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Vairas – The band's name comes from a bicycle and engine factory of the same name in which the band members worked. Vampire Weekend – Chris Baio explained that the band's singer, Ezra Koenig , had filmed a low-budget vampire movie with this title two-and-a-half years before the band formed.
Many notable bands originally went by different names before becoming successful. [1] This list of original names of bands lists former official band names, some of them are significantly different from the eventual current names. This list does not include former band names that have only minor differences, such as stylisation changes, with ...
Berlin is an American new wave/synth-pop band formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained commercial success in the 1980s with singles including " The Metro ", " Sex (I'm a ...) ", " No More Words " and the chart-topping " Take My Breath Away " from the 1986 film Top Gun , which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Golden Globe ...
Haysi Fantayzee was an avant-garde, new wave pop project emanating from the Blitz Kids street arts scene in London in the early 1980s. The group's music combined reggae, country and electro with political and sociological lyrics couched as nursery rhymes.
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
Liverpool band Frankie Goes to Hollywood's initially controversial dance-pop gave them three consecutive UK number ones in 1984, until they faded away in the mid-1980s. [64] Dead or Alive, also from Liverpool, was another popular dance-pop band in the mid-1980s.
A few years before he became an iconic piano man on the pop charts, Billy Joel played in a couple of hard-rocking psychedelic bands. One of them, Attila, was a duo featuring Joel playing distorted ...
Hook's current band Peter Hook and the Light is touring and performing full albums from both Joy Division and New Order. [80] In 1990, Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris formed their own band, The Other Two. The Other Two released its first single "Tasty Fish" in 1991 and released two albums, The Other Two & You in 1993 and Super Highways in 1999.