tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37906516514599875102012-02-16T17:33:26.551-08:00"the return of the 80s" GET YOUR MUSIC AND VIDEOS HEREMickynoreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790651651459987510.post-28500701100375681152007-04-06T03:47:00.000-07:002007-04-06T12:14:11.232-07:00

This page shows you how to and view the Music Videos through your own system. It’s much faster than using YouTube or others to view Music Videos.Step 1Go to http://applian.com/flvplayer/?src=VideoDownloadPlay and download Free FLV Player. This player is the BEST FLV Player I have come across. It’s fast and effective. It’s highly recommended to get the FLV Player before you download any Music

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Bronski Beat was a popular British synth pop trio of the 1980s. At the height of its popularity, the band consisted of distinctive singer Jimmy Somerville (born in Glasgow, Scotland on 22 June 1961), backed by Steve Bronski (born Steven Forrest, 7 February 1960, in Scunthorpe, England) and Larry Steinbachek (born Lawrence Cole 6 May 1960 in London), both of whom played keyboards and

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Blondie is an American rock band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and early 1980s.The band was a pioneer in the early American punk rock and New Wave scenes. Its first two albums contained strong elements of these genres, and although successful in Australia and the United Kingdom, Blondie was regarded as an underground band in the United States until the release of a third album in 1978.

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Anthrax is an American, New York City-based Thrash Metal band, who released their first full-length album in 1984. Anthrax was one of the most popular bands of the 1980s thrash metal scene and are notable for combining metal with rap and hardcore music early on. They are generally classified as one of the "big four" of thrash metal alongside Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer.They have made several

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Frankie Goes to Hollywood (FGTH) was one of the most controversial and commercially successful UK new wave acts of the early 1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by vocalist Holly Johnson, supported by Paul Rutherford (backing vocals), Peter Gill (drums), Mark O'Toole (bass) and Brian Nash (guitar).The group's debut single "Relax" was famously banned by the BBC while at number six in the charts

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Men at Work were an Australian reggae-influenced rock band of the early 1980s. After Little River Band, and before INXS, Men at Work were Australia's most successful international rock export, and are still the only Australian artists with No.1 singles and albums in both America and United Kingdom.The Men at Work story starts with Scottish born and raised singer Colin Hay. His father ran a music

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Kool & the Gang is a highly successful American R&B/soul/funk/disco group. They originally formed in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964. They went through several musical phases in their career. They started out as practitioners of R&B and funk, eventually went through a phase where they were a smooth disco ensemble, and wound up the successful period of their career recording tunes that were a

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Alphaville is a German synthpop/-rock music group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold (real name Hartwig Schierbaum, born May 26, 1954 in Herford), Bernhard Lloyd (real name Bernhard Gößling, born June 6, 1960 in Enger, Bielefeld) and Frank Mertens (real name Frank Sorgatz, born October 26, 1961 in Enger, Bielefeld). The band was at first named Forever

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Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad, 30 November 1955 in Middlesex) is an English rock musician. He first came to attention in the punk rock era, then embarked on a successful solo career, aided by a series of stylish music videos, making him one of the first MTV stars.He has continued to make music, but has yet to recapture the levels of fame he enjoyed in the 1980s. The name Billy

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David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer.Active in five decades of rock and roll, and frequently re-inventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s. Bowie has taken cues from a wide range

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T'Pau was a late-1980s rock group led by singer Carol Decker. They had a string of Top 40 hits in the UK, and several hits in the United States and Europe.T'Pau formed in 1986 and took their name from a Star Trek character. Their debut single and first hit was the 1987 release Heart and Soul. Initially a flop in the UK, it first became a hit in the U.S. Billboard charts, reaching #4, after being

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The band was named after the paper form issued by the UK government's Department of Health and Social Security at the time of the band's formation for claiming unemployment benefit (UB40 = Unemployment Benefit, Form 40).The band members began as mates who knew each other from various colleges and schools across Birmingham. Before any of them could play their instruments, Ali Campbell and Brian

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The Go-Go's are an all-female American rock and roll group formed in 1978. They made rock history as the first all-woman band that wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard charts with a number-one album. Stylistically, their energetic music spanned pop-punk, surf, new wave, and rock.They rose to fame in the early-1980s and their unlikely break-thru success

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Richard Paul Astley (born February 6, 1966) is an English dance-pop singer, songwriter and musician. He was born in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire, England. In 1985, Astley was playing the club circuit as a singer with a soul band named FBI, when he was seen by the record producer Pete Waterman and persuaded to come to London to work at the PWL recording studio. Under the tutelage of

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Heart is an American rock band which came out of Newport High School in Bellevue, Washington. Going through several line-up changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. The group's music during the 1970s was influenced by hard rock groups like Led Zeppelin, and folk music. In the 1980s, they became a mainstream rock act, before dropping out of the public

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Dexys Midnight Runners – the name usually spelled without an apostrophe – are a British pop group with soul influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. They are best known for their hit "Come on Eileen". Kevin Rowland (vocals, guitar) and Kevin "Al" Archer (vocals, guitar) founded the band in 1978 in Birmingham, England, naming the band after Dexedrine, a brand of

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Madness are an English pop ska band that formed in 1976. A prominent band of the 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s, Madness achieved most of its success in the 1980s, spending more weeks in the UK chart than any other group.The band was formed in London in 1976 by Mike Barson (Monsieur Barso) on keyboards and vocals, Chris Foreman (Chrissy Boy) on guitar and 'Lee Thompson (Kix) on saxophone

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Wham! (often written WHAM!) was a band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. They were briefly known in the United States as Wham! UK due to a naming conflict with another band.Michael and Ridgeley met at Bushey Meads School in Watford, England. At first, they performed in a short-lived band called The Executive. They then changed their name and signed with Innervision Records.

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Spandau Ballet were a popular English band in the 1980s. Initially inspired by a mixture of funk and synthpop, the genre-defining New Romantic group eventually mellowed into a mainstream pop act. As with their rivals Duran Duran they 'broke America', albeit briefly.Guitarist and songwriter Gary Kemp and his younger brother, bassist Martin Kemp, formed the band in 1979 with drummer John Keeble,

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The Thompson Twins were an English New Wave/pop band normally associated with the 1980s. The band formed in April 1977, and disbanded in May 1993. Massively popular in the mid-1980s, the band scored a string of hits in the UK, broke into the USA and Canada and enjoyed huge popularity around the globe. Total worldwide record sales are estimated at 50 million. The band was named after the two

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a-ha is a Grammy Award-nominated band from Norway. They are the best selling Norwegian band around the world with a total of 79 million copies sold. They were most popular in the UK, Australia, Eastern Europe and the USA during the 1980s, but continued to be globally successful in the 1990s and 2000s. The trio, composed of lead vocalist Morten Harket, guitarist Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (Pål Waaktaar

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Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard) is an English pop star, lead singer of 1980s New Wave/post-punk group Adam & the Ants and later a solo artist. He is also a film actor, having appeared in two dozen films or television episodes between 1985 and 1999. Goddard, born in Marylebone, London on November 3, 1954, was an only child. His first school was Robinsfield Primary where he created a

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Robert Beresford "Bobby" Brown (born February 5, 1969 in Roxbury, Massachusetts) is an American Grammy Award-winning R&B singer and dancer. Brown began his career with the popular boy band New Edition in 1980 and was later ousted from the group due to behavioural problems. He embarked on a solo career in 1986 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits. Brown is the husband of R&B singer Whitney

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Bananarama are an English girl group who had several hit pop and new wave songs in the 1980s. They have had ten singles in the top-ten of the UK singles chart to date, as well as three U.S. top-ten hits, one of which hit number one. Some of their biggest international hits include "Cruel Summer", "Venus", "Love in the First Degree" and "I Heard a Rumour". They are known for their unique vocal

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Bon Jovi is a Hard rock band originating from New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s as a hair band.Jon Bon Jovi began to play piano and guitar at thirteen, taking lessons from his neighbour, Al Perinello. At that same age, Bon Jovi founded his first band, called Raze. Jon enrolled in an all-boys Catholic school

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INXS (pronounced "In Excess") are an Australian rock group. The band was formed on 16 August 1977 in Sydney, Australia. The band's worldwide peak of popularity came with 1987's Kick, an upbeat, confident album that yielded four Top-10 US singles and several international hits ("New Sensation", "Never Tear Us Apart", "Devil Inside", etc.), including the #1 "Need You Tonight". They toured heavily

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Welcome to Friday Night Spinner Jukebox. In this jukebox there is a compilation of 50 (about 2 hours plus) 80s mixed dance music selected for your Friday Night's 80s party. This compilation will be rotated and changed every week and will only be available on Friday Nights. Bookmark this page and make this your entertainment centre. Support the artist(s) by purchasing their original albums. Kindly

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Welcome to Saturday Night Jukebox. In this jukebox there is a compilation of 100 (about five hours) mixed 80s songs selected for your listening pleasure. This compilation will be rotated and changed every week and will only be available on Saturday Nights. Bookmark this page and make this your entertainment centre. Support the artist(s) by purchasing their original albums. Kindly go to "My Store"

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Welcome to Jukebox 80s Mixed. In this jukebox there is a compilation of 30 (about one hour plus) mixed 80s songs selected for your listening pleasure. This compilation will be rotated and changed Everyday. Bookmark this page and make this your entertainment centre. Support the artist(s) by purchasing their original albums. Kindly go to "My Store" to purchase 80s music or "Support Me Through My

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Rick Springfield (born Richard Lewis Springthorpe on August 23, 1949 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is a songwriter, musician and actor. He is most famous for his 1981 #1 hit single, "Jessie's Girl" which became a Grammy Award-winning landmark of 80s pop-rock and helped established the emerging music video age.He is one of those good looking artists you could get from the 80s. He used to

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Guns N' Roses are an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. Having sold an estimated 90 million albums worldwide, they are one of the USA's most successful hard rock bands. Their 1987 major label debut, Appetite for Destruction, produced by Mike Clink, went on to sell 25 million copies worldwide and reached #1 in the USA a year after its release date. The song "

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In the 80s Prince produced some sensational and catchy tunes like “When Doves Cry” and “Purple Rain”. It was a hit back then because the songs were featured in a movie called “Purple Rain”, where Prince him selves acted as the leading role. This movie was the top musical cinema of the 80s. The album “Purple Rain” subsequently sold more than 13 million copies in the U.S alone and spends 24

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I guess its time to lay down some straightforward set of rules and explain my standing on this blog. I made this blog for the sole purpose of entertaining everyone by introducing the artists and their music/videos and movies, which comes from my personal collections. I can ensure you that ALL music and movies and most music videos in this blog belongs to me through many years of purchasing LPs,

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Fine Young Cannibals was an English band best known for its 1989 hits "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing". Formed in Birmingham, England, by vocalist Roland Gift and former The Beat members David Steele and Andy Cox. Their name came from the 1960 film All The Fine Young Cannibals starring Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood. The group was formed in 1984 in Birmingham, UK, out of the ashes of The

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Duran Duran is a British pop/rock band notable for a long series of popular, synthesiser-driven hit singles and vivid music videos. They were the most commercially successful of the New Romantic bands, and a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the United States.John Taylor and Nick Rhodes formed Duran Duran in Birmingham, England in 1978, envisioning a group with the raw

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One of the earliest groups who kick started the 80s music era was Greg Kihn and his band; know as “Greg Kihn Band”. Probably some of you are familiar with Greg, who is also the No.1 rated morning drive time jock for Clear Channel's KFOX station (San Jose/San Francisco). Greg Kihn began his career in his hometown of Baltimore, MD, working as a singer/songwriter, but switching to straightforward

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When I was going to discos in the 80s, this song “Caribbean Queen” by Billy Ocean will always do the job of getting the dance floor packed with people. If you don’t know who’s Billy, let me introduce you to him. Billy was born in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago to Grenadian parents and moved to England with his family at the age of eight. He was performing way back in the 70s, but Billy's period of

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This video of Cher performing “Believe” isn’t from the 80s, but I can’t resist the temptation of placing her video next to Pete Burns, from Dead or Alive . The reason for doing so, is to compare the similarity of both artists. Do they look alike? I am sure this half naked picture of Pete does not.Anyway, Cher is a legend, whereas I don't know what's Pete. Musicaly, she survived through many

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Dead or Alive is a British New Wave band from Liverpool that rose to popularity during the 80s. This is a one hit wonder band with their song “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” (hear the original in Jukebox 1) and watch the remix video done in 1996. This band is popular in Japan, where they attained 18 number 1 hits in the Japanese chart. The Japanese loves them probably because of their unique

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Level 42 is a British pop and funk band. The group had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s. The band gained fame for its high calibre musicianship, especially that of Mark King, whose percussive slap bass technique provided the driving groove of many of the band's hits.Level 42 was formed in 1980 as a jazz-funk fusion band. The Gould brothers, drummer Phil and guitarist Boon,

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ABC was formed in 1980 in Sheffield after Martin Fry, a music journalist, interviewed the band Vice Versa for his fanzine Modern Drugs. They adopted Fry as lead vocalist and changed their name to ABC. The revamped band was pigeonholed as part of the New Romantic movement of the time, which included the likes of Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and The Human League. The band would offer many stylistic

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Tone Loc is the stage name of Anthony Terrell Smith (born March 3, 1966), an American hip hop artist and actor, most well-known for his 1989 hit singles "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina". He is also known for his deep, gravely, hoarse voice. Tone Loc was born in south Compton, California and attended University High School. His song, "Wild Thing", includes a drum beat and guitar riff from Van

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