Enya recorded a song entitled " Boadicea " for her 1987 LP Enya.

A deluxe digital version, available for download only, has 32 tracks including a rare 1987 live recording of the band's version of the Hunters & Collectors song " Throw Your Arms Around Me ".

In 1987, Crowded House won the American MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for their song " Don't Dream It's Over ", which was also nominated for three other awards.

*" Calypso ", a song from Suzanne Vega's album Solitude Standing ( 1987 )

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds was so moved by the results of the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 that he wrote new words to the traditional folk song " She Moved Through The Fair " and the group recorded it with the name " Belfast Child ".

Another early appearance on record followed in 1987, where Enya provided spoken ( not sung ) vocals in Irish on the song " Never Get Old " on Sinéad O ' Connor's debut album, The Lion and the Cobra.

The B-side single " Eclipse " is actually a reversed and modified version of Enya's song " Deireadh An Tuath " from this 1987 album.

*" The Power of Love " ( Jennifer Rush song ) ( 1985 ), covered by Laura Branigan ( 1987 ) and Céline Dion ( 1993 )

British band Napalm Death holds the Guinness World Record for shortest song ever recorded with the one-second " You Suffer " ( 1987 ).

In 1987, he recorded a single with Kim Wilde for Comic Relief: a cover of the Christmas song " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " with some extra comedy lines written by Smith and Jones.

Many US soldiers adopted her song " These Boots Are Made for Walkin '" as their anthem, as shown in Pierre Schoendoerffer's academy award winning documentary The Anderson Platoon ( 1967 ) and reprised in a scene in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket ( 1987 ).

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

( Rest in Pain )", a song by Sepultura from the 1987 Schizophrenia album

* Country song " Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses " made popular in 1987 by singer / song writer Kathy Mattea

Woodley released several solo albums and focused on songwriting, including co-writing the patriotic song " I Am Australian " with Dobe Newton ( of the Bushwackers ) in 1987.

On the Indigo Girls album 1200 Curfews ( Disc 2 ) Amy Ray starts the song " Land of Cannaan " ( which originally was on their 1987 Strange Fire album ) by saying " When I first wrote this song it was a ballad, and then I heard The Replacements, and it wasn't any more.

The song, which is a protest, against nuclear weapons, was written in 1987, implying that the Earth could be nearly completely devastated by nuclear weapons in 12 years without any action taken against them.

In 1987 Italian singer-songwriters Claudio Lolli and Francesco Guccini wrote a song, Keaton, about his work in Italy on the film Due Marines e un Generale

included a song called " Fireplace " on its 1987 album Document.

" Cars " remains Numan's most enduring song ; it was a hit again in 1987 ( remixed by Zeus B.

* " King's Cross ", a Pet Shop Boys song from their 1987 album Actually, also covered and released as a single by Tracey Thorn in 2007.

Fitzgerald is also referred to on the 1987 song " Ella, elle l ' a " by French singer France Gall and the Belgian singer Kate Ryan, the 1976 Stevie Wonder hit " Sir Duke " from his album Songs in the Key of Life, and the song " I Love Being Here With You ", written by Peggy Lee and Bill Schluger.

DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, months after the release of BDP's debut album, Criminal Minded.

Haley was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

In 1987, he directed eight episodes of the satirical police sitcom Sledge Hammer !, including the episode, " Hammer Hits the Rock " in season two, where he made an uncredited appearance as " Zeke " ( prisoner in cell No. 76 ).

* 1987: inducted the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

Rock ' n ' Roll ( 1987 ) and a cameo in Leaving Las Vegas ( 1995 ) as a bartender.

* 1962 – Scott " La Rock " Sterling, American musician ( Boogie Down Productions ) ( d. 1987 )

* Hatch, David and Stephen Millward, ( 1987 ), From Blues to Rock: an Analytical History of Pop Music, Manchester University Press, ISBN 0-7190-1489-1

Orbison was initiated into the second class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 by longtime admirer Bruce Springsteen.

* Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ( 1987 )

Under the 1987 statute, the Guard of the Rock are all enrolled as ' Criminal Police Officers ' ( in addition to their military role ) and act to assist the police in investigating major crime.

* Rock of This Age: The Real & Imagined Dangers of Rock Music ( 1987 )

In 1987, Bill Haley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

In Q in 1987, David Hepworth claimed: " Marillion may represent the inelegant, unglamorous, public bar end of the current Rock Renaissance but they are no less part of it for that.

* Rock Odyssey ( 1987 )

Chapter Eighteen, as it is known, was published posthumously in 1987 as The Secret of Hanging Rock by Angus & Robertson Publishing.

Picnic at Hanging Rock was adapted by playwright Laura Annawyn Shamas in 1987 and published by Dramatic Publishing Company.

In response both to televangelist Jimmy Swaggart's June 1987 book Religious Rock ' N ' Roll: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, which had criticized the music of Norman and other Christian rock artists, and Swaggart's February 1988 admission of adultery with a prostitute, Norman wrote the song " Selah ", which had its last verse censored by Benson, which was: " My songs are spiritual fornication ,/ that's what this television preacher said ./ I guess he knows a lot about fornication ,/ I heard he wrote some sermons in a prostitute's bed.

Also during 1985, Perkins was inducted to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 1987, wider recognition of his contribution to music came with his induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

" It was recorded on his 1987 album, Let's Rock.

An underground tunnel connects the building to the Rock County Courthouse, itself beautifully renovated in 1987 – 88.

Her first album The Lion and the Cobra was " a sensation " when it was released in 1987 and it reached gold record status and earned a Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Grammy nomination.

Gaye was posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

In 1987, Gaye was posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.