1987 in music        Email Print    Bookmark   Link     1987 in music   Home Discussion     Topics 1987 in music Topic Home See also: Record labels established in 1987 January le class="wikitable"> Day Album Artist Notes 2 Exposure Exposure (album) Exposure is the debut album by the Miami, Florida-based dance-pop trio Expos? , released in 1987 . It reached number sixteen on the Billboard 200 and number twenty on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and went double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in May 1990....   Exposé Exposé (band) Expos? is an United States vocal group. Primarily consisting of lead vocalists Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado, and Gioia Bruno, the group was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and just like label mate Taylor Dayne, its first seven singles reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including the 1988 #1 hit "Seasons Change." The...   Midnight to Midnight The Psychedelic Furs UK The Cost of Loving The Cost of Loving The Cost Of Loving is an album from the band The Style Council, released in 1987. This album saw the group concentrating on the R&B styles that had been growing in America during the eighties....   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....   UK 17 Lee Aaron Lee Aaron Lee Aaron Lee Aaron is a Canada Rock music and jazz singer. She had several hits with titles such as "Metal Queen", "Whatcha Do to my Body", and "Sex with Love"....   23 The World Won't Listen The World Won't Listen The World Won't Listen is a compilation album by The Smiths. It was released in February 1987 by their record company, Rough Trade Records, and reached #2 on the United Kingdom charts....   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 ....   Compilation ? Ready or Not Lou Gramm Lou Gramm Lou Gramm is an United States Rock music Singer and songwriter best known for his role as the lead vocalist for the rock band Foreigner . He also had a successful solo career....   Up for a Bit with The Pastels Up for a Bit With The Pastels Up for a Bit with The Pastels is the debut album by the Scottish band The Pastels, released in 1987. It was named the 37th best Scottish album by The Scotsman....   The Pastels The Pastels The Pastels are a group from Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.Their early records for labels like Whaam!, Creation , Rough Trade Records, and Glass Records, had a raw and immediate sound, melodic and amateur, which seemed at odds with the time....   le class="wikitable"> Day Album Artist Notes 2 Through the Looking Glass Siouxsie & the Banshees Siouxsie & the Banshees Siouxsie & the Banshees were a British Rock music band formed in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin, the only constant members....   Trio Trio (album) Trio is a 1987 Grammy award-winning, Platinum collaboration album by American singers/songwriters Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris....   Linda Ronstadt Linda Ronstadt Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career.... , Emmylou Harris Emmylou Harris Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists.... , 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....   3 Criminal Minded Criminal Minded Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions is a Golden age hip hop hip hop music album. Production on the LP is credited to 'Blastmaster' KRS-One and DJ Scott La Rock , but in future interviews it has been revealed that an uncredited Ced-Gee of The Ultramagnetic MCs had a key role in crafting the sound of the LP....   Boogie Down Productions Boogie Down Productions Boogie Down Productions was a Hip hop music group originally comprised KRS-One, D-Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, months after the release of BDP's debut album Criminal Minded....   9 Wild Frontier Wild Frontier Wild Frontier is a 1987 album by Gary Moore. His first studio album after a trip back to his native Belfast, Ireland in 1985, this album has several songs about Ireland and even the music itself is steeped in Celtic music roots....   Gary Moore Gary Moore Gary Moore is a Northern Irish guitarist. In a career dating back to the 1960s, he has played with artists including Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II, Greg Lake and the Blues-rock band Skid Row , as well as having a successful solo career....   Men and Women Men and Women (album) Men and Women is the second album released by Simply Red in 1987. It peaked at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100....   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....   The Joshua Tree The Joshua Tree The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released 9 March 1987 on Island Records. Recording sessions took place from July to November 1986 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland....   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....   17 Deathcrush Deathcrush Deathcrush is the first studio album by the influential Norway band Mayhem . It was released in 1987 and was the first studio release by any band of the Norwegian black metal scene....   Mayhem EP 19 Tribute Tribute (album) Tribute is a live album by Ozzy Osbourne. It was released on March 19, 1987, five years after the death of guitarist Randy Rhoads. It was reissued on August 22, 1995 and again remastered and reissued in 2002 with producer Bruce Dickinson as the reissue executive producer....   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....  and Randy Rhoads Randy Rhoads Randall William "Randy" Rhoads was an United States Heavy metal music guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. Despite his short career, he is cited as an influence by many contemporary heavy metal guitarists....   Live 1981 22 Among the Living Among the Living Among the Living is the third studio album by United States thrash metal band Anthrax . The album was released in March 1987 by Megaforce Records/Island Records and is certified RIAA certification by the RIAA....   Anthrax Anthrax (band) Anthrax is a New York City-based Heavy metal music band that released its first full-length album in 1984. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene and is notable for being the first to combine heavy metal with Hip hop music music....   24 Into the Fire Into the Fire (album) Into the Fire is the fifth studio album by the Canadian Rock music artist Bryan Adams. Released on March 30, 1987 through A&M Records, the album was a huge commercial success selling over 2 million units worldwide, peaking at number 7 on the US The Billboard 200 chart and reaching high positions in Record chart worldwide....   Bryan Adams Bryan Adams Bryan Adams, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Canada Rock music singer-songwriter and photographer. Rolling Stone magazine describes Adams as having an ?unerring gift for radio-friendly pop hooks" and in 1992, Adams won the Grammy Awards of 1992, for "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" fo...   30 The Circus 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 ....   UK Sign o' The Times 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 ...   double album Louder Than Bombs Louder Than Bombs Louder Than Bombs is a compilation album by The Smiths. It was released as a double album in March 1987 by their United States record company, Sire 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 ....   US, compilation ? Locust Abortion Technician Locust Abortion Technician Locust Abortion Technician is the third full-length studio album by American punk band the Butthole Surfers, released in March 1987 in music....   Butthole Surfers Butthole Surfers The Butthole Surfers are an American alternative rock band formed by Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981. The band has had numerous personnel changes, but the core lineup of Haynes, Leary, and drum kit King Coffey has been together since 1983....   Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 Helloween Helloween Helloween are a Germany power metal/speed metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band is known as one of the pioneering power metal bands, being part of the German Heavy metal music/speed/power metal scene that included Accept, Running Wild , Blind Guardian, Grave Digger , Sinner , and Rage ....   Running in the Family Running in the Family Running in the Family was Level 42's 1987 album and featured the United Kingdom hit singles: "Lessons in Love" , "Running in the Family" , the lyrics were changed for release as a single, "To Be With You Again" , "It's Over" and "Children Say" ....   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....   le class="wikitable">
Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	Solitude Standing Solitude Standing Solitude Standing is Suzanne Vega's platinum album second album, released in 1987 . It is the most popular and critically-acclaimed of her career....	Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega Suzanne Nadine Vega is an American songwriter and singer known for her highly literate lyrics and eclectic folk music-inspired music.Record companies saw little prospect of commercial success in the beginning; Vega's demo tape was rejected by every major record company?twice by A&M....
4	Whitesnake Whitesnake (album) Whitesnake is the eighth studio album by British hard rock band of the same name , released in 1987. The album was a major crossover hit and one of the top-selling albums in the glam metal genre, eventually selling over eight million copies in the United States alone ....	Whitesnake Whitesnake Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....	US
	Now That's What I Call Music 9 Now That's What I Call Music 9 (U.K. series) Now That's What I Call Music 9 or Now 9 was released in 1987. The album is the 9th edition of the Now That's What I Call Music series, and reached number 1 on the UK Albums Chart for five weeks....  (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
6	Electric Electric (The Cult album) Electric is the pivotal third album by The Cult. Released in 1987, the album marked a deliberate stylistic change in the band from a Gothic rock to a hard rock group....	The Cult The Cult The Cult are an England Rock music band which gained a dedicated following in their native Britain with mid-1980s singles like "She Sells Sanctuary" before breaking into the American metal market in the late '80s with "Love Removal Machine"....
13	Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town is an album by United States country music singer Johnny Cash, released in 1987 , and his first for Mercury Records....	Johnny Cash Johnny Cash Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
	Tango in the Night Tango in the Night Tango in the Night is an album by the British-American band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1987 in music. It spawned the singles "Big Love ", "Everywhere ", "Little Lies", "Seven Wonders ", "Family Man" and "Isn't It Midnight"....	Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
F.L.M.	Mel and Kim Mel and Kim Mel and Kim were an British people musical act that achieved success in the late 1980s....	UK
16	The Perfect Prescription The Perfect Prescription The Perfect Prescription is the second studio album by Spacemen 3....	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....
17	Rock the House Rock the House (album) Rock the House is the debut album from rapper and DJ duo, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Releasing three singles: "Magnificent Jazzy Jeff", "Touch Of Jazz" and "Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble"....	DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince is a hip hop music group that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The vocalist, Will Smith , met DJ Jazzy Jeff while trying to make a name for himself in West Philadelphia's local hip hop scene....
21	Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) Let Me Up is an album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1987. This album features more songwriting collaborations between Petty and Mike Campbell than any other album....	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Tom Petty Thomas Earl Petty is an United Statesn singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a member of Mudcrutch....
23	The Ultra-Violence The Ultra-Violence The Ultra-Violence is the first album by the band Death Angel, released in 1987....	Death Angel Death Angel Death Angel is a Filipino-American thrash metal band from Concord, California, California. Initially active from 1982 to 1991, the band reformed at the Thrash of the Titans benefit concert for Chuck Billy in 2001....
27	Never Let Me Down Never Let Me Down Never Let Me Down is an album by David Bowie, released April 1987. It drew some of the harshest criticism of Bowie's career, condemned by critics as a faceless piece of product and ignored by the public— Bowie himself openly apologised in an interview for the album being so bad....	David Bowie David Bowie David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
?	Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile was the first album by United Kingdom band Happy Mondays. It was released in 1987 and produced by John Cale....	Happy Mondays Happy Mondays Happy Mondays are a British alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1980, the musical group's original line-up was Shaun Ryder on lead vocals, his brother Paul Ryder on bass guitar, lead guitarist Mark Day , keyboardist Paul Davis , and drummer Gary Whelan ....
	Out & Intake Out & Intake Out & Intake is a 1987 album by Hawkwind comprised of live recordings from 1982 and studio outtakes from 1982 and 1986."It was bits and pieces we had hanging around, weird things like "Turner Point"....	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....	Compilation
	Yo! Bum Rush the Show Yo! Bum Rush the Show Yo! Bum Rush the Show is the debut album by Public Enemy, released by Def Jam/Columbia Records on January 26, 1987. This was the first album of Public Enemy's that had been released by a record label....	Public Enemy
Tell No Tales Tell No Tales Tell No Tales is the third studio album by the Norway hard rock band TNT . It was the best selling TNT album in the US, according to their bassist Morty Black....	TNT TNT (band) TNT is a Norway hard rock/glam metal band....

le class="wikitable">DayAlbumArtistNotes5 Frehley's Comet

Frehley's Comet (album)

Frehley's Comet is the second solo release from Ace Frehley, co-founder and former lead guitarist of Kiss . It was the first album Frehley released after leaving KISS in 1982....
  Ace Frehley

Ace Frehley

Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley is an United States guitarist best known as an original member and lead guitarist for the rock music band Kiss . He took on the persona of 'Space Ace' when the band adopted costumes and theatrics....
  Pleased to Meet Me

Pleased to Meet Me

Pleased to Meet Me is the fifth album by the Replacements. It was released on July 7 1987 .The album to some degree maintains the style of the previous album, and major label debut, Tim ....
  The Replacements

The Replacements

The Replacements were an American rock music band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota in 1979. The band was composed of guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bassist Tommy Stinson, and drummer Chris Mars for most of their career....
 11 Under the Sign of the Black Mark

Under the Sign of the Black Mark

Under the Sign of the Black Mark is the third album by Bathory . While it can hardly be classified as anything other than black metal, several tracks, most notably "Enter the Eternal Fire," displayed the group beginning to branch out into a more adventurous, epic territory....
  Bathory

Bathory (band)

Bathory was a Sweden heavy metal music band, formed by Quorthon in 1983. They are regarded as pioneers of both black metal and Viking metal. The band is named after the infamous Hungarian people countess, Elizabeth B?thory....
  Live in the City of Light

Live in the City of Light

Live in the City of Light is a live album by Simple Minds. It was released to document their successful worldwide Once Upon a Time tour, Simple Minds The album is a double-live set and was released in 1987, which was recorded primarily in Paris, France in 1986....
  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....
  Live It's Better To Travel 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....
 15 Girls, Girls, Girls 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....
 20 Beverly Hills Cop II: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Beverly Hills Cop II

Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 in film action film-comedy film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Tony Scott. It is the first sequel in the Beverly Hills Cop ....
  Various Artists Soundtrack25 Scream Bloody Gore

Scream Bloody Gore

Scream Bloody Gore is the debut album by American death metal band Death , released in 1987. The album bears little resemblance to the far more technical works of the band....
  Death

Death (band)

Death was an influential American death metal band founded in 1983 by guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner, considered a "pioneering death metal vocalist/guitarist"....
  Bad Animals

Bad Animals

Bad Animals was the 9th album, but 10th album overall, released in 1987 by the band Heart . The album was a hit, scoring triple platinum sales, and was almost as successul as their previous record....
  Heart

Heart (band)

Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
 26 Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure. Released in 1987, this album helped put The Cure into the American mainstream, becoming their first album to reach the Billboard Top 40....
  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....
 29 Bring the Family

Bring the Family

Bring the Family is John Hiatt's eighth album. It was his first album to chart on the Billboard 200, and featured his first single entry on the mainstream rock chart with "Thank You Girl"....
  John Hiatt

John Hiatt

John Hiatt is an United States rock and roll guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave music, blues and country music....
 

le class="wikitable">DayAlbumArtistNotes2 Let it Loose Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine

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....
 6 Bad Animals

Bad Animals

Bad Animals was the 9th album, but 10th album overall, released in 1987 by the band Heart . The album was a hit, scoring triple platinum sales, and was almost as successul as their previous record....
  Heart

Heart (band)

Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
 9 Contagious

Contagious (album)

Contagious is the 9th album by heavy metal music band Y&T. It was their last of the 1980's....
  Y&T

Y&T

Y&T is an United States hard rock/Heavy metal music formed in 1974. They hail from the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The band released two studio albums on London Records as Yesterday & Today in the 1970s, before shortening their name to Y&T and releasing several albums on A&M Records beginning in 1981, as well as albums on Geffen...
 15 Abigail

Abigail (album)

Abigail is the second King Diamond album and their first concept album. It was released in 1987 on Roadrunner Records. There were several re-releases, first in 1997 with 3 bonus tracks, and then a 25th Anniversary edition in 2005 with a bonus DVD....
  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....
  Radio K.A.O.S.

Radio K.A.O.S.

Radio K.A.O.S. is a 1987 concept album/rock opera by former Pink Floyd bass guitarist and songwriter Roger Waters. It is his second solo album....
  Roger Waters

Roger Waters

George Roger Waters is an England rock music musician. He is best known as the bass guitar player and one of the main songwriters in the English rock band Pink Floyd from 1964 to 1985....
 19 Sammy Hagar

I Never Said Goodbye

I Never Said Goodbye is a Sammy Hagar solo album, his only solo album to date released while Hagar was a member of Van Halen. The album was recorded in ten days as a contractual obligation to Geffen Records as a condition of his leaving the label to join Van Halen....
  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 ....
  later re-titled I Never Said Goodbye21 Pride White Lion

White Lion

White Lion is an United States/Denmark glam metal band that formed in New York City in 1983 by Denmark vocalist Mike Tramp and United States guitarist Vito Bratta....
 25 Cleanse Fold and Manipulate

Cleanse Fold and Manipulate

Cleanse Fold and Manipulate is a 1987 album by Skinny Puppy....
  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....
 22 Clutching at Straws

Clutching at Straws

Clutching at Straws is the fourth studio album by progressive rock band Marillion, and is a concept album. Released in 1987, it was the last album with lead singer Fish who left the band in 1988....
  Marillion

Marillion

Marillion are a United Kingdom Rock group. Formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England in 1979, their recorded studio output comprises fifteen albums and is generally regarded as comprising two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original vocalist & frontman Fish in late 1988 after their first four albums, and the subsequent arr...
 29 Once Bitten... 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"....
 30 La Bamba soundtrack

La Bamba (film)

La Bamba is an United States biographical film written and directed by Luis Valdez. The picture features Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, among others....
  Los Lobos

Los Lobos

Los Lobos are an United States rock band. They are 3-time Grammy Award winners. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tejano music, country music, folk music, R&B, blues and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as boleros and norte?o s....
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• January - Steve "Silk" Hurley's innovative "Jack Your Body" becomes the first house music
  House music
  
  House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
   record to top the UK singles chart.
• January 3 - 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....
   becomes the first woman inducted 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...
  
• January 16 - The Beastie Boys become the first act to be censored by American Bandstand
  American Bandstand
  
  American Bandstand is a television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark , who also served as producer....
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• February 6 - Sonny Bono
  Sonny Bono
  
  Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an United States record producer, singer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades....
   announces his candidacy for mayor of Palm Springs, California
  Palm Springs, California
  
  Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, California, approximately 111 miles east of Los Angeles, California and 136 miles northeast of San Diego, California....
  
• February 14–March 7 - 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....
  's "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....
  " is the #1 song. It would be 1987's biggest hit song.
• March 7 - The first five Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
   albums, Please Please Me
  Please Please Me
  
  Please Please Me is the first album recorded by The Beatles, rush-released on March 22, 1963 in the United Kingdom to capitalise on the success of singles "Please Please Me " and "Love Me Do" ....
  , With the Beatles
  With the Beatles
  
  With The Beatles is The Beatles' second UK album, recorded four months after the band's first album and released on 22 November 1963.The album features eight original compositions and six covers, mostly of Motown and Rhythm and blues hits....
  , A Hard Day's Night
  A Hard Day's Night (album)
  
  A Hard Day's Night is the third U.K. album by The Beatles, released on 10 July 1964 as the soundtrack to their first A Hard Day's Night . The album, their fourth U.S....
  , Beatles for Sale
  Beatles for Sale
  
  Beatles for Sale is The Beatles' fourth album, released in late 1964 and produced by George Martin for Parlophone. The album marked a minor turning point in the evolution of Lennon-McCartney as lyricists, John Lennon particularly now showing interest in composing songs of a more autobiographical nature....
   and Help!
  Help! (album)
  
  Help! is the fifth U.K. album and tenth U.S. album by The Beatles, and the soundtrack album from their Help! . Produced by George Martin for EMI's Parlophone Records, the album contains seven songs that appeared in the film Help! , and seven that did not, including the singles "Help! " and "Ticket to Ride"....
   are released on Compact disc
  Compact Disc
  
  A Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store Data , originally developed for storing digital audio. The CD, available on the market since October 1982, remains the standard physical medium for sale of commercial Sound recording and reproduction to the present day....
  . Capitol Records decides to release the original UK mixes of the Beatles albums, which means that the first four CDs are released in mono. This marks the first time that many of these mono mixes were available in the US.
• March 9
• Carole King
  Carole King
  
  Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
   is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
  Songwriters Hall of Fame
  
  The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. It was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publishers Abe Olman and Howie Richmond....
   in New York City
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
  .
• The career that would end in an infamous appearance at The Brit awards
  The KLF
  
  The KLF, also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu , The Timelords and other names, were one of the seminal bands from the Music of the United Kingdom acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s....
   and the burning of a million pounds began in Britain, as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu release their debut single, "All You Need Is Love
  All You Need Is Love (The JAMs song)
  
  "All You Need Is Love" is a song by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, KLF Communications as their debut single on 9 March 1987. A politically topical song concerning the UK media's AIDS furore, the track was initially given a white label release because of its plagiaristic sample of other records....
  ".
• March 13 - 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 receive 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....
  
• 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...
   almost dies on stage when one of the props, the Gallows
  Gallows
  
  A gallows is a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging.A gallows can take several forms.*the simplest form resembles an inverted "L", with a single upright and a horizontal beam to which the rope noose would be attached....
  , malfunctions
• March 13 - In the US, 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...
  ' "Heat of the Night" becomes the first single to be commercially released on cassette. Cassette singles become known as cassingles.
• March 27 - Inspired by The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  ' 1969 rooftop concert, 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....
   shoots a music video
  Music video
  
  A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
   for the song "Where the Streets Have No Name
  Where the Streets Have No Name
  
  "Where the Streets Have No Name" is a song by Irish rock music U2, from their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It was released August 1987 as the third single from The Joshua Tree....
  " on a rooftop in Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
  
  Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
  
• April 23 - Carole King
  Carole King
  
  Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
   sues the owner of her record company, Lou Adler, claiming that she is owed more than $400,000 in royalties. King also asks for rights to her old recordings.
• June 14 - Madonna starts her Who's That Girl Tour in Osaka
  Osaka
  
  is a Cities of Japan in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshu.Osaka is a City designated by government ordinance under the Local Autonomy Law and the capital city of Osaka Prefecture....
  , Japan
  Japan
  
  Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  .
• June 27 - 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....
  's second album Whitney
  Whitney (album)
  
  Whitney is the second studio album by United States pop music/contemporary R&B singer Whitney Houston, released on June 29, 1987 by Arista Records....
   becomes the first album by a female artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200
  Billboard 200
  
  The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling Albums and extended play in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine....
  
• July 21 - 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....
   release their debut album Appetite for Destruction
  Appetite for Destruction
  
  Appetite for Destruction is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. Released in 1987 , it was well received by critics and topped the American Billboard 200 chart....
  
• August 3 - Def Leppard
  Def Leppard
  
  Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
   release their 4th studio album Hysteria
• August 18 - 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"....
   release their comeback album Permanent Vacation
  Permanent Vacation (album)
  
  Permanent Vacation is the ninth studio album by United States hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1987.The album marks a turning point in the band's career....
  , their first multi-platinum album in ten years
• August 31 - Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  
  Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
   releases his first studio album after 1982
  1982 in music
  
  See also:* 1982 in music * :Category:Record labels established in 1982* list of 'years in music'...
  's Thriller
  Thriller (album)
  
  Thriller is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall ....
  , Bad
  Bad (album)
  
  Bad is the seventh album by Michael Jackson. It was released on August 31, 1987 by Epic Records. The record was released nearly five years after his last studio album Thriller ....
  . The album would produce five number one singles in USA, a record which hasn't been broken yet.
• September 6 - Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  
  Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
   ends her Who's That Girl Tour in Florence
  Florence
  
  Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
  , Italy
  Italy
  
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  .
• September 25 - Matthew Garrison Chapman is born as the first child of 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....
   and Gary Chapman
  Gary Chapman (musician)
  
  Gary Chapman is a Contemporary music Christian music singer-songwriter and former television talk show Presenter....
  . Lead Me On, Amy's 1988 album, is said to have been dedicated to Matt
• September 28 - 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 ....
   6th album Music for the Masses
  Music for the Masses
  
  Music for the Masses is the sixth studio album by Depeche Mode. Released by Mute Records on September 28 1987, it provided the band with mainstream success in the United States for the first time since Some Great Reward, and the new styles of music that appeared on the album and its predecessor Black Celebration formed the founda...
   provided the band with mainstream success in the United States for the first time since Some Great Reward
  Some Great Reward
  
  Some Great Reward is the fourth album by the British electronic group Depeche Mode, released in 1984. The album peaked at No. 5 in the UK....
  , and the new styles of music that appeared on the album and its predecessor 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....
   formed the foundation for their 1990 breakthrough effort, Violator
  Violator
  
  Violator may refer to:* Violator , a 1990 album by Depeche Mode* Violator , a Brazilian thrash metal band* Violator , a thrash metal band from Gothenburg...
  .
• October - electronic data gathering completely replaces the old sales diary technique in compiling the UK singles and albums chart. The publication day of new charts is moved from Tuesday to Sunday.
• October 12 - Twisted Sister
  Twisted Sister
  
  Twisted Sister is an United States Heavy metal music band from New York City. Their work fuses the shock rock tactics of Alice Cooper, the rebellious mood of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the extravagant image of glam rock bands such as New York Dolls notably for the makeup....
   breaks up - they would not reunite until the end of the 1990s.
• October 19 - 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....
   release the song "You're All I Need" as a single. Its lyrics cause MTV to refuse to play its video. Radio stations never play the song either.
• October 30 - George Michael
  George Michael
  
  Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou , best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning, England singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! as well as a soul music-influenced, solo Pop music musician....
   releases his first solo studio album, Faith
  Faith (George Michael album)
  
  Faith is George Michael's first solo album, released in October 1987 via Columbia Records/Epic Records. The album is widely considered one of the greatest albums in pop music history, and won several awards including the Grammy Award for Album of the Year....
  , which would win the Grammy Award
  Grammy Awards of 1989
  
  The 31st Grammy Awards were held in 1989. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year....
   for album of the year and sell 11 million copies in USA alone.
• October 31 -The Zorros headline on the Halloween for the last ever show at the Crystal Ballroom, Saint Kilda Melbourne's premier Punk/ New Wave Venue. The Crystal Ballroom had seen almost ten years of intense Musical Evolution. The venue had Chandeliers, stained glass windows, paisley wallpaper and a tiled foyer.
• November 13 - Sonny and Cher reunite for a performance on Late Night with David Letterman
  Late Night with David Letterman
  
  Late Night with David Letterman is a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC hosted by David Letterman. It premiered in 1982 in television and went off the air in 1993 in television, after Letterman left NBC and moved to Late Show with David Letterman on CBS....
  
• December 23 - Nikki Sixx
  Nikki Sixx
  
  Nikki Sixx is an United States bass guitar, author, photographer, and the main songwriter for the heavy metal music band M?tley Cr?e. He has also played bass for glam metal band London , the experimental band 58 , and the hard rock bands Brides of Destruction and, more recently, Sixx:A.M....
   of the rock band 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....
   suffered a heroin
  Heroin
  
  Heroin is a opioid synthesized from morphine, a derivative of the opium poppy. It is the 3,6-acetate ester of morphine . The white crystalline form is commonly the hydrochloride salt diacetylmorphine hydrochloride, however heroin Freebase may also appear as a white powder....
   overdose, but was revived shortly thereafter.
• Social Distortion
  Social Distortion
  
  Social Distortion is an United States rock music band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California, Orange County, California, California. The band currently consists of Mike Ness , Jonny Wickersham , Brent Harding and Charlie Quintana ....
   returns to record Prison Bound
  Prison Bound
  
  Prison Bound is the second studio album released by Social Distortion. It was released in 1988. It expands upon the Punk rock sound of the band's highly regarded but commercially unsuccessful 1983 debut Mommy's Little Monster by adding elements of Johnny Cash style country and The Rolling Stones style rock and roll....
  
• Winger signs to Atlantic Records
• Kylie Minogue's
  Kylie Minogue
  
  Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
   recording career begins, when her cover version
  Cover version
  
  In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
   of the Little Eva
  Little Eva
  
  Eva Narcissus Boyd , known by the stage name of Little Eva , was an United States singer....
   hit The Loco-Motion
  The Loco-Motion
  
  "The Loco-Motion" is a 1962 pop music written by United States songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The song is notable for making the American Top 5 three times – each time in a different decade: for Little Eva in 1962 ; for Grand Funk Railroad in 1974 ; and for Kylie Minogue in 1988 ....
   spends seven weeks at number one in her native Australia
  Australia
  
  Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
   and leads to a contract with UK
  United Kingdom
  
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
   based record producers Stock Aitken Waterman
  Stock Aitken Waterman
  
  Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a United Kingdom songwriter and record producer trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions....
  .
• Lynyrd Skynyrd
  Lynyrd Skynyrd
  
  Lynyrd Skynyrd is an United States Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977....
   reforms and now has Ronnie Van Zant
  Ronnie Van Zant
  
  Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Van Zant was the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He was the older brother of 38 Special founder and vocalist Donnie Van Zant and current Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant....
  's little brother Johnny Van Zant
  Johnny Van Zant
  
  Johnny Van Zant is an United States Southern rock singing. He is the youngest brother of the late Lynyrd Skynyrd founder and vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and 38 Special founder and vocalist Donnie Van Zant....
   as lead singer.
• 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 ....
   disband after Guitarist and songwriter Johnny Marr
  Johnny Marr
  
  Johnny Marr is an England guitarist, keyboardist, harmonica player, and singer. Marr rose to fame in the 1980s as the guitarist in The Smiths, where he formed a prolific songwriting partnership with Morrissey....
   leaves the band.
• Andreas Kisser
  Andreas Kisser
  
  Andreas Rudolf Kisser is the guitarist for the metal band Sepultura....
   replaces Jairo Guedes in 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...
  .

Bands formed

• See Musical groups established in 1987

Bands Disbanded

• The Motels
  The Motels
  
  The Motels were a New Wave music band from the Los Angeles, California area best known for "Only the Lonely " and "Suddenly Last Summer ", each of which peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and 1983, respectively....
  
• The Tubes
  The Tubes
  
  The Tubes are a San Francisco, California-based Rock music musical ensemble, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, "White Punks on Dope"....
  
• Twisted Sister
  Twisted Sister
  
  Twisted Sister is an United States Heavy metal music band from New York City. Their work fuses the shock rock tactics of Alice Cooper, the rebellious mood of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the extravagant image of glam rock bands such as New York Dolls notably for the makeup....
  
• 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....
  
• Grim Reaper
  Grim Reaper (band)
  
  Grim Reaper are a United Kingdom heavy metal music band from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era. The band were formed in 1979 in Droitwich Spa, England, by guitarist Nick Bowcott....
  
• 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 ....
  
• Hüsker Dü
  Hüsker Dü
  
  H?sker D? was an United States punk rock band formed in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota in 1979. The band's continual members were guitarist Bob Mould, bass guitar Greg Norton, and drummer Grant Hart....
  
• The 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 ....
  
• 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"....
  

Bands reformed

• Lynyrd Skynyrd
  Lynyrd Skynyrd
  
  Lynyrd Skynyrd is an United States Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977....
  

Albums released

January

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
12	The House of Blue Light The House of Blue Light The House of Blue Light is the twelfth studio album by Deep Purple, released in 1987. It is the second recording by the re-formed List_of_Deep_Purple_band_members#.22Mark.22_numbers....	Deep Purple Deep Purple Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
20	The Return of Bruno The Return of Bruno (album) The Return of Bruno is the debut album by actor Bruce Willis. Released by Motown Records in 1987, this album is an electric gathering of Rhythm and blues music sung by Willis, with backing musicians including Booker T....	Bruce Willis Bruce Willis Walter Bruce Willis , better known as Bruce Willis, is an United Statesn actor and film producer. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since....	Debut
26	Control: The Remixes Control: The Remixes Control: The Remixes is the first remix album by American recording artist Janet Jackson. Released in 1987 in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and Japan only, it contains remixes of singles from Control , following the success of the album....	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....	Europe; Remix
?	Warehouse: Songs and Stories Warehouse: Songs and Stories Warehouse: Songs and Stories is the last studio album by alternative rock band H?sker D?, originally released by Warner Bros. Records as a double album on two vinyl LPs....	Hüsker Dü Hüsker Dü H?sker D? was an United States punk rock band formed in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota in 1979. The band's continual members were guitarist Bob Mould, bass guitar Greg Norton, and drummer Grant Hart....	double album
	Famous Blue Raincoat Famous Blue Raincoat (album) Famous Blue Raincoat is the 6th album by Jennifer Warnes, and her first with the Private Music label. It peaked at No. 72 on the Billboard 200....	Jennifer Warnes Jennifer Warnes Jennifer Jean Warnes is an United States singer and songwriter. She is best known for her rich alto voice, her interpretations of work by James Taylor, Leonard Cohen, and Buffy Sainte Marie, and for her association with the soundtracks of a number of popular films during the 1970s, '80s and '90s....	Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963....  covers LP

February

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
2	Exposure Exposure (album) Exposure is the debut album by the Miami, Florida-based dance-pop trio Expos? , released in 1987 . It reached number sixteen on the Billboard 200 and number twenty on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and went double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in May 1990....	Exposé Exposé (band) Expos? is an United States vocal group. Primarily consisting of lead vocalists Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado, and Gioia Bruno, the group was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and just like label mate Taylor Dayne, its first seven singles reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including the 1988 #1 hit "Seasons Change." The...
	Midnight to Midnight	The Psychedelic Furs	UK
The Cost of Loving The Cost of Loving The Cost Of Loving is an album from the band The Style Council, released in 1987. This album saw the group concentrating on the R&B styles that had been growing in America during the eighties....	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....	UK
17	Lee Aaron	Lee Aaron Lee Aaron Lee Aaron is a Canada Rock music and jazz singer. She had several hits with titles such as "Metal Queen", "Whatcha Do to my Body", and "Sex with Love"....
23	The World Won't Listen The World Won't Listen The World Won't Listen is a compilation album by The Smiths. It was released in February 1987 by their record company, Rough Trade Records, and reached #2 on the United Kingdom charts....	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 ....	Compilation
?	Ready or Not	Lou Gramm Lou Gramm Lou Gramm is an United States Rock music Singer and songwriter best known for his role as the lead vocalist for the rock band Foreigner . He also had a successful solo career....
Up for a Bit with The Pastels Up for a Bit With The Pastels Up for a Bit with The Pastels is the debut album by the Scottish band The Pastels, released in 1987. It was named the 37th best Scottish album by The Scotsman....	The Pastels The Pastels The Pastels are a group from Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.Their early records for labels like Whaam!, Creation , Rough Trade Records, and Glass Records, had a raw and immediate sound, melodic and amateur, which seemed at odds with the time....

March

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
2	Through the Looking Glass	Siouxsie & the Banshees Siouxsie & the Banshees Siouxsie & the Banshees were a British Rock music band formed in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin, the only constant members....
Trio Trio (album) Trio is a 1987 Grammy award-winning, Platinum collaboration album by American singers/songwriters Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris....	Linda Ronstadt Linda Ronstadt Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career.... , Emmylou Harris Emmylou Harris Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists.... , 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....
3	Criminal Minded Criminal Minded Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions is a Golden age hip hop hip hop music album. Production on the LP is credited to 'Blastmaster' KRS-One and DJ Scott La Rock , but in future interviews it has been revealed that an uncredited Ced-Gee of The Ultramagnetic MCs had a key role in crafting the sound of the LP....	Boogie Down Productions Boogie Down Productions Boogie Down Productions was a Hip hop music group originally comprised KRS-One, D-Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock. DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, months after the release of BDP's debut album Criminal Minded....
9	Wild Frontier Wild Frontier Wild Frontier is a 1987 album by Gary Moore. His first studio album after a trip back to his native Belfast, Ireland in 1985, this album has several songs about Ireland and even the music itself is steeped in Celtic music roots....	Gary Moore Gary Moore Gary Moore is a Northern Irish guitarist. In a career dating back to the 1960s, he has played with artists including Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II, Greg Lake and the Blues-rock band Skid Row , as well as having a successful solo career....
	Men and Women Men and Women (album) Men and Women is the second album released by Simply Red in 1987. It peaked at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100....	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....
The Joshua Tree The Joshua Tree The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released 9 March 1987 on Island Records. Recording sessions took place from July to November 1986 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Ireland....	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....
17	Deathcrush Deathcrush Deathcrush is the first studio album by the influential Norway band Mayhem . It was released in 1987 and was the first studio release by any band of the Norwegian black metal scene....	Mayhem	EP
19	Tribute Tribute (album) Tribute is a live album by Ozzy Osbourne. It was released on March 19, 1987, five years after the death of guitarist Randy Rhoads. It was reissued on August 22, 1995 and again remastered and reissued in 2002 with producer Bruce Dickinson as the reissue executive producer....	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....  and Randy Rhoads Randy Rhoads Randall William "Randy" Rhoads was an United States Heavy metal music guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. Despite his short career, he is cited as an influence by many contemporary heavy metal guitarists....	Live 1981
22	Among the Living Among the Living Among the Living is the third studio album by United States thrash metal band Anthrax . The album was released in March 1987 by Megaforce Records/Island Records and is certified RIAA certification by the RIAA....	Anthrax Anthrax (band) Anthrax is a New York City-based Heavy metal music band that released its first full-length album in 1984. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene and is notable for being the first to combine heavy metal with Hip hop music music....
24	Into the Fire Into the Fire (album) Into the Fire is the fifth studio album by the Canadian Rock music artist Bryan Adams. Released on March 30, 1987 through A&M Records, the album was a huge commercial success selling over 2 million units worldwide, peaking at number 7 on the US The Billboard 200 chart and reaching high positions in Record chart worldwide....	Bryan Adams Bryan Adams Bryan Adams, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Canada Rock music singer-songwriter and photographer. Rolling Stone magazine describes Adams as having an ?unerring gift for radio-friendly pop hooks" and in 1992, Adams won the Grammy Awards of 1992, for "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" fo...
30	The Circus	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 ....	UK
	Sign o' The Times	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 ...	double album
	Louder Than Bombs Louder Than Bombs Louder Than Bombs is a compilation album by The Smiths. It was released as a double album in March 1987 by their United States record company, Sire 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 ....	US, compilation
?	Locust Abortion Technician Locust Abortion Technician Locust Abortion Technician is the third full-length studio album by American punk band the Butthole Surfers, released in March 1987 in music....	Butthole Surfers Butthole Surfers The Butthole Surfers are an American alternative rock band formed by Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981. The band has had numerous personnel changes, but the core lineup of Haynes, Leary, and drum kit King Coffey has been together since 1983....
	Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1	Helloween Helloween Helloween are a Germany power metal/speed metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band is known as one of the pioneering power metal bands, being part of the German Heavy metal music/speed/power metal scene that included Accept, Running Wild , Blind Guardian, Grave Digger , Sinner , and Rage ....
Running in the Family Running in the Family Running in the Family was Level 42's 1987 album and featured the United Kingdom hit singles: "Lessons in Love" , "Running in the Family" , the lyrics were changed for release as a single, "To Be With You Again" , "It's Over" and "Children Say" ....	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....

April

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	Solitude Standing Solitude Standing Solitude Standing is Suzanne Vega's platinum album second album, released in 1987 . It is the most popular and critically-acclaimed of her career....	Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega Suzanne Nadine Vega is an American songwriter and singer known for her highly literate lyrics and eclectic folk music-inspired music.Record companies saw little prospect of commercial success in the beginning; Vega's demo tape was rejected by every major record company?twice by A&M....
4	Whitesnake Whitesnake (album) Whitesnake is the eighth studio album by British hard rock band of the same name , released in 1987. The album was a major crossover hit and one of the top-selling albums in the glam metal genre, eventually selling over eight million copies in the United States alone ....	Whitesnake Whitesnake Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....	US
	Now That's What I Call Music 9 Now That's What I Call Music 9 (U.K. series) Now That's What I Call Music 9 or Now 9 was released in 1987. The album is the 9th edition of the Now That's What I Call Music series, and reached number 1 on the UK Albums Chart for five weeks....  (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
6	Electric Electric (The Cult album) Electric is the pivotal third album by The Cult. Released in 1987, the album marked a deliberate stylistic change in the band from a Gothic rock to a hard rock group....	The Cult The Cult The Cult are an England Rock music band which gained a dedicated following in their native Britain with mid-1980s singles like "She Sells Sanctuary" before breaking into the American metal market in the late '80s with "Love Removal Machine"....
13	Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town is an album by United States country music singer Johnny Cash, released in 1987 , and his first for Mercury Records....	Johnny Cash Johnny Cash Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
	Tango in the Night Tango in the Night Tango in the Night is an album by the British-American band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1987 in music. It spawned the singles "Big Love ", "Everywhere ", "Little Lies", "Seven Wonders ", "Family Man" and "Isn't It Midnight"....	Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
F.L.M.	Mel and Kim Mel and Kim Mel and Kim were an British people musical act that achieved success in the late 1980s....	UK
16	The Perfect Prescription The Perfect Prescription The Perfect Prescription is the second studio album by Spacemen 3....	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....
17	Rock the House Rock the House (album) Rock the House is the debut album from rapper and DJ duo, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Releasing three singles: "Magnificent Jazzy Jeff", "Touch Of Jazz" and "Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble"....	DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince is a hip hop music group that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The vocalist, Will Smith , met DJ Jazzy Jeff while trying to make a name for himself in West Philadelphia's local hip hop scene....
21	Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) Let Me Up is an album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1987. This album features more songwriting collaborations between Petty and Mike Campbell than any other album....	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Tom Petty Thomas Earl Petty is an United Statesn singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a member of Mudcrutch....
23	The Ultra-Violence The Ultra-Violence The Ultra-Violence is the first album by the band Death Angel, released in 1987....	Death Angel Death Angel Death Angel is a Filipino-American thrash metal band from Concord, California, California. Initially active from 1982 to 1991, the band reformed at the Thrash of the Titans benefit concert for Chuck Billy in 2001....
27	Never Let Me Down Never Let Me Down Never Let Me Down is an album by David Bowie, released April 1987. It drew some of the harshest criticism of Bowie's career, condemned by critics as a faceless piece of product and ignored by the public— Bowie himself openly apologised in an interview for the album being so bad....	David Bowie David Bowie David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
?	Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile was the first album by United Kingdom band Happy Mondays. It was released in 1987 and produced by John Cale....	Happy Mondays Happy Mondays Happy Mondays are a British alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1980, the musical group's original line-up was Shaun Ryder on lead vocals, his brother Paul Ryder on bass guitar, lead guitarist Mark Day , keyboardist Paul Davis , and drummer Gary Whelan ....
	Out & Intake Out & Intake Out & Intake is a 1987 album by Hawkwind comprised of live recordings from 1982 and studio outtakes from 1982 and 1986."It was bits and pieces we had hanging around, weird things like "Turner Point"....	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....	Compilation
	Yo! Bum Rush the Show Yo! Bum Rush the Show Yo! Bum Rush the Show is the debut album by Public Enemy, released by Def Jam/Columbia Records on January 26, 1987. This was the first album of Public Enemy's that had been released by a record label....	Public Enemy
Tell No Tales Tell No Tales Tell No Tales is the third studio album by the Norway hard rock band TNT . It was the best selling TNT album in the US, according to their bassist Morty Black....	TNT TNT (band) TNT is a Norway hard rock/glam metal band....

May

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
5	Frehley's Comet Frehley's Comet (album) Frehley's Comet is the second solo release from Ace Frehley, co-founder and former lead guitarist of Kiss . It was the first album Frehley released after leaving KISS in 1982....	Ace Frehley Ace Frehley Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley is an United States guitarist best known as an original member and lead guitarist for the rock music band Kiss . He took on the persona of 'Space Ace' when the band adopted costumes and theatrics....
Pleased to Meet Me Pleased to Meet Me Pleased to Meet Me is the fifth album by the Replacements. It was released on July 7 1987 .The album to some degree maintains the style of the previous album, and major label debut, Tim ....	The Replacements The Replacements The Replacements were an American rock music band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota in 1979. The band was composed of guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bassist Tommy Stinson, and drummer Chris Mars for most of their career....
11	Under the Sign of the Black Mark Under the Sign of the Black Mark Under the Sign of the Black Mark is the third album by Bathory . While it can hardly be classified as anything other than black metal, several tracks, most notably "Enter the Eternal Fire," displayed the group beginning to branch out into a more adventurous, epic territory....	Bathory Bathory (band) Bathory was a Sweden heavy metal music band, formed by Quorthon in 1983. They are regarded as pioneers of both black metal and Viking metal. The band is named after the infamous Hungarian people countess, Elizabeth B?thory....
	Live in the City of Light Live in the City of Light Live in the City of Light is a live album by Simple Minds. It was released to document their successful worldwide Once Upon a Time tour, Simple Minds The album is a double-live set and was released in 1987, which was recorded primarily in Paris, France in 1986....	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....	Live
It's Better To Travel	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....
15	Girls, Girls, Girls	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....
20	Beverly Hills Cop II: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Beverly Hills Cop II Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 in film action film-comedy film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Tony Scott. It is the first sequel in the Beverly Hills Cop ....	Various Artists	Soundtrack
25	Scream Bloody Gore Scream Bloody Gore Scream Bloody Gore is the debut album by American death metal band Death , released in 1987. The album bears little resemblance to the far more technical works of the band....	Death Death (band) Death was an influential American death metal band founded in 1983 by guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner, considered a "pioneering death metal vocalist/guitarist"....
Bad Animals Bad Animals Bad Animals was the 9th album, but 10th album overall, released in 1987 by the band Heart . The album was a hit, scoring triple platinum sales, and was almost as successul as their previous record....	Heart Heart (band) Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
26	Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure. Released in 1987, this album helped put The Cure into the American mainstream, becoming their first album to reach the Billboard Top 40....	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....
29	Bring the Family Bring the Family Bring the Family is John Hiatt's eighth album. It was his first album to chart on the Billboard 200, and featured his first single entry on the mainstream rock chart with "Thank You Girl"....	John Hiatt John Hiatt John Hiatt is an United States rock and roll guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave music, blues and country music....

June

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
2	Let it Loose	Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine 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....
6	Bad Animals Bad Animals Bad Animals was the 9th album, but 10th album overall, released in 1987 by the band Heart . The album was a hit, scoring triple platinum sales, and was almost as successul as their previous record....	Heart Heart (band) Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
9	Contagious Contagious (album) Contagious is the 9th album by heavy metal music band Y&T. It was their last of the 1980's....	Y&T Y&T Y&T is an United States hard rock/Heavy metal music formed in 1974. They hail from the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The band released two studio albums on London Records as Yesterday & Today in the 1970s, before shortening their name to Y&T and releasing several albums on A&M Records beginning in 1981, as well as albums on Geffen...
15	Abigail Abigail (album) Abigail is the second King Diamond album and their first concept album. It was released in 1987 on Roadrunner Records. There were several re-releases, first in 1997 with 3 bonus tracks, and then a 25th Anniversary edition in 2005 with a bonus DVD....	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....
Radio K.A.O.S. Radio K.A.O.S. Radio K.A.O.S. is a 1987 concept album/rock opera by former Pink Floyd bass guitarist and songwriter Roger Waters. It is his second solo album....	Roger Waters Roger Waters George Roger Waters is an England rock music musician. He is best known as the bass guitar player and one of the main songwriters in the English rock band Pink Floyd from 1964 to 1985....
19	Sammy Hagar I Never Said Goodbye I Never Said Goodbye is a Sammy Hagar solo album, his only solo album to date released while Hagar was a member of Van Halen. The album was recorded in ten days as a contractual obligation to Geffen Records as a condition of his leaving the label to join Van Halen....	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 ....	later re-titled I Never Said Goodbye
21	Pride	White Lion White Lion White Lion is an United States/Denmark glam metal band that formed in New York City in 1983 by Denmark vocalist Mike Tramp and United States guitarist Vito Bratta....
25	Cleanse Fold and Manipulate Cleanse Fold and Manipulate Cleanse Fold and Manipulate is a 1987 album by Skinny Puppy....	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....
22	Clutching at Straws Clutching at Straws Clutching at Straws is the fourth studio album by progressive rock band Marillion, and is a concept album. Released in 1987, it was the last album with lead singer Fish who left the band in 1988....	Marillion Marillion Marillion are a United Kingdom Rock group. Formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England in 1979, their recorded studio output comprises fifteen albums and is generally regarded as comprising two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original vocalist & frontman Fish in late 1988 after their first four albums, and the subsequent arr...
29	Once Bitten...	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"....
30	La Bamba soundtrack La Bamba (film) La Bamba is an United States biographical film written and directed by Luis Valdez. The picture features Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, among others....	Los Lobos Los Lobos Los Lobos are an United States rock band. They are 3-time Grammy Award winners. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tejano music, country music, folk music, R&B, blues and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as boleros and norte?o s....  et al.	Soundtrack
	Life	Neil Young Neil Young Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....  & Crazy Horse Crazy Horse Crazy Horse was a respected war leader of the Oglala Lakota, who fought against the U.S. federal government in an effort to preserve the traditions and values of the Lakota people way of life....
?	Classics Live II Classics Live I and II Classics Live and Classics Live II are a set of albums by the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, released in 1986 and 1987, respectively....	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"....	Live
	Sold Sold (album) Sold is the debut album solo album by United Kingdom pop rock / soul music singer Boy George, released in 1987, for Virgin Music label, including the following single : "Everything I Own" , Keep Me In Mind , To Be Reborn , and the title track Sold ....	Boy George Boy George Boy George is an England singer-songwriter who was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s. He helped give androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s....
	Whitney Whitney (album) Whitney is the second studio album by United States pop music/contemporary R&B singer Whitney Houston, released on June 29, 1987 by Arista Records....	Whitney Houston Whitney Houston Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
	Priest...Live! Priest...Live! Priest...Live! is the second live album by Judas Priest, recorded during two shows in their World Tour of 1986.All of the songs on Priest...Live! were recorded on their 1986 Fuel for Life tour which supported the Turbo album....	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....	Live
	1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) 1987 is the debut album of The KLF . 1987 was produced using extensive unauthorised Sampling which plagiarised a wide range of musical works, continuing a theme begun in The JAMs' debut single "All You Need Is Love " ....	The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu The KLF The KLF, also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu , The Timelords and other names, were one of the seminal bands from the Music of the United Kingdom acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s....	recalled over copyright violation claim
	Keel Keel (album) Keel is the fourth album by the Glam metal, Heavy metal music band Keel , released on June 21, 1987. This was the last album to feature guitarists Marc Ferrari and Brian Jay, as they left the band a year later....	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....
Bigger and Deffer Bigger and Deffer Bigger and Deffer is the second studio album by rapper LL Cool J and is remembered most for containing the first commercially successful "rap ballad", "I Need Love"....	LL Cool J LL Cool J James Todd Smith , better known as LL Cool J, is an American rapper and actor. LL Cool J stands for "Ladies love Cool James." He is known for romantic ballads such as "I Need Love" and "Hey Lover" as well as pioneering hip-hop such as "Headsprung", "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", "Mama Said Knock You O...
Sister Sister (Sonic Youth album) Sister is an album by alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released in 1987 on SST Records. It was re-released in late 1994 on DGC.The album furthers the band's move away from noise rock towards more traditional pop structures, while maintaining an aggressively experimental approach....	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 ....

July

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
6	In the Dark In the Dark In the Dark is the twelfth studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between January 6 and 13, 1987 and originally released on July 6, 1987....	The Grateful Dead
Echo & the Bunnymen Echo & the Bunnymen (album) Echo & the Bunnymen is the fifth studio album by the British post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen, and the last with founder member Ian McCulloch and drummer Pete de Freitas....	Echo & the Bunnymen Echo & the Bunnymen Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk group, formed in Liverpool in 1978. Their original lineup consisted of singer Ian McCulloch , guitarist Will Sergeant and bassist Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine....
7	Touch	Laura Branigan Laura Branigan Laura Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actor of Irish American ancestry. She is best known for her Top-10 hit "Self Control" , her biggest hit from the Platinum album of the same name....
	Paid in Full Paid in Full (album) Paid in Full is the debut studio album of hip hop music duo Eric B. & Rakim, released on July 7, 1987 through the Island Records subsidiary label 4th & B'way Records....	Eric B. & Rakim Eric B. & Rakim Eric Barrier and Rakim were a hip hop music duo from Long Island, New York, in the borough of Queens, New York, New York City, who recorded as Eric B....
	Faster Pussycat Faster Pussycat (album) Faster Pussycat is the debut album of the band of the same name. The album rose to #97 on the Billboard 200 chart....	Faster Pussycat Faster Pussycat Faster Pussycat is an United States hard rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1986.The group was most successful during the late 1980s with their albums Faster Pussycat and 1989 gold album Wake Me When It's Over that sold 500,000 copies....
Frehley's Comet Frehley's Comet (album) Frehley's Comet is the second solo release from Ace Frehley, co-founder and former lead guitarist of Kiss . It was the first album Frehley released after leaving KISS in 1982....	Ace Frehley Ace Frehley Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley is an United States guitarist best known as an original member and lead guitarist for the rock music band Kiss . He took on the persona of 'Space Ace' when the band adopted costumes and theatrics....
The Legacy	Testament Testament (band) Testament is an American thrash metal band from San Francisco, formed in 1983. Testament has two Top 40 albums and one Top 50 album to its credit in the UK....
10	One Way Home One Way Home One Way Home is the third studio album by American rock band The Hooters and was released in 1987....	The Hooters The Hooters The Hooters are an United States rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By combining a mix of rock and roll, ska and folk music, The Hooters first gained major commercial success in the United States in the mid 1980s due to heavy radio and MTV airplay of several songs including "Day By Day," "And We Danced" and "Where Do The Children Go."...
13	Introducing the Hardline According to... Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby is Sananda Maitreya's first album released in 1987 on Columbia Records. It was an instant number-one smash in the UK, selling a million copies within the first three days of its release that July....	Terence Trent D'Arby	UK
21	Dream Evil Dream Evil (album) Dream Evil is Dio's fourth album, released on July 21, 1987.Dream Evil features former Rough Cutt members Craig Goldy and Claude Schnell....	Dio
	Appetite for Destruction Appetite for Destruction Appetite for Destruction is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. Released in 1987 , it was well received by critics and topped the American Billboard 200 chart....	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....
Who's That Girl soundtrack Who's That Girl (soundtrack) Who's That Girl is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name starring United States singer-songwriter Madonna , who also performs four of the album's nine songs....	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....  et al.	Soundtrack
27	In My Tribe In My Tribe In My Tribe is an album by folk-rock band 10,000 Maniacs. It was their second major-label album and their first to achieve large-scale success....	10,000 Maniacs 10,000 Maniacs 10,000 Maniacs was a United States-based alternative rock band, formed in 1981 and active with various line-ups through 2007. Their best-known member is Natalie Merchant, who left the band in 1993 to pursue a solo career....
Within the Realm of a Dying Sun Within the Realm of a Dying Sun Within the Realm of a Dying Sun is the third album recorded by Dead Can Dance, the duo composed of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, in 1987....	Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance is a band composed of Lisa Gerrard , and Brendan Perry . Formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1981 and initially based there, it disbanded in 1998 but reunited temporarily for a world tour in 2005....
?	Recently Recently (Joan Baez album) Recently was a 1987 album by Joan Baez. At the time of its release, it was the performer's first album of new material issued in the U.S. in eight years....	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....
	You're Living All Over Me You're Living All Over Me You're Living All Over Me is the second album by the United States indie rock band Dinosaur Jr., released in 1987 on SST Records. The album was named after a line uttered by frontman J....	Dinosaur Jr.
	Rhyme Pays Rhyme Pays Rhyme Pays is the debut album of Ice T, released in 1987 in music.The album, especially tracks like "6 'N the Mornin'," is considered to have defined the gangsta rap genre, and was the first hip-hop album to carry a Parental Advisory warning label, although it was years before the industry-standard explicit-lyrics sticker was developed....	Ice T Ice T Tracy Marrow , better known by his stage name Ice-T, is a Grammy Award and NAACP Image Award winning rapper, actor, and author. He is credited with helping to pioneer gangsta rap, a sub-genre of hip hop music, in the late 1980s....
Strange Weather Strange Weather (Marianne Faithfull album) Strange Weather is a 1987 studio album by British singer Marianne Faithfull.This album is the first complete studio work recorded by Marianne Faithfull after recovering from a 17-year addiction to heroin in 1986....	Marianne Faithfull Marianne Faithfull Marianne Faithfull is an award-winning England singer, songwriter, actor and diarist whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s....
Scum Scum (album) Scum is the first record album by the English grindcore band Napalm Death.The Side A of the Scum album was originally recorded for ?50.00 at Rich Bitch studio in August 1986: it was intended to form part of a split release with the English crossover thrash band Atavistic on Manic Ears records ....	Napalm Death Napalm Death Napalm Death are an English death metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1981. They are noted for being the first band to play the style known as grindcore....

August

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
3	Hysteria	Def Leppard Def Leppard Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
7	Hurricane Eyes	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 ...	Japan
17	Substance	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....
18	Out of the Blue Out of the Blue (Debbie Gibson album) Out of the Blue is the debut album by United States singer-songwriter Deborah Gibson. Gibson personally wrote all ten songs on this album. As executive producer, Douglas Breitbart of Broadbeard Productions, Inc....	Debbie Gibson
21	The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited is an Extended play released by the United States Heavy metal music band Metallica in August 1987. It is to be considered an unofficial release, as opposed to Garage Inc., a compilation....	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....	Covers EP
	Dirty Dancing soundtrack Dirty Dancing (soundtrack) Dirty Dancing is the original soundtrack of the 1987 Dirty Dancing. The album became a huge commercial success in the USA. It spent 18 weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 album sales charts and went platinum eleven times....	Various Artists Various artists Sorry, no overview for this topic	Soundtrack
24	The Lonesome Jubilee The Lonesome Jubilee The Lonesome Jubilee is the ninth album by John Mellencamp, released in 1987 on the Mercury Records label. It has considerable country music and folk music influences, including the use of steel guitar, violins, accordion and hammond organ....	John Mellencamp John Mellencamp John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names John Cougar and John Cougar Mellencamp, is a Grammy-winning United States rock music singer-songwriter, musician, artist and occasional actor....
25	Permanent Vacation Permanent Vacation (album) Permanent Vacation is the ninth studio album by United States hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1987.The album marks a turning point in the band's career....	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"....
31	Bad Bad (album) Bad is the seventh album by Michael Jackson. It was released on August 31, 1987 by Epic Records. The record was released nearly five years after his last studio album Thriller ....	Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
?	White Fields White Fields White Fields is the first album by The Escape Club, issued in August 1987....	The Escape Club The Escape Club The Escape Club was an England rock band based in London and formed in 1983. The band consisted of lead singer/rhythm guitarist Trevor Steel, guitarist John Holliday, bassist Johnnie Christo and drummer Milan Zekavica....
	Jane's Addiction Jane's Addiction (album) Jane's Addiction is the live 1987 in music debut album by Jane's Addiction. The audience track is from a Los Lobos concert. The recording contains many studio overdubs and was released in 1987....	Jane's Addiction Jane's Addiction Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. For most of its career, the band was composed of vocalist Perry Farrell, bassist Eric Avery, guitarist Dave Navarro, and drummer Stephen Perkins....	Live
Diesel and Dust Diesel and Dust Diesel and Dust is an album by Midnight Oil that was released in 1987 under the CBS record label.The album is a concept album about the struggles of the Australian Indigenous Australians and environmental causes, issues both near and dear to the band, and follows the Black Fella White Fella tour of remote Indigenous communities with...	Midnight Oil Midnight Oil Midnight Oil, or the Oils to fans, was an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drum kit Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard instrument/lead guitarist Jim Moginie....

September

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	Document Document (album) Document is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released in 1987 a few months after their rarities collection Dead Letter Office appeared and is the last album of new material by the band released on the I.R.S....	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 ....
5	Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll (Motörhead album) Rock 'N' Roll is the eighth album by England Heavy metal music band Mot?rhead and the first appearance of their four-piece line up of Lemmy, Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, W?rzel and Phil Campbell , which lasted from 1987 until 1992....	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....
7	Actually Actually (album) Actually is the third album, the second of entirely new music, by the United Kingdom electronic music group Pet Shop Boys. It was first released in 1987....	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....
Islands Islands (Mike Oldfield album) Islands is the 11th album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1987 in music. Guest singers on the album are Bonnie Tyler, Kevin Ayers, Anita Hegerland and Jim Price....	Mike Oldfield Mike Oldfield Mike Oldfield is an England multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk music, ethnic or world music, European classical music, electronic music, New Age music and more recently dance music....
8	A Momentary Lapse of Reason A Momentary Lapse of Reason A Momentary Lapse of Reason is Pink Floyd's 1987 album, the band's first release after the departure of Roger Waters from the band in 1985. The album reached #3 on both the United States and United Kingdom charts....	Pink Floyd Pink Floyd Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....	UK
	Go On... Go On... Go On... was the third album by United States Pop music band Mr. Mister. It was released in 1987, and featured a more serious tone than their previous album Welcome to the Real World , which was commercially successful....	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....
Hold Your Fire Hold Your Fire Hold Your Fire is the twelfth studio album by the Canada rock music band Rush , released in the fall of 1987 . The album was recorded at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, Ridge Farm Studio in Surrey, Associated Independent Recording#AIR Montserrat in Montserrat and at McClear Place in Toronto, Ontario....	Rush Rush (band) Rush is a Canadian Rock music band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale, Toronto neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, currently composed of bass guitar, keyboard instrument, and singer Geddy Lee; electric guitar Alex Lifeson; and drum kit and lyricist Neil Peart....
9	Earth, Sun, Moon Earth, Sun, Moon Earth, Sun, Moon is the third album by the Great Britain band Love and Rockets , released in 1987 on Beggar's Banquet Records.While the album continued in a psychedelic music vein, the band also experimented with a folk music sound....	Love and Rockets Love and Rockets (band) Love and Rockets are an alternative rock band formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash , David J and Kevin Haskins . Former Bauhaus vocalist, Peter Murphy , had embarked on a solo career after Bauhaus split in 1983....
11	Crest of a Knave Crest of a Knave Crest of a Knave is an album by the United Kingdom progressive rock group Jethro Tull , released in 1987.The album relied more heavily on Martin Barre's electric guitar than the band had since the 1970s which made the album the more popular among Tull fans as many of them disapproved of the electronic/synthesizer direction followed by J...	Jethro Tull Jethro Tull (band) Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
Together Again	The Temptations The Temptations The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
14	Introduce Yourself Introduce Yourself Introduce Yourself is Faith No More's second album, released in 1987. Due to the limited availability of the first album, We Care a Lot , many, including the band, once considered this Faith No More's true debut album....	Faith No More Faith No More Faith No More is an American alternative metal band who formed in San Francisco, California, and were active between 1984 and 1998. Faith No More combined elements of heavy metal music, funk music, progressive rock, hip hop music, hardcore punk, thrash metal, and jazz, among many others, and have been hailed as an influential rock band....
Primitive Cool Primitive Cool Primitive Cool is the second solo album by The Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger and was released in 1987 in music. As the follow-up to Jagger's 1985 success She's the Boss, Primitive Cool was another attempt by Mick to make him a solo star, being more ambitious....	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....
15	Halfway to Sanity Halfway to Sanity Halfway to Sanity is the tenth studio album by the American punk band the Ramones. It was released on September 15 1987. It was the last album to feature Richie Ramone....	Ramones Ramones The Ramones were an American Rock music band often regarded as the first punk rock group. Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, Queens, New York, in 1974, all of the band members adopted stage names ending with "Ramone", though none of them were actually related....
Tiffany Tiffany (album) Tiffany is the self-titled debut album by Tiffany , released in May 1987 . Tiffany had begun working with manager/producer George Tobin several years earlier, with some of the tracks recorded as early as when she was 12 years old, in 1984; the album was released early in 1987....	Tiffany Tiffany (singer) Tiffany Renee Darwish , known popularly as Tiffany, is an United States singing who had a number of teen pop hits during the late-1980s. Since then she has performed in a variety of genres, from country to dance, both in America and other countries....
16	Visual Lies	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....
17	London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2 London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2 'London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2' is a 1987 album featuring Frank Zappa's music performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. It is the follow-up to 1983's London Symphony Orchestra, Vol....	Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
18	Crazy Nights Crazy Nights Crazy Nights is the 14th album by United States hard rock band Kiss . It was the fourth Kiss album in a row to achieve platinum status. The album peaked at #18 on the U.S....	KISS KISS (band) Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
21	Piledriver - The Wrestling Album II Piledriver - The Wrestling Album 2 Piledriver: The Wrestling Album 2 was an album released by the World Wrestling Entertainment in 1987. It featured actual vocal performances from several of the wrestlers themselves....	World Wrestling Federation World Wrestling Entertainment World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated arts and sports entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales....
22	Man of Colours	Icehouse Icehouse (band) Icehouse is an Australian Rock music band, formed as Flowers in 1977 in Sydney. Initially known in Australia for their Pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success utilising synthpop and attained Top Ten singles chart success in both Europe and the U.S....	Australia
28	Music for the Masses Music for the Masses Music for the Masses is the sixth studio album by Depeche Mode. Released by Mute Records on September 28 1987, it provided the band with mainstream success in the United States for the first time since Some Great Reward, and the new styles of music that appeared on the album and its predecessor Black Celebration formed the founda...	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 ....
	Strangeways, Here We Come Strangeways, Here We Come Strangeways, Here We Come is the fourth and final studio album by The Smiths, originally released in 1987. The album takes its title from Manchester's notorious Strangeways Prison, whilst the line "Borstal, here we come" is taken from Billy Liar ....	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 Generator Big Generator Big Generator is the twelfth studio album by progressive rock band Yes . It was released in 1987 on Atlantic Records' Atco Records subsidiary label and was the follow-up to the massively successful 90125 album....	Yes Yes (band) Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
29	The Uplift Mofo Party Plan The Uplift Mofo Party Plan The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is the third studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers, produced by Michael Beinhorn and released in 1987 through EMI....	Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Grammy Award-winning American Rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members are vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Flea , and drummer Chad Smith....
?	Wow! Wow! (album) WOW! is the fourth album released by Bananarama. It is entirely produced and co-written with the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio and is the last album by the girl group to generate significant chart hits in the U.S....	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....
	The Hunger The Hunger (album) The Hunger is an album by Michael Bolton, released in 1987 on the Columbia records label. This was his breakthrough album, with the hits "That's What Love Is All About" and the Otis Redding cover version " The Dock of the Bay."...	Michael Bolton Michael Bolton Michael Bolton , is an United States singer-songwriter and a former heavy metal music singer, best known for his soft rock ballads and tenor vocals....
	Between The Lines	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....
	Wild in the Streets	Helix Helix (band) Helix are a Canada Heavy metal music band that formed in 1974 and are best known for their 1984 single "Rock You". The original lineup was formed by drummer Bruce Arnold, and consisted of lead vocalist Brian Vollmer, guitarists Ron Watson and Rick "Minstrel" Trembley, keyboardist Don Simmons, and bassist Keith "Bert" Zurbrigg....
	Darklands Darklands (album) Darklands is the second album by Scotland alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain. Unlike their previous album, drum machines were used in place of drummer Bobby Gillespie, who had left to pursue a successful career as the frontman with Primal Scream....	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 ....
Poetic Champions Compose Poetic Champions Compose Poetic Champions Compose is an album by Northern Ireland singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1987 .As described by Brian Hinton: "It is an album which is more than the sum of its parts, exuding an overall sense of calm and optimism."...	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....
Hall of the Mountain King	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 ....
All Systems Go All Systems Go (Donna Summer album) All Systems Go is an album by Donna Summer released in 1987. Best remembered for her disco hits during the 1970s, Summer had been signed to Geffen Records since 1980 and this would be her final album with the label....	Donna Summer Donna Summer Donna Summer is an United States singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music.Summer was trained as a gospel music singer prior to her introduction to the music industry....
Popped In Souled Out Popped In Souled Out Popped In Souled Out is the debut album by Wet Wet Wet. It was released on September 28, 1987. Its offspring singles were "Wishing I Was Lucky", "Sweet Little Mystery", "Angel Eyes " and "Temptation "....	Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet are a Scotland Popular music band that formed in the 1980s. They scored a number of hits in the United Kingdom charts and around the world....	UK

October

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
5	Heaven on Earth Heaven on Earth (album) Heaven on Earth is the second solo album by Belinda Carlisle and her most successful to date. Released in late 1987 in music it featured three singles that made the Top 10 charts in the United States, including the #1 hit "Heaven Is a Place On Earth"....	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....
	Raise Your Fist and Yell Raise Your Fist and Yell Raise Your Fist and Yell was the 1987 release by Alice Cooper. It features the track "Prince of Darkness", which is featured very briefly in the John Carpenter Prince of Darkness , in which Cooper has a cameo as a murderous vagrant....	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...
Introducing the Hardline According to... Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby is Sananda Maitreya's first album released in 1987 on Columbia Records. It was an instant number-one smash in the UK, selling a million copies within the first three days of its release that July....	Terence Trent D'Arby	US
7	Pleasures of the Flesh Pleasures of the Flesh Pleasures of the Flesh is the second album by Exodus , released in 1987 in music. This is the first Exodus album to feature Steve Souza on vocals....	Exodus Exodus (band) Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in San Francisco, California by guitarist Gary Holt , current Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, and singer/drummer Tom Hunting....
9	Tunnel of Love Tunnel of Love (album) Tunnel of Love is the eighth studio album by Bruce Springsteen released in 1987 .In 1998, Q readers voted Tunnel of Love the 91st greatest album of all time....	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....
13	...Nothing Like the Sun ...Nothing Like the Sun ?Nothing Like the Sun is a 1987 double album by Sting . The title comes from Shakespeare's sonnets #130 , which Sting used in the song "Sister Moon"....	Sting
19	Kick Kick (album) Kick is an album by the Australian Rock music band INXS, released in 1987. It is their best-selling album to date and according to Story to Story: The Official Autobiography has sold more than 10 million copies in the U.S....	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....
26	Live at Wembley	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...	UK; Live
30	Faith Faith (George Michael album) Faith is George Michael's first solo album, released in October 1987 via Columbia Records/Epic Records. The album is widely considered one of the greatest albums in pop music history, and won several awards including the Grammy Award for Album of the Year....	George Michael George Michael Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou , best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning, England singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! as well as a soul music-influenced, solo Pop music musician....
Schizophrenia	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...
?	Raising Fear	Armored Saint Armored Saint Armored Saint is a Los Angeles, United States, based Heavy metal band....	EP
	Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll	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....	Soundtrack
	Perfect Timing	McAuley Schenker Group McAuley Schenker Group McAuley-Schenker Group was a musical band featuring core members Robin McAuley and Michael Schenker , a successor to Schenker's earlier Michael Schenker Group....
	Pop Goes the World Pop Goes the World (album) Pop Goes the World is the name of the third album, and a hit single, by the Canadian pop group Men Without Hats. It was released in 1987 in music....	Men Without Hats Men Without Hats Men Without Hats are a pop music group from Canberra, Australia who achieved their greatest popularity in the early to mid 1980s. They were characterized by the deep, expressive vocals of their lead singer Ivan Doroschuk and their elaborate use of synthesizers and electronic processing....
	Come on Pilgrim Come on Pilgrim Come On Pilgrim is the debut release from the United States alternative rock band Pixies, released on the British independent record label 4AD in September 1987....	Pixies	EP
Surfing With the Alien Surfing with the Alien Surfing with the Alien is the second album by instrumental rock solo artist Joe Satriani, released in 1987. Surfing with the Alien contributed greatly to establishing Satriani's reputation as a respected rock guitarist....	Joe Satriani Joe Satriani Joseph "Satch" Satriani is an United States multiple nominated Grammy Award multi-instrumentalist, best known as an instrumental rock guitarist....
A Very Special Christmas A Very Special Christmas (album) A Very Special Christmas is the first in a A Very Special Christmas of Christmas music-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics....	Various Artists Various artists Sorry, no overview for this topic

November

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
2	Cloud Nine Cloud Nine (George Harrison album) Cloud Nine is the successful 1987 comeback album by George Harrison, recorded and released after a five year hiatus from his recording career....	George Harrison George Harrison George Harrison Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"....
	All the Best! All the Best! All the Best! was the second official compilation album of Paul McCartney music, after 1978's Wings Greatest and was released in 1987. The album contained tracks from the beginning of his solo career in 1970 through the newly recorded "Once Upon a Long Ago." The track inclusion and running order varied slightly between UK and U.S....	Paul McCartney Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....	Greatest Hits
Don't Let's Start (EP) Don't Let's Start (EP) Don't Let's Start is the name of a They Might Be Giants Extended play, released November 2, 1987 by Bar/None Records.The entire contents of this EP also appear on the compilation albums Miscellaneous T and Then: The Earlier Years....	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....	EP
3	Cher Cher (1987 album) Cher is the nineteenth album by United States singer-actress Cher, released on November 10, 1987 by Geffen Records. The RIAA certified it Platinum on February 1992....	Cher Cher Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
4	The Lion and the Cobra The Lion and the Cobra The Lion and the Cobra is the 1987 debut album by Irish people singer Sin?ad O'Connor. O'Connor, age 20 at the time, recorded the album while very pregnant with her first child....	Sinéad O'Connor Sinéad O'Connor Sin?ad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is a Grammy Award-winning Ireland singer-songwriter....
6	How Ya Like Me Now How Ya Like Me Now How Ya Like Me Now is the second album by rapper, Kool Moe Dee.Kool Moe Dee was an original member of The Treachorus Three. He had a long running feud with LL Cool J releasing various "diss" records at his adversary....	Kool Moe Dee Kool Moe Dee Mohandas Dewese , better known as Kool Moe Dee, is an United States Old school hip hop MC prominent in the late 1970s, throughout the 1980s and early 1990s....
	N.W.A. and the Posse N.W.A. and the Posse N.W.A. and the Posse was a 1987 Macola Records release that compiled various Dr. Dre-produced tracks and was marketed as an album by N.W.A. It includes previously released tracks by N.W.A, Eazy-E, the Fila Fresh Crew, and Rappinstine....	N.W.A. N.W.A. N.W.A was a Compton, California, California-based hip hop music group widely considered one of the seminal acts of the gangsta rap sub-genre. Active from 1986 to 1991, the group endured controversy due to the explicit nature of their lyrics....	Compilation "debut"
	Less Than Zero soundtrack Less Than Zero (film) Less Than Zero is a 1987 film loosely based on the Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis. It stars Andrew McCarthy as Clay, a college freshman returning home for Christmas to find his ex-girlfriend has been having sex with his high school friend who is also a junkie and being hassled by his dealer to whom he owes money....	Various Artists Various artists Sorry, no overview for this topic	Soundtrack
Characters Characters (album) Characters is a Grammy Awards of 1989-nominated album by mutiple Grammy Award-winning United States R&B/Soul music singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder, released by Motown Records on the Tamla Label on November 6, 1987....	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...
7	Secrets of the Beehive Secrets of the Beehive Secrets of the Beehive is the third solo album of David Sylvian, which was released in 1987. Produced by Steve Nye and David Sylvian, the album features Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Torn, Mark Isham and Steve Jansen among others....	David Sylvian David Sylvian David Sylvian is an England singer, musician and composer who first gained attention as the lead singer and main songwriter in the group Japan ....
Calm Before the Storm Calm Before the Storm Calm Before the Storm is the fifth album by Venom . The original title of the album would have been "Deadline", but the title was changed when guitarist Jeffrey Dunn left the band and was replaced by Jimi Clare and Mike Hickey....	Venom Venom (band) Venom are an English extreme metal band, formed in 1978 in Newcastle upon Tyne.Considered a seminal influence for thrash metal and coming to prominence towards the end of the 'New Wave of British Heavy Metal', Venom have found little mainstream success or critical acclaim, but are widely regarded as highly influential, particularly for thei...
9	Nightfall Nightfall (album) Nightfall is the second album by Sweden doom metal band Candlemass released in 1987. It was the first album to feature Messiah Marcolin on vocals....	Candlemass Candlemass Candlemass is a Sweden Doom metal#Epic doom band established in the 1980s by Leif Edling , its leader and songwriter. The band is originally from Stockholm....
Savage Savage (album) Savage is the seventh album by the British pop music duo Eurythmics, released in 1987 in music.Following the much more mainstream commercial content of their previous two albums, Savage saw Eurythmics "turn sharp left" , with a much more experimental sound....	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....	UK
13	Floodland Floodland Floodland is the second album by The Sisters of Mercy, released in 1987. Composed and produced by Andrew Eldritch, it marked a change of direction from guitar-oriented rock towards synthesizer-based productions....	The Sisters of Mercy The Sisters of Mercy The Sisters of Mercy are an England Rock music band that formed in 1980. After achieving early underground fame in UK, the band had their commercial breakthrough in mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new recorded output as a strike against their record company....
16	Whenever You Need Somebody	Rick Astley Rick Astley Richard Paul Astley is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Astley is married to producer Lene Bausager and has one daughter. Astley has released or appeared on recordings that have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide....
The Eternal Idol The Eternal Idol The Eternal Idol is the thirteenth studio album by Black Sabbath, released in 1987 in music. It is the first of several Black Sabbath albums to feature longtime vocalist Tony Martin ....	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....
17	Back for the Attack Back for the Attack Back for the Attack is the fourth studio album by Heavy Metal music band Dokken, released in 1987....	Dokken Dokken Dokken is an United States Heavy metal music and hard rock band that was formed in 1978. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide....
You Can Dance You Can Dance You Can Dance is the first remix album by United States singer-songwriter Madonna , released on November 17, 1987 by Sire Records. The album contains remixes of tracks from her first three studio albums and a new track, "Spotlight ," which gained moderate airplay in the United States....	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....	Remix
24	Make It Last Forever Make It Last Forever (album) Make It Last Forever was R&B artist Keith Sweat's debut album. It was released on November 24, 1987. Make It Last Forever is considered one of the most popular and well-known albums of the New jack swing era of R&B....	Keith Sweat Keith Sweat Keith Sweat, born on July 22, 1961 in Harlem, New York, is an United States Contemporary R&B/soul music, singer-songwriter, record producer and a major contributor to the New jack swing era....
26	Live...In the Raw Live...In the Raw Live...In the Raw is the first live album by W.A.S.P. , released in 1987. This album can be seen as something of a breakwater between the 'old' W.A.S.P....	W.A.S.P.	Live
?	I'm the Man I'm the Man I'm the Man is the name of the second EP by the band Anthrax . The album was released in 1987 by Megaforce Records/Island Records. The band, Eddie Kramer and Paul Hammingson produced the album, which includes the single, "I'm the Man"....	Anthrax Anthrax (band) Anthrax is a New York City-based Heavy metal music band that released its first full-length album in 1984. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene and is notable for being the first to combine heavy metal with Hip hop music music....	EP
	The Princess Bride Soundtrack The Princess Bride (film) The Princess Bride is a 1987 in film film, based on the 1973 in literature The Princess Bride by William Goldman, combining comedy, Adventure , romance film and fantasy....	Mark Knopfler Mark Knopfler Mark Knopfler Order of the British Empire is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter and film score composer.Knopfler is best-known as the lead guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977 with his brother David Knopfler....	Soundtrack
	Surveillance Surveillance (album) Surveillance is the ninth studio album by Canada hard rock band Triumph , released July 27, 1987 . The album was recorded at Metalworks Studios, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada....	Triumph Triumph (band) Triumph is a Canada hard rock band that was popular in the late 1970s through the 1980s. Eight of the band's albums were certified gold or higher, and Triumph was nominated for multiple Juno Awards, including Group of the Year Award in 1979, 1985, 1986 and 1987....

December

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	Persecution Mania Persecution Mania Persecution Mania is the second album by Sodom . The album marked a drastic change of sound from primitive black metal to thrash metal. As well as defining Sodom 's sound, it exemplified the thrash metal genre at a time when it arguably peaked in popularity....	Sodom Sodom (band) Sodom is a Germany thrash metal band from Gelsenkirchen, formed in 1982.Along with Kreator and Destruction , Sodom are considered one of the "big three" of Teutonic thrash metal....
4	Inside Information Inside Information Inside Information is the sixth studio album by United States rock and roll band Foreigner , released in 1987. "Say You Will " was released as a single and reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100....	Foreigner Foreigner (band) Foreigner is a Rock music band formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald , along with then-unknown vocalist Lou Gramm ....
5	Now That's What I Call Music 10 Now That's What I Call Music 10 (U.K. series) Now That's What I Call Music 10 or Now 10 was released in 1987. The album is the 10th edition of the Now That's What I Call Music series....  (UK series)	Various Artists	Compilation
?	Sinitta!	Sinitta	UK
	The Old Masters Box Three	Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....	Box Set

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• Alphabet City
  Alphabet City (album)
  
  Alphabet City is an album by the band ABC released in 1987.Following a hiatus while Fry was treated for Hodgkin's disease, ABC returned to the studio to record Alphabet City, which they thought might be their final album....
   - ABC
• Yesterday Started Tomorrow
  Yesterday Started Tomorrow
  
  Yesterday Started Tomorrow is an EP by Angry Samoans, released in 1987. The EP featured a major style change contrasting with their first two albums....
   (EP) - Angry Samoans
  Angry Samoans
  
  The Angry Samoans are an American punk band in the List of musicians in the first wave of punk music of American punk. Formed in August 1978 in Los Angeles, California by early 70's rock writer Mike Saunders and his brother lead guitarist Kevin Eric Saunders, along with co-conspirator Gregg Turner and original recruits bassist Todd Homer and...
  
• Strength of Steel - Anvil (band)
  Anvil (band)
  
  Anvil are a Canadian Heavy Metal music band.The roots of Anvil began in April 1973 in Toronto, Ontario, when high school friends Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner began playing music together....
  
• Jackomo - Little Annie Anxiety Bandez
• Daddy's Highway
  Daddy's Highway
  
  The 1987 debut album by Christchurch, New Zealand indie rock group The Bats. An edited instrumental version of the song "North by North" was used as the theme music for the Australian comedy show The Hollowmen, which first aired in July 2008....
   - The Bats
  The Bats
  
  The Bats are an influential New Zealand Rock music Musical ensemble formed in 1982 in Christchurch by Paul Kean , Malcolm Grant , Robert Scott and Kaye Woodward ....
  
• Bennett/Berlin
  Bennett/Berlin
  
  Bennett/Berlin is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1987, recorded as a tribute to Irving Berlin....
   - Tony Bennett
  Tony Bennett
  
  Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
  
• Annihilate This Week
  Annihilate This Week
  
  Annihilate This Week was an EP released by American hardcore punk band Black Flag in 1987 on SST Records. It features three live songs, the title track being taken from the band's final show and the other two taken from Who's Got the 10??....
   (EP) - Black Flag
  Black Flag (band)
  
  Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes....
  
• Wasted...Again
  Wasted...Again
  
  Wasted...Again is an album released by American hardcore punk band Black Flag in 1987 on SST Records. It is a "best-of" compilation released after Black Flag's breakup in 1986....
   - Black Flag
• Career of Evil: The Metal Years
  Career of Evil: The Metal Years
  
  Career of Evil: The Metal Years is a compilation album by the hard rock band, Blue ?yster Cult, released in 1987. It contains both studio and live versions of their songs....
   - 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"....
  
• Speed Metal Symphony
  Speed Metal Symphony
  
  'Speed Metal Symphony' is the debut album of Neo-classical metal band Cacophony released in 1987 on Shrapnel Records.Quote from Jason Becker's site:"This CD is chock-full of aggressive harmonies and weird counterpoint and polyphony....
   - Cacophony
  Cacophony (band)
  
  Cacophony was an United States Heavy metal music band formed in 1986 by guitarists Marty Friedman and Jason Becker. Cacophony is often recognized for its technically challenging, neo-classical metal and speed metal elements, as well as featuring two shred guitarists....
  
• Secrets Of Synthesis - Wendy Carlos
  Wendy Carlos
  
  Wendy Carlos is an United States composer and electronic musician. She gained fame in the late 1960s for playing on the Moog synthesizer, which was a relatively new and unknown instrument at the time....
  
• King's Record Shop
  King's Record Shop
  
  Although it was not Rosanne Cash's highest charting album at #6, King's Record Shop had the most singles topping the country charts. No fewer than four of its tracks placed #1 on the Billboard Music Charts country singles chart....
   - Rosanne Cash
  Rosanne Cash
  
  Rosanne Cash is an United States singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music singer Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto....
  
• Brave Words
  Brave Words
  
  Brave Words is an album by New Zealand group, The Chills released in 1987....
   - The Chills
  The Chills
  
  The Chills are a guitar and keyboard-based rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand.In terms of public acclaim, The Chills were possibly the most successful proponent of the Dunedin Sound in the 1980s and 1990s, although they never achieved breakout sales or financial success....
  
• Saint Julian
  Saint Julian (album)
  
  Saint Julian is the third solo album by Julian Cope. It has a very strong Pop music sound and spawned several of the artist's best known tracks....
   - Julian Cope
  Julian Cope
  
  Julian Cope is a British Rock music musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, and poet who came to prominence in 1978 as the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band The Teardrop Explodes....
  
• Dawn
  Dawn (Current 93 album)
  
  Dawn is an album by the England group Current 93. It is among the earlier releases of Current 93 and has a more Industrial music sound, compared to the band's current Neofolk sound....
   - Current 93
  Current 93
  
  Current 93 are an eclectic United Kingdom experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk music-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet ....
  
• The Best Of Dalida, Vol. 2 - 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....
   (compilation)
• Silence - Stephan Eicher
  Stephan Eicher
  
  Stephan Eicher is a Swiss singer.His songs are sung in a variety of languages, including French language, German language, English language, Italian language, Swiss-German, and Romanche and sometimes he even uses different languages in the same piece....
  
• The Blanton-Webster Years - Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
  
• Menjaring Matahari - 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....
  
• Death Before Dishonour
  Death Before Dishonour
  
  Death Before Dishonour is the fifth Studio album by the Scotland Punk rock band The Exploited. It was released on April 15, 1987 through Rough Justice Records....
   - The Exploited
  The Exploited
  
  The Exploited are a Scotland punk band from the UK82, formed in 1979.They started out as an Oi! band, before transforming into a faster street punk and hardcore punk band....
  
• Poem of the River
  Poem of the River
  
  Poem of the River is the seventh album by United Kingdom alternative rock band Felt , released in 1987....
   - 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 ....
  
• One Night Stand - Flamin' Groovies
• Official Version - Front 242
  Front 242
  
  Front 242 is a pioneering Belgium electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. During their most active period they influenced many elektro-industrial and electronic artists....
  
• The Initial Command - 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....
  
• State of Mind
  State of Mind (Front Line Assembly album)
  
  State of Mind is the name of an album by industrial music artists Front Line Assembly. It was originally released in 1988 by Dossier, on both Compact Disc and Vinyl record format....
   - 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....
  
• Tallulah
  Tallulah (album)
  
  Tallulah was the fifth album by The Go-Betweens. It was released in 1987 in the United Kingdom on Beggars Banquet Records. Prior to the recording of the album, the group had expanded to a five-piece with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Amanda Brown ....
   - 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....
  
• 2X4
  2X4 (Guadalcanal Diary album)
  
  2X4 is the third album by Guadalcanal Diary . It was released in 1987 ....
   - Guadalcanal Diary
  Guadalcanal Diary (band)
  
  Guadalcanal Diary is an alternative jangle pop group from Marietta, Georgia. The band formed in 1981 and disbanded in 1989. They reformed in 1997 and toured without a new album....
  )
• Music to Strip By - Half Japanese
  Half Japanese
  
  Half Japanese is a rock music band formed by brothers Jad Fair and David Fair in their Uniontown, Maryland bedroom around 1975. Their original instrumentation included a small drum set, which they took turns playing; vocals; and an out of tune guitar....
  
• Bring the Family - John Hiatt
  John Hiatt
  
  John Hiatt is an United States rock and roll guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave music, blues and country music....
  
• Get Close To My Love - Jennifer Holliday
  Jennifer Holliday
  
  Jennifer-Yvette Holliday is a two-time Grammy Award-winning United States singer and actress. She started her career on Broadway theatre in musicals such as Dreamgirls, and later became a successful recording artist....
  
• Akwaba Beach - Mory Kanté
  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...
  
• Too Late To Cry - Alison Krauss
  Alison Krauss
  
  Alison Krauss is an American Bluegrass music-Country music singer and fiddler. She entered the music of the United States at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen....
  
• Shaka Zulu - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  
  Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a male choral group from South Africa that sings in the vocal style of isicathamiya and mbube . They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of singing with Paul Simon on his album, Graceland and have won #Awards and nominations, including three Grammy Awards....
  
• By the Light of the Moon - Los Lobos
  Los Lobos
  
  Los Lobos are an United States rock band. They are 3-time Grammy Award winners. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tejano music, country music, folk music, R&B, blues and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as boleros and norte?o s....
  
• Diminuendo
  Diminuendo (album)
  
  Diminuendo was released in 1987 in Scotland on Nightshift Records, an independent music record label. It was Lowlife 's second album. The LP was recorded at Palladium Studios in Edinburgh, Scotland, and released in May....
   - 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....
  
• Lubricated Goat Plays the Devil's Music (debut) - Lubricated Goat
  Lubricated Goat
  
  Lubricated Goat was an Australian noise rock band of the 1980s.They achieved brief notoriety for playing on a television program naked, with only their instruments....
  
• Immaculate Deception - Ludichrist
  Ludichrist
  
  Ludichrist was an United States of America hardcore punk/speed metal band formed in the 1980s in New York. Their musical style broke from traditional New York hardcore roots by adding aspects of rock music, Heavy metal music and jazz, like extended guitar solos and musical interludes....
  
• Swing Street
  Swing Street
  
  Swing Street is an album by composer and singer Barry Manilow, released in 1987. Most of the tracks on the album featured Manilow in a duet with another singer....
   - Barry Manilow
  Barry Manilow
  
  Barry Manilow is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, arrangement, record producer and conducting, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy ", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana "....
  
• Fighting the World
  Fighting the World
  
  Fighting the World is a Heavy metal music album released by Manowar on 1987 ....
   - Manowar
  Manowar (band)
  
  Manowar is an United States Heavy metal music band from Auburn, New York. Originally formed in 1980, they are known for writing lyrics with an emphasis on the Heavy metal music itself, fantasy fiction , themselves and mythological topics, particularly Norse mythology....
  
• Richard Marx
  Richard Marx (album)
  
  Richard Marx is the self-titled, triple-platinum certified, debut album by singer/songwriter Richard Marx. Released in 1987, Marx became the first solo artist in recording history to reach the Top 3 of the Billboard Hot 100 with four singles from a debut album, including his first #1 Pop single "Hold On To The Nights" in the summer of 19...
   - Richard Marx
  Richard Marx
  
  Richard Noel Marx is an adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever ", and "Hazard "....
  
• Huevos - Meat Puppets
  Meat Puppets
  
  The Meat Puppets are an United States Rock music band formed in January 1980, in the "Sunnyslope" neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood , his brother Cris Kirkwood , and Derrick Bostrom ....
  
• Gluey Porch Treatments
  Gluey Porch Treatments
  
  Gluey Porch Treatments is an album by The Melvins. The album was released in 1987 through Alchemy Records . The original release was vinyl only....
  - The Melvins
  The Melvins
  
  The Melvins are an American sludge metal band that usually perform as a power trio. Aside from the 1984 incarnation which included Buzz, Mike Dillard on drums, and Matt Lukin, Singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer Dale Crover are constant members....
  
• Ballot Result
  Ballot Result
  
  Ballot Result is a posthumous live compilation album by The Minutemen .The story of "Ballot Result" starts with the Tour-Spiel EP in 1984....
  - Minutemen
  Minutemen (band)
  
  The Minutemen were an United States punk rock band formed in San Pedro, California, California in 1980. Comprising guitarist D. Boon, bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley, the Minutemen recorded four albums and eight extended play before Boon's unexpected death in December 1985....
  
• Post-Mersh Vol. 1
  Post-Mersh Vol. 1
  
  Post-Mersh, Vol. 1 is a compilation album by influential punk rock/alternative rock trio Minutemen . It contains both The Punch Line and What Makes a Man Start Fires? respectively....
  - Minutemen
• Post-Mersh Vol. 2
  Post-Mersh Vol. 2
  
  Post-Mersh, Vol. 2 is a compilation album by influential punk rock/alternative rock trio Minutemen . It contains two EPs: Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat and Project: Mersh ....
  - Minutemen
• Stereoland - The Modern Art
  The Modern Art
  
  The Modern Art was a psychedelic rock band formed by Gary Ramon in the 1980s. It had a loose lineup that never played gigs but did see the release of two studio albums and a number of self-produced cassettes....
  
• Pool It! - 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....
  
• Raindancing
  Raindancing
  
  Raindancing is the title of the second solo music recording/album of singer/songwriter Alison Moyet. The album includes four single releases; "Is This Love" , "Weak in the Presence of Beauty", "Ordinary Girl" and "Sleep Like Breathing", a duet with David Freeman of the band The Lover Speaks....
  - Alison Moyet
  Alison Moyet
  
  Alison Moyet , is an England Popular music singer-songwriter noted for her bluesy voice....
  
• Escape From Noise
  Escape from Noise
  
  Escape from Noise is a 1987 in music by Negativland. It marked the band's first break on an established independent record label, SST Records....
  - Negativland
  Negativland
  
  Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song....
  
• In Dreams: The Greatest Hits
  In Dreams: The Greatest Hits
  
  In Dreams: The Greatest Hits is a record album of Roy Orbison songs released in 1987 on Virgin Records. The two-record set was produced by Roy Orbison and Mike Utley except for the song "In Dreams" which was produced by Orbison with T Bone Burnett and film director, David Lynch....
  - Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  
• Taking Over
  Taking Over
  
  Taking Over is the second album by thrash metal band Overkill , released by Megaforce Records records in 1987. The album, was the last to feature Rat Skates on drums, who would leave the band later that year....
  - Overkill
  Overkill (band)
  
  Overkill is an United States thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. The band has been recording since 1984, releasing 14 studio albums, 2 EPs, 2 live albums and a "cover version" album....
  
• Signs of Life - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
  Penguin Cafe Orchestra
  
  The Penguin Cafe Orchestra was a loose assembly of musicians headed by classically-trained guitarist, composer and arranger Simon Jeffes . Only Jeffes and cellist co-founder Helen Liebmann were core members; other musicians were drafted for the requirements of particular pieces or performances....
  
• Maggots: The Record
  Maggots: The Record
  
  Maggots: The Record is the fourth studio album released by punk / metal band The Plasmatics in 1987. The album was released as a special "9th Anniversary Album"....
  - Plasmatics
  Plasmatics
  
  The Plasmatics were an American Punk rock band formed by Yale University graduate and radical anti-artist Rod Swenson with Wendy O. Williams. The band was a controversial group known for wild live shows that broke countless taboos as part of an assault on American popular culture....
  
• Buster Poindexter - Buster Poindexter
• Right Now! - Pussy Galore
• Life's a Bitch - 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"....
  
• Dancing with Strangers
  Dancing with Strangers
  
  Dancing with Strangers is a 1987 album by Chris Rea....
   - Chris Rea
  Chris Rea
  
  Christopher Anton Rea is a singer-songwriter from Middlesbrough, England, recognisable for his distinctive, raspy voice. Rea has sold over 30 million albums worldwide....
  
• The Cowboy Way
  The Cowboy Way (album)
  
  The Cowboy Way is a live recording released by the Western music band Riders in the Sky in 1987 . It is available as a single CD. This is the second live album recorded by Riders in the Sky....
   - 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....
  
• Saddle Pals
  Saddle Pals
  
  Saddle Pals is an album by the Western swing band Riders in the Sky, released in 1987. It is directed toward a children's audience....
   - Riders in the Sky
• Best of the West
  Best of the West (album)
  
  Best of the West is a compilation recording by the Western music band Riders in the Sky, released in 1987. It is available as a single CD and contains highlights from their first five albums on the Rounder label....
   - Riders in the Sky
• Kane Roberts - Kane Roberts
  Kane Roberts
  
  Kane Roberts is a heavy metal music guitarist best known for his tenure in Alice Cooper's band during the late 1980s. He has also performed as a Solo act....
   (former 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...
   guitarist's solo debut)
• Drive by Shooting
  Drive by Shooting
  
  Drive by Shooting is a hardcore punk E.P. by what is essentially the Rollins Band as per the line-up featured on the previous Hot Animal Machine E.P., but credited to "Henrietta Collins & The Wife-Beating Child-Haters....
   (EP) - Henry Rollins
  Henry Rollins
  
  Henry Rollins is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, spoken word, stand-up comedian, author, actor, activist and publisher.After joining the short-lived Washington, D.C....
  
• Hot Animal Machine
  Hot Animal Machine
  
  Hot Animal Machine is a hardcore punk album by what is essentially the Rollins Band. It is only available now in the same 2-in-one package as Drive by Shooting....
   - Henry Rollins
• Life Time
  Life Time
  
  Life Time is the first full-length studio album from Rollins Band, fronted by ex-Black Flag singer, Henry Rollins. The album was produced by Ian MacKaye, well-known in the genre of hardcore punk for his work with Minor Threat and as co-owner of the Dischord Records record label....
   - Rollins Band
  Rollins Band
  
  Rollins Band was an American rock group led by singer and songwriter Henry Rollins.They are best-known for the songs "Low Self Opinion" and "Liar ", which both earned heavy airplay on MTV in the early 1990s....
  
• I Prefer The Moonlight - 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....
  
• Stinkfist - Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch
  Lydia Lunch
  
  Lydia Lunch is an United States singer, poet, writer, and actress....
  
• Live and Loud!!
  Live and Loud!!
  
  Live and Loud!! is the first live album by punk band Sham 69, recorded in 1979 and released in 1987 ....
   - Sham 69
  Sham 69
  
  Sham 69 are an England punk rock band that formed in Hersham in 1975.Although not as commercially successful as many of their contemporaries, albeit with a greater number of chart entries, Sham 69 has been a huge musical and lyrical influence on the Oi! and streetpunk genres....
  
• The Walking
  The Walking
  
  The Walking is a 1987/1988 album by Jane Siberry. The album was released on Reprise Records internationally, but remained on the independent label Duke Street Records in Canada....
   - Jane Siberry
• Coming Around Again
  Coming Around Again (Carly Simon)
  
  Coming Around Again is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's 14th album, and 13th studio album, released in 1987 in music. It is her first of many albums for Arista Records....
   - 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....
  
• Brenda K. Starr - Brenda K. Starr
  Brenda K. Starr
  
  Brenda K. Starr is an United States singer originally in Pop music , but now mostly in Salsa music-based music. She is also well known for her 1980s work with Freestyle music....
  
• Mark Stewart - Mark Stewart
  Mark Stewart (musician)
  
  Mark Stewart is a United Kingdom musician and founding member of The Pop Group. A pioneer of industrial hip-hop, he has recorded for On-U Sound Records and Mute Records....
  
• The Cost of Loving
  The Cost of Loving
  
  The Cost Of Loving is an album from the band The Style Council, released in 1987. This album saw the group concentrating on the R&B styles that had been growing in America during the eighties....
   - 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....
  
• Join the Army
  Join the Army
  
  Join the Army is the second album by Suicidal Tendencies and also their first album since the Suicidal Tendencies in 4 years. This album was released in 1987....
   - Suicidal Tendencies
  Suicidal Tendencies
  
  Suicidal Tendencies is an American hardcore punk and Heavy metal music band. They were formed in Venice, Los Angeles, California, in 1981 by the leader and only permanent member, singer Mike Muir....
  
• Tribe
  Tribe
  
  A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups ....
   - Bernie Taupin
  Bernie Taupin
  
  Bernie Taupin is an England lyricist, singer and poet, most famous for his collaboration with Elton John....
  
• Never Again - TexA.N.S.
• Close to the Bone
  Close to the Bone (Thompson Twins album)
  
  Close To The Bone is the sixth album by the British pop group the Thompson Twins, and was released in March 1987. Now down to a duo of Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie, this was the first album the Thompson Twins made without Joe Leeway....
   - Thompson Twins
  Thompson Twins
  
  The Thompson Twins were a Great Britain Pop music group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the United States and around the globe....
  
• Bridge of Spies - T'Pau
  T'Pau (band)
  
  T'Pau was a late 1980s Pop music musical group led by singer Carol Decker. They had a string of Top 40 chart-topper in the United Kingdom, and several hits in the United States and Europe....
  
• Calenture
  Calenture (album)
  
  Calenture is an album by The Triffids, released in February, 1987 and reached No. 32 on the Australian Album Charts. Calenture also reached No....
   - 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"....
  
• Love Is for Suckers
  Love Is for Suckers
  
  Love Is for Suckers is the fifth album by the Heavy metal music group Twisted Sister. According to the Live At Wacken DVD, the material was originally meant to be a solo album by Twisted Sister's lead singer, Dee Snider, but Twisted Sister's record company pushed for it to be released by the band....
   - Twisted Sister
  Twisted Sister
  
  Twisted Sister is an United States Heavy metal music band from New York City. Their work fuses the shock rock tactics of Alice Cooper, the rebellious mood of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the extravagant image of glam rock bands such as New York Dolls notably for the makeup....
   (final album)
• To the Power of Three
  To the Power of Three
  
  To the Power of Three is the first and only album by progressive rock group 3 . It was released in 1988.The album peaked at #97 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and featured the single "Talkin' Bout", which peaked at #9 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
   - 3
  3 (1980s band)
  
  3 were a short-lived progressive rock band formed by Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer and Robert Berry in 1988.Unsurprisingly, their music has elements of the characteristic ELP sound, but was criticised as less inventive and having a bland Album-oriented rock flavour....
  
• Bird Dog
  Bird Dog (album)
  
  Bird Dog is an album released in 1987 by The Verlaines. The album is often considered to be The Verlaines best, most introspective piece of work, with songs such as Slow Sad Love Song, Bird Dog and C.D., Jimmy, Jazz and Me all appearing on You're just too obscure for me, the group's only compilation to span their entire ca...
   - The Verlaines
  The Verlaines
  
  'The Verlaines' are a rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand notable for combining rock passion with classical compositional ideas. The Verlaines were formed in 1981 by Graeme Downes, Craig Easton, Anita Pillai, Phillip Higham and Greg Kerr; the band went through multiple line-ups before going on an extended hiatus after their 1997 album Over Th...
  
• Triumph And Agony - 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....
   (final album)
• Whitecross - Whitecross
  Whitecross
  
  Whitecross is a Christian metal band that formed in 1986 in Chicago, releasing their first recording the following year. Their early albums, which often invite comparisons to Ratt, are laced with fast, technical electric guitar work....
  
• Live At The Ritz - Ronnie Wood & 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....
  
• Starting Up
  Starting Up
  
  Starting Up is the fourth solo album by Roy Wood, who played most of the instruments and sang most of the vocals throughout, in addition to writing and producing the album....
   - Roy Wood
  Roy Wood
  
  Roy Wood is an England singer-songwriter and musician. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the musical bands The Move, Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard....
  
• Out of Silence
  Out of Silence
  
  Out of Silence is Yanni's third album, released on the Private Music label in 1987 . It was during this year that Yanni was putting together his first touring band which included Giovanna Joyce Imbesi and John Tesh on keyboards, and Charlie Adams on drums....
   - 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....
  
• The Young Gods
  The Young Gods
  
  The Young Gods is a Switzerland Industrial music band. The band's lineup has generally consisted of a vocalist, a sampler operator and a drummer....
   - The Young Gods
  The Young Gods
  
  The Young Gods is a Switzerland Industrial music band. The band's lineup has generally consisted of a vocalist, a sampler operator and a drummer....
  
• 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"....
  

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest in the charts of 1987.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart Entries
1	Los Lobos Los Lobos Los Lobos are an United States rock band. They are 3-time Grammy Award winners. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tejano music, country music, folk music, R&B, blues and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as boleros and norte?o s....	La Bamba La Bamba (song) "La Bamba" La Bamba is a traditional song of the Huasteca region, with greater attachment to the state of Veracruz, is the son jarocho genre and is known popularly as the anthem of Veracruz....	1987		UK 1 - Jul 1987, US BB 1 - Jul 1987, Switzerland 1 - Aug 1987, Italy 1 of 1987, Éire 1 - Jul 1987, New Zealand 1 for 7 weeks Aug 1987, Australia 1 for 7 weeks Apr 1988, Holland 2 - Aug 1987, Australia 2 of 1987, Austria 4 - Oct 1987, Norway 4 - Aug 1987, US BB 8 of 1987, POP 8 of 1987, Germany 9 - Aug 1987, US CashBox 11 of 1987, Sweden 12 - Aug 1987, Poland 17 - Sep 1987, South Africa 17 of 1987, Scrobulate 75 of Latin, KROQ 81 of 1987, RYM 116 of 1987, Party 227 of 1999, Acclaimed 2050
2	Rick Astley Rick Astley Richard Paul Astley is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Astley is married to producer Lene Bausager and has one daughter. Astley has released or appeared on recordings that have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide....	Never Gonna Give You Up Never Gonna Give You Up "Never Gonna Give You Up" is a song originally performed by singer Rick Astley. It was released as a single from Astley's multi-million selling debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody , which was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman....	1987		UK 1 - Aug 1987, US BB 1 - Jan 1988, Holland 1 - Sep 1987, France 1 - Aug 1987, Norway 1 - Oct 1987, Germany 1 - Sep 1987, New Zealand 1 for 1 weeks Feb 1988, Australia 1 for 7 weeks Jun 1988, South Africa 1 of 1988, US CashBox 2 of 1988, Switzerland 2 - Sep 1987, Sweden 3 - Sep 1987, Austria 4 - Nov 1987, Australia 5 of 1988, Italy 13 of 1987, US BB 34 of 1988, POP 61 of 1988, Germany 140 of the 1980s, OzNet 765
3	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....	I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) "I Wanna Dance with Somebody " is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney . It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl , who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I Know"....	1987		UK 1 - May 1987, US BB 1 - May 1987, Holland 1 - May 1987, Switzerland 1 - May 1987, Norway 1 - May 1987, Germany 1 - May 1987, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks Jun 1987, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Jan 1988, US CashBox 2 of 1987, Sweden 2 - May 1987, Austria 3 - Jun 1987, Poland 4 - Jun 1987, South Africa 4 of 1987, France 10 - Jun 1987, Italy 10 of 1987, Australia 11 of 1987, POP 22 of 1987, Germany 67 of the 1980s
4	The Pet Shop Boys	It's a Sin It's a Sin "It's a Sin" is a song recorded by the Pet Shop Boys which reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in June 1987 in music....	1987		UK 1 - Jun 1987, Sweden 1 - Aug 1987, Austria 1 - Aug 1987, Switzerland 1 - Jul 1987, Norway 1 - Jul 1987, Poland 1 - Jul 1987, Germany 1 - Jul 1987, Éire 1 - Jul 1987, Holland 3 - Jul 1987, France 5 - Jun 1987, US BB 9 - Sep 1987, South Africa 18 of 1987, Italy 21 of 1987, KROQ 27 of 1987, RYM 34 of 1987, Germany 94 of the 1980s, Acclaimed 1308
5	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....	With or Without You With or Without You "With or Without You" is the lead single from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It has since become highly-acclaimed as one of the band's most popular songs....	1987		US BB 1 - Apr 1987, Poland 1 - Mar 1987, Éire 1 - Apr 1987, Holland 2 - Mar 1987, UK 4 - Mar 1987, Sweden 5 - Apr 1987, Europe 5 of the 1980s, RYM 6 of 1987, Germany 7 - Apr 1987, KROQ 9 of 1987, Switzerland 10 - Apr 1987, POP 10 of 1987, US CashBox 12 of 1987, US BB 14 of 1987, Poland 14 of all time, Austria 15 - Jun 1987, Belgium 24 of all time, OzNet 44, TheQ 47, Scrobulate 93 of rock, WXPN 116, Rolling Stone 131, Party 168 of 2007, Acclaimed 309

Top hits on record

• "Alone
  Alone (Heart song)
  
  "Alone" is a song composed by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly . It first appeared on via Steinberg and Kelly's pet project, 1983's I-Ten, Taking a Cold Look....
  " - Heart
  Heart (band)
  
  Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
  
• "Animal" - Def Leppard
  Def Leppard
  
  Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
  
• "Angel
  Angel (Angela Winbush song)
  
  "Angel" was the first single from Angela Winbush's solo debut, Sharp.As half of the duo of Ren? & Angela, Winbush had two number one R&B hits with "Save Your Love " and "Your Smile." After a decade, Ren? Moore and Winbush went their separate ways....
  " - Angela Winbush
  Angela Winbush
  
  Angela Winbush is an United States rhythm and blues/soul music singer-songwriter who rose to fame first in the 1980s R&B duo Ren? & Angela, also scoring hits as a solo artist....
  
• "At This Moment" - Billy Vera and the Beaters
  Billy Vera
  
  Billy Vera is an United States singer, actor, writer and music historian....
  
• "Back in the High Life Again" - 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 ....
  
• "Bad" - Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  
  Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
  
• "Ballerina Girl" - 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....
  
• "Barcelona
  Barcelona (Freddie Mercury song)
  
  "Barcelona" is a single released by late Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury and opera singer Montserrat Caballe in 1987. It was taken from the two's collaborative album, Barcelona ....
  " - Freddie Mercury
  Freddie Mercury
  
  Freddie Mercury , was a United Kingdom singer-songwriter, pianist, guitarist and co-founder of the Rock music Musical ensemble Queen . As a performer, he was known for his vocal prowess and flamboyant performances....
   and Montserrat Caballé
  Montserrat Caballé
  
  Montserrat Caball? is a Spain Catalan people operaticsoprano. One of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century,she possesses a voice of remarkable beauty and of great range...
  
• "Behind The Wheel
  Behind the Wheel
  
  "Behind the Wheel" is Depeche Mode's twentieth United Kingdom single, released on December 28, 1987, and the third single for the album Music for the Masses....
   - 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 ....
  
• "Big Love" - Fleetwood Mac
  Fleetwood Mac
  
  Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  
• "Im Nin'Alu
  Im Nin'Alu
  
  "Im Nin'alu" is a Hebrew poem by the 17th century's Yemenite Rabbi Shalom Shabazi , which has later been put to music, and was sung by Israelis Yemenite singer Ofra Haza and others....
  " - 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 ....
  
• "Big Time
  Big Time (song)
  
  "Big Time" is a song by Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So . It was his second top-ten single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #8. "Big Time" deals with a man's efforts to achieve success - but his vision of success is quite peculiar - and naive....
  " - 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 ....
  
• "Can't We Try" - Dan Hill
  Dan Hill
  
  Daniel Grafton "Dan" Hill IV is a Canada pop music singer and songwriter. He had two major Chart-topper with his songs, "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try," a duet with Vonda Shepard....
   and Vonda Shepard
  Vonda Shepard
  
  Vonda Shepard is a rock music singer. She appeared regularly in the television show Ally McBeal in which she played a resident performer at the bar where the show's characters drank after work....
  
• "Casanova" - Levert
  LeVert
  
  LeVert is a dance music musical group, formed in Ohio in 1984 in music, comprising Sean LeVert and Gerald Levert, the sons of O'Jays founder Eddie Levert, as well as Marc Gordon....
  
• "Causing a Commotion
  Causing a Commotion
  
  "Causing a Commotion" is the second single by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from the soundtrack album and motion picture Who's That Girl and was released on August 25, 1987 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....
  
• "C'est La Vie" - Robbie Nevil
  Robbie Nevil
  
  Robbie Nevil is an United States pop music singer-songwriter/record producer / guitarist....
  
• "Change of Heart" - 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....
  
• "Cherry Bomb" - John Cougar Mellencamp
  John Mellencamp
  
  John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names John Cougar and John Cougar Mellencamp, is a Grammy-winning United States rock music singer-songwriter, musician, artist and occasional actor....
  
• "Citizen Jane" - Bernie Taupin
  Bernie Taupin
  
  Bernie Taupin is an England lyricist, singer and poet, most famous for his collaboration with Elton John....
  
• "Come as You Are" - Peter Wolf
  Peter Wolf
  
  File:PeterWolfPerforming.jpgFor the Austrian-born composer, producer, songwriter and arranger, see Peter Wolf .Peter Wolf is an United States rock and roll musician, best known as the lead vocalist for the J....
  
• "Come Go with Me" - Exposé
  Exposé (band)
  
  Expos? is an United States vocal group. Primarily consisting of lead vocalists Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado, and Gioia Bruno, the group was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and just like label mate Taylor Dayne, its first seven singles reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including the 1988 #1 hit "Seasons Change." The...
  
• "Control
  Control (Janet Jackson song)
  
  "Control" is the fourth single from Janet Jackson's third album Control . The song was written by Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis....
  " - 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....
  
• "Criticize
  Criticize (song)
  
  "Criticize" is Alexander O'Neal's biggest UK hit to date. It reached #4 in the UK Singles Chart and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It was also one of his only two hits to chart in the Ireland Singles Chart ....
  " - Alexander O'Neal
  Alexander O'Neal
  
  Alexander O'Neal is an United States singer.O'Neal sings in the retro-style of Soul music in both dance-pop numbers and modern, mainstream Urban ballads....
  
• "Cross My Broken Heart" - The Jets
  The Jets
  
  The Jets are a family band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota, which is composed of various siblings who specialize in Pop music, Rhythm and blues and dance music....
  
• "Didn't We Almost Have It All
  Didn't We Almost Have It All
  
  "Didn't We Almost Have It All" is the second single from Whitney Houston's second album Whitney , and was nominated for Song of the Year at the 1988 Grammy Awards....
  !" - 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....
  
• "Doing It All for My Baby" - Huey Lewis and the News
• "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 Mean Nothing" - Richard Marx
  Richard Marx
  
  Richard Noel Marx is an adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever ", and "Hazard "....
  
• "Don't Shed a Tear" - Paul Carrack
  Paul Carrack
  
  Paul Carrack is an England keyboardist, singer and songwriter. Carrack has had multiple careers which have overlapped during the last three-plus decades....
  
• "Down To Earth" - Curiosity Killed the Cat
  Curiosity Killed the Cat
  
  Curiosity Killed the Cat was a United Kingdom Pop music band that found success in the UK Singles Chart in the late 1980s and early 1990s....
   (released in 1986)
• "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
  Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
  
  "Dude " is a song by Boston hard rock band Aerosmith. It was released as the first of 3 singles from the Permanent Vacation album in 1987 in music....
  " - 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"....
  
• "Electric Blue" - Icehouse
  Icehouse
  
  Icehouse may mean:*Icehouse , a 1980 Australian rock album by band Flowers ** "Icehouse ", the title track, released as a single in 1981 by Icehouse ...
  
• "Ella elle l'a" - France Gall
  France Gall
  
  France Gall is a popular France y?-y? singer.Gall was married to, and had a successful singing career in partnership with, French singer-songwriter Michel Berger....
  
• "Étienne
  Étienne (song)
  
  "?tienne" is a 1987 song recorded by the French artist Guesch Patti, from her album, Labyrinthe. It was released as her debut single in late 1987 in several European countries....
  " - Guesch Patti
  Guesch Patti
  
  Guesch Patti, , born Patricia Porasse, is a France singer....
  
• "Every Little Kiss" - Bruce Hornsby and the Range
• "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 ....
   (released in 1986)
• "Everywhere" - Fleetwood Mac
  Fleetwood Mac
  
  Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  
• "Faith" - George Michael
  George Michael
  
  Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou , best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning, England singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! as well as a soul music-influenced, solo Pop music musician....
  
• "The Game
  The Game (Echo & the Bunnymen song)
  
  "The Game" is a single by Echo & the Bunnymen which was released on 1 June 1987. It was the first single from their 1987 Echo & the Bunnymen album....
  " - Echo & the Bunnymen
  Echo & the Bunnymen
  
  Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk group, formed in Liverpool in 1978. Their original lineup consisted of singer Ian McCulloch , guitarist Will Sergeant and bassist Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine....
  
• "Hazy Shade of Winter
  Hazy Shade of Winter
  
  "A Hazy Shade of Winter" is a song written by Paul Simon and recorded by Simon & Garfunkel in 1966 for their 1968 album, Bookends . It peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the second most popular song on the album after "Mrs....
  " - 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....
  
• "Head to Toe
  Head to Toe
  
  "Head to Toe" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam that appeared on their 1987 album Spanish Fly . The song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on June 20, 1987....
  " - Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
  Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
  
  Lisa Lisa and her band Cult Jam were a Music of Puerto Rico-United States band and one of the original freestyle music groups of the 1980s....
  
• "Heart and Soul
  Heart and Soul (T'Pau song)
  
  "Heart and Soul" is a song by United Kingdom pop music T'Pau . Featuring vocalist Carol Decker performing powerful overlapping lyrics, the song was released as a single in 1987, taken from the 1987 album Bridge of Spies ....
  " - T'Pau
  T'Pau
  
  T'Pau may refer to:*T'Pau , a character in the Star Trek universe*T'Pau , a British musical group from the late-1980s named after the Star Trek character...
  
• "Heat of the Night" - 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...
  
• "Here I Go Again
  Here I Go Again
  
  "Here I Go Again" is a song recorded by Whitesnake. Originally released on their 1982 album, Saints & Sinners , the song was re-recorded for their eponymous 1987 album Whitesnake ....
  " - Whitesnake
  Whitesnake
  
  Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
  
• "Heaven Is a Place on Earth
  Heaven is a Place on Earth
  
  "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" is a song recorded by Belinda Carlisle, the lead singer of The Go-Go's. Written by Rick Nowels and Ellen Shipley, and interpolating the aria "Schlafe, mein Liebster, genie?e der Ruh'" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio, it hit Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 on December 5, 1987, becoming Carli...
  " - 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....
  
• "Hysteria
  Hysteria (Def Leppard song)
  
  "Hysteria" is the 1987 title track by United Kingdom hard rock band Def Leppard from their platinum album Hysteria . The song peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100....
  " - Def Leppard
  Def Leppard
  
  Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
  
• "I Get Weak" - 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....
  
• "I Found Someone
  I Found Someone
  
  "I Found Someone" is the name of a song written for Laura Branigan by Michael Bolton and Mark Mangold, which was a hit for Cher in 1987....
  " - Cher
  Cher
  
  Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
  
• "I Heard a Rumour" - 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....
  
• "I Just Can't Stop Loving You
  I Just Can't Stop Loving You
  
  "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" is a popular ballad by singers Michael Jackson and Siedah Garrett. It was recorded in 1982 with overdubbed vocals by Siedah Garrett in 1987....
  " - Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  
  Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
   and Siedah Garrett
  Siedah Garrett
  
  Siedah Garrett is an Academy Award-nominated, Grammy-winning United States singer-songwriter....
  
• "(I Just) Died in Your Arms
  (I Just) Died in Your Arms
  
  " Died in Your Arms" is a power ballad written by Nick Van Eede and performed by his band, Cutting Crew. It was their biggest hit, peaking at #1 in the United States, Canada and Norway, and reaching the Top Five in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland....
  " - Cutting Crew
  Cutting Crew
  
  Cutting Crew is a pop rock musical band formed in England in 1985 in music, best known for their United States chart-topper hit record, " Died in Your Arms"....
  
• "I Knew You Were Waiting for Me" - 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....
   and George Michael
  George Michael
  
  Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou , best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning, England singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! as well as a soul music-influenced, solo Pop music musician....
  
• "I Know What I Like" - Huey Lewis and the News
• "I Need Love" - LL Cool J
  LL Cool J
  
  James Todd Smith , better known as LL Cool J, is an American rapper and actor. LL Cool J stands for "Ladies love Cool James." He is known for romantic ballads such as "I Need Love" and "Hey Lover" as well as pioneering hip-hop such as "Headsprung", "I Can't Live Without My Radio", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", "Mama Said Knock You O...
  
• "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
  I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
  
  "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is the second track from U2's 1987 album The Joshua Tree, and was released as the album's second single....
  " - 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....
  
• "I Think We're Alone Now
  I Think We're Alone Now (song)
  
  "I Think We're Alone Now" is a song written by Ritchie Cordell. It was initially a 1967 hit for United States recording artists Tommy James & the Shondells, reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 during a 17-week stay....
  " - Tiffany
  Tiffany (singer)
  
  Tiffany Renee Darwish , known popularly as Tiffany, is an United States singing who had a number of teen pop hits during the late-1980s. Since then she has performed in a variety of genres, from country to dance, both in America and other countries....
  
• "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
  I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
  
  "I Wanna Dance with Somebody " is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney . It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl , who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "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....
  
• "I Want Your Sex
  I Want Your Sex
  
  "I Want Your Sex" was a song released from both the soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop II and George Michael's Faith album, and first charted in June 1987....
  " - George Michael
• "In Too Deep
  In Too Deep (song)
  
  "In Too Deep" is the fourth track on the 1986 in music Genesis album Invisible Touch. It was released as the second single from the LP. A performance of the song was included on the 1992 live album The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts....
  " - 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....
  
• "Is This Love
  Is This Love (Whitesnake song)
  
  "Is This Love" is a power ballad by Whitesnake from their Whitesnake , released in 1987 in music. Written by lead singer David Coverdale and guitarist John Sykes, the song was rumored to have been originally intended for Tina Turner....
  " - Whitesnake
  Whitesnake
  
  Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
  
• "I'm No Angel" - Gregg Allman
  Gregg Allman
  
  Gregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman , is a rock music and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band....
   Band
• "It Doesn't Have To Be This Way" - 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....
  
• "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
  It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
  
  "It's the End of the World as We Know It " is a song by the rock and roll band R.E.M., found on their 1987 album Document and the 1988 compilation Eponymous ....
  " - 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 ....
  
• "Jacob's Ladder
  Jacob's Ladder (Huey Lewis and the News song)
  
  "Jacob's Ladder" is a 1986 song, written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John Hornsby, that was recorded by Huey Lewis and the News and became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987....
  " - Huey Lewis and the News
• "Joe le taxi
  Joe le taxi
  
  "Joe le taxi" is a song written by Franck Langolff and ?tienne Roda-Gil for France singer Vanessa Paradis's debut album, M&J .Paradis recorded the song in 1987, at the age of fourteen....
  " - Vanessa Paradis
  Vanessa Paradis
  
  Vanessa Chantal Paradis is a French people singer and actor....
  
• "Just to See Her
  Just to See Her
  
  "Just to See Her" is a 1987 song recorded by the United States R&B singer Smokey Robinson. Released as the first single from his Motown album, One Heartbeat , "Just to See Her" peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June of 1987....
  " - Smokey Robinson
  Smokey Robinson
  
  William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an USA R&B and soul music singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is noted for being one of the primary figures associated with Motown Records, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy....
  
• "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" - The Georgia Satellites
• "Kiss Him Goodbye
  Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
  
  "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" is a song written and recorded by Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, and Paul Leka; attributed to a then-fictitious band "Steam," it was released under the Mercury Records subsidiary label Fontana Records....
  " - The Nylons
  The Nylons
  
  The Nylons are an a cappella group founded in 1979 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, best known for their covers of The Turtles' "Happy Together ", Steam "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", and The Tokens' version of the traditional "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"....
  
• "Là-bas
  Là-bas (song)
  
  "L?-bas" is a 1987 in music song recorded as a duet by the France singer Jean-Jacques Goldman and the British-born artist Sirima. It was the second Single from Goldman's 1987 album Entre gris clair et gris fonc?....
  " - Jean-Jacques Goldman
  Jean-Jacques Goldman
  
  Jean-Jacques Goldman is a French people singer and songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and in 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday....
   and Sirima
• "La Bamba
  La Bamba (song)
  
  "La Bamba" La Bamba is a traditional song of the Huasteca region, with greater attachment to the state of Veracruz, is the son jarocho genre and is known popularly as the anthem of Veracruz....
  " - Los Lobos
  Los Lobos
  
  Los Lobos are an United States rock band. They are 3-time Grammy Award winners. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tejano music, country music, folk music, R&B, blues and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as boleros and norte?o s....
  
• "La Isla Bonita
  La Isla Bonita
  
  "La Isla Bonita" is the fifth and final single by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her third studio album, True Blue , and it was released on February 25, 1987 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....
  
• "Land of Confusion
  Land of Confusion
  
  "Land of Confusion" is a rock song written by the band Genesis for their 1986 album Invisible Touch. The song was the third track on the album and was the fourth track from the album to become a single, which reached #4 in the US and #14 in the UK 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....
  
• "Lean on Me
  Lean on Me (song)
  
  "Lean on Me" is a hit song written and performed by Bill Withers on the 1972 album Still Bill. It is ranked number 205 on the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time....
  " - Club Nouveau
  Club Nouveau
  
  Club Nouveau is a rhythm and blues pop music musical ensemble that was formed by record producer/musician Jay King in 1986 in Sacramento, California, California, subsequent to the break up of the Timex Social Club....
  
• "Let's Go" - 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 ....
  
• "Let Me Be the One" - Exposé
  Exposé (band)
  
  Expos? is an United States vocal group. Primarily consisting of lead vocalists Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado, and Gioia Bruno, the group was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and just like label mate Taylor Dayne, its first seven singles reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including the 1988 #1 hit "Seasons Change." The...
  
• "Let's Wait Awhile" - 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....
  
• "Lips Like Sugar
  Lips Like Sugar
  
  "Lips Like Sugar" is a single by Echo & the Bunnymen which was released in August 1987. It was the second single from their 1987 Echo & the Bunnymen album....
  " - Echo & the Bunnymen
  Echo & the Bunnymen
  
  Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk group, formed in Liverpool in 1978. Their original lineup consisted of singer Ian McCulloch , guitarist Will Sergeant and bassist Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine....
  
• "Little Lies" - Fleetwood Mac
  Fleetwood Mac
  
  Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  
• "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....
  
• "Looking for a New Love" - Jody Watley
  Jody Watley
  
  Jody Watley is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and record label owner.Watley has sold over twenty million albums and singles worldwide....
  
• "Lost in Emotion
  Lost in Emotion
  
  "Lost in Emotion" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam that appeared on their 1987 album Spanish Fly . The song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 17, 1987....
  " - Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
  Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
  
  Lisa Lisa and her band Cult Jam were a Music of Puerto Rico-United States band and one of the original freestyle music groups of the 1980s....
  
• "Love Bites" - Def Leppard
  Def Leppard
  
  Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
  
• "Love Will Find a Way" - Yes
  Yes (band)
  
  Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
  
• "Love You Down
  Love You Down
  
  "Love You Down" is the title of an contemporary R&B song written by Melvin Riley. Riley's former band, Ready for the World, originally recorded the song in 1986 and released it as the lead single from their second album, Long Time Coming....
  " - Ready for the World
  Ready for the World
  
  Ready for the World is a Rhythm and blues / funk music / dance music band from Flint, Michigan who scored several moderate pop music, soul music, and dance chart-topper in the mid to late 1980s....
  
• "Luka
  Luka (song)
  
  "Luka" is a song recorded by Suzanne Vega and released as a single in 1987. It remains her highest-charting hit in the U.S., reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100....
  " - Suzanne Vega
  Suzanne Vega
  
  Suzanne Nadine Vega is an American songwriter and singer known for her highly literate lyrics and eclectic folk music-inspired music.Record companies saw little prospect of commercial success in the beginning; Vega's demo tape was rejected by every major record company?twice by A&M....
  
• "Mandolin Rain" - Bruce Hornsby and The Range
  Bruce Hornsby
  
  Bruce Randall Hornsby is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances, Hornsby draws frequently from classical music, jazz, bluegrass music, Folk music, motown, Rock music, blues, and jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and the seamless improvis...
  
• "Midnight Blue" - Lou Gramm
  Lou Gramm
  
  Lou Gramm is an United States Rock music Singer and songwriter best known for his role as the lead vocalist for the rock band Foreigner . He also had a successful solo career....
  
• "Mony Mony
  Mony Mony
  
  "Mony Mony" was a 1968 single released by Tommy James & The Shondells that again became a huge hit for Billy Idol in 1987.The song appeared on Tommy James & The Shondells similarly-titled album Mony Mony ....
  " - Billy Idol
  Billy Idol
  
  Billy Idol is an English Rock music musician.He first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X . He then embarked on a successful solo career, aided by a series of stylish music videos, making him one of the first MTV stars....
  
• "Mr. Manic and Sister Cool" - Shakatak
  Shakatak
  
  Shakatak is a United Kingdom jazz-funk band , founded in 1980....
  
• "Need You Tonight
  Need You Tonight
  
  "Need You Tonight" is the fourth song on INXS's 1987 album Kick as well as the first single from the album. It was also the only single of the band's to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100....
  " - 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....
  
• "New Sensation
  New Sensation
  
  "New Sensation" is a song by Australian pop group INXS. It was the third single from their 1987 album Kick . The music was written by Andrew Farriss and the lyrics by Michael Hutchence....
  " - 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....
  
• "Never Gonna Give You Up
  Never Gonna Give You Up
  
  "Never Gonna Give You Up" is a song originally performed by singer Rick Astley. It was released as a single from Astley's multi-million selling debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody , which was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman....
  " - Rick Astley
  Rick Astley
  
  Richard Paul Astley is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Astley is married to producer Lene Bausager and has one daughter. Astley has released or appeared on recordings that have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide....
  
• "Never Let Me Down Again
  Never Let Me Down Again
  
  "Never Let Me Down Again" is Depeche Mode's nineteenth United Kingdom single, released on August 24, 1987, and the second single for the then upcoming album Music for the Masses....
  " - 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 ....
  
• "No One In the World" - 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....
  
• "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
  Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
  
  "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is a song co-written by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren, recorded by Starship . Featured as the theme to the romantic comedy film Mannequin , it hit #1 in the Billboard Hot 100 on April 4, 1987 and reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks the following month and became the UK's 2nd biggest selling si...
  " - 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....
  
• "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....
  
• "One Heartbeat
  One Heartbeat (song)
  
  "One Heartbeat" is the title of the second single released by Smokey Robinson from his 1987 album One Heartbeat . The song peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; at #3 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs; and at #2 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks....
  " - Smokey Robinson
  Smokey Robinson
  
  William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an USA R&B and soul music singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is noted for being one of the primary figures associated with Motown Records, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy....
  
• "Only in My Dreams
  Only in My Dreams
  
  "Only in My Dreams" is the debut Single for United States singer-songwriter-actress Debbie Gibson. Released December 1986 as a maxi single , and then in remixed form February 1987, the song was written by Gibson herself in 1984, two years before she recorded it....
  " - Debbie Gibson
  Deborah Gibson
  
  Deborah Ann "Debbie" Gibson , is an United States singer-songwriter who was a teen pop icon. She was popular in the late 1980s and the early 1990s....
  
• "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....
  
• "Ordinary Day" - Curiosity Killed the Cat
  Curiosity Killed the Cat
  
  Curiosity Killed the Cat was a United Kingdom Pop music band that found success in the UK Singles Chart in the late 1980s and early 1990s....
  
• "Out of the Blue
  Out of the Blue (Debbie Gibson song)
  
  "Out of the Blue" is the third single by United States singer-songwriter-actress Deborah Gibson. Written by Gibson herself, co-produced and co-arranged with Fred Zarr, with Douglas Breitbart as executive producer , this single is identical to Track 1 of Gibson's Out of the Blue ....
  " - Debbie Gibson
• "Paper in Fire" - John Cougar Mellencamp
  John Mellencamp
  
  John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names John Cougar and John Cougar Mellencamp, is a Grammy-winning United States rock music singer-songwriter, musician, artist and occasional actor....
  
• "People Are Strange
  People Are Strange
  
  "People Are Strange" is a single released by The Doors in September 1967 . It also appears on their second album Strange Days which was also released in September 1967....
  " - Echo & the Bunnymen
  Echo & the Bunnymen
  
  Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk group, formed in Liverpool in 1978. Their original lineup consisted of singer Ian McCulloch , guitarist Will Sergeant and bassist Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine....
  
• "The Pleasure Principle" - 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....
  
• "Point of No Return" - Exposé
  Exposé (band)
  
  Expos? is an United States vocal group. Primarily consisting of lead vocalists Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado, and Gioia Bruno, the group was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and just like label mate Taylor Dayne, its first seven singles reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including the 1988 #1 hit "Seasons Change." The...
  
• "Pour Some Sugar on Me
  Pour Some Sugar on Me
  
  "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is a song by United Kingdom hard rock Band Def Leppard from their 1987 album Hysteria . It reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100....
  " - Def Leppard
  Def Leppard
  
  Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
  
• "The Power of Love
  The Power of Love (Jennifer Rush song)
  
  "The Power of Love" is a famous power ballad co-written and originally recorded by Jennifer Rush. It has been covered by several artists, most notably by Laura Branigan and Celine Dion, and translated into several languages....
  " - Laura Branigan
  Laura Branigan
  
  Laura Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actor of Irish American ancestry. She is best known for her Top-10 hit "Self Control" , her biggest hit from the Platinum album of the same name....
  
• "Rag Doll
  Rag Doll (Aerosmith song)
  
  "Rag Doll" is a song by United States hard rock band Aerosmith. It is from the 1987 in music album Permanent Vacation . It was released as the final single from the album in 1988 in music....
  " - 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"....
  
• "Respect Yourself" - Bruce Willis
  Bruce Willis
  
  Walter Bruce Willis , better known as Bruce Willis, is an United Statesn actor and film producer. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since....
  
• "Rock Steady" - The Whispers
  The Whispers
  
  The Whispers are a long-established Rhythm and blues-dance music human voice band from Los Angeles, California, California, with a consistent track record of hit records dating back to the late 1960s....
  
• "Rocket" - Def Leppard
  Def Leppard
  
  Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
  
• "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
  Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
  
  "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" is a song written by Enrique Garcia and Gloria Estefan, and released by Gloria Estefan & The Miami Sound Machine in 1987 as the lead single from the album Let it Loose ....
  " - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
  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....
  
• "Sans contrefaçon
  Sans contrefaçon
  
  "Sans contrefa?on" is a 1987 in music song recorded by the France artist Myl?ne Farmer. First Single from her second studio album Ainsi soit je..., it was first released on October 16 1987....
  " - 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....
  
• "Shake You Down" - Gregory Abbott
  Gregory Abbott
  
  Gregory Abbott is an United States Soul music-musician , singer, composer and record producer He currently lives in both New York and the San Francisco Bay area....
  
• "Shake Your Love" - Debbie Gibson
  Deborah Gibson
  
  Deborah Ann "Debbie" Gibson , is an United States singer-songwriter who was a teen pop icon. She was popular in the late 1980s and the early 1990s....
  
• "Shakedown
  Shakedown (Bob Seger song)
  
  "Shakedown" is a 1987 in music single by Bob Seger that is from the soundtrack of the film Beverly Hills Cop II. The music was written by Harold Faltermeyer, who wrote the score for the film, and Keith Forsey, and the lyrics by Seger....
  " - 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....
  
• "Someday" - Glass Tiger
  Glass Tiger
  
  Glass Tiger is a Canadian rock musical band formed in 1983, in Newmarket, Ontario....
  
• "Songbird" - 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....
  
• "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 ....
  
• "Somewhere Out There" - Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt
  
  Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
   and James Ingram
  James Ingram
  
  James Ingram is an United States Soul music musician. He is best-known as a vocalist. He is also a self-taught musician who plays piano, guitar, bass guitar, Drum kit and synthesizer....
  
• "Stone Love" - Kool & the Gang
  Kool & the Gang
  
  Kool & the Gang are an American jazz/R&B/soul music/funk/disco group. They originally formed in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. in 1964 in music. They went through several musical phases in their career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, becoming practitioners of R&B and funk, progressing to a smooth disco ensemble, and ended the successfu...
  
• "Strangelove
  Strangelove (song)
  
  "Strangelove" is Depeche Mode's eighteenth United Kingdom single, released on April 13, 1987, and the first single for the then upcoming album Music for the Masses....
  " - 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 ....
  
• "Surrender
  Surrender (Swing Out Sister song)
  
  "Surrender" is a 1987 single released by British pop act Swing Out Sister as a follow-up to the successful single, "Breakout ". It peaked at number seven on the UK charts. It featured a trumpet solo performed by John Thirkell....
  " - 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....
  
• "Sweet Child o' Mine
  Sweet Child O' Mine
  
  "Sweet Child o' Mine" is the third single by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, and the third from their 1987 debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction....
  " - Guns 'n' Roses
• "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 Finer Things" - 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 ....
  
• "The Lady in Red" - Chris DeBurgh
• "The One I love" - 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 ....
  
• "The Way It Is
  The Way It Is
  
  "The Way It Is" is a hit song by Bruce Hornsby from their 1986 album The Way It Is . It topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986. Written by Bruce Hornsby, it made...
  " - Bruce Hornsby and the Range
  Bruce Hornsby
  
  Bruce Randall Hornsby is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances, Hornsby draws frequently from classical music, jazz, bluegrass music, Folk music, motown, Rock music, blues, and jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and the seamless improvis...
  
• "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....
  
• "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" - 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....
  
• "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
  Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
  
  "Touch Me " was the first hit for United Kingdom singer Samantha Fox. It was a worldwide hit, hitting #4 in the U.S. , #3 in her native UK, and topping the Australian chart....
  " - Samantha Fox
  Samantha Fox
  
  Samantha Karen "Sam" Fox is an English former glamour model and dance-pop singer....
  
• "Touch of Grey
  Touch of Grey
  
  "Touch of Grey" is a 1987 single by the Grateful Dead, and is the band's biggest commercial Hit single. The song is known for its refrain "I will get by / I will survive"....
  " - Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
  
• "Tristana
  Tristana (song)
  
  "Tristana" is a 1987 in music song recorded by the France artist Myl?ne Farmer. Fourth Single from her first studio album Cendres de Lune, the song was released in February 1987....
  " - 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....
  
• "Twilight World
  Twilight World
  
  "Twilight World" is a song by the British pop act Swing Out Sister. It was released in April 1987 and peaked at no.32 in the UK singles chart ....
  " - 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....
  
• "U Got the Look
  U Got the Look
  
  "U Got the Look" opens the second disc of Prince's 1987 double album Sign o' the Times , and became the album's highest charting single. Musically, the song is standard 12-bar blues number with emphasis on live drumming by Sheila E., and a crunchy guitar sound....
  " - 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 ...
   and Sheena Easton
  Sheena Easton
  
  Sheena Shirley Orr, better known by her stage name, Sheena Easton is a Scotland singer and actress. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the United Kingdom television program The Big Time , which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract, and got her a deal with EMI....
  
• "Victory" - Kool & the Gang
  Kool & the Gang
  
  Kool & the Gang are an American jazz/R&B/soul music/funk/disco group. They originally formed in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. in 1964 in music. They went through several musical phases in their career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, becoming practitioners of R&B and funk, progressing to a smooth disco ensemble, and ended the successfu...
  
• "Wait
  Wait (White Lion song)
  
  "Wait" is a song recorded by White Lion and written by White Lion vocalist Mike Tramp and guitarist Vito Bratta. It was the lead single from their second album Pride ....
  " - White Lion
  White Lion
  
  White Lion is an United States/Denmark glam metal band that formed in New York City in 1983 by Denmark vocalist Mike Tramp and United States guitarist Vito Bratta....
  
• "Wanted Dead or Alive
  Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi song)
  
  "Wanted Dead or Alive" is a song from Bon Jovi's 1986 in music album Slippery When Wet. The song was written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora and was released in 1987 as the album's third single....
  " - 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....
  
• "Walking Down Your Street" - 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....
  
• "War" - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
  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....
  
• "Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns 'n' Roses
• "We're Ready" - 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....
  
• "What's Going On
  What's Going On (song)
  
  "What's Going On" is a song written by Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Al Cleveland, and Marvin Gaye. It was the title track of Gaye's groundbreaking 1971 Motown Records album What's Going On, and it became a crossover hit single that reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs....
  " - 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....
  
• "Where the Streets Have No Name
  Where the Streets Have No Name
  
  "Where the Streets Have No Name" is a song by Irish rock music U2, from their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It was released August 1987 as the third single from The Joshua Tree....
  " - 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....
  
• "Who Found Who?" - Jellybean featuring Elisa Fiorillo
  Elisa Fiorillo
  
  Elisa Fiorillo is an United States singing....
  
• "Who Will You Run To?" - Heart
  Heart (band)
  
  Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
  
• "Who's That Girl" - 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....
  
• "Will You Still Love Me?
  Will You Still Love Me? (Chicago song)
  
  "Will You Still Love Me?" is a song written by David Foster, Tom Keane and Richard Baskin for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago 18 ....
  " - 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....
  
• "Wonderful Life
  Wonderful Life (Black song)
  
  "Wonderful Life" is a single by British band Black taken from the album of the same name. First released in 1985 in music by Ugly Man Records , it initially charted at no....
  " - Black
  Black (band)
  
  Black is the musical vehicle for singer/songwriter Colin Vearncombe ....
  
• "You're the Voice
  You're the Voice
  
  "You're the Voice" is a song written by Andy Qunta, Keith Reid, Maggie Ryder and Chris Thompson for John Farnham, which he recorded for his sixteenth album Whispering Jack released in 1986....
  " - 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....
  
• "With or Without You
  With or Without You
  
  "With or Without You" is the lead single from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It has since become highly-acclaimed as one of the band's most popular songs....
  " - 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....
  
• "You Got It All" - The Jets
  The Jets
  
  The Jets are a family band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota, which is composed of various siblings who specialize in Pop music, Rhythm and blues and dance music....
  
• "You Keep Me Hanging On" - 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....
  

Other Singles

• "Shattered Glass" - Laura Branigan
  Laura Branigan
  
  Laura Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actor of Irish American ancestry. She is best known for her Top-10 hit "Self Control" , her biggest hit from the Platinum album of the same name....
  
• "Somebody Save Me" - 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....
  
• "Freedom" - 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...
  
• "Why Can't I Be You?" - 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....
  
• "Just Like Heaven" - 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....
  
• "Pour en arriver là" - 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 hommes de ma vie" - 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....
  
• "Midnight Blue" - Lou Gramm
  Lou Gramm
  
  Lou Gramm is an United States Rock music Singer and songwriter best known for his role as the lead vocalist for the rock band Foreigner . He also had a successful solo career....
  
• "Bring Him Back Home" - Hugh Masekela
  Hugh Masekela
  
  Hugh Ramopolo Masekela is a South African trumpet, flugelhorn, cornet, composer, and singer....
  
• "Beds Are Burning
  Beds Are Burning
  
  "Beds Are Burning" is a 1987 hit single by Australian rock band Midnight Oil, the first track from their album Diesel and Dust. This song was the second song from the album to be released as a single."...
  " - Midnight Oil
  Midnight Oil
  
  Midnight Oil, or the Oils to fans, was an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drum kit Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard instrument/lead guitarist Jim Moginie....
  
• "True Faith
  True Faith
  
  "True Faith" is a 1987 track from New Order, produced by Stephen Hague. It was the first New Order single since their debut "Ceremony " to be issued in the UK as two separate 12" singles....
  " - 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....
  
• "In The Dutch Mountains" - The Nits
  The Nits
  
  The Nits are a Dutch art rock group, founded in 1974. Their musical style has varied considerably over the years, as has their line-up with the core of Henk Hofstede , Rob Kloet, drummer, Robert Jan Stips , keyboards....
  
• "Pressure Down" - John Collits
• "We Connect
  We Connect
  
  "We Connect" is a 1987 single by Stacey Q. It was the second single from her 1986 album Better Than Heaven, following up "Two of Hearts ". The song was promoted on the hit show The Facts Of Life and reached the charts, but did not do as well as its predecessor....
  "- Stacey Q.
• "Free" - 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....
  
• "Something inside so strong" - Labi Siffre
  Labi Siffre
  
  Labi Siffre is an England poet, songwriter, musician and singer most widely known as the writer and singer of So Strong, It Must Be Love and I Got The, the sampled rhythm track of which is the basis of Eminem?s breakthrough hit single My Name Is....
  
• "China in Your Hand
  China in Your Hand
  
  "China in Your Hand" is a song by United Kingdom band T'Pau , released from their album Bridge of Spies . A re-recorded version was released as a single in October 1987, spending five weeks at number 1 in the UK and is arguably the song for which the group is best known in their native Britain, though their debut single "Heart and So...
  " - T'Pau
  T'Pau (band)
  
  T'Pau was a late 1980s Pop music musical group led by singer Carol Decker. They had a string of Top 40 chart-topper in the United Kingdom, and several hits in the United States and Europe....
  
• "Hot Love" - Twisted Sister
  Twisted Sister
  
  Twisted Sister is an United States Heavy metal music band from New York City. Their work fuses the shock rock tactics of Alice Cooper, the rebellious mood of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the extravagant image of glam rock bands such as New York Dolls notably for the makeup....
  
• "Sugar Free" - WaWaNee

Published popular music

• "Last midnight"     w.m. Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
  
• "Children Will Listen"     w.m. Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
  
• Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
  Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
  
  "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" is a song written by Enrique Garcia and Gloria Estefan, and released by Gloria Estefan & The Miami Sound Machine in 1987 as the lead single from the album Let it Loose ....
   w.m. 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....
   & E. E. Garcia
• "The Time Of My Life"     w.m. Franke Previte, Donald Markowitz & John DeNicola

Classical music

• 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....
   - Quartetto for flute, violin, viola and violoncello
• Philip Feeney - Mémoire Imaginaire (ballet)
• Malcolm Forsyth
  Malcolm Forsyth
  
  Malcolm Forsyth, Order of Canada is a South Africa and Canada Trombone and composer. His daughter is NAC cellist Amanda Forsyth.Born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Forsyth studied trombone, conducting and composition at the University of Cape Town and received a Bachelor of Music in 1963....
   - Songs from the Qu'appelle Valley
• Juan Maria Solare
  Juan María Solare
  
  Juan Mar?a Solare is an Argentina composer and pianist....
   - Doce variaciones 1987 (for piano)
• Joan Tower
  Joan Tower
  
  Joan Tower is a contemporary classical music American classical music composer, pianist and conductor. Lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world....
   - Fanfare for the uncommon woman no 1

Opera

• John Adams
  John Coolidge Adams
  
  John Coolidge Adams is a Pulitzer Prize for Music-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalist music. His best-known works include Harmonielehre , On the Transmigration of Souls , a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks , and Shaker Loops, a minimalist four-movement work for string...
   - Nixon in China
  Nixon in China (opera)
  
  Nixon in China is an opera with music by the American composer John Coolidge Adams and a libretto by Alice Goodman, about the Nixon visit to China 1972 of United States President Richard M....
  
• Friedrich Cerha
  Friedrich Cerha
  
  Friedrich Cerha is an Austrian composer and conductor.Cerha received his education at the Viennese Music Academy and at the University of Vienna ....
   - Der Rattenfänger (The Pied Piper)
• 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....
   - Vital Statistics
• Judith Weir
  Judith Weir
  
  Judith Weir Order of the British Empire, , is a United Kingdom composer currently resident in London. She is Professor of Music at Cardiff University....
   - A Night at the Chinese Opera

Musical theater

• Anything Goes
  Anything Goes
  
  Anything Goes is a musical theater with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, revised by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse....
   - Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
  - revival
• Bless the Bride
  Bless The Bride
  
  Bless the Bride is a musical theatre with music by Vivian Ellis and a book and lyrics by A. P. Herbert, who had collaborated with Ellis in previous shows....
   - West End
  West End theatre
  
  West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English language world....
   revival
• Cabaret
  Cabaret (musical)
  
  Cabaret is a Musical theater with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. The 1966 Broadway theatre production became a hit and spawned an acclaimed 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
   (Kander and Ebb
  Kander and Ebb
  
  Kander and Ebb were a highly successful songwriting team consisting of composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb . Known primarily for their stage musical theatre, Kander and Ebb also scored several movies including their most famous song, Theme from New York, New York from Martin Scorsese New York, New York ....
  ) - Broadway revival
• Dreamgirls
  Dreamgirls
  
  Dreamgirls is a Broadway theatre musical theater, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen. Based upon the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Supremes, The Shirelles, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others, Dreamgirls follows the story of a young female singing trio from Chicago, Illinoi...
   - Broadway revival
• Into the Woods
  Into the Woods
  
  Into the Woods is a Musical theatre with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway theatre in 1987....
   - Broadway production
• Les Misérables
  Les Misérables (musical)
  
  Les Mis?rables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a Musical theatre composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Sch?nberg with a libretto by Alain Boublil....
   - Broadway production
• Oil City Symphony - Broadway production
• Phantom of the Opera - Broadway production
• Starlight Express
  Starlight Express
  
  Starlight Express is a rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber , Richard Stilgoe and Arlene Phillips , with later revisions by Don Black and David Yazbek ....
   (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....
   and Richard Stilgoe
  Richard Stilgoe
  
  Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe Order of the British Empire is a British songwriter, lyricist and musician. He is noted for clever wordplay as much as for his music....
  ) - Broadway production

Most Critically Acclaimed Songs of 1987

This info is taken from Acclaimed Music.

Songs

• 1. "Sweet Child O' Mine", 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....
  
• 2. "Sign 'O' the Times", 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 ...
  
• 3. "Bring the Noise", Public Enemy
• 4. "Pump Up the Volume", M/A/R/R/S
• 5. "With or Without You", 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....
  
• 6. "It's the End of the World As We Know It", 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 ....
  
• 7. "Just Like Heaven", 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....
  
• 8. "Rebel Without a Pause", Public Enemy
• 9. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", 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....
  
• 10. "Paid in Full", Eric B. & Rakim
  Eric B. & Rakim
  
  Eric Barrier and Rakim were a hip hop music duo from Long Island, New York, in the borough of Queens, New York, New York City, who recorded as Eric B....
  

Births

• January 12 - Sunday The Grace
  TSZX
  
  The Grace is a South Korean girl group formed by SM Entertainment in 2005. It consists of four members that specialize in skills of singing, dancing, and acting....
  , Korean pop singer
• January 27 - Katy Rose
  Katy Rose
  
  Katy Rose is an United States singer, songwriter, Music producer, musician and actress. Her music styles vary from indie rock, electro pop, Grunge music, Pop music, lounge music and even techno....
  
• January 27 - Ashley Perez Moza
• February 10 - Choi Si Won
  Choi Si Won
  
  Choi Siwon , also credited as Siwon, is an actor, singer, dancer and a member of Korean boy band Super Junior. Choi's breakthrough performance was in the 2006 in film Hong Kong historical action drama film, A Battle of Wits , where he plays the young prince, Liang Shi....
  , Korean actor and pop singer
• February 12 - O'Ryan
  O'Ryan
  
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• February 24 - Kim Kyu Jong, Korean pop singer
• March 9 - Bow Wow
  Bow Wow
  
  Shad Gregory Moss , better known by his stage name Bow Wow , is an United States rapper, actor, and music producer. He released his debut album Beware of Dog at age 13, then under the stage name Lil' Bow Wow, which he carried until his 2003 album Unleashed , under simply Bow Wow....
  , American Hip-Hop artist
• March 26 - YUI, Japanese pop singer
• April 3 - Park Jung Min, Korean pop singer
• April 9 -