1986 in music

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• January 23 - The first induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  
  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in the are...
   takes place. The first artists to be honoured are Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  , James Brown, 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....
  , Fats Domino
  Fats Domino
  
  Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino is a classic Rhythm and blues and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter....
  , Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  , Jerry Lee Lewis
  Jerry Lee Lewis
  
  Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
  , and Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  .
• February 21 - The 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....
   play their last concert at UC Davis in Davis, California
  Davis, California
  
  Davis is a city in Yolo County, California, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento, California–Arden-Arcade, California–Roseville, California Sacramento metropolitan area....
  , USA.
• February 23 - In honor of the 20th anniversary of The Monkees
  The Monkees
  
  The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
   premiering on television, MTV
  MTV
  
  MTV is an United States cable television network based in Media of New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981, the original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJ ....
   broadcasts Pleasant Valley Sunday, a 22-hour marathon of Monkees episodes.
• March 27 - Sammy Hagar
  Sammy Hagar
  
  Samuel Roy "Sammy" Hagar , known as "The Red Rocker", is an United States rock music guitarist, singer, composer and solo artist. Hagar was one of the three singers for Van Halen, as well as of the early 1970s rock band Montrose ....
   performs his first concert as the lead singer of 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....
  .
• April 12 - 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....
   Belinda Carlisle
  Belinda Carlisle
  
  Belinda Jo Carlisle is an United States singer. Carlisle has enjoyed success twice during her career, first as lead singer and founding member of the seminal, all-female band New Wave music band The Go-Go's, then as a successful international solo artist....
   marries actor Morgan Mason
  Morgan Mason
  
  Alexander Morgan Mason is an politician, film producer and actor. He was born in Beverly Hills, California and is the son of the late Academy Awards-nominated United Kingdom actor James Mason and his wife Pamela Mason, actress and commentator....
  .
• May 2 - Country music superstar Dolly Parton
  Dolly Parton
  
  Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....
   opens her Dollywood
  Dollywood
  
  Dollywood is a theme park owned by country music singer Dolly Parton and the Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation. It is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee....
   theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
  Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
  
  Pigeon Forge is a city in Sevier County, Tennessee, Tennessee, located in the southeastern United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city had a total population of 5,083....
  , USA.
• May 5 - In New York
  New York
  
  The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
  , USA, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  
  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in the are...
   chairman Ahmet Ertegün
  Ahmet Ertegün
  
  Ahmet Erteg?n was the Turkey United States co-founder and executive of Atlantic Records and chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum, described as "one of the most significant figures in the modern recording industry"....
   announces that Cleveland, Ohio
  Cleveland, Ohio
  
  Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
   has been chosen as the city where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will be built
• May 10 - Tommy Lee
  Tommy Lee
  
  Tommy Lee is an United States musician, and founding member of heavy metal music band M?tley Cr?e. As well as being the band's long-term drummer, Lee founded rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem, and has pursued solo musical projects....
   of 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....
   marries actress Heather Locklear
  Heather Locklear
  
  'Heather Deen Locklear' is an American actor. She is primarily known for her television work, her most notable roles being "Sammy Jo Carrington" on the 1980s soap opera Dynasty , "Officer Stacy Sheridan" on the 1980s cop drama T.J....
  .
• May 25 - Norwegian band 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....
   wins a record-breaking eight awards at the MTV Video Music Awards
  MTV Video Music Awards
  
  The MTV Video Music Awards were established in the end of the summer of 1984 in television by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year....
   show.
• May 30 - The Monkees
  The Monkees
  
  The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
   begin a highly successful tour of American stadiums on their 20th Anniversary Reunion Tour
• June 4 - 15 - 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....
  , Sting, Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  
  Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
  , Jackson Browne
  Jackson Browne
  
  Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
  , Lou Reed
  Lou Reed
  
  Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
  , Peter Gabriel
  Peter Gabriel
  
  Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
  , the Neville Brothers, and 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...
   stage the A Conspiracy of Hope Tour
  A Conspiracy of Hope Tour
  
  A Conspiracy of Hope was a short tour of six benefit concerts on behalf of Amnesty International that took place in the United States during June 1986....
   in the United States on behalf of Amnesty International
  Amnesty International
  
  Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization which defines its mission as "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated." Founded in London, England in 1961, AI draws its attention to human rights abuses and...
  , playing five cities on the tour. The final show at New Jersey
  New Jersey
  
  New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
  's Giants Stadium
  Giants Stadium
  
  Giants Stadium is a stadium located in East Rutherford, New Jersey in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. It primarily serves as the home stadium for the New York Giants and New York Jets American football teams of the National Football League, and the Red Bull New York association football team of Major League Soccer....
   is televised live, and the above-mentioned performers are joined by Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell
  
  Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
  , Howard Jones
  Howard Jones (musician)
  
  Howard Jones is an England singer and songwriter who gained acclaim in the 1980s....
  , 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....
  , Third World
  Third World
  
  Third World is a categorical label used to describe states that are considered to be developed in terms of their economy or level of industrialization, globalization, standard of living, health, education or other criteria for 'advancements'....
  , and Carlos Santana
  Carlos Santana
  
  Carlos Augusto Santana Alves is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American Rock music musician and guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana , which created a highly successful blend of rock music, salsa music, and jazz fusion....
  , as well as the other members of 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....
  .
• June 6 - After 29 years, CHUM (AM)
  CHUM (AM)
  
  CHUM, broadcasting at 1050 kHz on the Amplitude modulation dial, is a Canada radio station licensed to Toronto, Ontario. 1050 CHUM was a legendary Top 40 powerhouse during the late 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s; it currently airs an oldies format featuring music from those decades....
   in Toronto
  Toronto
  
  Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
  , Canada
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
   drops its legendary Top 40 format in favor of gold
  Music recording sales certification
  
  Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music Sound recording has shipped a certain number of copies.Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories, which are named after the precious materials gold, platinum and diamond ....
  -based adult contemporary music
  Adult contemporary music
  
  Adult contemporary music refers to a broad style of popular music that ranges from lush 1960s, vocal music-based music to predominantly ballad-heavy music with varying degrees of rock music influence"....
  . Additionally, the final CHUM Chart
  CHUM Chart
  
  The CHUM Chart was a ranking of top 30 songs on Toronto, Canada, radio station CHUM , from 1957 to 1986, and was the longest-running Top 40 chart in the world produced by an individual radio station....
   was published (with 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....
  's "Live To Tell" the final number one song).
• June 27 - 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....
   play their last concert, in Detroit, Michigan
  Detroit, Michigan
  
  Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
  , USA.
• August 28 - 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"....
   receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame
  Hollywood Walk of Fame
  
  The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment hall of fame....
  .
• September 27 - A tour bus carrying the heavy metal band Metallica
  Metallica
  
  Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
   crashes in Sweden, killing their most influential bassist, Cliff Burton
  Cliff Burton
  
  Clifford Lee Burton was a bassist best known for his work with the American Heavy metal music band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986....
  .
• October - 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 ....
   play their final gig as a five-piece.
• October 20 - 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....
   begin their career as a three piece with the release of the "Notorious
  Notorious (song)
  
  "Notorious" is the 14th single by Duran Duran. It was released internationally by EMI on 20 October 1986. "Notorious" was the first single issued from the album Notorious , and the first released by Duran Duran as a 3-pieces band after the departure of Roger Taylor and Andy Taylor....
  " single.
• Jello Biafra
  Jello Biafra
  
  Eric Reed Boucher , more widely known by the stage name Jell-O Biafra, is an United Statesn musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party ....
  /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....
   taken to court by the PMRC for content in their album 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....
  ; Biafra wins.
• 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....
   breaks up.
• 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....
   breaks up.
• Prince and the Revolution
  Prince (musician)
  
  Prince Rogers Nelson is an United States musician. He performs under the Mononymous person name of Prince, but has also been known by various other names, among them an Love Symbol ...
   breaks up.
• 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....
   breaks up.
• The Boomtown Rats
  The Boomtown Rats
  
  The Boomtown Rats were an Republic of Ireland rock music musical ensemble, that scored a series of United Kingdom hit record between 1977 and 1980, and were led by singing Bob Geldof, who organized the Ethiopian famine relief efforts, Band Aid and Live Aid....
   breaks up.
• Garth Brooks
  Garth Brooks
  
  Troyal Garth Brooks is an American country music artist. His eponymous first album was released in 1989; it peaked at #2 in the US country album chart and reached #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart....
   marries his first wife, Sandy.
• Italian singer Ernesto Bonino
  Ernesto Bonino
  
  Ernesto Pietro Bonino was an Italy singer of pop and jazz standards whose peak of popularity was during the 1940s and 50s.A native of Turin, Ernesto Bonino began his career in the late 1930s as a teenage singer in the lively club scene of his hometown....
   loses his voice after a surgical intervention.
• Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  
  Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
   returns to the mainstream after a two year hiatus. The Nightmare Returns Tour goes on to become one of the best selling tours of 1986.

Bands formed

• See Musical groups established in 1986

Albums released

• ABBA Live
  ABBA Live
  
  ABBA Live is an album of live recordings by Sweden pop group ABBA, released by Polar Music in 1986 . When this LP/CD was released, the band's popularity was at an all-time low and none of the members themselves were involved in the production of the album....
   - ABBA
  ABBA
  
  ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
  
• Alive & Screamin'
  Alive & Screamin'
  
  Alive & Screamin' is Heavy metal music and hard rock band Krokus ' first live album, recorded on their tour of the United States and Canada in 1986....
   - Krokus
  Krokus (band)
  
  Krokus is a hard rock/heavy metal music band from Switzerland.Krokus was founded in Solothurn in 1974 by bassist and guitarist Tommy Kiefer....
  
• American Girls - American Girls
  American Girls (band)
  
  American Girls were an all-women band based in California, United States.American Girls originally started as a film project, which fizzled. After some personnel changes and more rehearsing, the band surprised those who hadn't previously taken it seriously by taking on a life of its own....
  
• Animal Magic
  Animal Magic
  
  Animal Magic was a BBC television show aimed at children. The show was first broadcast in 1962 and ran for 21 years.The presenter was the avuncular Johnny Morris....
   - The Blow Monkeys
  The Blow Monkeys
  
  The Blow Monkeys were a United Kingdom pop music musical ensemble of the 1980s that started out, in 1981, as a New Wave music-oriented act, with the first single , "Live Today Love Tomorrow", released in 1982....
  
• Another View - 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....
  
• Another Step - Kim Wilde
  Kim Wilde
  
  Kim Wilde is an England pop singer.Wilde burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the new wave music classic "Kids in America ", which hit number two in the UK Singles Chart....
  
• As Close As You Think
  As Close As You Think
  
  As Close As You Think is the twelfth studio album by Kevin Ayers....
  - Kevin Ayers
  Kevin Ayers
  
  Kevin Ayers is an English songwriter and major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. John Peel wrote in his autobiography that "Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it."...
  
• Atomizer
  Atomizer (album)
  
  Atomizer is a 1986 album by the American Post-Hardcore group Big Black. It is their debut album as all previous releases are Extended plays....
  - Big Black
  Big Black
  
  Big Black was an American noise rock band founded in Chicago, Illinois, United States, that was active between 1982 in music and 1987 in music. They were headed by singer, lyricist, guitarist, and co-songwriter Steve Albini....
  
• August - 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...
  
• Awaken the Guardian
  Awaken the Guardian
  
  Awaken the Guardian is the third album by Fates Warning. It was first released in 1986, and was later re-released as a double album with "No Exit" in 1992....
  - Fates Warning
  Fates Warning
  
  Fates Warning is a progressive metal band, formed in 1983 by John Arch, Jim Matheos, Victor Arduini, Joe DiBiase, and Steve Zimmerman in Hartford, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States...
  
• Back in the High Life
  Back in the High Life
  
  Back in the High Life is the fourth solo album by blue-eyed soul musician Steve Winwood. It was a top ten hit on the album charts in the United States and has sold over five million copies....
  - Steve Winwood
  Steve Winwood
  
  Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an England singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic , Blind Faith, and Go ....
  
• Balance of Power
  Balance of Power (Electric Light Orchestra album)
  
  Balance of Power is an album by the Electric Light Orchestra released in 1986....
  - Electric Light Orchestra
  Electric Light Orchestra
  
  Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
  
• Belinda
  Belinda (Belinda Carlisle album)
  
  Belinda is the first solo album by Belinda Carlisle, notable as her first recording after the break-up of new wave music band Go-Go's, for whom she was lead singer....
  - Belinda Carlisle
  Belinda Carlisle
  
  Belinda Jo Carlisle is an United States singer. Carlisle has enjoyed success twice during her career, first as lead singer and founding member of the seminal, all-female band New Wave music band The Go-Go's, then as a successful international solo artist....
  
• Bend Sinister
  Bend Sinister (album)
  
  Bend Sinister is a 1986 album by The Fall , released on Beggars Banquet Records. It shares its title with Vladimir Nabokov's novel Bend Sinister , and reached number 36 in the UK charts....
  - The Fall
• The Best of 10 Years - 32 Superhits
  The Best of 10 Years - 32 Superhits
  
  The Best of 10 Years - 32 Superhits also known as 32 Superhits - Non-Stop Digital Remix is a remix album by Boney M. released in 1986....
  - Boney M.
• Better Than Heaven
  Better Than Heaven
  
  Better Than Heaven was singer Stacey Q's first album under Atlantic Records. Formerly SSQ , this was the first album that the same lineup of musicians released under the name Stacey Q....
  - Stacey Q
  Stacey Q
  
  Stacey Q is a synthpop and dance-pop singer, dancer and actress. She is best known for her 1986 hit single "Two of Hearts"....
  
• Black Celebration
  Black Celebration
  
  Black Celebration is the fifth proper studio album by Depeche Mode. Released by Mute Records on March 17, 1986, it further cemented the darkening sound that was initially hinted towards on their album Construction Time Again....
  - 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 ....
  
• Blind Before I Stop
  Blind Before I Stop
  
  Blind Before I Stop is a 1986 album by Meat Loaf. The album was produced in Germany by Frank Farian and was the first to fully embrace the 80s sound....
  - Meat Loaf
  Meat Loaf
  
  Michael Lee Aday , better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, is an United States rock music musician and actor of theatre and film. He is noted for the Bat out of Hell album trilogy that he created consisting of Bat out of Hell, Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell and Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, and several fa...
  
• Born Sandy Devotional
  Born Sandy Devotional
  
  Born Sandy Devotional was an album by The Triffids, released in March 1986 in music. The cover photo show the West Australian township of Mandurah, Western Australia in 1961....
  - The Triffids
  The Triffids
  
  The Triffids were an Australian rock band who achieved some international success in the 1980s. Formed in Perth, Western Australia in the late 1970s and disbanded in 1989, their best known songs are "Wide Open Road " and "Bury Me Deep in Love"....
  
• The Bridge
  The Bridge (Billy Joel album)
  
  The Bridge is Billy Joel's 10th studio album released by Columbia Records in 1986 and it was record producer by Phil Ramone. This album had several successful singles, including "A Matter of Trust" , "Modern Woman" , and "This Is the Time" ....
  - Billy Joel
  Billy Joel
  
  William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
  
• Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
  Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
  
  Brighter Than a Thousand Suns is the sixth album by England post-punk group Killing Joke. It was released in 1986 on LP album, on Compact Disc and on Compact Cassette by EG Records....
  - 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:...
  
• Bring On the Night
  Bring On the Night
  
  'Bring on the Night' is a 1986 live album by Sting recorded over the course of several live shows in 1985 and released in 1986. "Bring on the Night" is a song by The Police from their 1979 album Reggatta de Blanc....
  - Sting
• BTO's Greatest
  BTO's Greatest
  
  BTO's Greatest is a compilation album by Bachman-Turner Overdrive. It was released in 1981 on vinyl and in 1986 on compact disc by Mercury Records....
  - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
  Bachman-Turner Overdrive
  
  Bachman-Turner Overdrive is a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums just in that decade....
  
• Camper Van Beethoven
  Camper Van Beethoven (album)
  
  Camper Van Beethoven is a 1986 album by musical group Camper Van Beethoven, released on Pitch-A-Tent. With the six then CVB members joined in the studio by acid-folk eccentric Eugene Chadbourne, the album is arguably the zenith of the band's musical experimentation, with surreal lyrics, backwards, speeded-up and slowed down parts, and a...
  - 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....
  
• Cendres de Lune
  Cendres de Lune
  
  Cendres de Lune is the first studio album by Myl?ne Farmer, released on first on April 1, 1986, then one year later. The first release was precedeed by the hit single "Libertine ", the second one by "Tristana "....
  - Mylene Farmer
  Mylène Farmer
  
  Myl?ne Farmer born Myl?ne Jeanne Gautier is a France singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author. She has sold more than 25 million records and is among the most successful recording artists of all time in France....
  
• Change of Address
  Change of Address
  
  Change of Address is Krokus ' ninth album, and is largely seen to be their least successful. It has been described as "plainly one of the worst efforts" from Krokus, and the band's website claims that they and their musical style were put under too much pressure from their record company....
  - Krokus
  Krokus (band)
  
  Krokus is a hard rock/heavy metal music band from Switzerland.Krokus was founded in Solothurn in 1974 by bassist and guitarist Tommy Kiefer....
  
• Charlotte for Ever
  Charlotte For Ever
  
  Charlotte for Ever is the debut album by French musician and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, released in 1986. All songs except #8 were written by her father, Serge Gainsbourg....
  - Charlotte Gainsbourg
  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  
  Charlotte Gainsbourg is an English-French actress and singer-songwriter....
  
• Chicago 18
  Chicago 18
  
  Chicago 18 is the eighteenth album by United States rock music band Chicago and was released in 1986. As the successor to 1984's multiplatinum smash hit Chicago 17, this album marked a new era for Chicago: their post-Peter Cetera years....
  - Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  
  Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
  
• Chris Isaak
  Chris Isaak (album)
  
  Chris Isaak is the eponymous second album by Chris Isaak, released in 1986 on Warner Bros.....
  - Chris Isaak
  Chris Isaak
  
  Christopher Joseph Isaak is an United States rock music musician and occasional actor....
  
• Chronicle, Vol. 2
  Chronicle, Vol. 2
  
  Chronicle, Vol. 2 is a compilation album by Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1986, consisting of B-sides of singles and album tracks....
  - Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
  
  Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
  
• Cinema
  Cinema (album)
  
  Cinema is an album by the Scotland hard rock band Nazareth . It was released in 1986 through Vertigo Records....
  - Nazareth
  Nazareth (band)
  
  Nazareth are a Scottish rock music band that had several hard rock chart-topper in the mid 1970s, including the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant songwriter ballad, "Love Hurts."...
  
• The Circle & The Square
  The Circle & The Square
  
  The Circle & The Square is the debut album from Red Box and was released in 1986 . This album contained the group's second hit single "For America", which was a UK #10 hit....
  - Red Box
• Classics Live! - 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"....
  
• Club Ninja
  Club Ninja
  
  Club Ninja is a Blue ?yster Cult album released in 1986. The album was intended a comeback for the band, whose previous album failed to go Gold following the Platinum success of 1981's Fire Of Unknown Origin and 1982's Extraterrestrial Live....
  - Blue Öyster Cult
  Blue Öyster Cult
  
  Blue ?yster Cult is an American rock music band formed in New York in 1967 and still active in 2009. The group is especially well known for songs including " The Reaper", "Godzilla", and "Burnin' for You"....
  
• The Collection
  The Collection (Amy Grant album)
  
  The Collection is the tenth album by Contemporary Christian music singer Amy Grant, released in 1986 .The Collection was the first compilation of Amy Grant's music to be released, and it was issued after her crossover success in 1985 with the album Unguarded....
  - Amy Grant
  Amy Grant
  
  Amy Lee Grant is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, media personality and occasional actress, best known for her contemporary Christian music....
  
• The Colour of Spring
  The Colour of Spring
  
  The Colour of Spring is Talk Talk's third album and was released in 1986. It became the band's highest selling non-compilation studio album, reaching the Top 40 in several countries, including their homeland....
  - Talk Talk
  Talk Talk
  
  Talk Talk were a popular British Rock music group that were active from 1981 to 1991. In mainstream circles, the group is most well known for their early synthpop singles, including the international hits "Today", "Talk Talk", "It's My Life ", "Such a Shame", "Dum Dum Girl", "Life's What You Make It " and "Living in Another World"....
  
• Constrictor
  Constrictor (album)
  
  Constrictor was the 1986 comeback album for rock musician Alice Cooper. After retiring from the music industry after the release of DaDa, Cooper remained in seclusion for three years....
  - Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  
  Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
  
• Control
  Control (Janet Jackson album)
  
  Control is the third studio album by American recording artist Janet Jackson, released on March 4, 1986 by A&M Records. The album was produced by first-time collaborators Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, as well as Jackson's newly hired manager and A&M executive, John McClain....
  - Janet Jackson
  Janet Jackson
  
  Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians....
  
• Convicted - Cryptic Slaughter
  Cryptic Slaughter
  
  Cryptic Slaughter was a Santa Monica, California-based crossover thrash/hardcore punk band....
  
• Crowded House
  Crowded House (album)
  
  Crowded House is Crowded House's debut studio album, released in 1986. It was produced by Mitchell Froom. The album is known for launching the group and the first album the group's frontman Neil Finn and drummer Paul Hester had recorded since Finn ended their prior group, New Zealand oriented Split Enz....
  - Crowded House
  Crowded House
  
  Crowded House is a rock music group formed in Sydney, Australia and led by New Zealand musician and singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is widely recognised as the primary songwriter and creative direction of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States ....
  
• Dancing Undercover
  Dancing Undercover
  
  Dancing Undercover is Ratt's third full length album. It was produced by Beau Hill. The album contained the hits "Dance", "Slip of the Lip", and "Body Talk"....
  - 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...
  
• Dangerous Games - Alcatrazz
  Alcatrazz
  
  Alcatrazz is a melodic Classic Metal band formed in 1983 in Los Angeles by Graham Bonnet, Jimmy Waldo and Gary Shea....
  
• Darkness Descends
  Darkness Descends
  
  Darkness Descends is the second studio album by the American thrash metal band Dark Angel . The album is the first to feature drummer Gene Hoglan....
  - Dark Angel
  Dark Angel
  
  The term dark angel can refer to a fallen angel.Dark Angel may refer to:...
  
• A Date With Elvis - The Cramps
  The Cramps
  
  The Cramps were an American garage punk band formed in 1976. Their line-up rotated much over their existence, with the husband and wife duo of lead singer Lux Interior and lead guitarist Poison Ivy as the only permanent members....
  
• David Foster
  David Foster (album)
  
  David Foster is a self-titled solo album released in 1986. The album is mainly instrumental with two duet-style songs featuring rare vocals from Foster himself....
  - David Foster
  David Foster
  
  David Walter Foster, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia, Doctor of Laws is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer-songwriter and arrangement.....
  
• Dirty Work
  Dirty Work (album)
  
  Dirty Work is The Rolling Stones' 18th studio album . It was released on 24 March 1986 on the Rolling Stones Records by Sony Music. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, the album was recorded during a period when relations between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards soured considerably, and is often regarded as a low point for the band....
  - 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....
  
• The Divine Punishment - Diamanda Galás
  Diamanda Galás
  
  Diamanda Gal?s is an American-born avant-garde performance artist, vocalist, keyboardist, and composer of Greek people heritage.Known for her expert piano as well as her distinctive, operatic voice, which has a three and a half octave range, Gal?s has been described as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror"....
  
• The Doctor
  The Doctor (album)
  
  The Doctor is an album by Cheap Trick, released in 1986. It initially sold 88,000 copies. The album's lone single "It's Only Love" , was released in December 1986 and peaked at number #89 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart....
  - Cheap Trick
  Cheap Trick
  
  Cheap Trick is a United States Rock music band formed in the 1970s and consisting of Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E. Carlos ....
  
• Dreaming In Sequence - Chrome
  Chrome (band)
  
  Chrome was a rock music group founded in San Francisco, California in 1976.Inspired by mid-70s punk rock and rock groups such as Hawkwind and Black Sabbath, Chrome's music incorporated synthesizers and sampling , and frequently emphasized themes of science fiction and paranoia....
  
• Dreamtime - The Stranglers
  The Stranglers
  
  The Stranglers are an England Rock and roll group, formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey.Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes " and "Peaches " and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene....
  
• Dream Come True
  Dream Come True
  
  Dream Come True is the fourth album by A Flock of Seagulls, released in 1985 1986 by Jive Records....
  - A Flock of Seagulls
  A Flock of Seagulls
  
  A Flock of Seagulls are a British Grammy Award winning band originally formed by brothers Mike Score and Ali Score , with Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds ....
  
• Duotones
  Duotones
  
  Duotones is the fourth studio album by Saxophone Kenny G. It was released by Arista Records in 1986 in music, and peaked at number 1 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, number 5 on the Jazz Albums chart, number 6 on the Billboard 200 and number 8 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart....
  - 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....
  
• Eat 'Em and Smile - 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....
  
• Emerald City
  Emerald City
  
  The Emerald City is the fictional capital city of the Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz....
   - Teena Marie
• Emerson, Lake & Powell
  Emerson, Lake & Powell (album)
  
  Emerson, Lake & Powell is the only studio album recorded by the ELP off shoot Emerson, Lake & Powell. It was recorded in 1985 and released in 1986 on Polydor Records....
   - Emerson, Lake & Powell
  Emerson, Lake & Powell
  
  Emerson, Lake & Powell, sometimes abbreviated as ELPowell, were an England rock band, an offshoot or variant lineup of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, that released one official studio album in 1986....
  
• EVOL
  EVOL
  
  Evol is the third studio album by American noise rock band Sonic Youth, released in 1986 on SST Records. The album cover features a picture of Lung Leg, a still taken from Submit to Me, a film by Richard Kern....
   - 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 ....
  
• Eye of the Zombie
  Eye of the Zombie
  
  Eye Of The Zombie is a 1986 album by United States singer/songwriter John Fogerty. It was his first album with a backing band, and it includes the Creedence-inspired track "Change In The Weather" as well as "Wasn't That A Woman" and "Soda Pop," his first forays into Prince -sounding funk and R&B....
   - 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....
  
• Fame and Fortune
  Fame and Fortune
  
  Fame And Fortune is an album by Bad Company with Brian Howe in place of Paul Rodgers as lead vocalist, released in 1986....
   - 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....
  
• Fatal Portrait
  Fatal Portrait
  
  Fatal Portrait is the debut album by the Heavy metal music band King Diamond . The album was released in 1986 on Roadrunner Records. It is the only King Diamond album to date in which guitarist Andy LaRocque does not receive writing credits....
   - King Diamond
  King Diamond (band)
  
  King Diamond is the Heavy metal music band that King Diamond formed after the split up of his Black metal band Mercyful Fate. Also following the departure of Hank Shermann....
  
• Fields of Fire - 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 ....
  
• Fight for the Rock
  Fight for the Rock
  
  Fight for the Rock is the fourth album released by the band Savatage, their first with new bass player Johnny Lee Middleton, who has since become the only ever-present member on each Savatage record released since....
   - 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 ....
  
• The Final
  THE FINAL
  
  "The Final" is a single released by Dir en grey on March 22, 2004. It contains three live recordings of songs from the Vulgar album, performed during the Over the Vulgar Shudder tour....
   - 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....
  
• The Final Countdown
  The Final Countdown (album)
  
  The Final Countdown is the third studio album by the Sweden hard rock band Europe . Released on 26 May 1986 through Epic Records, the album was a huge commercial success selling over 3 million units in the United States alone, peaking at number 8 on the U.S....
   - Europe
  Europe (band)
  
  Europe is a Sweden Rock music band formed in Upplands V?sby in 1979 under the name Force by vocalist Joey Tempest and guitarist John Norum. Although widely associated with glam metal, the band's sound incorporates heavy metal music and hard rock elements....
  
• The Final Frontier
  The Final Frontier
  
  The Final Frontier is a 1986 album by the Heavy metal music band Keel . It was the band's second album to be produced by Kiss bassist Gene Simmons....
   - 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....
  
• Finyl Vinyl
  Finyl Vinyl
  
  Finyl Vinyl is a collection of live recordings and B-sides by Rainbow and was released in 1986, after the band had already ceased to be when Blackmore and Glover were part of the Deep Purple reformation....
   - Rainbow
  Rainbow (band)
  
  Rainbow were a hard rock and Heavy metal music band formed by former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore in 1975 in music. In addition to Blackmore, the band originally consisted of former Elf members; lead singer Ronnie James Dio , keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule, bassist Craig Gruber, and drummer Gary Driscoll....
  
• 5150
  5150 (album)
  
  5150 is the seventh album by United States hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1986 in music. This was the first album recorded with new lead singer Sammy Hagar, who replaced David Lee Roth....
   - 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....
  
• Flaunt It
  Flaunt It (album)
  
  Flaunt It is the debut album by United Kingdom band Sigue Sigue Sputnik. The album featured a remix of their hit single "Love Missile F1-11", used in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City; as well as "21st Century Boy"....
   - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
  Sigue Sigue Sputnik
  
  Sigue Sigue Sputnik are a British new wave music band led by former Generation X bassist Tony James. The band played a style of New Wave music music similar to New York electronica duo Suicide and Swiss techno-rock duo Yello, by layering vocals, yelps, guitar riffs, electronic sound effects and short sampling over pulsating synthesizer bas...
  
• Fore!
  Fore!
  
  Fore! is the fourth album by American rock music band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 1986 . The album hit number one on the Billboard 200 album chart and contained five top-ten Billboard Hot 100 singles, including the number-one hits: "Stuck with You" and "Jacob's Ladder ."...
   - Huey Lewis & The News
  Huey Lewis & the News
  
  Huey Lewis and the News are a Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated United States rock music band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 Top Ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock Charts....
  
• Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
  Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
  
  Forever Breathes the Lonely Word is the sixth album by United Kingdom alternative rock band Felt , released in 1986.The cover features a colour photograph of keyboardist Martin Duffy ....
   - Felt
  Felt (band)
  
  Felt were a 1980s United Kingdom alternative rock band, named after the way Tom Verlaine enunciated the word "felt" in the Television song "Venus", and led by Lawrence Hayward ....
  
• From Luxury to Heartache
  From Luxury to Heartache
  
  From Luxury to Heartache is an album by New Wave music band Culture Club, released in 1986 . From Luxury to Heartache was a deliberate departure for Culture Club, a move away from the reggae-flavoured pop of their previous releases into dance-oriented music....
   - Culture Club
  Culture Club
  
  Culture Club were a Grammy Award-winning United Kingdom Pop music group that formed in the early 1980s. The band consisted of Boy George , Mikey Craig , Roy Hay , and Jon Moss ....
  
• Frontal Assault - Angel Witch
  Angel Witch
  
  Angel Witch is a United Kingdom heavy metal music band which formed in London, England in 1977 in music as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement....
  
• Game Over
  Game Over (album)
  
  Game Over is the debut album by crossover thrash band Nuclear Assault, released in 1986....
   - Nuclear Assault
  Nuclear Assault
  
  Nuclear Assault is an American thrash metal/crossover thrash band formed in 1984....
  
• Gift - The Sisterhood
  The Sisterhood
  
  The Sisterhood was a short-lived England musical project, consisting of Andrew Eldritch , drum machine "Doktor Avalanche" / "Chorus of Vengeance" of Lucas Fox , Patricia Morrison , James Ray and Alan Vega ....
  
• The Good Earth - The Feelies
  The Feelies
  
  The Feelies are a Rock music band from North Haledon, New Jersey. They formed in 1976 and disbanded in 1992 after having released four LP album....
  
• Graceland
  Graceland (album)
  
  Graceland is an album released in 1986 in music by Paul Simon. It was a big hit in the UK topping the charts at #1. It also reached #3 in the US....
   - 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....
  
• Gruts
  Gruts
  
  Gruts is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1986 on Rough Trade Records....
   - Ivor Cutler
  Ivor Cutler
  
  Ivor Cutler was a Scotland poet, songwriter and humorist. He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio, and in particular his numerous sessions recorded for John Peel's influential radio programme, and later for Andy Kershaw's programme....
  
• GTR
  GTR (album)
  
  GTR is the self-titled debut album and sole official studio release from the short-lived Supergroup GTR . The album peaked at #11 on the Billboard 200, and the single "When the Heart Rules the Mind" reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100....
   - GTR
  GTR (band)
  
  GTR were a supergroup founded in 1986 by ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett and Yes and Asia guitarist Steve Howe . Other members included vocalist Max Bacon , bassist Phil Spalding , and American drummer Jonathan Mover ....
  
• Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. - Dwight Yoakam
  Dwight Yoakam
  
  Dwight David Yoakam is an United States singer-songwriter and actor, most famous for his country music. Active since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts....
  
• Guitar Town
  Guitar Town
  
  Guitar Town is the debut album of country music singer Steve Earle.In 2003, the album was ranked number 489 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
   - Steve Earle
  Steve Earle
  
  Stephen 'Steve' Fain Earle is an United States singer-songwriter, well known for his rock music and country music, as well as his political views....
  
• Hand to Mouth
  Hand to Mouth (album)
  
  Hand to Mouth is the second album by General Public, released in 1986 ....
   - General Public
  General Public
  
  General Public was a Pop band, formed by former The Beat vocalists Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger....
  
• Hey... Bo Diddley In Concert - 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....
   with Mainsqueeze
• High Priest Of Love EP - Zodiac Mindwarp
  Zodiac Mindwarp
  
  Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction are a United Kingdom hard rock group....
  
• Highlights of a Dangerous Life - The Johnnys
  The Johnnys
  
  The Johnnys were a legendary Australian pub rock band that fused the fun of punk rock with the 3 minute pop sensibilities of Hank Williams. They were contemporaries of The Gun Club and LA's X ....
  
• Home and Abroad
  Home and Abroad
  
  Home and Abroad is a live album from the band The Style Council....
   (live) - 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....
  
• Home of the Brave - Laurie Anderson
  Laurie Anderson
  
  Laurie Anderson is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles....
  
• Horse Rotorvator
  Horse Rotorvator
  
  Horse Rotorvator is the second LP released by the United Kingdom industrial music group Coil ....
   - Coil
  Coil (band)
  
  Coil were an English cross-genre, industrial music experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka 'Sleazy'....
  
• Hot Together
  Hot Together
  
  Hot Together is a 1986 album recorded by the Pointer Sisters on the RCA Records label. This album, one of their next-to-last albums with longtime producer Richard Perry, yielded one of the group's last significant hits in "Goldmine"....
   - Pointer Sisters
  Pointer Sisters
  
  The Pointer Sisters are an United States Grammy Award-winning Pop music/R&B recording act from Oakland, California, California that achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s....
  
• Hwgr Grawth-Og - Datblygu
  Datblygu
  
  Datblygu was an Music of Wales in the 1980s and early to mid-1990s, now regarded as a catalyst of the new wave of Music of Wales in the early '80s....
  
• I Against I
  I Against I
  
  I Against I is the third official full-length studio album by Bad Brains, released in 1986 as SST Records number 65. The highest selling album in the band's catalogue, I Against I is a critically acclaimed album of American hardcore punk mixed with funk, soul, and Heavy metal music....
   - Bad Brains
  Bad Brains
  
  Bad Brains are an American hardcore punk/roots reggae band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1977. They are widely regarded as being among the pioneers of the genre, though the band's members objected to the term "hardcore" to describe their music....
  
• In America EP - Britny Fox
  Britny Fox
  
  Britny Fox is an United States glam metal band from the Philadelphia area, initially active from 1985 to 1992 then subsequently reforming in 2001....
  
• In the Pines
  In the Pines (album)
  
  In The Pines is an album by The Triffids, released in August, 1986 and reached No. 69 on the Australian Album Charts.The album was recorded in a woolshed on a remote Western Australian farming property, owned by the McComb's parents, on an eight-track machine for a grand total of $1190 ...
   - The Triffids
  The Triffids
  
  The Triffids were an Australian rock band who achieved some international success in the 1980s. Formed in Perth, Western Australia in the late 1970s and disbanded in 1989, their best known songs are "Wide Open Road " and "Bury Me Deep in Love"....
  
• In The Army Now - Status Quo
  Status Quo
  
  Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an England rock music band whose music is characterized by the twelve-bar blues....
  
• In Visible Silence
  In Visible Silence
  
  In Visible Silence is the second full-length release by Avant garde pop group Art of Noise, and the first created by members Anne Dudley, J....
   - Art of Noise
• Inside the Electric Circus
  Inside the Electric Circus
  
  Inside the Electric Circus is the third studio album by W.A.S.P. , released in 1986. In various interviews Blackie Lawless rated this as one of the weakest releases of his career....
   - W.A.S.P.
• Inside - Matthew Sweet
  Matthew Sweet
  
  Sidney Matthew Sweet is an United States alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Music of Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s....
  
• Intermission
  Intermission (album)
  
  Intermission is a live album released by the band Dio in 1986 on the label Vertigo Records and Warner Bros. Records in North America. The live songs were recorded with Vivian Campbell during the first leg of the Sacred Heart tour....
   - Dio
• Into the Light - Chris de Burgh
  Chris de Burgh
  
  Chris de Burgh is an Irish-based musician and singer-songwriter who holds British nationality . A musician who writes a variety of mixed instrumental material, Chris de Burgh had huge success in Ireland, Britain and the United States with the 1986 hit "The Lady in Red "....
  
• Invisible Touch
  Invisible Touch
  
  Invisible Touch is the thirteenth studio album by Genesis , released in 1986. As their most commercially successful pop album, it got generally favourable reviews from critics and produced five US Top 5 singles, including the Invisible Touch which reached the #1 spot on the US chart, the only song by Genesis ever to have reached the top...
   - Genesis
  Genesis (band)
  
  Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
  
• Isyu! - 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....
  
• Keys to Imagination
  Keys to Imagination
  
  Keys to Imagination is Yanni's second album, released on the Private Music label in 1986 ....
   - Yanni
  Yanni
  
  Yanni is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Yanni left his homeland at the age of 18 to attend the University of Minnesota. After receiving a B.A....
  
• Kicking Against the Pricks
  Kicking Against the Pricks
  
  Kicking Against the Pricks is the third album released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. First released in 1986, the album is a collection of cover versions....
  - 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....
  
• A Kind of Magic
  A Kind of Magic
  
  A Kind of Magic is a 1986 album by England rock and roll band Queen . It was the band's twelfth studio album, and is based on the soundtrack to the film Highlander , the first in a series directed by Russell Mulcahy....
  - 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....
  
• King of America - Elvis Costello
  Elvis Costello
  
  Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
  
• Kings of Punk
  Kings of Punk
  
  Kings of Punk is the title of the third release and first LP by hardcore punk band Poison Idea, released in 1986 through Pushead's Pusmort Records label....
  - Poison Idea
  Poison Idea
  
  Poison Idea was an United States hardcore punk band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1980. As their career progressed the band began to incorporate overt influences from hard rock....
  
• Knocked Out Loaded
  Knocked Out Loaded
  
  Knocked Out Loaded is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 24th studio album, released by Columbia Records in 1986.The album was received poorly upon release, and is still considered by some critics to be one of Dylan's least-engaging efforts....
  - Bob Dylan
• Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares - Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares
  Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares
  
  The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir is an internationally renowned World Music ensemble that blends traditional six-part a cappella repertoire with modern arrangements....
  
• Le Visage de l'Amour - 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 sixième jour - Dalida
• Leather Jackets
  Leather Jackets (album)
  
  Leather Jackets is the twentieth studio album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, recorded at Sol Studios and released in 1986. It was his first album to not create any top forty singles in either the US or the UK since 1970's Tumbleweed Connection, which had not had any singles released from it at all....
  - 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....
  
• Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death
  Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death
  
  Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death is the fifth album by United Kingdom alternative rock band Felt , released in 1986. It is comprised of short instrumentals in different styles and is less than nineteen minutes in length....
  - Felt
  Felt (band)
  
  Felt were a 1980s United Kingdom alternative rock band, named after the way Tom Verlaine enunciated the word "felt" in the Television song "Venus", and led by Lawrence Hayward ....
  
• Letters Home
  Letters Home (album)
  
  Letters Home is a 1986 studio album by England avant-garde Rock music Musical ensemble News from Babel. It was recorded at Tim Hodgkinson's Cold Storage Recording Studios in Brixton, London, in 1985 and 1986, and was released in 1986....
  - News from Babel
  News from Babel
  
  News from Babel were an England avant-garde Rock music Musical ensemble founded in 1983 by Chris Cutler, Lindsay Cooper, Zeena Parkins and Dagmar Krause....
  
• Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
  Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
  
  Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express, the fourth album by The Go-Betweens, was released in 1986 in the United Kingdom on Beggars Banquet Records, the record label that would release the remainder of the original group's LPs through their breakup in 1989....
  - The Go-Betweens
  The Go-Betweens
  
  The Go-Betweens were an internationally influential indie rock band from Australia, formed by guitarists Robert Forster and Grant McLennan in Brisbane in 1977....
  
• Licensed to Ill
  Licensed to Ill
  
  Licensed to Ill is the debut album by the Beastie Boys, 1986 in music.It is the first rap LP album to top the Billboard 200 chart. It also peaked at #2 on the Top Hip Hop/R&B Albums chart....
  - The Beastie Boys
• Lifes Rich Pageant
  Lifes Rich Pageant
  
  Lifes Rich Pageant is the fourth album by the United States band R.E.M. and was released in 1986. Intended as an upbeat reaction to the sobering and historical Fables of the Reconstruction, R.E.M....
  - 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 ....
  
• Lightning Strikes - 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 ...
  
• Like a Rock
  Like a Rock
  
  Like a Rock is the thirteenth studio album by United States singer-songwriter Bob Seger, released in 1986 . The Like a Rock is best known for being featured on Chevrolet truck commercials....
  - Bob Seger
  Bob Seger
  
  Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.After years of local Detroit-area success, recording and performing in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved superstar status by the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band....
   and the Silver Bullet Band
• Little Miss Dangerous
  Little Miss Dangerous
  
  Little Miss Dangerous is Ted Nugent's third album released on the Atlantic label in 1986.Track listing#"High Heels In Motion" - 3:35...
  - Ted Nugent
  Ted Nugent
  
  Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an United States hard rock guitarist and vocalist from Detroit, Michigan. He originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes....
  
• 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 Chronicles
  Live Chronicles
  
  Live Chronicles is a 1986 album by Hawkwind recorded of a live performance of their The Chronicle of the Black Sword Michael Moorcock based concept....
  - 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....
  
• Live in New York City
  Live in New York City
  
  Live in New York City is a posthumous live album by John Lennon. It was prepared under the supervision of his widow, Yoko Ono, and released in 1986 as his second official live album, following Live Peace in Toronto 1969....
  - 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....
  
• Live Magic
  Live Magic
  
  Live Magic is a vinyl and compact disc live album by England Rock music band Queen . It was recorded live during the European Magic Tour and released on December 1, 1986....
  - 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....
  
• Live/1975–85 - 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....
  
• Lives in the Balance
  Lives in the Balance
  
  Lives in the Balance is the eighth album by United States singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1986 . It was the first album by Browne where overtly political and socially critical songs dominated, although it also included one of his best remembered songs about relationships, the tragic "In the Shape of a Heart", inspired by hi...
  - Jackson Browne
  Jackson Browne
  
  Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
  
• Look What the Cat Dragged In
  Look What the Cat Dragged In
  
  Look What the Cat Dragged In is the debut studio album by United States glam metal band Poison , released in 1986 through the Enigma label of Capitol Records....
  - Poison
  Poison (band)
  
  Poison is an United States hard rock band that achieved great success and popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They have become icons of the 80s MTV era and have had widespread commercial success....
  
• Love in Bright Landscapes
  Love in Bright Landscapes
  
  Love In Bright Landscapes is an anthology of The Triffids' songs from their album, EP and single releases in the period 1983 - 1985, during which time the group were resident in Perth, Sydney and London....
  - The Triffids
  The Triffids
  
  The Triffids were an Australian rock band who achieved some international success in the 1980s. Formed in Perth, Western Australia in the late 1970s and disbanded in 1989, their best known songs are "Wide Open Road " and "Bury Me Deep in Love"....
  
• Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett
  Lyle Lovett
  
  Lyle Pearce Lovett is an United States singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the #10 chart hit on the U.S....
  
• Mad
  Mad (EP)
  
  Mad is an EP released by heavy metal music band Raven in 1986. It has never been re-released on CD....
  (EP) - 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"....
  
• Master of Puppets
  Master of Puppets
  
  Master of Puppets is the third studio album by United States heavy metal music band Metallica. Recorded in 1985, the album was released on March 3, 1986 through Elektra Records....
  - Metallica
  Metallica
  
  Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
  
• Master of The Metal - Messiah Prophet
• Mean Business
  Mean Business
  
  Mean Business is a studio album by The Firm , released by Atlantic Records on 3 February, 1986. Repeating the same bluesy formula as the debut album, Mean Business did not achieve the same commercial success....
  - The Firm
• Mechanical Resonance
  Mechanical resonance
  
  Mechanical resonance is the tendency of a mechanics to absorb more energy when the frequency of its oscillations matches the system's natural frequency of vibration than it does at other frequencies....
  - Tesla
  Tesla (band)
  
  Tesla is an United States hard rock band formed in Sacramento, California, California in 1984, and have sold over 16 million albums in the United States as of 2008....
  
• Medusa
  Medusa (Clan of Xymox album)
  
  Medusa is the second full album by Clan of Xymox, and is frequently considered to be their best work.Track listing# "Theme I" ? 2:54...
  - 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....
  
• Menace to Society - 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....
  
• Menlove Ave.
  Menlove Ave.
  
  Menlove Ave. is a John Lennon album, posthumously released in 1986 under the supervision of Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow.The album itself comprises session outtakes from the Rock 'n' Roll sessions with Phil Spector in late 1973, which comprises the first half of Menlove Ave. ....
  - 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....
  
• Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
  Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
  
  Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse is a 1986 album by Skinny Puppy. It contained the single "Dig It", which inspired several industrial music contemporaries, including Nine Inch Nails....
  - 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....
  
• Mind's Eye
  Mind's Eye (album)
  
  Mind's Eye is the debut studio album by guitarist Vinnie Moore, released in 1986 on Shrapnel Records....
  - Vinnie Moore
  Vinnie Moore
  
  Vinnie Moore is a guitarist and a member of the England hard rock band UFO . Along with Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony MacAlpine, and others, Moore is known as one of the most influential guitarists to emerge out of the Shred guitar boom in the mid 1980s....
  
• Minuteflag
  Minuteflag
  
  Minuteflag was an experimental jam band collaboration between members of the American punk bands The Minutemen and Black Flag . Their only release, an EP, consists almost entirely of instrumentals with the exception of "Fetch The Water" which features D....
  - 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....
  /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....
  
• Morbid Visions
  Morbid Visions
  
  Morbid Visions is the first studio album by Brazilian extreme metal band Sepultura, released in 1986 through Cogumelo Records.While later albums have a more political edge, Morbid Visions is notable for "Satanic" themes....
  - Sepultura
  Sepultura
  
  Sepultura is a Brazilian Heavy metal music band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, formed in 1984. The band was a major force in the death metal and thrash metal realms during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and their later experiments melding hardcore punk and industrial music with extreme metal provided a blueprint for the groove metal gen...
   (Debut)
• Mosaic
  Mosaic (Wang Chung album)
  
  Mosaic is Wang Chung fourth album and third on Geffen Records. Released in 1986, Mosaic was commercially successful due to three singles: "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" , "Let's Go " and "Hypnotize Me" ....
  - Wang Chung
  Wang Chung (band)
  
  Wang Chung are a UK New Wave music musical group.The group found their greatest success in the North America, with five Top 40 hits in the US, all charting between 1984 and 1987 ....
  
• 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....
   (US)
• Nasty, Nasty - Black 'N Blue
  Black 'N Blue
  
  Black 'n Blue is a glam metal band currently featuring singer Jaime St. James, guitarist Shawn Sonnenschein, guitarist Jeff Warner , bassist Patrick Young, and drummer Pete Holmes....
  
• Nerve War
  Nerve War
  
  Nerve War is the first release by the Canadian band Front Line Assembly . Having a limited cassette release , it remains the most sought after release from Bill Leeb and company....
  - Front Line Assembly
  Front Line Assembly
  
  Front Line Assembly is a Canada electro-industrial bandformed in 1986 by Bill Leeb and Michael Balch after Leeb left Skinny Puppy....
  
• New Kids on the Block
  New Kids on the Block (album)
  
  New Kids on the Block is the self-titled d?but album from United States pop music boy band New Kids on the Block.Released in the spring of 1986, its very Bubblegum pop, pseudo early Osmonds/New Edition-esque stylings failed to garner any attention, and as a result the album went commercially unnoticed....
  - New Kids on the Block
  New Kids on the Block
  
  New Kids on the Block is an USA pop group that enjoyed success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a boy band which went on to sell 80 million records world-wide....
   (debut)
• Night Songs
  Night Songs
  
  Night Songs is Cinderella 's debut album, released in 1986 through Mercury Records. It sold several million copies due to a combination of their breakthrough single Nobody's Fool, MTV airplay, and an opening slot on labelmates Bon Jovi's tour, in support of their album Slippery When Wet....
  - Cinderella
  Cinderella (band)
  
  Cinderella is an United States rock music band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation....
  
• No. 10, Upping St.
  No. 10, Upping St.
  
  No. 10, Upping St. , is the second album by Big Audio Dynamite, led by former The Clash guitarist and songwriter Mick Jones . It was released in 1986....
  - 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....
  
• No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
  No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
  
  No Guru, No Method, No Teacher is an album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1986 .The 2008 re-issued and re-mastered version of the album contains an alternative take of "Oh the Warm Feeling" and a previously unreleased Morrison composition "Lonely at the Top"....
  - 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....
  
• Not of This Earth
  Not of This Earth (Joe Satriani album)
  
  Not of This Earth is the first full album by instrumental rock solo artist Joe Satriani. Numerous tracks off this album are still played live by Satriani....
  - Joe Satriani
  Joe Satriani
  
  Joseph "Satch" Satriani is an United States multiple nominated Grammy Award multi-instrumentalist, best known as an instrumental rock guitarist....
  
• Notorious
  Notorious (album)
  
  Notorious is the fourth album by Duran Duran. Released in November 1986, it peaked at #16 in the UK and #12 in the US. The singles "Notorious" and "Skin Trade" demonstrated a Duran Duran reaching for funk, heavy on bass and brass....
  - 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....
  
• November-Coming-Fire - Samhain
  Samhain (band)
  
  Samhain was an United States rock music rock band formed by singer Glenn Danzig in 1983, immediately following his departure from Misfits . Samhain played in more of a death rock- and heavy metal music-infused style of horror punk than Danzig's previous band....
  
• Now That's What I Call Music 7
  Now That's What I Call Music 7 (U.K. series)
  
  Now That's What I Call Music 7 or Now 7 was released in 1986. The album is the 7th edition of the Now That's What I Call Music series....
  - Various Artists
• Now That's What I Call Music 8
  Now That's What I Call Music 8 (U.K. series)
  
  Now That's What I Call Music 8 or Now 8 was released in 1986. The album is the 8th edition of the Now That's What I Call Music! series....
  - Various Artists
• On the Beach
  On the Beach (Chris Rea album)
  
  On the Beach is an album by Chris Rea, released in 1986....
  - 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....
  
• Orgasmatron
  Orgasmatron (album)
  
  Orgasmatron is the seventh album by the English Heavy metal music band Mot?rhead, released in 1986. It is the only full Mot?rhead album to feature Pete Gill on the Drum kit, although he also played on the four new tracks recorded for the 1984 No Remorse compilation album....
  - Motörhead
  Motörhead
  
  Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
  
• The Pack Is Back
  The Pack is Back
  
  The Pack Is Back is the fifth full-length album by the band Raven , released in 1986 ....
  - 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"....
  
• Paint Your Wagon
  Paint Your Wagon (album)
  
  Paint Your Wagon, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry's second album, was released in 1986 in the United Kingdom on Red Rhino, an independent music record label....
  - 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....
  
• Parade
  Parade (album)
  
  Parade: Music from the Motion Picture "Under the Cherry Moon" is a 1986 album by Prince The Revolution . It was the follow-up to Around the World in a Day and the soundtrack to Prince's second film....
  - Prince and the Revolution
  Prince (musician)
  
  Prince Rogers Nelson is an United States musician. He performs under the Mononymous person name of Prince, but has also been known by various other names, among them an Love Symbol ...
  
• Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
  Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
  
  Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? is the second studio album by United States Thrash metal music band Megadeth. Originally, the project was being handled by a small record company called Combat Records, and this resulted in the first mix of the album , which can be found on the Internet as a bootleg....
  - 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...
  
• Pearls of Passion
  Pearls of Passion
  
  Pearls of Passion was Roxette's first album, released on Halloween October 31, 1986. It was re-released internationally on CD on October 31, 1997 with some previously unreleased or single-only bonus tracks....
  - Roxette
  Roxette
  
  Roxette is a Sweden pop music duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle.This duo achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s with their hit singles "The Look", "Listen To Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love" and "Joyride "....
  
• Permanent Sleep
  Permanent Sleep
  
  Permanent Sleep was released in 1986 in Scotland on Nightshift Records, an independent music record label. It was Lowlife 's debut album. The LP was recorded at Palladium Studios in Edinburgh, Scotland, during June - July 1986, and released in August of that year....
  - Lowlife
  Lowlife (band)
  
  Lowlife was a Scotland alternative rock/dream pop Musical ensemble, active from 1985 to 1997. Although the group never obtained mainstream popularity, they developed a cult following that continues to this day....
  
• Pleasure to Kill
  Pleasure to Kill
  
  Pleasure to Kill is the second studio album by Germany thrash metal band Kreator. Kreator's lyrical themes follow those found on their first album Endless Pain....
  - Kreator
  Kreator
  
  Kreator are a Germany thrash metal band from Essen, Germany. They started their career in 1982, under the name Tormentor. They originally played thrash metal with Venom influences....
  
• Poolside
  Poolside (album)
  
  Poolside is the title of a 1986 album by the American popular music/freestyle music/electronic dance music group Nu Shooz. It was released on Atlantic Records in the US in the spring of 1986....
  - Nu Shooz
  Nu Shooz
  
  Nu Shooz is a 1980s electronic dance music group fronted by husband-and-wife duet John Smith and Valerie Day, based in Portland, Oregon, Oregon....
  
• Portfolio - The Michael Schenker Group
• Power
  Power (album)
  
  This article is about the Kansas album. For the Ice-T album, see Power . For the Q and Not U album, see Power .Power is the tenth studio album, and 12th overall, by United States rock music band Kansas , released in 1986 ....
   - Kansas
  Kansas (band)
  
  Kansas is an United States progressive rock band which became a popular arena rock group in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind"....
  
• Prince Ivor
  Prince Ivor
  
  Prince Ivor is a double album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1986 on Rough Trade Records.The album should be pronounced "Prance eeVOR"....
   - Ivor Cutler
  Ivor Cutler
  
  Ivor Cutler was a Scotland poet, songwriter and humorist. He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio, and in particular his numerous sessions recorded for John Peel's influential radio programme, and later for Andy Kershaw's programme....
  
• 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 ....
  
• The Queen Is Dead
  The Queen Is Dead
  
  The Queen Is Dead is the third studio album by the England rock music band The Smiths. It was released on 16 June 1986 in the United Kingdom by Rough Trade Records....
   - 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 ....
  
• QR III
  QR III
  
  QR III is a studio album released by United States heavy metal music band Quiet Riot. The name of this recording is short for "Quiet Riot III", and was released in 1986 in music....
   - Quiet Riot
  Quiet Riot
  
  Quiet Riot was an United States Heavy metal music band whose 1983 US Festival appearance helped to solidify metal's image. They are best known for their hit singles "Cum on Feel the Noize" and "Metal Health ." They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, under the name Mach 1....
  
• R&B Skeletons in the Closet
  R&B Skeletons in the Closet
  
  R&B Skeletons in the Closet is the fourth solo album by Parliament-Funkadelic leader George Clinton . It was released in May 1986 by Capitol Records and was the last album that Clinton would record for the label....
   - 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....
  
• Rage for Order
  Rage for Order
  
  Rage for Order is the second album by Queensr?che, released in 1986 ....
   - Queensrÿche
  Queensrÿche
  
  Queensr?che is an United States heavy metal music / progressive metal band formed in 1981 in Bellevue, Washington. The band has released ten studio albums and several smaller releases including Extended plays and DVDs and continues to tour and record....
  
• The Rainmakers - The Rainmakers
• Rapture
  Rapture (album)
  
  Rapture is the second album by the American vocalist Anita Baker. It was released in 1986, and became her breakout album, selling over 8 million copies worldwide and earning her two Grammy Awards....
   - Anita Baker
  Anita Baker
  
  Anita Baker is an American rhythm and blues and soul music singer-songwriter. To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards, and has earned four platinum albums and three gold albums to her credit....
  
• Raised On Radio
  Raised on Radio
  
  Journey 's ninth album, Raised on Radio, was released in May 1986 on the Columbia Records label.Following their two most successful albums, lead singer Steve Perry began to take more control over the band's direction....
   - 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 ....
  
• Raising Hell
  Raising Hell
  
  Raising Hell is the third album by hip-hop group Run-D.M.C..Its breakthrough album, Raising Hell trumped standing perceptions of commercial viability for hip-hop groups, achieving triple-platinum record status and receiving critical attention from quarters that had previously ignored hip hop as a fad....
   - Run DMC
• Rat in the Kitchen - 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....
  
• Reign in Blood
  Reign in Blood
  
  Reign in Blood is the third studio album and record label debut by the American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on October 7, 1986, the album was the band's first collaboration with record producer Rick Rubin, whose input helped the band's sound evolve....
   - 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....
  
• Reivax Au Bongo - Hector Zazou
  Hector Zazou
  
  Hector Zazou was a prolific France composer and record producer who has worked with, produced, and collaborated with an international array of recording artists....
  
• Rendez-Vous
  Rendez-Vous
  
  Rendez-Vous is an album of instrumental electronic music composed and produced by Jean Michel Jarre, and released in 1986 on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor....
   - Jean Michel Jarre
  Jean Michel Jarre
  
  Jean-Michel Andr? Jarre is a France composer, Performing arts and music producer. Since 1991 he writes his name Jean Michel Jarre, without the hyphen....
  
• Repossessed
  Repossessed (album)
  
  Repossessed is an album by Kris Kristofferson, release on Mercury Records in 1986 . It was Kristofferson's first full-length solo album since 1981's To the Bone, although the singer did collaborate with other artists in the meantime, most notably on Highwayman with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson....
   - Kris Kristofferson
  Kris Kristofferson
  
  Kristoffer Kristian Kristofferson is an United States writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"....
  
• Revenge - 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....
  
• Russian Roulette
  Russian Roulette (album)
  
  Russian Roulette is a 1986 release by German heavy metal music band Accept.It was again recorded at Dierks-Studios, but the band chose to self-produce rather than bring back Dieter Dierks as record producer....
   - Accept
  Accept
  
  Accept were a Germany Heavy metal music band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled in the early 1970s by Udo Dirkschneider. They played an important role in the development of speed metal and Teutonic thrash metal, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s along with bands such as He...
  
• Scoundrel Days
  Scoundrel Days
  
  Scoundrel Days is the second full-length album by the Rock music band a-ha. It was released on 6 October 1986 through Warner Bros. Records....
   - 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 Seer - Big Country
  Big Country
  
  Big Country were a Rock band from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, popular in the early to mid-1980s but still releasing material for a cult following....
  
• Seventh Star
  Seventh Star
  
  Seventh Star is the twelfth studio album by Black Sabbath, released in 1986 in music.It was originally written, recorded, and intended to be the first solo album by guitarist Tony Iommi, but due to label pressures and the prompting of band manager Don Arden, the record was billed as Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi....
   - Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath
  
  Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
  
• Sex Mad
  Sex Mad
  
  Sex Mad is the second full-length album by the Canada punk rock band NoMeansNo....
   - NoMeansNo
  Nomeansno
  
  NoMeansNo is a punk rock music group originally from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and now located in Vancouver, British Columbia.The band has never had, nor have they seemed to pursue, strong mainstream success, but they do have a devoted underground culture following in North America and Europe....
  
• Shot in the Dark - Great White
  Great White
  
  Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"....
  
• Silk And Steel
  Silk And Steel
  
  Silk and Steel is the name of a chart-topping album by British pop group Five Star. Silk and Steel broke the record in its day for making Five Star the youngest ever act to have a UK #1 album, with an average age of 19.5 ....
   - 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....
  
• Skylarking
  Skylarking
  
  Skylarking is XTC's eighth studio album, released on October 27, 1986. Considered by many to be their finest album, Skylarking is a "life-in-a-day" semi-concept album which displayed songwriting and arranging heavily influenced by The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Kinks....
   - XTC
  XTC
  
  XTC were a New Wave band from Swindon, England, active between 1976 and 2005. Though the band enjoyed some significant chart success , they are more known for their long-standing critical success than for making hit records....
  
• Slippery When Wet
  Slippery When Wet
  
  Slippery When Wet, recorded in Vancouver, Canada, is the third studio album by Bon Jovi, released on August 18, 1986. It is the band's most commercially successful album, selling over 12 million copies in the United States and 25 million worldwide....
   - 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....
  
• So
  So (album)
  
  So is the fifth studio album by United Kingdom rock music musician Peter Gabriel, released in 1986. Many of its songs reflect a more conventional pop-writing style and became radio hits, others still retain Gabriel's dark, brooding sense of experimentalism....
   - Peter Gabriel
  Peter Gabriel
  
  Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
  
• Solitude/Solitaire
  Solitude/Solitaire
  
  Solitude/Solitaire, released in 1986, is the second solo release by former-Chicago member and lead vocalist Peter Cetera, his first after leaving the band....
   - Peter Cetera
  Peter Cetera
  
  Peter Paul Cetera is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitar player and Record producer best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago , before launching a successful solo career....
  
• Somewhere in Time
  Somewhere in Time (album)
  
  Somewhere in Time is the sixth studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 29 June, 1986 on EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in the US ....
   - Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden
  
  Iron Maiden are an English Heavy metal music band from Leyton, East London, England, formed in 1975. The band is led by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris ....
  
• Sound Of Confusion
  Sound of Confusion
  
  Sound of Confusion is the first studio album by space rock group Spacemen 3, released in 1986 on Glass Records. It was later re-released in 1994 by Taang! Records, and later released to include the Walking with Jesus EP and a demo of the song ?2.35?....
   - Spacemen 3
  Spacemen 3
  
  Spacemen 3 were an England Rock music band who formed in 1982 and whose career spanned from the post-punk to acid house eras....
  
• Stand Tall - Killer Dwarfs
  Killer Dwarfs
  
  Killer Dwarfs were a heavy metal music band who formed in late 1981 in Oshawa, Ontario. Though they were known for their off beat sense of humor , they were nominated for two Juno Awards....
  
• Staring at the Sea: the Singles - 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....
  
• Storms of Life
  Storms of Life
  
  Storms of Life is the debut album by country music star Randy Travis, and was released on June 6, 1986 by Warner Bros. Records Nashville. Certified 3× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for American shipments of three million copies, it features the singles "On the Other Hand" , "1982", "Diggin' up Bones", and "No Place Like Home"....
   - Randy Travis
  Randy Travis
  
  Randy Travis is a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance- and Dove Award-winning United States country music singer. Active since 1985, he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date, in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which sixteen have reached Number On...
  
• Strange Charm
  Strange Charm
  
  Strange Charm is the tenth studio album, and eighth under his own name, by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1986 through by Numa Records....
   - Gary Numan
  Gary Numan
  
  Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of commercial electronic music and has been described as the "King of synthpop." Numan is widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars "....
  
• Strange Land
  Strange Land
  
  Strange Land is the second album by Box of Frogs, first released in 1984, and reissued with their first album, Box of Frogs on a single disc by Renaissance Records in 1996....
   - Box of Frogs
  Box of Frogs
  
  Box of Frogs were a band formed in 1983 by former members of The Yardbirds, who released their first album in 1984. The core group comprised Chris Dreja, Paul Samwell-Smith, and Jim McCarty....
  
• Strength in Numbers - .38 Special
• Strong Persuader
  Strong Persuader
  
  Released in 1986, Strong Persuader was Robert Cray's breakthrough album to the mainstream. "Strong Persuader" also became a nickname for Cray....
   - Robert Cray
  Robert Cray
  
  Robert Cray is an United States blues musician, guitarist, and singer....
  
• Synthetic Socks
  Synthetic Socks
  
  Synthetic Socks is a very early recording by Gene Ween, released on Teen Beat Records in 1987. It is almost entirely the product of Gene Ween making personal recordings in his bedroom ....
   - Ween
  Ween
  
  Ween is an alternative rock group formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class....
  
• Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America - Culturcide
  Culturcide
  
  Culturcide was a Houston-based experimental Punk rock band, active from 1980 to 1990 and from 1993 to the present day. They were notorious for their 1986 in music album Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America, which earned the band a cult following, but also several legal threats....
  
• 10 Kola Nuts - Mory Kante
  Mory Kanté
  
  Mory Kant? is an acclaimed vocalist and player of the Kora harp. He was born into one of Guinea's best known families of griot musicians. After being brought up in the Mandinka griot tradition in Guinea, he was sent to Mali at the age of seven years – where he learned to play the kora, as well as important voice traditions, some of w...
  
• Then & Now... the Best of The Monkees - The Monkees
  The Monkees
  
  The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
  
• They Don't Make Them Like They Used To - 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....
  
• They Might Be Giants
  They Might Be Giants (album)
  
  They Might Be Giants is the eponymous first album from They Might Be Giants, also known as the "Pink Album". It was released in 1986 in music....
   - They Might Be Giants
  They Might Be Giants
  
  They Might Be Giants is a Grammy Award-winning Music of the United States alternative rock band which began as a duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, and currently also includes Marty Beller, Dan Miller , and Danny Weinkauf....
  
• Third Stage - Boston
  Boston (band)
  
  Boston is an United States Rock music band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists....
  
• Thrill of a Lifetime - 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....
  
• Tinderbox - Siouxsie and the Banshees
• To Hell with the Devil
  To Hell with the Devil
  
  To Hell with the Devil is the Grammy Award nominated fourth release, and third full-length album, by the Christian metal and Glam metal band Stryper, released in 1986 ....
   - 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....
  
• Tom Cochrane & Red Rider
  Tom Cochrane & Red Rider
  
  Tom Cochrane & Red Rider is the fifth studio album by the Canada rock music band Red Rider, released in 1986 . A remastered CD was released by EMI in 2004....
   - Tom Cochrane
  Tom Cochrane
  
  Tom Cochrane, Order of Canada is a Canada singer-songwriter and musician, best known for his hit songs "Life Is a Highway", "Lunatic Fringe", "White Hot", "Boy Inside the Man", "Big League" and "I Wish You Well"....
   & Red Rider
  Red Rider
  
  Red Rider was a Canada Rock music band popular in the 1980s. While the band achieved great success in Canada, in the United States, the band never had a song in the Top 40....
  
• Tones
  Tones (album)
  
  Tones was Eric Johnson second solo album. It was released in 1986 by Reprise Records. Some of the tracks are re-recordings of songs from the unreleased album Seven Worlds....
   - Eric Johnson
  Eric Johnson
  
  Eric Johnson is a guitarist and recording artist from Austin, Texas. Best known for his success in the instrumental rock format, Johnson regularly incorporates jazz, fusion , New Age, and country and western elements into his recordings....
  
• Total Terror
  Total Terror
  
  Total Terror is the second of two self-released cassette tapes by industrial band Front Line Assembly. At this point, Bill Leeb was the band's only dedicated member, with some help from Rhys Fulber....
   - Front Line Assembly
  Front Line Assembly
  
  Front Line Assembly is a Canada electro-industrial bandformed in 1986 by Bill Leeb and Michael Balch after Leeb left Skinny Puppy....
  
• Through the Barricades
  Through the Barricades
  
  Through the Barricades is a studio album by Spandau Ballet. It was released in 1986 by Epic Records.The song lyrics were inspired by love prevailing over the troubles in Northern Ireland....
   - 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....
  
• Trick or Treat - 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 ....
  
• Trilogy
  Trilogy (Yngwie J. Malmsteen album)
  
  Trilogy is the third album released by guitarist Yngwie J. Malmsteen issued in 1986 by the label Polydor. This album was produced in honor of the slain Swedish prime minister Olof Palme....
   - Yngwie Malmsteen
• True as Steel
  True As Steel (album)
  
  True As Steel is the third album by German hard rock/Heavy metal music band Warlock , released in 1986.This album has their first success outside of Europe, the single "Fight For Rock" charted on Billbord, and the music video for this song was aired on MTV's Headbangers Ball....
   - 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....
  
• True Blue
  True Blue (album)
  
  True Blue is the third studio album by United States singer-songwriter Madonna , released on June 30, 1986 by Sire Records. On its release, it reached number one in twenty-eight countries, an achievement that The Guinness Book of World Records called "totally unprecedented." The RIAA certified it RIAA certification, RIAA certification...
   - 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....
  
• True Colors - 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....
  
• True Confessions
  True Confessions (album)
  
  True Confessions is the third album by the British girl group Bananarama. Released in 1986, the album was not a commercial success in the UK, but achieved their biggest sales and chart success in the U.S., where the first single "Venus " hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 ....
   - Bananarama
  Bananarama
  
  Bananarama are an United Kingdom girl group who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Although there have been line-up changes during the years, the group enjoyed its most popular success as a trio, made up of lifelong friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin....
  
• True Stories
  True Stories (album)
  
  True Stories is the seventh album released by Talking Heads in 1986; it was released at the same time as the David Byrne film of the same name, True Stories ....
   - 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....
  
• Truthdare Doubledare
  Truthdare Doubledare
  
  Truthdare Doubledare was a 1986 release on MCA Records by the British dance band Bronski Beat. Jimmy Somerville was not member of Bronski Beat on this release....
   - Bronski Beat
  Bronski Beat
  
  Bronski Beat were a popular United Kingdom synth pop Trio of the 1980s....
  
• Turbo
  Turbo (Judas Priest album)
  
  Turbo is the 10th studio album by British heavy metal music band Judas Priest.The album was recorded at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas and mixed January - February 1986 at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles, California....
   - 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....
  
• The Age of Quarrel
  The Age Of Quarrel
  
  The Age of Quarrel is the first album from the New York hardcore band Cro-Mags. It was released on Profile Records in 1986 and subsequently re-released by Another Planet in 1994, along with their second album, 1989's Best Wishes, on the same disc....
   - Cro-Mags
  Cro-Mags
  
  The Cro-Mags were a hardcore punk band from New York City. The band, which had a strong cult following, released many records, their first two considered the most influential....
  
• The Twelve Inch Mixes
  The Twelve Inch Mixes
  
  The Twelve Inch Mixes is a compilation album by Spandau Ballet. It was released in 1986 by Reformation 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....
  
• The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs
  The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs
  
  The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs is a compilation/remix album by Boney M.. In 1986 producer Frank Farian took the master tapes from 1981's Christmas Album , added six recordings by Liz Mitchell, Reggie Tsiboe and two session singers from 1984, remixed them and created Die 20 sch?nsten Weihnachtslieder der Welt, internationally rele...
   - Boney M.
• The Ultimate Sin
  The Ultimate Sin
  
  The Ultimate Sin is an album by Ozzy Osbourne. It was released on February 22, 1986, and it was remastered and re-issued on August 22, 1995....
   - Ozzy Osbourne
  Ozzy Osbourne
  
  John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
  
• Utter Madness
  Utter Madness
  
  Utter Madness is a greatest hits album by the British pop band Madness , released in 1986 in music. It is a sequel of sorts to their earlier compilation Complete Madness and comprises songs from the later half of their career....
   - 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....
  
• Velvet & Steel - Dion DiMucci
• Vinnie Vincent Invasion - Vinnie Vincent Invasion
  Vinnie Vincent Invasion
  
  Vinnie Vincent Invasion was an United States Heavy metal music/glam metal band formed in 1984 in music by former Kiss guitarist Vinnie Vincent....
  
• Walking Through Fire
  Walking Through Fire
  
  Walking Through Fire is the twelfth studio album by the Canadian Rock music Musical ensemble April Wine, released in 1986 ....
  - April Wine
• Want Some - 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....
  
• The Way It Is
  The Way It Is (Bruce Hornsby album)
  
  The Way It Is is Bruce Hornsby first album, released in 1986.Led by hit title track "The Way It Is ", the album went on to achieve multi-platinum status, and helped the group to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist....
  - Bruce Hornsby & the Range
• Weird Love - The Scientists
  The Scientists
  
  The Scientists are an influential post-punk band from Perth, Western Australia, Australia, led by Kim Salmon. The band had two primary incarnations: the Perth-based punk rock band of the late 1970s and the Sydney/London-based swamp rock band of the 1980s....
  
• What Do You Know Deutschland? - KMFDM
  KMFDM
  
  KMFDM is a Germany industrial rock/industrial metal band led by founding member Sascha Konietzko. They have sold over 2 million records worldwide....
  
• When In Rome Do As The Vandals
  When in Rome Do as the Vandals
  
  When in Rome Do as the Vandals is the debut album by the Huntington Beach, California punk rock band The Vandals, released in 1984 by National Trust Records....
  - The Vandals
  The Vandals
  
  The Vandals are an United States rock music rock band established in 1980 in Huntington Beach, California. Forming as part of the List of musicians in the second wave of punk music of American punk rock, the band has released ten full-length studio albums and two live albums and have toured the world extensively, including performances on the...
  
• Whispering Jack - 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....
  
• Who Made Who
  Who Made Who
  
  Who Made Who is a hard rock album by Australian band AC/DC, released in 1986 as the soundtrack to the Stephen King movie Maximum Overdrive....
  - 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"....
  
• Who's Got the 10½?
  Who's Got the 10½?
  
  Who's Got the 10?? is an album released by Black Flag in 1986 on SST Records. It is a live recording of a show played at the Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon, on August 23, 1985....
  - 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....
  
• Wonderland - Erasure
  Erasure
  
  Erasure are an England synthpop Duet formed by songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell in 1985. It was the third successful pop group co-formed by Clarke ....
  
• The Yellow and Black Attack
  The Yellow and Black Attack
  
  The Yellow and Black Attack! is the first release from the Christian metal band Stryper. No singles were released from this six-song Extended play, and less than 20,000 copies were pressed, as their label, Enigma Records, was unsure of the potential market for Christian metal....
  - 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....
  
• Yemenite Songs - Ofra Haza
  Ofra Haza
  
  Ofra Haza was a popular Israelis singer, actress and international recording artist.Of Yemenite Jews ancestry, Haza was born the youngest of nine children in the poor Tel Aviv neighborhood of Hatikvah ....
  
• Your Funeral, My Trial - 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....
  
• Zebra/3.V|3.V - Zebra
  Zebra (band)
  
  Zebra is a hard rock band that came together in 1975 in New Orleans, Louisiana. It features Randy Jackson , Felix Hanemann and Guy Gelso . Their mainstream debut on Atlantic Records was in 1983, highlighted by the singles "Tell Me What You Want" and "Who's Behind The Door"....
  
• New Trails
  New Trails
  
  New Trails is a studio recording by the Western music band Riders in the Sky, released in 1986. It is available as a single CD.Following their Live album in 1986, the trio returned to the studio, presenting several traditional Western songs, as well as some of their own creations....
   - Riders in the Sky
  Riders in the Sky
  
  Riders In The Sky is a Western swing and comedy group which began performing in 1977; their style also appeals to children, and they are sometimes considered a children's music....
  

Bands return

• The Monkees
  The Monkees
  
  The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
  

Biggest hit singles

Notable hits

• "A Kind Of Magic
  A Kind of Magic (song)
  
  "A Kind of Magic" is a Rock music song written by Roger Meddows-Taylor for the film Highlander , for which Queen wrote the music. The song reached number three in the UK Singles Chart, but only reached number forty-two on the U.S....
  " - 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....
  
• "A Matter of Trust" - 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....
  
• "Addicted To Love" - Robert Palmer
• "All I Need is a Miracle" - Mike + The Mechanics
• "All The Things She Said" - 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....
  
• "Amanda" - Boston
  Boston (band)
  
  Boston is an United States Rock music band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists....
  
• "Baby Love" - Regina Richards
  Regina Richards
  
  Regina Richards, who uses the stage name Regina, is a dance music singer born in Brooklyn, New York City. She is best known for her chart-topper "Baby Love", which hit #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986....
  
• "Bad Boy" - Miami Sound Machine
• "Best of Both Worlds" - 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....
  
• "Breakout" - Swing Out Sister
  Swing Out Sister
  
  Swing Out Sister is a British "sophisti-pop" group best known worldwide for their 1986 song "Breakout ". Other hits include "Twilight World", "Waiting Game" and a remake of "Am I the Same Girl?" Though their album sales in the U.S....
  
• "Bigmouth Strikes Again"- 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 ....
  
• "Big Time" - Peter Gabriel
  Peter Gabriel
  
  Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
  
• "Bizarre Love Triangle" - 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....
  
• "Calling America
  Calling America
  
  "Calling America" is a song by the rock music group Electric Light Orchestra released as a single from their 1986 album Balance of Power . It became the band's first hit in three years....
  " - Electric Light Orchestra
  Electric Light Orchestra
  
  Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
  
• "Capitaine abandonné
  Capitaine abandonné
  
  "Capitaine abandonn?" is a 1985 song recorded by France band Gold . It was the lead Single from band's second studio album Capitaine abandonn? on which it features in an extended version as first track....
  " - Gold
  Gold (band)
  
  Gold is a France music band from Toulouse which enjoyed considerable success in the Francophone world in the 1980s....
  
• "Captain of Her Heart
  Captain of Her Heart
  
  "The Captain of Her Heart" is a hit single for the Switzerland duo Double in 1986. Taken from their 1985 album Blue, the song is a gentle, sophisticated ballad featuring a melancholy, minor-key arrangement and plaintive lyric about a girl waiting in vain for her absent lover to return....
  " - Double
  Double (band)
  
  BiographyDouble was a Switzerland duet and best remembered today for their 1986 chart-topper single "The Captain of Her Heart", which remains a familiar radio favourite....
  
• "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....
  
• "Coming Around Again" - 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....
  
• "Conga
  Conga (song)
  
  "Conga" is the first single released by the American band Miami Sound Machine led by Gloria Estefan on their second English language album, and ninth overall, Primitive Love....
  " - Miami Sound Machine
• "Crush On You
  Crush on You
  
  "Crush on You" was the second single released from The Jets ' critically and commercially successful debut album The Jets . It was also a successful single, reaching #3 in the United States...
  " - The Jets
• "Dancing on the Ceiling" - 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....
  
• "Danger Zone
  Danger Zone (Top Gun song)
  
  "Danger Zone" is a Rock music song from the soundtrack to the 1986 United States motion picture Top Gun . It was composed by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock, and performed by Kenny Loggins....
  " - 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....
  
• "Dreams
  Dreams (Van Halen song)
  
  "Dreams" is a song by Van Halen released in 1986 from the album 5150 . It was the second single from that album, and it reached #22 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart that year....
  " - 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....
  
• "Dreamtime" - Daryl Hall
  Daryl Hall
  
  Daryl Franklin Hohl known by his stage name Daryl Hall, is an American singer and songwriter best known as half of the music duo Hall & Oates ....
  
• "Don't Dream It's Over
  Don't Dream It's Over
  
  "Don't Dream It's Over" is a pop/rock music song written by New Zealander Neil Finn and performed by New Zealand/Australian band Crowded House for their debut album Crowded House ....
  " - Crowded House
  Crowded House
  
  Crowded House is a rock music group formed in Sydney, Australia and led by New Zealand musician and singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is widely recognised as the primary songwriter and creative direction of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States ....
  
• "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" - 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....
  
• "En Rouge et Noir
  En Rouge et Noir
  
  "En Rouge et Noir" is a 1986 France Single recorded by Jeanne Mas, from her album Femmes d'aujourd'hui. It achieved a great success in France, topping the chart during 1986 summer....
  " - 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....
  
• "Ève lève-toi
  Ève lève-toi
  
  "?ve l?ve-toi" is a 1986 France Single recorded by Julie Pietri from her album Le Premier Jour. It is the song the most known of this artist and can be considered as her signature song....
  " - Julie Pietri
  Julie Pietri
  
  Julie Pietri is a french pop singer born on May 1st, 1957 in Algiers. Her biggest hit was the song Eve l?ve-toi in 1986 ....
  
• "Everybody Have Fun Tonight
  Everybody Have Fun Tonight
  
  "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" is a song by Wang Chung from their album Mosaic . It was released as a single in 1986, reaching a high of #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the U.S....
  " - Wang Chung
  Wang Chung (band)
  
  Wang Chung are a UK New Wave music musical group.The group found their greatest success in the North America, with five Top 40 hits in the US, all charting between 1984 and 1987 ....
  
• "Flash
  Flash (Stéphanie song)
  
  "Flash" is a 1986 in music song recorded by Princess St?phanie of Monaco. It was the second Single of her first album, Besoin, and was also recorded in English-language version under the title "One Love to Give"....
  " - Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
  Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
  
  Princess St?phanie of Monaco is a member of the Monegasque Princely Family of Monaco. She is the youngest child of Grace Kelly and Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and the sister of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and Caroline, Princess of Hanover....
  
• "For America" - Jackson Browne
  Jackson Browne
  
  Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
  
• "For America" - Red Box
• "Freedom Overspill" - Steve Winwood
  Steve Winwood
  
  Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an England singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic , Blind Faith, and Go ....
  
• "Friends and Lovers
  Friends and Lovers (song)
  
  "Friends and Lovers" is the title of a popular song from 1986 . The song was first recorded as a duet by Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson in 1985....
  " - Gloria Loring
  Gloria Loring
  
  Gloria Loring is an United States singer and actor.She began her music career at age 14, singing with a folk group known as Those Four. She went on to perform on a wide range of shows in the 70's, from The Carol Burnett Show to the Academy Awards ceremony....
   and Carl Anderson
  Carl Anderson (singer)
  
  Carl Anderson was an United States singer, film and theatre actor best known for his Golden Globe Award nominated portrayal of Judas Iscariot in the Broadway theatre and film versions of the rock opera by Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar....
  
• also recorded as "Both to Each Other" by country music artists Juice Newton
  Juice Newton
  
  Juice Newton is an American Pop music and Country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. To date, Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories , as well as a Country Music Association Award for Best New Female Artist and two Billboard Female Album Artist of the Year awards ....
   and Eddie Rabbitt
  Eddie Rabbitt
  
  Edward Thomas Rabbitt was a country music singer. He enjoyed much pop success in his career, helping develop the Crossover -influenced sound in country music during the 1970s and 80s....
  
• "French Kissin' In The USA" - Debbie Harry
  Debbie Harry
  
  Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, most famous for being the lead singer for the punk rock/New Wave music band Blondie ....
  
• "Glory Of Love" - Peter Cetera
  Peter Cetera
  
  Peter Paul Cetera is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitar player and Record producer best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago , before launching a successful solo career....
  
• "Go Home" - 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...
  
• "Harlem Shuffle" - Rolling Stones
• "Heartbeat" - Don Johnson
  Don Johnson
  
  Don Johnson , is an United States actor known for his work in television and film. Johnson made his screen debut in the 1970 film The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, but it wouldn't be until 1984 that Johnson would land his defining role....
  
• "Hey, You!" - Divine
• "He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)" - Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  
  Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
  
• "Higher Love" - Steve Winwood
  Steve Winwood
  
  Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an England singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic , Blind Faith, and Go ....
  
• "Hip to Be Square
  Hip to Be Square
  
  "Hip to Be Square" is a song by Huey Lewis and the News, written by Bill Gibson, Sean Hopper, and Huey Lewis, and released as the second single from the multi-Platinum album, Fore!, in 1986 ....
  " - Huey Lewis & The News
  Huey Lewis & the News
  
  Huey Lewis and the News are a Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated United States rock music band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 Top Ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock Charts....
  
• "Holding Back the Years" - Simply Red
  Simply Red
  
  Simply Red are an England soul band. Their style draws influences from blue-eyed soul, new romantic, Rock music, jazz music and lovers rock....
  
• "Holding Out For A Hero" - Bonnie Tyler
  Bonnie Tyler
  
  Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh people Rock music singer. Born Gaynor Hopkins, she is recognisable by her highly distinctive, husky voice....
  
• "How Will I Know" - 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....
  
• "Hymn To Her" - The Pretenders
  The Pretenders
  
  The Pretenders are a United Kingdom rock music band. The original band consisted of group founder and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde , James Honeyman-Scott , Pete Farndon , and Martin Chambers ....
  
• "I Want to Wake Up with You
  I Want To Wake Up With You
  
  "I Want to Wake Up with You" is a song made popular by Boris Gardiner.Written by Bill Peters and produced by Ken Lindo, veteran reggae artist Boris Gardiner took the song to #1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in August 1986....
  " - Boris Gardiner
  Boris Gardiner
  
  Boris Gardiner is a Jamaican singer, songwriter and bass guitarist....
  
• "Is It a Crime?" - 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....
  
• "Jumpin' Jack Flash" - 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....
  
• "Kiss" - Prince and the Revolution
  Prince (musician)
  
  Prince Rogers Nelson is an United States musician. He performs under the Mononymous person name of Prince, but has also been known by various other names, among them an Love Symbol ...
  
• "Kyrie
  Kyrie (song)
  
  "Kyrie" was a #1 hit song by the 1980s pop/rock band Mr. Mister, from their 1985 album Welcome to the Real World . Released in late 1985, it hit the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in March of 1986, where it was #1 for two weeks....
  " - 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....
  
• "Invisible Touch
  Invisible Touch (song)
  
  "Invisible Touch" is the title track of the 1987 Genesis Invisible Touch. It is one of their most successful singles of all time and was the band's first number-one single in the United States....
  " - Genesis
  Genesis (band)
  
  Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
  
• "If She Knew What She Wants" - The Bangles
  The Bangles
  
  The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles through much of the decade....
  
• "Lady In Red" - Chris de Burgh
  Chris de Burgh
  
  Chris de Burgh is an Irish-based musician and singer-songwriter who holds British nationality . A musician who writes a variety of mixed instrumental material, Chris de Burgh had huge success in Ireland, Britain and the United States with the 1986 hit "The Lady in Red "....
  
• "Le Sixième Jour" - 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....
  
• "Les Bêtises
  Les Bêtises
  
  "Les B?tises" is a 1985 song recorded by France artist Sabine Paturel. Released in March 1986 as her debut Single from her album C?ur B?b?, released two years later, on which it is the sixth track....
  " - Sabine Paturel
  Sabine Paturel
  
  Sabine Paturel is a French singer and actress....
  
• "Les Démons de minuit
  Les Démons de minuit
  
  "Les D?mons de minuit" is the debut single of the France band Images. Released in June 1986, it was the first single from their first album Album d'Images....
  " - Images
• "Libertine
  Libertine (song)
  
  "Libertine" is a 1986 song recorded by the France artist Myl?ne Farmer. Third Single from her first studio album Cendres de Lune, the song was released on April 1 1986....
  " - Mylène Farmer
  Mylène Farmer
  
  Myl?ne Farmer born Myl?ne Jeanne Gautier is a France singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author. She has sold more than 25 million records and is among the most successful recording artists of all time in France....
  
• "Little Baby" - Divine
  Divine (Glen Milstead)
  
  Harris Glenn Milstead was an United Statesn singer and actor, known by his Drag queen persona Divine. He appeared in several of John Waters ' films, including Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Polyester , and Hairspray , as part of Waters' regular troupe of actors known as Dreamland...
  
• "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....
  
• "Living In America" - James Brown
• "Livin' On a Prayer
  Livin' on a Prayer
  
  "Livin' on a Prayer" is Bon Jovi second single from their Slippery When Wet album. The song is considered the band's signature song.Jon Bon Jovi did not like the original recording of this song, which can be found as a hidden track on 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong....
   - 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....
  
• "Locked In" - 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....
  
• "Love Touch" - Rod Stewart
  Rod Stewart
  
  Roderick David "Rod" Stewart Order of the British Empire is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping....
  
• "Love Walks In" - 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....
  
• "Lessons in Love
  Lessons in Love
  
  "Lessons in Love", was a single from the UK pop-rock band Level 42, released in 1986, from the album "Running in the Family". It's one of the few singles from the band that broke into the Billboard Hot 100, where it reached #12 in 1987....
  " - 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....
  
• "Mad About You
  Mad About You (song)
  
  "Mad About You" is a Pop music song written by Paula Jean Brown, James Whelan and Mitchel Young Evans, produced by Michael Lloyd, for Belinda Carlisle's debut album soloist album Belinda ....
  " - Belinda Carlisle
  Belinda Carlisle
  
  Belinda Jo Carlisle is an United States singer. Carlisle has enjoyed success twice during her career, first as lead singer and founding member of the seminal, all-female band New Wave music band The Go-Go's, then as a successful international solo artist....
  
• "Manic Monday
  Manic Monday
  
  "Manic Monday" was the first hit single from The Bangles, It was written by Prince in 1984 and recorded as a duet for the Apollonia 6 album, but the song was eventually pulled ....
  " - The Bangles
  The Bangles
  
  The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles through much of the decade....
  
• "Missionary Man
  Missionary Man (Eurythmics song)
  
  "Missionary Man" is a song recorded by British pop music duo Eurythmics and Jimmy Zavala on harmonica. The song was written by Eurythmics members Annie Lennox and David A....
  " - 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....
  
• "Modern Woman" - 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....
  
• "Mountains" - Prince
  Prince (musician)
  
  Prince Rogers Nelson is an United States musician. He performs under the Mononymous person name of Prince, but has also been known by various other names, among them an Love Symbol ...
  
• "Move Away" - Culture Club
  Culture Club
  
  Culture Club were a Grammy Award-winning United Kingdom Pop music group that formed in the early 1980s. The band consisted of Boy George , Mikey Craig , Roy Hay , and Jon Moss ....
  
• "My Hometown
  My Hometown
  
  "My Hometown" is a single by Bruce Springsteen off his Born in the U.S.A. album, that was the Most Hot 100 hit singles from an album to come from it, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart....
  " - 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....
  
• "Nasty" - Janet Jackson
  Janet Jackson
  
  Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians....
  
• "Never As Good As the First Time" - 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....
  
• "No Lies" - Noiseworks
• "No One Is To Blame" - Howard Jones
  Howard Jones
  
  Howard Jones is the name of:*Howard Jones , English pop singer*Howard Jones , American football coach*Howard Jones , American heavy metal singer...
  
• "No More I Love You's" - The Lover Speaks
  The Lover Speaks
  
  The Lover Speaks was the new wave music duet of David Freeman , and Joseph Hughes . They sang the original version of the song "No More I Love You's", cover version by Annie Lennox in 1995 on her Medusa album, taking it to #2 on the UK Singles Chart....
  
• "Notorious
  Notorious (song)
  
  "Notorious" is the 14th single by Duran Duran. It was released internationally by EMI on 20 October 1986. "Notorious" was the first single issued from the album Notorious , and the first released by Duran Duran as a 3-pieces band after the departure of Roger Taylor and Andy Taylor....
  " - 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....
  
• "On My Own
  On My Own (song)
  
  "On My Own" was a hit duet by singers Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald when it was released as a single in 1986. It was released from LaBelle's first platinum album, Winner in You and was written and produced by Burt Bacharach and his former wife Carole Bayer Sager....
  " - Patti Labelle
  Patti LaBelle
  
  Patricia Louise Holte , best known by her stage name of Patti LaBelle, is an American rhythm and blues and soul music singer-songwriter and actor....
   & Michael McDonald
  Michael McDonald (singer)
  
  Michael McDonald is a Music recording sales certification and Music recording sales certification United States R&B/soul music singer and songwriter....
  
• "Open Your Heart
  Open Your Heart (Madonna song)
  
  "Open Your Heart" is the fourth single by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her 3rd studio album True Blue and was released on November 12, 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....
  
• "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
  Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
  
  "Opportunities " is a song by UK synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys, released as a single in 1985 and then in 1986, gaining greater popularity in both the UK and U.S....
  " - 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....
  
• "Ouragan
  Ouragan (song)
  
  "Ouragan" , also released under the title "Irresistible", is the first Single recorded by Princess St?phanie of Monaco, from her album, Besoin....
  " - Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
  Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
  
  Princess St?phanie of Monaco is a member of the Monegasque Princely Family of Monaco. She is the youngest child of Grace Kelly and Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and the sister of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and Caroline, Princess of Hanover....
  
• "Overjoyed
  Overjoyed (Stevie Wonder song)
  
  "Overjoyed" is a 1985 in music hit single released by United States and Motown music great Stevie Wonder on the Tamla label. The single peaked at #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the spring of 1986, remaining in the Top 40 for six weeks....
  " - 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...
  
• "Papa Don't Preach
  Papa Don't Preach
  
  "Papa Don't Preach" is a dance-pop song by American singer-songwriter Madonna . The song was written by Brian Elliot, and produced by Stephen Bray and Madonna for her third studio album True Blue , released on June 1986....
  " - 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....
  
• "Parce que je ne t'aime plus" - 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....
  
• "Pressure Down" - 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....
  
• "Private Number
  Private Number (song)
  
  "Private Number" was the third single released from The Jets ' commercially successful debut album The Jets .It is a remake of a hit song that was originally recorded by William Bell and Judy Clay in 1968....
  " - The Jets
• "A Question of Lust
  A Question of Lust
  
  "A Question of Lust" is Depeche Mode's sixteenth United Kingdom single, released on April 14, 1986.It is the second Depeche Mode single with Martin Gore on lead vocals, after "Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody" and the first to be released in its own right....
  " - 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 ....
  
• "A Question of Time
  A Question of Time
  
  "A Question of Time" is Depeche Mode's seventeenth United Kingdom single, released on August 11, 1986, following the similarly titled "A Question of Lust" single....
  " - 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 ....
  
• "Real Wild Child (Wild One)" - Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop
  
  Iggy Pop, born James Newell ?sterberg, Jr. on April 21, 1947, is an American Rock music singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited mainstream success, Iggy Pop is considered an innovator of punk rock, garage rock, and other related rock music....
  
• Rain or Shine
  Rain Or Shine
  
  "Rain or Shine" is the name of a 1986 hit single by British pop group Five Star, and is their biggest-selling 7-inch record with over 250,000 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....
  
• "Rock Me Amadeus" - 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....
  
• "Rough Boy" - ZZ Top
  ZZ Top
  
  ZZ Top is an American Rock music trio formed in late 1969 in Houston, Texas, United States. The group members are Billy Gibbons , Dusty Hill , and Frank Beard ....
  
• "Ruthless People" - 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....
  
• "Sara" - Starship
  Jefferson Airplane
  
  Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
  
• "Something So Strong
  Something So Strong
  
  "Something So Strong" is a rock music song written by Neil Finn and performed by New Zealand/Australian band Crowded House for their debut album Crowded House ....
  " - Crowded House
  Crowded House
  
  Crowded House is a rock music group formed in Sydney, Australia and led by New Zealand musician and singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is widely recognised as the primary songwriter and creative direction of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States ....
  
• "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....
    (released in 1984)
• "Silent Running" - Mike + The Mechanics (released in 1985)
• "Sledgehammer
  Sledgehammer (song)
  
  "Sledgehammer" is a hit song by Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So . It peaked at number one in Canada for four weeks on July 21, 1986, number one in the United States on July 26, 1986, and number four in the UK singles chart, thanks in part to a popular and influential music video....
  " - Peter Gabriel
  Peter Gabriel
  
  Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
  
• "Slice of Heaven
  Slice of Heaven
  
  "Slice of Heaven" is a single by New Zealand singer/songwriter Dave Dobbyn with the band Herbs , released in 1986 alongside the animated motion picture, Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale....
  " - Dave Dobbyn
  Dave Dobbyn
  
  Dave Dobbyn is an award-winning musician, singer-songwriter and record producer from New Zealand....
  
• "Small Town" - John Cougar Mellencamp
• "Sometimes" - Erasure
  Erasure
  
  Erasure are an England synthpop Duet formed by songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell in 1985. It was the third successful pop group co-formed by Clarke ....
  
• "Somewhere" - 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....
  
• "Stay For Awhile
  Stay For Awhile
  
  "Stay For Awhile" is a 1986 single by Christian singer Amy Grant, and was the first single from her album The Collection . The background vocals were provided by Richard Page , with him clearly heard singing "The way it used to be..." outro to the song....
  " - 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....
  
• "Stimulation" - Wa Wa Nee
• "Stripped" - 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 ....
  
• "Stuck with You
  Stuck with You
  
  "Stuck with You" is the title of a hit single by Huey Lewis and the News, written by guitarist Chris Hayes and lead singer Huey Lewis, from 1986....
  " - Huey Lewis & The News
  Huey Lewis & the News
  
  Huey Lewis and the News are a Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated United States rock music band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 Top Ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock Charts....
  
• "The Sun Always Shines On TV" - 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....
  
• "Sweet Freedom" - Michael McDonald
  Michael McDonald (singer)
  
  Michael McDonald is a Music recording sales certification and Music recording sales certification United States R&B/soul music singer and songwriter....
  
• "The Sweetest Taboo" - 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....
  
• "System Addict" - 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 Me Home" - 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....
  
• "Take My Breath Away
  Take My Breath Away
  
  "Take My Breath Away" is the name of a love song from the film Top Gun , written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock, performed by the band Berlin ....
  " - Berlin
  Berlin (band)
  
  Berlin is an United States New Wave music band featuring lead singer Terri Nunn....
  
• "Taken In" - Mike + The Mechanics
• "That Was Then, This Is Now
  That Was Then, This Is Now (song)
  
  "'That Was Then, This Is Now'" is a song written by Vance Brescia and recorded by Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork of The Monkees. It was featured as a track for The Monkees 1986 compilation album, Then & Now......
  " - The Monkees
  The Monkees
  
  The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
  
• "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...
  )
• "Teenage Frankenstein" - Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  
  Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
  
• "The Final Countdown
  The Final Countdown (song)
  
  "The Final Countdown" is a rock music song written by Joey Tempest for the Sweden rock band Europe . It was the first single released from the band's third studio album, The Final Countdown , in 1986....
  " - Europe
  Europe (band)
  
  Europe is a Sweden Rock music band formed in Upplands V?sby in 1979 under the name Force by vocalist Joey Tempest and guitarist John Norum. Although widely associated with glam metal, the band's sound incorporates heavy metal music and hard rock elements....
  
• "The Greatest Love of All" - 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....
  
• "The Next Time I Fall
  The Next Time I Fall
  
  "The Next Time I Fall" is a popular song written by Bobby Caldwell and Paul Gordon, recorded as a duet by Peter Cetera and Amy Grant for Cetera's 1986 album Solitude/Solitaire....
  " - Peter Cetera
  Peter Cetera
  
  Peter Paul Cetera is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitar player and Record producer best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago , before launching a successful solo career....
   and Amy Grant
  Amy Grant
  
  Amy Lee Grant is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, media personality and occasional actress, best known for her contemporary Christian music....
  
• "The Way It Is" - Bruce Hornsby and the Range
• "(There's Gonna Be) A Showdown" - The Johnnys
• "Throw Your Arms Around Me" - Hunters + Collectors
• "Throwing It All Away
  Throwing It All Away
  
  "Throwing It All Away" is the seventh track on the 1986 album Invisible Touch by Genesis . It was issued as the second Single from the album in 1986, reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and a modest #22 in Britain, where it was released as the last single of the album in 1987....
  " - Genesis
  Genesis (band)
  
  Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
  
• "Thorn in My Side
  Thorn in My Side
  
  "Thorn in My Side" is a song recorded by British pop music duo Eurythmics. It was released as a single from the duo's Revenge album in the UK and the U.S....
  " - 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....
  
• "Turbo Lover" - 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....
  
• "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....
  
• "True Colors" - 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....
  
• "Too Low For Zero
  Too Low for Zero
  
  Too Low For Zero is the seventeenth studio album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1983. For the first time since Blue Moves in 1976 in music, all lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin, who has continued in this role to the present day....
  " - 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....
   (UK & Europe only, released in 1985)
• "Two Of Hearts" - Stacey Q
  Stacey Q
  
  Stacey Q is a synthpop and dance-pop singer, dancer and actress. She is best known for her 1986 hit single "Two of Hearts"....
  
• "Typical Male
  Typical Male
  
  "Typical Male" is a Single released by Tina Turner. "Typical Male", released as the lead single of the 1986 album Break Every Rule, was one of Tina's most successful singles....
  " - 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"....
  
• "Venus
  Venus (song)
  
  "Venus" is a 1969 number-one song by the The Netherlands band Shocking Blue, which again reached number four in 1990 based on a remix version. The song was also covered by girl group Bananarama, reaching number six in 1986....
  " - Bananarama
  Bananarama
  
  Bananarama are an United Kingdom girl group who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Although there have been line-up changes during the years, the group enjoyed its most popular success as a trio, made up of lifelong friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin....
  
• "Walk Like an Egyptian
  Walk Like an Egyptian
  
  "Walk Like an Egyptian" is a number-one hit from the album Different Light by The Bangles in 1986....
  " - The Bangles
  The Bangles
  
  The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles through much of the decade....
   (released in 1985)
• "Walk of Life
  Walk of Life
  
  This article is about Billie Piper's second album. For her single of this album's title track see Walk of Life . For the song by the British rock group Dire Straits see Walk of Life ....
  " - 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....
  
• "Walk This Way
  Walk This Way
  
  "Walk This Way" is a song by United States hard rock rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry . It was originally released as the second single from their 1975 album Toys in the Attic ....
  " - Run DMC featuring 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"....
  
• "Wanted Dead or Alive
  Wanted Dead or Alive
  
  'Wanted Dead or Alive' may refer to:In 'film' and 'television':*...
  " - 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....
  
• "War" - 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....
  
• "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....
  " - Starship
  Starship
  
  A starship is a theoretical spacecraft designed for interstellar travel, as opposed to a vehicle designed for orbital spaceflight or interplanetary travel....
  
• "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off (To Have a Good Time)" - Jermaine Stewart
  Jermaine Stewart
  
  Jermaine Stewart was an United States Pop music Singing, best known for his Billboard Magazine hits, "The Word Is Out" from his 1984 debut album of the same name, and "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off" in 1986, from the album Frantic Romantic....
  
• "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....
  
• "What Have You Done for Me Lately" - Janet Jackson
  Janet Jackson
  
  Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians....
  
• "What You Get Is What You See" - 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"....
  
• "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....
  
• "When I Think of You" - Janet Jackson
  Janet Jackson
  
  Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians....
  
• "Why Can't This Be Love" - 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....
  
• "Words Get In The Way" - Gloria Estefan
  Gloria Estefan
  
  Gloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 of best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, with 26.5 million in the United States alone....
   & Miami Sound Machine
• "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" - Beastie Boys
  Beastie Boys
  
  Beastie Boys are an American hip hop music group from New York City consisting of Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz. Since around the time of the Hello Nasty album, the DJ for the group has been Mix Master Mike, who was first featured in the song "Three MC's and One DJ"....
  
• "You Give Love a Bad Name
  You Give Love a Bad Name (song)
  
  "You Give Love a Bad Name" is a song written by Jon Bon Jovi, Desmond Child and Richie Sambora about a nameless woman who has jilted her lover. Although originally written for the band Loverboy, the song was recorded by Bon Jovi....
  " - 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....
  
• "You Got It All
  You Got It All
  
  "You Got It All" was the fourth single released by the 1980s dance-pop band The Jets from their commercially successful debut 1985 in music album, which was also called The Jets ....
  " - The Jets
• "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....
   (Released in 1985) in Australia & UK, Canada; not released in the US until 1990)

Published popular music

• "All I Ask Of You" w.m. Andrew Lloyd Webber
  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  
  Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an England composer of musical theatre, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber and also the brother of the renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber....
  
• "Crush On You"     w.m. Jerry Knight & Aaron Zigman
• "The Lady In Red"     w.m. Chris de Burgh
  Chris de Burgh
  
  Chris de Burgh is an Irish-based musician and singer-songwriter who holds British nationality . A musician who writes a variety of mixed instrumental material, Chris de Burgh had huge success in Ireland, Britain and the United States with the 1986 hit "The Lady in Red "....
  
• "True Colors" 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....
  
• Montego Bay
  Montego Bay (song)
  
  "Montego Bay" is a song by Bobby Bloom about the Montego Bay. The song was a Top 40 hit record for Bloom in September 1970 in both the UK Singles Chart, and reached #8 in the United States, Billboard Hot 100, record chart....
   Amazulu
  Amazulu (band)
  
  Amazulu were a United Kingdom ska and new wave music band from the 1980s....
   - a minor hit in the U.S.
  Billboard Hot 100
  
  The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
   in September.

Classical music

• Elliott Carter
  Elliott Carter
  
  Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize for Music-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States....
   - String Quartet No.4
• George Crumb
  George Crumb
  
  George Crumb is an American composer of modern and avant-garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and extended technique. Examples include spoken flute and glass marbles poured onto an open piano....
   - An Idyll for the Misbegotten (Images III) for amplified flute and percussion (three players).
• George Crumb
  George Crumb
  
  George Crumb is an American composer of modern and avant-garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and extended technique. Examples include spoken flute and glass marbles poured onto an open piano....
   - Federico's Little Songs for Children for soprano, flute/piccolo/alto flute/bass flute, and harp
• 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....
   - Salvos for flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, violin and cello
• Ludovico Einaudi
  Ludovico Einaudi
  
  Ludovico Einaudi is an Italy contemporary classical music composer and pianist....
   - Movimento
• Peter Eötvös
  Peter Eötvös
  
  'Peter E?tv?s' ['p?t?r.'?tv??] is a Hungarian people composer and Conducting.E?tv?s was born in Odorheiu Secuiesc/Sz?kelyudvarhely . He studied composition in Budapest and Cologne....
   - Chinese Opera
• Krzysztof Penderecki
  Krzysztof Penderecki
  
  Krzysztof Penderecki is a Poland composer and conducting of European classical music....
   - The Song of Cherubin
• Paul Schoenfield
  Paul Schoenfield
  
  Paul Schoenfield is a classical composer born in 1947 in Detroit. He holds a degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Doctor of Music Arts degree from the University of Arizona....
   - Café Music for Piano Trio

Opera

Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....

• Harrison Birtwistle
  Harrison Birtwistle
  
  Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle Order of the Companions of Honour is a United Kingdom contemporary composer....
  's opera The Mask of Orpheus
  The Mask of Orpheus
  
  The Mask of Orpheus is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle and a libretto by Peter Zinovieff. It was premiered in London on May 21, 1986 to great critical acclaim....
   is premiered in London
  London
  
  London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
  , UK on 21 May.
• Rudolf Brucci
  Rudolf Brucci
  
  Rudolf Brucci , was a composer of Croatian and Italian origin, born in Zagreb. He was married to the famous Yugoslavian opera singer, Olga Brucci....
   - Gilgamesh
  Gilgamesh (opera)
  
  Gilgamesh , opera in three acts by Rudolf Brucci....
  
• Lee Hoiby
  Lee Hoiby
  
  Lee Hoiby is an American european classical music pianist and composer. He is one of the most notable living composers of classical vocal music....
   - The Tempest
• Gian-Carlo Menotti - Goya
• Michael Nyman
  Michael Nyman
  
  Michael Laurence Nyman, Order of the British Empire is an England composer of minimalist music, pianist, libretto and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many movie soundtrack he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the film director Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum The Piano to Jane Campion's The Piano....
   - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera)
  
  The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a one-act chamber opera by Michael Nyman to an English-language libretto by Christopher Rawlence, adapted from the case study of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks by Nyman, Rawlence, and Michael Morris....
  

Musical theater

• La Cage aux Folles
  La Cage aux Folles
  
  La Cage aux Folles is a musical theatre with a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman. Based on the 1973 La Cage aux Folles by Jean Poiret and subsequent 1978 France-Italy La Cage aux Folles , the musical focuses on a gay couple: Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring Drag queen entertainment,...
       London production
• Charlie Girl
  Charlie Girl
  
  Charlie Girl is a musical comedy which premiered in the West End theatre of London at the Adelphi Theatre on December 15, 1965 and played for 2,202 performances, closing on March 27, 1971....
       London revival
• Chess
  Chess (musical)
  
  Chess is a musical theater with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, formerly of ABBA. The story involves a romantic triangle between two players in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other....
       London production
• 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....
       Broadway production
• The Phantom Of The Opera
  The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
  
  The Phantom of the Opera is a Musical theatre by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux....
       London production
• Time (musical)
  Time (musical)
  
  Time is a musical theatre with a book and lyrics by Dave Clark and David Soames, music by Jeff Daniels, and additional songs by David Pomeranz....
  , London production (featuring actor Laurence Olivier
  Laurence Olivier
  
  Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
   in hologram form)
• Sweet Charity
  Sweet Charity
  
  Sweet Charity is a Musical theater with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria....
       Broadway revival

Musical film

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....
s

• HMS Pinafore
  HMS Pinafore
  
  H.M.S. Pinafore or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert....
  
• Little Shop of Horrors
  Little Shop of Horrors (1986 film)
  
  Little Shop of Horrors is the musical film film adaptation of the off-Broadway Musical theatre Little Shop of Horrors by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a nerdy florist shop worker who raises an obnoxious and vicious plant that feeds on human blood....
  

Musical television

• Barnum
  Barnum (musical)
  
  Barnum is a musical with a book by Mark Bramble, lyrics by Michael Stewart , and music by Cy Coleman. It is based on the life of showman P. T....
  

Music festivals

• Inaugural Festival International de Louisiane

Births

• January 26 - Matt Heafy
  Matt Heafy
  
  Matthew Kiichi Heafy also known as Matt Heafy is the lead vocalist and guitarist for the band Trivium . Heafy is also the vocalist for the band Capharnaum , along with Trivium's old producer Jason Suecof....
  , singer, and guitarist (Trivium
  Trivium
  
  In Medieval university, the trivium comprised the three subjects taught first: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The word is a Latin term meaning ?the three ways? or ?the three roads? forming the foundation of a Middle Ages liberal arts education....
  )
• February 2 - Blaine Larsen
  Blaine Larsen
  
  Blaine Larsen is an American country music artist. At age fifteen, he recorded his debut album In My High School on Giantslayer Records, an independent record label....
  , US country singer
• February 19 - Maria Mena
  Maria Mena
  
  Maria Viktoria Mena is a Norway pop music artist....
  , singer
• February 21 - Charlotte Church
  Charlotte Church
  
  Charlotte Idris Church is a Wales singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a European classical music before branching into pop music in 2005....
  , singer
• March 3 - Stacie Orrico
  Stacie Orrico
  
  Stacie Joy Orrico is a Grammy Award-nominated and Dove Award-winning pop music singer-lyricist and occasional actress....
  , singer
• March 12 - Danny Jones
  Danny Jones
  
  Daniel "Danny" Alan David Jones, is one of the lead singing and guitarists in the United Kingdom pop music band McFly , alongside fellow band members Dougie Poynter , Tom Fletcher and Harry Judd ....
  , singer and guitarist, 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 ....
  
• March 15 - Adrianne Leon
  Adrianne Leon
  
  Adrianne Leon is an United states Daytime Emmy Award-nominated singer-songwriter, actress and guitarist. She is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Caught Crimson....
  , actress and singer
• March 22 - Amy Studt
  Amy Studt
  
  Amy Jane Studt is a United Kingdom singer, songwriter and musician. Growing up in a musical family she recorded her first demo by age 14, which eventually got her signed to Polydor Records....
  , singer, songwriter and musician
• May 30 - Claudia Beni
  Claudia Beni
  
  Claudia Beni is a pop music singer from Croatia.At the time when she first participated in Dora, the national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest, Claudia was only 12, but she was already an experienced band singer having performed all over Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Montenegro with the Teens - formerly known as Mici roke...
  , singer
• June 28 - Kellie Pickler
  Kellie Pickler
  
  Kellie Dawn Pickler is an United States country music artist and television personality. She gained fame as a contestant on the American Idol of the Fox Broadcasting Company reality show American Idol, eventually finishing in sixth place....
  , American Idol singer
• July 1 - Lindsey Lohan, actress, singer
• September 12 - Emmy Rossum
  Emmy Rossum
  
  Emmanuelle Grey "Emmy" Rossum is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She has starred in films such as The Day After Tomorrow, Poseidon , The Phantom of the Opera and Dragonball Evolution....
  , actress and singer
• October 26 - James War, bassist and singer
• November 5 - BoA
  Boa
  
  The Boidae are a Family of non-venomous snakes found in the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia and some Pacific Islands. Relatively primitive snakes, adults are medium to large in size, with females usually larger than the males....
  , singer

Deaths

• January 4 - Phil Lynott
  Phil Lynott
  
  Philip Parris Lynott was an Irish singer, bassist, instrumentalist, and songwriter, who first came to prominence as the frontman of Thin Lizzy....
  , bassist/singer and co-founder of Thin Lizzy, 36 (heart failure & pneumonia)
• January 6 - Joe Farrell
  Joe Farrell
  
  Joe Farrell was an United States jazz saxophone and flute. He is best known for a series of albums under his own name on the CTI Records record label and for playing in the initial incarnation of Chick Corea's Return to Forever....
  , jazz saxophonist, 48 (bone cancer)
• January 8 - Pierre Fournier
  Pierre Fournier
  
  Pierre Fournier was a France cello who was called the "aristocrat of cellists," on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound.He was born in Paris, the son of a French Army general....
  , cellist
• February 2 - Francisco Mignone
  Francisco Mignone
  
  Francisco Paulo Mignone is one of the most significant figures in Brazilian European classical music, and one of the most significant Brazilian composers after Heitor Villa-Lobos....
  , composer
• February 14 - Edmund Rubbra
  Edmund Rubbra
  
  Edmund Rubbra was a United Kingdom composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras....
  , composer
• March 4
• Richard Manuel
  Richard Manuel
  
  Richard George Manuel was a Canada composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his contributions and membership in The Band....
  , The Band
  The Band
  
  The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
  , 42 (suicide)
• Howard Greenfield
  Howard Greenfield
  
  Howard Greenfield was an United States lyricist and songwriter....
  , songwriter, 49 (AIDS)
• March 11 - Sonny Terry
  Sonny Terry
  
  Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry was a Blindness blues musician. He was most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included human voice whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts....
  , blues musician
• March 21 - Raymond Burke
  Raymond Burke (clarinetist)
  
  Raymond Burke was a United States jazz clarinetist.Burke was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and seldom left the city limits, as he disliked traveling....
  , jazz clarinetist
• March 22 - Mark Dinning
  Mark Dinning
  
  Mark Dinning was an United States, teen idol, pop music singer.Dinning was born Max E. Dinning near Drury, Oklahoma but grew up on a farm outside of Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee....
  , US singer, 52 (heart attack)
• March 30 - James Cagney
  James Cagney
  
  James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film star. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guy"s....
  , US actor, singer and dancer
• March 31 - O'Kelly Isley of the Isley Brothers
  The Isley Brothers
  
  The Isley Brothers are a Grammy Award United States rhythm and blues/soul music group. They are one of the few groups to have long-running success on the Billboard charts placing a charted single in every decade since 1959 and as of 2006 was still charting successful albums performing under a repertoire of doo-wop, Rhythm and blues, rock...
  , 48 (heart attack)
• April 3 - Peter Pears
  Peter Pears
  
  Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears was an England tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin Britten.He was educated at Lancing College and went on to study music at Keble College, Oxford, serving as organist at Hertford College, Oxford, but left without taking his degree....
  , opera singer and partner of Benjamin Britten
  Benjamin Britten
  
  Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
  
• April 13 - Dorothy Ashby
  Dorothy Ashby
  
  Dorothy Ashby was an United States jazz harpist and composer.Along with Alice Coltrane, Ashby extended the popularization of Jazz harp past a novelty, showing how the instrument can be utilized seamlessly as much a Bebop instrument as the saxophone....
  , jazz harpist and composer, 53 (cancer)
• April 19
• Dag Wirén
  Dag Wirén
  
  Dag Ivar Wir?n was a Swedish people composer. Wiren studied at the Stockholm conservatory from 1926-1931, and in 1932 won the state stipend. He used the award money to continue his studies in Paris, where he remained for until 1934....
  , composer
• Estelle Yancey
  Estelle Yancey
  
  Estelle "Mama" Yancey was an United States blues vocalist. She was nominated four times for the Blues Foundation: Blues Music Awards, "Traditional Blues Female Artist."...
  , blues singer
• June 3 - Anna Neagle
  Anna Neagle
  
  Dame Anna Neagle, Order of the British Empire was a popular England theatre and motion picture actor and singer.Neagle proved to be a box-office sensation in British films for over 25 years....
  , actress and singer
• June 13 - Benny Goodman
  Benny Goodman
  
  Benjamin David Goodman, was an United States jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing ", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
  , bandleader
• June 16 - Maurice Duruflé
  Maurice Duruflé
  
  Maurice Durufl? was a France composer, organist, and pedagogue....
  , composer
• June 17 - Kate Smith
  Kate Smith
  
  Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith was an American singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television and recording career spanning five decades, reaching its most-remembered zenith in the 1940s....
  , singer
• July 3 - Rudy Vallee
  Rudy Vallée
  
  Rudy Vall?e was an United Statesn singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Born Hubert Prior Vall?e in Island Pond, Vermont, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vall?e....
  , singer
• July 31 - Teddy Wilson
  Teddy Wilson
  
  Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson was a Jazz piano from the United States of America born in Austin, Texas. His sophisticated and elegant style graced the records of many of the biggest names in jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald....
  , jazz pianist
• September 27 - Cliff Burton
  Cliff Burton
  
  Clifford Lee Burton was a bassist best known for his work with the American Heavy metal music band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986....
  , Metallica
  Metallica
  
  Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
   (tour bus accident)
• September 28 - Robert Helpmann
  Robert Helpmann
  
  Sir Robert Murray Helpmann Order of the British Empire was an Australian dancer, actor, Theatre director and choreographer. Born Robert Murray Helpman, he added the extra 'n' to avoid his name having 13 letters, at the suggestion of Anna Pavlova, who was a devotee of numerology....
  , dancer
• October 16 - Arthur Grumiaux
  Arthur Grumiaux
  
  Arthur Grumiaux was a Belgian violinist who was also proficient in piano....
  , violinist
• November 1 - Sippie Wallace
  Sippie Wallace
  
  Sippie Wallace was an United States Texas blues singer, and songwriter. Although her recording career stretched throughout most of the 1920s, her best work was done from 1923 to 1927 when she was recording with Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, and Clarence Williams....
  , blues singer
• November 3 - Eddie Davis
  Eddie Davis (saxophonist)
  
  Edward Davis , who performed and recorded as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist.He played with Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Andy Kirk, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie, as well as leading his own bands and making many recordings as a leader....
  , saxophonist
• November 18 - Lajos Bárdos
  Lajos Bárdos
  
  Lajos B?rdos was a composer, conductor, and professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Together with Zolt?n Kod?ly, he laid the foundations of 20th-century Hungarian choral music....
  , composer and conductor
• November 22 - Scatman Crothers
  Scatman Crothers
  
  Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers was an United States actor, singer, dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, the voice of the Autobot Jazz in The Transformers and as Dick Hallorann in The Shining in 1980....
  , singer, dancer and musician
• December 10 - Kate Wolf
  Kate Wolf
  
  Kate Wolf was an American folk singer and songwriter. Though her career was relatively short, she had a significant impact on the folk music scene, and many musicians continue to cover her songs....
  , folk singer and songwriter, 44 (leukemia)

Awards

Grammy Awards

Country Music Association

Country Music Association

The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre....
 Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition....

Charts

List of No. 1 Hits

See also