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* In 1983, English-American rock group The Pretenders, released their song " Back on the Chain Gang ", featuring the lyrics " The phone, TV and the News of the World got into the house like a pigeon from hell ..." Written by the group's singer, Chrissie Hynde, the song was about the band's experience of losing their guitarist, James Honeyman-Scott, to a drug overdose, and these lines were in reference to the surviving members ' inability to escape the story at the time.
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In December 1983, Plato moved in with rock guitarist Lanny Lambert ; the couple married in April 24, 1984.
Art in America was the first known rock band featuring a pedal harp to appear on a major record label, and released only one record, in 1983.
Their mixture of heavy metal and glam rock stylings produced several best-selling albums during the 1980s, including Shout at the Devil ( 1983 ), Theatre of Pain ( 1985 ), and Girls, Girls, Girls ( 1987 ), which showcased their love of motorcycles, whiskey and strip clubs, and which told tales of substance abuse, sexual escapades, and general decadence.
* Phalanx ( album ), a 1983 live album by Australian surf rock band, Australian Crawl
The best known representations of St. Stephen in music are Ludwig van Beethoven's King Stephen Overture, and the 1983 rock opera István, a király ( Stephen, the King ) by Levente Szörényi and János Bródy.
The Stems were an alternative rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1983 and were heavily influenced by 1960s garage rock and 1970s power pop.
** The rock band Yes splits up ( regrouping in 1983 ).
The Stone Roses are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1983.
John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. ( born March 2, 1962 ), known as Jon Bon Jovi, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor, best known as the founder and the lead singer of rock band Bon Jovi, which was formed in 1983.
The Flaming Lips are an American rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983.
By the early 80s, the Kinks revived their commercial fortunes considerably by adopting a much more mainstream arena rock style ; and the band's four remaining studio albums for Arista — Low Budget ( 1979 ), Give the People What They Want ( 1981 ), State of Confusion ( 1983 ) and Word of Mouth ( 1984 )— showcased a decidedly canny and opportunistic approach.
However, with " Catch Me Now I'm Falling " ( 1979 ), " Destroyer " ( 1981 ), " Clichés of the World ( B Movie )" ( 1983 ) and " Do It Again " ( 1984 ), the Davies brothers cranked out strident, heavy-riffing hard rock that conveyed an attitude of bitter cynicism and world weary disillusionment.
A major change in popular culture came in 1983 when singer Linda Ronstadt, then considered one of the leading female vocalists of the rock era The gamble paid off, as all three albums became hits, the international concert tours were a success and Riddle picked up a few more Grammys in the process.
Popular tracks from this period include " Big Log " ( a Top 20 hit in 1983 ), " In the Mood " ( 1983 ), " Little by Little " ( from 1985's Shaken ' n ' Stirred ), " Far Post " ( originally only on the B-side of " Burning Down One Side " but popularised by airplay on album-oriented rock stations ), " Tall Cool One " ( a No. 25 hit off 1988's Now and Zen ) and " I Believe " ( from 1993's Fate of Nations ), another song written for and dedicated to his late son, Karac.
* Dramarama, the alternative rock band, formed in 1983 in Wayne and achieved success with the song, Anything, Anything ( I ’ ll Give You ).
* Jobriath Boone-( born Bruce Wayne Campbell December 14, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died August 3, 1983 ), A native of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, he was an American folk and glam rock musician and actor. He was the first openly gay rock musician to be signed to a major record label, Elektra Records ..
My Bloody Valentine are an alternative rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1983.
In 1983, Fab 5 Freddy produced a hip-hop version of " Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder " called " Hip Hop Bommi Bop " together with German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen which is said to be the very first co-production of Punk and Hip Hop.
The band followed DeYoung's lead with their next project, Kilroy Was Here ( 1983 ), another more fully realized concept album, embracing the rock opera form.
Camper Van Beethoven is an American alternative rock group formed in Redlands, California in 1983 and later located in Santa Cruz and San Francisco.
From 1973 until 1983, the group would release a successive string of hit albums and singles on the R & B charts, becoming one of the few successful black groups to successfully cross over into the pop charts due to their mixture of soul, funk and rock thanks to the albums, 3 + 3 and The Heat Is On and also helped pioneer the quiet storm format with a string of ballads on their 1970s and 1980s albums.
In 1983, Michaels and Rockett teamed up with Mat Smith and Bobby Dall to form the band Paris and the group started playing the club circuit, performing mostly rock cover songs in local bars.
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In 1983 an a cappella group known as The Flying Pickets had a Christmas ' number one ' in the UK with a cover of Yazoo's ( known in the US as Yaz ) " Only You ".
Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.
The Misurasata movement split in 1983, with the breakaway Misura group of Stedman Fagoth Muller allying itself more closely with the FDN, and the rest accommodating themselves with the Sandinista government.
* 1983 – The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group.
Minor Threat, which had returned to being a four-piece group with the departure of Hansgen, played its last show on September 23, 1983, with go-go band Trouble Funk and the Big Boys, ending with " Last Song ", which was the original title of " Salad Days ".
The group won the 1983 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and have sold over 30 million albums worldwide.
The 1983 single " Confusion " firmly established the group as a dance music force, inspiring many musicians in subsequent years.
The Murrah building had been previously targeted in October 1983 by white supremacist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, including founder James Ellison and Richard Snell.
* Psyche ( band ), a dark synthpop music group ( formed 1983 )
He gained recognition as a member of the Pat Metheny Group from 1983 until 2001, leaving the group to spend more time with his family and to pursue other musical interests.
A year later, in 1983, Russell agreed to help them record a new single and land a record deal, but only after he changed McDaniels ' stage name to ' DMC ' and marketed the group as " Run – D. M. C.
In 1983 the CIA decided to create a group of “ Unilaterally Controlled Latino Assets ”.
These factors led to Sharkey announcing his intentions to leave the Undertones during the ' European Tour 1983 ', which the group performed in May of that year.
On November 7, 1983, a group called the Armed Resistance Unit claimed responsibility for a bomb that detonated in the lobby outside the office of Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd.
In 1983, a deal with Jaime Lusinchi's presidential campaign resulted in four representatives of the Bloque DeArmas publishing group being elected to Congress on AD slates.
In a lecture at Rockefeller University ( 1983 ), before a group of biologists Ulam put forth the parody:
Soon after the construction of the Monster in 1981, a proof, totaling more than 10, 000 pages, was supplied that group theorists had successfully listed all finite simple groups, with victory declared in 1983 by Daniel Gorenstein.
In October 1983, Wetton was forced out of the group on the heels of the comparatively disappointing sales of Alpha.
The group One Montgomery was founded in 1983 and is a forum for networking of a diverse group of citizens active in civic affairs.
In April 1983 the group resumed its activities with a live appearance in Ljubljana, featuring guest performances by the English bands The Last Few Days and 23 Skidoo, for which recordings of dogs barking and snarling were used as the concert intro.
An early keylogger was written by Perry Kivolowitz and posted to the Usenet news group net. unix-wizards, net. sources on November 17, 1983.
Though the 1983 song " Stronger Than Evil " by Swedish band Heavy Load establishes a case for this band as the first Viking metal group, the roots of Viking metal are generally cited to be later in the Scandinavian metal scene, particularly the death and black metal scenes of the late 1980s.
The Philadelphia-based group Pieces Of A Dream had a minor hit in 1983 with the R & B song " Fo-Fi-Fo ", which title was prompted by Malone's quip.
In October 1983, three of the original members, Ray, Migue and Chayanne, quit the group, alleging poor working conditions.
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