1984 in music

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Events

• January 21 - "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an England dance-pop band that were extremely popular in the mid 1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by Holly Johnson , supported by Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole and Brian Nash ....
   reaches number one in the UK singles chart; it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the Top 40.
• January 27 - Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  
  Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
  's scalp is burnt during the filming of a Pepsi
  Pepsi
  
  Pepsi is a Carbonation that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. It is sold in retail stores, restaurants, cinemas and from vending machines....
   commercial and he remains calm. Around this time, Jackson also releases the final single from his Thriller
  Thriller (album)
  
  Thriller is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall ....
   album "Thriller
  Thriller (song)
  
  "Thriller" is an early 1982 hit Single recorded by Michael Jackson for the Epic Records label. It reached #4 in the U.S. singles chart and #10 in the UK singles chart....
  ". At the time, the music video is considered to be the greatest ever created.
• February - After a successful recovery from the scalp burns, Michael is nominated for twelve Grammy awards and wins eight, breaking the record for the most Grammy Awards won in a single year. He wins seven for the critically acclaimed album Thriller
  Thriller (album)
  
  Thriller is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall ....
   and the other for a song featured in the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  
  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 in film American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace-Stone and Peter Coyote....
  .
• February 14 - 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....
   marries studio engineer Renate Blauel
  Renate Blauel
  
  Renate Blauel is a Germany music engineer who was married to Elton John for four and a half years.Already a sound engineer, she had engineered albums including Hysteria for the Human League and Croatia Records....
  . Also Joe Perry
  Joe Perry (musician)
  
  Anthony Joseph "Joe" Perry is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for the Rock music band Aerosmith....
   and Brad Whitford
  Brad Whitford
  
  Brad Whitford is the rhythm and lead guitarist for the hard rock band Aerosmith....
   Attend an Aerosmith
  Aerosmith
  
  Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
   concert
  Concert
  
  A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. The music may be performed by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band....
   and re-join the band and embark on their reunion tour "Back In The Saddle" later in the year.
• February 16 - 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....
   surrenders to federal authorities on charges of income tax evasion. Lewis is later acquitted.
• February 29 - KMFDM
  KMFDM
  
  KMFDM is a Germany industrial rock/industrial metal band led by founding member Sascha Konietzko. They have sold over 2 million records worldwide....
  's first live performance.
• March 1 - Sting plays his last concerts with 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....
   at the end of the Synchronicity tour; the band takes a "pause" after the tour and only play a few special events together after this, until 2007, when they would organize a reunion tour.
• 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...
   leaves the music industry, after touring continuously for over ten years. He would return in 1986.
• April 1 - In 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....
  , Marvin Gaye
  Marvin Gaye
  
  Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye was an United States singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range....
   is shot and killed during an argument with his father.
• May 1
• Mick Fleetwood
  Mick Fleetwood
  
  Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood is a United Kingdom-born musician best known for his role as the drummer with the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac....
  , of Fleetwood Mac
  Fleetwood Mac
  
  Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  , files for bankruptcy
  Bankruptcy
  
  Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay its creditors. Creditors may file a bankruptcy petition against a debtor in an effort to recoup a portion of what they are owed or initiate a restructuring....
   in the United States.
• Tipper Gore
  Tipper Gore
  
  Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson Gore is an author, photographer, former Second Lady of the United States, and the wife of Al Gore. She is referred to as "Tipper." She is also well known for her active role in the Parents Music Resource Center and voiced a strong opinion against records with profane language, especially in the heavy metal genre....
   forms the Parents Music Resource Center
  Parents Music Resource Center
  
  The Parents Music Resource Center was an United States committee formed in 1985 by four women: Tipper Gore, wife of United States Senate and later Vice President of the United States Al Gore; Susan Baker, wife of United States Secretary of the Treasury James Baker; Pam Howar, wife of Washington, D.C realtor Raymond Howar; and Sally Nevius,...
   (PMRC) in response to the "filth" she hears on her daughter's Prince album Purple Rain
  Purple Rain (album)
  
  Purple Rain is an album by Prince and The Revolution , the soundtrack album to the Purple Rain .Purple Rain regularly is ranked among the best albums in rock music history....
  .
• May 2 - Lionel Richie
  Lionel Richie
  
  Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning United States singer, songwriter, record producer who has sold more than 100 million records....
  's hit "Hello" becomes Motown's first ever UK million selling single.
• May 5 - 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 ....
   singer Chrissie Hynde
  Chrissie Hynde
  
  Chrissie Hynde is an American rock musician, best known as the leader of the band The Pretenders. She is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and has been the only constant member of the band throughout its history....
   marries 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....
   singer Jim Kerr
  Jim Kerr
  
  James "Jim" Kerr is a Scottish musician and singer-songwriter, famous for his work with the band Simple Minds. They achieved five UK number one albums and a number one single "Belfast Child"....
  .
• June 16-August 11 - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an England dance-pop band that were extremely popular in the mid 1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by Holly Johnson , supported by Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole and Brian Nash ....
   spend nine weeks at the top of the UK singles chart with "Two Tribes".
• July 1 - During his performance at the first ever Cornerstone Festival
  Cornerstone Festival
  
  Cornerstone Festival is a Christian music festival put on by Jesus People USA and held annually around the July 4 near Bushnell, Illinois. In a given year, many artists that play at Cornerstone also play at other events such as Creation Festival and mainstream festivals and tours such as the Warped Tour....
   in Grayslake, Illinois
  Grayslake, Illinois
  
  Grayslake is a village in Lake County, Illinois in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is located in the Chicago metropolitan area, about north of Chicago Loop, west of Lake Michigan, and south of the Wisconsin border....
  , Steve Taylor
  Steve Taylor
  
  Roland Stephen Taylor , is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and film director....
   jumps off the stage, breaking his ankle. Taylor hopped back on stage and finished his show. The next few shows on Taylor's tour were performed from a wheel chair.
• August 27 - British band Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode
  
  Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....
   released their 4th album Some Great Reward
  Some Great Reward
  
  Some Great Reward is the fourth album by the British electronic group Depeche Mode, released in 1984. The album peaked at No. 5 in the UK....
  . The first single People Are People
  People Are People
  
  "People Are People" is Depeche Mode's tenth UK single it was their first hit single in the US and the first single for the Some Great Reward album....
   was the first big Depeche Mode hit in the USA
• August 31 - Canadian 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....
   channel MuchMusic
  MuchMusic
  
  MuchMusic is a Canada English language cable television specialty channel owned by CTVglobemedia. MuchMusic is dedicated to music, music-related programs, pop and youth culture....
   debuts. The first video played is 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....
  's "The Enemy Within".
• September 14
• The first annual MTV Video Music Awards
  MTV Video Music Awards
  
  The MTV Video Music Awards were established in the end of the summer of 1984 in television by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year....
   are held in New York City.
• At the VMAs, Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  
  Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
   causes controversy during her performance of her hit single "Like a Virgin
  Like a Virgin (song)
  
  "Like a Virgin" is the first single by American singer Madonna from the Like a Virgin and was released on November 6, 1984 by Sire Records. It also appears in a truncated and slightly remixed form on the 1990 greatest hits compilation The Immaculate Collection....
  " when she rolls around on the stage, revealing lacy stockings and garters, and grinds her crotch against her veil.
• October 1 - The Jesus and Mary Chain
  The Jesus and Mary Chain
  
  The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim Reid and William Reid ....
   release their first single, "Upside Down".
• October 19 - A-Ha
  A-ha
  
  a-ha is a band from Norway. They initially rose to fame during the 1980s and have had continued success in the 1990s and 2000s.a-ha achieved their biggest success with their debut album and single in 1985....
  's career begins with the release of the "Take On Me" single in the UK.
• December 1 - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an England dance-pop band that were extremely popular in the mid 1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by Holly Johnson , supported by Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole and Brian Nash ....
   become the first act to take their first three singles to the UK #1 position since Gerry & The Pacemakers
  Gerry & the Pacemakers
  
  Gerry & the Pacemakers were a United Kingdom rock and roll musical ensemble during the 1960s. In common with The Beatles, they came from Liverpool and were management by Brian Epstein....
   in 1963, when "The Power of Love" tops the chart.
• December 3 - Bob Geldof
  Bob Geldof
  
  Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof KBE, known as Bob Geldof , is an Republic of Ireland singer, songwriter, actor and political activist who became famous as a member of the Rock music The Boomtown Rats....
   and Band Aid
  Band Aid (band)
  
  For the bandage company, see Band-Aid.Band Aid was a Great Britain and Ireland Charitable organization supergroup , founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing the record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for the Christmas market that year....
   release the single "Do They Know It's Christmas".
• December 8 - Mötley Crüe
  Mötley Crüe
  
  M?tley Cr?e are a Grammy Award-nominated American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1981.The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drum kit Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil....
   member Vince Neil
  Vince Neil
  
  Vincent Neil Wharton is the lead singer for United States glam metal band M?tley Cr?e....
   is involved in a serious car accident. He was drunk at the time, and Razzle
  Razzle
  
  Nicholas Dingley, alias Razzle , was the drummer of Hanoi Rocks from 1982 until his death....
   (Nicholas Dingley) of Hanoi Rocks
  Hanoi Rocks
  
  Hanoi Rocks is a Finland Rock music band formed in 1979, whose most successful period came in the early 1980s. The band broke up in 1985 due largely to the death of their drummer....
   was killed in the accident.
• December 31 - 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...
  's drummer Rick Allen
  Rick Allen (drummer)
  
  Richard John Cyril "Rick" Allen is the drummer for the United Kingdom hard rock band Def Leppard. He is famous for overcoming the complete amputation of his left arm to continue playing with the band, which subsequently went on to its greatest popular success worldwide....
   loses his left arm in a car wreck.
• Menudo and Menudomania reach Asia. Ricky Melendez
  Ricky Meléndez
  
  Ricky Mel?ndez is a Puerto Rican singer. He became a member of Menudo at the age of eight. He was one of the original five in the group. He is the cousin of group founder Edgardo Diaz....
   left the group, and was replaced by Ricky Martin
  Ricky Martin
  
  Enrique Mart?n Morales , better known by his stage name Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rico pop singer who rose to fame, first as a member of the Latin American music boy band Menudo , then as a solo artist since 1991....
  .
• UK singles sales this year are the second highest ever, after 1978.

Bands formed

• See Musical groups established in 1984

Bands disbanded

• Altered Images
  Altered Images
  
  Altered Images were a 1980s Scottish people New Wave music / post-punk band....
  
• Any Trouble
  Any Trouble
  
  Any Trouble are a United Kingdom rock music band originating from Crewe, England....
  
• Brotherhood Of Man
  Brotherhood of Man
  
  Brotherhood of Man are a United Kingdom pop group who won the Eurovision Song Contest in Eurovision Song Contest 1976 with "Save Your Kisses for Me"....
   (they reunite in 1986)
• 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....
  
• 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...
   (they reunite in 1987)
• Foghat
  Foghat
  
  Foghat are a British rock music band who had their peak success in the mid- to late-1970s. Their style can be described as "blues-rock," dominated by electric and Slide guitar....
  
• Gang of Four
  Gang of Four
  
  The Gang of Four was the name given to a leftist political faction composed of four Communist Party of China officials. They came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution and were subsequently charged with a series of treasonous crimes....
  
• King Crimson
  King Crimson
  
  King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
   (they reunite in 1994)
• Mission of Burma
  Mission of Burma
  
  Mission of Burma is an United States post-punk band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979. The band was formed by Roger Miller , Clint Conley , Peter Prescott and Martin Swope ....
  
• Naked Eyes
  Naked Eyes
  
  Naked Eyes was a United Kingdom synthpop band popular in the 1980s. The duo is known for their single s: a cover of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David standard " Always Something There to Remind Me" ; and their subsequent hit "Promises, Promises "....
  
• Orange Juice
  Orange juice
  
  Orange juice is a popular beverage. It is a source of vitamin C , potassium, folic acid . Citrus juices also contain flavonoids that are believed to have beneficial health effects....
  
• The Raincoats
  The Raincoats
  
  The Raincoats are a post-punk band and were formed in 1977 in music by Ana da Silva and Gina Birch while they were students at Hornsey College of Art, London, England....
  
• Poco
  Poco
  
  Poco is an United States country rock band originally formed by Richie Furay and Jim Messina following the demise of Buffalo Springfield in 1968....
  
• Rainbow
  Rainbow (band)
  
  Rainbow were a hard rock and Heavy metal music band formed by former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore in 1975 in music. In addition to Blackmore, the band originally consisted of former Elf members; lead singer Ronnie James Dio , keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule, bassist Craig Gruber, and drummer Gary Driscoll....
   (they reunite in 1995)
• Soft Cell
  Soft Cell
  
  Soft Cell are an England synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and David Ball on synthesizers....
   (they reunite in 2001)
• Status Quo
  Status Quo
  
  Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an England rock music band whose music is characterized by the twelve-bar blues....
   (they reunite the following year for Live Aid and stay together)
• The Stray Cats (they reunite in 1986, then periodically over the years)
• 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....
   (they reunite in 1995)
• Tommy Tutone
  Tommy Tutone
  
  Tommy Tutone is a powerpop/rock music rock band, best known for its 1982 chart-topper "867-5309/Jenny", which peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100....
  

Bands reformed

• 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....
  

Albums released

• 1984
  1984 (Van Halen album)
  
  1984 is the sixth album by United States hard rock band Van Halen. One of the band's more popular albums , 1984 is the final album featuring singer David Lee Roth, who later left the band in the spring of the following year due to escalating tensions between him and guitarist Eddie Van Halen, as well as Roth's desire to pursue a sol...
   - 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....
  
• 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother)
  1984 (For the Love of Big Brother)
  
  1984 is a soundtrack album by Eurythmics, containing music recorded by the group for director Michael Radford's colour remake film version of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four....
   - 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....
  
• About Face
  About Face
  
  About Face can refer to:* about-face, a Drill commands in which a unit or soldier makes a 180 degree turn.* About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, Colonel David H....
  - David Gilmour
  David Gilmour
  
  David Jon Gilmour Order of the British Empire , is an England musician, best known as the guitarist, lead singer, and one of the main songwriters in the band Pink Floyd....
  
• Agent Provocateur
  Agent provocateur
  
  Traditionally, an agent provocateur is a person employed by the police or other entity to act undercover to entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal act....
  - 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 ....
  
• Alf
  Alf (album)
  
  Alf is the debut solo studio album of singer/songwriter Alison Moyet, her first since leaving 80s electro-pop band Yazoo /Yaz. The album, which took its title from the singer's nickname, went to #1 on the UK album charts and includes three hit singles; "Love Resurrection", "Invisible" and "All Cried Out"....
  - Alison Moyet
  Alison Moyet
  
  Alison Moyet , is an England Popular music singer-songwriter noted for her bluesy voice....
   (solo debut)
• All Fired Up - Fastway
  Fastway (band)
  
  Fastway are a heavy metal music band formed by guitarist, Eddie Clarke, formerly of Mot?rhead, and bassist, Pete Way, formerly of UFO ....
  
• All Over the Place
  All Over the Place
  
  All Over the Place was The Bangles' first full length album for Columbia Records. Released in 1984, the sound is lively and shows more Bangles collaboration and less keyboard overdubs that were used later on their more commercially successful albums....
  - The Bangles
  The Bangles
  
  The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles through much of the decade....
  
• All the Rage
  All the Rage
  
  All the Rage is the debut album by General Public, released in 1984 ....
  - General Public
  General Public
  
  General Public was a Pop band, formed by former The Beat vocalists Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger....
  
• All Those Wasted Years - Hanoi Rocks
  Hanoi Rocks
  
  Hanoi Rocks is a Finland Rock music band formed in 1979, whose most successful period came in the early 1980s. The band broke up in 1985 due largely to the death of their drummer....
  
• Animal Grace
  Animal Grace
  
  Animal Grace is the eleventh studio album by Canadian Rock music Musical ensemble April Wine, released in 1984 . At that time, it was said to be the final album the band would record, as its members all went in separate directions shortly thereafter....
  - April Wine
• Animalize - 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...
  
• A Private Heaven
  A Private Heaven
  
  A Private Heaven, released in 1984, was the fifth album release by Scotland singer Sheena Easton. Released by EMI America, the album featured the US Top 10 hit singles Strut and "Sugar Walls" and "Swear"....
  Sheena Easton
  Sheena Easton
  
  Sheena Shirley Orr, better known by her stage name, Sheena Easton is a Scotland singer and actress. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the United Kingdom television program The Big Time , which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract, and got her a deal with EMI....
  
• Arena
  Arena (album)
  
  Arena is a live album by Duran Duran, originally released worldwide in 1984 in music and reissued with two bonus tracks in 2004 in music....
   (live) - 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....
  
• The Art of Defense - Nona Hendryx
  Nona Hendryx
  
  Nona Hendryx is an American vocalist, record producer, songwriter, musician, author, and actor. Many articles mistakenly give her first name as Wynona, which her manager, Vicki Wickham, has verified to be incorrect....
  
• The Ascension
  The Ascension (Glenn Branca album)
  
  The Ascension is the second album released by Glenn Branca, it was re-released by Acute Records in 2003 with new artwork....
   - Glenn Branca
  Glenn Branca
  
  Glenn Branca is a highly-influential avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, scordatura, minimal music, drone, and the harmonic series ....
  
• Aural Sculpture - 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....
  
• Bachman-Turner Overdrive
  Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1984 album)
  
  Bachman-Turner Overdrive is a studio album by Canada rock music band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, released in 1984 . This is the only BTO studio album done without Robbie Bachman on drums....
   - 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....
  
• Back and Forth
  Back and Forth
  
  Back and Forth was the self-published debut album of Skinny Puppy, released in 1984. It was supposed to be a limited edition of 50 copies but only 35 were actually made....
   - Skinny Puppy
  Skinny Puppy
  
  Skinny Puppy is a Canada band, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1982 in music. Initially envisioned as an experimental side project by cEvin Key while he was in the new wave band , Nivek Ogre soon joined as vocalist and Skinny Puppy evolved into a full-time project....
  
• Bad Attitude
  Bad Attitude (album)
  
  Bad Attitude is a 1984 album by Meat Loaf, recorded in England. It features two songs by Jim Steinman, both previously recorded, and a duet with Roger Daltrey....
   - Meat Loaf
  Meat Loaf
  
  Michael Lee Aday , better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, is an United States rock music musician and actor of theatre and film. He is noted for the Bat out of Hell album trilogy that he created consisting of Bat out of Hell, Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell and Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, and several fa...
  
• Balls to the Wall
  Balls to the Wall
  
  Balls to the Wall is the fifth album by the Germany Heavy metal music band Accept, released in 1983 in Germany and 1984 in the United States....
   - 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...
  
• Bananarama
  Bananarama
  
  Bananarama are an United Kingdom girl group who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Although there have been line-up changes during the years, the group enjoyed its most popular success as a trio, made up of lifelong friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin....
   - Bananarama
  Bananarama
  
  Bananarama are an United Kingdom girl group who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Although there have been line-up changes during the years, the group enjoyed its most popular success as a trio, made up of lifelong friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin....
  
• Begegnungen
  Begegnungen
  
  Begegnungen is a Sky Records 1984 in music compilation album by Brian Eno, Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Conny Plank, recording as Cluster , from solo albums, and from various collaborations between the artists....
   - Eno
  Brian Eno
  
  Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
   Moebius
  Dieter Moebius
  
  Dieter Moebius is a Germany/Swiss Experimental music/krautrock/ambient music/electronic music musician.Moebius studied art in Brussels and Berlin and met there Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler ....
   Roedelius Plank
  Conny Plank
  
  Konrad "Conny" Plank was a record producer and musician. His creativity as a sound engineer and producer helped to shape some of the most important and innovative recordings of postwar European popular music, covering a wide range of genres including Avant-progressive rock, Avant-garde music and electronic music....
  
• Berserker
  Berserker (Gary Numan album)
  
  Berserker is the eighth studio album, and sixth under his own name, by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1984. It was his first album to be released under Numan's own record label, Numa Records....
   - 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 "....
  
• The Best of Kansas
  The Best of Kansas
  
  The Best of Kansas was the first compilation album from the American rock music band Kansas . It was originally released in 1984, and featured one new track, "Perfect Lover," written and performed by then-lead vocalist John Elefante....
   - 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"....
  
• Beverly Hills Cop
  Beverly Hills Cop
  
  Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States action film-comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. Murphy stars as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop, who heads to Beverly Hills, California to solve the death of his best friend....
   (soundtrack) - Various Artists
• Bewitched - Andy Summers
  Andy Summers
  
  Andy Summers is an England guitarist and composer best known for his work in The Police. Summers' primary guitars are the Fender Telecaster, Fender Stratocaster, and various Hamer Guitars models when playing rock; and Gibson Guitar Corporation electric guitars when playing jazz fusion and jazz....
   & 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....
  
• Big Bam Boom
  Big Bam Boom
  
  Big Bam Boom was an album by Daryl Hall & John Oates that was released on RCA in 1984. BMG Heritage released a remastered version in July 2004 with four bonus tracks....
  - Hall & Oates
  Hall & Oates
  
  Hall & Oates are a pop music duet made up of Daryl Hall and John Oates.The act achieved its greatest celebrity in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s....
  
• The Blitz
  The Blitz (album)
  
  The Blitz is Heavy metal music and hard rock band Krokus ' eighth album. It became a gold album in the United States. While preparing to record it, Patrick Mahassen had been tapped to join the band on guitar, Mark Kohler having switched to bass....
   - 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....
  
• Body & Soul - 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....
  
• Bon Jovi
  Bon Jovi (album)
  
  Bon Jovi is the self-titled debut album by American rock band Bon Jovi, and was released in January 1984.It is also significant for being the only Bon Jovi album on which a song appears that was not written or co-written by members of the band....
   - Bon Jovi
  Bon Jovi
  
  Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
  
• Born in the U.S.A.
  Born in the U.S.A.
  
  Born in the U.S.A. is the seventh studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1984 .In contrast to his previous album, the critical favorite Nebraska , Born in the U.S.A. featured anthemic, radio-friendly arrangements and 1980s production incorporating Springsteen's first use of synthesizers....
   - 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....
  
• Box of Frogs - Box of Frogs
  Box of Frogs
  
  Box of Frogs were a band formed in 1983 by former members of The Yardbirds, who released their first album in 1984. The core group comprised Chris Dreja, Paul Samwell-Smith, and Jim McCarty....
  
• Breaking Curfew
  Breaking Curfew
  
  Breaking Curfew can refer to:* Breaking Curfew , from 1984* a 1995 promo CD named Breaking Curfew by the Indigo Girls...
   - 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....
  
• Breaking Hearts
  Breaking Hearts
  
  Breaking Hearts is the eighteenth studio album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1984. It features the classic quartet of Elton John, Davey Johnstone, Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson....
   - 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....
  
• Building the Perfect Beast
  Building the Perfect Beast
  
  Building the Perfect Beast is the second album by Don Henley, released in 1984 in music....
   - 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....
  
• Burning Oil - Skeletal Family
  Skeletal Family
  
  Skeletal Family are a gothic rock band which formed in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England in December, 1982. The band formed from the remaining membership of an earlier group, called The Elements, and took their name from the title of the song "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" from the 1974 David Bowie album, Diamond Dogs....
  
• Café Bleu
  Café Bleu
  
  Caf? Bleu is the official debut album released by the band The Style Council in March 1984, reaching number 2 in the UK charts. It followed the compilation Introducing The Style Council, which was released only in Holland and Japan....
   - The Style Council
  The Style Council
  
  The Style Council were an England musical group formed in 1983 by ex-The Jam singer and guitarist Paul Weller with keyboardist Mick Talbot. The permanent lineup grew to include drummer Steve White and Weller's then-wife, vocalist Dee C....
  
• The Catch
  The Catch (album)
  
  The Catch was a 1984 album by the Scottish Hard rock band Nazareth ....
   - 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."...
  
• Cats Without Claws
  Cats Without Claws
  
  Cats Without Claws is an album released by Donna Summer in 1984. Summer had achieved monumental fame during the disco era of the 1970s, and by now was signed to Geffen Records....
   - 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....
  
• Caught in the Act
  Caught in the Act (Styx album)
  
  Caught in the Act is a live album by Styx , released in 1984 in music. The album contained one new song, "Music Time ", which was released as a single, reaching #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts....
   - 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....
  
• Centipede - Rebbie Jackson
  Rebbie Jackson
  
  Maureen Reillette "Rebbie" Brown , professionally known as Rebbie Jackson, is an United States singer, best known as the oldest child of the successful The Jacksons and sister of pop icons Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson....
  
• Chicago 17
  Chicago 17
  
  Chicago 17 is the seventeenth album by United States rock music band Chicago and was released in 1984. As the follow-up to 1982's comeback Chicago 16, Chicago 17 consolidated on its predecessor's popularity by delivering their most popular album - currently six times platinum in the US alone and a Grammy winner - and one which wo...
   - 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....
  
• Climate of Hunter
  Climate of Hunter
  
  Climate of Hunter is a 1984 album by Scott Walker . It was Scott Walker's first solo album since 1974's We Had It All, having released three albums with The Walker Brothers in the intervening period....
   - Scott Walker
  Scott Walker (singer)
  
  Scott Walker is the stage name of the American musician Noel Scott Engel , former lead singer with The Walker Brothers. He has been living in England since the 1960s, and continues to release new solo material....
  
• Condition Critical - Quiet Riot
  Quiet Riot
  
  Quiet Riot was an United States Heavy metal music band whose 1983 US Festival appearance helped to solidify metal's image. They are best known for their hit singles "Cum on Feel the Noize" and "Metal Health ." They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, under the name Mach 1....
  
• Couldn't Stand the Weather
  Couldn't Stand the Weather
  
  Couldn't Stand the Weather is the second studio album by Stevie Ray Vaughan, released in 1984....
   - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
• Dali - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• A Dancing Foot and a Praying Knee Don't Belong on the Same Leg - Scattered Order
• Dancing on the Edge - Lita Ford
  Lita Ford
  
  Lita Ford is an United States rock music musician and singer who was the lead guitarist for The Runaways and achieved popularity for her solo career during the 1980s....
  
• Dead Can Dance
  Dead Can Dance
  
  Dead Can Dance is a band composed of Lisa Gerrard , and Brendan Perry . Formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1981 and initially based there, it disbanded in 1998 but reunited temporarily for a world tour in 2005....
   - Dead Can Dance
  Dead Can Dance (album)
  
  Dead Can Dance is the debut album recorded by the Dead Can Dance in 1984. This album differs greatly from later Dead Can Dance releases, particularly in terms of ethnic fusion....
  
• Defenders of the Faith
  Defenders of the Faith
  
  Defenders of the Faith is the 9th studio album by British Heavy metal music band Judas Priest. The album was recorded at Ibiza Sound Studios, Ibiza and mixed from September to November 1983 at DB Recording Studios and Bayshore Recording Studios in Miami, Florida....
   - 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....
  
• Deia...Vu
  Deià...Vu
  
  Dei?...Vu is the eleventh studio album by Kevin Ayers, recorded in December 1980 and released in Spain after a remix in August 1984. All tracks are written by Kevin Ayers except 6 ....
   - 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."...
  
• Desert Moon
  Desert Moon
  
  Desert Moon is the debut solo album from one-time Styx keyboard player/singer/songwriter Dennis DeYoung. It was released in 1984 by A&M Records....
   - Dennis DeYoung
  Dennis DeYoung
  
  Dennis DeYoung is an American singer, songwriter, musician and Record producer best known for being a founding member of the rock band Styx , a tenure which lasted from 1970 to 1999....
  
• Discovery
  Discovery (Mike Oldfield album)
  
  Discovery is the 9th vinyl record by Mike Oldfield, released in 1984 in music. It was recorded at Oldfield's then-home in Villars-sur-Ollon in the Swiss Alps where he was living for tax reasons....
   - Mike Oldfield
  Mike Oldfield
  
  Mike Oldfield is an England multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk music, ethnic or world music, European classical music, electronic music, New Age music and more recently dance music....
  
• Double Nickels on the Dime
  Double Nickels on the Dime
  
  Double Nickels on the Dime is the third album by American punk rock trio Minutemen , released on the Californian independent record label SST Records in 1984....
   - 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....
  
• Dream Street
  Dream Street (album)
  
  Dream Street is the second studio album by American recording artist Janet Jackson, released in 1984 .More pop than her debut album's "bubblegum pop soul music" feel, the album wasn't the runaway success that Janet's father Joseph thought it would be, peaking at number one hundred and forty-seven on the Billboard 200 in 1984....
   - Janet Jackson
  Janet Jackson
  
  Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians....
  
• Dreamtime - The Cult
  The Cult
  
  The Cult are an England Rock music band which gained a dedicated following in their native Britain with mid-1980s singles like "She Sells Sanctuary" before breaking into the American metal market in the late '80s with "Love Removal Machine"....
  
• The Dungeons Are Calling
  The Dungeons Are Calling
  
  The Dungeons Are Calling is an extended play by Savatage, released in 1984 on Metal Blade Records. Though the album was not released until 1984, most of the songs featured on the album and Sirens had been in the bands set list since 1979, and were part of the Live In Clearwater and City Beneath The Surface EP's....
   (EP) - Savatage
  Savatage
  
  Savatage is a progressive metal band founded by the brothers Jon Oliva and Criss Oliva in 1978 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Although they were known mainly as a progressive metal band, their origins could be attributed to classic Heavy metal music, as expressed by their debut album, Sirens ....
  
• E2-E4
  E2-E4
  
  E2-E4 is a 1984 album by electronica Manuel G?ttsching. It was named the 79th greatest album of the 1980s by Pitchfork Media....
   - Manuel Göttsching
  Manuel Göttsching
  
  Manuel G?ttsching is a Germany musician and composer.As the leader of the group Ash Ra Tempel or Ashra, one of the most notable German groups of the 1970s and 80s, as well as a solo artist, he is one of the most important guitarists of the Kosmische Musik genre....
  
• Eden
  Eden (Everything but the Girl album)
  
  Eden is the debut album by the alternative dance group Everything But The Girl from Kingston upon Hull, England that was released in 1984. It contains their first UK Top 30 entry, the #28 hit "Each and Every One"....
   - Everything But The Girl
  Everything but the Girl
  
  Everything but the Girl are a two-person England band formed in Kingston upon Hull in 1982 in music, consisting of lead singer and sometime-guitarist Tracey Thorn ...
  
• Eyes Of Innocence
  Eyes of Innocence (Miami Sound Machine album)
  
  Eyes of Innocence is the 8th studio album released by the Miami Sound Machine, and their first English language studio album, released in 1984 ....
   - Miami Sound Machine
• Family Man - 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....
  
• Fantastic Boney M.
  Fantastic Boney M.
  
  Fantastic Boney M. is a compilation album of recordings by Boney M. released by Hansa Records in Germany in December 1984.This collection, subtitled Die Grossen Erfolge, which was issued shortly after Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs focuses on the early career of the band and their best-known hits such as "Daddy Cool", "Ma Bake...
   - Boney M.
• First Strike
  First Strike (Def Leppard album)
  
  First Strike is a bootleg recording of Def Leppard. The album contains seven demo recordings. The majority of the record is five demo recordings of songs that would all be revisited and rerecorded, in sometimes very different versions, for their first album On Through the Night....
   - 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...
  
• First Two 7"s on a 12" - Minor Threat
  Minor Threat
  
  Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. Despite being so short-lived, the band had a strong influence on the hardcore punk music scene....
  
• Fistful of Metal
  Fistful of Metal
  
  Fistful of Metal is the name of the debut album by United States Heavy metal music band Anthrax . The album was released in January 1984 by Megaforce Records in the United States and by Music For Nations internationally....
   - Anthrax
  Anthrax (band)
  
  Anthrax is a New York City-based Heavy metal music band that released its first full-length album in 1984. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene and is notable for being the first to combine heavy metal with Hip hop music music....
  
• The Flat Earth
  The Flat Earth
  
  The Flat Earth is Thomas Dolby's followup LP to The Golden Age of Wireless. It was recorded in 1983 and released in early 1984 in music. The album charted at #35 in America, but no singles off it charted in the top 40....
   - Thomas Dolby
  Thomas Dolby
  
  Thomas Dolby is an England musician and producer....
  
• Forever Young - Alphaville
• Fried
  Fried (album)
  
  Fried was the second solo album by Julian Cope.Bill Drummond's 1986 album The Man replied in kind to "Bill Drummond Said", with a song titled "Julian Cope Is Dead"....
   - Julian Cope
  Julian Cope
  
  Julian Cope is a British Rock music musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, and poet who came to prominence in 1978 as the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band The Teardrop Explodes....
  
• From Her to Eternity
  From Her to Eternity
  
  From Her to Eternity is the debut album released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 1984. The title is a pun on the book/movie From Here to Eternity....
   - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  
  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian Rock music band with multinational personnel, fronted by Nick Cave....
  
• From the Promised Land
  From the Promised Land
  
  From The Promised Land is a 1984 album by Play Dead , and the original version of the band's Resurrection . Only 1000 copies of this LP were pressed because the band members decided they were dissatisfied with the album....
   - Play Dead
• From The Promised Land (remix) - Play Dead
• Give Em' The Axe EP - Lizzy Borden
  Lizzy Borden (band)
  
  Lizzy Borden is an United States Heavy metal music band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. Lizzy Borden is also the name of the band's lead vocalist....
  
• Give My Regards to Broad Street
  Give My Regards to Broad Street
  
  Give My Regards to Broad Street is the name of a film and soundtrack album, masterminded by Paul McCartney. They were both were released in 1984, following the success of McCartney's previous albums Tug of War and Pipes of Peace ....
   - 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....
  
• The Glamorous Life
  The Glamorous Life
  
  "The Glamorous Life" is a song written by Prince in 1984 and first recorded by percussion instrument Sheila E.. The dance song has lyrics which reflect a cynicism for the decadence and materialism of the song's protagonist, referred to in the third person, who "wants to lead a glamorous life", although she is aware that "without love, it ai...
   - Sheila E.
  Sheila E.
  
  Sheila Escovedo , known by her stage name Sheila E., is an United States musician, perhaps best known for her work with Prince and Ringo Starr....
  
• Gone Fishin'
  Gone Fishin' (album)
  
  Gone Fishin is a 1984 gramophone record album, the second studio release by San Francisco punk/noise rock band Flipper . The album's artwork featured a depiction of Flipper's tour van as a ready-to-cut-out-and-assemble centerpiece, with similar cutouts of the four band members on the back cover....
   - Flipper
  Flipper (band)
  
  Flipper is an influential punk rock band formed in San Francisco, California, California in 1979, continuing in often erratic fashion until the mid-1990s, then reuniting in 2005....
  
• Grace Under Pressure
  Grace Under Pressure (Rush album)
  
  Grace Under Pressure is the tenth studio album by the Canada rock music band Rush , released in 1984 . A symbol for the album is the letter "P" above a line with the letter "G" below ....
   - 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....
  
• Great White (band)
  Great White
  
  Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"....
   - Great White (band)
  Great White
  
  Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"....
  
• Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. - Dwight Yoakam
  Dwight Yoakam
  
  Dwight David Yoakam is an United States singer-songwriter and actor, most famous for his country music. Active since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
   (debut)
• Hajimemashite (How Do You Do) - 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....
  
• Hard to Hold - Rick Springfield
  Rick Springfield
  
  Rick Springfield is an Australian-United States songwriter, musician and actor. As a musician he is most famous for the 1981 in music #1 single "Jessie's Girl", which became a Grammy Award-winning landmark of 1980s pop music-rock music and helped establish the emerging music video age....
  
• Hatful of Hollow
  Hatful of Hollow
  
  Hatful of Hollow is a compilation album by The Smiths that features BBC Radio 1 studio recordings and two contemporary single with their B-sides....
   - The Smiths
  The Smiths
  
  The Smiths were an English Rock music band formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce ....
  
• Haunting the Chapel EP - Slayer
  Slayer
  
  Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
  
• Heart Don't Lie - LaToya Jackson
• Heartbeat City
  Heartbeat City
  
  Heartbeat City is the fifth studio album by United States New Wave music band The Cars, released in 1984.Heartbeat City contains a total of five American Top 40 singles, two of which were Top 10 as well, reaching #3 and #7, respectively....
   - 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 ....
  
• High 'N' Dry
  High 'n' Dry
  
  High 'n' Dry is the second studio album by United Kingdom Heavy metal music band Def Leppard, released on July 11, 1981 and the last studio album by the band to feature original co-lead guitarist Pete Willis, who was fired on July 11, 1982 for excessive alcohol consumption and was replaced by former Girl guitarist Phil Collen for their...
   - 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...
   (re-Release)
• Hits out of Hell
  Hits out of Hell
  
  Hits out of Hell is a 1984 compilation album by Meat Loaf. It includes 7 Jim Steinman songs and its original release featured the hit, "Modern Girl" off Bad Attitude , which came out at about the same time....
   - Meat Loaf
  Meat Loaf
  
  Michael Lee Aday , better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, is an United States rock music musician and actor of theatre and film. He is noted for the Bat out of Hell album trilogy that he created consisting of Bat out of Hell, Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell and Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, and several fa...
  
• The Honeydrippers: Volume One
  The Honeydrippers: Volume One
  
  The Honeydrippers: Volume One is an EP released on 12 November, 1984 by a band led by rock singer Robert Plant. The project originated when Atlantic Records president Ahmet Erteg?n wanted to record an album of his favourite songs from the 1950s....
   - Robert Plant
  Robert Plant
  
  Robert Anthony Plant Order of the British Empire , is an England Rock and Roll singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the former rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career....
  
• Horizen - Jade Warrior
  Jade Warrior (band)
  
  Jade Warrior are a British music group that were formed in 1970, evolving out of the band July. The founding members were Tony Duhig , Jon Field and Glyn Havard ....
  
• How Will the Wolf Survive? - Los Lobos
  Los Lobos
  
  Los Lobos are an United States rock band. They are 3-time Grammy Award winners. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tejano music, country music, folk music, R&B, blues and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as boleros and norte?o s....
  
• Hyaena
  Hyaena
  
  For the Siouxsie & the Banshees album, see Hy?na.Hyaena is a genus of two living species of hyenas: The striped hyena from western Asia and northern Africa and the brown hyena from southern Africa....
   - Siouxsie and the Banshees
• I Often Dream of Trains - Robyn Hitchcock
  Robyn Hitchcock
  
  Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar....
  
• Icon - Icon
  Icon
  
  An 'icon' is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity. More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics; by extension, ...
    (debut album)
• In Rock We Trust - Y&T
  Y&T
  
  Y&T is an United States hard rock/Heavy metal music formed in 1974. They hail from the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The band released two studio albums on London Records as Yesterday & Today in the 1970s, before shortening their name to Y&T and releasing several albums on A&M Records beginning in 1981, as well as albums on Geffen...
  
• Inside the Fire
  Inside the Fire (Rita Coolidge album)
  
  Inside the Fire is a 1984 album by Rita Coolidge and was released on the A&M Records label. This would prove to be Rita's last studio album with her longtime label, A&M Records....
   - 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....
  
• In the Studio
  In the Studio
  
  In the Studio is the third album from the ska band The Specials, released in 1984 - long after the break-up of the original Specials - and only just managed to get into the U.K....
   - 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....
  
• Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite - Killdozer
  Killdozer (band)
  
  Killdozer was the name of a band formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1983, with members Bill Hobson, Dan Hobson and Michael Gerald. They took their name from Killdozer! , directed by Jerry London, itself based on a Killdozer! ....
  
• In the Long Grass
  In the Long Grass
  
  In the Long Grass is the last studio album by The Boomtown Rats, released in 1984 in the U.K. and 1985 in the U.S....
   - The Boomtown Rats
  The Boomtown Rats
  
  The Boomtown Rats were an Republic of Ireland rock music musical ensemble, that scored a series of United Kingdom hit record between 1977 and 1980, and were led by singing Bob Geldof, who organized the Ethiopian famine relief efforts, Band Aid and Live Aid....
  
• Into the Gap
  Into the Gap
  
  Into the Gap is the fourth album by the British pop group Thompson Twins. It was released in 1984 and reached no.1 on the UK Albums Chart, and no.10 on the U.S....
   - Thompson Twins
  Thompson Twins
  
  The Thompson Twins were a Great Britain Pop music group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the United States and around the globe....
  
• Isolation
  Isolation (Toto album)
  
  Isolation is the fifth studio album by Toto , released in November 1984. This was one of two albums the band made with Fergie Fredriksen as the primary vocalist, the other being their soundtrack to Dune ....
   - Toto
  Toto (band)
  
  Toto was an United States Rock music Rock band founded in 1977 by some of the most popular and experienced session musicians of the era. The band enjoyed great commercial success in the 1980s, beginning with the band's Toto , released in 1978, which immediately brought the band into the mainstream rock spectrum of the time....
  
• It's My Life
  It's My Life (album)
  
  It's My Life was the second album by Talk Talk, released in 1984. It was a Top 5 hit album in several Europe countries, thanks to the big international success of its singles ; whereas it charted only at #35 in the UK Top 40....
   - Talk Talk
  Talk Talk
  
  Talk Talk were a popular British Rock music group that were active from 1981 to 1991. In mainstream circles, the group is most well known for their early synthpop singles, including the international hits "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life ", "Such a Shame", "Dum Dum Girl", "Life's What You Make It " and "Living in Another World"....
  
• Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs
  Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs
  
  Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs is a compilation album by Boney M. released in late 1984. On the strength of two carbon-copy cover versions, "Kalimba De Luna" and "Happy Song" which gave Boney M....
   - Boney M.
• Keep Moving
  Keep Moving
  
  Keep Moving is the fifth album by the United Kingdom ska band Madness from 1984. It was the last Madness album prior to their 1999 comeback album Wonderful to feature Mike Barson....
   - 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....
  
• L.A. Is My Lady
  L.A. Is My Lady
  
  L.A. Is My Lady is a 1984 album by Frank Sinatra, featuring arrangements by Quincy Jones. It was the last solo album that Sinatra recorded....
   - 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"....
  
• Lady of the Stars
  Lady of the Stars
  
  Lady of the Stars is the seventeenth studio album, and nineteenth album overall, from Scotland singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United Kingdom and the United States in January 1984....
   - 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....
  
• The Las Vegas Story
  The Las Vegas Story (album)
  
  The Las Vegas Story is the third studio album by punk blues group The Gun Club, released in 1984. This album saw the return of founding member and lead guitarist Kid Congo Powers, after a three year stint with The Cramps....
   - The Gun Club
• The Last in Line
  The Last in Line
  
  The Last in Line is the second studio album by Heavy metal music band Dio, released on July 13, 1984. It was certified Gold album by the RIAA on September 12, 1984, and was the first Dio album to be certified Platinum album, achieving the feat on February 3, 1987....
   - Dio
• Lay Down the Law - Keel
  Keel (band)
  
  Keel is an United States glam metal, Heavy metal music band founded in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. They were known for their rock anthem "The Right to Rock." The band was active until 1989, with a brief reunion in 1998....
   (debut album)
• Learning to Crawl
  Learning to Crawl
  
  After a more than two-year hiatus - during which time Pretenders members James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon both died of drug overdoses - new wave music pioneers The Pretenders released their third album Learning to Crawl in 1984....
   - 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 ....
  
• Legend: Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers
  Legend (album)
  
  Legend is a greatest hits collection of Bob Marley and the Wailers songs, released by Island records on May 8, 1984 . It is the best selling reggae album of all time , with sales of more than 20 million copies.....
   - Bob Marley & the Wailers
  Bob Marley & The Wailers
  
  Bob Marley & The Wailers was a reggae band created in 1974 by Bob Marley, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers ....
  
• Let It Be
  Let It Be (Replacements album)
  
  Let It Be is the third studio album from the American rock music band The Replacements, released in October 1984 on Twin/Tone Records. By 1983's Hootenanny , the band had grown tired of playing loud and fast exclusively and decided to write songs that were, according to vocalist Paul Westerberg, "a little more sincere." Influenced by...
   - The Replacements
  The Replacements
  
  The Replacements were an American rock music band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota in 1979. The band was composed of guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bassist Tommy Stinson, and drummer Chris Mars for most of their career....
  
• Lights Out
  Lights Out (Peter Wolf album)
  
  Lights Out is the debut album by Peter Wolf, released in 1984 ....
   - Peter Wolf
  Peter Wolf
  
  File:PeterWolfPerforming.jpgFor the Austrian-born composer, producer, songwriter and arranger, see Peter Wolf .Peter Wolf is an United States rock and roll musician, best known as the lead vocalist for the J....
  
• Like a Virgin
  Like a Virgin
  
  Like a Virgin is the second studio album by United States singer-songwriter Madonna , released on November 12, 1984 by Sire Records. The album was re-released in 1985 for the European market with the bonus track "Into the Groove." In 2001, Warner Bros....
   - Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  
  Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
  
• Live '84
  Live '84
  
  Live '84 is an album released by Black Flag in 1984 on SST Records. It is a live recording of a show played in 1984 and features mostly tracks from My War and Slip It In....
   - 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....
  
• Live at the Inferno
  Live at the Inferno
  
  Live at the Inferno is a live album by the band Raven , released in 1984 . The song "Live at the Inferno" first appeared on Raven's 1982 album Wiped Out....
   - Raven
  Raven (band)
  
  Raven are an England Heavy metal music band associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. They had a hit with the single "On and On", and refer to their music as "athletic rock"....
  
• Live Sentence - Alcatrazz
  Alcatrazz
  
  Alcatrazz is a melodic Classic Metal band formed in 1983 in Los Angeles by Graham Bonnet, Jimmy Waldo and Gary Shea....
  
• Love at First Sting
  Love at First Sting
  
  Love at First Sting is the ninth studio album by the Germany Heavy metal music band Scorpions , released in 1984 . Love at First Sting became the most successful album of the band in the USA where it peaked at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1984 and went triple platinum....
   - 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 "....
  
• Make It Big
  Make It Big
  
  Make It Big is the second album from British pop duo Wham!, released in 1984. The album was a critical and commercial success, hitting #1 in both the UK and the USA and spawning four singles, all topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic....
   - Wham!
  WHAM!
  
  Wham! was a pop music band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. It was briefly known in the United States as Wham!-UK because of a naming conflict with another band....
  
• Man on the Line
  Man on the Line
  
  Man on the Line is an album by Chris de Burgh, released in 1984....
   - Chris de Burgh
  Chris de Burgh
  
  Chris de Burgh is an Irish-based musician and singer-songwriter who holds British nationality . A musician who writes a variety of mixed instrumental material, Chris de Burgh had huge success in Ireland, Britain and the United States with the 1986 hit "The Lady in Red "....
  
• March of the Saint - Armored Saint
  Armored Saint
  
  Armored Saint is a Los Angeles, United States, based Heavy metal band....
  
• Mast Nazren -Ecstatic Glances Live in London, 1984 - Ghulam Ali
  Ghulam Ali
  
  Ghulam Ali is a famous Pakistani ghazal singer of the Patiala Gharana. He is not to be confused with the eminent classical vocalist Bade Ghulam Ali Khan who was an Indian singer or Ustad Chhote Ghulam Ali, who is another Pakistani singer, but in the qawwali style....
  
• Meat Puppets II
  Meat Puppets II
  
  Meat Puppets II is the second album by the Tempe, Arizona band the Meat Puppets. It is completely unlike their self-titled debut album, which was furious noisy hardcore punk with unintelligible vocals, which were more nonsensical screams than lyrics....
   - Meat Puppets
  Meat Puppets
  
  The Meat Puppets are an United States Rock music band formed in January 1980, in the "Sunnyslope" neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood , his brother Cris Kirkwood , and Derrick Bostrom ....
  
• Milk and Honey - 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....
  
• Moving - The Raincoats
  The Raincoats
  
  The Raincoats are a post-punk band and were formed in 1977 in music by Ana da Silva and Gina Birch while they were students at Hornsey College of Art, London, England....
  
• Music from Songwriter
  Music from Songwriter
  
  Music from Songwriter is a soundtrack album by Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson, released on Columbia Records in 1984 . It is the soundtrack to Songwriter, a film starring the two performers....
   - Kris Kristofferson
  Kris Kristofferson
  
  Kristoffer Kristian Kristofferson is an United States writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"....
   & 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....
   (soundtrack)
• My War
  My War
  
  My War is the second full length album by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag . It was released in 1984 on SST Records.Black Flag's founder and primary songwriter Greg Ginn played both bass guitar in addition to his usual guitar; "Dale Nixon" is a pseudonym....
   - 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....
  
• Nave Maria - Tom Zé
  Tom Zé
  
  Tom Z? is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who was influential in the Tropicalismo movement of 1960s Brazil. After the peak of the Tropic?lia period, Z? went into relative obscurity: it was only in the 1990s, when the musician and label head David Byrne discovered an album recorded by Z? many years earlier, that he returned...
  
• 1984 - 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....
  
• No Brakes - John Waite
  John Waite
  
  John Waite is a rock music singer. He was the lead vocalist for the band The Babys and Bad English. As a solo artist, he scored a #1 hit in the United States with Missing You in 1984....
  
• No Kinda Dancer
  No Kinda Dancer
  
  No Kinda Dancer is the first album by Texas-based Folk music singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, originally released in the United States in 1984 and re-released in 2004 by KOCH Records with additional tracks....
   - Robert Earl Keen
  Robert Earl Keen
  
  Robert Earl Keen, Junior is a United States singer-songwriter. He is popular with traditional country music fans, folk music fans, the college radio crowd and alt-country fans....
  
• No Remorse
  No Remorse
  
  No Remorse is a 1984 compilation album by the English heavy metal music band Mot?rhead, covering their years under contract with Bronze Records and with four newly recorded tracks ....
   - 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....
  
• No Tellin' Lies
  No Tellin' Lies
  
  The album No Tellin' Lies by Zebra was released in 1984 on Atlantic Records....
   - Zebra
  Zebra (band)
  
  Zebra is a hard rock band that came together in 1975 in New Orleans, Louisiana. It features Randy Jackson , Felix Hanemann and Guy Gelso . Their mainstream debut on Atlantic Records was in 1983, highlighted by the singles "Tell Me What You Want" and "Who's Behind The Door"....
  
• Now That's What I Call Music II - Various Artists
• Now That's What I Call Music 3 - Various Artists
• Now That's What I Call Music 4 - Various Artists
• Ocean Rain
  Ocean Rain
  
  Ocean Rain is the fourth studio album by the British post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen. It was released on 8 May 1984 and reached number four on the UK Albums Chart, number 87 on the United States Billboard 200, number 41 on the Canadian RPM 100 Albums and number 22 on the Swedish chart....
   - Echo and the Bunnymen
• Opium
  Opium (album)
  
  Opium is the debut album by KMFDM released in 1984. There were only 200 compact audio cassette copies made. The album has since been released in a slightly different form in 2002 by KMFDM Records....
   - KMFDM
  KMFDM
  
  KMFDM is a Germany industrial rock/industrial metal band led by founding member Sascha Konietzko. They have sold over 2 million records worldwide....
   (debut album)
• Optimystique
  Optimystique
  
  Optimystique, is Yanni's first album, released on the Atlantic label in 1984, and Private Music label in 1989, .*From album liner: Optimystique was recorded in 1980 and released for the first time in 1984....
   - Yanni
  Yanni
  
  Yanni is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Yanni left his homeland at the age of 18 to attend the University of Minnesota. After receiving a B.A....
  
• Out of the Cellar
  Out of the Cellar
  
  Out of the Cellar is the breakthrough album by glam metal band Ratt, released in 1984 . Produced by Beau Hill, the album features their best-known hit, "Round and Round ", and other hits such as "Wanted Man ", "Back for More ", and "Lack of Communication "....
   - Ratt
  Ratt
  
  Ratt is an United States heavy metal music band that formed in San Diego and enjoyed significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is most notable for their songs "Round and Round ," "Wanted Man ," "Lay It Down ," "You're in Love " and "Back For More." Though the group lost popularity in the following decade, Ratt has been recognized...
  
• Out of Step - Minor Threat
  Minor Threat
  
  Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. Despite being so short-lived, the band had a strong influence on the hardcore punk music scene....
  
• Parade
  Parade (Spandau Ballet album)
  
  Parade is a studio album by Spandau Ballet. It was released in 1984 by Chrysalis Records. The album contained two UK Top 10 hits, "Only When You Leave" , and "I'll Fly for You" ....
   - Spandau Ballet
  Spandau Ballet
  
  Spandau Ballet are a popular United Kingdom band famous in the 1980s. Initially inspired by the New Romantic fashion, they quickly steered in to a mixture of funk, jazz, soul and synthpop, then eventually mellowed into a mainstream pop music act....
  
• Pagan Place - The Waterboys
  The Waterboys
  
  The Waterboys are a band formed in 1983 by Mike Scott . The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, Ireland and England....
  
• Penetrator - 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....
  
• Perfect Strangers
  Perfect Strangers (album)
  
  Perfect Strangers is the eleventh studio album by Deep Purple, released in October 1984. It represents the first album recorded by the reformed, and most successful and popular, List_of_Deep_Purple_band_members#.22Mark.22_numbers....
   - 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....
  
• The Plan
  The Plan (Tubeway Army album)
  
  The Plan is a retrospective album of early demo recordings by Tubeway Army released in 1984.The demos were originally recorded in 1978. In the album's sleevenotes, Numan states that they were deliberately written and recorded in the then-popular punk rock style , with the express aim of securing a record deal....
   - Tubeway Army
  Tubeway Army
  
  Tubeway Army was a London-based Punk rock and New Wave music band led by singer/guitarist Gary Numan . Tubeway Army was the first band of the post-punk era to have an electronic hit, with the single "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and its parent album, Replicas , topping the UK Album Chart in mid 1979....
  
• The Politics of Time
  The Politics of Time
  
  The Politics of Time is the seventh overall release, third album-length release, and first compilation by American hardcore punk band The Minutemen ....
   - 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....
  
• Powerslave
  Powerslave (album)
  
  Powerslave is the fifth studio album by the United Kingdom Heavy metal music band Iron Maiden, released on September 3, 1984 on EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in the US ....
   - 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 ....
  
• Private Dancer
  Private Dancer
  
  Private Dancer is the fifth solo album by Tina Turner, released on Capitol Records in 1984, which became her breakthrough solo album. Turner's success with the album came after several challenging years of going solo after a public divorce from husband and performing partner Ike Turner....
   - Tina Turner
  Tina Turner
  
  Tina Turner is an United States singer and actress whose career has spanned over 50 years and who has won numerous awards. Her achievements in the Rock genre have led to her being referred to as "The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll"....
  
• Projects in the Jungle
  Projects in the Jungle
  
  Projects in the Jungle is an album by the American glam metal and groove metal band Pantera, released in 1984 . The title track's musical style is a foreshadowing of what was to come a few years later, as it features a thrashy guitar riff with more "Groove" like breakdowns....
   - Pantera
  Pantera
  
  Pantera was an American heavy metal music band from Arlington, Texas, Texas, formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and Diamond Darrell , then known as Diamond Darrell, in 1981....
  
• The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
  The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
  
  The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking is a concept album by England musician Roger Waters. Some notables assisting Waters during the recording of the album were conductor Michael Kamen, actor Jack Palance, saxophonist David Sanborn and guitarist Eric Clapton....
   - Roger Waters
  Roger Waters
  
  George Roger Waters is an England rock music musician. He is best known as the bass guitar player and one of the main songwriters in the English rock band Pink Floyd from 1964 to 1985....
  
• Purple Rain
  Purple Rain (album)
  
  Purple Rain is an album by Prince and The Revolution , the soundtrack album to the Purple Rain .Purple Rain regularly is ranked among the best albums in rock music history....
   - Prince and the Revolution
• Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
  Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
  
  Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were a popular United Kingdom pop music band of the mid-1980s, based in Glasgow, Scotland.Line-up:* Lloyd Cole, vocal and guitar, lyricist - ...
  
• Read My Lips - Fee Waybill
  Fee Waybill
  
  John Waldo Waybill , known as Fee Waybill, is the lead singer and songwriter of the band , The Tubes. He has worked with other acts, including Toto , Richard Marx, and on projects headed by Billy Sherwood....
  
• Real Live
  Real Live
  
  Real Live is a live album documenting Bob Dylan's 1984 tour of Europe, released at the end of that same year by Columbia Records. Most of the concert was recorded at Wembley Stadium on 7 July, but "License to Kill " and "Tombstone Blues" come from St James' Park, Newcastle upon Tyne on 5 July, and "I and I " and "Girl from the North Count...
   - Bob Dylan
• Reckless
  Reckless (album)
  
  Reckless is the fourth studio album by the Canadian Rock music artist Bryan Adams. Released on November 5, 1984 through A&M Records, the album was a huge commercial success selling over 5 million units in the United States alone, peaking at number 1 on the The Billboard 200 and reaching high positions in Record chart worldwide....
   - 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...
  
• Reckoning
  Reckoning (R.E.M. album)
  
  Reckoning is the second album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1984 by I.R.S. Records. Produced by Mitch Easter and Don Dixon , the album was recorded at Reflection Sound Studio in Charlotte, North Carolina over 16 days in December 1983 and January 1984....
   - R.E.M.
  R.E.M.
  
  R.E.M. is an American Rock music band formed in Athens, Georgia, Georgia , in 1980 by Michael Stipe , Peter Buck , Mike Mills , and Bill Berry ....
  
• Red Sails in the Sunset
  Red Sails in the Sunset (album)
  
  Red Sails in the Sunset is an album by Midnight Oil that was released in 1984 under the Columbia Records label. This album was recorded and produced in Tokyo, Japan and is significant for becoming their first No....
   - 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....
  
• Remission
  Remission (Skinny Puppy album)
  
  Remission is a 1984 Extended play by Skinny Puppy. It was later re-released on CD with extra tracks added to make it a full-length album....
   - Skinny Puppy
  Skinny Puppy
  
  Skinny Puppy is a Canada band, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1982 in music. Initially envisioned as an experimental side project by cEvin Key while he was in the new wave band , Nivek Ogre soon joined as vocalist and Skinny Puppy evolved into a full-time project....
  
• Revolution - Menudo
  Menudo (band)
  
  Menudo is a Puerto Rican people boy band that was formed in the 1970s by producer Edgardo Diaz, releasing their first album in 1977. The band achieved much success, especially during the 1980s, becoming the most popular Puerto Rican teen musical group of the era....
  
• Ride the Lightning
  Ride the Lightning
  
  Ride the Lightning is the second album by United States heavy metal music band Metallica, released on July 27, 1984 by Megaforce Records and re-released by Elektra Records on November 19, 1984....
   - Metallica
  Metallica
  
  Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
  
• Riders in the Sky, Live
  Riders in the Sky, Live
  
  Live is a live recording by the Western music band Riders in the Sky released in 1984. It is available as a single CD. It was recorded at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA....
   - Riders in the Sky
  Riders in the Sky
  
  Riders In The Sky is a Western swing and comedy group which began performing in 1977; their style also appeals to children, and they are sometimes considered a children's music....
  
• Rita Mitsouko - Rita Mitsouko
• Seasons - Dion DiMucci
• See You In Hell - Grim Reaper
• Self Control
  Self Control
  
  Self Control is the third album by singer Laura Branigan, released in 1984 in music....
  - Laura Branigan
  Laura Branigan
  
  Laura Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actor of Irish American ancestry. She is best known for her Top-10 hit "Self Control" , her biggest hit from the Platinum album of the same name....
  
• '74 Jailbreak
  '74 Jailbreak
  
  '74 Jailbreak is an Extended play by Australian band AC/DC, comprising five hard rock/blues oriented tracks that had previously been released only in Australia....
  EP - 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"....
  
• She's So Unusual
  She's So Unusual
  
  She's So Unusual is the debut studio album by United States pop music singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, released in 1983 by Portrait Records ....
  - Cyndi Lauper
  Cyndi Lauper
  
  Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....
  
• Slip It In
  Slip It In
  
  Slip It In is an album by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag released in 1984."Slip It In" is an extension of the sound Black Flag utilised on its predecessor "My War", that is: heavy, intense, dense and progressive....
  - 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 Smiths
  The Smiths (album)
  
  The Smiths is the debut album by England alternative rock band The Smiths, released on February 20, 1984. The album was well received by the critics as well as the public, and it established The Smiths as a prominent band in the 1980s music scene in the United Kingdom....
  - The Smiths
  The Smiths
  
  The Smiths were an English Rock music band formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce ....
  
• Some Great Reward
  Some Great Reward
  
  Some Great Reward is the fourth album by the British electronic group Depeche Mode, released in 1984. The album peaked at No. 5 in the UK....
  - Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode
  
  Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....
  
• Sonic Death
  Sonic Death
  
  Sonic Death is a live album by Sonic Youth, released in 1984.It contains live recordings from 1981 to 1983.Many of the songs on this album appear only as fragments, often with no breaks between....
  - Sonic Youth
  Sonic Youth
  
  Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
  
• Soul Mining
  Soul Mining
  
  Soul Mining was Matt Johnson 's second album . It was released in 1983 and included the United Kingdom hit singles "Uncertain Smile" which had reached No....
  - The The
  The The
  
  The The are an England musical and multimedia group that have been active in various forms since 1979, with singer/songwriter/frontman Matt Johnson being the only constant band member....
  
• Sparkle in the Rain
  Sparkle in the Rain
  
  Sparkle In The Rain is the sixth album by Simple Minds, released in 1984 in music. It peaked at number one in the UK album charts on February 18, 1984....
  - 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....
  
• The Splendour of Fear
  The Splendour of Fear
  
  The Splendour of Fear is the second album by United Kingdom alternative rock band Felt , released in 1984. It was later reissued by Cherry Red along with prior album Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty on a single CD....
  - Felt
  Felt (band)
  
  Felt were a 1980s United Kingdom alternative rock band, named after the way Tom Verlaine enunciated the word "felt" in the Television song "Venus", and led by Lawrence Hayward ....
  
• Spring Hill Fair
  Spring Hill Fair
  
  Spring Hill Fair was released in September 1984 in the United Kingdom on Sire Records. It was The Go-Betweens' third album. The LP was recorded at Miraval Studios in Le Val, France....
  - The Go-Betweens
  The Go-Betweens
  
  The Go-Betweens were an internationally influential indie rock band from Australia, formed by guitarists Robert Forster and Grant McLennan in Brisbane in 1977....
  
• Starchild - 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....
  
• Stay Hungry - Twisted Sister
  Twisted Sister
  
  Twisted Sister is an United States Heavy metal music band from New York City. Their work fuses the shock rock tactics of Alice Cooper, the rebellious mood of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the extravagant image of glam rock bands such as New York Dolls notably for the makeup....
  
• Steeltown
  Steeltown
  
  Steeltown is the second studio album by Scottish band Big Country, released in 1984. It was released on compact audio disc only in Germany, as well as remastered and reissued there as well....
  - Big Country
  Big Country
  
  Big Country were a Rock band from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, popular in the early to mid-1980s but still releasing material for a cult following....
  
• Stop Making Sense
  Stop Making Sense (album)
  
  Stop Making Sense is 1984 album by Talking Heads, the soundtrack to the Stop Making Sense. The album features only nine of the songs from the movie, many of them heavily edited....
  - 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....
  
• Straight Ahead
  Straight Ahead (Amy Grant album)
  
  Straight Ahead is the eighth album by Contemporary Christian music artist Amy Grant, released in 1984 .Straight Ahead was the follow-up to Grant's ground-breaking 1982 album Age to Age....
  - 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....
  
• The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories
  The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories
  
  The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories is the third album by United Kingdom alternative rock band Felt , released in 1984. All the songs were written by Lawrence and Maurice Deebank, except "Sempiternal Darkness," which was written by Deebank....
  - Felt
• Street Talk
  Street Talk
  
  Street Talk is Steve Perry 's first solo album, released in April, 1984.Street Talk contains Perry's biggest hit as a solo artist, "Oh Sherrie", written for his then-girlfriend Sherrie Swafford ....
  - Steve Perry
  Steve Perry (musician)
  
  Stephen Ray "Steve" Perry is an United States singing and songwriter best known as the singing of the Rock music Musical ensemble Journey from 1978-1987 and 1995-1998....
  
• Suddenly - Billy Ocean
  Billy Ocean
  
  Billy Ocean is a Grammy Award-winning United Kingdom-based popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues-tinged international pop music hit record in the 1970s and 1980s....
  
• Talk Show - The Go-Go's
  The Go-Go's
  
  The Go-Go?s are an all-female American Pop music band formed in 1978. They made rock history as the first all-women band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts....
  
• Team Goon
  Team Goon
  
  Team Goon is D.I.'s first EP coupled with bonus songs, which was released in 1984....
  - D.I.
  D.I.
  
  D.I. is a Southern California Punk rock band featuring ex-The Adolescents and Social Distortion drummer Casey Royer on vocals. Royer formed the group after he and former Social Distortion original member Rikk Agnew , left the original Mike Ness crew....
   (EP)
• Ten Thousand Lightyears
  Ten Thousand Lightyears
  
  Ten Thousand Lightyears is the seventh studio album by Boney M. and the first to feature new member Reggie Tsiboe who had taken over Bobby Farrell's role as the band's leading man in early 1982....
  - Boney M.
• This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic
  This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic
  
  This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic is an album by Hawkwind released in 1984 consisting of live performances between 1980 and 1984....
  (live) - 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....
  
• Three of a Perfect Pair
  Three of a Perfect Pair
  
  Three of a Perfect Pair is an album by the band King Crimson, released in 1984. It was noted for being quite clearly divided into two distinct sides: the first side featured the more accessible tracks; the second side contained King Crimson's more experimental offerings....
  - King Crimson
  King Crimson
  
  King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
  
• Thunder Seven
  Thunder Seven
  
  Thunder Seven is a concept album by the Canada Heavy metal band Triumph , released in November 1984. It was the band's seventh studio album....
  - Triumph
  Triumph (band)
  
  Triumph is a Canada hard rock band that was popular in the late 1970s through the 1980s. Eight of the band's albums were certified gold or higher, and Triumph was nominated for multiple Juno Awards, including Group of the Year Award in 1979, 1985, 1986 and 1987....
  
• Tocsin
  Tocsin (album)
  
  Tocsin was Xmal Deutschland's second album, released in 1984....
  - Xmal Deutschland
  Xmal Deutschland
  
  Xmal Deutschland was a musical group from Hamburg, Germany. Founded in 1980 as an all-girl band, they became successful outside their native country....
  
• Tonight - 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....
  
• Tooth and Nail
  Tooth and Nail
  
  Tooth and Nail is the second studio album by heavy metal music band Dokken, released in 1984 through Elektra Records . The album has sold over a million copies in United States and overall, 3 million copies worldwide....
  - Dokken
  Dokken
  
  Dokken is an United States Heavy metal music and hard rock band that was formed in 1978. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide....
  
• The Top
  The Top (album)
  
  The Top is the fifth studio album by Great Britain band The Cure, released in 1984....
  - 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....
  
• Treasure
  Treasure (album)
  
  Treasure is the third album by the Cocteau Twins. With this album, the band settled on what would, from then on, be their primary lineup: vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie and bassist Simon Raymonde....
  - Cocteau Twins
  Cocteau Twins
  
  Cocteau Twins was a Scottish band active from 1979 to 1997....
  
• Tropico
  Tropico (album)
  
  Tropico is American rock singer Pat Benatar's sixth album, released in 1984. It peaked at #14 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and produced the Top-10 hit "We Belong"....
  - 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"....
  
• 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe
  2:00 AM Paradise Cafe
  
  2:00 AM Paradise Cafe is the fourteenth album released by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. The album brought a return to platinum for Manilow, but did not score particularly high on the charts....
  - 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 "....
  
• Two Steps From The Move
  Two Steps from the Move
  
  Two Steps From The Move is the fourth studio album by the Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks, released in 1984. The album was their first major label release and reached #28 on the UK album chart....
  - Hanoi Rocks
  Hanoi Rocks
  
  Hanoi Rocks is a Finland Rock music band formed in 1979, whose most successful period came in the early 1980s. The band broke up in 1985 due largely to the death of their drummer....
  
• Under Wraps
  Under Wraps
  
  Under Wraps is an album by the band Jethro Tull , released in 1984. The songs' subject matter is heavily influenced by bandleader Ian Anderson 's love of espionage fiction....
  - 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....
  
• The Unforgettable Fire
  The Unforgettable Fire
  
  The Unforgettable Fire is the fourth studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released in 1984. Far more ambient and abstract than the hard-hitting War , it was at the time the band?s most marked change in direction, featuring atmospheric sounds and lyrics Bono has described as "sketches"....
  - 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....
  
• Vengeance - New Model Army
  New Model Army (band)
  
  New Model Army are an England rock music musical band. They have been variously classified as a punk rock band, post-punk, folk rock, indie rock, gothic rock, rock noir and even heavy metal music amongst others....
  
• Victory - Jacksons
• VOA - 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 ....
  
• Volume 1 - Reagan Youth
  Reagan Youth
  
  Reagan Youth was an American punk band started by singer Dave Rubinstein and his friend and guitarist Paul Bakija in Queens in early 1980. They have been labeled a peace punk band, but are more commonly cited as an pivotal band in introducing the style of hardcore punk to the East Coast punk scene....
  
• Waking Up with the House on Fire
  Waking Up with the House on Fire
  
  Waking Up with the House on Fire is an album by New Wave music band Culture Club, released in 1984 . Waking Up with the House on Fire was unable to achieve the commercial success of Culture Club's first two albums....
   - Culture Club
  Culture Club
  
  Culture Club were a Grammy Award-winning United Kingdom Pop music group that formed in the early 1980s. The band consisted of Boy George , Mikey Craig , Roy Hay , and Jon Moss ....
  
• Walkin' The Razor's Edge - Helix
  Helix
  
  A helix is a special kind of space curve, i.e. a Differentiable manifold curve in three-space. As a mental image of a helix one may take the spring ....
  
• Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man - Guadalcanal Diary
  Guadalcanal Diary (band)
  
  Guadalcanal Diary is an alternative jangle pop group from Marietta, Georgia. The band formed in 1981 and disbanded in 1989. They reformed in 1997 and toured without a new album....
   (debut)
• The Warning - Queensrÿche
  Queensrÿche
  
  Queensr?che is an United States heavy metal music / progressive metal band formed in 1981 in Bellevue, Washington. The band has released ten studio albums and several smaller releases including Extended plays and DVDs and continues to tour and record....
   (first full length album release)
• W.A.S.P.
  W.A.S.P. (album)
  
  W.A.S.P. is the debut eponymous album by W.A.S.P. , released August 17, 1984 . The album has been known under three different names. The Bookbinding of the Gramophone record has Winged Assassins printed on it....
   - W.A.S.P. (debut album)
• "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D - "Weird Al" Yankovic
  "Weird Al" Yankovic
  
  Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, music producer, actor, comedian and satire. Yankovic is known in particular for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts....
  
• Welcome to the Pleasuredome
  Welcome to the Pleasuredome
  
  Welcome to the Pleasuredome was the debut album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, first released in the United Kingdom in October 1984 by ZTT Records/Island Records....
   - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an England dance-pop band that were extremely popular in the mid 1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by Holly Johnson , supported by Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole and Brian Nash ....
  
• What About Me?
  What About Me?
  
  What About Me? is the title of a 1984 album by Kenny Rogers , released by RCA .After success in 1983 with the album Eyes That See in the Dark , Rogers' solo career had now been successful for at least eight years....
   - 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....
  
• Wheels Are Turnin'
  Wheels Are Turnin'
  
  Wheels Are Turnin' is the eleventh studio album by REO Speedwagon, released in 1984 . It features "Can't Fight This Feeling," which was REO's second and longest-running #1 single....
   - 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....
  
• When In Rome Do As The Vandals
  When in Rome Do as the Vandals
  
  When in Rome Do as the Vandals is the debut album by the Huntington Beach, California punk rock band The Vandals, released in 1984 by National Trust Records....
   - The Vandals
  The Vandals
  
  The Vandals are an United States rock music rock band established in 1980 in Huntington Beach, California. Forming as part of the List of musicians in the second wave of punk music of American punk rock, the band has released ten full-length studio albums and two live albums and have toured the world extensively, including performances on the...
  
• Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise?
  Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise?
  
  The Art of Noise! was Art of Noise debut full-length album, released in 1984, and featured the UK hit singles "Close " which reached No 8 in the United Kingdom chart in November 1984 and the double-A sided "Moments in Love"/"Beat Box ," which made it to no....
   - Art of Noise
• Wings of Tomorrow
  Wings of Tomorrow
  
  Wings of Tomorrow is the second studio album by the Sweden hard rock band Europe . It was released on February 24, 1984, by Hot Records.The song "Scream of Anger" was later covered by the Melodic Death Metal Band Arch Enemy, as Bonus Track on the Japanese edition of Burning Bridges ....
   - Europe
  Europe (band)
  
  Europe is a Sweden Rock music band formed in Upplands V?sby in 1979 under the name Force by vocalist Joey Tempest and guitarist John Norum. Although widely associated with glam metal, the band's sound incorporates heavy metal music and hard rock elements....
  
• Wired to the Moon
  Wired to the Moon
  
  Wired to the Moon is an album by Chris Rea, released in 1984....
   - 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....
  
• The Woman in Red - (cinematic soundtrack by 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...
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• The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall
  The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
  
  The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall is an album by The Fall , released in October 1984. It was the band's first album with the relatively large Beggars Banquet Records label, and was produced by John Leckie....
   - The Fall
• Work Resumed on the Tower
  Work Resumed on the Tower
  
  Work Resumed on the Tower is a 1984 studio album by England avant-garde Rock music Musical ensemble News from Babel. It was recorded at Tim Hodgkinson's Cold Storage Recording Studios in Brixton, London, in October and November 1983, and released in 1984....
   - News from Babel
  News from Babel
  
  News from Babel were an England avant-garde Rock music Musical ensemble founded in 1983 by Chris Cutler, Lindsay Cooper, Zeena Parkins and Dagmar Krause....
  
• The Works
  The Works (Queen album)
  
  The Works is a 1984 Rock music album by England band Queen . The band's eleventh studio album, it marked a partial return to their rock music roots, although with a much lighter approach....
   - 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....
  
• World Shut Your Mouth
  World Shut Your Mouth (album)
  
  World Shut Your Mouth is the debut album solo album by Julian Cope following the break up of The Teardrop Explodes. It was a commercial flop....
   - Julian Cope
• The Yellow and Black Attack EP - Stryper
  Stryper
  
  Stryper is a Grammy Award nominated Christian metal Musical ensemble from Orange County, California, United States. Formed in 1983, they are pioneers in the mainstream popularization of Christian metal music....
  
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen/Rising Force - Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force
  Yngwie J. Malmsteen
  
  Yngwie Johan Malmsteen is a Sweden guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader. Malmsteen became notable in the mid-1980s for his technical fluency and neo-classical metal compositions....
   (debut)
• Zen Arcade
  Zen Arcade
  
  Zen Arcade is the third studio album from the United States punk rock band H?sker D?, released in July 1984 on SST Records. Originally released as a double album on two vinyl LPs, Zen Arcade is a concept album about an adolescent who runs away because his home life is unfulfilling, only to find the world outside is even worse....
   - Hüsker Dü
  Hüsker Dü
  
  H?sker D? was an United States punk rock band formed in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota in 1979. The band's continual members were guitarist Bob Mould, bass guitar Greg Norton, and drummer Grant Hart....
  

Biggest hit singles

Significant hits

• "Agadoo
  Agadoo
  
  Agadoo was a novelty song recorded by the band Black Lace in 1984 in music. Agadoo peaked at number 2 in the UK singles chart, and spent 30 weeks in the top 75....
  " - Black Lace
  Black Lace (band)
  
  Black Lace were a United Kingdom pop group from Ossett in West Yorkshire; they are noted for their deliberately light weight hits such as "The Music Man ", "Agadoo" and "Superman"....
  
• "Against All Odds" - 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....
  
• "All Cried Out" - Alison Moyet
  Alison Moyet
  
  Alison Moyet , is an England Popular music singer-songwriter noted for her bluesy voice....
  
• "All Through the Night" - Cyndi Lauper
  Cyndi Lauper
  
  Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....
  
• "An Innocent Man" - 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....
  
• "Automatic" - Pointer Sisters
  Pointer Sisters
  
  The Pointer Sisters are an United States Grammy Award-winning Pop music/R&B recording act from Oakland, California, California that achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s....
  
• "Be My Number Two" - 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....
  
• "Better Be Good To Me" - Tina Turner
  Tina Turner
  
  Tina Turner is an United States singer and actress whose career has spanned over 50 years and who has won numerous awards. Her achievements in the Rock genre have led to her being referred to as "The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll"....
  
• "Big City Nights" - The 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 "....
  
• "Borderline" - Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  
  Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
  
• "Blue Jean" - 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....
  
• "Breakdance" - Irene Cara
  Irene Cara
  
  Irene Cara is an United States singer and actress. Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance......
  
• "Breakin'... There's No Stoppin' Us" - Ollie & Jerry
• "Break My Stride
  Break My Stride
  
  "Break My Stride" was a major hit single for Matthew Wilder in 1983 and 1984. It was covered by many artists throughout the years, including Blue Lagoon in 2004....
  " - Matthew Wilder
  Matthew Wilder
  
  Matthew Wilder is an United States musician best known for his 1983 Top 5 chart-topper "Break My Stride".Wilder was one-half of the Greenwich Village folk rock group Matthew & Peter in the 1970s....
  
• "Careless Whisper" - Wham!
  WHAM!
  
  Wham! was a pop music band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. It was briefly known in the United States as Wham!-UK because of a naming conflict with another band....
  
• "Caribbean Queen (No More Love On the Run)" - Billy Ocean
  Billy Ocean
  
  Billy Ocean is a Grammy Award-winning United Kingdom-based popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues-tinged international pop music hit record in the 1970s and 1980s....
  
• "Centipede" - Rebbie Jackson
  Rebbie Jackson
  
  Maureen Reillette "Rebbie" Brown , professionally known as Rebbie Jackson, is an United States singer, best known as the oldest child of the successful The Jacksons and sister of pop icons Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson....
  
• "Cherry Oh Baby" - 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....
  
• "Cover Me" - 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....
  
• "Crazy" - 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....
  
• "Cruel Summer" - Bananarama
  Bananarama
  
  Bananarama are an United Kingdom girl group who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Although there have been line-up changes during the years, the group enjoyed its most popular success as a trio, made up of lifelong friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin....
  
• "Cry and Be Free" - Marilyn
  Marilyn (musician)
  
  Peter Robinson , better known as Marilyn, is a British Pop music Singing who achieved international fame in the 1980s with his hit song "Calling Your Name"....
  
• "Dance Hall Days" - Wang Chung
  Wang Chung (band)
  
  Wang Chung are a UK New Wave music musical group.The group found their greatest success in the North America, with five Top 40 hits in the US, all charting between 1984 and 1987 ....
  
• "Dance Me Up" - Gary Glitter
  Gary Glitter
  
  Paul Francis Gadd is an England glam rock singer and songwriter, better known by his stage name Gary Glitter.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s....
  
• "Dancing in the Dark" - 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....
  
• "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" - Ultravox
  Ultravox
  
  Ultravox are a British New Wave music band that rose to prominence in the late 1970s/early 1980s. They were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the early 1980s....
  
• "Distant Early Warning" - 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....
  
• "Dr. Beat
  Dr. Beat
  
  "Dr. Beat" is the first single released by the American band Miami Sound Machine led by Gloria Estefan on their first English language but eighth studio album overall Eyes Of Innocence ....
  " - Miami Sound Machine
• "Doctor! Doctor!" - Thompson Twins
  Thompson Twins
  
  The Thompson Twins were a Great Britain Pop music group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the United States and around the globe....
  
• "Don't Blame It On Love" - Shakatak
  Shakatak
  
  Shakatak is a United Kingdom jazz-funk band , founded in 1980....
  
• "Don't Tell Me" - Blancmange
  Blancmange (band)
  
  Blancmange are a United Kingdom synthpop band who came to prominence with a string of chart-topper in the early to mid 1980s....
  
• "Down On The Street" - Shakatak
  Shakatak
  
  Shakatak is a United Kingdom jazz-funk band , founded in 1980....
  
• "Drive" - 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 ....
  
• "Easy Lover" - Phillip Bailey duet with 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....
  
• "Eyes Without a Face
  Eyes Without a Face (song)
  
  "Eyes Without a Face" is a song by Billy Idol, co-written with guitarist Steve Stevens from Idol's 1983 album Rebel Yell . The song is softer and more ballad-like than most of the album's other singles....
  " - Billy Idol
  Billy Idol
  
  Billy Idol is an English Rock music musician.He first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X . He then embarked on a successful solo career, aided by a series of stylish music videos, making him one of the first MTV stars....
  
• "Femme libérée
  Femme libérée
  
  "Femme lib?r?e" is a successful song recorded by French band Cookie Dingler. Written in 1984, it achieved a huge success in France and became a popular song throughout the years....
  " - Cookie Dingler
• "Flame Trees" - 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...
  
• "Flesh For Fantasy" - Billy Idol
  Billy Idol
  
  Billy Idol is an English Rock music musician.He first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X . He then embarked on a successful solo career, aided by a series of stylish music videos, making him one of the first MTV stars....
  
• "Footloose" - Kenny Loggins
  Kenny Loggins
  
  Kenneth Clark "Kenny" Loggins is an United States singer and songwriter best known for a number of soft rock and adult contemporary hit singles beginning in the 1970s....
  
• "Forest Fire" - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
  Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
  
  Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were a popular United Kingdom pop music band of the mid-1980s, based in Glasgow, Scotland.Line-up:* Lloyd Cole, vocal and guitar, lyricist - ...
  
• "Freedom" - Wham!
• "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" - Cyndi Lauper
  Cyndi Lauper
  
  Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....
  
• "Ghostbusters" - Ray Parker Jr.
  Ray Parker Jr.
  
  Ray Erskine Parker, Jr. is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording artist. Parker is known primarily for performing the Ghostbusters to the film Ghostbusters....
  
• "God Bless the USA
  God Bless the USA
  
  "God Bless the USA" is an United States patriotic song written by country musician Lee Greenwood. The first Greenwood album it appears on is 1984's You've Got A Good Love Comin'. It reached number 7 on the country charts when originally released in 1984, and was played at the 1984 Republican National Convention with President Ronald Reag...
  " - Lee Greenwood
  Lee Greenwood
  
  Lee Greenwood is an American country music artist. Active since the early 1980s, he has released more than twenty major-label albums and has charted more than thirty-five singles on the Billboard country music charts....
  
• "Half A Boy Half A Man" - Nick Lowe
  Nick Lowe
  
  Nick Lowe is an English people singer-songwriter, musician and Record producer.A pivotal figure in United Kingdom pub rock, punk rock and new wave music, Lowe has sound recording and reproduction a string of well-reviewed solo albums....
  
• "Hammer to Fall
  Hammer to Fall
  
  "Hammer to Fall" is a 1984 hard rock song written by Brian May and performed by the British rock group Queen . It appeared on their 1984 album The Works ....
  " - 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....
  
• "Heaven's On Fire" - 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...
  
• "Hello
  Hello (Lionel Richie song)
  
  "Hello" is a song by Lionel Richie. Taken as the third single from Richie's multi-platinum album Can't Slow Down , the song was released in 1984 and reached number one on three Billboard music charts: the Billboard Hot 100 ; the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ; and the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks ....
  " - Lionel Richie
  Lionel Richie
  
  Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning United States singer, songwriter, record producer who has sold more than 100 million records....
  
• "Here Comes the Rain Again
  Here Comes the Rain Again
  
  "Here Comes the Rain Again" is a song by British pop music duo Eurythmics. It was written by group members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart and produced by Stewart....
  " - 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....
  
• "High on Emotion" - Chris De Burgh
  Chris de Burgh
  
  Chris de Burgh is an Irish-based musician and singer-songwriter who holds British nationality . A musician who writes a variety of mixed instrumental material, Chris de Burgh had huge success in Ireland, Britain and the United States with the 1986 hit "The Lady in Red "....
  
• "Heaven (Must Be There)" - Eurogliders
  Eurogliders
  
  Eurogliders were a 1980s band formed in Perth, Western Australia, who achieved chart success in both Australia and the United States....
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• "Hold Me Now" - Thompson Twins
  Thompson Twins
  
  The Thompson Twins were a Great Britain Pop music group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the United States and around the globe....
  
• "Hold On To Love" - Gary Moore
  Gary Moore
  
  Gary Moore is a Northern Irish guitarist. In a career dating back to the 1960s, he has played with artists including Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II, Greg Lake and the Blues-rock band Skid Row , as well as having a successful solo career....
  
• "Hot Water" - Level 42
  Level 42
  
  Level 42 is an England pop rock and jazz-funk music band who had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s and 1990s. The band gained fame for its high-calibre musicianship - especially that of Mark King , whose percussive Slapping guitar technique provided the driving groove of many of the band's hits....
  
• "Human Touch" - Rick Springfield
  Rick Springfield
  
  Rick Springfield is an Australian-United States songwriter, musician and actor. As a musician he is most famous for the 1981 in music #1 single "Jessie's Girl", which became a Grammy Award-winning landmark of 1980s pop music-rock music and helped establish the emerging music video age....
  
• "I Scare Myself" - Thomas Dolby
  Thomas Dolby
  
  Thomas Dolby is an England musician and producer....
  
• "I Want A New Drug" Huey Lewis and the News
• "I Want to Break Free" - 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....
  
• "I Want To Know What Love Is" - 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 ....
  
• "I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" - Nik Kershaw
  Nik Kershaw
  
  Nik Kershaw is a British people singer-songwriter, popular during the 1980s....
  
• "Infatuation" - Rod Stewart
  Rod Stewart
  
  Roderick David "Rod" Stewart Order of the British Empire is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping....
  
• "Invisible" - Alison Moyet
  Alison Moyet
  
  Alison Moyet , is an England Popular music singer-songwriter noted for her bluesy voice....
  
• "If This Is It" - Huey Lewis and the News
• "I'll Wait" - 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....
  
• "It's A Hard Life" - 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....
  
• "It's a Miracle" - Culture Club
  Culture Club
  
  Culture Club were a Grammy Award-winning United Kingdom Pop music group that formed in the early 1980s. The band consisted of Boy George , Mikey Craig , Roy Hay , and Jon Moss ....
  
• "Joanna" - Kool & The Gang
  Kool & the Gang
  
  Kool & the Gang are an American jazz/R&B/soul music/funk/disco group. They originally formed in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. in 1964 in music. They went through several musical phases in their career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, becoming practitioners of R&B and funk, progressing to a smooth disco ensemble, and ended the successfu...
  
• "Jokerman" - Bob Dylan
• "Jump" - 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....
  
• "Kalimba De Luna" - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• "L'Innamorata" - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• "Let's Go Crazy
  Let's Go Crazy
  
  "Let's Go Crazy" is a 1984 song by Prince and The Revolution . It was the opening track on both his album and the film Purple Rain . "Let's Go Crazy" is one of Prince's most popular songs, and is almost always a staple for concert performances, often segueing into other hits....
  " - Prince and the Revolution
• "Let's Hear It for the Boy" - Deniece Williams
  Deniece Williams
  
  Deniece "Niecy" Williams is a Grammy Awards of 1983-winning United States singer, songwriter and record producer who achieved success in the 1970s and 1980s....
  
• "Like a Virgin
  Like a Virgin
  
  Like a Virgin is the second studio album by United States singer-songwriter Madonna , released on November 12, 1984 by Sire Records. The album was re-released in 1985 for the European market with the bonus track "Into the Groove." In 2001, Warner Bros....
  " -Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  
  Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
  
• "Lights Out" - Peter Wolf
• "Locomotion
  Locomotion (OMD song)
  
  "Locomotion" is a hit single recorded and released by United Kingdom band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, and is also the first single taken from their 1984 album, Junk Culture ....
  " - OMD
  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 ....
  
• "Love Somebody" - Rick Springfield
  Rick Springfield
  
  Rick Springfield is an Australian-United States songwriter, musician and actor. As a musician he is most famous for the 1981 in music #1 single "Jessie's Girl", which became a Grammy Award-winning landmark of 1980s pop music-rock music and helped establish the emerging music video age....
  
• "Lovergirl - 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....
  
• "Lucky Star" - Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  
  Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
  
• "Madam Butterfly" - Malcolm McLaren
  Malcolm McLaren
  
  Malcolm McLaren is a solo musician, and most famously, former management to the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols....
  
• "Magic" - 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 ....
  
• "Master and Servant
  Master and Servant
  
  "Master and Servant" is Depeche Mode's eleventh UK single and the second single from the Some Great Reward album. Despite a lot of controversy surrounding the song, it still managed to reach #9 in the UK Singles Chart....
  " - Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode
  
  Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....
  
• "Message To My Girl" - Split Enz
  Split Enz
  
  Split Enz was a successful New Zealand band during the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. They achieved chart success in New Zealand, Australia and Canada during the early 1980s and built a cult following elsewhere....
  
• "Michael Caine" - 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....
  
• "Missing You" - John Waite
  John Waite
  
  John Waite is a rock music singer. He was the lead vocalist for the band The Babys and Bad English. As a solo artist, he scored a #1 hit in the United States with Missing You in 1984....
  
• "Miss Me Blind"- Culture Club
  Culture Club
  
  Culture Club were a Grammy Award-winning United Kingdom Pop music group that formed in the early 1980s. The band consisted of Boy George , Mikey Craig , Roy Hay , and Jon Moss ....
  
• "Mistake No. 3" - Culture Club
  Culture Club
  
  Culture Club were a Grammy Award-winning United Kingdom Pop music group that formed in the early 1980s. The band consisted of Boy George , Mikey Craig , Roy Hay , and Jon Moss ....
  
• "My Ever Changing Moods" - Style Council
• "No Mercy" - 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....
  
• "No More Lonely Nights" - 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....
  
• "Oh Sherrie
  Oh Sherrie
  
  "Oh Sherrie" is a song written by American singer Steve Perry , Randy Goodrum, Craig Krampf, and Bill Cuomo. It was recorded andreleased on Perry's Street Talk album, his first solo album which he released while still a member of Journey ....
  " - Steve Perry
  Steve Perry (musician)
  
  Stephen Ray "Steve" Perry is an United States singing and songwriter best known as the singing of the Rock music Musical ensemble Journey from 1978-1987 and 1995-1998....
  
• "One Love/People Get Ready" - Bob Marley and the Wailers
• "One Night In Bangkok" - Murray Head
  Murray Head
  
  Murray Head is an English people actor and singer, most recognized for his hit song, "One Night in Bangkok"....
  
• "Original Sin" - 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....
  
• "Out Of Touch" - Hall & Oates
  Hall & Oates
  
  Hall & Oates are a pop music duet made up of Daryl Hall and John Oates.The act achieved its greatest celebrity in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s....
  
• "Panama" - 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....
  
• "Pearl In The Shell" - Howard Jones
  Howard Jones (musician)
  
  Howard Jones is an England singer and songwriter who gained acclaim in the 1980s....
  
• "Pearly Dewdrops' Drops" - Cocteau Twins
  Cocteau Twins
  
  Cocteau Twins was a Scottish band active from 1979 to 1997....
  
• "Penny Lover" - Lionel Richie
  Lionel Richie
  
  Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning United States singer, songwriter, record producer who has sold more than 100 million records....
  
• "People Are People
  People Are People
  
  "People Are People" is Depeche Mode's tenth UK single it was their first hit single in the US and the first single for the Some Great Reward album....
  " - Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode
  
  Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....
  
• "Perfect Skin" - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
  Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
  
  Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were a popular United Kingdom pop music band of the mid-1980s, based in Glasgow, Scotland.Line-up:* Lloyd Cole, vocal and guitar, lyricist - ...
  
• "Pour te dire je t'aime" - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" - 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....
  
• "Purple Rain
  Purple Rain (song)
  
  "Purple Rain" is a power ballad by Prince and the The Revolution . It was his third US single and title track from the 1984 album Purple Rain , which in turn was the soundtrack album for the 1984 Purple Rain ....
  " - Prince and the Revolution
• "Radio Ga Ga
  Radio Ga Ga
  
  "Radio Ga Ga" is a song performed and recorded by Queen , written by their drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor.It was released as a single with "I Go Crazy" by Brian May in the Original B-side and was included on the album The Works without "I Go Crazy", that would only be included in the 1991 edition....
  " - 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....
  
• "Rattlesnakes" - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
  Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
  
  Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were a popular United Kingdom pop music band of the mid-1980s, based in Glasgow, Scotland.Line-up:* Lloyd Cole, vocal and guitar, lyricist - ...
  
• "Read 'Em and Weep" - 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 "....
  
• "Relax" - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an England dance-pop band that were extremely popular in the mid 1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by Holly Johnson , supported by Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole and Brian Nash ....
  
• "Robert De Niro's Waiting..." - Bananarama
  Bananarama
  
  Bananarama are an United Kingdom girl group who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Although there have been line-up changes during the years, the group enjoyed its most popular success as a trio, made up of lifelong friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin....
  
• "Rock You Like a Hurricane
  Rock You Like a Hurricane
  
  "Rock You Like a Hurricane" is one of the most famous songs by the Germany hard rock band Scorpions . The song was released as the second track of their 1984 in music album Love at First Sting....
  " - The 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 "....
  
• "Round and Round" - RATT
  Ratt
  
  Ratt is an United States heavy metal music band that formed in San Diego and enjoyed significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is most notable for their songs "Round and Round ," "Wanted Man ," "Lay It Down ," "You're in Love " and "Back For More." Though the group lost popularity in the following decade, Ratt has been recognized...
  
• "Run Runaway
  Run Runaway
  
  "Run Runaway" is a hard rock song performed by England band Slade.The song was written by Jim Lea and Noddy Holder and was on their 1983 album The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome....
  " - Slade
  Slade
  
  Slade are an England glam rock band. Slade were one of the most recognizable acts of the glam rock movement and were, at their peak, the most commercially popular band in the UK....
  
• "Runaway" - Bon Jovi
  Bon Jovi
  
  Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
  
• "Run To You" - 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...
  
• "Running With the Night" - Lionel Richie
  Lionel Richie
  
  Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning United States singer, songwriter, record producer who has sold more than 100 million records....
  
• "Saturday Night" - 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...
  
• "Self Control
  Self Control (song)
  
  "Self Control" is the name of an international hit song recorded in 1984 by Laura Branigan, also known for the hit "Gloria ", as well as the album on which it appears....
  " - Laura Branigan
  Laura Branigan
  
  Laura Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actor of Irish American ancestry. She is best known for her Top-10 hit "Self Control" , her biggest hit from the Platinum album of the same name....
  
• "Seven Seas
  Seven Seas (song)
  
  "Seven Seas" is a single by Echo & the Bunnymen which was released on 6 July 1984. It was the third single to be released from their 1984 album Ocean Rain....
  " - Echo and the Bunnymen
• "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
  Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
  
  "Sexcrime " is a song performed by British pop music duo Eurythmics. It was written by group members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart for their album 1984 , which served as the soundtrack to the film 1984 , an adaptation of the political fiction Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell....
  " - 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....
  
• "She Bop" - Cyndi Lauper
  Cyndi Lauper
  
  Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....
  
• "She Was Hot" - Rolling Stones
• "Shout" - Tears for Fears
  Tears for Fears
  
  Tears for Fears are an England pop rock band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the Mod -influenced Graduate , they were initially associated with the New Wave music synthesizer bands of the early 1980s, but later branched out into mainstream rock and pop which led to...
  
• "Shout To The Top" - Style Council
• "Silver
  Silver (song)
  
  "Silver" is a single by Echo & the Bunnymen which was released on 13 April 1984. It was the second single to be released from their 1984 album Ocean Rain....
  " - Echo and the Bunnymen
• "Skin Deep" - Stranglers
• "Soul Kind Of Feeling - Dynamic Hepnotics
• "Smooth Operator" - Sade
  Sade Adu
  
  Helen Folasade Adu, Order of the British Empire, , better known as Sade , is a British people singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer....
  
• "So Tired" - 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....
  
• "Soleil" - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• "Somebody's Watching Me" - Rockwell
  Rockwell
  
  Rockwell can refer to:...
  
• "Some Guys Have All The Luck" - Rod Stewart
  Rod Stewart
  
  Roderick David "Rod" Stewart Order of the British Empire is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping....
  
• "Standing In The Shadows" - 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....
  
• "Strut" - Sheena Easton
  Sheena Easton
  
  Sheena Shirley Orr, better known by her stage name, Sheena Easton is a Scotland singer and actress. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the United Kingdom television program The Big Time , which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract, and got her a deal with EMI....
  
• "Stuck On You" - Lionel Richie
  Lionel Richie
  
  Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning United States singer, songwriter, record producer who has sold more than 100 million records....
  , Trevor Walters
• "Sugar Walls"- Sheena Easton
  Sheena Easton
  
  Sheena Shirley Orr, better known by her stage name, Sheena Easton is a Scotland singer and actress. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the United Kingdom television program The Big Time , which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract, and got her a deal with EMI....
  
• "Sunglasses at Night" - Corey Hart
  Corey Hart
  
  Corey Mitchell Hart is a Grammy Award-nominated List of Canadian musicians. He was raised in Montreal, Spain, Mexico City, Mexico, and Key Biscayne, Florida, and was raised solely by his mother from the age of 10 ....
  
• "That's All" - 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....
  
• "The Killing Moon
  The Killing Moon
  
  "The Killing Moon" is among the most popular songs by the band Echo & the Bunnymen. The lyrics were written and sung by the band's vocalist, Ian McCulloch , it was released on their 1984 album Ocean Rain....
  " - Echo and the Bunnymen
• "The Heart of Rock and Roll" - Huey Lewis and the News
• "The Longest Time" - 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....
  
• "The Lucky One" - Laura Branigan
  Laura Branigan
  
  Laura Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actor of Irish American ancestry. She is best known for her Top-10 hit "Self Control" , her biggest hit from the Platinum album of the same name....
  
• "The More You Live The More You Love" - A Flock of Seagulls
  A Flock of Seagulls
  
  A Flock of Seagulls are a British Grammy Award winning band originally formed by brothers Mike Score and Ali Score , with Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds ....
  
• "The Never Ending Story" - Limahl
  Limahl
  
  Christopher Hamill is a English people pop rock / dance music vocalist. He is better known by his stage name Limahl , and was the lead singer of the 1980s synth-pop/rock music/New Wave music band Kajagoogoo, before embarking on a briefly successful solo career, which reached its peak with the soundtrack hit "The NeverEnding Story ", m...
  
• "The Power of Love" - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an England dance-pop band that were extremely popular in the mid 1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by Holly Johnson , supported by Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole and Brian Nash ....
  
• "The Reflex
  The Reflex
  
  For other uses of the term, see 'Reflex '."The Reflex" is the eleventh Single by Duran Duran, released worldwide on April 16, 1984.The song was heavily remixed for single release and was the third and last to be taken from their third album Seven and the Ragged Tiger....
  " - 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....
  
• "The War Song" - Culture Club
  Culture Club
  
  Culture Club were a Grammy Award-winning United Kingdom Pop music group that formed in the early 1980s. The band consisted of Boy George , Mikey Craig , Roy Hay , and Jon Moss ....
  
• "The Wild Boys" - 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....
  
• "Thin Line Between Love And Hate" - 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 ....
  
• "Ti Amo" - Laura Branigan
  Laura Branigan
  
  Laura Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actor of Irish American ancestry. She is best known for her Top-10 hit "Self Control" , her biggest hit from the Platinum album of the same name....
  
• "Time After Time" - Cyndi Lauper
  Cyndi Lauper
  
  Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....
  
• "Tinseltown In The Rain" - The Blue Nile
  The Blue Nile
  
  The Blue Nile is an Adult album alternative/pop music band from Glasgow, Scotland. The music of The Blue Nile is built heavily on synthesizers and electronic instrumentation and percussion, although later works have featured Steel-string acoustic guitar more prominently....
  
• "To All the Girls I've Loved Before
  To All the Girls I've Loved Before
  
  "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" was a 1984 in music song by singers Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson, which appeared on Iglesias's album 1100 Bel Air Place....
  " - Julio Iglesias
  Julio Iglesias
  
  Julio Iglesias De la Cueva is a Spain singer who has sold over 300 million albums in 14 languages and released 77 albums. According to Sony Music he is one of the top 10 best selling music artists ever....
   and 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....
  
• "To France" - Mike Oldfield
  Mike Oldfield
  
  Mike Oldfield is an England multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk music, ethnic or world music, European classical music, electronic music, New Age music and more recently dance music....
  
• "Together In Electric Dreams" - Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder
  Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder
  
  Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder was a collaborative album released in 1985 by Philip Oakey, lead singer of the electronic band The Human League and seminal electro producer Giorgio Moroder, whose early records had been a major influence on Oakey....
  
• "Torture" - Jacksons
• "TV Dinners" - ZZ Top
  ZZ Top
  
  ZZ Top is an American Rock music trio formed in late 1969 in Houston, Texas, United States. The group members are Billy Gibbons , Dusty Hill , and Frank Beard ....
  
• "Twist of Fate" - 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....
  
• "Two Tribes
  Two Tribes
  
  "Two Tribes" is the second single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the United Kingdom by ZTT Records in May 1984 . The song was later included on the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome....
  " - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  
  Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an England dance-pop band that were extremely popular in the mid 1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by Holly Johnson , supported by Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole and Brian Nash ....
  
• "Up On The Catwalk" - 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....
  
• "Very Personal" - Ian Dury
  Ian Dury
  
  Ian Robins Dury was an English rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk rock and New Wave music era of rock music....
  
• "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" - Wham!
• "We Belong
  We Belong
  
  "We Belong" is the first single from Pat Benatar's sixth studio album Tropico , released in late 1984. It matched the success of "Love Is a Battlefield" on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the U.S., peaking at number 5, and reached number 3 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and the top 40 on its Adult Contemporary chart in...
  " - 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"....
  
• "We Rock" - Dio
• "We're Not Gonna Take It" - Twisted Sister
  Twisted Sister
  
  Twisted Sister is an United States Heavy metal music band from New York City. Their work fuses the shock rock tactics of Alice Cooper, the rebellious mood of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the extravagant image of glam rock bands such as New York Dolls notably for the makeup....
  
• "What About Me?
  What About Me? (Kenny Rogers song)
  
  "What About Me?" is the title of a popular song first recorded in 1984 as a trio by singers Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes and James Ingram. The song was written by Rogers, noted producer David Foster and singer-songwriter Richard Marx, who had yet to achieve the fame as a musician that he would a few years later ....
  " - 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....
  , 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....
   and James Ingram
  James Ingram
  
  James Ingram is an United States Soul music musician. He is best-known as a vocalist. He is also a self-taught musician who plays piano, guitar, bass guitar, Drum kit and synthesizer....
  
• "What Difference Does It Make" - The Smiths
  The Smiths
  
  The Smiths were an English Rock music band formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce ....
  
• "What's Love Got to Do with It
  What's Love Got to Do with It? (song)
  
  "What's Love Got to Do with It" is the second single released from Tina Turner's breakthrough solo debut album, Private Dancer. In the UK and Continental Europe it was the third single, following Turner's cover of The Beatles' "Help! "....
  " - Tina Turner
  Tina Turner
  
  Tina Turner is an United States singer and actress whose career has spanned over 50 years and who has won numerous awards. Her achievements in the Rock genre have led to her being referred to as "The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll"....
  
• "When Am I Gonna Make a Living" - Sade
  Sade Adu
  
  Helen Folasade Adu, Order of the British Empire, , better known as Sade , is a British people singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer....
  
• "When Doves Cry
  When Doves Cry
  
  "When Doves Cry" is a song by the United States musician Prince , and the lead single from his 1984 album Purple Rain . It was a worldwide hit, and his first American number one single, topping charts for five weeks....
  " - Prince
• "When Love Breaks Down" - Prefab Sprout
  Prefab Sprout
  
  Prefab Sprout are an England pop music musical ensemble from Witton Gilbert, County Durham, who rose to fame during the 1980s. Seven of their albums reached the Top 40 in the UK Albums Chart, and one of their single , "The King of Rock 'N' Roll", peaked at No....
  
• "Where the Rose Is Sown" - Big Country
  Big Country
  
  Big Country were a Rock band from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, popular in the early to mid-1980s but still releasing material for a cult following....
  
• "Whisper To A Scream(Birds Fly)" - Icicle Works
  Icicle Works
  
  The Icicle Works were an independent England rock band of the 1980s. Named after the 1960 short story "The Day The Icicle Works Closed" by science fiction author Frederik Pohl, The Icicle Works joined Liverpool's early 1980s 'neo-psychedelia' wave, which also propelled Echo & the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes to stardom....
  
• "William It Was Really Nothing" - The Smiths
  The Smiths
  
  The Smiths were an English Rock music band formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce ....
  
• "Wood Beez" - Scritti Politti
  Scritti Politti
  
  Scritti Politti are a United Kingdom band , originally formed in 1978 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Scritti Politti is now primarily a musical vehicle for singer-songwriter Green Gartside , who is the founding member and only member of the band to have remained throughout the group's history....
  
• "Wouldn't It Be Good" - Nik Kershaw
  Nik Kershaw
  
  Nik Kershaw is a British people singer-songwriter, popular during the 1980s....
  
• "You Don't Love Me" - Marilyn
  Marilyn (musician)
  
  Peter Robinson , better known as Marilyn, is a British Pop music Singing who achieved international fame in the 1980s with his hit song "Calling Your Name"....
  
• "You Might Think
  You Might Think
  
  "You Might Think" is a single by The Cars from their fifth studio album, Heartbeat City, which came out in 1984. The track was written by Ric Ocasek, and produced by Mutt Lange and The Cars....
  " - 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 ....
  
• "You Think You're a Man" - Divine
• "You're the Best Thing" - Style Council
• "Young at Heart" - The Bluebells
  The Bluebells
  
  The Bluebells were a Scotland popular music band in the 1980s....
  
• "Your Love Is King" - Sade
  Sade Adu
  
  Helen Folasade Adu, Order of the British Empire, , better known as Sade , is a British people singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer....
  

Christmas songs

• "Do They Know It's Christmas" – Band Aid
  Band Aid (band)
  
  For the bandage company, see Band-Aid.Band Aid was a Great Britain and Ireland Charitable organization supergroup , founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing the record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for the Christmas market that year....
  
• "Last Christmas
  Last Christmas
  
  "Last Christmas" is a song by United Kingdom pop duo Wham!, released on Epic Records in 1984, on a double A-side with "Everything She Wants". It was written by George Michael, one half of the duo....
  " – Wham!
• "Thank God It's Christmas
  Thank God It's Christmas
  
  "Thank God It's Christmas" is a Christmas single by British Rock music band Queen . It was written by guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor....
  " – 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....
  
• "Another Rock N' Roll Christmas
  Another Rock N' Roll Christmas
  
  '"Another Rock N' Roll Christmas"' is a popular 1984 Christmas song by Gary Glitter.The song is about the fun of Christmas and refers to Rock and Roll music throughout, examples being the lyrics "You'll be rocking in your stocking" and "Come on, Rock and Roll for old St....
  " – Gary Glitter
  Gary Glitter
  
  Paul Francis Gadd is an England glam rock singer and songwriter, better known by his stage name Gary Glitter.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s....
  

Published popular music

• "After All These Years" w. Fred Ebb
  Fred Ebb
  
  Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
   m. John Kander
  John Kander
  
  John Harold Kander is the United States composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb....
   from the musical The Rink
• "The Cosby Show
  The Cosby Show
  
  The Cosby Show is an United States television program situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, first airing on September 20, 1984 and running for eight seasons on the NBC television network, until April 30, 1992....
   theme song" m. Stu Gardner and Bill Cosby
  Bill Cosby
  
  William Henry "Bill" Cosby Jr. is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a vanguard role in the 1960s action show I Spy....
  
• "Cover Me" w.m. 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....
  
• "Every Time I Turn Around" w.m. Judy Hart Angelo & Gary Portnoy, theme from the TV series Punky Brewster
  Punky Brewster
  
  Punky Brewster is an United States sitcom about a girl named Punky Brewster being raised by her foster parent Henry Warnimont . The show ran on NBC from September 16, 1984 to September 7, 1986 and again in first-run Television syndication from September 26, 1986 to May 27, 1988....
  
• "Friends" m. John Leffler, theme from the TV series Kate and Allie
• "Ghostbusters"     w.m. Ray Parker, Jr.
• "I Just Called to Say I Love You"     w.m. 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...
  
• "Let's Go Crazy" w.m. Prince and the Revolution
  Prince (musician)
  
  Prince Rogers Nelson is an United States musician. He performs under the Mononymous person name of Prince, but has also been known by various other names, among them an Love Symbol ...
  
• "Like a Virgin" w.m. Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly
• "Lights Out" w.m. Peter Wolf & Don Covay
• "Missing You" w.m. John Waite
  John Waite
  
  John Waite is a rock music singer. He was the lead vocalist for the band The Babys and Bad English. As a solo artist, he scored a #1 hit in the United States with Missing You in 1984....
  , Chaz Sanford & Mark Leonard
• "Murder, She Wrote
  Murder, She Wrote
  
  Murder, She Wrote is an award-winning television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher....
   theme song" m. John Addison
• "No More Lonely Nights" w.m. 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....
  
• "Rock You Like a Hurricane" w.m. Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine & Herman Rarebell
• "Time After Time" w.m. Cyndi Lauper
  Cyndi Lauper
  
  Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....
   & Rob Hyman
  Rob Hyman
  
  Robert Andrew "Rob" Hyman is an American singer, songwriter, Keyboard instrument player, accordion player, record producer, arranger and recording studio owner, best known for being a founding member of the rock band The Hooters....
  
• "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" w. Hal David
  Hal David
  
  Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
   m. Albert Hammond
  Albert Hammond
  
  Albert Hammond is a singer-songwriter, whose family came originally from Gibraltar. Hammond is one of the more successful pop music/rock music songwriters to come out of England during the 1960s and 1970s, and has also enjoyed a long career as a recording artist, his work popular in two languages on three continents across four decades....
  
• "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" w.m. George Michael
  George Michael
  
  Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou , best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning, England singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! as well as a soul music-influenced, solo Pop music musician....
  
• "What's Love Got To Do With It?" w.m. Terry Britten & Graham Lyle
• "When Doves Cry" w.m. Prince
  Prince (musician)
  
  Prince Rogers Nelson is an United States musician. He performs under the Mononymous person name of Prince, but has also been known by various other names, among them an Love Symbol ...
  

Classical music

• Samuel Adler
  Samuel Adler (composer)
  
  Samuel Hans Adler is an United States composer and conducting.Adler was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim, Germany, the son of Hugo Chaim Adler, a hazzan, and Selma Adler....
   - Sonata for Viola and Piano
• Brian Cherney
  Brian Cherney
  
  ?Brian Cherney is a Canada composer currently residing in Montreal, Quebec. He studied at the University of Toronto where he was a pupil of John Weinzweig, Samuel Dolin, and John Beckwith....
   - Into the Distant Stillness
• George Crumb
  George Crumb
  
  George Crumb is an American composer of modern and avant-garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and extended technique. Examples include spoken flute and glass marbles poured onto an open piano....
  
• A Haunted Landscape for orchestra
• The Sleeper for soprano and piano
• Mario Davidovsky
  Mario Davidovsky
  
  Mario Davidovsky is an Argentina-United States composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape....
   - Divertimento for cello and orchestra
• Ludovico Einaudi
  Ludovico Einaudi
  
  Ludovico Einaudi is an Italy contemporary classical music composer and pianist....
   - Altissimo
• Daron Hagen
  Daron Hagen
  
  Daron Aric Hagen is an United States composer of contemporary classical music and opera....
   - A Walt Whitman Requiem
• John Harbison
  John Harbison
  
  John Harris Harbison is a composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.Harbison won the prestigious BMI Foundation's Student Composer Awards for composition at the age of sixteen in 1954....
   - String Quartet no. 1
• Robin Holloway
  Robin Holloway
  
  Robin Greville Holloway is an English composer. From 1952 to 1957, he was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral. He attended King's College, Cambridge and studied musical composition with Alexander Goehr....
   - Viola concerto
• Ian McDougall - Concerto for Clarinet
• Elizabeth Maconchy
  Elizabeth Maconchy
  
  Dame Elizabeth Maconchy Order of British Empire was an England composer, most noted for her cycle of thirteen string quartets.Biography...
   - String Quartet no. 13, Quartetto Corto
• Ingram Marshall
  Ingram Marshall
  
  Ingram Marshall is an American composer and a former student of Vladimir Ussachevsky and Morton Subotnick. Though the composer uses the term "expressivist" to describe his music, he is often associated with post-minimalism....
   - Voces Resonae
• Steve Reich
  Steve Reich
  
  File:Steve Reich2.jpgStephen Michael Reich is an United States composer who pioneered the style of minimalist music. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns , and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts ....
   - The Desert Music
  The Desert Music
  
  The Desert Music is a work of music for voices and orchestra composed by Steve Reich based on texts by William Carlos Williams. It consists of five movements, and in both its tempi and arrangement of thematic material, the piece is in a characteristic arch form ....
  
• Toru Takemitsu
  Toru Takemitsu
  
  was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Though largely self-taught, Takemitsu is recognised for his skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre, drawing from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom la...
   - riverrun for piano and orchestra
• Robert Ward
  Robert Ward
  
  Robert Ward is an United States composer....
   - Saxophone Concerto
• Malcolm Williamson
  Malcolm Williamson
  
  Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson Order of Australia , Order of the British Empire was an Australian composer and Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 to 2003....
  
• A Pilgrim Liturgy - for soloists, mixed choir & orchestra
• Cortège for a Warrior for orchestra
• Hymna Titu for piano solo
• Symphony No. 7
  Symphony No. 7 (Williamson)
  
  Australian composer Malcolm Williamson wrote his Symphony No. 7 in 1984 to a joint commission from the Chamber Youth Strings of Melbourne and the Victoria , Australia....
  

Opera

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths

Awards

Grammy Awards

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

Charts

List of No. 1 Hits

List of No. 1 Albums

See also