Bowie shelved his solo career in 1989, retreating to the relative anonymity of band membership for the first time since the early 1970s.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

* Zebra ( 1989 ) with Lester Bowie

It produced mixed but generally positive reviews upon release in May 1989, picking up favourable comparisons with Bowie ’ s two more recent solo albums.

On June 24, 1989, the Nets traded Williams to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for Sam Bowie and a draft pick.

A 4096 color Amiga Hold-and-Modify | HAM picture created with Photon Paint in 1989

The largest cheddar ever produced was created in Oregon by the Federation of American Cheese-makers in 1989.

In 1989, the Central Informatics Bureau ( CIB ) was created whose main functions were to plan and coordinate computerization within the Civil Service.

It was only after the Baltic Way demonstrations of 23 August 1989, where two million people created a human chain set on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Pact that this policy changed.

The Namibia Defence Force was created when South West Africa gained full independence from South Africa in 1989.

Due to federalism, immediately after the 1989 revolution, two national governments ( one for the Czech Republic, one for Slovakia ) were created as well under the federal Czechoslovak government.

By 1989, the Arizona state legislature had successfully created the holiday, but opponents forced a ballot initiative, and in 1990, Arizona voters rejected the initiative.

Three Zelda-themed LCD games were created between 1989 and 1992.

In 1989, Turner created the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for fiction offering positive solutions to global problems.

The game was created by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov in 1985, but did not become popular until it was released for the Nintendo Game Boy in 1989.

In the 1989 crossover Inferno, Madelyne Pryor was revealed to be a clone of Jean Grey created by the nefarious mutant geneticist Mister Sinister.

In February 1989, North Yemen joined Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt informing the Arab Cooperation Council ( ACC ), an organization created partly in response to the founding of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and intended to foster closer economic cooperation and integration among its members.

It was created in 1989 by Scott Gehmlich of IDACOM Electronics ( which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1990 ), and sent to Giovanni Moretti of Massey University, from whom it was propagated widely.

In the April 4, 1989 general election Daley faced Aldermen Timothy C. Evans, candidate of the newly created Harold Washington Party, and Republican candidate Edward Vrdolyak, a former Democrat who had antagonized Washington on the city council while Washington served as mayor.

As part of a much-discussed political " opening " process, several political organizations, three of them non-Marxist, were accepted under an umbrella political organization created in June 1989 by the FP.

The terms of the merger allowed Daimler-Benz's non-automotive businesses such as Daimler-Benz InterServices AG ( Debis ) ( created in 1989 to handle data processing, financial and insurance services, and real estate management for the Daimler group ) to continue to pursue their respective strategies of expansion.

The film is technically a remake of L. A. Takedown, a 1989 made-for-television film which was also written and directed by Mann ; the director had been trying to get Heat made for over a decade, and created L. A Takedown as a simplified version after his efforts were unsuccessful.

Mayall was the star of The New Statesman ( 1987 – 92 ), a series created by Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks, whose biggest success, Birds of a Feather ( 1989 – 98 ), also deviated from British practice in being scripted by a team of writers.

* The World Fair Trade Organization ( formerly the International Fair Trade Association ) is a global association created in 1989 of fair trade producer cooperatives and associations, export marketing companies, importers, retailers, national, and regional fair trade networks and fair trade support organizations.

From 1989 to 1992, a team of architects from the Historic American Buildings Survey ( HABS ) of the United States created a collection of measured drawings of Monticello.

The commission issued a " Blue Book " in July 1987 outlining modalities for district-level elections, which were held in late 1988 and early 1989, for newly created district assemblies.

In 1989 he created the children's comedy TV series Maid Marian and her Merry Men, a loose retelling of the legend of Robin Hood in which he appeared as the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Groups created include Toshiba Music Industries / Toshiba EMI ( 1960 ), Toshiba International Corporation ( 1970s ) Toshiba Electrical Equipment ( 1974 ), Toshiba Chemical ( 1974 ), Toshiba Lighting and Technology ( 1989 ), Toshiba America Information Systems ( 1989 ) and Toshiba Carrier Corporation ( 1999 ).

The Olympiad was created in the 1980s by David Levy with the first contest taking place in 1989 at the Park Lane Hotel in London.

Love initially gained notoriety in the Los Angeles indie rock scene as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989 with lead guitarist Eric Erlandson.

In 1997, the band released a compilation album, My Body, The Hand Grenade, which featured material from the band's earliest recordings in 1989 up until 1995, and, in September 1998, released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences.

In 1990, he appeared on " Kool Thing ", a song by the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and along with Flavor Flav, he sang on George Clinton's song " Tweakin '", which appears on his 1989 album The Cinderella Theory.

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 ".

* Euphoria ( Indian band ), an active Indian rock group formed in 1989

* Hole ( band ), an alternative rock band formed by Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson in 1989

With Canadian country rock superstars Blue Rodeo as a back-up band, Music Express called the 1989 Juno appearance a symbolic " passing of the torch " from The Band to Blue Rodeo.

Scotland Yard is a pop rock group from Los Angeles, California: Scotland Yard began when Chris Hill began demoing songs in 1989 for a female fronted new wave pop group.

Bad Religion made a progressive rock album with Into the Unknown, the Beastie Boys gained fame by playing hip hop, and Bad Brains incorporated more reggae into their music, such as in their 1989 album Quickness.

Rapeman was an American post-hardcore / noise rock group founded in 1987 and disbanded in 1989.

Nathan Roberts replaced English and Jonathan Donahue ( also a member of the alternative rock band Mercury Rev ) joined in 1989.

In 1989, given the widespread, long-standing use of post rock limestone in local building construction, the Kansas Legislature named Lincoln County as " The Post Rock Capital of Kansas ".

Hole is an American alternative rock band that originally formed in Los Angeles in 1989.

Hole formed after Eric Erlandson replied to an advertisement placed by Courtney Love in punk rock fanzine Flipside in the summer of 1989.

The Verve were an English alternative rock band formed in 1989 in Wigan by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bass guitarist Simon Jones and drummer Peter Salisbury.

" 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 ).

Meanwhile several journalists denounced Townshend for what they saw as a betrayal of the idealism about rock music he had espoused in his earlier interviews when The Who participated in a tour sponsored by Schlitz in 1982 and by Miller Brewing in 1989.

The Who returned in 1989 with their 25th Anniversary Tour, which was also the 20th anniversary of the rock opera Tommy.

Slippery When Ill is the second album by the Huntington Beach punk rock band The Vandals, released jointly in 1989 by Restless Records and Sticky Fingers Records.

The Black Crowes are an American rock band formed in 1989.

Kravitz released his début album Let Love Rule on September 6, 1989, a combination of rock and funk with a general 1960s vibe.

Nine Inch Nails continued the cross-pollination between EBM and industrial rock resulting in their album " Pretty Hate Machine " ( 1989 ).

As of 1989, the band had become the seventh-best-selling hard rock band in the US of the 1980s, behind Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Guns N ' Roses, Aerosmith and Van Halen.