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  2. Rio (Duran Duran album) - Wikipedia

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    —Roger Taylor, 2021 According to John Taylor, all of the songs, except for "The Chauffeur", were fully arranged before recording began; "Rio" had been played during multiple sound checks. Recording followed the same template as the debut: the bass, drums and synthesiser parts were recorded first, followed by guitar, keyboard overdubs and vocals. The band recalled recording going by ...

  3. Philip Glass - Wikipedia

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    The Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in Conversation with 27 of his subjects, New York: A.R.T. Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-923183-18-9. Duckworth, William (1995, 1999). Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers. New York City: Da Capo Press.

  4. 1980s in music - Wikipedia

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    The 1980s saw the emergence of electronic dance music and new wave, also known as Modern Rock. As disco fell out of fashion in the decade's early years, [ 1] genres such as post-disco, Italo disco, Euro disco, and dance-pop became more popular. Rock music continued to enjoy a wide audience. [ 2] Soft rock, [ 3] glam metal, thrash metal, shred ...

  5. The post ‘Being Black: The ’80s’ is my new podcast about Black music and politics in the 1980s appeared first on TheGrio. OPINION: My new podcast "Being Black: The ’80s" is about Black ...

  6. Smooth Operator - Wikipedia

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    "Smooth Operator" is a song by English band Sade from their debut studio album, Diamond Life (1984), and was co-written by Sade and Ray St. John. It was released as the album's third single in the United Kingdom as a 7-inch single with "Spirit" as its B-side, and as a 12-inch maxi single with "Smooth Operator" and "Red Eye" on side A and "Spirit" on side B. Released on 28 August 1984, it ...

  7. Music history of the United States in the 1980s - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Popular music of the United States in the 1980s saw heavy metal, country music, Top 40 hits, hip hop, MTV, CMJ [clarification needed], and new wave as mainstream. [1] Punk rock and hardcore punk was popular on CMJ. With the demise of punk rock, a new generation of punk-influenced genres arose, including Gothic rock, post-punk ...

  8. Portrait (band) - Wikipedia

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    Portrait is an American R&B and hip hop vocal quartet, consisting of members Michael Angelo Saulsberry, Irving Washington III, Eric Kirkland and Philip Johnson.The quartet group's music sound was influenced by the new jack swing style of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

  9. Captain Beefheart - Wikipedia

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    First issues, in the US, were auto-coupled and housed in the black "Straight" liners along with a 6-page lyric sheet illustrated by the Mascara Snake. A school-age portrait of Van Vliet appears on the front of this sheet, while the cover of the gatefold shows Beefheart in a modified Pilgrim hat, [62] obscuring his face with the head of a fish.