80's music

Back in the 1980's, 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!

Soft Cell is vocalist Mark Almond, and instrumentalist David Ball. They achieved fame with one of Jersey's Favorite Hits, "Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go."

Soft Cell is vocalist Mark Almond, and instrumentalist David Ball. They achieved fame with one of Jersey's Favorite Hits, "Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go."

Tears For Fears are a "New Age" band from England, formed in 1981 by Roland Orzabal (August 22, 1961), and Curt Smith (June 24, 1961).

Saturday night I was fortunate enough to host John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band at the Surflight Theater in Beach Haven.   As I watched the great performance they put on reliving the hits from the ‘Eddie and the Cruisers” movie as well as many of their other songs, I remembered how great many of those 80’s bands were live. Some of them, like Loverboy and the Tubes actually made it to the big

Last night I started a new Monday night feature called “Trev’s Top Ten at Ten”  Since I hosted John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band at the Surflight Theatre Saturday night in Beach Haven, the topic was the Top Ten Best 80’s band that you’ve ever seen live. The 80’s were the time of the epic concerts in New Jersey with Amnesty International at the Meadowlands, Live Aid in Philadelphia, Farm Aid,