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Music by some of the early Philadelphia hardcore bands were included on the 1983 compilation LP Get Off My Back. [9] South Street served as the center of the Philadelphia punk scene since the mid to late 1970s, and bars and music venues on the street featured hardcore punk acts in the 1980s.
The Hooters is an American rock band, which was founded in Philadelphia in 1980. [1] They combine elements of rock, reggae , ska , and folk music . The Hooters first gained major commercial success in the United States in the mid-1980s due to heavy radio airplay and MTV rotation of several songs, including " All You Zombies ", "Day by Day ...
Beru Revue is an American rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that played that city's club circuit in the 1980s and reunited in 2006. They debuted at Grendel's Lair in Philadelphia on September 6, 1981. Although Beru Revue had a strong and loyal local following, they had only one notable radio hit in their seven-year career, with "Hoods A ...
Cinderella was an American rock band formed in the suburbs of Philadelphia in 1983. The band emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum studio albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation and popularity.
The band's self-titled debut album was produced by Rick Chertoff and released in 1979. [1] Trouser Press likened the album to The Boomtown Rats' A Tonic for the Troops in terms of combining "wit, street savvy and relatively intricate hard-pop arrangements." [2] Gary Hill of Allmusic similarly noted the band's fusion of punk "irreverence" with ...
Breakwater is an American funk band from Philadelphia. The band released two albums: Breakwater in 1978, and Splashdown in 1980. The latter features the song "Release the Beast", which was sampled on "Robot Rock" by electronic duo Daft Punk.
Clark, as the show's host, became a leading American music producer and the show brought attention to Philadelphia's music scene, facilitating the rise of local labels like Swan Records, Cameo-Parkway and Chancellor Records. This system produced pop stars including Fabian, Bobby Rydell and Frankie Avalon. A payola scandal threatened the show ...