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In 1980, New Zealand group Split Enz had major success with the single " I Got You " and the album True Colours, and later that year they joined Blondie in becoming one of the first bands in the world to produce a complete set of promo clips for each song on the album ( directed by their percussionist, Noel Crombie ) and to market these on video cassette.
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* Adrian Webster ( born 1980 ), New Zealand footballer
The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians ( London: Macmillan, 1980 ) ISBN 0-333-23111-2
* 1980 – Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1980.
In New Zealand, the New Zealand Blood Service ( NZBS ) in 2000 introduced measures to preclude permanently donors who had resided in the United Kingdom ( including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands ) for a total of six months or more between January 1980 and December 1996.
New York: Quill, 1980.
On March 25, 1980, Dead Kennedys were invited to perform at the Bay Area Music Awards in San Francisco to major record label artists to give the event some " New Wave credibility ", in the words of the organizers.
* 1980 – John Lennon, an English musician ( former member of The Beatles ), and peace activist, is murdered by Mark David Chapman, a mentally unstable fan, in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City.
Springer-Verlag ( Berlin – Heidelberg – New York ), ISBN 3-540-06556-3 ; translated into Russian ( 1980 ) and Chinese ( 1980 ).
A July 8, 1980 New York Times Article titled " What George Steinbrenner is to the American League, Lee Eisenberg is to the Rotisseries League " set off a media storm that led to stories about the league on CBS TV and other publications.
* 1980 – Clinton Toopi, New Zealand rugby league footballer
* 1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
* 1980 – Josh Sole, New Zealand-born Italian rugby player
Two years later, however, he came out of retirement and in 1973 recorded several albums, scoring a Top 40 hit with "( Theme From ) New York, New York " in 1980.
Stencil s by John Fekner: Charlotte Street Stencils, South Bronx, New York, 1980.
* Stations of the Elevated ( 1980 ), the earliest documentary about subway graffiti in New York City, with music by Charles Mingus
* Garrett, Peter K., The Victorian Multiplot Novel: Studies in Dialogical Form, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1980.
New York: Rizzoli, 1980.
* 1980 – Dan Whitesides, American drummer ( The Used and New Transit Direction )
* 1980 – Campbell Johnstone, New Zealand All Black rugby player
* 1980 – Scott Dixon, New Zealand race car driver
He served as the federal president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 1969 – 70, and also as the president for its Victoria branch from 1963 until his death in 1980.
1980 and Zealand
* 1980 – Pua Magasiva, Samoan-New Zealand actor
* 1980 – James Franklin, New Zealand cricketer
* 1980 – Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby union footballer
Since 1980, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, and New Zealand have provided the bulk of Vanuatu's development aid.
** Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker and billiards player ( d. 1980 )
There are seven wilderness areas in New Zealand as defined by the National Parks Act 1980 and the Conservation Act 1987 that fall well within the IUCN definition.
* New Zealand Sportsman of the Year 1980
After completion of postgraduate studies in psychiatry, she was made a Member of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 1971, becoming a Fellow in 1980.
In 1980, he described New Zealand as a country living on borrowed money, unable in spite of the record efforts of its exporters to pay its own way in the world.
In spite of debilitating arthritis in her hips, she undertook a third tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2003, which reunited her with RoadKnight and the other Honky Tonk Angels, who had first brought her to Australia in 1980.
He emigrated to Switzerland in ( 1933 ), then to Italy ( 1934 ) and ultimately, with his partner Margot Ruben ( 1908 – 1980 ), to New Zealand ( 1938 ).
* 1980: New Zealand Book Award for Fiction ( Living in the Maniototo )
* 1980 New Zealand rugby league season
In British English the term " short trousers " is used, but only for shorts that are a short version of real trousers, e. g. tailored shorts, often lined, as typically worn as part of school uniform for boys up to their early-to-middle teens from roughly 1920 to 1980 ( and still in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand and South Africa ), and by servicemen and policemen posted overseas to tropical climates.
After nearly a year of relentless touring in the US, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and Japan, starting in April 1980 the band took a year off because of exhaustion and " internal dissent ".
This first edition, played in New Zealand, without qualifying round, was won by the host in the final match played in Auckland against Tahiti, with the result of 2-0, and was characterized by the absence of the Australian team and the presence of some teams not members of FIFA, such as New Hebrides, which became Vanuatu after gaining independence in 1980.
1980 and group
The group had no major hits in 1980, but by 1981 they released two Top Ten hits with " Oh No " (# 4 U. S .) and their first upbeat single in almost five years, " Lady ( You Bring Me Up )" (# 8 U. S .)
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.
In December 1980, the group was split into three subgroups, and standardization proceeded separately for each proposal.
The concept of furry originated at a science fiction convention in 1980, when a drawing of a character from Steve Gallacci ’ s Albedo Anthropomorphics initiated a discussion of anthropomorphic characters in science fiction novels, which in turn initiated a discussion group that met at science fiction and comics conventions.
The Moral Majority was founded as being " pro-family ", " pro-life ", " pro-defense " and pro-Israel. The group is credited with delivering two thirds of the white, evangelical Christian vote to Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential election.
Another early rap group with all Latino members was La Familia, formed in 1980.
* 1980 – On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
After Higson graduated in 1980, he moved in with Whitehouse, working by day as a decorator and performing at night and the weekends with his new punk-funk group The Higsons.
On February 25, 1980, a group of 15 non-commissioned officers and one junior SKM officer, under the leadership of sergeant major Dési Bouterse, overthrew the Government.
From 1975 to 1977, Skyhooks were — alongside Sherbet — the most commercially successful group in Australia, but over the next few years, Skyhooks rapidly faded from the public eye with the departure of key members, and in 1980 the band announced its break-up in controversial circumstances.
The FDN ’ s ( Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense, the main opposition group of those armed organizations referred to as ' Contras ') chief of intelligence, Ricardo Lau, had, according to the former Salvadoran intelligence chief Col. Roberto Santivanez, ‘ received payment of $ 120, 000 ’ for organizing the murder of Archbishop Romero of El Salvador in 1980.
To date, they have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup and have made just one appearance in the African Cup of Nations, back in 1980, where they finished last in their group with just 1 draw and 2 losses.
The group also picked up a cult following in Australia thanks to the support of the Sydney rock radio station 2JJ ( now Triple-J ) and the nationally broadcast weekly music TV show Countdown, which screened all of the band's early videos ( beginning with their first Australian single release-" This Is Pop "); thanks to this interest, the group made two well-received tours there in 1979 and 1980.
Exhausted by touring, Poly Styrene left the band in mid 1979, though she is seen performing with the band in the 1980 film, D. O. A .. She released a solo album, Translucence, before joining the Hare Krishna movement ( as did Logic, who left the band aged 16 in 1977 to form a new group called Essential Logic ).
From 1973 to 1980, he studied and performed with composer David Tudor in the new music group " Rainforest " ( later called " Composers Inside Electronics ").
* British — Hockney, David: Troop of Actors and Acrobats ( 1980 ; one of stage designs for Satie's Parade under # Ballet, cabaret, and Pierrot troupes | Ballet, cabaret, and Pierrot troupes above ), paintings on Munich museum walls for group exhibition on Pierrot ( 1995 ); Self, Colin: Pierrot Blowing Dandelion Clock ( 1997 ).
GLS United, formed by three widely known radio moderators, was perhaps the first German hip hop group, releasing the first German-language hip hop song " Rappers Deutsch " in 1980 although they were just a novelty act created for this one song.
Cajuns were officially recognized by the U. S. government as a national ethnic group in 1980 per a discrimination lawsuit filed in federal district court.
With the group Fuse One, he released two albums in 1980 and 1982.
Beefheart eventually formed a new Magic Band with a group of younger musicians and regained contemporary approval through three final albums: Shiny Beast ( Bat Chain Puller ) ( 1978 ), Doc at the Radar Station ( 1980 ) and Ice Cream for Crow ( 1982 ).
Active only from 1971 – 1980, the anarchist group was one of the few violent groups at the time in West Germany.
In 1980, the group changed its name to the Comité des Champs-Élysées and to " Comité Champs-Élysées " in 2008.
* The Survivor of Babi Yar by Othniel J. Seiden ( c 1980, ISBN 937050-02-4 ) is an account of the title character as he escapes and forms a Jewish resistance group of some size and significance.
The group broke up in 1980, and MacKaye and Nelson formed Minor Threat, who became a big influence on the hardcore punk genre.
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