The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

Both worked on Talking Heads ' highly-acclaimed 1980 album Remain In Light which brought polyrhythmic afrobeat influences to Western music.

* Singer Songwriter Barry Manilow released a single " Bermuda Triangle " in 1981, taken from his 1980 album Barry

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

Singer-songwriter Kim Carnes and her husband David Ellingson wrote and produced Kenny Rogers's 1980 album " Gideon ", which was based on the theme of a Texas cowboy.

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single " Ashes to Ashes ", its parent album Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ), and " Under Pressure ", a 1981 collaboration with Queen.

In April 1980, the track " Crying ” from the album began picking up airplay on Dutch radio stations and McLean was called to Europe to appear on several important musical variety shows to plug the song and support its release as a single by EMI.

Enya played the keyboard and provided backing vocals on their album Crann Úll ( 1980 ), although she was not officially a member of the group until the 1981 release Fuaim, when she appeared on the cover.

Geddy, along with his band mates played and sang along with Max Webster on the song " Battle Scar " from the Universal Juveniles ( 1980 ) album.

" Beginning with the Permanent Waves album in 1980, Lee gradually changed his vocal style to a more restrained sound.

The 1980 album Wait a Minute ... is a minor success, but the follow-up albums Modern Times Revive ( 1981 ) and Frisz & Sympatisz ( 1982 ) fail to make the Dutch album charts.

* Intervals ( Ahmad Jamal album ), 1980

" The Breaks ", a single from his 1980 debut album, is the first certified gold record rap song.

The band's success peaked between 1980 and 1981 with a number of UK chart hits, including the classic single " Ace of Spades ", which is still a crowd favourite today and the # 1 on the live album No Sleep ' til Hammersmith.

Öngür joined Dadaşlar, a band with Ersen Dinleten between 1974 – 1975 and 1979 – 1980 and Dervişan ( Dervishes ), a band with Cem Karaca between 1974 and 1978 ; in 1975, Danga participated in Erkin Koray's ' Elektronik Türküler ' ( Electronic Songs ) album.

After briefly toying with the name The Bastions of Immaturity, they settled on the name Meat Puppets in June, 1980 after a song by Curt of the same name which appears on their first album.

Curtis committed suicide on 18 May 1980, the day before Joy Division were scheduled to depart for their first American tour, and prior to release of the band's second album, Closer.

Hi Infidelity ( 1980 ) contained four US Top 40 hits and is the group's best-selling album, with over ten million copies sold.

He concurrently began pursuing a solo career, debuting with the experimental electronic fusion album The Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto ( 1978 ), and later released the pioneering album B-2 Unit ( 1980 ), which included the electro classic " Riot in Lagos ".

In 1980, he released the solo album B-2 Unit, which is considered to be his " edgiest " record.

* In 1980, Haley began working on an autobiography entitled The Life and Times of Bill Haley but died after completing only 100 pages.

In 1980, NASA conducted a summer study entitled

" A number of original recordings also were released in this way in the 1970s and early 1980s, such as " Gall in the Family Fare " ( a parody of All in the Family ), a single entitled " Makin ' Out ," the octuple-grooved track " It's a Super Spectacular Day ," which had eight possible endings, the spoken word Meet the Staff insert, and a six-track, 30-minute Mad Disco EP ( from the 1980 Special of the same title ) that included a disco version of " It's a Gas.

* The subject was also featured on an episode of Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World entitled " Strange Skies ", originally broadcast on November 18, 1980.

In 1980, after the international success the biography Sophia Loren: Living and Loving, Her Own Story by A. Hotchner, Loren portrayed herself and her mother in a made-for-television biopic adaptation of her autobiography entitled Sophia Loren: Her Own Story.

Lakoff's original thesis on conceptual metaphor was expressed in his book with Mark Johnson entitled Metaphors We Live By in 1980.

Her first album, entitled Al Ahavot Shelanu ( Our Love ), was released in 1980 and yielded a string of popular radio hits, including Hageshem ( The Rain ), Shir Ahava La ' chayal ( Love Song For The Soldier ), Kmo Tzipor ( Like A Bird ) and what ultimately became her signature song in Israel, Shir Ha ' frecha ( The Bimbo Song ).

In the 1980 book entitled The Tribune Tower Competition published by Rizzoli, authors Robert A. M. Stern, Stanley Tigerman as well as Bruce Abbey and other architects jokingly submitted " late entries " in Volume II of the work.

His line by line commentary to the entire root text is entitled " Meaningful to Behold – The Bodhisattva's Way of Life " 1980.

Produced from 1977 through 1981, these engines had the distinction of being the last V-8s produced by Pontiac ; GM merged its various brand's engines into one collectively shared group in 1980, entitled General Motors Powertrain.

* His Royal Highness The Prince of the Netherlands ( 1980 – 2002 ); as a prince consort of a Queen of the Netherlands, Prince Claus was legally entitled to this style and title, though out of respect for his father-in-law, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, he never officially used this title

In Gillian Brashaw ’ s 1980 trilogy entitled Hawk of May, Morgawse ( known in other texts as Morgause ) is the knight ’ s mother, while his brother, who is later revealed to be cousin instead, is Medraut ( in other texts, Mordred ).

In 1980, she got her PhD degree in parapsychology from the same university, her thesis being entitled " Extrasensory Perception as a Cognitive Process.

In April 1980 the band was able to release an EP entitled Holiday ' 80, containing the principal track " Marianne " and a cover of " Nightclubbing " ( written by Bowie and Iggy Pop ).

In 1980 these early post-processualists held a conference at Cambridge University, from which a book was produced, entitled Symbolic and Structural Archaeology ( 1982 ), which was edited by Hodder himself and published by Cambridge University Press.

Full-time transmission began at 6. 30pm on 24 October 1980 ( United Nations Day ), as Channel 0 / 28. The first program shown was a documentary entitled ' Who are we?

A live album from the band's 1980 performance in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, entitled Live In Rio, was released on Maurice White's Kalimba Records label in 2002, and that same year EWF was honored with the Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

An album by CCR entitled The Royal Albert Hall Concert was released in 1980.

A four track EP entitled Found All The Parts was released in mid 1980 and consisted of previously unreleased material.

* In 1980, Meco produced a similarly-themed Christmas album entitled Christmas in the Stars: Star Wars Christmas Album.

Saturday Night Live parodied the scandal in a skit entitled " The Bel-Airabs " ( a spoof of The Beverly Hillbillies ), February 9, 1980.

Even after their 1975 divorce ( due largely to Jones ' alcoholism ), their professional collaboration continued with regularity through 1980 ; years later in 1995, they made a reunion album entitled One.

Around 1980 an LP record album entitled THE PERISHERS SING!

* A failed television pilot for an American version of the Australian series was produced in 1980 entitled " Willow B: Women in Prison ".

The first one released in 1980, entitled The Incredible Voyage of Stingray was made up of the episodes " Stingray ", " Plant Of Doom ", " Count Down " and " The Master Plan ".