80's music

UB40 are a reggae/pop band formed in Birmingham, England in 1978. The band has had more than 50 singles hit the charts in England, and has had several international hits. But what may be most interesting is where the band got its name...

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The Pretenders are an English and American rock band formed in Hereford England, in the spring of 1978. The original band lineup included founder and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), Pete Farndon (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Martin Chambers (drums, backing vocals, percussion). 

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Billy Ocean was a huge, international recording star in the mid to late-1980's...but he was on the music scene in England long before!

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Bet you didn't know that Dennis had a brief but successful career as a musician in the early 80's. Yep, you read that correctly.

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Scritti Politti is a British band, formed in Leeds, in 1977 by Green Gartside.  Initially a punk band, the group's sound became more "mainstream" in the 1980's.

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Carl Carlton is an upbeat guy when you hear him on New Jersey 101.5. How can you not smile when he sings "Everlasting Love?"

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Huey Lewis And The News are a San Francisco-based pop band that scored 19 top-ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts in the 1980's and early 1990's!

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Quarterflash is a husband and wife band, from Portland Oregon, that formed in the late 1970's.

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In the U.S., we seem to have forgotten about this '80s pop/rock band. But, to riff off one of their hits, they are not gone!

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I LOVE the 80's! Its more than just a slogan! We all have so many favorite songs from the "Decade Of Decadence."

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