Crowded House are a pop rock band formed in Auckland, New Zealand in 1985 by lead-vocalist and primary songwriter, New Zealand-born Neil Finn.

In 1985, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion achieved their only UK Number One album-and the best-selling album of their career-with Misplaced Childhood, a concept album featuring lyrics by frontman Fish which were partly autobiographical.

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.

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.

His big break came when he directed the Grammy-nominated concert video 9012Live for the rock band Yes in 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.

Two of the other band members, John O ' Neill and Damian O ' Neill formed That Petrol Emotion, a highly regarded, pioneering rock act which released fifteen singles and six albums between 1985 and 1994.

* Private Domain, an American pop / rock band formed in 1985

* 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.

His debut exhibition as a serious painter was at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York in 1985 and was initially regarded as that of " another rock musician dabbling in art for ego's sake ", though his primitive, non-conformist work has received more sympathetic and serious attention since then, with some sales approaching $ 25, 000.

The basin is filled with Late Miocene-Pliocene sediments, including ubiquitously repeated evaporite layers of rock salt and anhydrite-dolomite that alternate with sandstones, conglomerates, black shales, and uraniferous coal measures ( Proedrou, 1979, 1988 ; Taupitz, 1985 ).

Stern signed a contract with Infinity Broadcasting worth around $ 500, 000 and returned to afternoons on its New York rock station WXRK on November 18, 1985.

In 1985, New Jersey rock band Bon Jovi filmed most of their music video for the song " In and Out of Love " in Seaside Heights, mainly on the boardwalk.

Jane's Addiction is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985.

" Through the rest of the 1980s and early 1990s Townshend would again experiment with the rock opera and related formats, releasing several story-based albums including White City: A Novel ( 1985 ), The Iron Man: A Musical ( 1989 ), and Psychoderelict ( 1993 ).

During this period ( now under the editorship of Ian Pye, who replaced Neil Spencer in 1985 ), they were split between those who wanted to write about hip hop, a genre that was relatively new to the UK, and those who wanted to stick to rock music.

On their 1985 album Misplaced Childhood, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion recorded a song called " Lavender ," which was derived from the folk song and became a number 5 hit on the British singles chart.

One of the most covered and popular songs in rock and roll history, the song was revamped several times including a 1982 live recording by rock band Van Halen and a 1985 duet by rockers David Bowie and Mick Jagger, It is considered by many as the " Motown Anthem ".

The first, up to 1985, was essentially as a synthpop band ; while on the second stage Mecano followed a more acoustic pop rock direction, with elements of ballad, salsa, rumba, bolero, paso doble, flamenco, bossanova, tango, dance and even reggae.

Yates first met Michael Hutchence in a 1985 interview on Channel 4's rock magazine programme The Tube.

In 1985 Bob Geldof, Irish rock star and founder of Live Aid, revealed that the people of Ireland had given more to his fundraising efforts per head of population than any other nation in the world.

Los Angeles continued to foster the most important scene around the Sunset Strip, with groups like London, which had originally formed as a glam rock band in the 1970s, and had seen future members of Mötley Crüe, Cinderella and Guns N ' Roses pass through its ranks, finally releasing their début album Non Stop Rock in 1985.

The band and their producer Mike Thorne had gone back into the studio in early 1985 to record a new single, " Run From Love ".

The band played in this style on their first four albums: Bathory ( 1984 ), The Return of the Darkness and Evil ( 1985 ), Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987 ) and Blood Fire Death ( 1988 ).

But from 1985 until he died, his touring band consisted of Debby Hastings ( bass / musical director ), Frank Daley or Nunzio Signore ( guitar ), Tom Major, Dave Johnson, Yoshi Shimada or Sandy Gennaro ( drums ), and his personal manager, Margo Lewis ( keyboards ).

* The 1980s band LaHost's track on the 1985 EMI compilation album ' Fire in Harmony ' was ' Blood and Roses ' - the lyrics of which are loosely based on the Roger Corman film version of Carmilla.

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

In the mid-1980s, the band was embroiled in an obscenity trial in the United States over the artwork of their album Frankenchrist ( 1985 ), which included the explicit titular subject of H. R. Giger's Penis Landscape.

The release of the album Frankenchrist in 1985 showed the band had grown in terms of musical proficiency and lyrical maturity.

802. 11 technology has its origins in a 1985 ruling by the U. S. Federal Communications Commission that released the ISM band for unlicensed use.

Plant focused the band in a different direction from Led Zeppelin, playing standards and in a more R & B style, highlighted by their cover of " Sea of Love ", which peaked at number three on the Billboard charts in early 1985.

In 1985, the band reformed.

All four members of the band used the name for production work for other artists ' recordings between 1982 and 1985.

Daubert left the band early in 1985, and Page McConnell then joined the group on keyboards and made his debut on Sept. 26, 1985 at a show for WRUV Radio in Burlington.

With new producer Peter Collins, the band released Power Windows ( 1985 ) and Hold Your Fire ( 1987 ).

On July 13, 1985, the band made a stop in Philadelphia ( en route to a show in Milwaukee ) to play at the US Leg of Live Aid, which broke a record for number of viewers.

* Spin ( Scullion album ), the 1985 studio album by Irish band Scullion

In mid 1985 the band went to Sydney to meet up with their new label Citadel and promote their first single " Make You Mine "/" She's A Monster ".

Stewart did not fit Oldham's mould, according to Wyman, of " pretty, thin, long-haired boys ," and was removed from the line-up in May 1963 to become road manager and occasional pianist for the band until his death in 1985.

The band was close to a major label contract, but often alienated label representatives by intentionally performing badly in concert ; their 1985 live album, The Shit Hits the Fans, was an example of their concert performances at the time.