The Plasmatics were an American Punk rock band formed by Yale University graduate and radical anti-artist Rod Swenson with Wendy O. Williams. The band was a controversial group known for wild live shows that broke countless taboos as part of an assault on American popular culture....
  
• Camellia III and Camellia IV - Ebiet G. Ade
  Ebiet G. Ade
  
  Ebiet G. Ade is an Indonesian singer and songwriter close to the suppressed society. His musical touch has influenced Indonesian pop music. His lyrics are made by himself, he never collaborates with other musicians to arrange the lyrics, but he can collaborate with them to arrange his musical arrangement....
  
• Cameosis
  Cameosis
  
  Cameosis is the fifth album by the funk/R&B bandCameo , released on April 24, 1980....
   - Cameo
  Cameo (band)
  
  Cameo is a funk-influenced rhythm and blues group that was formed in the early 1970's. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players, this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid confusion with another popular group of that era....
  
• Carnaval
  Carnaval
  
  Carnaval may refer to:*Carnaval , a piano suite by Robert Schumann*Carnival*Brazilian Carnival...
   - Spyro Gyra
  Spyro Gyra
  
  Spyro Gyra is an United States jazz fusion band that was originally formed in the mid-1970s in Buffalo, New York, USA. With over 25 albums released and 10 million copies sold, they are among the most prolific as well as commercially successful groups of the scene....
  
• Caught You
  Caught You
  
  Caught You is a roots reggae album released by Steel Pulse in 1980. It is Steel Pulse's third studio album. It was released in the United States as Reggae Fever....
   - Steel Pulse
  Steel Pulse
  
  Steel Pulse are a well-known roots reggae musical band. They originally formed at Handsworth Wood Boys School, in Birmingham, England, composed of David Hinds , Basil Gabbidon , and Ronald McQueen ....
  
• Chicago XIV
  Chicago XIV
  
  Chicago XIV is the fourteenth album by United States rock music band Chicago and was released in 1980. Recorded at a time of waning interest in the band, Chicago XIV remains one of Chicago's poorest selling albums and was a commercial flop--- though by no means an artistic failure....
   - Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  
  Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
  
• Christopher Cross
  Christopher Cross (album)
  
  Christopher Cross is the self-titled debut album by Christopher Cross, released in 1980 . In 1981, it won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year....
   - Christopher Cross
  Christopher Cross
  
  Christopher Cross is an United States singer-songwriter from San Antonio, Texas, Texas. His debut album earned him all of the "Big Four" Grammy Awards in one year, a feat that is yet to be equalled....
  
• Closer
  Closer (Joy Division album)
  
  Closer is the second and final album by post-punk band Joy Division, released , two months following the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis....
   - Joy Division
  Joy Division
  
  Joy Division were an English Rock music band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris ....
  
• Clues
  Clues (album)
  
  Clues is Robert Palmer 's sixth solo album, released in 1980 in music. It has a rockier, new wave edge compared to his previous releases. The album peaked at number 59 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1980....
   - Robert Palmer
• Coal Miner's Daughter
  Coal Miner's Daughter
  
  Coal Miner's Daughter is an United States 1980 in film which tells the story of country music performer Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and was directed by Michael Apted....
   - Original Soundtrack
• Colossal Youth
  Colossal Youth
  
  Colossal Youth is the first and only LP by Young Marble Giants, released in 1980 on Rough Trade Records. Young Marble Giants were offered the opportunity to record the album after Rough Trade heard just two songs by the band on the local Cardiff music compilation, Is The War Over?....
   - Young Marble Giants
  Young Marble Giants
  
  The Young Marble Giants were a Cardiff post-punk band. A trio formed in 1978 in music, their music was constructed around the powerful and minimal instrumentation of brothers Philip and Stuart Moxham supporting the naive untrained vocals of Alison Statton....
  
• Come Upstairs
  Come Upstairs
  
  Come Upstairs is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's 10th album, and ninth studio album, released in 1980 in music. It was the first of her three albums for Warner Bros....
   - Carly Simon
  Carly Simon
  
  Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
  
• Commercial Album - The Residents
  The Residents
  
  The Residents are an United States avant-garde music and visual arts group who have created over sixty albums, created numerous musical short films, designed three CD-ROM projects and ten DVDs, and undertaken seven major world tours....
  
• Common One
  Common One
  
  Common One is an album by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1980 .It has been said to be one of his most ambitious and daring albums since Astral Weeks....
   - Van Morrison
  Van Morrison
  
  George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
  
• The Concert
  The Concert
  
  The Concert is a live album by United States band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1980. The album was recorded at the Oakland Coliseum, California on the 31st January 1970....
   - Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
  
  Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
   (live)
• The Correct Use of Soap
  The Correct Use of Soap
  
  The Correct Use of Soap is the third album by UK-based post-punk band Magazine , released by Virgin Records in 1980. It marks a return to form of sorts to the more punkier riffs and faster rhythms of Real Life after their more experimental album Secondhand Daylight....
   - Magazine
  Magazine (band)
  
  Magazine were a British post-punk group active between 1977 and 1981. Their debut single, "Shot By Both Sides", is now acknowledged as a classic and their debut album, Real Life , is still widely admired as one of the greatest albums of all time The band was formed by Howard Devoto after leaving punk band Buzzcocks in early 1977, deciding...
  
• Crazy Rhythms
  Crazy Rhythms
  
  Crazy Rhythms is the The Feelies' first album. It was released in April 1980 on Stiff Records.The album is known for its dry, clean "upfront" guitar sound and also its long interstitial passages of drone and improvised percussion....
   - The Feelies
  The Feelies
  
  The Feelies are a Rock music band from North Haledon, New Jersey. They formed in 1976 and disbanded in 1992 after having released four LP album....
  
• Crimes of Passion - Pat Benatar
  Pat Benatar
  
  Pat Benatar is a four-time Grammy Award-winning United States singer best known for hit songs like "Love Is a Battlefield" and "Hit Me with Your Best Shot"....
  
• Crocodiles
  Crocodiles (album)
  
  Crocodiles is the debut album by the British post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 18 July 1980 in the United Kingdom and on 17 December 1980 in the United States....
   - Echo & the Bunnymen
  Echo & the Bunnymen
  
  Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk group, formed in Liverpool in 1978. Their original lineup consisted of singer Ian McCulloch , guitarist Will Sergeant and bassist Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine....
  
• Cultosaurus Erectus - Blue Öyster Cult
  Blue Öyster Cult
  
  Blue ?yster Cult is an American rock music band formed in New York in 1967 and still active in 2009. The group is especially well known for songs including " The Reaper", "Godzilla", and "Burnin' for You"....
  
• Danger Zone
  Danger Zone (Sammy Hagar album)
  
  Danger Zone is a Sammy Hagar solo album, his last new studio album during his tenure with Capitol records. The album features appearances by former Journey singer Steve Perry and Journey guitarist Neal Schon....
   - Sammy Hagar
  Sammy Hagar
  
  Samuel Roy "Sammy" Hagar , known as "The Red Rocker", is an United States rock music guitarist, singer, composer and solo artist. Hagar was one of the three singers for Van Halen, as well as of the early 1970s rock band Montrose ....
  
• The Decline of Western Civilization
  The Decline of Western Civilization
  
  The Decline of Western Civilization is a 1981 in film American documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris about the Los Angeles, California punk rock scene from 1979 to 1981....
   Soundtrack - Various Artists
• Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple
  Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple
  
  Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple is a compilation album by the United Kingdom hard rock band Deep Purple, released in 1980. It features the original hits of Deep Purple before their 1984 reunion....
   - Deep Purple
  Deep Purple
  
  Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
  
• Deface the Music - Utopia
• Departure
  Departure (Journey album)
  
  Departure is the name of Journey 's sixth album. It was released in March 1980 on the Columbia Records label.Departure would be the band's highest charting album to date, giving Journey their first appearance in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album charts....
   - Journey
  Journey (band)
  
  Journey is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in San Francisco, California, California in 1973. The band has gone through several phases since its inception by former members of Santana ....
  
• Demolition
  Demolition (Girlschool album)
  
  Demolition was the first studio album by British heavy metal music band, Girlschool.It was released in Europe on Bronze Records in 1980, with the catalogue number Bronze BRON 534....
   - Girlschool
  Girlschool
  
  Girlschool are a long-running United Kingdom all-female Heavy metal music band originating out of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene.Though enjoying little commercial success beyond the early 1980s, they maintain a worldwide cult following and were inspirational for many succeeding female bands....
   (debut)
• Diana
  Diana
  
  Diana may refer to:*Diana, Princess of Wales, the first wife of Charles, Prince of WalesIn mythology:*Diana , ancient Roman goddess of the moon, the hunt, and chastity...
   - Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  
  Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
  
• A Different Kind of Tension
  A Different Kind of Tension
  
  A Different Kind of Tension was the Buzzcocks' third album, released in 1979. It charted at number 26 in the UK and number 163 in the US....
   - The Buzzcocks
• Dirty Mind
  Dirty Mind
  
  Dirty Mind is the third album by Prince , released October 8, 1980. According to the New Rolling Stone Album Guide, "Dirty Mind remains one of the most radical 180-degree turns in pop history." With this album, Prince makes a decisive departure from his preceding more commercial album Prince ....
   - Prince
• Divine Madness (live) - Bette Midler
  Bette Midler
  
  Bette Midler is an American singing, actress and comedienne, also known as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards....
  
• Doc at the Radar Station
  Doc at the Radar Station
  
  Doc at the Radar Station is the eleventh studio album by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, released in 1980 to favorable reviews. The painting on the album cover is by Van Vliet himself....
   - Captain Beefheart
  Captain Beefheart
  
  Don Van Vliet is an United States musician and visual artist, best known by the pseudonym Captain Beefheart. His musical work was mainly conducted with a rotating assembly of musicians called The Magic Band, which was active from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s....
  
• Dome 1 - Dome
  Dome
  
  A dome is a structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Dome structures made of various materials have a long architectural lineage extending into prehistory....
  
• Don't Fight It
  Don't Fight It
  
  Don't Fight It is the debut album for the Canada rock music band Red Rider, which was released in 1980 . With the singles "White Hot" and "Don't Fight It", the album quickly reached gold album status....
   - Red Rider
  Red Rider
  
  Red Rider was a Canada Rock music band popular in the 1980s. While the band achieved great success in Canada, in the United States, the band never had a song in the Top 40....
  
• Double Fantasy
  Double Fantasy
  
  Double Fantasy is the comeback album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, released in 1980 initially on the newly-formed Geffen Records, and then from 1989 onwards through EMI....
   - John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
   & Yoko Ono
  Yoko Ono
  
  , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
  
• Drama
  Drama
  
  Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....
   - Yes
  Yes (band)
  
  Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
  
• Drastic Measures
  Drastic Measures
  
  Drastic Measures is the ninth studio album, and tenth album overall, by United States rock music band Kansas , released in 1983 .The shift in direction that Kansas took with Vinyl Confessions took its toll before recording began on this album....
   - 7 Seconds
  7 Seconds
  
  7 Seconds is an American rock music rock band from Reno, Nevada. Formed in 1980 by brothers Kevin Seconds and Steve Youth, they played their first show on March 2, 1980....
  
• Dream, After Dream - Journey
  Journey (band)
  
  Journey is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in San Francisco, California, California in 1973. The band has gone through several phases since its inception by former members of Santana ....
  
• Dub Disco - Bunny Wailer
  Bunny Wailer
  
  Bunny Wailer, also known as Bunny Livingston , is a singer songwriter and percussionist and was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh....
  
• Duke
  Duke (album)
  
  Duke is the tenth studio album by United Kingdom band Genesis , and was released in March 1980....
   - Genesis
  Genesis (band)
  
  Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
  
• Eagles Live
  Eagles Live
  
  Eagles Live is the first live album by the American rock band Eagles, a double album released in 1980. The Eagles broke up on July 31, 1980 after their concert at Long Beach....
   - Eagles
  Eagles
  
  The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
  
• Earth & Sky
  Earth & Sky
  
  Since its initial broadcast in 1991, the Earth & Sky radio series has presented daily information about science and nature to radio listeners from around the world....
   - Graham Nash
  Graham Nash
  
  Graham William Nash is a British singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills & Nash ....
  
• East - Cold Chisel
  Cold Chisel
  
  Cold Chisel were a rock band from Adelaide, Australia. They are regarded as the canonical example of Australian Pub rock , with a string of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and they are acknowledged as one of the most popular and successful Australian groups of the period, although this success and acclaim was almost completely restricted...
  
• 80/81
  80/81
  
  80/81 is a double album by jazz artists Pat Metheny, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker, and Jack DeJohnette, which was released in 1980....
   - Pat Metheny
  Pat Metheny
  
  Patrick Bruce Metheny is an United States jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects....
  
• Eje Nlogba - King Sunny Ade
  King Sunny Adé
  
  King Sunny Ad? is a popular performer of Yoruba people Nigerian J?j? music. With his band, "King Sunny Ad? and His African Beats", King Sunny Ad? became an international star across Africa during the late 1970s, touring and gaining a significant audience in the United States and Europe as well....
  
• Elephant Parts
  Elephant Parts
  
  Elephant Parts is a collection of Comical Videos/Music Videos made by Michael Nesmith, former Monkees, in 1981. Nesmith produced the video through his own company, Pacific Arts, using money he inherited from his mother, the inventor of Liquid Paper....
   - Mike Nesmith
• Emotional Rescue
  Emotional Rescue
  
  Emotional Rescue is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1980. Upon release, Emotional Rescue topped the charts in both the United States and United Kingdom....
   - The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
  
• Empires and Dance
  Empires and Dance
  
  Empires and Dance is the third album by Simple Minds, released in 1980. It reached #41 in the UK Albums Chart.The opening track "I Travel" was released as a single in 1980, failing to chart....
   - Simple Minds
  Simple Minds
  
  Simple Minds are a rock music band from Scotland, who had their greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band, from the south side of Glasgow, produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s, and later went on to produce some politically inspired and critically praised work....
  
• Empty Glass
  Empty Glass
  
  Empty Glass was released as the first proper Pete Townshend solo album and was his most successful. Dealing with a plethora of issues that Townshend was struggling with, including alcoholism, drug abuse, marital problems and deceased friends....
   - Pete Townshend
  Pete Townshend
  
  Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend , is an English rock and roll guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and writer, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career....
  
• End of the Century
  End of the Century
  
  End of the Century is the fifth album by the American punk rock band Ramones. It was produced by the famed Phil Spector and was released on February 4 1980....
   - Ramones
  Ramones
  
  The Ramones were an American Rock music band often regarded as the first punk rock group. Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, Queens, New York, in 1974, all of the band members adopted stage names ending with "Ramone", though none of them were actually related....
  
• The European Tour
  The European Tour
  
  The European Tour is a 1963 album by jazz musician John Coltrane....
   - John Coltrane
  John Coltrane
  
  John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
  
• Exploited Barmy Army - The Exploited
  The Exploited
  
  The Exploited are a Scotland punk band from the UK82, formed in 1979.They started out as an Oi! band, before transforming into a faster street punk and hardcore punk band....
  
• Faces
  Faces
  
  Faces may refer to:*Face, the front area of a person's head*Faces , a British rock band active in the early 1970s*Faces , an album by Earth, Wind & Fire...
   - Earth, Wind & Fire
  Earth, Wind & Fire
  
  Earth, Wind & Fire is an United States R&B band led by Maurice White. Formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969, they are known for a number of hit singles, including "Shining Star " and "September ", for their fusion of Latin music, Funk, Soul Music, Jazz, Pop Music, rock music and other genres into one unique sound and the dynamic sound of their...
  
• Fame
  Fame (film)
  
  Fame is a 1980 musical film conceived and produced by David De Silva, directed by Alan Parker, and written by Christopher Gore. The film follows a group of students through their studies at the New York High School of Performing Arts ....
   - Original Soundtrack
• The First, the Best and the Last
  The First, the Best and the Last
  
  The First, the Best and the Last is a compilation album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1980 right after their disbandment....
   - Sham 69
  Sham 69
  
  Sham 69 are an England punk rock band that formed in Hersham in 1975.Although not as commercially successful as many of their contemporaries, albeit with a greater number of chart entries, Sham 69 has been a huge musical and lyrical influence on the Oi! and streetpunk genres....
  
• Flash Gordon
  Flash Gordon
  
  Steven "Flash" Gordon is the hero of a science fiction adventure comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, which was first published on January 7, 1934....
   - Queen
  Queen (band)
  
  Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
  
• Flesh + Blood - Roxy Music
  Roxy Music
  
  Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry . The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson ....
  
• Flush the Fashion
  Flush the Fashion
  
  Flush the Fashion is an album by Alice Cooper, released in 1980 in music. Musically the album was a drastic change of style for Alice Cooper tending towards New Wave music influences such as Gary Numan....
   - Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  
  Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
  
• The Flying Lizards
  The Flying Lizards
  
  The Flying Lizards were a United Kingdom experimental rock band ....
   - The Flying Lizards
  The Flying Lizards
  
  The Flying Lizards were a United Kingdom experimental rock band ....
  
• Framed - Asleep at the Wheel
  Asleep at the Wheel
  
  Asleep at the Wheel, is a multiple Grammy Award-winning Country /Western Swing band formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, but based in Austin, Texas....
  
• Freedom of Choice
  Freedom of Choice
  
  Freedom of Choice is the third album by New Wave music musicians Devo, released in 1980. It saw the band moving in more of an overt synthpop direction, even though guitars still played a prominent role....
   - Devo
  Devo
  
  Devo , often spelled DEVO or DEV-O, is an American Rock music group formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973. They are best known for their 1980 hit "Whip It", which made it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
  
• Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
  Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
  
  Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the debut album by the hardcore punk band Dead Kennedys, released initially on Cherry Red Records in the UK in 1980 and eventually through Faulty Products in the US ....
   - Dead Kennedys
  Dead Kennedys
  
  The Dead Kennedys were an United States punk band from the List of musicians in the first wave of punk music of American punk rock, formed in San Francisco, California in 1978....
  
• Full Moon
  Full Moon (Charlie Daniels album)
  
  Full Moon is a studio album by Charlie Daniels released in 1980. It produced two hit singles for the band, In America and The Legend of Wooley Swamp....
   - Charlie Daniels Band
  Charlie Daniels
  
  Charlie Daniels is an United States musician famous for his contributions to country music and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his Number One country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written....
  
• Gap Band III - The Gap Band
• The Game
  The Game (Queen album)
  
  The Game is a Rock music album by England band Queen released June 30, 1980. It was the only Queen album to reach the #1 position in both the United Kingdom and the United States and became Queen's best selling studio album in the US with four million copies sold to date, tying News of the World s US sales tally....
   - Queen
  Queen (band)
  
  Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
  
• The Game
  The Game (Sham 69 album)
  
  The Game is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1980 ....
   - Sham 69
  Sham 69
  
  Sham 69 are an England punk rock band that formed in Hersham in 1975.Although not as commercially successful as many of their contemporaries, albeit with a greater number of chart entries, Sham 69 has been a huge musical and lyrical influence on the Oi! and streetpunk genres....
  
• Garden of Love
  Garden of Love
  
  Garden of Love is Rick James' fourth album. It was released on the Gordy Records imprint of Motown Records in 1980....
   - Rick James
  Rick James
  
  Rick James was an American musician. He was one of the most popular artists on the Motown Records label during the late 1970s and early 1980s....
  
• Gaucho
  Gaucho (album)
  
  Gaucho was Steely Dan last album before the band's 10-year breakup from June 1981 to October 1991. The album, originally released in 1980, was also the band's last studio album until the 2000 release of Two Against Nature....
   - Steely Dan
  Steely Dan
  
  Steely Dan is an United States jazz-Rock music band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock and roll, funk, rhythm and blues, and Pop music....
  
• Gentlemen Take Polaroids
  Gentlemen Take Polaroids
  
  Gentlemen Take Polaroids is the fourth studio album by the British band Japan . Released in 1980, it was the band's first album for the Virgin label....
   - Japan
  Japan (band)
  
  Japan were a United Kingdom pop/rock group, formed in 1974 in Lewisham, southeast London. The band achieved success in the late 1970s/early 1980s, when they were often associated with the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement ....
  
• Get Happy!! - Elvis Costello
  Elvis Costello
  
  Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
  
• Give Me the Night - George Benson
  George Benson
  
  George Benson is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Pop music and R&B singer, famous for such hits as "Give Me the Night", "Lady Love Me ", "Turn Your Love Around", "Inside Love", "In Your Eyes", and "This Masquerade", among...
  
• Glass House Rock - Greg Kihn
  Greg Kihn
  
  Greg Kihn is a United States pop musician, radio personality and novelist....
  
• Glass Houses
  Glass Houses
  
  Glass Houses is the seventh album by United States singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released in 1980 . It features Joel's first song to peak at #1 on Billboard magazine's Pop Singles chart, "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me." The album itself topped the Pop Albums chart for six weeks and became the fourth best-selling album in the United State...
   - Billy Joel
  Billy Joel
  
  William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
  
• Go to Heaven
  Go to Heaven
  
  Go to Heaven is the eleventh studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was released on April 28, 1980.The album was released for the first time on CD in 1990 by Arista Records before being re-released in 2000 by BMG International....
   - The Grateful Dead
• God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners
  God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners
  
  God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners is an album by Robert Fripp, released on the Polydor Records label in 1980.The album largely consists of Frippertronics, overlaid notes on distorted guitar fed through a very long delay building up a heavily layered effect, much of the work being performed by improvisation....
   - Robert Fripp
  Robert Fripp
  
  Robert Fripp is a guitarist, composer and a record producer, perhaps best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of, the progressive rock band King Crimson....
  
• The Golden Years (EP) - Motörhead
  Motörhead
  
  Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
  
• Good News
  Good news
  
  Good News may refer to:*Good news , the message of Jesus*The Good News Bible, a Bible translation in everyday English*Good News , opened on Broadway in 1927...
   - Sweet Honey in the Rock
  Sweet Honey in the Rock
  
  Sweet Honey in the Rock is an internationally renowned all-women band, African American a cappella ensemble that has risen to fame for the ingenuity and talent of the women who work to blend their voices together in song....
  
• Grace and Danger
  Grace and Danger
  
  Grace And Danger is a 1980 album by John Martyn . It was written and recorded while he was in the process of divorcing from his wife Beverley Martyn and the songs strongly reflect the emotional upheaval that he was experiencing at the time....
   - John Martyn
• Greatest Hits
  Greatest Hits (Rita Coolidge album)
  
  Greatest Hits is a 1980 album by Rita Coolidge and was released on the A&M Records label. This was her first compilation album and contains all previously released material....
   - Rita Coolidge
  Rita Coolidge
  
  Rita Coolidge is a Grammy Award winning United States singing. She is of Cherokee Native Americans in the United States and Scotland descent....
  
• Greatest Hits - Kenny Rogers
  Kenny Rogers
  
  Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
  
• Grotesque (After the Gramme)
  Grotesque (After the Gramme)
  
  Grotesque is a 1980 album by The Fall . It was critically received as a marked improvement over its predecessors both sonically and musically, and is cited as the band's first great album....
   - The Fall
• Group Sex
  Group sex
  
  Group sex is sexual behaviour involving more than two participants at the same time. The main focus of this page is group sex among humans; however, group sex also exists with other species in the animal kingdom - e.g., bighorn sheep and bonobos....
   - Circle Jerks
  Circle Jerks
  
  The Circle Jerks are an American punk band, formed circa 1979 in Hermosa Beach, California. It was formed by Black Flag 's original singer, Keith Morris, and future Bad Religion guitarist Greg Hetson....
   (debut)
• Growing Up in Public
  Growing Up in Public
  
  Growing Up in Public is the tenth album by rock and roll artist Lou Reed, released in 1980....
   - Lou Reed
  Lou Reed
  
  Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
  
• Guilty
  Guilty (Barbra Streisand album)
  
  Guilty is an album released by Barbra Streisand in 1980. After the success of the Bee Gees in 1977/1978 there was some time to perform songwriting for other artists and Barbra Streisand asked Barry Gibb to write an album for her....
   - Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand
  
  Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  
• Gyrate - Pylon
• Habibi Ana - Samir Al-Ajani
  Samir Al-Ajani
  
  Samir Al-Ajani was a popular Lebanon singer during the late 70s to the early 80s. Samir released only two albums and five singles before his death in 1987....
  
• Hail H.I.M.
  Hail H.I.M.
  
  Track listing#"Hail H.I.M." #"Columbus" #"Road Foggy" #"Follow Marcus Garvey" #"Jah See and Know" #"African Teacher" #"African Postman" #"Cry Blood Africans" ...
   - Burning Spear
  Burning Spear
  
  Winston Rodney, Order of Distinction , also known as Burning Spear, is a Grammy Award winning Jamaican roots reggae reggae singer and musician....
  
• Hanx
  Hanx
  
  Hanx! is a live punk rock album by the band Stiff Little Fingers, released in 1980 . Originally intended for the American market to introduce the band before they toured there, it was subsequently released at a budget price in the UK as the band were concerned that a lot of their fans would insist on buying the album on import anyway for...
   - Stiff Little Fingers
  Stiff Little Fingers
  
  Stiff Little Fingers are a Punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk....
  
• Happy Woman Blues
  Happy Woman Blues
  
  Happy Woman Blues is an album by Lucinda Williams, her second professional release. It was released in 1980 . While her debut album consisted entirely of cover recordings, all the Happy Woman Blues were written by Wiliams herself....
   - Lucinda Williams
  Lucinda Williams
  
  Lucinda Williams is an United States rock music, folk music, and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public....
  
• Hawks & Doves
  Hawks & Doves
  
  Hawks & Doves is a 1980 album by Neil Young. Its two sides were recorded in different circumstance, side one being culled from sessions dating from approximately 1974 through 1977, and side two from sessions specifically for the album in early 1980....
   - Neil Young
  Neil Young
  
  Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
  
• Head Games
  Head Games
  
  Head Games is the third studio album by United States rock and roll band Foreigner , released in 1979. The album charted at #5 on the Billboard 200 chart, and has sold over five million copies in the US alone....
   - Foreigner
  Foreigner (band)
  
  Foreigner is a Rock music band formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald , along with then-unknown vocalist Lou Gramm ....
  
• Head On
  Head On (Samson album)
  
  Head On is the second album by New Wave of British Heavy Metal band Samson . It was released in 1980 in music. The cover art features the band's masked drummer, Thunderstick....
   - Samson (band)
  Samson (band)
  
  Samson was a British hard rock band formed in 1977 by guitarist and vocalist Paul Samson. They are best known for their first three albums with future Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson, then known as "Bruce Bruce", and drummer Thunderstick , who wore a leather mask and performed on stage in a metal cage....
  
• Heartattack and Vine
  Heartattack and Vine
  
  Heartattack and Vine was Tom Waits' last album on the Asylum Records label. This album serves as a slight precursor to Waits' later, more experimental style he developed on Island Records....
   - Tom Waits
  Tom Waits
  
  Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
  
• Heathen Earth
  Heathen Earth
  
  Heathen Earth is a live album by Throbbing Gristle which documents their performance in 1980 on "Saturday the 16th of February between 8:10pm and 9:00pm"....
   - Throbbing Gristle
  Throbbing Gristle
  
  Throbbing Gristle is a United Kingdom industrial music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. The band consists of Genesis P-Orridge , Cosey Fanni Tutti , Peter Christopherson , and Chris Carter ....
  
• Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath
  
  Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
  
• Hi Infidelity
  Hi Infidelity
  
  Hi Infidelity is the ninth studio album by REO Speedwagon, released in 1980 . It went on to become the biggest selling rock LP of 1981, eventually selling over nine million....
   - REO Speedwagon
  REO Speedwagon
  
  REO Speedwagon is an United States Rock music band that grew in popularity in the Midwestern United States United States during the 1970s and peaked in the early 1980s....
  
• Hideaway
  Hideaway
  
  Hideaway is a novel written by Dean Koontz and published by Random House in 1992. It is a supernatural Thriller centering on an antique dealer named Hatch Harrison who develops a telepathic connection with a serial killer after a car accident leaves him clinically dead for over eighty minutes....
   - David Sanborn
  David Sanborn
  
  David Sanborn is an United States alto saxophone saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental Pop music and R&B....
  
• Hold On
  Hold On
  
  Hold On may refer to:Songs* Hold On * Hold On * Hold On * Hold On * Hold On * Hold On * Hold On * Hold On * Hold On * Hold On ...
   - Carolyne Mas
  Carolyne Mas
  
  Carolyne Mas is an United States singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, record producer, who broke out of the Greenwich Village music scene boom of the late 1970s, along with other musician such as Steve Forbert, The Roches, and Willie Nile....
  
• Hold Out
  Hold Out
  
  Hold Out is the sixth album by United States singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1980 . Although critically the album has not been as well received as other Browne recordings, it remains his only album to date to reach #1 in the Billboard charts....
   - Jackson Browne
  Jackson Browne
  
  Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
  
• Honeysuckle Rose
  Honeysuckle Rose (album)
  
  Honeysuckle Rose is the soundtrack to the 1980 musical drama Honeysuckle Rose by the same name, which stars Willie Nelson. Tracks on the album include songs by Nelson and various artists including Kenneth Threadgill, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Gimble, Hank Cochran, Jeannie Seely and Dyan Cannon....
   - Willie Nelson
  Willie Nelson
  
  Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
  
• Hot on the One - James Brown
  James Brown
  
  James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  
• Hotter than July - Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  
  Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  
• Huey Lewis and the News - Huey Lewis and the News (debut)
• Humans - Bruce Cockburn
  Bruce Cockburn
  
  Bruce Douglas Cockburn, Order of Canada is a Canada folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His 29th album was released in summer 2006, and he has written songs in styles ranging from folk music to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll....
  
• Hypnotised
  Hypnotised
  
  Hypnotised is a 1980 album by The Undertones.The original LP release included the United Kingdom chart hits: My Perfect Cousin, which made #9 in April 1980, and Wednesday Week, which got to #11 in July the same year....
   - The Undertones
  The Undertones
  
  The Undertones are a Northern Irish punk rock/power pop band formed in Derry in 1976.The original line-up released four recording studio albums — The Undertones , Hypnotised , Positive Touch and The Sin of Pride — before disbanding in 1983....
  
• I Am What I Am
  I Am What I Am
  
  I Am What I Am is an album by United States of America country music artist George Jones. This album was released in 1980 on Epic Records label then on July 04, 2000 this album was re–released with bonus tracks on the Legacy Recordings label....
   - George Jones
  George Jones
  
  George Glenn Jones , is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....
  
• I Believe - The Buzzcocks
• Ikite Itemo Iidesuka - Miyuki Nakajima
  Miyuki Nakajima
  
  is a Japanese people vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter who is often compared with Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 35 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and those sales have been estimated more than 21 million copies....
  
• Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden (album)
  
  Iron Maiden, released on April 14, 1980, is the debut album by heavy metal music band Iron Maiden. It was released by EMI in the UK, reaching number 4 in the United Kingdom album charts....
   - Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden
  
  Iron Maiden are an English Heavy metal music band from Leyton, East London, England, formed in 1975. The band is led by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris ....
   (debut)
• Immer nur träumen
  Immer nur träumen
  
  Immer nur tr?umen is the tenth studio album released by Germany Schlager group Die flippers. This is the first studio album with singer/guitarist Albin Bucher, who replaced Roland Bausert....
   - Die Flippers
  Die Flippers
  
  Die Flippers are a Germany Schlager group formed in 1964. They are one of the most successful Schlager groups of all time, and have been constantly recording and releasing new music since their self-titled debut album was released in 1970....
  
• In Concert, Zürich October 28, 1979 - Chick Corea
  Chick Corea
  
  Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer.He is known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion....
   and Gary Burton
  Gary Burton
  
  Gary Burton is an United States jazz vibraphone.A true original on the vibraphone, Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the usual two-mallets....
  
• In 'n' Out - Rick James
  Rick James
  
  Rick James was an American musician. He was one of the most popular artists on the Motown Records label during the late 1970s and early 1980s....
  
• In The Flat Fields - Bauhaus
  Bauhaus (band)
  
  Bauhaus were an England Rock music band formed in Northampton in 1978. The group consisted of Peter Murphy , Daniel Ash , Kevin Haskins and David J ....
  
• Inside Job
  Inside Job
  
  Inside Job is the fourth studio album by Don Henley, released in 2000 in music....
   - Dion DiMucci
• Inside My Brain
  Inside My Brain
  
  Inside My Brain is the debut album by the United States punk rock band Angry Samoans. It was released in 1980 . The most infamous song on the album is the defamatory "Get Off the Air" pointed at influential KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer who later sued them for that reason....
   - Angry Samoans
  Angry Samoans
  
  The Angry Samoans are an American punk band in the List of musicians in the first wave of punk music of American punk. Formed in August 1978 in Los Angeles, California by early 70's rock writer Mike Saunders and his brother lead guitarist Kevin Eric Saunders, along with co-conspirator Gregg Turner and original recruits bassist Todd Homer and...
   (debut)
• The Inside Story - Robben Ford
  Robben Ford
  
  Robben Ford is an United States blues, jazz and rock music guitarist....
  
• INXS
  INXS
  
  INXS is an Australian Rock music and New Wave music band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on Keyboard instrument, Jon Farriss on Drum kit, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/saxophone....
  - INXS
  INXS
  
  INXS is an Australian Rock music and New Wave music band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on Keyboard instrument, Jon Farriss on Drum kit, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/saxophone....
  
• I Just Can't Stop It
  I Just Can't Stop It (album)
  
  I Just Can't Stop It is the first album by the United Kingdom's The Beat . The album was released in 1980 on the Go Feet Records label in the UK....
  - The English Beat
  The Beat (band)
  
  The Beat are a 2 Tone ska revival band founded in England in 1978. Their songs fuse ska, Pop music, Soul music, reggae and punk rock, and their lyrics deal with themes of love, unity and sociopolitical topics....
  
• I'm a Rebel
  I'm a Rebel
  
  I'm a Rebel is the second album by the Heavy metal music band Accept , recorded in 1979 and released in 1980 . It was the first of three consecutive Accept records to utilize Dirk Steffens as record producer....
  - Accept
  Accept
  
  Accept were a Germany Heavy metal music band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled in the early 1970s by Udo Dirkschneider. They played an important role in the development of speed metal and Teutonic thrash metal, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s along with bands such as He...
  
• It's What's Inside That Counts - Critical Mass
  Critical Mass
  
  Critical Mass is a bicycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month in over 300 city around the world. While the ride was originally founded in 1992 with the idea of drawing attention to how unfriendly the city was to bicyclists, the leaderless structure of Critical Mass makes it impossible to assign it any one specific goal...
  
• IV - The Stranglers
  The Stranglers
  
  The Stranglers are an England Rock and roll group, formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey.Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes " and "Peaches " and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene....
  
• I've Got Something to Say
  I've Got Something to Say
  
  I've Got Something to Say is an album released by country music musician David Allan Coe. It was released in 1980 on Columbia Records. Guy Clark, Bill Anderson, Dickey Betts , Kris Kristofferson, Larry Jon Wilson, and George Jones are all featured on this album....
  - David Allan Coe
  David Allan Coe
  
  David Allan Coe is an American country music singer who achieved his greatest popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He has written and performed over 280 original songs throughout his career....
  
• Jack Rabbit! - Doug Dillard
• The Jazz Singer
  The Jazz Singer
  
  The Jazz Singer may refer to:* The Jazz Singer , a 1925 Broadway play* The Jazz Singer , a film version of the play, and the first feature-length motion picture with talking sequences...
  - Neil Diamond
  Neil Diamond
  
  Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
  
• Jazziz- John Serry
  John Serry
  
  John Serry is a jazz pianist who has been praised as an excellent keyboardist and composer by musicians, critics and fans. His distinct sound as a composer has been remarked as having been ahead of the times and singular in composition....
  
• Jealous Again
  Jealous Again
  
  Jealous Again is a EP that was the second release by American hardcore punk Black Flag and the third-ever release on SST Records....
  (EP) - Black Flag
  Black Flag (band)
  
  Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes....
  
• The Jealous Kind - Delbert McClinton
  Delbert McClinton
  
  Delbert McClinton is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and musician. Active as a side-man since at least 1962 and as a band leader since 1972, he has recorded several major-label albums, and has charted singles on the Billboard Hot 100, Mainstream Rock Tracks, and Hot Country Songs charts....
  
• Joe's Garage
  Joe's Garage
  
  Joe's Garage: Acts I, II & III is a 1979 rock opera by Frank Zappa. Zappa stated that along with Lumpy Gravy, this album was one of his finest achievements....
   Acts II and III - Frank Zappa
  Frank Zappa
  
  Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
  
• John Anderson
  John Anderson
  
  John Anderson may refer to:Science:* John H. D. Anderson , Scottish natural philosopher* John Anderson , Scottish zoologist* John August Anderson , American physicist and astronomer...
  - John Anderson
  John Anderson
  
  John Anderson may refer to:Science:* John H. D. Anderson , Scottish natural philosopher* John Anderson , Scottish zoologist* John August Anderson , American physicist and astronomer...
  
• Joy and Pain - Maze
  Maze
  
  A maze is a complex tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route. In everyday speech, both maze and labyrinth denote a complex and confusing series of pathways, but technically the maze is distinguished from the labyrinth....
   featuring Frankie Beverly
  Frankie Beverly
  
  Frankie Beverly is a singer, wiktionary:Founder, record producer, and songwriter, known primarily for his sound recording and reproduction with the soul music and funk unit, Maze ....
  
• Just Like That
  Just Like That
  
  Just Like That is a novel by Lily Brett about the Holocaust survivors in the United States. Up to a point, it is autobiographical: The author was born in Germany in 1946 and came to Melbourne, Australia with her parents in 1948....
  - Toots & the Maytals
• Just One Night
  Just One Night (Eric Clapton album)
  
  Just One Night is a live double album by blues rocker Eric Clapton, released in 1980 in music. It was recorded live at the Budokan Theatre, Tokyo, December 1979 when Clapton was touring with his last record, Backless....
  - Eric Clapton
  Eric Clapton
  
  Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
  
• Kaleidoscope - Siouxsie and the Banshees
• Kano
  Kano (band)
  
  Kano was a post-disco music project formed in 1979 by Italy-based producers/musicians Luciano Ninzatti, Stefano Pulga and Matteo Bonsanto who helped usher in a style of dance music called Italo disco, a blend of 1970s disco and funk with the addition of synthesizers made by artists and producers in Italy....
  - Kano
  Kano (band)
  
  Kano was a post-disco music project formed in 1979 by Italy-based producers/musicians Luciano Ninzatti, Stefano Pulga and Matteo Bonsanto who helped usher in a style of dance music called Italo disco, a blend of 1970s disco and funk with the addition of synthesizers made by artists and producers in Italy....
   (debut)
• Kurtis Blow
  Kurtis Blow
  
  Curtis Walker , signed with Uncle Louie Music Group is better known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is one of the first commercially successful rapping and the first to sign with a major record label....
  - Kurtis Blow
  Kurtis Blow
  
  Curtis Walker , signed with Uncle Louie Music Group is better known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is one of the first commercially successful rapping and the first to sign with a major record label....
  
• Kilamanjaro
  Kilimanjaro (album)
  
  Kilimanjaro was The Teardrop Explodes' 1980 debut album. When it was originally released, the album featured a shadowy photograph of the band on the sleeve, but this was later changed to a cover showing Mount Kilimanjaro, the mountain after which the record was named....
  - The Teardrop Explodes
  The Teardrop Explodes
  
  The Teardrop Explodes were an England Post-punk/Neo-Psychedelia band formed in Liverpool in 1978. Their name was taken from a panel in the Marvel comics, Daredevil No....
  
• Killing Joke
  Killing Joke
  
  Killing Joke are an England post-punk rock band formed in October, 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England. However, several conflicting sources have stated that they formed in early 1979Related news articles:...
  - Killing Joke
  Killing Joke
  
  Killing Joke are an England post-punk rock band formed in October, 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England. However, several conflicting sources have stated that they formed in early 1979Related news articles:...
  
• Kings of the Wild Frontier
  Kings of the Wild Frontier
  
  Kings of the Wild Frontier is a New Wave music album by Adam & the Ants, released in 1980 . This album introduced the new Music of Burundi drum sound....
  - Adam and the Ants
  Adam and the Ants
  
  Adam and the Ants were a New Romantic band during the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were one of the bands at the time that marked the transition from the 70s punk rock era to the New Wave music/post-punk era....
  
• Keeping Our Love Warm - Captain & Tennille
  Captain & Tennille
  
  Captain & Tennille are United States pop music recording artists who achieved recording chart success from 1975-80 with a repertoire of romance and novelty hit songs....
  
• Lady T - Teena Marie
  Teena Marie
  
  Teena Marie is an United States Grammy Award-nominated singer?songwriter?Record producer. Marie, nicknamed Lady T, is a proteg?e of late funk legend Rick James, and is notable as one of the few successful White people performers of Rhythm and blues, or blue-eyed soul....
  
• Ladies Man - April Wine
• Laughter
  Laughter
  
  Laughter is an audible expression , or appearance of merriment or happiness, or an inward feeling of joy and pleasure . It may ensue from jokes, tickling, and other stimuli....
  - Ian Dury and the Blockheads
• Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson
  Jermaine Jackson
  
  Jermaine LaJaune Jackson or Muhammad Abdul Aziz , is an United States Grammy Award-nominated singer, bass guitarist, former member of The Jackson 5 and older brother of United States Pop music stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson....
  
• Levitation
  Levitation (album)
  
  Levitation is a 1980 studio album by Hawkwind. It reached #21 on the UK album chart.The recording of this album began with the same line-up that had produced the previous Live Seventy Nine album, but King dropped out during the sessions and was replaced by Ginger Baker....
  - Hawkwind
  Hawkwind
  
  Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
  
• Lightning to the Nations
  Lightning to the Nations
  
  Lightning to the Nations is the debut album by Heavy metal music band Diamond Head .The album was recorded in 1979 and released in 1980 through their own label Happy Face Records, due to lack of interest from major labels and band feeling that they needed to get the ball rolling as other bands from the same era, such as Iron Maiden...
  - Diamond Head
  Diamond Head (band)
  
  Diamond Head are a United Kingdom heavy metal music band formed in 1976 in Stourbridge, England. They were one of the leading members of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and are acknowledged by later bands like Metallica and Megadeth as an important early influence....
  
• Little Stevie Orbit - Steve Forbert
  Steve Forbert
  
  Steve Forbert is an United States pop music singer-songwriter. He is best known for his song "Romeo's Tune", which reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart in 1980....
  
• Live at Last - Good Rats
• Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980
  Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980
  
  Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 is a 1980 album by Oscar Peterson, accompanied by Joe Pass, Toots Thielemans and Niels-Henning ?rsted Pedersen....
  - Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Peterson
  
  Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
  
• Live in der Balver Höhle
  Live in der Balver Höhle
  
  Live in der Balver H?hle is an album by the Finland jazz band Piirpauke. It was recorded at International Jazzfestival in Balver H?hle....
  - Piirpauke
  Piirpauke
  
  Piirpauke is a Finnish band that combines folk music, ethno and jazz in their music. The band was founded by Sakari Kukko in 1974 and over the years, a number of musicians from various countries have played in the band....
  
• Live In Vienna
  Live in Vienna
  
  Live in Vienna is the first live album of the Germany rock band B?hse Onkelz. It was recorded on December 13, 1991 at the Vienna Messepalast....
  - Cluster
  Cluster (band)
  
  Cluster is a Germany experimental music musical group who influenced the development of contemporary popular electronic music and ambient music....
   & Farnbauer
• Live Seventy Nine - Hawkwind
  Hawkwind
  
  Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
  
• Living Dub - Burning Spear
  Burning Spear
  
  Winston Rodney, Order of Distinction , also known as Burning Spear, is a Grammy Award winning Jamaican roots reggae reggae singer and musician....
  
• LKJ in Dub
  LKJ in Dub
  
  LKJ in Dub is an album by dub poetry Linton Kwesi Johnson, released in 1980 on the Island Records label. It was produced by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Dennis Bovell ....
  - Linton Kwesi Johnson
  Linton Kwesi Johnson
  
  Linton Kwesi Johnson is a United Kingdom based dub poetry. He became the second living poetry to be published in the Penguin Books series. His poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican Patois over dub -reggae, usually written in collaboration with renowned British reggae producer/artist Dennis Bovell....
  
• London Calling
  London Calling
  
  London Calling is the third album by English punk rock band The Clash, released 14 December 1979, on CBS Records in the UK and in January 1980 on Epic Records in the United States....
  - The Clash
  The Clash
  
  The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
   (U.S. Release)
• The Long Riders - Ry Cooder
  Ry Cooder
  
  Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder is an American guitarist, singer and composer.He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in the American American folk music, and, more recently, for his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries....
  
• Look Hear?
  Look Hear?
  
  Look Hear? is the seventh studio album by 10cc, released in 1980. It reached No.35 in the UK and No.180 in the United States. The album, recorded at the band's Strawberry Studios South in Dorking, Surrey, was the first by 10cc since its 1976 split to include songs written by neither Graham Gouldman or Eric Stewart....
  - 10cc
  10cc
  
  10cc were an England art rock rock band who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. Initially comprising four musicians ? Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme ? who had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the ?10cc? name in 1972....
  
• Looking at Bird - Archie Shepp
  Archie Shepp
  
  Archie Shepp is a prominent American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentrism music of the late 1960s which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African Race , as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contemporaries,...
  
• Loonee Tunes!
  Loonee Tunes!
  
  Loonee Tunes! is the second album by Bad Manners, from the year 1980.In keeping with the format of their first album, the first track is an instrumental....
  - Bad Manners
  Bad Manners
  
  Bad Manners are an England Second Wave ska revival musical ensemble. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the fad through their bald, enormous-bodied frontman's silly on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops TV exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze....
  
• The Lord Will Make a Way
  The Lord Will Make a Way
  
  The Lord Will Make a Way is a gospel album by Al Green released in 1980....
  - Al Green
  Al Green
  
  Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an United States gospel music and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s. At the 2008 BET Awards Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for all the work he has done throughout his career....
  
• Los Angeles - X
• Love in Exile - Eddy Grant
  Eddy Grant
  
  Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant is a United Kingdom reggae musician....
  
• Love Lives Forever - Minnie Riperton
  Minnie Riperton
  
  Minnie Julia Riperton was an American singer-songwriter best known for her five-and-a-half octave vocal range and her 1975 single "Lovin' You"....
  
• Love Stinks
  Love Stinks
  
  Love Stinks is the eleventh album by United States rock music band The J. Geils Band, released in 1980 .The title song is a rant against unrequited love....
  - The J. Geils Band
• Loverboy
  Loverboy
  
  Loverboy is a Canadian rock music group formed in 1980 in Calgary, Alberta. Throughout the 1980s, the band accumulated numerous hit songs in Canada and the United States, making four multi-platinum albums and selling millions of records....
  - Loverboy
  Loverboy
  
  Loverboy is a Canadian rock music group formed in 1980 in Calgary, Alberta. Throughout the 1980s, the band accumulated numerous hit songs in Canada and the United States, making four multi-platinum albums and selling millions of records....
  
• Maestra Vida: Primera Parte - Ruben Blades
  Rubén Blades
  
  Rub?n Blades Bellido de Luna is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres....
  
• The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits
  The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits
  
  'The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits' is a greatest hits album by Boney M. issued in May 1980 which contained all their biggest hits up until that point, including non-album singles "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" and "Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday", key album tracks from Take The Heat Off Me, Love for Sale , Nightflight to...
  - Boney M.
• Making Movies
  Making Movies
  
  Making Movies is the third album by United Kingdom rock and roll band Dire Straits, released in 1980....
  - Dire Straits
  Dire Straits
  
  Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
  
• Malice in Wonderland - Nazareth
  Nazareth (band)
  
  Nazareth are a Scottish rock music band that had several hard rock chart-topper in the mid 1970s, including the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant songwriter ballad, "Love Hurts."...
  
• McCartney II
  McCartney II
  
  McCartney II is the third solo album by Paul McCartney, and the first since the formation of Wings in 1971. It was released in 1980, a year before the band's dissolution and while their future lay in limbo....
  - Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  
• Me Myself I
  Me Myself I
  
  Me Myself I is an album by Joan Armatrading. Released in 1980, the album was Armatrading's highest ever chart placing both in the UK and in the US ....
  - Joan Armatrading
  Joan Armatrading
  
  Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, Order of the British Empire, is a United Kingdom singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Armatrading is a three-time Grammy Award-nominee ....
  
• Metal Rendez-vous
  Metal Rendez-vous
  
  Metal Rendez-vous is Krokus ' fourth album, and the first to feature Marc Storace on vocals. It was released in 1980 and was hugely successful, becoming a triple platinum album in Switzerland, and selling over 150,000 copies there alone....
  - Krokus
  Krokus (band)
  
  Krokus is a hard rock/heavy metal music band from Switzerland.Krokus was founded in Solothurn in 1974 by bassist and guitarist Tommy Kiefer....
  
• Mekons - The Mekons
  The Mekons
  
  The Mekons are a United Kingdom Rock music band. Formed in the late 1970s, they are one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British punk rock bands....
  
• Memories
  Memories (Barbra Streisand album)
  
  Memories is an album released by Barbra Streisand in 1980. It is primarily a compilation of previously released material, but includes three newly recorded songs....
  - Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand
  
  Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  
• Merzbild Schwet
  Merzbild Schwet
  
  Merzbild Schwet is the third album by British cult band Nurse With Wound.Following disagreements amongst the founding NWW trio over To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl, Steven Stapleton returned to the studio without Heman Pathak or John Fothergill to create something that more closely fulfilled his vision of what Nurse With Wound sho...
  - Nurse With Wound
  Nurse with Wound
  
  Nurse with Wound is the main recording name for United Kingdom musician Steven Stapleton. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak....
  
• Metamatic
  Metamatic
  
  Metamatic is an album by John Foxx, released in 1980. It was his first solo album following his split with Ultravox the previous year. A departure from the richly-textured mix of synthesizers and conventional instruments on Systems of Romance, his last album with the band, Metamatics hard-edged electronica was more akin to Kraftw...
  - John Foxx
  John Foxx
  
  John Foxx is the stage name of England musician Dennis Leigh. He was the original lead singer of the band Ultravox, before embarking on a solo career in 1979....
  
• Middle Man - Boz Scaggs
  Boz Scaggs
  
  Boz Scaggs is an United States singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 Hits in the United States along with the #2 album Silk Degrees....
  
• Monster
  Monster
  
  A monster is any of a large number of legendary creatures which usually appear in, legend, or horror fiction. The word originates from the ancient Latin :la:monstrum, meaning "omen", from the root of :wikt:monere and also meaning "prodigy" or "miracle"....
  - Herbie Hancock
  Herbie Hancock
  
  Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
  
• More George Thorogood and the Destroyers
  More George Thorogood and the Destroyers
  
  More George Thorogood & The Destroyers is the fourth album released by George Thorogood....
  - George Thorogood and the Destroyers
• More Specials
  More Specials
  
  More Specials is an October 1980 album from the ska band The Specials. The album was the band's second, after Specials , and expanded the group's 2 tone sound to include lounge music and other influences....
  - The Specials
  The Specials
  
  The Specials are an England 2 Tone ska revival Musical ensemble formed in 1977 in Coventry. They have had Chart-topper in the United Kingdom, and their music is featured in film and television soundtracks....
  
• Mr. Hands - Herbie Hancock
  Herbie Hancock
  
  Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
  
• Music of Many Colors - Fela Kuti
  Fela Kuti
  
  Fela Anikulapo Kuti , or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of afrobeat music, human rights Activism, and Politics maverick....
   with Roy Ayers
  Roy Ayers
  
  Roy Ayers is a funk, soul music and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a jazz player, releasing several albums with Arista Records before his tenure at Polydor Records, during which he progressed a new R&B style, slowly molding the new Disco genre....
  
• A Musical Affair - Ashford and Simpson
• My Babe - Roy Buchanan
  Roy Buchanan
  
  Roy Buchanan was an United States guitarist and blues musician. He is noted for his use of note bending, volume swells, staccato runs, and pinch harmonics....
  
• National Breakout
  National Breakout
  
  National Breakout is the second album by The Romantics. It was released in 1980 on Nemperor Records....
  - The Romantics
  The Romantics
  
  The Romantics are an United States rock music band from Detroit, Michigan. The band adopted the name "The Romantics" because they formed on Valentine's Day, 1977....
  
• Naughty - Chaka Khan
  Chaka Khan
  
  Chaka Khan is an American singer known for hit songs such as "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire ", also sang a modernized theme song for the hit children's TV show, Reading Rainbow in the show's later years....
  
• Neutronica
  Neutronica
  
  Neutronica is the fifteenth studio album, and seventeenth album overall, from Scotland singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in West Germany in August 1980 and France in 1980....
  - Donovan
  Donovan
  
  Donovan , is a Scotland singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk music scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, Popular music, psychedelic rock, and world music....
  
• Never Alone
  Never Alone
  
  Never Alone is the third album by Contemporary Christian music singer Amy Grant, released in 1980 .By this point in her life, Amy had entered her sophomore year at Furman University and developed a budding relationship with studio songwriter Gary Chapman ....
  - Amy Grant
  Amy Grant
  
  Amy Lee Grant is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, media personality and occasional actress, best known for her contemporary Christian music....
  
• Never for Ever
  Never for Ever
  
  Never for Ever is the third album by the British singer Kate Bush. Released in 1980, it was Bush's first ever no.1 album and also the first album by a British female solo artist to top the UK album chart....
  - Kate Bush
  Kate Bush
  
  Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
  
• New Hope for the Wretched
  New Hope for the Wretched
  
  New Hope for the Wretched is the debut album by punk-metal band The Plasmatics, fronted by Wendy O. Williams.Former Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller was the initial producer for the album....
  - Plasmatics
  Plasmatics
  
  The Plasmatics were an American Punk rock band formed by Yale University graduate and radical anti-artist Rod Swenson with Wendy O. Williams. The band was a controversial group known for wild live shows that broke countless taboos as part of an assault on American popular culture....
  
• Night Passage
  Night Passage (Weather Report album)
  
  Night Passage is Weather Report's tenth album, released in 1980. It was recorded live over two nights at The Complex studios in Los Angeles....
  - Weather Report
  Weather Report
  
  Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s combining jazz and latin jazz with art music, ethnic music, r&b, funk and Rock music elements ....
  
• 9 to 5
  9 to 5
  
  9 to 5 is a phrase used to describe a conventional and possibly tedious job. Negatively used, it connotes a tedious or unremarkable occupation, the idea being that, because the job is so boring, the workplace shuts down outside of required hours....
  - Dolly Parton
  Dolly Parton
  
  Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....
  
• 1980 - Gil Scott Heron
• Nothin' Matters And What If It Did
  Nothin' Matters and What If It Did
  
  Nothin' Matters And What If It Did is John Mellencamp's fifth album, under his pseudonym of John Cougar. It includes the moderate hits "Ain't Even Done With The Night", which reached No....
  - John Cougar Mellencamp
• Nurds
  Nurds
  
  Nurds is a 1980 album by The Roches....
  - The Roches
  The Roches
  
  The Roches are a female vocal group of three songwriters Irish-American sisters from Park Ridge, New Jersey,known for their unusual and rich harmony, quirky lyrics, and casually comedic stage performances....
  
• Off the Coast of Me - Kid Creole and the Coconuts
  Kid Creole and the Coconuts
  
  Kid Creole and the Coconuts is an United States musical group created and led by August Darnell. Their music incorporates a variety of styles, in particular "American and Latin_American_Music, South American, Caribbean_Music, Trinidadian_music, Cab Calloway" and conceptually inspired by the Big band era....
  
• Official Secrets Act
  Official Secrets Act
  
  The Official Secrets Act is any of several Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the protection of official information, mainly related to national security....
  - M
  M (band)
  
  M was England singing Robin Scott's briefly active musical collaboration in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They played New Wave music and commercial synthpop, and are most known for their 1979 hit "Pop Muzik", which reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1979, and #1 in the United States Billboard Hot 100 record chart on 3 November 1979....
  
• On Through the Night
  On through the Night
  
  On Through the Night is the debut album by United Kingdom Heavy metal music band Def Leppard, released in 1980. It features rerecorded versions of "Rocks Off" and "Overture", tracks from the band's original independently released EP, The Def Leppard E.P....
  - Def Leppard
  Def Leppard
  
  Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
  
• One Bad Habit - Michael Franks
  Michael Franks
  
  Michael Franks is a smooth jazz singer and songwriter from the United States. He has recorded with a Who's Who of artists, such as Patti Austin, Brenda Russell, Art Garfunkel, and David Sanborn....
  
• One for the Road
  One for the Road (The Kinks album)
  
  One for the Road is a 1980 live album by The Kinks....
  - The Kinks
  The Kinks
  
  The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
  
• One Trick Pony - Paul Simon
  Paul Simon
  
  Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  
• Operation Radication - Yellowman
  Yellowman
  
  Yellowman is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay, widely known as King Yellowman. He was popular in Jamaica in the 1980s, coming to prominence with a series of singles that established his reputation....
  
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (album)
  
  Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is the self-titled debut album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1980. The album peaked at number 27 in the UK Albums Chart....
  - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  
  Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are a synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England. OMD record for Virgin Records ....
  
• Organisation
  Organisation (album)
  
  Organisation is an album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1980. As with all OMD's early sleeve art, it was created by Peter Saville Associates....
  - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• Ori Mi Ja Fun Mi - King Sunny Ade
  King Sunny Adé
  
  King Sunny Ad? is a popular performer of Yoruba people Nigerian J?j? music. With his band, "King Sunny Ad? and His African Beats", King Sunny Ad? became an international star across Africa during the late 1970s, touring and gaining a significant audience in the United States and Europe as well....
  
• Panorama - The Cars
  The Cars
  
  The Cars were an American Rock music band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. Members of the band were singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson ....
  
• Paradise Theater
  Paradise Theater
  
  Paradise Theater is a company that designs high end custom home theater rooms for residential properties.From the Paradise Theater website:...
  - Styx
  Styx (band)
  
  Styx is an American Rock band. Their hit songs have included "Come Sail Away", "Mr. Roboto", "Babe ", "Lady ", "Blue Collar Man" and "The Best of Times ." Styx is the first band to have four consecutive albums certified multi-platinum by the RIAA....
  
• Paranoid Time
  Paranoid Time
  
  Paranoid Time is the first EP, and first ever recording, by American hardcore punk band The Minutemen . It is also the second ever release by the SST Records record label, founded by Black Flag 's Greg Ginn and Chuck Dukowski....
  (EP) - Minutemen
  Minutemen (band)
  
  The Minutemen were an United States punk rock band formed in San Pedro, California, California in 1980. Comprising guitarist D. Boon, bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley, the Minutemen recorded four albums and eight extended play before Boon's unexpected death in December 1985....
  
• Paris - Supertramp
  Supertramp
  
  Supertramp were a United Kingdom progressive rock band that released a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and early 1980s.Their early music included ambitious concept albums, but they are best known for their later hits including "Bloody Well Right", "Dreamer ", "Goodbye Stranger", "Give a Little Bit" and "The Logical Song"....
  
• Paul Davis
  Paul Davis
  
  Paul Davis may refer to:* Paul Davis, fictional character in the Stargate SG-1 television series; see List of Tau'ri characters in Stargate SG-1#Paul Davis...
  - Paul Davis
  Paul Davis (singer)
  
  Paul Davis was an United States singer, best known for his radio hits and solo career which started worldwide in 1970. His career encompassed soul music, country music and pop music, and he wrote many memorable country music hits....
  
• People - James Brown
  James Brown
  
  James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  
• Permanent Waves
  Permanent Waves
  
  Permanent Waves is the seventh studio album by the Canada rock music band Rush , released January 1, 1980 . The album was recorded at Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec, and was mixed at Trident Studios in London, United Kingdom....
  - Rush
  Rush (band)
  
  Rush is a Canadian Rock music band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale, Toronto neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, currently composed of bass guitar, keyboard instrument, and singer Geddy Lee; electric guitar Alex Lifeson; and drum kit and lyricist Neil Peart....
  
• The Personal Touch
  The Personal Touch
  
  The Personal Touch is a 1980 album by Oscar Peterson, featuring songs written by or made popular by Canadians. ...
  - Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Peterson
  
  Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
  
• Peter Gabriel
  Peter Gabriel (III)
  
  Peter Gabriel is Peter Gabriel's third eponymous Sound recording. The album contains two of Gabriel's most famous songs, the U.K. Top 10 hit "Games Without Frontiers " and the political song "Biko ", about the late anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko....
  - Peter Gabriel
  Peter Gabriel
  
  Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
  
• Play - Magazine
  Magazine (band)
  
  Magazine were a British post-punk group active between 1977 and 1981. Their debut single, "Shot By Both Sides", is now acknowledged as a classic and their debut album, Real Life , is still widely admired as one of the greatest albums of all time The band was formed by Howard Devoto after leaving punk band Buzzcocks in early 1977, deciding...
  
• Play Me or Trade Me
  Play Me or Trade Me
  
  Play Me or Trade Me is the third and final studio album by the P-Funk spin off act Parlet. The album was released by Casablanca Records in 1980 and was produced by George Clinton and Ron Dunbar....
  - Parlet
  Parlet
  
  Parlet was a female spinoff group from P-Funk formed by veteran background vocalists Mallia Franklin, Jeanette Washington and Debbie Wright. Washington and Wright were the first female members in Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975....
  
• Playing for Keeps
  Playing for Keeps
  
  Playing for Keeps is Eddie Money third album, released in 1980. It continued the early phase sound that began in 1977 with Money's debut. Jimmy Lyon guitar work is a key to standouts "Trinidad" and "Million Dollar Girl" the first and last tracks....
  - Eddie Money
  Eddie Money
  
  Eddie Money is an United States rock music singer-songwriter who found success in the 1970s and 1980s with a string of Top 40 chart-topper and music recording sales certification albums....
  
• Pretenders
  Pretenders (album)
  
  Pretenders is an album by The Pretenders, released on 19 January 1980 on Real Records . A mix of hard rock, punk rock, and New Wave music, Pretenders established the band's career....
  - The Pretenders
  The Pretenders
  
  The Pretenders are a United Kingdom rock music band. The original band consisted of group founder and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde , James Honeyman-Scott , Pete Farndon , and Martin Chambers ....
   (US)
• Progressions of Power
  Progressions of Power
  
  Progressions of Power is the fourth studio album by Canada hard rock Musical ensemble Triumph , released in 1980. The album reached #32 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and the single "I Can Survive" hit #91 on the Pop Singles chart of 1980....
  - Triumph
  Triumph
  
  Triumph may refer to:...
  
• The Psychedelic Furs
  The Psychedelic Furs (album)
  
  The Psychedelic Furs was the first album by The Psychedelic Furs. It was released in 1980 on Columbia Records. It was reissued with bonus tracks in 2002 by Columbia/Legacy....
  - The Psychedelic Furs
• Rarities
  Rarities
  
  Rarities may refer to the following musical albums:*Rarities *Rarities *Rarities *Rarities *Rarities , by Emil?ana Torrini*Rarities 1994 - 1999 , by Silverchair...
  - The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  
• Rastakraut Pasta
  Rastakraut Pasta
  
  Rastakraut Pasta is the first full-length album by German electronic music duo of Dieter Moebius and Conny Plank.Rastakraut Pasta was recorded in September, 1979 at Conny's Studio outside of Cologne....
  - Moebius & Plank
  Moebius & Plank
  
  The duo of Dieter Moebius and Conny Plank was an offshoot of Cluster that recorded five albums between 1979 and 1986. Plank died of cancer in 1987. Their final two albums were released posthumously in 1995 and 1998....
  
• Ready an' Willing
  Ready an' Willing
  
  Ready an' Willing was Whitesnake 1980 album and featured two of the band's United Kingdom single-hits from that year: "Fool for Your Loving", which reached No....
  - Whitesnake
  Whitesnake
  
  Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
  
• Real Eyes - Gil Scott Heron
• Real People
  Real People
  
  Real People was an NBC reality television series that aired from 1979 in television to 1984 in television, on Wednesday and then Sunday nights....
  - Chic
  Chic (band)
  
  Chic is an United States disco and R&B band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bass guitar Bernard Edwards. It is best-known for its commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance, Dance, Dance " , "Everybody Dance" , "Le Freak" , "I Want Your Love " , "Good Times " , and "My Forbidden Lover" ....
  
• Real to Real Cacophony
  Real to Real Cacophony
  
  Real to Real Cacophony is the second album by Simple Minds, released in 1979. The album did not chart, nor did its only single, "Changeling"....
  - Simple Minds
  Simple Minds
  
  Simple Minds are a rock music band from Scotland, who had their greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band, from the south side of Glasgow, produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s, and later went on to produce some politically inspired and critically praised work....
  
• Reflections
  Reflections (Chet Aktins and Doc Watson album)
  
  Reflections is the title of a recording by Chet Atkins and Doc Watson. The two musical legends team up on 10 songs....
  - Chet Atkins
  Chet Atkins
  
  Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins was an influential American guitarist and record producer.His picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers both within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally....
  
• Remain in Light
  Remain in Light
  
  Remain in Light is the fourth album by Talking Heads, released in 1980 in music. The album was greeted with much critical acclaim and praise, and was the last Talking Heads album produced by Brian Eno....
  - Talking Heads
  Talking Heads
  
  Talking Heads was an American rock music rock band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison....
  
• Right or Wrong
  Right or Wrong
  
  Right or Wrong is the third studio album by George Strait, released in 1983 .Right or Wrong topped Billboard Music Charts's Top Country albums chart, and peaked at #163 on the Billboard 200 albums chart....
  - Rosanne Cash
  Rosanne Cash
  
  Rosanne Cash is an United States singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music singer Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto....
  
• The River
  The River (album)
  
  The River is a double album by Bruce Springsteen released in 1980 in music....
  - Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Springsteen
  
  Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
  
• Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway - Roberta Flack
  Roberta Flack
  
  Roberta Flack is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter and musician who is notable in the areas of jazz, soul music, R&B and folk music....
   and Donny Hathaway
  Donny Hathaway
  
  Donny Edward Hathaway was an Grammy Award-winning United States soul music musician. He signed with Atlantic Records in 1969, and with his first single "The Ghetto " , Rolling Stone magazine "marked him as a major new force in soul music." His collaborations with Roberta Flack took him to the top of the charts and won him the Grammy Awa...
  
• Rockabilly Blues
  Rockabilly Blues
  
  Rockabilly Blues is an album by United States country music singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1980 . It is a collection of songs in the rockabilly style....
  - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• Romance Dance
  Romance Dance
  
  Romance Dance is a studio album by Kim Carnes, released in June, 1980 . It followed Carnes's recent duet hit with Kenny Rogers, "Don't Fall in Love With a Dreamer"....
  - Kim Carnes
  Kim Carnes
  
  Kim Carnes is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter. She is noted for her distinctive, raspy voice which she attributes to many hours spent singing in smoky bars and nightclub....
  
• The Romantics
  The Romantics
  
  The Romantics are an United States rock music band from Detroit, Michigan. The band adopted the name "The Romantics" because they formed on Valentine's Day, 1977....
  - The Romantics
  The Romantics
  
  The Romantics are an United States rock music band from Detroit, Michigan. The band adopted the name "The Romantics" because they formed on Valentine's Day, 1977....
  
• The Rose
  The Rose (soundtrack)
  
  The Rose is the Film soundtrack to the feature film of the same name starring Bette Midler which was released in 1980. Midler performs all the songs on the album, with the exception of the instrumental "Camelia"....
  (OST) - Bette Midler
  Bette Midler
  
  Bette Midler is an American singing, actress and comedienne, also known as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards....
  
• Roses in the Snow
  Roses in the Snow
  
  Roses in the Snow was a 1980 album by Emmylou Harris. While Harris' previous release, 1979's Blue Kentucky Girl featured traditional, straight-ahead country , Roses in the Snow found Harris performing bluegrass music-inspired music, with material by Flatt and Scruggs, Paul Simon, The Carter Family, and Johnny Cash....
  - Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris
  
  Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
  
• Running for my Life
  Running for My Life
  
  Running for My Life is an album by Judy Collins, released in 1980. It peaked at No 142 on the Billboard charts Pop Albums charts, continuing a significant drop-off in chart positions for Collins for the past few years and years to come until Home Again brought her near No....
  - Judy Collins
  Judy Collins
  
  Judith Marjorie Collins is an United States folk singer and pop standards singer and songwriter, known for the stunning purity of her soprano; for her eclectic tastes in the material she records ; and for her social activism....
  
• Sacred Songs
  Sacred Songs
  
  Sacred Songs is American singer/songwriter Daryl Hall's first solo album. It was produced by guitarist Robert Fripp, who also played on the album....
  - Daryl Hall
  Daryl Hall
  
  Daryl Franklin Hohl known by his stage name Daryl Hall, is an American singer and songwriter best known as half of the music duo Hall & Oates ....
  
• San Antonio Blues - Willie Nelson
  Willie Nelson
  
  Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
   with Ray Price
  Ray Price
  
  Ray Price may refer to:*Ray Price , an American country and western singer*Ray Price , a Zimbabwean cricketer*Ray Price , an Australian rugby league and union footballer...
  
• Sandinista!
  Sandinista!
  
  This article is about the pop album. For information about the political organisation see, Sandinista National Liberation Front.Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the punk rock band The Clash....
  - The Clash
  The Clash
  
  The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
  
• Saved - Bob Dylan
• Wheels of Steel
  Wheels of Steel
  
  Wheels of Steel is the second studio album by heavy metal music band Saxon . It was released in 1980 .Despite its lyric, "747 " does not appear to be based on any actual incidents....
   - Saxon
  Saxon (band)
  
  Saxon are an England heavy metal music band, formed in 1977 in music in Burnley, Yorkshire. As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with 8 UK Top 40 albums including 4 UK Top 10 albums....
  
• Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
  Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
  
  Scary Monsters is an album by David Bowie, released in September 1980 by RCA Records. It was Bowie's final studio album for the label and his first following the so-called 'Berlin Trilogy' of Low , "Heroes" and Lodger ....
   - David Bowie
  David Bowie
  
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
  
• Scream Dream
  Scream Dream
  
  Scream Dream is a 1980 Rock music album by Ted Nugent, released by Epic Records....
   - Ted Nugent
  Ted Nugent
  
  Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an United States hard rock guitarist and vocalist from Detroit, Michigan. He originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes....
  
• Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
  Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
  
  Searching for the Young Soul Rebels is the first album by Dexys Midnight Runners, released in July, 1980 .The album was ranked 98th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time....
   - Dexys Midnight Runners
  Dexys Midnight Runners
  
  Dexys Midnight Runners are a United Kingdom pop music group with soul music influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s....
  
• Second Edition - Public Image Limited
• Second Time Around
  Second Time Around
  
  Second Time Around was an American television show from the UPN Network that ran during the 2004-2005 season. After only 13 episodes, the show was cancelled, citing low ratings....
   - The Kinks
  The Kinks
  
  The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
  
• Seconds of Pleasure
  Seconds of Pleasure
  
  Seconds of Pleasure was a 1980 album by Rockpile, a band consisting of guitarists/vocalists Dave Edmunds and Billy Bremner , bassist/vocalist Nick Lowe, and drummer Terry Williams ....
   - Rockpile
  Rockpile
  
  Rockpile were a United Kingdom rock and roll group of the late 1970s and early 1980s, noted for their strong rockabilly and power pop influences, and as a foundational influence on new wave music....
  
• Selbstportrait - Vol. II
  Selbstportrait - Vol. II
  
  Selbstportrait - Vol. II is the fourth solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, best known for his work with Cluster , Harmonia , and Aquarello....
   - Hans-Joachim Roedelius
• Selbstportrait Vol. III "Reise durch Arcadien" - Hans-Joachim Roedelius
• Seventeen Seconds
  Seventeen Seconds
  
  Seventeen Seconds is the second studio album by The Cure, released in April 1980 by Fiction Records. It is the only Cure album to feature keyboardist Matthieu Hartley....
   - The Cure
  The Cure
  
  The Cure are an English Rock music band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several lineup changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member....
  
• Shadows and Light
  Shadows and Light
  
  Shadows and Light is Joni Mitchell's 1980 double album live album, recorded at the Santa Barbara County Bowl in September 1979 on the Mingus tour....
   - Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell
  
  Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
  
• Signing Off
  Signing Off
  
  Signing Off is the debut album by UB40, released in 1980. It reached #2 on the UK Albums Chart.Signing Off was UB40's first album and it features a mix of reggae and dub material which was lyrically politically charged and socially conscious, while musically was reverb-heavy, doom-laden yet mellifluous, best exemplified in the hits...
   - UB40
  UB40
  
  UB40 are a United Kingdom reggae band formed in 1978 in Birmingham. Featuring the same line-up of 8 musicians from 1978-2008, the band placed more than 50 singles on the UK charts, and achieved considerable international success as well....
  
• The Singles Album - UB40
  UB40
  
  UB40 are a United Kingdom reggae band formed in 1978 in Birmingham. Featuring the same line-up of 8 musicians from 1978-2008, the band placed more than 50 singles on the UK charts, and achieved considerable international success as well....
  
• Sinsemilla - Black Uhuru
  Black Uhuru
  
  Black Uhuru, formed by Derrick "Duckie" Simpson, is a Jamaican reggae band probably best known for their hits "Shine Eye Gal", "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", "Sinsemilla", "Solidarity", and Grammy winner "What Is Life?"....
  
• Ska 'n' B
  Ska 'n' B
  
  Ska'n'B is the first album by Bad Manners from the year 1980....
   - Bad Manners
  Bad Manners
  
  Bad Manners are an England Second Wave ska revival musical ensemble. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the fad through their bald, enormous-bodied frontman's silly on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops TV exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze....
  
• Snakes and Ladders
  Snakes and Ladders (Gerry Rafferty album)
  
  Snakes and Ladders is the fourth album by Gerry Rafferty. It was released in 1980, following the success of his previous two albums, City to City and Night Owl ....
   - Gerry Rafferty
  Gerry Rafferty
  
  Gerry Rafferty is a Scottish singer and songwriter. He is the son of a Scottish mother and an Irish father....
  
• Snap Crackle and Bop - John Cooper Clarke
  John Cooper Clarke
  
  John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet from Salford, Greater Manchester; he is often described as a Punk rock poet, having initially achieved recognition in the late 1970s during the flourishing punk movement....
  
• Social Studies
  Social studies
  
  Social studies is a term used to describe the broad study of the various fields which involve past and current human behavior and interactions. Rather than focus in depth on any one topic, social studies provides a broad overview of human behavior....
   - Carla Bley
  Carla Bley
  
  Carla Bley, n?e Borg, is an United States jazz composer, jazz piano, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Ji...
  
• Soldier
  Soldier (album)
  
  Soldier is a 1980 album by proto-punk musician Iggy Pop. David Bowie and Simple Minds provide backing vocals on "Play it Safe".It is the first album on which Iggy collaborated with ex-Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock....
   - Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop
  
  Iggy Pop, born James Newell ?sterberg, Jr. on April 21, 1947, is an American Rock music singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited mainstream success, Iggy Pop is considered an innovator of punk rock, garage rock, and other related rock music....
  
• Solo in Soho
  Solo in Soho
  
  Solo in Soho is the first solo album by Philip Lynott, released while he was still in Thin Lizzy. Current and former Lizzy members guested on the album including Scott Gorham, Brian Downey , Huey Lewis, Snowy White and Gary Moore....
   - Phil Lynott
  Phil Lynott
  
  Philip Parris Lynott was an Irish singer, bassist, instrumentalist, and songwriter, who first came to prominence as the frontman of Thin Lizzy....
  
• Something Better Change
  Something Better Change
  
  Something Better Change is the debut album by Canada punk rock band D.O.A. . The album was recorded between 1977 and 1980 in Vancouver, BC, Canada and was released in 1980 in on the label Can....
   - D.O.A.
  D.O.A. (band)
  
  D.O.A. is a hardcore punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia. They are often referred to as the "founders" of hardcore punk, along with Black Flag , Bad Brains, and Minor Threat....
  
• Songs the Lord Taught Us
  Songs the Lord Taught Us
  
  Songs the Lord Taught Us is the debut studio album by the American garage punk band The Cramps. It was released in 1980 on Illegal Records....
   - The Cramps
  The Cramps
  
  The Cramps were an American garage punk band formed in 1976. Their line-up rotated much over their existence, with the husband and wife duo of lead singer Lux Interior and lead guitarist Poison Ivy as the only permanent members....
  
• S.O.S.
  S.O.S. (S.O.S. Band album)
  
  S.O.S. is the debut album of The SOS Band, released on Tabu Records in 1980. It includes the hit single "Take Your Time ."...
   - The SOS Band
  The SOS Band
  
  The SOS Band is an United States musical ensemble, founded in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1977. Originally known as Santa Monica, the "SOS" initialism in the band's name does not stand for Save Our Souls?but for Sounds of Success....
  
• Soul Syndrome - James Brown
  James Brown
  
  James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  
• Sound Affects
  Sound Affects
  
  Sound Affects is a 1980 album by British group The Jam. This release, their fifth album, is frequently considered the closing point of The Jam's artistic peak begun on their third LP, All Mod Cons and carried through on its follow-up, Setting Sons....
   - The Jam
  The Jam
  
  The Jam were an English Rock music band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore neatly tailored suits rather than ripped clothes and incorporated a number of mainstream 1960s rock influences rather than rejecting them, placing...
  
• Special Things
  Special Things
  
  Special Things is a 1980 album released by the Pointer Sisters on Planet Records. The album marked their third venture with producer Richard Perry and featured a more stylized R&B/pop production, launching the group into its most successful period....
   - The Pointer Sisters
• Spellbound
  Spellbound
  
  Spellbound may refer to:...
   - Dennis Brown
  Dennis Brown
  
  Dennis Emmanuel Brown was a Jamaican reggae singing. During his prolific career, he had sound recording and reproduction more than 75 albums and was one of the pioneers of lovers rock, a sub-genre of reggae....
  
• Stand in the Fire
  Stand in the Fire
  
  Stand in the Fire is a live album by United States singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released Dec. 26, 1980. It was recorded during a series of performances at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California and featured two new original songs and one new cover ....
   - Warren Zevon
  Warren Zevon
  
  Warren William Zevon was an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician noted for weaving his offbeat, sardonic view of life into his music, composing dark, sometimes humorous songs often laced with political or historical themes....
  
• Stations of the Crass
  Stations of the Crass
  
  Stations of the Crass is the second album by Crass, released in 1979. The record, originally released as a double 12", includes live tracks from a gig recorded at the Pied Bull pub in Islington, London on August 7 1979....
   - Crass
  Crass
  
  Crass were an English punk band, formed in 1977, which promoted anarchism as a political ideology, lifestylism, and as a resistance movement. Crass popularized the seminal anarcho-punk movement of the punk subculture, and advocated direct action, animal rights, and environmentalism....
  
• Stone Jam - Slave
  Slave (band)
  
  Slave was an Ohio list of funk musicians and bands popular in the 1970s and early 1980s. Trumpeter Steve Washington and Mark Hicks formed the group in Dayton, Ohio, Ohio in 1975....
  
• Storm Windows
  Storm windows
  
  Storm windows are windows which are mounted outside or inside of the main glass windows of a house.Most commonly, they are found in cold climates to serve as a retrofit on existing windows in order to improve their thermal efficiencies....
   - John Prine
  John Prine
  
  John Prine is an United States country music/folk music singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s....
  
• Strong Arm of the Law
  Strong Arm of the Law
  
  Strong Arm of The Law is the third studio album by heavy metal music band Saxon released in 1980 . This was released a few months after the classic Wheels of Steel and debuted on the UK chart at #11....
   - Saxon
  Saxon (band)
  
  Saxon are an England heavy metal music band, formed in 1977 in music in Burnley, Yorkshire. As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with 8 UK Top 40 albums including 4 UK Top 10 albums....
  
• Suicide
  Suicide (second album)
  
  Suicide is the second album by the seminal punk/electronic duo known as Suicide . Their debut album was likewise self-titled.In 1998, the album was reissued on Blast First/Mute Records, containing three additional tracks and a second disc of rehearsal recordings from 1975....
   - Suicide
  Suicide (band)
  
  Suicide is an American synthpunk music group intermittently active since 1971 and composed of Alan Vega and Martin Rev . Like Silver Apples, they are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo....
  
• Super Trouper
  Super Trouper (album)
  
  Super Trouper is the seventh studio album by Sweden pop group ABBA, first released in 1980 . Led by the international hit "The Winner Takes It All", Super Trouper was the group's sixth chart-topping album in the UK....
   - ABBA
  ABBA
  
  ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
  
• Sweat Band
  Sweat Band
  
  Sweat Band is the title of the 1980 debut album by the P-Funk spin off act the Sweat Band. The album was the first official release on the Uncle Jam record label, formed by George Clinton and his business manager Archie Ivy, and distributed by CBS Records....
   - Sweat Band
  Sweat Band
  
  Sweat Band is the title of the 1980 debut album by the P-Funk spin off act the Sweat Band. The album was the first official release on the Uncle Jam record label, formed by George Clinton and his business manager Archie Ivy, and distributed by CBS Records....
  
• The Swing of Delight
  The Swing of Delight
  
  The Swing of Delight is a 1980 solo album by Carlos Carlos Santana....
   - Carlos Santana
  Carlos Santana
  
  Carlos Augusto Santana Alves is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American Rock music musician and guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana , which created a highly successful blend of rock music, salsa music, and jazz fusion....
  
• Take It Easy Baby - Buckwheat Zydeco
  Buckwheat Zydeco
  
  Buckwheat Zydeco is an United States accordionist and zydeco performer. He is one of the few to achieve mainstream success.In 1971 in music, he founded Buckwheat & the Hitchhikers, a funk band that he led for five years before switching to zydeco....
  
• Taking Liberties
  Taking Liberties
  
  Taking Liberties is a U.S. Elvis Costello album, composed of tracks not previously released on U.S. albums. It is mostly made up of B Side, although it does feature two previously unreleased recordings....
   - Elvis Costello
  Elvis Costello
  
  Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
  
• Tale of the Tape
  Tale of the Tape
  
  Tale of the Tape is a rock album by Billy Squier that was released in 1980. It was his first solo album, following two albums with the band Piper....
   - Billy Squier
  Billy Squier
  
  William Haislip "Billy" Squier is an American Rock music musician. Squier had a string of arena rock hits in the 1980s. He is probably best known for the song "The Stroke" on his 1981 album release Don't Say No....
  
• Tangerine Dream
  Tangerine Dream
  
  Tangerine Dream is a Germany electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member....
   - Tangerine Dream
  Tangerine Dream
  
  Tangerine Dream is a Germany electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member....
  
• Telekon
  Telekon
  
  Telekon is the fourth studio album, and second album under his own name, by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1980.The album debuted at the top of the United Kingdom charts in September 1980, making it his third consecutive no.1 album....
   - Gary Numan
  Gary Numan
  
  Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of commercial electronic music and has been described as the "King of synthpop." Numan is widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars "....
  
• Tennis
  Tennis (album)
  
  Tennis is an album by Chris Rea, released in 1980....
   - Chris Rea
  Chris Rea
  
  Christopher Anton Rea is a singer-songwriter from Middlesbrough, England, recognisable for his distinctive, raspy voice. Rea has sold over 30 million albums worldwide....
  
• That's What You Get Babe
  That's What You Get Babe
  
  That's What You Get Babe is the ninth studio album by Kevin Ayers and his final recording for Harvest Records. Ayers had retired to Dei?, Spain directly after 1978's Rainbow Takeaway and That's What You Get Babe was his first public appearance in two years....
   - Kevin Ayers
  Kevin Ayers
  
  Kevin Ayers is an English songwriter and major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. John Peel wrote in his autobiography that "Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it."...
  
• There and Back
  There and Back
  
  There and Back is a common name for albums, including:*There and Back *There and Back *There and Back - Live and has also been used as:*There and Back ...
   - Jeff Beck
  Jeff Beck
  
  Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an England rock music guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists — the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to have played with The Yardbirds....
  
• This Time
  This Time (Al Jarreau Album)
  
  This Time is a jazz album released by Al Jarreau in 1980 through Warner Bros. Records....
   - Al Jarreau
  Al Jarreau
  
  Alwyn Lopez "Al" Jarreau is an United States singer. A seven-time Grammy Award winner, he is the only vocalist in history to win in three separate categories: jazz, pop music, and R&B....
  
• Three Mantras
  Three Mantras
  
  Three Mantras is an extended play by Cabaret Voltaire , released in 1980....
   - Cabaret Voltaire
  Cabaret Voltaire (band)
  
  Cabaret Voltaire were a United Kingdom music musical ensemble from Sheffield, England.Initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson , the group was named after the Cabaret Voltaire , a nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland that was a center for the early Dada movement....
  
• To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl
  To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl
  
  To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl is the second album by Nurse With Wound and the last to be made by the founding trio of Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak....
   - Nurse With Wound
  Nurse with Wound
  
  Nurse with Wound is the main recording name for United Kingdom musician Steven Stapleton. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak....
  
• Tomcattin
  Tomcattin
  
  Tomcattin is the fourth studio album of Southern rock band Blackfoot , released in 1980.While the album did not spawn any hit singles, it remains a popular staple in Blackfoot's catalogue....
   - Blackfoot
  Blackfoot (band)
  
  Blackfoot is a Southern rock musical ensemble from Jacksonville, Florida, Florida. They were formed in 1972 and were contemporaries of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and tried for years to make it as a Southern rock band, although they were more popular as a hard rock outfit....
  
• Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never)
  Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never)
  
  Totale's Turns is an album by The Fall , first released May 5 1980. It was mostly recorded at gigs in the north of England, but the track "New Puritan" was recorded at Mark E....
   - The Fall
• TP
  TP (Teddy Pendergrass album)
  
  TP is the 5th album by R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass. On the album charts, it reached #14 on the US pop charts, and #3 on the US R&B charts. It spawned two top ten singles, "Can't We Try" and "Love T.K.O.," and is considered the last of his best albums....
   - Teddy Pendergrass
  Teddy Pendergrass
  
  Theodore "Teddy" DeReese Pendergrass, Sr. is an United States Rhythm and blues/Soul music singer and songwriter. Pendergrass is also known as Teddy P, TP, or Teddy Bear....
  
• Travelogue - The Human League
  The Human League
  
  The Human League are a British people synthpop band. Formed in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in 1977, they achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s....
  
• Trilogy: Past Present Future
  Trilogy: Past Present Future
  
  Trilogy: Past Present Future is a Grammy nominated 1980 triple album by the American singer Frank Sinatra. This album produced the last of Sinatra's many signature numbers, "Theme from New York, New York."...
   - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• Triumph
  Triumph
  
  Triumph may refer to:...
   - The Jacksons
• Trombipulation
  Trombipulation
  
  Trombipulation is a 1980 album by the funk band Parliament . It was released by Casablanca Records. It was the last album of original material produced by the group....
   - Parliament
  Parliament (band)
  
  Parliament was an African American music band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Funkadelic, both led by George Clinton , began the funk culture of that decade....
  
• Truth Decay
  Truth Decay
  
  Truth Decay was an early to late 1990s artrock band from Houston, Texas, Texas. Bass guitarist/songwriter Ralf Armin, himself an essential contributor to several Houston Noise Bands and experimental hard-rock groups such as Culturcide, The Pain Teens, and a sometime member of Really Red, founded the band with drummer Frank Garymartin after th...
   - T-Bone Burnett
  T-Bone Burnett
  
  Joseph Henry "T-Bone" Burnett is an American songwriter, musician and producer. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas....
  
• The Turn of a Friendly Card
  The Turn of a Friendly Card
  
  The Turn of a Friendly Card is a progressive rock album by The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1980 in music. The album focuses on gambling, and loosely tells the tale of a middle-aged man who grows restless and takes a chance by going to a casino and betting all he has, only to lose it all....
   - Alan Parsons Project
• 21 at 33
  21 at 33
  
  21 at 33 is the fourteenth studio album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1980. It was recorded at Superbear Studios, Nice, France, in August 1979....
   - Elton John
  Elton John
  
  Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  
• Two Bit Monsters
  Two Bit Monsters
  
  Two Bit Monsters was singer-songwriter John Hiatt's fourth album, released in 1980. It was his second of two albums with MCA Records. It failed to chart, and MCA dropped Hiatt....
   - John Hiatt
  John Hiatt
  
  John Hiatt is an United States rock and roll guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave music, blues and country music....
  
• Ultra Wave
  Ultra Wave
  
  Ultra Wave is the fifth album released by funk musician Bootsy Collins. It was released in October 1980 by Warner Bros. Records. It is the first album credited solely to Bootsy Collins, as opposed to his previous releases, which were credited to Bootsy's Rubber Band....
   - Bootsy Collins
  Bootsy Collins
  
  William "Bootsy" Collins is a funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins' driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk....
  
• Underwater Moonlight
  Underwater Moonlight
  
  Underwater Moonlight is a 1980 album by England band The Soft Boys. The album was re-released in 2001 as an expanded edition with nine outtakes from the main recording sessions and a bonus disc comprising seventeen tracks from the Underwater Moonlight rehearsals at the Boathouse, a rowing-team clubhouse in Cambridge....
   - The Soft Boys
  The Soft Boys
  
  The Soft Boys were an influential neo-psychedelia band from Cambridge, England often associated with the early punk rock movement. The band formed in 1976 as Dennis and the Experts and featured Robyn Hitchcock , who later went on to a distinguished...
  
• Unmasked
  Unmasked
  
  Unmasked is an album by the United States band Kiss released in 1980. It is the group's 8th album . At the time it was the last studio album from the original lineup of Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, although Criss actually had no involvement with the recording of the album....
   - Kiss
  KISS (band)
  
  Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
  
• The Up Escalator
  The Up Escalator
  
  The Up Escalator is an album by Graham Parker was released in 1980 on Arista Records....
   - Graham Parker
  Graham Parker
  
  Graham Parker is a United Kingdom Rock and roll singer and songwriter....
  
• Up-Front
  Up-Front
  
  Up-Front is a 12-inch, 45 rpm EP by The Fleshtones released in 1980. It was the band's first EP and predates their first album, Roman Gods ....
   - The Fleshtones
  The Fleshtones
  
  The Fleshtones are an United States garage rock band from Queens, New York formed in 1976....
  
• Uprising
  Uprising (album)
  
  Uprising is a 1980 roots reggae album by Bob Marley & The Wailers. As Marley died the following year, Uprising was to become the final studio album to be released during his lifetime....
   - Bob Marley and the Wailers
• Urban Cowboy
  Urban Cowboy
  
  Urban Cowboy is a 1980 United States romance film about the love-hate relationship between cowboy Bud Davis and cowgirl Sissy ....
   Soundtrack - Various Artists
• The Voice of America
  The Voice of America
  
  The Voice Of America is a 1980 album by electronic band Cabaret Voltaire....
  - Cabaret Voltaire
  Cabaret Voltaire (band)
  
  Cabaret Voltaire were a United Kingdom music musical ensemble from Sheffield, England.Initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson , the group was named after the Cabaret Voltaire , a nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland that was a center for the early Dada movement....
  
• Voices - Daryl Hall
  Daryl Hall
  
  Daryl Franklin Hohl known by his stage name Daryl Hall, is an American singer and songwriter best known as half of the music duo Hall & Oates ....
   & John Oates
  John Oates
  
  John William Oates is an United States musician and record producer best known as the mustachioed half of the successful Rock music and Soul music duo Hall & Oates....
  
• The Wanderer - Donna Summer
  Donna Summer
  
  Donna Summer is an United States singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music.Summer was trained as a gospel music singer prior to her introduction to the music industry....
  
• Warm Leatherette
  Warm Leatherette
  
  "Warm Leatherette" is a song by Daniel Miller , released on the only single by his musical project The Normal as B-side to "T.V.O.D.". It is the first release on his Mute Records label....
  - Grace Jones
  Grace Jones
  
  Grace Jones is a Jamaican?United States singer, Model , and actor....
  
• Warm Thoughts
  Warm Thoughts
  
  Warm Thoughts is a 1980 album by Smokey Robinson. It features the top 40 hit, "Let Me Be the Clock"....
  - Smokey Robinson
  Smokey Robinson
  
  William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an USA R&B and soul music singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is noted for being one of the primary figures associated with Motown Records, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy....
  
• Water's Edge
  Water's Edge
  
  Waters Edge is the eighth studio album by rock music band Sweet , released in 1980....
  - Sweet
  Sweet (band)
  
  Sweet were a popular 1970s United Kingdom glam rock band ....
  
• We Are...Every One of Us - Sweet Honey in the Rock
  Sweet Honey in the Rock
  
  Sweet Honey in the Rock is an internationally renowned all-women band, African American a cappella ensemble that has risen to fame for the ingenuity and talent of the women who work to blend their voices together in song....
  
• What's the Word - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
  The Fabulous Thunderbirds
  
  The Fabulous Thunderbirds are a blues-rock band , formed in 1974 in music....
  
• Wheels of Steel
  Wheels of Steel
  
  Wheels of Steel is the second studio album by heavy metal music band Saxon . It was released in 1980 .Despite its lyric, "747 " does not appear to be based on any actual incidents....
  - Saxon
  Saxon (band)
  
  Saxon are an England heavy metal music band, formed in 1977 in music in Burnley, Yorkshire. As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with 8 UK Top 40 albums including 4 UK Top 10 albums....
  
• When Two Worlds Collide - Jerry Lee Lewis
  Jerry Lee Lewis
  
  Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
  
• Who's Been Talking - The Robert Cray Band
  Robert Cray
  
  Robert Cray is an United States blues musician, guitarist, and singer....
  
• Wild Planet
  Wild Planet
  
  Wild Planet is the second studio album by the The B-52's, released in 1980. The album has a slightly more psychedelic and even paranoid sound than that of their debut....
  - The B-52's
  The B-52's
  
  The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
  
• Willie Nile
  Willie Nile (album)
  
  Willie Nile is the self-titled debut album by the New York singer/songwriter of the same name. Released by Arista in early 1980 to much critical praise...
  - Willie Nile
  Willie Nile
  
  Willie Nile is an American singer-songwriter, and musician. In 1980 Nile burst on the rock music scene with his self-titled debut album which remains ?one of the most thrilling post-Byrds folk-rock albums of all time?....
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• Women and Children First - Van Halen
  Van Halen
  
  Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
  
• Xanadu
  Xanadu (Soundtrack)
  
  The soundtrack to the 1980 movie Xanadu featured songs on side one of the album written by John Farrar and performed by Olivia Newton-John, and songs on side two performed by the Electric Light Orchestra which were composed by lead singer Jeff Lynne....
  (soundtrack by Olivia Newton-John
  Olivia Newton-John
  
  Olivia Newton-John Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire is an England, Australian singer and actor. She is an avid activist for both environmentalism issues and breast cancer awareness....
  , Electric Light Orchestra
  Electric Light Orchestra
  
  Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
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• Yellow EP
  Yellow EP
  
  The so-called Yellow EP was an untitled 12" Gang of Four EP released in 1980. It came to be known as the Yellow EP because of its sleeve color....
  - Gang of Four
  Gang of Four (band)
  
  Gang of Four are an England post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King , guitarist Andy Gill , bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham....
  
• Yesshows
  Yesshows
  
  Yesshows is the second live album by United Kingdom progressive rock group Yes . Released shortly after the appearance of Drama , Yesshows comprises live performances ranging from the summer of 1976 to the supporting tour for Tormato in 1978....
  - Yes
  Yes (band)
  
  Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
  
• Your Cassette Pet - Bow Wow Wow
  Bow Wow Wow
  
  Bow Wow Wow was a 1980s New Wave music band created by Malcolm McLaren to promote his and business partner Vivienne Westwood's, New Romantic fashion lines. ...
  
• Zapp
  Zapp (album)
  
  Zapp is the self-titled debut album of Ohio P-Funk band Zapp . It features the popular hit "More Bounce to the Ounce," which was featured in the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Soundtrack, and was sampled by EPMD, Snoop Dogg, The Notorious B.I.G, Twiztid, Brotha Lynch Hung, and Low Profile....
  - Zapp
  Zapp (band)
  
  Zapp is a soul music and funk band formed in 1978 by brothers Roger Troutman, Larry Troutman, Lester Troutman, Tony Troutman and Terry "Zapp" Troutman....
  
• Zenyatta Mondatta
  Zenyatta Mondatta
  
  Zenyatta Mondatta is the third album by The Police, released in 1980....
  - The Police
  The Police
  
  The Police were an English Power trio Rock music band consisting of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland . The band became globally popular in the late 1970s, playing a style of rock that was influenced by jazz, punk rock and reggae music....
  
• Zydeco Gris Gris - Beausoleil
  Beausoleil
  
  BeauSoleil is a musical group specializing in Cajun music. Based in Lafayette, Louisiana, the group members are brothers Michael Doucet and David Doucet , Jimmy Breaux , Billy Ware , Tommy Alesi , and Mitchell Reed ....