80′s music

Naked Eyes is a synthesizer-centered pop band formed by two friends from Bath England, Pete Byrne on vocals, and Rob Fisher on keyboards. This, initially, short-lived band would create two of Jersey's Favorite Hits!

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The band "Breakfast Club" has no relation to the "brat pack" movie "The Breakfast Club." As a matter of fact, the band pre-dates the same-named '80s iconic celuloid masterpiece!

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While the band "Fine Young Cannibals" formed in the early 1980s, they became synonymous with hit music of the late 1980s!

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Its hard to believe that it has been a year since we lost Whitney Houston!

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Kim Carnes was born July 20th, 1945, in Hollywood California! She is a singer, and a songwriter. This two-time Grammy Award winner's songs  have been sung by the likes of Barbra Streisand and Kenny Rogers, and many country artists. Some have called her the Female Rod Stewart, due to her distinctive, raspy voice.

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"Rockwell" was born Kennedy William Gordy, in Detroit, May 15, 1964.  Yes, he is the son of Motown Records founder Barry Gordy, Jr!

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As I have said on-air on New Jersey 101.5, when playing a Boz Scaggs song, the birth certificate says William Royce Scaggs.  "Boz" was born in Canton Ohio, on June 8th, 1944.

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"John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band" is a rock band from Rhode Island. The guys were originally known as "Beaver Brown."

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Mr. Mister is a pop/new wave band that made it big in the mid-1980s.  It was founded in 1982 in Los Angeles by Richard Page and his childhood pal Steve George.

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Back in the 1980s, Tommy Tutone gave us one of the most famous phone numbers* in rock 'n' roll history! 867-5309/Jenny! People still dial it to this day, asking for Jenny as a prank!

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