Here's a band that's hard to find information on. I pretty much no nothing about them other than they released this single in 1987 which was a college radio new wave favourite and that the flip side, V.O.A., was produced by Captain Sensible. Fantastic track! The group also released another single called I Will Tell which is another hard to find track.
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Kraftwerk's album Electric Café is mildly infamous for taking the band almost half a decade to produce; work is said to have begun on the album as early as 1982 (with the working titles of Technicolor and then Techno Pop), but the project was delayed due to band member Ralf Hütter suffering a near-fatal cycling accident, and then due to concerns within the band that the production quality of the album was not sufficiently cutting-edge, necessitating much re-work. The album finally saw release in 1986.
Yazoo (known as Yaz in Canada and the U.S.) formed in Basildon, Essex in late 1981 by former Depeche Mode songwriter Vince Clarke (synthesizer) and English singer Alison Moyet (vocals), and were signed to Mute Records in the United Kingdom. They had a number of top ten hits in the British charts in the early 1980s. Their initial foray into the US was disastrous when they received a £3.5 million lawsuit threat over the band's name; Yazoo subsequently renamed to Yaz for the US market because the name was already in use by a small American rock band.
Another One Bites the Dustis was a 1980 funk-rock song from the English rock band Queen, written by bassist John Deacon and was a worldwide crossover hit going #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #2 on the R&B charts and the Disco Top 100, and #7 in the UK Singles Chart. The song is Queen's best selling single and their biggest hit to date, with sales of over 7 million copies. The track was from their 1980 album The Game.
The Greg Kihn Band were and still are an American band that was started by frontman Greg Kihn and bassist Steve Wright. Their hits include The Break-up Song and their first and only top ten hit Jeopardy which went to #2 in the US but only reached #65 in the UK. Kihn & Wright have been the only two permanent members since the band started in the 1970s. The band still performs about twice yearly. A parody of the song titled I Lost on Jeopardy was released by Weird Al Yankovic in 1984. Kihn appeared in a cameo in the music video for Yankovic's parody, driving the car Yankovic is thrown into after being kicked out of the NBC studios.
