Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

* This is My Night ( Music Video ) ( 1985 ) – Mimi in Chaka Khan's music video

In 1985, the Winter Music Conference started in Fort Lauderdale Florida and became the premier electronic music conference for dance music disc jockeys.

In 1985, Ramone joined Steven Van Zandt's music industry activist group Artists United Against Apartheid, which campaigned against the Sun City resort in South Africa.

* 1894 – Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher ( d. 1985 )

His 1985 album, America, garnered praise for its title track's music video.

The earliest karaoke-based music video game, called Karaoke Studio, was released for the Nintendo Famicom in 1985, but its limited computing ability made for a short catalog of songs and therefore reduced replay value.

SuperStation WTBS launched Night Tracks on June 3, 1983, with up to 14 hours of music video airplay each late night weekend by 1985.

As she continued to promote " Just Say No ", she appeared in an episode of the popular 1980s sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes and in a 1985 rock music video, " Stop the Madness ".

New Wave band XTC published records under the pseudonym, The Dukes of Stratosphear from 1985. and even Gothic rock band The Damned incorporated psychedelic music.

According to Dusted Magazine, Sakamoto's use of squelching bounce sounds and mechanical beats was later incorporated in early electro and hip hop music productions such as “ Message II ( Survival )” ( 1982 ) by Melle Mel and Duke Bootee, “ Magic ’ s Wand ” ( 1982 ) by Whodini and Thomas Dolby, Twilight 22 ’ s “ Electric Kingdom ” ( 1983 ), and Kurt Mantronik's Mantronix: The Album ( 1985 ).

* 1985 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U. S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.

The Bangles have contributed to several compilations, as well as to many other artists ' works: They provided the song " I Got Nothing " to the soundtrack album for the 1985 film The Goonies, and made a cameo appearance in Cyndi Lauper's music video for " Goonies ' R ' Good Enough ".

American heavy metal band, Metallica has run " The Ecstasy of Gold " as prelude music at their concerts since 1985 ( except 1996 – 1998 ), and recently recorded a version of the instrumental for a compilation tribute to Morricone.

In 1985 and 1986, Vangelis wrote music for two more ballets: " Frankenstein – Modern Prometheus " and " The Beauty and the Beast ".

In 1985, the group reformed as a " beat combo " ( a joking reference to early 1960s beat music ), with greater use of electronic musical instruments.

In 1985, she appeared with Starship's Mickey Thomas in the music video for the song " Sara ".

* Rock bands – Jeff Wayne and Rick Wakeman with Kevin Peek did a Progressive Rock version of the entire suite with added incidental music on an album called " Beyond The Planets " which also contained occasional narration by Patrick Allen. An arrangement of " Mars " by progressive-rock trio Emerson, Lake & Powell appeared on their eponymous album ( 1985 ) and was played in their 1985 – 86 live shows. King Crimson, Greg Lake's first successful band performed a rock arrangement of " Mars " live in 1969.

Newton-John's music career cooled again with the release of her next studio album, the gold Soul Kiss ( No. 29 Pop ), in 1985.

In addition to his own music career he directed a 1985 music video for The Bangles ' " Going Down to Liverpool ".

Most Hanna-Barbera series through 1985 had original theme music by Hoyt Curtin, with lyrics ( when used ) by Hanna and Barbera themselves.

In 1985 Prince announced that he would discontinue live performances and music videos after the release of his next album.

They were the first to earn a platinum record ( King of Rock, 1985 ), the first to earn a multi-platinum certification ( Raising Hell, 1986 ) the first to have videos on MTV, the first to appear on American Bandstand and the cover of Rolling Stone.

The critically acclaimed videos led to Lennon's nomination for Best New Video Artist at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards.

Locations seen in the Muppet Theater include backstage right ( which includes Kermit's desk ), the dressing rooms, the attic ( featured in four compilation videos released in 1985 ), the canteen, the prop room, the stage, the house, the stage door lobby, and the back alley.

In 1985, Charles Mazel of Klein Associates produced the first commercial side-scan sonar training videos and the first Side Scan Sonar Training Manual.

On the 25th Anniversary of the 1985 Police bombing, the Philadelphia Inquirer created a detailed multimedia site containing retrospective articles, archived articles, videos, interviews, photos, and a timeline of the events.

However, Sports slowly became a number-one hit in 1984 and multi-platinum success in 1985, thanks to the band's frequent touring and a series of videos that received heavy MTV airplay.

Two additional KI videos were released in 1985, entitled ChartBusters and The Best Of Kids Incorporated.

** Includes videos for " Dig It ", " Stairs and Flowers ", " Far Too Frail " ( live footage 1985 ), " Smothered Hope " ( live footage 1985 ), " Deep Down Trauma Hounds " ( live footage from the 1987 Ain't It Dead Yet?

The video, filmed in London, was nominated for best video ( special effects, art direction and editing ) along with videos by Madonna and Bruce Springsteen at the second MTV Music Video Awards in 1985.

Music journalist Dave Rimmer considered the peak of the movement was the Live Aid concert of July 1985, after which " everyone seemed to take hubristic tumbles ", and Simon Reynolds also notes the " Do They Know Its Christmas " single in late 1984 and Live Aid in 1985 as a turning points, with the movement seen as having become decadent, with " overripe arrangements and bloated videos " for songs like Duran Duran's " The Wild Boys " and Culture Club's " War Song ".

Launched on Tuesday January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly older demographic than its sister channel, focusing on the lighter, softer side of popular music.

In 1985, Jasmine Multimedia created laserdisc Juke Boxes featuring music videos from Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, and Cyndi Lauper.

( 1983 ) and It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown ( 1984 ), three of a-ha's music videos, " Take on Me " ( 1985 ), " The Sun Always Shines on T. V.

By 1985 Temple was now well known for being a director of successful music videos by the Kinks, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and other British artists, several of which were early, groundbreaking, videos for the new MTV channel, but he was yet to direct a major film.

No Doubt is the biggest winner of this category, having won the award thrice ; while U2 is the biggest nominee, with seven of its videos receiving nominations in six different years from 1985 to 2005.

Also in 1985, Carlton was producing projects as diverse as commercials, rock music videos, and corporate videos.

In 1985 Lang appeared in two music videos: Alabama's There's No Way ( where she played the love interest of Alabama lead singer Randy Owen ), and The Beach Boys ' Getcha Back.

In 1985, Sundahl and Kinney spun off the first in a series of precedent-making lesbian erotic videos, called Fatale Video.

Wong supported himself as a photographer and as a dancer ( appearing in rock videos with David Bowie, Donna Summer, and Janet Jackson, among others ) before scoring his first screen roles in 1985, appearing in a Hong Kong musical called Ge wu sheng ping ( aka Musical Dancer ) and in a screen adaptation of James Clavell's best-seller Tai-Pan.