The most fanciable list is on there, so is Toyah - but there's so much more.
You'll have to click on it to read it...click twice for magnification.
As you can see - 1980 was very much the year of The Police, in England.
Best Single.
Best Album.
Band Of The Year.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 6, 2019 6:33 PM |
1980: I was 8 yrs old. I only liked the music from Xanadu.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 6, 2019 6:38 PM |
I HATED Enola Gay.
That was really the start of the '80s synth sound.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 6, 2019 6:40 PM |
Sheena Easton was really a big deal in the U.K. where she made her 1980 debut. There was a tv program called The Big Time which chronicled her aspirations to be a pop star and documented her year long transformation from girl from Bellshill Scotland attending The Royal Academy to middle of the road pop star. Esther Rantzen (journalist /tv host) was responsible for discovering her and filming her progression from nobody to star for the BBC.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 6, 2019 6:47 PM |
[quote]Esther Rantzen (journalist /tv host) was responsible for discovering her
Blimey! Never knew that.
There's someone who should have been big in America. You know how much they love big teeth.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 6, 2019 6:49 PM |
Also... in the BBC documentary The Big Time (Sheena Easton), there is a hilarious segment where Lulu and her bitch manager tell a yet-unknown Sheena Easton that she will never be a pop star in the 80s. Talk about two jealousy!
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 6, 2019 6:51 PM |
Lulu was dead musically by the 80s
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 7, 2019 1:19 AM |
My ass is haunted
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 18, 2019 1:10 AM |
It's good to see The Jame up there, but where the hell is The Clash?! The were the best band in 1980.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 18, 2019 1:35 AM |
I want to bring "fanciable" back.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 18, 2019 1:54 AM |