Artists
China Crisis
The early 1980’s heralded a second Liverpool-based musical renaissance and amongst these lauded Merseyside acts was China Crisis, originally emerging in 1981 from their native Kirkby broadly in the "new wave" genre as the [...]
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View more THE VAPORS
The Vapors are an English new wave and power pop band that initially existed between 1978 and 1981. They had a top ten hit with the song “Turning Japanese” in 1980, which reached No. [...]
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View more BIG COUNTRY
Big Country was originally formed in 1981 by guitar playing founder members Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson both native of the band’s hometown Dunfermline in Scotland. Initially driven by a shared [...]
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View more THE ICICLE WORKS
The Icicle Works were one of those U.K. groups of the ’80s that scored a massive hit in the U.S. despite a somewhat lengthy and more successful run in their homeland. They released a number of albums that, while regularly [...]