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Shoegazing bands dominated the British music press at the end of the decade along with the drug-fuelled Madchester scene. Based around The Haçienda, a nightclub in Manchester owned by New Order and Factory Records, Madchester bands such as The Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays mixed acid house dance rhythms with melodic guitar pop. [13]
They were first revealed on BBC Radio 1 on 1 January 1990, with the "Top 80 of the 80s" counted down and played between 12:35 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. by DJs Alan Freeman and Mark Goodier. [2] The top eighty best-selling singles of the decade were also printed in the music magazine Record Mirror in the issue dated 6 January 1990. [1]
Joe Dolce Music Theatre "Shaddap You Face" Epic: 21 February 1981: 3 476 Roxy Music "Jealous Guy" E.G. 14 March 1981: 2 477 Shakin' Stevens "This Ole House" Epic: 28 March 1981: 3 478 Bucks Fizz "Making Your Mind Up" RCA: 18 April 1981: 3 479 Adam and the Ants "Stand and Deliver" CBS: 9 May 1981: 5 480 Smokey Robinson "Being with You" Motown ...
"Hey DJ / I Can't Dance (To That Music You're Playing)" Beatmasters feat. Betty Boo: Rhythm King: 1 week 9 September "Find Out Why" Inspiral Carpets: Cow: 1 week 16 September "Run 2" New Order: Factory: 1 week 23 September "Regina" The Sugarcubes: One Little Indian: 1 week 30 September "Personal Jesus" Depeche Mode: Mute: 1 week 7 October ...
This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( October 2021 ) This is a list of notable bands/musicians from England, UK .
Dire Straits had three UK number-one albums during the 1980s. Their second, Brothers in Arms, was the biggest-selling album of the decade. The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom; during the 1980s, a total of 184 albums reached number one.
The mid-late 1970s–early 1980s period in the United Kingdom introduced a movement of young musicians, generally identified as the new wave of British heavy metal (often abbreviated as NWOBHM). The movement spawned more than a thousand hard rock and heavy metal bands from all over the UK, which were more or less forcibly identified as heavy ...
At the beginning of the 1980s, sales of singles and albums in the United Kingdom were compiled on behalf of the British music industry by the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB). This continued until the end of 1982, when the contract to compile the UK charts was won by Gallup, who took over on 4 January 1983, the first working day of 1983. [2]