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• January 28 - Various artists
  Various artists
  
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  , under the group name USA For Africa
  USA for Africa
  
  USA for Africa , was the name under which forty-five predominantly United States artists, led by Harry Belafonte, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single "We Are the World" in 1985....
  , including Ray Charles
  Ray Charles
  
  Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  , Bob Dylan, 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....
  , 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....
  , 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....
  , 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....
  , 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....
  , 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....
  , 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....
  , Smokey Robinson
  Smokey Robinson
  
  William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an USA R&B and soul music singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is noted for being one of the primary figures associated with Motown Records, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy....
  , 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....
  , Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  
  Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
  , Paul Simon
  Paul Simon
  
  Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  , 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....
  , Huey Lewis
  Huey Lewis
  
  Huey Lewis is an United States musician, songwriter and occasional actor.He sings lead vocals and plays harmonica for his band Huey Lewis and the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many of the band's songs....
  , 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"....
  , 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....
  , Harry Belafonte
  Harry Belafonte
  
  Harold George Belafonte, Jr. is a Jamaican American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful popular singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso music" a title which he was very reluctant to accept for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s....
  , Lindsey Buckingham
  Lindsey Buckingham
  
  Lindsey Adams Buckingham is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being a member of the musical group Fleetwood Mac....
  , 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....
  , Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick
  
  Dionne Warwick , is an American singer, actress, activist, United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, former United States Ambassador of Health, and humanitarian....
  , Waylon Jennings
  Waylon Jennings
  
  Waylon Arnold Jennings was an influential United States of America country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass guitar player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets....
  , 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 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...
  , recorded the song "We Are the World
  We Are the World
  
  "We Are the World" is a 1985 song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, produced and conducted by Quincy Jones and recorded by a supergroup of popular musicians billed as USA for Africa....
  ".
• February 21 - Whitney Houston
  Whitney Houston
  
  Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
   released her first album after signing to Arista Records
  Arista Records
  
  Arista Records is an United States record label. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operates under the RCA Records....
  .
• March 27 - The South African Broadcasting Corporation bans 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...
  's music in response to Wonder dedicating the Oscar
  Academy Awards
  
  The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
   he had won the night before to Nelson Mandela
  Nelson Mandela
  
  Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the first President of South Africa of South Africa to be elected in a universal suffrage democratic election, serving in the office from 1994?99....
  .
• March 28 - A wax likeness of 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....
   was unveiled at Madame Tussaud's wax museum
  Wax museum
  
  A wax museum or waxworks consists of a collection of Wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses....
   in London, UK.

April-June

• April 1 - After months of squabbling, David Lee Roth
  David Lee Roth
  
  David Lee Roth is an United States Rock and roll vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality, best known as the lead singer of Van Halen....
   leaves 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....
   to begin a solo career.
• April 10 - 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....
   begins her very first tour, The Virgin Tour
  The Virgin Tour
  
  The Virgin Tour is the first concert tour by United States singer-songwriter Madonna . The tour supported her first two studio album, Madonna and Like a Virgin....
   (named after her 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....
   album
  Album
  
  An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
  ) in Seattle, Washington
  Washington
  
  Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute....
  , USA.
• June 11 - 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....
   ends The Virgin Tour
  The Virgin Tour
  
  The Virgin Tour is the first concert tour by United States singer-songwriter Madonna . The tour supported her first two studio album, Madonna and Like a Virgin....
   at Madison Square Garden
  Madison Square Garden
  
  Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City....
   in New York, USA.

July-September

• July 13 - The Live Aid
  Live Aid
  
  Live Aid was a multi-venue rock music concert held on . The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia....
   concert took place in Wembley Stadium, London, UK and Philadelphia, USA. The headlining acts at the latter venue included a Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
   reunion, the first since their 1980
  1980 in music
  
  Events...
   disbandment.
• August 16 - On her 27th birthday, 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....
   marries actor Sean Penn
  Sean Penn
  
  Sean Justin Penn is an United States film actor. He is also a filmmaker and political activist. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama for his role in Mystic River and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role and Academy Awa...
  . They divorce on September 14, 1989.
• September 6 - 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....
   purchased the publishing rights for most of the Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  ' music for US$47 million, much to the dismay of 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....
  , whom he was bidding against.
• September 19 - 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,...
  's (P.M.R.C.) United States Senate
  United States Senate
  
  The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
   hearing on rock
  Rock music
  
  Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
   censorship began in Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C.
  
  Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
  , USA. Heavy metal
  Heavy metal music
  
  Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
   singer Dee Snider
  Dee Snider
  
  Daniel Dee Snider is an United States of America musician, DJ, and actor. Snider is most famous for his role as the frontman of the Heavy metal music band Twisted Sister....
   of 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....
  , rock star Frank Zappa
  Frank Zappa
  
  Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
   and country
  Country music
  
  Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
   singer John Denver
  John Denver
  
  John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
   testified against the P.M.R.C.
• September 22 - The Farm Aid
  Farm Aid
  
  Farm Aid started as a benefit concert on September 22, 1985, in Champaign, Illinois, held to raise money for family farmers in the United States....
   concert is held in Champaign, Illinois
  Champaign, Illinois
  
  Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, Illinois, in the United States. The city is located south of Chicago and west of Indianapolis, Indiana....
  , USA.

October-December

• November 16 - Johnny Farnham now John the teenage star and King Of Pop from the late 60s/early 70s renews his very famous celebrity era in Australia when his hit, "You're The Voice
  You're the Voice
  
  "You're the Voice" is a song written by Andy Qunta, Keith Reid, Maggie Ryder and Chris Thompson for John Farnham, which he recorded for his sixteenth album Whispering Jack released in 1986....
  " goes to the top of the charts
  Record chart
  
  Record chart are a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
   at #1 for seven weeks.

December

• December 5 - The first fully digital
  Digital audio
  
  Digital audio uses digital signals for sound reproduction. This includes Analog-to-digital converter, Digital-to-analog converter, storage, and transmission....
   reggae
  Reggae
  
  Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
   single
  Single (music)
  
  In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
  , Wayne Smith
  Wayne Smith (musician)
  
  Wayne Smith is a Jamaican reggae musician.His 1985 sound recording and reproduction of " Sleng teng", is generally regarded as the beginning of ragga style reggae....
  's "(Under Me) Sleng Teng
  Sleng Teng
  
  Sleng Teng is the name given to the first fully computerised riddim in Music of Jamaica. The riddim created by the collaboration between King Jammy and Wayne Smith 's was entitled "Under Me Sleng Teng"....
  ", was recorded at Prince Jammy
  King Jammy
  
  Lloyd James, , better known as Prince Jammy or King Jammy, is a Dub music mixer and record producer.After earning money from building amplifiers and repairing electrical equipment from his mother's house in Waterhouse in the late 1960s, he started his own Sound system ....
  's studio; it is the beginning of ragga
  Ragga
  
  Raggamuffin music, usually abbreviated as ragga, is a sub-genre of dancehall music or reggae, in which the instrumentation primarily consists of electronic music....
   style reggae.

Undated

• Eric B. & Rakim
  Eric B. & Rakim
  
  Eric Barrier and Rakim were a hip hop music duo from Long Island, New York, in the borough of Queens, New York, New York City, who recorded as Eric B....
   meet and began making music together.
• The former Beatles producer George Martin
  George Martin
  
  Sir George Henry Martin Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom record producer, arrangement and composer. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"?a title that he owes to his work as producer or co-producer of all of The Beatles' original records as well as playing piano on some of The Beatles tracks?and is considered one o...
   worked with country music legend Kenny Rogers on the album The Heart of the Matter
  The Heart of the Matter
  
  The Heart of the Matter is a novel by United Kingdom author Graham Greene. It was the winner in 1948 of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction....
  .
• Several hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars in publishing royalties
  Royalties
  
  Royalties are usage-based payments made by one party to another for ongoing use of an asset, sometimes an intellectual property right.Royalties can be determined as a percentage of gross or net sales derived from use of the asset or a fixed price per unit sold....
   were released to the surviving members, and families of the deceased members, of the British music group, Badfinger
  Badfinger
  
  Badfinger was a rock band formed in Swansea in the early 1960s and was one of the earliest representatives of the power pop genre. During the early 1970s the band was tagged as the heir apparent to The Beatles, partly because of their close working relationship with the 'Fab Four' and partly because of their similar sound....
  . Two band members, Pete Ham
  Peter Ham
  
  Peter William Ham was a Wales singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the leader of the group Badfinger....
   and Tom Evans, previously committed suicide due to financial problems.

Bands formed

• See Musical groups established in 1985

Bands disbanded

• Cheech & Chong
• Chic
  Chic
  
  Chic may refer to:* Chic , chic meaning stylish or smart* Chic , a thoroughbred racehorse* Chic , an American music group popular in the disco era...
  
• Devo
  Devo
  
  Devo , often spelled DEVO or DEV-O, is an American Rock music group formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973. They are best known for their 1980 hit "Whip It", which made it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
   (reformed in 1987 and disbanded again in 1990)
• Dr. Hook
• 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....
  
• 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....
  
• The J. Geils Band
• Men at Work
  Men at Work
  
  Men at Work were an Australian reggae-influenced rock music band which achieved international success in the 1980s. They are the only Australian artists to have a #1 album and single simultaneously in the United States ....
  
• Mercyful Fate
  Mercyful Fate
  
  Mercyful Fate is an influential Denmark Heavy metal music band often cited among the influences in the black metal, thrash metal, power metal, and progressive metal genres....
   (reformed in 1993)
• 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....
  
• 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 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....
  
• Quarterflash
  Quarterflash
  
  Quarterflash was an United States musical ensemble#Rock and pop bands formed in Portland, Oregon, in 1980. The band was made up of lead singer and saxophone Rindy Ross, her husband, guitarist Marv Ross, guitarist Jack Charles, keyboardist Rick DiGiallonardo, bassist Rich Gooch and drummer Brian David Willis....
  
• 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....
  
• 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....
  
• The Sugarhill Gang
  The Sugarhill Gang
  
  The Sugarhill Gang is an United States Hip Hop group, known mostly for their biggest hit, "Rapper's Delight", the first hip hop music single recorded to become a Top 40 hit....
  
• Weather Report
  Weather Report
  
  Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s combining jazz and latin jazz with art music, ethnic music, r&b, funk and Rock music elements ....
  

Albums released

• A Cappella
  A Cappella (album)
  
  A Cappella is a 1985 album by Todd Rundgren. The album is one of Rundgren's most unusual in that every sound is the product of the artist's Singer....
   - Todd Rundgren
  Todd Rundgren
  
  Todd Harry Rundgren , is an United States musician, singer-songwriter and record producer....
  
• A Classic Case
  A Classic Case
  
  A Classic Case is an album by the London Symphony Orchestra, playing a selection of music from Jethro Tull . The music was arranged and conducted by Dee Palmer....
   - 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....
  
• Across a Crowded Room
  Across a Crowded Room
  
  Across a Crowded Room is an album by Richard Thompson released in 1985.In 1984 Thompson's management negotiated a contract with Polydor which gave him some financial security for the first time in over a decade....
   - Richard Thompson
• Ancient Artifacts
  Ancient Artifacts
  
  Ancient Artifacts is D.I.'s first full-length studio album, which was released in 1985. "Hang Ten in East Berlin" and "Spiritual Law" were later re-recorded on the band's second album, Horse Bites Dog Cries, which was also released in 1985....
   - 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....
  
• Alternating Currents
  Alternating Currents (Spyro Gyra album)
  
  Alternating Currents is the ninth album by Spyro Gyra from 1985 in music. The album showed a picture of the weather forecasting of some good/bad weather ....
   - Spyro Gyra
  Spyro Gyra
  
  Spyro Gyra is an United States jazz fusion band that was originally formed in the mid-1970s in Buffalo, New York, USA. With over 25 albums released and 10 million copies sold, they are among the most prolific as well as commercially successful groups of the scene....
  
• Armed and Dangerous
  Armed and Dangerous (album)
  
  Armed and Dangerous is the name of Anthrax 's first Extended play. The album was released in February 1985 by Megaforce Records. The band produced the album alone, which was released as a double album in Germany in 2000....
   - 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....
  
• Around the World in a Day
  Around the World in a Day
  
  Around the World in a Day is the sixth album by Prince and The Revolution , released on 22 April, 1985 on Warner Bros. Records . The album was released without any publicity, simply turning up in record stores to the surprise of fans....
   - Prince and the Revolution
• Asylum
  Asylum (album)
  
  Asylum is an album by the United States hard rock band Kiss . It features the debut of lead guitarist Bruce Kulick, who played with the band on their Animalize tour and officially replaced Mark St....
   - 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...
  
• Backwaxed - Anvil
  Anvil (band)
  
  Anvil are a Canadian Heavy Metal music band.The roots of Anvil began in April 1973 in Toronto, Ontario, when high school friends Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner began playing music together....
  
• Bad Moon Rising
  Bad Moon Rising (album)
  
  Bad Moon Rising is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on the New York City independent record label Homestead Records in 1985....
   - 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 ....
  
• Be Yourself Tonight
  Be Yourself Tonight
  
  Be Yourself Tonight is the fifth album by the British pop music duo Eurythmics, released in 1985 in music.This album saw Eurythmics move away from their previous more experimental, synthesizer-based songs, to a more commercial pop/rock sound, incorporating a more traditional band line-up/instrumentation....
   - 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....
  
• Beat Happening
  Beat Happening (album)
  
  Beat Happening was the debut album by Beat Happening, released in 1985 through K Records....
   - Beat Happening
  Beat Happening
  
  Beat Happening is an United States indie rock band formed in Olympia, Washington in 1982. Calvin Johnson , Heather Lewis and Bret Lunsford have been the band's continual members....
  
• Begegnungen II
  Begegnungen II
  
  Begegnungen II is a Sky Records 1985 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....
  
• Behind the Sun
  Behind the Sun (Eric Clapton album)
  
  Behind the Sun is a 1985 album by the England guitarist Eric Clapton. He named the album like this because of a line in Albert King's "Louisiana Blues"....
   - Eric Clapton
  Eric Clapton
  
  Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
  
• Biograph
  Biograph
  
  Biograph may refer to:* Biograph , a 1985 box set compiling music by Bob Dylan* Biograph Studios, a studio facility and film laboratory complex built in 1912 by the Biograph Company in the Bronx, New York...
   - Bob Dylan
• Bites
  Bites (album)
  
  Bites is an album by Skinny Puppy released as an Vinyl record under Nettwerk in 1985. In 1993, it was reissued on CD with additional material originally performed by Hell-O Death Day, a pseudonym used for the band while they toured as an opener for the electronic act Chris and Cosey....
   - 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....
  
• The Blasting Concept Vol. 2
  The Blasting Concept Vol. 2
  
  The Blasting Concept Vol. 2 was a compilation released in 1985 on SST Records. It is the follow-up to the 1983 The Blasting Concept....
   - Various Artists
• Bo Diddley & Co. - Live - Bo Diddley
  Bo Diddley
  
  Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
  
• Bonded by Blood
  Bonded by Blood
  
  For other uses of the phrase, see Bonded by Blood Bonded by Blood is the debut album by the California band Exodus . Although the album was completed in the summer of 1984, it was not released until 1985 due to issues with Exodus and its record label....
   - Exodus
  Exodus (band)
  
  Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in San Francisco, California by guitarist Gary Holt , current Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, and singer/drummer Tom Hunting....
  
• Boy in the Box
  Boy in the Box (album)
  
  Boy in the Box is an album by Corey Hart released in 1985, which spawned four hit singles. The song "Never Surrender " won a Juno Awards of 1985 in 1985 for "Juno Award for Single of the Year" and reached #3 in the U.S....
   - 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 ....
  
• The Breakfast Club
  The Breakfast Club
  
  The Breakfast Club is a 1985 in film United States teen film written and directed by John Hughes . The storyline follows five teenagers as they spend a Saturday in Detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes....
   - Various Artists
  Various artists
  
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• Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin
  Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin
  
  Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin is an live album by England rock group Hawkwind released in 1985 consisting of a performance at the Wembley Arena, Wembley on 27 May 1973....
   (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....
  
• "The Broadway Album
  The Broadway Album
  
  The Broadway Album is a 1985 award-winning album by film director, composer, actor and singing Barbra Streisand of classic show tunes. Streisand, who had formerly represented only minor theater composers on her albums, not only chose in this instance to represent more major figures but also to collaborate with one of them....
  " - Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand
  
  Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  
• Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
  Dire Straits
  
  Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
  
• "Centerfield
  Centerfield
  
  Centerfield is an album by musician John Fogerty, released in 1985. It was his most popular post-Creedence Clearwater Revival album, containing the hit singles "The Old Man Down the Road", "Rock and Roll Girls" and the title track "Centerfield"....
  "- -John Fogerty
  John Fogerty
  
  John Cameron Fogerty is an United States Rock music singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival....
  
• Christmas Time - Chris Stamey
  Chris Stamey
  
  Chris Stamey is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. After a stint playing with Alex Chilton, and a brief partnering with Mitch Easter under the name Sneakers, he formed The dB's, whose stewardship he would share with Peter Holsapple....
  
• The Chronicle of the Black Sword - 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....
  
• Clan of Xymox
  Clan of Xymox (album)
  
  Clan of Xymox was the self-titled debut for Clan of Xymox in 1985, and their first release on the 4AD label ....
   - Clan of Xymox
  Clan of Xymox
  
  Clan of Xymox, also known as Xymox at various parts of their career, are a darkwave/gothic rock band founded in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in 1983 by Ronny Moorings, Anke Wolbert, and Pieter Nooten....
  
• Come Out And Play
  Come Out and Play (album)
  
  Come Out and Play is the fourth album by the United States Heavy metal music band Twisted Sister, released by Atlantic Records. It was less successful than its predecessor Stay Hungry both critically and commercially....
   - 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....
  
• Company Of Justice
  Company of Justice
  
  Released in 1985, Company of Justice would be Play Dead 's final studio album. After a series of signing with multiple flopping independent record labels, Play Dead created their own record label called Tanz in early 1985 just after the end of the From the Promised Land tour....
   - Play Dead
• Copacabana
  Copacabana: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album
  
  Copacabana: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album was released by RCA Records in 1985 to accompany the made-for-television musical Copacabana ....
   (OST) - 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 "....
  
• Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti
  Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti
  
  Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti is a 1985 album by the British New Wave music group Squeeze. It is the band's sixth album, and the first recorded since their breakup in 1982....
   - Squeeze
  Squeeze
  
  Squeeze are an England musical ensemble that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s....
  
• Come Out and Play
  Come Out and Play (album)
  
  Come Out and Play is the fourth album by the United States Heavy metal music band Twisted Sister, released by Atlantic Records. It was less successful than its predecessor Stay Hungry both critically and commercially....
   - 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....
  
• Cupid & Psyche 85
  Cupid & Psyche 85
  
  Cupid & Psyche 85 is the second album by the United Kingdom New Wave music pop group Scritti Politti.It was the band's most successful album to date, reaching no.5 in the UK and no.50 in the US....
   - 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....
  
• Cut the Crap
  Cut the Crap
  
  Cut the Crap was The Clash's final album, originally released in 1985 as the follow-up to Combat Rock , this was the first Clash record since Topper Headon was dismissed from the group in 1982 and Mick Jones ' departure from the group in 1983....
   - The Clash
  The Clash
  
  The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
  
• Dare to Be Stupid
  Dare to Be Stupid
  
  Dare to Be Stupid is the third album recorded by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1985....
   - "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....
  
• Delirious Nomad - Armored Saint
  Armored Saint
  
  Armored Saint is a Los Angeles, United States, based Heavy metal band....
  
• Despite Straight Lines
  Despite Straight Lines
  
  Despite Straight Lines is the debut album by the British singer-songwriter Marilyn , released in 1985. Although it is his only album released to date, it was reissued in 2008 as Despite Straight Lines: The Very Best Of Marilyn, by Cherry Pop ....
   - 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"....
  
• A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse
  A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse
  
  A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse is a 1985 compilation released on the Giorno Poetry Systems label....
   - Giorno Poetry Systems
  Giorno Poetry Systems
  
  Founded in 1965, Giorno Poetry Systems was an United States artist collective, record label, and non-profit organisation founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno with the direct aim to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audiovisual materials and techniq...
  
• Diamond Life
  Diamond Life
  
  Diamond Life is the debut album by the English group Sade , released in the United Kingdom on 28 July 1984 by Epic Records and in the United States on 23 February 1985 by Portrait Records....
  - 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....
  
• Disturbing the Peace
  Disturbing the Peace
  
  Disturbing the Peace is the third album by Alcatrazz, and is the only featuring Steve Vai on guitar. One of the singles, God Blessed Video, can be found on the fictional radio station, V-Rock, on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City....
  - Alcatrazz
  Alcatrazz
  
  Alcatrazz is a melodic Classic Metal band formed in 1983 in Los Angeles by Graham Bonnet, Jimmy Waldo and Gary Shea....
  
• Do You
  Do You
  
  Do You may refer to:* Do You , a song by Ne-Yo* Do You , an album by Sheena Easton...
  - 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....
  
• Done with Mirrors
  Done with Mirrors
  
  Done with Mirrors is the eighth studio album by United States hard rock band Aerosmith and marked the return of Joe Perry and Brad Whitford to the fold....
  - 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"....
  
• Don't Stand Me Down
  Don't Stand Me Down
  
  Don't Stand Me Down is the third and currently final studio album by Dexys Midnight Runners, released in September 1985 . A commercial failure upon release , the album is now considered something of a lost treasure....
  - Dexys Midnight Runners
  Dexys Midnight Runners
  
  Dexys Midnight Runners are a United Kingdom pop music group with soul music influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s....
  
• Down for the Count - 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...
  
• Dream Into Action
  Dream into Action
  
  Dream into Action is the second album by British pop musician Howard Jones . It was released in March 1985 and reached no.2 in the UK Album Charts....
  - Howard Jones
  Howard Jones (musician)
  
  Howard Jones is an England singer and songwriter who gained acclaim in the 1980s....
  
• The Dream of the Blue Turtles
  The Dream of the Blue Turtles
  
  The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the first solo album released by Sting . It includes ten tracks and was released in 1985, only a year after The Police had unofficially broken up....
  - Sting
• Everybody's Crazy
  Everybody's Crazy (album)
  
  Released in 1985 on Columbia Records, Everybody's Crazy is a melodic hard rock/album-oriented rock album from Michael Bolton, recorded before he had his biggest hits....
  - Michael Bolton
  Michael Bolton
  
  Michael Bolton , is an United States singer-songwriter and a former heavy metal music singer, best known for his soft rock ballads and tenor vocals....
  
• Eaten Alive
  Eaten Alive
  
  Eaten Alive is a 1977 horror film directed by Tobe Hooper, featuring Robert Englund, Neville Brand and William Finley ....
  - Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  
  Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
  
• Empire Burlesque
  Empire Burlesque
  
  Empire Burlesque is Bob Dylan's 23rd studio album, released in 1985 on Columbia Records.The production techniques used on Empire Burlesque are typical of the 1980s, and contemporary critics find it to be one of the few Dylan albums that now sound quite dated....
  - Bob Dylan
• Eye Dance
  Eye Dance
  
  Eye Dance is the eighth and final studio album released under the Boney M. moniker and was released in the autumn of 1985. The cover artwork was significant of the state the group was in at that time : neither the famous "Boney M." logo nor the "singers" photograph did appear, replaced by an anonymous drawing....
  - Boney M. (final album)
• Fables of the Reconstruction
  Fables of the Reconstruction
  
  Fables of the Reconstruction is the third studio album released by the United States alternative rock band R.E.M., released on the I.R.S. Records in 1985....
  - 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 ....
  
• Falco 3
  Falco 3
  
  Falco 3 is the third album by Falco , released in 1985.In the U.S. it peaked at number 3 in the Billboard 200 albums charts and at #18 in their Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts....
   - Falco
  Falco (musician)
  
  Johann H?lzel , better known by his stage name Falco, was an Austrian rap music, Pop music and rock music musician and had four #1 Hits - "Der Kommissar ," "Rock Me Amadeus," "Jeanny," and "Coming Home ." He is the first and so far only artist to score a #1 Hit in the U.S....
  
• Father's House
  Father's House
  
  Father's House is the debut album by Athens, Georgia rock band Dreams So Real. It was released by Coyote Records in 1986, and was produced by R.E.M....
   - Dreams So Real
  Dreams So Real
  
  Dreams So Real were a significant band in the music of Athens, Georgia, gaining some national exposure in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including releases on Arista Records....
  
• Fear and Whiskey
  Fear and Whiskey
  
  Fear and Whiskey is a 1985 album by Mekons, which marked their return from a several-year hiatus. It is credited as being the first alternative country album, as it blends the bands previously-established punk rock style with a country & western sound....
   - Mekons
• Fear No Evil
  Fear No Evil (album)
  
  Fear No Evil is the second album released by the Music of the United Kingdom heavy metal music band Grim Reaper in 1985 under the RCA label....
   - Grim Reaper
  Grim Reaper (band)
  
  Grim Reaper are a United Kingdom heavy metal music band from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era. The band were formed in 1979 in Droitwich Spa, England, by guitarist Nick Bowcott....
  
• Feel the Fire
  Feel the Fire (Overkill album)
  
  Feel the Fire is the debut album by American thrash metal band Overkill , released by Megaforce records in 1985....
   - Overkill
  Overkill (band)
  
  Overkill is an United States thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. The band has been recording since 1984, releasing 14 studio albums, 2 EPs, 2 live albums and a "cover version" album....
  
• Fight to Survive
  Fight to Survive
  
  Fight to Survive was the first album by the United States/Denmark hard rock band White Lion, released by Asylum Records in 1985. Grand Slamm Records in America....
   - White Lion
  White Lion
  
  White Lion is an United States/Denmark glam metal band that formed in New York City in 1983 by Denmark vocalist Mike Tramp and United States guitarist Vito Bratta....
  
• The Firm
  The Firm (album)
  
  The Firm is a studio album by The Firm , released by Atlantic Records on 11 February, 1985. Tracks ranged from the epic "Midnight Moonlight" based on a previously unreleased song by Led Zeppelin called "Swan Song", first tinkered with during the Physical Graffiti sessions, to the commercially successful "Radioactive"....
   - The Firm
• First and Last and Always
  First and Last and Always
  
  First and Last and Always, the debut album by UK band The Sisters of Mercy was released on March 11 1985, on band's own label Merciful Release ....
   - The Sisters of Mercy
  The Sisters of Mercy
  
  The Sisters of Mercy are an England Rock music band that formed in 1980. After achieving early underground fame in UK, the band had their commercial breakthrough in mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new recorded output as a strike against their record company....
  
• The Firstborn Is Dead
  The Firstborn Is Dead
  
  The Firstborn Is Dead is the second album released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was first released in 1985. Nick Cave took his obsession with the American South a bit further on this record, with its references to Elvis Presley and bluesmen like Blind Lemon Jefferson....
   - 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....
  
• Fly on the Wall
  Fly on the Wall (album)
  
  Fly on the Wall is the tenth studio album by Australia hard rock band AC/DC, originally released on 28 June 1985. The band's second and last self-produced album, it was also the first AC/DC album not to include drummer Phil Rudd, who was replaced by Simon Wright....
   - 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"....
  
• For The Working Class Man
  For the Working Class Man
  
  For the Working Class Man is the second studio album by Australian rock music singer Jimmy Barnes, released in 1985. The album was released in the US on Geffen as Jimmy Barnes....
   - Jimmy Barnes
  Jimmy Barnes
  
  Jimmy Barnes is a popular Australian rock music singer, with a unique vocal style. He was born James Dixon Swan on 28 April 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland....
  
• Folksinger
  Folksinger
  
  ----Folksinger is an album by folk singer-songwriter Phranc, released in 1985.Phranc's first solo LP fused elements of her punk rock past with acoustic folk music....
   - Phranc
  Phranc
  
  Phranc is an United States singer-songwriter whose career has spanned several decades....
  
• Frankenchrist
  Frankenchrist
  
  Frankenchrist is the third album released by the Dead Kennedys in 1985 on Alternative Tentacles.The album was a subject of great controversy because of a poster inserted in the original record sleeve....
   - Dead Kennedys
  Dead Kennedys
  
  The Dead Kennedys were an United States punk band from the List of musicians in the first wave of punk music of American punk rock, formed in San Francisco, California in 1978....
  
• Freaky Styley
  Freaky Styley
  
  Freaky Styley is the second studio album by the American rock music band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 16, 1985 through EMI. It saw the band back with original guitarist Hillel Slovak....
   - Red Hot Chili Peppers
  Red Hot Chili Peppers
  
  Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Grammy Award-winning American Rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members are vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Flea , and drummer Chad Smith....
  
• The Fury
  The Fury (album)
  
  The Fury is the ninth studio album, and seventh under his own name, by electronic pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1985. It saw him continuing to explore the sampling-heavy Industrial music sound he had developed for the previous album Berserker in 1984....
   - 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 "....
  
• Futile Combat - 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....
  
• Garista
  Garista
  
  Garista is a music album of recordings by the United Kingdom avant-garde music group, Zoviet France, who, when it was recorded, identified themselves as :$OVIET:FRANCE:....
   (re-release) - :zoviet*france:
• Go West
  Go West (Go West album)
  
  Go West is the debut album by the English pop duo Go West , released in 1985. The album brought Go West into the limelight, scoring them a string of top 20 hits in the UK and New Zealand....
   - Go West
  Go West (band)
  
  Go West is an England pop music duet , formed in 1982, by Peter Cox ; and Richard Drummie . While they have had many successful singles in their native England, they are generally best known in United States for their hit song "King of Wishful Thinking" and "Faithful ."...
  
• Gravity
  Gravity (Kenny G album)
  
  Gravity is the third studio album by Saxophone Kenny G. It was released by BMG in 1985 in music, and reached number 13 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart, number 37 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and number 97 on the Billboard 200....
   - Kenny G
  Kenny G
  
  Kenneth Gorelick , better known by his stage name Kenny G, is a Grammy winning American saxophonist. His fourth album, Duotones, brought him breakthrough success in 1986....
  
• Greatest Hits - 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 ....
  
• Halber Mensch
  Halber Mensch
  
  Halber Mensch is the third Recording studio album by Einst?rzende Neubauten. Some Bizzare Records released the album in 1985 . In 2003, after a continuous conflict with ?Some Bizarre Records?, the band released a remastered reissue of this album with another version of the cover....
   (or ½ Mensch; English: Half Man) - Einstürzende Neubauten
  Einstürzende Neubauten
  
  Einst?rzende Neubauten is a Germany avant-garde music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. The group currently comprises Blixa Bargeld , Alexander Hacke , N.U....
  
• Hallelujah All the Way Home
  Hallelujah All the Way Home
  
  Hallelujah All the Way Home is the debut album by New Zealand group, The Verlaines. First released in 1985 by Flying Nun Records, it was re-released by Homestead Records in 1989....
   - The Verlaines
  The Verlaines
  
  'The Verlaines' are a rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand notable for combining rock passion with classical compositional ideas. The Verlaines were formed in 1981 by Graeme Downes, Craig Easton, Anita Pillai, Phillip Higham and Greg Kerr; the band went through multiple line-ups before going on an extended hiatus after their 1997 album Over Th...
  
• Hawkwind Anthology
  Hawkwind Anthology
  
  The Hawkwind Anthology series of records were originally issued mid-1980s containing live and outtake material from Hawkwind's career to that date....
   - 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....
  
• The Head on the Door
  The Head on the Door
  
  The Head on the Door is the sixth studio album by Great Britain band The Cure, released in 1985. The album is the first to feature drummer Boris Williams, it also features the return of Simon Gallup and is Porl Thompson's first album as an official member....
   - 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....
  
• Heart
  Heart (Heart album)
  
  Heart is the self-titled 8th album, but 9th album overall, released by Heart , in 1985. The album completed the band's transition into a pop group, a genre that yielded the band its greatest success by far, marking the band's Capitol Records debut, and it spent 92 weeks on the U.S....
   - Heart
  Heart (band)
  
  Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
  
• The Heart of the Matter - 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....
  
• Hell Awaits
  Hell Awaits
  
  Hell Awaits is the second studio album by the American thrash metal band Slayer, released through Metal Blade Records in 1985. The band's previous release, Show No Mercy, became Metal Blade Records' highest selling release, which influenced producer Brian Slagel to want to release another album....
   - 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....
  
• Hellbound - Warlock
  Warlock (band)
  
  Warlock was a Germany Heavy metal music band, assembled in 1982. They also could be described as hard rock or even glam metal. The band gained some commercial success in the mid 1980s....
  
• Here's to Future Days
  Here's to Future Days
  
  Here's to Future Days is the fifth album by the British pop group Thompson Twins. It was released in September 1985 and it reached no.5 in the UK, and no.20 in the US....
   - 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....
  
• Hero - Clarence Clemons & the Red Bank Rockers
  Clarence Clemons
  
  Clarence Clemons nicknamed The Big Man, is an United States musician, best known as the saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band....
  
• Hold Me - 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....
  
• Horror Epics - The Exploited
  The Exploited
  
  The Exploited are a Scotland punk band from the UK82, formed in 1979.They started out as an Oi! band, before transforming into a faster street punk and hardcore punk band....
  
• Horse Bites Dog Cries
  Horse Bites Dog Cries
  
  Horse Bites Dog Cries is D.I.'s second full-length studio album, which was released in 1986. Although Horse Bites Dog Cries was not a commercial success, it has gained a cult following in recent times, and has been regarded by some critics as the D.I.'s best album....
   - 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....
  
• Hounds of Love
  Hounds of Love
  
  Hounds of Love is a 1985 album by the British singer Kate Bush. It was Bush's fifth studio album, and her second no.1. It has since been certified Double Platinum in the UK for sales of over 600,000 copies, making it her most successful studio album....
   - Kate Bush
  Kate Bush
  
  Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
  
• Hunting High and Low
  Hunting High and Low
  
  Hunting High and Low is the debut album by the Norway New Wave music band a-ha. Released on 31 May 1985 through Warner Bros. Records, the album was a huge commercial success selling over 10 million units worldwide, peaking at #15 in the U.S....
   - 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....
  
• I Am The Night
  I Am the Night
  
  I Am the Night is an album by metal band Pantera, released in 1985 on record and cassette. Any CD release is a bootleg transferred via vinyl or tape....
   - 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....
  
• Ice on Fire - 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....
  
• In My Head
  In My Head
  
  In My Head was the last studio album released by Black Flag . This album followed the album Loose Nut and was discredited by many Black Flag fans for sounding much different than their earlier work....
   - 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....
  
• (Internationalist)- Our Favourite Shop
  Our Favourite Shop
  
  Our Favourite Shop is the second album from the band The Style Council. The majority of the album's material was released in the USA as Internationalists by Geffen Records....
   - 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....
  
• Into The Fire Live
  Into the Fire Live
  
  Into The Fire Live is a live album by the band Play Dead , recorded February 23, 1985 in Oxford, England. It was released as an LP and on VHS by Clay Records....
   - Play Dead
• Into the Groove
  Into the Groove
  
  "Into the Groove" is a 1985 song by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her first major feature film Desperately Seeking Susan. It was released as a single on July 23, 1985 by Sire Records....
   - 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....
  
• Invasion of Your Privacy
  Invasion of Your Privacy
  
  Invasion of Your Privacy is Ratt's second full length album. Beau Hill, who produced their smash debut album, returned to helm production on this album....
   - 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...
  
• Kingdom In The Streets - Dion DiMucci
• Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!
  Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!
  
  Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! is the debut album by United States Heavy metal music band Megadeth. It was originally released in 1985 on Combat Records....
   - Megadeth
  Megadeth
  
  Megadeth is an American Heavy metal music band led by founder, front man, guitarist, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. Formed in 1983 by Mustaine and bass player David Ellefson following Mustaine's departure from Metallica, the band has since released eleven studio albums, six live albums, two Extended play, thirty single , thirty-two music video...
  
• Lands End - various artists
  Various artists
  
  Sorry, no overview for this topic
  
• The Last Command
  The Last Command (album)
  
  The Last Command is a heavy metal music album released by W.A.S.P. on November 9, 1985. The album was produced by Spencer Proffer, Quiet Riot Metal Health album producer....
   - W.A.S.P.
• Le Parc
  Le Parc (album)
  
  Le Parc is an album by Electronic music artists Tangerine Dream, which was released in May, 1985. Each track on the album is inspired by a particular park from somewhere around the world....
   - Tangerine Dream
  Tangerine Dream
  
  Tangerine Dream is a Germany electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member....
  
• Listen Like Thieves
  Listen Like Thieves
  
  Listen Like Thieves is the fifth album by the Australian Rock music band INXS. It was released in 1985. Considered a breakthrough album for the band, it featured their first top 5 single in the United States, "What You Need"....
  - 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....
  
• Little Baggariddim EP - UB 40
• Little Creatures
  Little Creatures (album)
  
  Little Creatures is the sixth album by Talking Heads, released in 1985. The album examined themes of Americana and incorporated elements of country music, with many songs featuring the steel guitar....
  - 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....
  
• Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide
  Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide
  
  Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide is a four-song Extended play released by the United States hard rock band Guns N' Roses on December 16, 1986 on the label, UZI Suicide....
  - Guns N' Roses
  Guns N' Roses
  
  Guns N' Roses is an American Rock music band, formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since their formation....
  
• Live After Death - 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 ....
  
• Long Way to Heaven - Helix
  Helix (band)
  
  Helix are a Canada Heavy metal music band that formed in 1974 and are best known for their 1984 single "Rock You". The original lineup was formed by drummer Bruce Arnold, and consisted of lead vocalist Brian Vollmer, guitarists Ron Watson and Rick "Minstrel" Trembley, keyboardist Don Simmons, and bassist Keith "Bert" Zurbrigg....
  
• Loose Nut
  Loose Nut
  
  Loose Nut is an album released in 1985 by Black Flag on SST Records....
  - 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....
  
• Lost and Found
  Lost and found
  
  A lost and found , lost property , or lost articles is an office in a large public building or area where visitors can go to retrieve lost articles that may have been found by other visitors....
  - Jason & the Scorchers
  Jason & The Scorchers
  
  Jason & the Scorchers, originally Jason & the Nashville Scorchers, were a Rock music / Country rock band formed in 1981 and led by singer/songwriter Jason Ringenberg....
  
• Love
  Love (Cult album)
  
  Love is an album by the England rock music band The Cult, released in 1985 on Beggars Banquet Records. The record has been released in nearly 30 countries worldwide, and sold an estimated 2.5 million copies....
  - 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"....
  
• Love Bomb - The Tubes
  The Tubes
  
  The Tubes are a San Francisco, California-based Rock music musical ensemble, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, "White Punks on Dope"....
  
• Love You to Pieces - 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....
  
• Low-Life
  Low-Life
  
  Low-Life is the third studio album of the English rock band New Order. Released in May 1985, Low-Life is considered to be amongst New Order's strongest work, displaying the moment in which the band completed its transformation from post-punk hold overs to dance rock pioneers....
  - New Order
  New Order
  
  New Order are an English alternative rock/electronic band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris . New Order was formed in the wake of the demise of their previous group Joy Division, following the suicide of vocalist Ian Curtis....
  
• Luxury Of Life - Five Star
  Five Star
  
  Five Star, , were a United Kingdom Pop music / R&B group, from Romford, Greater London, formed in 1983 and comprising brothers and sisters Stedman, Lorraine, Denise, Doris and Delroy Pearson....
  
• Machine Age Voodoo - SPK
  SPK (band)
  
  SPK, formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, was a 1980s and early 1990s industrial music and noise music group. One member, Graeme Revell, would later go on to become a successful Hollywood movie composer....
  
• Mad Not Mad
  Mad Not Mad
  
  Mad Not Mad is the sixth album by the Great Britain ska band Madness , released in 1985 . It was their only album not to feature founder member Mike Barson, who had left the group the year before....
  - 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....
  
• Manilow
  Manilow (album)
  
  Manilow was the self-titled album released in 1985 by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. The album had little impact on the charts. The album features 1980s style rock n' roll with heavy synthesizers....
  - 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 "....
  
• Marching Out - Yngwie Malmsteen
• Messages from the Boys -The Boys
  The Boys
  
  The Boys may refer to:*The Boys , American R&B quartet*The Boys , an American comic book series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson*The Boys , a British courtroom drama film...
  
• Meat Is Murder
  Meat Is Murder
  
  Meat Is Murder is the second studio album by the British alternative rock band The Smiths. It was released in February 1985 and became the band's sole number one album in the UK charts during the band's lifetime....
   - 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 ....
  
• Mental Notes
  Mental Notes (Bad Manners album)
  
  Mental Notes is the fifth studio album by Bad Manners, released in 1985 ....
   - Bad Manners
  Bad Manners
  
  Bad Manners are an England Second Wave ska revival musical ensemble. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the fad through their bald, enormous-bodied frontman's silly on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops TV exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze....
  
• Metal Heart
  Metal Heart
  
  Metal Heart is a 1985 release by German heavy metal music band Accept.Although the group had recorded before at Dierks-Studios, this was the first album produced by Dieter Dierks himself....
   - 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...
  
• Midnite Dynamite
  Midnite Dynamite
  
  Midnite Dynamite is the title of an album released on Atlantic Records in 1985 by the glam metal band KIX ....
   - Kix
  Kix (band)
  
  Kix is an United States glam metal band who achieved popularity in the 1980s....
  
• Mike + The Mechanics - Mike + The Mechanics (debut)
• Misplaced Childhood
  Misplaced Childhood
  
  Misplaced Childhood is the third studio album of the progressive rock band Marillion. It was released in 1985 and has been their most commercially successful album, reaching number one in the ....
   - Marillion
  Marillion
  
  Marillion are a United Kingdom Rock group. Formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England in 1979, their recorded studio output comprises fifteen albums and is generally regarded as comprising two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original vocalist & frontman Fish in late 1988 after their first four albums, and the subsequent arr...
  
• Mud Will Be Flung Tonight
  Mud Will Be Flung Tonight
  
  Mud Will Be Flung Tonight is an album by the American singer and comedienne Bette Midler. It is a live recording of one of Midler's stand-up comedy shows performed in 1985....
   (live) - Bette Midler
  Bette Midler
  
  Bette Midler is an American singing, actress and comedienne, also known as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards....
  
• Music from the Edge of Heaven
  Music from the Edge of Heaven
  
  Music from the Edge of Heaven is the third and final studio album from the British pop duo Wham!, in 1986.The album was only released in Japan and the Americas; other territories got The Final instead....
   - 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....
   (UK)
• Nervous Night
  Nervous Night (album)
  
  Nervous Night is the second studio album by American rock band The Hooters and was released in 1985....
   - The Hooters
  The Hooters
  
  The Hooters are an United States rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By combining a mix of rock and roll, ska and folk music, The Hooters first gained major commercial success in the United States in the mid 1980s due to heavy radio and MTV airplay of several songs including "Day By Day," "And We Danced" and "Where Do The Children Go."...
  
• New Day Rising
  New Day Rising
  
  New Day Rising is a 1985 album by the American punk rock band H?sker D?, released on SST Records. Though less sprawlingly ambitious than prior album Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, in some ways, abandoned hardcore punk entirely, and helped set the template for alternative rock for the next decade....
   - 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....
  
• The Night I Fell in Love
  The Night I Fell in Love (album)
  
  The Night I Fell in Love is the fourth studio album by United States rhythm and blues/soul music singer Luther Vandross, released in 1985 . In 1986, it was nominated for one Grammy Award, "Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance", and two American Music Awards, "Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist" and "Favorite Soul/R&B Album"....
   - Luther Vandross
  Luther Vandross
  
  Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an United States rhythm and blues and soul music singer-songwriter, and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times....
  
• The Night of the Crime - Icon
  Icon (band)
  
  Icon is an United States Heavy metal music/glam metal band that formed in 1981, disbanding in 1990....
  
• Night Time
  Night Time
  
  Night Time is the fifth studio album by Killing Joke, released in 1985. It was an international hit, featuring some of their best-known tracks like "Night Time", "Eighties", "Love Like Blood", and "Kings and Queens"....
   - Killing Joke
  Killing Joke
  
  Killing Joke are an England post-punk rock band formed in October, 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England. However, several conflicting sources have stated that they formed in early 1979Related news articles:...
  
• No Jacket Required
  No Jacket Required
  
  No Jacket Required is an album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins, released on 25 January 1985. It was his third solo album and to date remains his most commercially successful....
   - 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....
  
• No Muss...No Fuss
  No Muss...No Fuss
  
  No Muss...No Fuss is the fifth solo album by United States rock music singer Donnie Iris, released in 1985 ....
   - Donnie Iris
  Donnie Iris
  
  Donnie Iris is an United States rock musician known for his work with The Jaggerz and Wild Cherry during the 1970s, and for his solo albums during the 1980s....
  
• Now That's What I Call Music 5 - Various Artists
• Now That's What I Call Music 6 - Various Artists
• Now - The Christmas Album
  Now - The Christmas Album
  
  Now - The Christmas Album is a compilation album released in 1985. The album is part of the Now That's What I Call Music series, and collects popular Christmas songs of the last few decades....
   - Various Artists
• Off the Board - Ludichrist
  Ludichrist
  
  Ludichrist was an United States of America hardcore punk/speed metal band formed in the 1980s in New York. Their musical style broke from traditional New York hardcore roots by adding aspects of rock music, Heavy metal music and jazz, like extended guitar solos and musical interludes....
  
• Old Land
  Old Land
  
  Old Land is a Relativity Records 1985 compilation album by Cluster and Brian Eno. All of the tracks had been previously released on two prior albums: Cluster & Eno and After the Heat, which were released on LP by Sky Records in 1977 and 1978 respectively....
   - Cluster
  Cluster (band)
  
  Cluster is a Germany experimental music musical group who influenced the development of contemporary popular electronic music and ambient music....
   & Brian 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....
  
• One for the Road - April Wine
• One Clear Moment - Linda Thompson
  Linda Thompson (singer)
  
  Linda Thompson is a United Kingdom singer. Born Linda Pettifer in the London Borough of Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, Thompson became one of the most recognised names—and voices—in the British folk rock movement of the 1970s and 1980s, in collaboration with her former husband and fellow British folk rock legend, guita...
  
• Once Upon a Time
  Once Upon a Time (Simple Minds album)
  
  Once Upon a Time is the eighth album by Simple Minds, released in 1985. Due to the popularity of the Keith Forsey-penned "Don't You " on The Breakfast Club soundtrack, interest in Simple Minds was at an all-time high by the time this album came out....
   - 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....
  
• Open Fire - 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...
  
• Original Masters
  Original Masters
  
  'Original Masters' is a greatest hits by Jethro Tull released under Chrysalis Records in 1985. It was the band's third such effort, the first two being M.U....
   - 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....
  
• Our Favourite Shop
  Our Favourite Shop
  
  Our Favourite Shop is the second album from the band The Style Council. The majority of the album's material was released in the USA as Internationalists by Geffen Records....
   - 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 Pacific Age
  The Pacific Age
  
  The Pacific Age is an album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1986. " Live and Die" became the group's third hit single in the US and returned the group to the top 20 in the UK, peaking at #11, but the album sold poorly in both countries....
   - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
  Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
  
  Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are a synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England. OMD record for Virgin Records ....
  
• Power of the Night
  Power of the Night
  
  Power of the Night is the third album by the Heavy metal music band Savatage and was released in 1985. This record was produced by the hot producer of the time, Max Norman, who became better known as the producer of Megadeth's 1992 hit album Countdown to Extinction....
   - 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 ....
  
• Power Station
  The Power Station (album)
  
  The Power Station is the debut album by Power Station . It was released in 1985 on EMI. An anniversary edition was released 21 February 2005, featuring 7 bonus tracks, as well as a 35 minute DVD....
   - Power Station
  Power Station (band)
  
  Power Station was a 1980s supergroup made up of singer Robert Palmer ; bassist John Taylor and guitarist Andy Taylor of Duran Duran; and former Chic drummer Tony Thompson....
  
• Power Windows
  Power Windows (album)
  
  Power Windows is the eleventh studio album by the Canada rock music band Rush , released in 1985 . The album was recorded at The Manor in England, Air Studios in Montserrat and at Sarm East in London....
   - Rush
  Rush (band)
  
  Rush is a Canadian Rock music band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale, Toronto neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, currently composed of bass guitar, keyboard instrument, and singer Geddy Lee; electric guitar Alex Lifeson; and drum kit and lyricist Neil Peart....
  
• The Process of Weeding Out
  The Process of Weeding Out
  
  The Process of Weeding Out is an EP released by Black Flag in 1985 on SST Records. The music is entirely instrumental and similar to the second side of 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....
  
• Project: Mersh - 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....
  
• Promise
  Promise (album)
  
  Promise is the second studio album by the English group Sade , released in the United Kingdom on 16 November 1985 by Epic Records and in the United States on 21 December 1985 by Portrait Records....
   - 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....
  
• Psychocandy
  Psychocandy
  
  Psychocandy is the debut album by the Scotland alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain, released in November 1985. Psychocandy combined the concepts of pop songs and searing guitar chords, typified by The Velvet Underground songs....
   - 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 ....
  
• Radio
  Radio (LL Cool J album)
  
  Radio is the debut studio album of American rapper LL Cool J, released November 18, 1985 on Def Jam Recordings. Recording sessions for the album took place at the Chung King House of Metal in New York City from 1984 to 1985, after which it became the first full-length LP released by the Def Jam label....
   - LL Cool J
  LL Cool J
  
  James Todd Smith , better known as LL Cool J, is an American rapper and actor. LL Cool J stands for "Ladies love Cool James." He is known for romantic ballads such as "I Need Love" and "Hey Lover" as well as pioneering hip-hop such as "Headsprung", "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", "Mama Said Knock You O...
  
• Rain Dogs
  Rain Dogs
  
  Rain Dogs is an album by Tom Waits, released in August 1985 in music. It peaked at #188 on Billboard Music Charts's Top 200 albums chart. In 1989, it was ranked #21 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s....
   - Tom Waits
  Tom Waits
  
  Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
  
• Ready to Strike
  Ready to Strike
  
  Ready to Strike is the first album by the band King Kobra. It was released, along with at least a dozen other metal albums on November 9, 1985....
   - King Kobra
  King Kobra
  
  King Kobra was a glam metal group founded by drummer Carmine Appice after his tenure with Ozzy Osbourne in 1984. The band during the time of their first two albums included four relatively unknown musicians: vocalist Marcie Free, guitarist Dave Henzerling, guitarist Mick Sweda, and bassist Johnny Rod....
  
• Rescue You
  Rescue You
  
  Rescue You is the first solo album of Joe Lynn Turner, formally of Rainbow and Fandango. This album is a collection of Album-oriented rock and pop tracks radio friendly for the rock heyday of the mid-80's....
   - Joe Lynn Turner
  Joe Lynn Turner
  
  Joe Lynn Turner , born Joseph Linquito August 2, 1951 in Hackensack, New Jersey, is a melodic hard rock singer best known for his work with Rainbow , Yngwie Malmsteen and his brief stint in Deep Purple....
  
• The Right to Rock - 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....
  
• Riptide
  Riptide (album)
  
  Riptide is and album by the British singer Robert Palmer , released in November 1985. It featured his hit single "Addicted to Love " which reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1986, helped by a memorable music video....
   - Robert Palmer
• Rough Cutt
  Rough Cutt (album)
  
  Rough Cutt is the first album of the band of the same name, Rough Cutt.The song "Take Her" was co-written by Ronnie James Dio.The songs "Dreamin' Again" and "Black Widow" were co-written by Wendy Dio, Ronnie's wife....
   - Rough Cutt
  Rough Cutt
  
  Rough Cutt was a American heavy metal band based in Los Angeles, California in the 1980s. Despite having a roster of musicians who later found greater success in other groups, Rough Cutt never achieved the popular success enjoyed by many other Los Angeles bands of that time....
  
• Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
  Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
  
  Rum Sodomy & the Lash is the second studio album by the Anglo-Irish folk punk band The Pogues, released in 1985. The title is taken from a quote often attributed to Winston Churchill Singer and primary songwriter Shane McGowan claimed that the title was suggested by drummer Andrew Ranken....
   - The Pogues
  The Pogues
  
  The Pogues are a band of mixed Irish and English background, playing traditional Irish music with influences from punk rock and jazz, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan....
  
• Run for Cover
  Run for Cover (album)
  
  Run For Cover is an album by Gary Moore, released in 1985 and is often considered as Gary Moore's break-through album.The album includes a remake of the hit single 'Empty rooms' , one of Moore's biggest successes and top 5 single 'Out In The Fields" the albums biggest selling single....
   - 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....
  
• Sacred Heart
  Sacred Heart (album)
  
  For the Shakespears Sister album of the same name, see Sacred Heart Sacred Heart is Dio's third studio album. It was released in 1985 on Warner Bros....
   - Dio
• Salad Days (EP) - 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....
  
• Say You Love Me - Jennifer Holliday
  Jennifer Holliday
  
  Jennifer-Yvette Holliday is a two-time Grammy Award-winning United States singer and actress. She started her career on Broadway theatre in musicals such as Dreamgirls, and later became a successful recording artist....
  
• Scarecrow
  Scarecrow (John Mellencamp album)
  
  Scarecrow is the 8th album released by John Mellencamp in August 1985. Released on Mercury Records, it peaked at #2 on the U.S. charts. It was remastered and reissued on Mercury Records on May 24 2005, with one bonus track....
   - John Cougar Mellencamp
• Scream for Help
  Scream for Help (album)
  
  Scream for Help is a soundtrack album by John Paul Jones , released by Atlantic Records on 22 March, 1985 to accompany the film Scream for Help....
   - John Paul Jones
  John Paul Jones (musician)
  
  John Paul Jones is an England musician, composer, orchestration, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist musician.Best known as the bass guitarist, keyboardist and, less often, mandolin player for Led Zeppelin, Jones has since developed a successful Solo career, and is widely respected as both a musician and a producer....
  
• A Sense of Wonder
  A Sense of Wonder
  
  A Sense of Wonder is an album by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison released in 1985 .When first released original pressings had to be recalled when the W....
   - Van Morrison
  Van Morrison
  
  George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
  
• 7800 Fahrenheit - 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....
  
• Seven the Hard Way - 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"....
  
• Shaken 'n' Stirred
  Shaken 'n' Stirred
  
  Shaken 'n' Stirred is an album by former Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant, released in 1985 on the Es Paranza label. It featured his second Mainstream Rock Tracks top hit, "Little By Little", which was #1 on the chart for two weeks....
   - 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....
  
• Shamrock Diaries
  Shamrock Diaries
  
  Shamrock Diaries is an album by Chris Rea, released in 1985.This album represents the beginning of a creative and commercial zenith for Rea....
   - 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....
  
• She's the Boss
  She's the Boss
  
  She's the Boss is the solo album debut by The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and was released in 1985 in music. When The Rolling Stones signed with Columbia Records in 1983, one of the options available to them was for individual projects, and Jagger - ready to spread his wings after recording exclusively with his famous band for tw...
   - Mick Jagger
  Mick Jagger
  
  Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
  
• Silvertone
  Silvertone (album)
  
  Silvertone is the first album by Chris Isaak, released in 1985. It was not a hit until the song "Gone Ridin'" was featured in the 1986 film, Blue Velvet....
   - Chris Isaak
  Chris Isaak
  
  Christopher Joseph Isaak is an United States rock music musician and occasional actor....
  
• The Singles Collection
  The Singles Collection (Spandau Ballet album)
  
  The Singles Collection is a compilation album by Spandau Ballet, released in 1985 by Chrysalis Records....
   - 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....
  
• So Red the Rose
  So Red the Rose
  
  So Red The Rose is the platinum-selling album by the Duran Duran-spinoff group Arcadia , which was released in 1985 ? the only album the band ever released....
   - Arcadia
  Arcadia (band)
  
  Arcadia were the pop music band formed in 1985 in music by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Andrew Taylor of Duran Duran, during a break in that band's schedule....
  
• Soldiers Under Command
  Soldiers Under Command
  
  Soldiers Under Command is the second release, and first full-length studio album, from Christian metal band Stryper, released in 1985 . It was the first Christian metal album to achieve Music recording sales certification status, selling more than half a million copies....
   - 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....
  
• Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends
  Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends
  
  Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends is the third solo album by George Clinton . It was released in 1985 by Capitol Records. Though it wasn't as successful as Computer Games , Clinton's first solo album, Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends received favorable reviews among critics....
   - George Clinton
  George Clinton (funk musician)
  
  George Clinton is an United States musician and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the musical bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and is a solo funk artist as of 1981....
  
• Songs from the Big Chair
  Songs from the Big Chair
  
  Songs from the Big Chair is the second album by the United Kingdom pop music band Tears for Fears. It was released in 1985, and remains their highest selling album to date....
   - 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...
  
• Soul to Soul
  Soul to Soul (album)
  
  Soul to Soul is the third studio album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, and was released in 1985. It has been certified platinum by RIAA....
   - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
• Space Ritual Volume 2
  Space Ritual
  
  The Space Ritual Alive in Liverpool and London is a 1973 live double album recorded in 1972 by UK rock band Hawkwind. It is their fourth album, reached #9 in the UK album charts and briefly dented the Billboard Hot 200, peaking at #179....
   (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....
  
• Spleen and Ideal
  Spleen and Ideal
  
  Spleen and Ideal is the second album recorded by Dead Can Dance, released in 1986. A rather ethereal form of Gothic rock, similar to the origins in their debut album, Dead Can Dance , and followed a more world music- and neoclassical -oriented content, with lyrics based on the writings of Charles Baudelaire and Thomas de Quincey....
   - 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....
  
• Spoiled Girl
  Spoiled Girl
  
  Spoiled Girl is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's 13th album, and 12th studio album, released in 1985 in music.It was Simon's only album for Epic Records, and was commercially unsuccessful, peaking at #88 on the Billboard Hot 200....
   - Carly Simon
  Carly Simon
  
  Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
  
• Spreading the Disease
  Spreading the Disease
  
  Spreading the Disease is the second studio album by United States Heavy metal music band Anthrax and the first with vocalist Joey Belladonna and bassist Frank Bello....
   - 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....
  
• Starpeace
  Starpeace
  
  Starpeace is Yoko Ono's 1985 concept album, designed to spread a message of peace around the world as an opposition to Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" Strategic Defense Initiative....
   - 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....
  
• Stay Hard
  Stay Hard
  
  Stay Hard is the fourth full-length album by the band Raven , released in 1985 ....
   - 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"....
  
• Stella - Yello
  Yello
  
  Yello is a Switzerland electronica band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank . They are probably best known for their singles "The Race " and "Oh Yeah ", which feature a mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals....
  
• Steve McQueen (US title: Two Wheels Good) - 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....
  
• Suzanne Vega
  Suzanne Vega (album)
  
  Suzanne Vega is the 1985 self-titled debut album by Suzanne Vega....
   - Suzanne Vega
  Suzanne Vega
  
  Suzanne Nadine Vega is an American songwriter and singer known for her highly literate lyrics and eclectic folk music-inspired music.Record companies saw little prospect of commercial success in the beginning; Vega's demo tape was rejected by every major record company?twice by A&M....
  
• Syirin Farthat - Elvy Sukaesih
  Elvy Sukaesih
  
  Elvy Sukaesih is one of the most popular singers in Java , Indonesia, and has been dubbed the Queen of Dangdut. Sukaesih has a significant fanbase in other Asian countries such as Japan....
  
• The Best Of Elvy Sukaeish - Elvy Sukaesih
  Elvy Sukaesih
  
  Elvy Sukaesih is one of the most popular singers in Java , Indonesia, and has been dubbed the Queen of Dangdut. Sukaesih has a significant fanbase in other Asian countries such as Japan....
  
• Talk about the Weather
  Talk about the Weather
  
  Talk About The Weather was released in 1985 in the United Kingdom on Red Rhino Records, an independent music record label. It was Red Lorry Yellow Lorry's debut album....
   - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
  Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
  
  Red Lorry Yellow Lorry is a rock and roll band that was formed in Leeds, England in early 1981....
  
• Telephone Free Landslide Victory
  Telephone Free Landslide Victory
  
  Telephone Free Landslide Victory is a 1985 album by musical group Camper Van Beethoven, released on Independent Projects. It featured the band's best known song "Take the Skinheads Bowling"....
   - Camper Van Beethoven
  Camper Van Beethoven
  
  Camper Van Beethoven is an American alternative rock group. An eclectic band even by the standards of 1980s underground music, Camper Van Beethoven mixed elements of Pop music, ska, world music, punk rock, Folk music, country music, and acid rock....
  
• 10 from 6
  10 from 6
  
  10 from 6 is a compilation album released by Bad Company in 1985 on Atlantic Records. All the songs on the album were previously released on Swan Song Records, a record label began by Led Zeppelin in 1974....
   - Bad Company
  Bad Company
  
  Bad Company are an England hard rock Supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of band members from Free , Mott the Hoople , and King Crimson . Bad Company was managed by Peter Grant , who had also guided Led Zeppelin to massive success....
  
• That's Why I'm Here
  That's Why I'm Here
  
  That's Why I'm Here is singer-songwriter James Taylor's twelfth album. It was released in 1985, four years after his previous effort, Dad Loves His Work, and contains a cover version of Buddy Holly's "Everyday", as well as the participation of a number of artists, including Don Henley, Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash....
   - James Taylor
  James Taylor
  
  James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
  
• The Singles 81>85 - 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 ....
  
• Theatre of Pain
  Theatre of Pain
  
  Theatre of Pain is the third album by rock band M?tley Cr?e, released on June 21, 1985. Released in the aftermath of singer Vince Neil's arrest for manslaughter on a drunk driving charge, the album marked a step away from the heavy metal sound of Shout at the Devil towards a more glam-rock influenced record, in both sound and image....
   - 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....
  
• This is Big Audio Dynamite
  This Is Big Audio Dynamite
  
  This Is Big Audio Dynamite was the debut album by Big Audio Dynamite, led by former The Clash band member Mick Jones . It was released in 1985, and reached #27 in the UK and #103 in the U.S....
   - Big Audio Dynamite
  Big Audio Dynamite
  
  Big Audio Dynamite were a British musical group formed in 1984 by the ex-guitarist and singer of The Clash, Mick Jones . The group were noted for their effective mixture of varied musical styles, incorporating elements of punk rock, dance music, hip-hop, reggae, and funk....
  
• This Nation's Saving Grace
  This Nation's Saving Grace
  
  This Nation's Saving Grace is an Vinyl record by The Fall , originally released in 1985. It reached number 58 in the UK charts.At the beginning of 1985, the group were without Paul Hanley , who left after completing the group's 1984 tour, as well as his brother, bassist Steve Hanley who took four months paternity leave from the band in...
   - The Fall
• 3-Way Tie (For Last)
  3-Way Tie (For Last)
  
  3-Way Tie is the fourth and final full-length album recorded by the American punk band Minutemen . It is particularly notable for featuring several cover songs by bands such as the Urinals, Meat Puppets, Blue ?yster Cult, and Credence Clearwater Revival....
   - 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....
  
• Thunder in the East - Loudness
  Loudness (band)
  
  is a Japanese Heavy metal music band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. They were the first Japanese heavy metal act signed in the United States, releasing seven albums ...
  
• Thursday Afternoon
  Thursday Afternoon
  
  Thursday Afternoon is a 1985 album by the United Kingdom Ambient music musician Brian Eno consisting of one 61-minute composition of the same name....
   - Brian 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....
  
• Tim
  TIM
  
  Tim may refer to:Names*Timothy or Tim, for short.People*Tim, the Oldenburg Baby, abortion survivor*Tim , popular K-pop solo singer*Tiny Tim , American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist...
   - 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....
  
• To Mega Therion
  To Mega Therion (album)
  
  To Mega Therion is the second album by the Switzerland extreme metal band, Celtic Frost, released in October 1985. The cover artwork is a painting by H.R....
   - Celtic Frost
  Celtic Frost
  
  Celtic Frost was an influential avant-garde metal band from Z?rich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal and gothic metal genres....
  
• Two Hearts - Men at Work
  Men at Work
  
  Men at Work were an Australian reggae-influenced rock music band which achieved international success in the 1980s. They are the only Australian artists to have a #1 album and single simultaneously in the United States ....
  
• "The UB 40 File" - 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....
  
• Under Lock and Key
  Under Lock and Key
  
  Under Lock and Key is the third studio album by heavy metal music band Dokken, released in 1985 through Elektra Records.The album contains three singles; "In My Dreams", "It's Not Love", and "The Hunter."...
   - 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....
  
• Unguarded
  Unguarded
  
  Unguarded is the ninth album by Contemporary Christian music singer Amy Grant, released in 1985 .When Unguarded was released in 1985, Amy Grant was probably the most popular star in Contemporary Christian music, recording songs with religious lyrics in the pop/rock style of the day....
   - 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....
  
• Up on the Sun
  Up on the Sun
  
  Up on the Sun is the third album by the Meat Puppets, released in 1985 by SST Records. In 1999 the album was reissued on Rykodisc with bonus tracks and recording notes....
   - 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 ....
  
• "U.T.F.O."- UTFO
  UTFO
  
  UTFO was an old school hip-hop group from the 1980s mentored by the contemporary R&B group Full Force. The group consisted of the Kangol Kid , the Educated Rapper , Doctor Ice , and Mix Master Ice ....
  
• VU
  VU (album)
  
  VU is an outtakes compilation album by The Velvet Underground. It was released in February 1985 by Verve Records....
   - The Velvet Underground
  The Velvet Underground
  
  The Velvet Underground was an American Rock music band first active, in various incarnations, from 1965 to 1973. Their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists....
  
• Waiting for the Roar - 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 ....
  
• Walls of Jericho
  Walls of Jericho (album)
  
  Walls of Jericho is the debut full length studio album by Germany power metal band Helloween, released in 1985.In 1988, the Helloween EP/mini-LP and the Judas were added to the Walls Of Jericho track listing; they are now released as a compilation....
   - Helloween
  Helloween
  
  Helloween are a Germany power metal/speed metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band is known as one of the pioneering power metal bands, being part of the German Heavy metal music/speed/power metal scene that included Accept, Running Wild , Blind Guardian, Grave Digger , Sinner , and Rage ....
  
• We Are the World
  We Are the World
  
  "We Are the World" is a 1985 song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, produced and conducted by Quincy Jones and recorded by a supergroup of popular musicians billed as USA for Africa....
   - USA for Africa
  USA for Africa
  
  USA for Africa , was the name under which forty-five predominantly United States artists, led by Harry Belafonte, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single "We Are the World" in 1985....
  
• Welcome to the Real World - Mr. Mister
  Mr. Mister
  
  'Mr. Mister' was an United States pop rock musical ensemble of the 1980s. The band's name came from an inside joke about a Weather Report record called Mr....
  
• Whispering Jack
  Whispering Jack
  
  Whispering Jack is the sixteenth album by Australian singer John Farnham. The album was released in Australia on January 6, 1986. It has become one of the highest selling albums in Australia by an Australian artist, with over 1 million copies sold....
   - John Farnham
  John Farnham
  
  John Peter Farnham, Order of Australia is an English people-born Australian Pop music singer who performed as Teen idol, Johnny Farnham, from 1964–1979 and then as Adult Contemporary singer John Farnham....
  
• Whitney Houston
  Whitney Houston (album)
  
  Whitney Houston is the debut album of American contemporary R&B and pop music singer Whitney Houston, released February 14, 1985, on Arista Records....
   - Whitney Houston
  Whitney Houston
  
  Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
  
• Who's Zooming Who - Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
  
• Wide Awake In America
  Wide Awake in America
  
  Wide Awake in America is a four-track Extended play by the Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released in 1985. It combines two live performances of songs from the group's 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire with two B-sides from the era, which had previously been available only in the United Kingdom....
   - 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....
  
• The Wishing Chair
  The Wishing Chair
  
  The Wishing Chair is the major-label debut album by 10,000 Maniacs. The album was released in 1985 by Elektra Records....
   - 10,000 Maniacs
  10,000 Maniacs
  
  10,000 Maniacs was a United States-based alternative rock band, formed in 1981 and active with various line-ups through 2007. Their best-known member is Natalie Merchant, who left the band in 1993 to pursue a solo career....
  
• Without Love - Black N' Blue
• World Machine
  World Machine
  
  World Machine is a studio album, released in 1985, by the British pop group Level 42. It peaked at #3 on the UK album charts, and stayed for 72 weeks....
   - 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....
  
• World Wide Live
  World Wide Live
  
  World Wide Live is a live album by Germany Heavy metal music band Scorpions released in 1985, produced by Dieter Dierks.It was originally released as a 2LP vinyl set, in a gatefold-sleeve, and a cassette....
   - 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 "....
  
• Youthquake
  Youthquake
  
  Youthquake is the second album by the British pop group Dead or Alive and was released in 1985. This album was their commercial breakthrough in Europe and the United States, due to the single "You Spin Me Round", which was a UK number-one hit and a top 20 hit in the United States....
   - Dead or Alive
  Dead or Alive (band)
  
  Dead or Alive are a United Kingdom New Wave music band from Liverpool that rose to popularity during the 1980s, and evolved from the late 1970s band Nightmares in Wax....
  
• Zaman - 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....
  

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• "A View to a Kill
  A View to a Kill
  
  A View to a Kill is the fourteenth spy film of the James Bond James Bond , and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
  " - 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....
  
• "Alive and Kicking
  Alive and Kicking
  
  Alive and Kicking may refer to:* Alive N Kickin', a U.S. band formerly known as Alive and Kicking* Alive and Kicking , a 1959 film featuring Richard Harris...
  " - 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....
  
• "All I Need
  All I Need (Jack Wagner song)
  
  "All I Need" is the title of a 1984 song by the United States actor Jack Wagner . Wagner became known for his role as Frisco Jones on the soap opera General Hospital prior to recording the song; he has since had roles on other television programs, such as The Bold and the Beautiful and Melrose Place....
  " - Jack Wagner
  Jack Wagner (actor)
  
  Peter John "Jack" Wagner, II is an Emmy Award-nominated United States actor....
  
• "Angel
  Angel (Madonna song)
  
  "Angel" is the third single by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her 2nd studio album Like a Virgin, and was released on April 10, 1985 by Sire Records....
  " - 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....
  
• "Barbados" - Models
  Models (band)
  
  Models are an alternative rock group from Melbourne, Australia, which formed in August 1978 and went into hiatus in 1988. They are often incorrectly referred to as The Models....
  
• "Barbarism Begins At Home" - 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 ....
  
• "Born in the U.S.A.
  Born in the U.S.A. (song)
  
  "Born in the U.S.A." is a 1984 song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. Taken from the Born in the U.S.A., it is one of his best-known single ....
  " - 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....
  
• "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" - 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 ....
  
• "The Boys of Summer
  The Boys of Summer (song)
  
  "The Boys of Summer" is a song sung by Don Henley, written by him and Mike Campbell. It is the lead track and first single from Henley's 1984 album Building the Perfect Beast....
  " - 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....
  
• "Broken Wings" - Mr. Mister
  Mr. Mister
  
  'Mr. Mister' was an United States pop rock musical ensemble of the 1980s. The band's name came from an inside joke about a Weather Report record called Mr....
  
• "Brothers in Arms
  Brothers in Arms (song)
  
  "Brothers in Arms" is a 1985 song by Dire Straits, appearing as the last track on the Brothers in Arms . It is in G# minor. It peaked at #16 in the UK....
  " -Dire Straits
  Dire Straits
  
  Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
  
• "Borderline
  Borderline (song)
  
  "Borderline" is the fourth single by United States singer-songwriter Madonna and was released on February 15, 1984 by Sire Records. It appears on her 1983 debut studio album, Madonna , and on her 1990 in music hits compilation The Immaculate Collection....
  " - 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....
   (UK only)
• "Can't Fight This Feeling" - 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....
  
• "Centerfield
  Centerfield
  
  Centerfield is an album by musician John Fogerty, released in 1985. It was his most popular post-Creedence Clearwater Revival album, containing the hit singles "The Old Man Down the Road", "Rock and Roll Girls" and the title track "Centerfield"....
  " - John Fogerty
  John Fogerty
  
  John Cameron Fogerty is an United States Rock music singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival....
  
• "C'était mon ami" - 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....
  
• "Chain Reaction" - Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  
  Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
   #1
• "Children's Crusade" - Sting
• "Close To Me" - 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....
  
• "Cloudbusting
  Cloudbusting
  
  "Cloudbusting" is a song that was written, produced and performed by the British singer Kate Bush. It was the second single released from her no.1 1985 album Hounds of Love....
  " - Kate Bush
  Kate Bush
  
  Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
  
• "Crazy for You
  Crazy for You (song)
  
  "Crazy for You" is a single by American singer-songwriter Madonna for the 1985 film Vision Quest. It also appears remixed on the 1990 compilation album The Immaculate Collection and was re-released on February 24, 1991 by Sire Records to promote the album....
  " - 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....
  
• "Dancing in the Street
  Dancing in the Street
  
  "Dancing in the Street" is a 1964 song first recorded by Martha and the Vandellas. It is one of Motown's signature songs and is the group's premier signature song....
  " - David Bowie
  David Bowie
  
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
   and Mick Jagger
  Mick Jagger
  
  Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
  
• "Day By Day" - Shakatak
  Shakatak
  
  Shakatak is a United Kingdom jazz-funk band , founded in 1980....
   with Al Jarreau
  Al Jarreau
  
  Alwyn Lopez "Al" Jarreau is an United States singer. A seven-time Grammy Award winner, he is the only vocalist in history to win in three separate categories: jazz, pop music, and R&B....
  
• "Dirty Old Town" - The Pogues
  The Pogues
  
  The Pogues are a band of mixed Irish and English background, playing traditional Irish music with influences from punk rock and jazz, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan....
  
• "Do It for Love
  Do It For Love
  
  Do It for Love is the name of an album released in 2003 by pop music duo Hall & Oates. The title track peaked at #1 on AC charts making it the 8th #1 hit of their career, and "Forever For You", "Man on a Mission", and "Getaway Car" all charted as well....
   -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....
  
• "Don't Come Around Here No More" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  
  This article is about the Rock band. For information on the eponymous debut album see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is an United States Rock music band, formed in 1976 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench and known for hit singles such as "American Girl ", "Breakdown " and "Mary Jane's Last Da...
  
• "Don't Lose My Number" - 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....
  
• "Don't You (Forget About Me)
  Don't You (Forget About Me)
  
  "Don't You " is a song written for the soundtrack of the 1985 John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club. The songwriters were disco producer Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff ....
  " - 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....
    (released in 1984)
• "Dress You Up
  Dress You Up
  
  "Dress You Up" is the fifth single by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her 2nd studio album, Like a Virgin and was released on July 24, 1985 by Sire Records....
  " - 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....
    (released in 1984)
• "Duel" - Propaganda
  Propaganda (band)
  
  Propaganda is a Germany synthpop group, formed in 1984....
  
• "E=MC²" - Big Audio Dynamite
  Big Audio Dynamite
  
  Big Audio Dynamite were a British musical group formed in 1984 by the ex-guitarist and singer of The Clash, Mick Jones . The group were noted for their effective mixture of varied musical styles, incorporating elements of punk rock, dance music, hip-hop, reggae, and funk....
  
• "Eighties" - Killing Joke
  Killing Joke
  
  Killing Joke are an England post-punk rock band formed in October, 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England. However, several conflicting sources have stated that they formed in early 1979Related news articles:...
  
• "Éthiopie
  Éthiopie
  
  "?thiopie" is a charity song recorded in 1986 in music by the collective band known under the name 'Chanteurs sans Fronti?res'. The song achieved a huge success in France, topping the chart for two months and becoming one of the best-selling singles in that country....
  " - Chanteurs sans Frontières
• "Everybody Wants to Rule the World
  Everybody Wants to Rule the World
  
  "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is a song by the British Pop music/Rock music band Tears for Fears. It was the band's ninth single release in the United Kingdom and seventh UK Singles Chart chart hit, peaking at #2 in April 1985 in music....
  " - 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...
  
• "Everything She Wants
  Everything She Wants
  
  "Everything She Wants" was a song by United Kingdom pop duo Wham!, released in 1984 on Epic Records on a double A-side with "Last Christmas". It was written by George Michael, one half of the duo....
  " - 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....
  
• "Everytime You Go Away
  Everytime You Go Away
  
  "Everytime You Go Away" is a song written by Daryl Hall and cover version by Paul Young in 1985 .The original appeared on Hall & Oates's 1980 album, Voices , although it was not released as a single....
  " - Paul Young
  Paul Young
  
  Paul Antony Young is an England pop music musician....
  
• "Find A Way" - 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....
  
• "Faron Young" - 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....
  
• "Fortress Around Your Heart
  Fortress Around Your Heart
  
  "Fortress Around Your Heart" is a song from Sting 's 1985 album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. The song was also released as a single, and reached #8 and #49 on the United States and United Kingdom singles charts, respectively....
  " - Sting
• "Freeway of Love
  Freeway of Love
  
  "Freeway of Love" is a Grammy Award-winning song released as the first single from Aretha Franklin's 1985 album Who's Zoomin' Who?. It was very successful in the United States, peaking at the #3 position of the Billboard Billboard Hot 100 chart, and topping the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart for five weeks ....
  " - Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
  
• "Gambler" - 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....
  
• "Glory Days" - 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....
  
• "(Gotta Be) Wrong Way To Love" - Dynamic Hepnotics
  Dynamic Hepnotics
  
  The Dynamic Hepnotics were a successful Australian soul/blues/funk band during the 1980s. They had major success with their chart topping song "Soul Kind Of Feeling" in 1984 and 1985, followed up by Gotta be Wrong later that year....
  
• "Head Over Heels
  Head over Heels (Tears for Fears song)
  
  "Head over Heels" is a song by the British pop/rock band Tears for Fears. It was the band's tenth single release in the United Kingdom and eighth UK Top 40 hit, peaking at #12 in July 1985 in music....
  " - 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...
  
• "The Heat Is On
  The Heat Is On (Glenn Frey song)
  
  "The Heat Is On" is a song written by Harold Faltermeyer and Keith Forsey and recorded by Glenn Frey, from Beverly Hills Cop#Soundtrack of the popular 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop....
  " - Glenn Frey
  Glenn Frey
  
  Glenn Lewis Frey is an United States musician, singing, songwriter, and actor, best known as one of the founding members of the Rock music band Eagles....
  
• "Heaven" - 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...
  
• "Hold Me" - 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....
  
• "Hounds of Love
  Hounds of Love
  
  Hounds of Love is a 1985 album by the British singer Kate Bush. It was Bush's fifth studio album, and her second no.1. It has since been certified Double Platinum in the UK for sales of over 600,000 copies, making it her most successful studio album....
  " - Kate Bush
  Kate Bush
  
  Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
  
• "How Soon Is Now?" - 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 ....
  
• "I Love Her All The Time" - 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 ....
  
• "If Ever You're In My Arms Again" - Peabo Bryson
  Peabo Bryson
  
  Peabo Bryson is a two-time Grammy Award-winning United States R&B and Soul music singer, born in Greenville, South Carolina, South Carolina. He is well known for singing soft-rock ballads, often as a duo with female singers, and his contribution to several Disney animated feature soundtracks....
  
• "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
  If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
  
  "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" is the first single released from Sting solo debut album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. It is also the opening track of the album, and is featured on Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994 as well as The Very Best of Sting & The Police....
  " - Sting
• "I'm Goin' Down
  I'm Goin' Down
  
  "I'm Goin' Down" is a 1984 song written and performed by United States rock singer Bruce Springsteen. In 1985 it became the sixth single released from his massively successful album Born in the U.S.A....
  " - 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....
  
• "I'm On Fire
  I'm on Fire
  
  "I'm on Fire" is a song written and performed by United States rock singer Bruce Springsteen. In 1985 it became the fourth single released from his massively successful album Born in the U.S.A.....
  " - 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....
  
• "In Between Days" - 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....
  
• "Into the Groove
  Into the Groove
  
  "Into the Groove" is a 1985 song by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her first major feature film Desperately Seeking Susan. It was released as a single on July 23, 1985 by Sire Records....
  " - 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....
  
• "Indianapolis" - 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....
  
• "Invincible" - 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"....
  
• "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 ....
  
• "Je te donne
  Je te donne
  
  "Je te donne" is a bilingual pop song, recorded in English language and French language. It was successfully performed by Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michael Jones and was released as a single in late 1985....
  " - Jean-Jacques Goldman
  Jean-Jacques Goldman
  
  Jean-Jacques Goldman is a French people singer and songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and in 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday....
   and Michael Jones
  Michael Jones
  
  Mike or Michael Jones may refer to:In sports:* Mike Jones , Canadian baseball pitcher* Mike Jones , American baseball pitcher...
  
• "Jealous Guy" - 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....
  
• "Johnny Come Home" - Fine Young Cannibals
  Fine Young Cannibals
  
  Fine Young Cannibals were a United Kingdom band formed in Birmingham, England in 1984, by guitarist David Steele and bassist Andy Cox , and singer Roland Gift....
  
• "Johnny, Johnny
  Johnny, Johnny
  
  "Johnny, Johnny" is a 1985 song recorded by the France singer Jeanne Mas. It was her second Single from her debut album, Jeanne Mas , on which it features as the second track....
  " - Jeanne Mas
  Jeanne Mas
  
  Jeanne Mas, born on 28 February 1958 in Alicante, Spain, is a France pop music singer and actress.She is well known in France, Switzerland and Belgium for a number of hit singles released in the 1980s....
  
• "Kayleigh" - Marillion
  Marillion
  
  Marillion are a United Kingdom Rock group. Formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England in 1979, their recorded studio output comprises fifteen albums and is generally regarded as comprising two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original vocalist & frontman Fish in late 1988 after their first four albums, and the subsequent arr...
  
• "Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)
  Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)
  
  "Kiss the Dirt " is a song by Australian band INXS. The song written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence, it reached #15 on the Australian charts....
  " - 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....
  
• "Le temps d'aimer" - 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....
  
• "Le Vénitien de Levallois" - 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....
  
• "Lean on Me (ah-li-ayo)" - Red Box
• "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....
  /Take Me With U" - Prince and the Revolution
• "Listen Like Thieves
  Listen Like Thieves
  
  Listen Like Thieves is the fifth album by the Australian Rock music band INXS. It was released in 1985. Considered a breakthrough album for the band, it featured their first top 5 single in the United States, "What You Need"....
  " - 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....
  
• "Live Is Life" - Opus
  Opus (band)
  
  Opus is an Austrian popular music-rock music musical group from Graz which was formed in 1973, and is still active today.The Band is renowned for its One hit wonder "Live is Life" in the mid-1980s....
  
• "Love Is the Seventh Wave
  Love Is the Seventh Wave
  
  "Love Is the Seventh Wave" was the second single and second track from Sting 1985 solo debut album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. The song is supposedly about love being the seventh wave, or the strongest wave in a series of waves, thus wiping out any sort of problems....
  " - Sting
• "Love Like Blood
  Love Like Blood
  
  Love Like Blood is a German gothic rock/gothic metal band....
  " - Killing Joke
  Killing Joke
  
  Killing Joke are an England post-punk rock band formed in October, 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England. However, several conflicting sources have stated that they formed in early 1979Related news articles:...
  
• "Lover Why" - Century
  Century (band)
  
  Century are a France rock band formed in Marseille in 1979. Led by singer and lyricist Jean Duperron, Century are probably best known for their single "Lover Why" from the album And Soul It Goes in 1986....
  
• "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....
  
• "Loverboy" - 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....
  
• "Live To Tell
  Live to Tell
  
  "Live to Tell" is the first single by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her third studio album, True Blue , and it was released on March 26, 1986 by Sire Records....
  " - 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....
  
• "Marcia baila
  Marcia Baila
  
  "Marcia Ba?la" is a 1985 song recorded by France duet Rita Mitsouko. It was the third Single of its first album, just entitled Rita Mitsouko , and was released in April 1985....
  " - Rita Mitsouko
• "Miami Vice Theme
  Miami Vice Theme
  
  The song Miami Vice Theme was created and performed by Jan Hammer as the theme to the television series Miami Vice. It was first heard by the public in September 1984 and released as a single in 1985, peaking at the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100....
  " - Jan Hammer
  Jan Hammer
  
  Jan Hammer is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. His compositions have won him several Grammy awards. He is probably best known for playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 70s, as well as his "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s United States of America television program, Miami Vice....
  
• "Material Girl
  Material Girl
  
  "Material Girl" is the second single and signature song by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her 2nd studio album, Like a Virgin, and was released on January 30, 1985 by Sire Records....
  " - 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....
  
• "Meat Is Murder" - 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 ....
  
• "Merry Christmas Everyone" - Shakin' Stevens
  Shakin' Stevens
  
  Shakin' Stevens, also known as "Shaky" is a Music recording sales certification selling Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter, who has the distinction of being the top selling male UK single musician of the 1980s....
  
• "Money for Nothing
  Money for Nothing (song)
  
  "Money for Nothing" is a song recorded by British group Dire Straits, which first appeared on their 1985 in music album Brothers in Arms and subsequently became an international hit when released as a single ....
  " - Dire Straits
  Dire Straits
  
  Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
  
• Mothers Talk
  Mothers Talk
  
  "Mothers Talk" is a song by the United Kingdom band Tears for Fears. Written by Roland Orzabal and Ian Stanley and sung by Orzabal, it was the band's seventh single release and fifth UK Singles Chart chart hit....
   - 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...
  
• "Nightshift
  Nightshift
  
  "Nightshift" is a 1985 hit song by The Commodores, featured on the Nightshift with the same name. The song was a tribute to Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye, two famous R&B musicians who had died in 1984....
  " - The Commodores
• "19" - Paul Hardcastle
  Paul Hardcastle
  
  Paul Hardcastle is an English composer and musician, specializing in the synthesizer....
  
• "Never Surrender" - 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 ....
  
• "Oh Sheila" - Ready for the World
  Ready for the World
  
  Ready for the World is a Rhythm and blues / funk music / dance music band from Flint, Michigan who scored several moderate pop music, soul music, and dance chart-topper in the mid to late 1980s....
  
• "One Lonely Night" - 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....
  
• "One More Night
  One More Night
  
  "One More Night" is the first single from Phil Collins' third album, No Jacket Required. "One More Night" was Phil Collins' second U.S. number-one single, following "Against All Odds ", and was his fourth single to reach the top ten in the UK, peaking at number four on the singles chart....
  " - 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....
  
• "One Night in Bangkok
  One Night in Bangkok
  
  "One Night in Bangkok" is a song originally released in 1984 by Murray Head. The original version was one of the main tracks in the 1984 concept album for the musical Chess , and its music was composed by former ABBA members Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, with lyrics written by Tim Rice....
  " - Murray Head
  Murray Head
  
  Murray Head is an English people actor and singer, most recognized for his hit song, "One Night in Bangkok"....
  
• "One Vision
  One Vision
  
  "One Vision" is a song written and recorded by the band Queen , first released as a single in 1985 and then included on their 1986 album A Kind of Magic....
  " - 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....
  
• "Only the Young" - Journey
  Journey (band)
  
  Journey is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in San Francisco, California, California in 1973. The band has gone through several phases since its inception by former members of Santana ....
  
• "Out Of Mind Out Of Sight" - Models #1
• "Party All the Time
  Party All the Time
  
  "Party All the Time" was a single recorded by comic actor Eddie Murphy in 1985, written and produced by Rick James and Kevin Johnston. The single reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the only major hit of his music career....
  " - Eddie Murphy
  Eddie Murphy
  
  Bold text'Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy is an United States actor, film director, Film producer, comedian and "singer". Murphy ranks as the highest grossing film star in history, having a total of 37 films to date, his films grossing over $3.4 billion in the US alone, averaging $104 million per film....
  
• "Part-Time Lover
  Part-Time Lover
  
  "Part-Time Lover" is a 1985 single by Stevie Wonder, from his album In Square Circle. The song reached number one on the Billboard Pop music, R&B, dance and adult contemporary charts....
  " - 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...
  
• "Piece By Piece" - The Tubes
  The Tubes
  
  The Tubes are a San Francisco, California-based Rock music musical ensemble, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, "White Punks on Dope"....
  
• "Private Dancer
  Private Dancer (song)
  
  "Private Dancer" is a hit single, recorded by Tina Turner, which was written by Mark Knopfler. It is the title track of Tina Turner's breakthrough solo album, Private Dancer....
  " - 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"....
  
• "The Power of Love" - Huey Lewis and the News
• "Reviens-moi" - 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....
  
• "Running Up That Hill
  Running Up That Hill
  
  "Running Up That Hill " was the first single from Kate Bush's 1985 album Hounds of Love. Written by Bush, it was released as a single in the United Kingdom on August 5, 1985, with the album appearing on shelves on September 16, 1985....
  " - Kate Bush
  Kate Bush
  
  Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
  
• Russians (song)
  Russians (song)
  
  "Russians" is a song by Sting , from his debut solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in 1985. It was also released as a single....
   - Sting
• "Saving All My Love for You
  Saving All My Love for You
  
  "Saving All My Love for You" is the second hit Single from Whitney Houston's self-titled debut album. This jazzy ballad is about a love affair with a married man, and the singer is "saving all her love for him"....
  " - Whitney Houston
  Whitney Houston
  
  Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
  
• "Say You, Say Me
  Say You, Say Me
  
  "Say You, Say Me" is a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and Academy Award for Best Original Song written and recorded by Lionel Richie for the film White Nights starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines....
  " - 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....
  
• "Separate Lives
  Separate Lives
  
  "Separate Lives" is a 1985 in music song recorded by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin and featured on the White Nights to the motion picture White Nights ....
  " 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....
   with Marilyn Martin
  Marilyn Martin
  
  Marilyn Martin is an United States singer from Tennessee.Marilyn Martin first began her music career as a back-up singer. Married to her music producer Greg, she gained her first exposure in 1983 singing for Stevie Nicks and Joe Walsh during Nicks' The Wild Heart tour, and also touring with Don Henley....
  
• "Shout
  Shout (Tears for Fears song)
  
  "Shout" is a song by the United Kingdom band Tears for Fears. Written by Roland Orzabal and Ian Stanley and sung by Orzabal , it was the band's eighth single release and sixth UK Singles Chart hit, peaking at #4 in January 1985 in music....
  " - 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...
  
• "So far away" - Dire Straits
  Dire Straits
  
  Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
  
• "So In Love" - OMD
  OMD
  
  OMD may stand for:* Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark , British synthpop group* Ozark Mountain Daredevils, rock group* OMD , media agency owned by the Omnicom Group...
  
• "So Red The Rose" - Arcadia
  Arcadia (band)
  
  Arcadia were the pop music band formed in 1985 in music by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Andrew Taylor of Duran Duran, during a break in that band's schedule....
  
• "Society Is A Hole" - 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 ....
  
• "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll" - 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....
  
• "Some Like It Hot" - Power Station
  Power Station (band)
  
  Power Station was a 1980s supergroup made up of singer Robert Palmer ; bassist John Taylor and guitarist Andy Taylor of Duran Duran; and former Chic drummer Tony Thompson....
  
• "Somebody" - 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...
  
• "Sad Songs (Say So Much)
  Sad Songs (Say So Much)
  
  "Sad Songs " is a song by Elton John from the 1984 album Breaking Hearts. It reached the number 5 position on the U.S. Charts. The lyrics describe how you sometimes need to listen to old radio blues classics when you're feeling down, or when someone beloved has left you....
  " - 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....
  
• "Something About You
  Something About You (Level 42 song)
  
  "Something About You" is a single released by British Jazz funk band Level 42 in 1985, in advance of its inclusion on the album World Machine the same year....
  " - 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....
  
• "Spanish Eddie" - 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....
  
• "Square Rooms
  Square Rooms
  
  "Square Rooms" is a Euro-pop song recorded by American singer, actor and producer Al Corley. It was the first Single from his album of he same name....
  " - Al Corley
  Al Corley
  
  Al Corley is an United States actor, singer and film producer.Corley is best known as the first actor to play Steven Carrington on the 1980s soap opera Dynasty ....
  
• "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)
  St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)
  
  "St. Elmo's Fire " is a song recorded by John Parr. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 7, 1985 and peaked at number six in the UK, Parr's home country....
  " - John Parr
  John Parr
  
  John Parr is a British musician. He achieved great success by having two Chart-topper in the 1980s....
  
• "Shake the Disease
  Shake the Disease
  
  "Shake the Disease" is Depeche Mode's thirteenth UK single , and was not released on an actual studio album but was released on the compilation The Singles in the same year, along with "It's Called a Heart"....
  " - 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 ....
  
• "Suddenly
  Suddenly (Billy Ocean song)
  
  "Suddenly" is a popular song from 1985 written and performed by the Trinidad-born, United Kingdom-based pop music singer Billy Ocean. It is the title track to the singer's 1984 Suddenly , which was produced by Keith Diamond ....
  " - 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....
  
• "Summer of 69" - 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...
  
• "The Super Bowl Shuffle" - 1985 Chicago Bears
• "Sussudio
  Sussudio
  
  "Sussudio" is a pop song by Phil Collins, released as a single in February 1985. The song is also the first track on Collins' third album, No Jacket Required, released in January of the same year....
  " - 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....
  
• "System Addict
  System Addict
  
  "System Addict" is a 1986 hit single by British pop group Five Star. It would become their second biggest-selling single with over 220,000 sales recorded....
  " - Five Star
  Five Star
  
  Five Star, , were a United Kingdom Pop music / R&B group, from Romford, Greater London, formed in 1983 and comprising brothers and sisters Stedman, Lorraine, Denise, Doris and Delroy Pearson....
  
• "Take On Me
  Take on Me
  
  "Take on Me" is a song by Norwegian New Wave music band a-ha. Written by the band members, the song was produced by Alan Tarney for the group's first studio album, Hunting High and Low, released in 1985....
  " - 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....
  
• "Tarzan Boy" - Baltimora
  Baltimora
  
  Baltimora was an Italy New Wave dance outfit active in the mid to late 1980s. Jimmy McShane, from Northern Ireland, was the frontman for the project....
  
• "True Blue
  True Blue (song)
  
  "True Blue" is the third single by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her 3rd studio album True Blue and was released on September 29, 1986 by Sire Records....
  " - 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....
  
• "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
  That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
  
  "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" is a song by British music Rock music band The Smiths. It first appeared on their album Meat Is Murder, and was released as their eighth single....
  " - 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 ....
  
• "That's What Friends Are For" - Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick
  
  Dionne Warwick , is an American singer, actress, activist, United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, former United States Ambassador of Health, and humanitarian....
   (duets with 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....
  , Gladys Knight
  Gladys Knight
  
  Gladys Maria Knight, "The Empress of Soul," is an United States R&B/soul music singer-songwriter, Actor, businesswoman, humanitarian, and author....
   & 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...
  )
• "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)
  There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)
  
  "There Must Be an Angel " is a song written and recorded by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart for Eurythmics' fifth studio album Be Yourself Tonight ....
  " - 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....
  
• "The Big Money" - Rush
  Rush (band)
  
  Rush is a Canadian Rock music band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale, Toronto neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, currently composed of bass guitar, keyboard instrument, and singer Geddy Lee; electric guitar Alex Lifeson; and drum kit and lyricist Neil Peart....
  
• "The Big Sky
  The Big Sky
  
  The Big Sky is a 1947 Western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr..In the book the main characters can be identified as:# Boone Caudill# Jim Deakins...
  " - Kate Bush
  Kate Bush
  
  Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
  
• "The Sun Always Shines on T.V.
  The Sun Always Shines on T.V.
  
  "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." is a song by Norwegian band a-ha, from their debut album Hunting High and Low, released in 1985. In many countries the single was not as successful as the band's previous, "Take on Me", which hit #1 in the U.S....
  " - 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....
  
• "The Whole Of The Moon" - 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....
  
• "This Time
  Listen Like Thieves
  
  Listen Like Thieves is the fifth album by the Australian Rock music band INXS. It was released in 1985. Considered a breakthrough album for the band, it featured their first top 5 single in the United States, "What You Need"....
  " - 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....
  
• "Walk Like a Man" - Divine
• "Walk of Life (Dire Straits song)
  Walk of Life (Dire Straits song)
  
  "Walk of Life" is a 1985 song by the United Kingdom rock band Dire Straits. It appeared on their best-selling album Brothers in Arms . It subsequently appeared on their live album On the Night....
  " - Dire Straits
  Dire Straits
  
  Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
  
• "Walls Come Tumbling Down" - 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....
  
• "We Are the World
  We Are the World
  
  "We Are the World" is a 1985 song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, produced and conducted by Quincy Jones and recorded by a supergroup of popular musicians billed as USA for Africa....
  " - USA for Africa
  USA for Africa
  
  USA for Africa , was the name under which forty-five predominantly United States artists, led by Harry Belafonte, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single "We Are the World" in 1985....
  
• "We Built This City
  We Built This City
  
  "We Built This City" is a song written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert , and Peter Wolf , and originally recorded by the group Starship and released as its debut single on November 10, 1985....
  " - Jefferson Starship
  Jefferson Starship
  
  Jefferson Starship is an American rock band that was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. It evolved from a Paul Kantner album project entitled Blows Against the Empire , featuring an ad-hoc group of all-star musicians who called themselves Jefferson Starship....
  
• "We Work The Black Seam" - Sting
• "West End Girls
  West End Girls
  
  "West End Girls" is a song by British pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the song was released twice as a single. It is a synthpop song, influenced by hip hop music....
  " - Pet Shop Boys
  Pet Shop Boys
  
  Pet Shop Boys are an English people electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main Singing, Keyboard instruments and occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals....
  
• "Wise Up" - 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....
  
• "What You Need
  What You Need
  
  "What You Need" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone ....
  " - 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....
  
• "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....
  
• "When the Rain Begins to Fall
  When the Rain Begins to Fall
  
  "When the Rain Begins to Fall" is a 1984 song recorded by the singers Jermaine Jackson and Pia Zadora, and released as a single at the end of 1984....
  " - Pia Zadora
  Pia Zadora
  
  Pia Zadora is an United States actor and singing. After work as a child actress on Broadway, in regional theater and in the film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, she came to national attention in 1981 when, following her starring role in the critically lambasted Butterfly , she won a Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year....
   and Jermaine Jackson
  Jermaine Jackson
  
  Jermaine LaJaune Jackson or Muhammad Abdul Aziz , is an United States Grammy Award-nominated singer, bass guitarist, former member of The Jackson 5 and older brother of United States Pop music stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson....
  
• "Who's Zoomin' Who?" - Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
  
• "Working Class Man" - Jimmy Barnes
  Jimmy Barnes
  
  Jimmy Barnes is a popular Australian rock music singer, with a unique vocal style. He was born James Dixon Swan on 28 April 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland....
  
• "Would I Lie To You?" - 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....
  
• "You Give Good Love
  You Give Good Love
  
  "You Give Good Love" is a song by American pop/R&B singer Whitney Houston from her Whitney Houston . It was her first major hit from her first album, peaking at number three on the U.S....
  " - Whitney Houston
  Whitney Houston
  
  Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
  
• "You're The Voice" - John Farnham
  John Farnham
  
  John Peter Farnham, Order of Australia is an English people-born Australian Pop music singer who performed as Teen idol, Johnny Farnham, from 1964–1979 and then as Adult Contemporary singer John Farnham....
   (#1 in Australia, UK, and Quebec; not released in the rest of North America until 1990)

Classical music

• John Adams - The Chairman Dances
  The Chairman Dances
  
  The Chairman Dances is a 1985 composition by John Adams . Subtitled 'Foxtrot for Orchestra,' the piece lasts about 13 minutes. The piece was composed on commission from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and is described by Adams as an "out take" from Act III of the opera he was working on at the time, Nixon in China ....
  
• 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....
   - Capriccio for Two Pianos
• Peter Maxwell Davies
  Peter Maxwell Davies
  
  Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Order of the British Empire , is an English composer and Conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music....
   - Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise
  Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise
  
  Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise is a classical music orchestral composition by the England composer Peter Maxwell Davies. It is notable for being one of the few pieces in classical repertoire to feature a bagpipe solo....
  
• Henri Dutilleux
  Henri Dutilleux
  
  Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own....
   - L'arbre des Songes violin concerto
• Jacques Hétu
  Jacques Hétu
  
  Jacques H?tu Order of Canada is a Canada composer....
   - Missa pro trecentisimo anno
• Nicholas Jackson
  Nicholas Jackson
  
  Nicholas Jackson may refer to:*Nick Jackson, radio presenter*Sir Nicholas Jackson, 3rd Baronet , British composer and organist, one of the Jackson Baronets...
   - Organ Sonata
• Witold Lutoslawski
  Witold Lutoslawski
  
  Witold Lutoslawski was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the pre-eminent Poland musicians during his last three decades....
  
• Chain 2
• Chain 3
• John Rutter
  John Rutter
  
  John Milford Rutter Order of the British Empire is an England composer, choir conducting, editing, arranger and record producer.Born in London, he was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener....
   - Requiem
• Alfred Schnittke
  Alfred Schnittke
  
  Alfred Garyevich Schnittke was a Russian and Soviet Union composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich....
   - String Trio
• Joan Tower
  Joan Tower
  
  Joan Tower is a contemporary classical music American classical music composer, pianist and conductor. Lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world....
   - Piano Concerto
• Robert Ward
  Robert Ward
  
  Robert Ward is an United States composer....
   - Raleigh Divertimento

Opera

• Dominick Argento
  Dominick Argento
  
  Dominick Argento is an American composer, best known as a leading composer of lyric opera and choral music. Among his most prominent pieces are the operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, and The Masque of Angels, and the song cycles Six Elizabethan Songs and From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, the latter of wh...
   - Casanova's Homecoming
• Dorothy Rudd Moore - Frederick Douglass
  Frederick Douglass
  
  Frederick Douglass was an American Abolitionism, History of women's suffrage in the United States, editing, orator, author, statesman and Reform movement....
  

Musical theater

• Big River
  Big River (musical)
  
  Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a musical theater with a book by William Hauptman and music and lyrics by Roger Miller.Based on Mark Twain's classic 1884 novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it features music in the bluegrass music and country music styles in keeping with the setting of the novel....
   - Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
  , New York, USA production
• Dames at Sea
  Dames at Sea
  
  Dames at Sea is a musical theatre with book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller and music by Jim Wise.The musical is a parody of large, flashy 1930s Busby Berkeley-style movie musicals in which an understudy steps into a role on Broadway theatre and becomes a star....
   - off Broadway revival
• The King and I
  The King and I
  
  The King and I is a musical theatre by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II based on the book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon....
   (Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
   & Hammerstein
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  
  Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
  ) - Broadway revival
• Me and My Girl
  Me and My Girl
  
  Me and My Girl is a musical play with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay. It takes place in the late 1930s in Hampshire, Mayfair, and Lambeth....
   (Noel Gay
  Noel Gay
  
  Noel Gay Willis born Reginald Moxon Armitage was one of the most successful British composers of popular music of the 1930s and 1940s....
  ) - London, UK revival
• Les Misérables
  Les Misérables (musical)
  
  Les Mis?rables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a Musical theatre composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Sch?nberg with a libretto by Alain Boublil....
   - London production
• Mystery of Edwin Drood - Broadway production
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
  Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (musical)
  
  Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a musical theatre with a book by Lawrence Kasha and David Landay, music by Gene de Paul, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn....
   (Saul Chaplin
  Saul Chaplin
  
  Saul Chaplin was one of Hollywood's preeminent composers and musical directors.He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York.He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley....
  , Gene de Paul
  Gene de Paul
  
  Gene de Paul was an United States pianist, composer and songwriter....
   and Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
  ) - London production
• Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain (musical)
  
  Singin' in the Rain is a musical theatre with a book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyrics by Arthur Freed, and music by Nacio Herb Brown....
   - Broadway production
• Song and Dance
  Song and Dance
  
  Song and Dance is a Musical theater entertainment comprising two acts, one told entirely in "Song" and one entirely in "Dance", tied together by a love story....
   - Broadway production

Musical films

• A Chorus Line
  A Chorus Line
  
  A Chorus Line is a Musical theater about seventeen Broadway theatre dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. The book was authored by James Kirkwood, Jr....
  
• That's Dancing!
  That's Dancing!
  
  'That's Dancing!' is a retrospective documentary produced by MGM that looked back at the history of dancing in film. Unlike the That's Entertainment! series, this film did not focus specifically on MGM films and included more recent performances by the likes of John Travolta and Michael Jackson and from the then-popular films Fame '...
  

Births

• February 20 - Yulia Volkova
  Yulia Volkova
  
  Yulia Olegovna Volkova is half of the Russian music duo t.A.T.u. along with Lena Katina....
  , Russian singer, (t.A.T.u.
  T.A.T.u.
  
  t.A.T.u. is a Russian duo formed in Moscow, Russia in 1999 by Ivan Shapovalov. The group consists of Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova. Early on, Katina and Volkova put forth an image of a lesbian couple, but their 2003 documentary, Anatomy of t.A.T.u., made it clear that this was just part of the group's image, and that they were not lesbia...
  )
• April 3 - Leona Lewis
  Leona Lewis
  
  Leona Louise Lewis is a UK Pop/R&B artist who was born 3 April 1985 in London. She was the first female winner of the UK reality TV series The X Factor ....
  , singer
• May 10 - Ashley Poole, singer Dream
  Dream (band)
  
  Dream is an United States pop music girl group....
  
• May 22 - Vangie Tang
  Vangie Tang
  
  Vangie Tang Wing-chi is a Hong Kong singer. She is a top 8 finalist of the 22nd annual New Talent Singing Awards in 2003. She is signed to Sony Music of Hong Kong since 2004....
  , singer
• June 15 - Nadine Coyle
  Nadine Coyle
  
  Nadine Elizabeth Louise Coyle is an Irish people singer for the pop group Girls Aloud. She was born to Lillian and Niall Coyle, with two sisters, Charmaine and Rachael....
  , Girls Aloud
  Girls Aloud
  
  Girls Aloud are a British girl group that were created on the ITV1 talent show Popstars in 2002. The group, consisting of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh, have been successful in achieving a string of 20 consecutive UK Top 10 singles , two UK number one albums, and having been nominated for fo...
  
• July 17 - Tom Fletcher
  Tom Fletcher
  
  Thomas "Tom" Michael Fletcher , is one of the lead vocalists and guitarists in the United Kingdom pop rock/pop punk band McFly , along with fellow band members Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd....
  , McFLY
  McFly
  
  McFly are a pop-punk/pop rock band who first found fame in 2004. The band was founded by Tom Fletcher and also consists of Danny Jones , Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd ....
  
• August 1 - Dina
  Dina (musician)
  
  Caroline Dina Kongerud , is a Norway pop music-artist. She has released five successful singles Bli hos meg , For evig min and Besatt in 2003....
  , singer
• August 3 - Holly Arnstein, singer Dream
  Dream (band)
  
  Dream is an United States pop music girl group....
  
• September 23 - Diana Ortiz, singer Dream
  Dream (band)
  
  Dream is an United States pop music girl group....
  
• October 15 - Nicola Roberts
  Nicola Roberts
  
  Nicola Roberts is an English singer and make up designer, most famous for being the youngest member of pop group Girls Aloud. She is also known for creating the beauty range Dainty Doll....
  , Girls Aloud
  Girls Aloud
  
  Girls Aloud are a British girl group that were created on the ITV1 talent show Popstars in 2002. The group, consisting of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh, have been successful in achieving a string of 20 consecutive UK Top 10 singles , two UK number one albums, and having been nominated for fo...
  
• October 22 - Zac Hanson
  Zac Hanson
  
  Zachary Walker Hanson is a member of the band Hanson . In addition to playing the drums, percussion instrument, piano, and guitar, he sings backing vocals and lead vocals....
  , Hanson
  Hanson (band)
  
  Hanson is an American pop rock Band formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma by brothers Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, and Zac Hanson. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere that earned three Grammy nominations....
  
• October 25 - Ciara
  Ciara
  
  Ciara Princess Harris , commonly known as Ciara , is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, fashion model, music video director, actor and soon to be fashion designer....
  , singer
• December 10 - Raven-Symoné
  Raven-Symoné
  
  Raven-Symon? Christina Pearman...
  , actress and singer
• December 23 - Harry Judd
  Harry Judd
  
  Harry Mark Christopher Judd, is the drummer in the United Kingdom pop rock/pop music band McFly , along with fellow band members Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter and Danny Jones....
  , McFLY
  McFly
  
  McFly are a pop-punk/pop rock band who first found fame in 2004. The band was founded by Tom Fletcher and also consists of Danny Jones , Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd ....
  

Deaths

• January 9 - Anton Karas
  Anton Karas
  
  Anton Karas was a Vienna zither player, best known for his soundtrack to Carol Reed's 1949 adaptation of The Third Man.Being one of five children of a factory worker, Anton Karas was already keen on music as a child....
  , Austrian
  Austrians
  
  Austrians are a nation and an ethnic group originating from the Austria and its historical predecessor states who share a common Austrian culture and Austrian Kinship and descent....
   zither
  Zither
  
  The zither is a musical string instrument, most commonly found in Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, the southern regions of Germany, alpine Europe and East Asian cultures....
   player and composer
• February 7 - Matt Monro
  Matt Monro
  
  Matt Monro was an English people singer who became one of the most popular entertainers on the international music scene during the 1960s. Throughout his 30-year career, he filled cabarets, nightclubs, music halls, and stadiums in Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong to Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas....
   (54), English singer (liver cancer)
• February 11 - Heinz Eric Roemheld
  Heinz Eric Roemheld
  
  Heinz Roemheld was an Academy Award-winning United States composer.Born Heinrich Erich Roemheld in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was one of four children of German immigrant Heinrich Roemheld and his wife Fanny Rauterberg Roemheld....
  , American composer
• February 12 - Leslie Sarony
  Leslie Sarony
  
  Leslie Sarony was a United Kingdom entertainer, singer and songwriter. Sarony was born in Surbiton, Surrey and died in London.He began his stage career aged 14 with the group Park Eton's Boys....
  , English singer, comedian and songwriter
• February 18
• Willy Alberti
  Willy Alberti
  
  Willy Alberti was a Netherlands singer, who sang in Dutch and Italian. He was also an actor and a radio and TV personality.Alberti was born in Amsterdam, the third of the eight children of William James Verbrugge and Sophia Jacoba van Musscher....
  , Dutch singer
• Gábor Darvas
  Gábor Darvas
  
  G?bor Darvas was a Hungary composer and musicologist. He was one of the first Hungarian composers to work in the field of electronic music. As a musicologist, his interest was primarily in music of the 15th and 16th centuries....
  , composer and musicologist
  Musicology
  
  Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture....
  
• February 22 - Efrem Zimbalist
  Efrem Zimbalist
  
  Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. was one of the world's most prominent concert violinists, as well as a composer, teacher, conducting and a long-time director of the Curtis Institute of Music....
  , violinist
• February 28 - David Byron
  David Byron
  
  David Byron was the original lead singer for Spice and is most famous for singing in the legendary English rock band Uriah Heep between 1969 and 1976....
   (38), vocalist of Uriah Heep
  Uriah Heep (band)
  
  Uriah Heep are an English people rock music band, formed in December 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley to join Spice , a band signed to his own Bronze Records label....
   (alcohol-related)
• March 1 - Eugene List
  Eugene List
  
  Eugene List was an American concert pianist and teacher....
  , American classical pianist
• March 16 - Roger Sessions
  Roger Sessions
  
  Roger Huntington Sessions was an USA composer, critic and teacher of music.Born in Brooklyn, New York to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution, Sessions studied music at Harvard University from the age of 14....
  , American composer
• March 23 - Zoot Sims
  Zoot Sims
  
  John Haley "Zoot" Sims was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist and soprano saxophonist.He was born in Inglewood, California, California. Growing up in a vaudeville family, Sims learned to play both Drum kit and clarinet at an early age....
   (59), jazz saxophonist
• March 31 - Jeanine Deckers (51), known as The Singing Nun
  The Singing Nun
  
  Jeanine Deckers , better known in English as The Singing Nun, was a Belgium nun, and a member of the Dominican Order Fichermont Convent in Belgium....
   (suicide)
• May 2 - Bridget D'Oyly Carte
  Bridget D'Oyly Carte
  
  Dame Bridget Cicely D'Oyly Carte DBE , was the granddaughter of impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte and the only daughter of Rupert D'Oyly Carte. She became head of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1948 until 1982....
  , opera impresario
• May 8 - Karl Marx
  Karl Marx (composer)
  
  Karl Marx was a Germany composer, conducting, and music education.Karl Marx was born in Munich. He first studied natural sciences but, after having met Carl Orff, decided to make music his career, and studied musical composition with Orff, Siegmund von Hausegger, and Anton Beer-Waldbrunn among others....
  , composer and conductor
• May 19 - Hilding Rosenberg
  Hilding Rosenberg
  
  Hilding Rosenberg , was the first Sweden modernist composer, and one of the most influential figures in Swedish 20th century classical music.Born in Bosj?kloster, he was an organist, concert pianist and music teacher until 1915, when he began studying at the Stockholm Conservatory under Ernst Ellberg....
  , composer
• July 23 - Kay Kyser
  Kay Kyser
  
  James Kern Kyser was a popular bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s....
  , US bandleader
  Bandleader
  
  A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....
  
• August 11 - Nick Ceroli
  Nick Ceroli
  
  Nick Ceroli , was an American jazz drummer.Ceroli was born in Warren, Ohio. He did a tour of Central America and South America in 1963 with Ray Anthony, and that same year recorded with Jack Teagarden and played with Gerald Wilson at the Monterey Jazz Festival....
   (45), jazz drummer
• August 24 - Paul Creston
  Paul Creston
  
  Paul Creston was an Italian American composer of European classical music.Born in New York City, Creston was self-taught as a composer. He was an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity, initiated into the national honorary Alpha Alpha chapter....
  , American composer
• September 6 - Little Brother Montgomery
  Little Brother Montgomery
  
  Eurreal Wilford "Little Brother" Montgomery was a jazz and blues pianist and singer.Largely self-taught, Montgomery is often thought of as just a blues pianist, but he was an important blues pianist with an original style....
  , jazz
  Jazz
  
  Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
   and blues
  Blues
  
  Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
   pianist
  Pianist
  
  A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
   and singer
• September 11 - William Alwyn
  William Alwyn
  
  William Alwyn, Order of the British Empire, born William Alwyn Smith was an English composer, Conducting, and music teacher....
  , English composer
• September 18 - Ed Lewis
  Ed Lewis (musician)
  
  Ed Lewis was an American jazz trumpeter.Lewis played early in his career in Kansas City with Jerry Westbrook as a baritone hornist, then switched to trumpet in 1925....
  , jazz trumpeter
• October 6 - Nelson Riddle
  Nelson Riddle
  
  Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was a well-known United States bandleader, arrangement and Orchestration whose career spanned from the late 1940s, struggled with the advent of rock n roll, and saw a career revival in the early 1980s....
  , US conductor, composer and arranger
  Arrangement
  
  In music, an arrangement is either a rewriting of a piece of existing music with additional new material or a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch, such as a lead sheet....
  
• October 11 - Tex Williams
  Tex Williams
  
  Tex Williams August 23, 1917 – October 11, 1985) was an American Western swing musician from Ramsey, Illinois. His popularity peaked in the late 1940s....
  , US country
  Country music
  
  Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
   singer
• October 14 - Emil Gilels
  Emil Gilels
  
  Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Soviet Union pianist, widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. His last name is sometimes transliterated Hilels....
  , pianist
• October 18 - Stefan Askenase
  Stefan Askenase
  
  Stefan Askenase was a Poland-born Belgian Classical music pianist and pedagogue....
  , pianist
• October 20 - Boris Lisanevich
  Boris Lisanevich
  
  Boris Nikolayevich Lisanevich, a.k.a. Boris Lissanevitch, , was a Russians emigre to Nepal, a ballet dancer, and a hotel manager and restaurateur....
  , dancer
• October 21 - Ricky Wilson
  Ricky Wilson (American musician)
  
  Ricky Helton Wilson was the original guitarist and founding member of the rock band, The B-52's.Born in Athens, Georgia, he was the brother of fellow B-52's member Cindy Wilson....
   (32), founding member of The B-52's
  The B-52's
  
  The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
   (AIDS)
• November 15 - Seán Ryan
  Seán Ryan (Irish fiddler)
  
  Se?n Ryan was a famous Irish master fiddler and tin whistle.Ryan was born at Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland. He won the Oireachtas in 1954, the Senior All Ireland Fiddle Championship in 1955 and 1956, and the All Ireland Duet Championship title with P.J....
  , Irish fiddler and whistler
• December 12 - Ian Stewart
  Ian Stewart (musician)
  
  Ian Andrew Robert Stewart was a Scottish keyboardist and cofounder of The Rolling Stones. He was dismissed from the line-up in May 1963 but he remained as road manager and piano player....
   (47), The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
   (heart attack)
• December 22 - D. Boon
  D. Boon
  
  D. Boon was an United States singer, songwriter and guitarist. Active between 1978, when he joined The Reactionaries, and 1985, when he was killed in a van accident, Boon was best known as the guitarist and vocalist of the Californian punk rock trio Minutemen ....
   (27), lead singer of 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....
   (car accident)
• December 31 - Ricky Nelson
  Ricky Nelson
  
  Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson, later known as Rick Nelson , was an United States singer, musician and actor. With more than 50 Billboard Hot 100 hits, Nelson was second to Elvis Presley as the most popular rock and roll artist of the late 1950s....
   (45), singer, former teen idol
  Teen idol
  
  ?Teen idols refers to someone idolized by teens; a teen idol is often young but in many cases no longer teenaged. Often, a teen idol is an actor or a pop singer, but some sports figures have had an appeal to teenagers....
   (plane crash)
• date unknown - Rodolfo Arizaga
  Rodolfo Arizaga
  
  Rodolfo Arizaga was an Argentina composer.Arizaga was born in Buenos Aires, where he studied composition at the National Conservatory under Alberto Williams, Jos? Gil, Luis Gianneo, and Teodoro Fuchs; he also studied philosophy at the National Universeity....
  , Argentinian composer

Awards

• 1985 Eurovision Song Contest

Charts

• Billboard (USA) Main article: Hot 100 number-one hits of 1985 (United States)

See also

• Hot 100 number-one hits of 1985 (United States)