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The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the new wave music genre during the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. The list does not include acts associated with the resurgences and revivals of the genre that have occurred from the 1990s onward.
Pages in category "English new wave musical groups" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 451 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Bow Wow Wow are an English new wave band, created by manager Malcolm McLaren in 1980. McLaren recruited members of Adam and the Ants to form the band with then 13-year-old Annabella Lwin on lead vocals. They released their debut EP Your Cassette Pet in 1980 and had their first UK top 10 hit with "Go Wild in the Country" in 1982.
The band was formed from the remnants of Coventry rock-ska band the Reluctant Stereotypes, along with producer Paul Sampson. After the Reluctant Stereotypes, singer Paul King formed the Raw Screens, who perfected their act and style to what Paul King and his manager Perry Haines called "Multi Tone", a reference to "Two Tone", and then, in 1983, relaunched the group as band King from the ...
In the US, new wave continued into the mid-1980s but declined with the popularity of the New Romantic, new pop, and new music genres. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Some new wave acts, particularly R.E.M. , maintained new wave's indie label orientation through most of the 1980s, rejecting potentially more lucrative careers from signing to a major label. [ 85 ]
Under the supervision of Harvey Lisberg, Gouldman's long-time manager, the pair started working on songs for a new album, and took the name Wax. They signed with RCA Records, and released three studio albums between 1986 and 1989. [5] The band's best known singles during that period were "Right Between the Eyes" and "Bridge to Your Heart". [6]
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 ...
This category contains synth-pop new wave bands from the United Kingdom. Synth-pop was a distinct genre during the new wave era of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. Pages in category "British synth-pop new wave groups"