Eager to pay off a huge tax bill upon his return the UK in the late-1970s ( Purple's excesses included their own tour jet and a home Lord rented in Hollywood from actress Ann-Margret ), Lord joined former Deep Purple band member David Coverdale's new band, Whitesnake in August 1978 ( Paice joined them in 1980 and stayed till 1982 ).

* The Screamers, late-1970s techno-punk band based in Los Angeles

During the late-1970s and early-1980s Marcelonis wrote scores of songs and played the local coffeehouse circuit both as a solo act and with his band, Melisma.

* Dynasty ( band ), a late-1970s and early-1980s funk / soul R & B band, based in Los Angeles

The label is largely responsible for spawning the so-called Now Wave genre, an updated version of the late-1970s / early-1980s No Wave movement.

Place appeared in some of Vivienne Dick's movies, co-starring with Lydia Lunch and other musicians from New York's thriving late-1970s and early-1980s music community, an off-shoot of No Wave.

Since the late-1970s, the term " Open Door Policy " has also been used by the People's Republic of China as one justification for its demands that nations not provide diplomatic recognition to the Republic of China or Taiwan.

Several countries charged Italian studios with exceeding the boundaries of acceptability with their late-1970s Nazi exploitation films, inspired by American movies such as Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS.

By the mid to late-1970s some parts of the capitalist world, including South Korea, were creating new industries based around computers, electronics, and other advanced technology in contrast to North Korea's Stalinist economy of mining and steel production.

Expansion and modernization of the telecommunications system continued throughout the late-1970s and early 1980s, giving particular emphasis to the production of radio and television sets and expanded broadcasting capabilities.

" Ross Buncle argues that the late-1970s punk scene in Perth, Australia " opened the door to a host of poseurs, who were less interested in the music than in UK-punk fancy dress and being seen to be hip.

The concept is notable because, in the version of Keynesian macroeconomic theory which was dominant between the end of WWII and the late-1970s, inflation and recession were regarded as mutually exclusive, the relationship between the two being described by the Phillips curve.

The most popular music style for late-1970s skinheads was 2 Tone, which was a fusion of ska, rocksteady, reggae, pop and punk rock.

Some late-1970s skinheads also liked certain punk rock bands, such as Sham 69 and Menace.

In the late-1970s and early-1980s, residents of the dictatorships of Ethiopia and Sudan suffered massive famines, but the democracies of Botswana and Zimbabwe avoided them, despite also have severe drops in national food production.

Recent examples include Sahel drought of the 1970s, Ethiopia in 1973 and mid-1980s, Sudan in the late-1970s and again in 1990 and 1998.

In the late-1970s and early-1980s, Clooney did television commercials for Coronet brand paper towels, during which she sang a memorable jingle that goes, " Extra value is what you get, when you buy Coro-net.

Abbeville Press ' large size Best Comics anthologies in the late-1970s included two all-Gottfredson volumes ( one headlined " Goofy "), though the stories were relettered and sometimes condensed.

The mid-and late-1970s were a golden era for PSV.

First, it demonstrated the unimportance of official titles in the Chinese Communist Party during the late-1970s and early-1980s.

The P-Funk All Stars included many of the same members as the late-1970s version of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective, and was so named because of various legal issues concerning use of the names Parliament and Funkadelic after 1980.

Brailey was the most prominent drummer in the Parliament-Funkadelic collective during their period of greatest success in the mid-to late-1970s.

Sun City West was built in the late-1970s, Sun City Grand in the late-1990s, Sun City Anthem in 1999 and Sun City Festival in July 2006.

It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the New Wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s.

Despite this, by the late-1970s and early-1980s, economic crises and political instability meant that there was a significant slump in the Italian tourist industry, as destinations in the Far East or South America rose in popularity.

It is also one in a series of first person space shooters ( including 1977's Starhawk and 1979's Star Fire ) that appeared in the late-1970s and were arguably predecessors of the later seen first-person shooter genre.

In the mid-to late-1970s disco club scene, there was a thriving drug subculture, particularly for drugs that would enhance the experience of dancing to the loud dance music and the flashing lights on the dancefloor, such as cocaine ( nicknamed " blow "), amyl nitrite " poppers ", and the "... other quintessential 1970s club drug Quaalude, which suspended motor coordination and turned one ’ s arms and legs to Jell-O.

By the late-1970s, success in the music industry led him to quit playing the sport and focus on music instead.

A sort of socialist economy was established in the late-1970s, under the direction of Saddam.

By the late-1970s, Saddam had de facto control over Iraq's economic development by being chairman of the most important economic committees.

The genre began to burn out by the late-1970s when the big-budget films The Swarm ( 1978 ), Meteor ( 1979 ) and When Time Ran Out ... ( 1980 ) performed poorly at the box office signaling declining interest in the disaster film product.

Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer and songwriter Andy Bell.

Andy Bell ( singer ) | Andy Bell and Vince Clarke in 1986

The heyday of roots reggae is usually considered the latter half of the 1970s – with singers such as Johnny Clarke, Cornell Campbell, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Burning Spear, Dennis Brown, Max Romeo, Horace Andy, Hugh Mundell, and Lincoln Thompson, and groups like Black Uhuru, Steel Pulse, Israel Vibration, The Gladiators and Culture – teaming up with producers such as Lee ' Scratch ' Perry, Bunny Lee, Joseph Hoo Kim and Coxsone Dodd.

Tubby engineered / remixed songs for Jamaica's top producers such as Lee Perry, Bunny Lee, Augustus Pablo and Vivian Jackson, that featured artists such as Johnny Clarke, Cornell Campbell, Linval Thompson, Horace Andy, Big Joe, Delroy Wilson, Jah Stitch and many others.

Clarke then started the synth pop group Erasure with vocalist Andy Bell.

** “ War Games ,” written by John Wagner, art by Neil Googe ( episode 1 ), Mike McMahon ( 2 ) and Charlie Adlard ( 3 ), Andy Clarke ( pencils 4 – 5 ), Stephen Baskerville ( inks 4 – 5 ), Colin Wilson ( 6 – 7 ), in 2000 AD # 1153 – 1159 ( 1999 )

In early 1985, Clarke put an ad in Melody Maker for a singer, and one applicant was Andy Bell, who was a fan of his earlier projects.

The album was produced by Gareth Jones and was a more " dance oriented " effort than some of their more recent work with Clarke making reference to the new material sounding potentially a bit more like Andy Bell's 2005 solo effort Electric Blue.

* 2005 Andy Bell – " Crazy " ( Vince Clarke Remix )

* 2010 Andy Bell – " Call On Me " ( Vince Clarke Remix )

* 2010 Andy Bell – " Non-Stop " ( Vince Clarke Remix )

* Erasure ( Andy Bell & Vince Clarke ) official Web site.

He also co-produced Erasure's Loveboat with Vince Clarke and Andy Bell of Erasure.

Vince Clarke and Andy Bell began recording as Erasure in 1985, and released their debut album the next year.

Created by writer Robbie Morrison and artist Frank Quitely in 1993, Shimura has since been illustrated by Colin MacNeil, Simon Fraser and Andy Clarke.

** " Executioner " ( with Andy Clarke, in Judge Dredd Megazine # 224-226, 2004 )

** " Deus X " ( with Andy Clarke, in Judge Dredd Megazine # 228-230, 2005 )

They include Dougie Freedman, Marlon King, Andy Clarke, Linvoy Primus, Maik Taylor, Mark Gower and Jason Puncheon.

The next few years saw Andy regularly in the reggae charts with further singles for Dodd such as " Something on My Mind ", " Love of a Woman ", " Just Say Who ", and " Every Tongue Shall Tell ", as well as singles for other producers such as " Lonely Woman " ( for Derrick Harriott ), " Girl I Love You " ( Ernest and Joseph Hoo Kim ), " Love You to Want Me " and " Delilah " ( Gussie Clarke ), and " Get Wise ", " Feel Good ", and " Money Is The Root of All Evil " for Phil Pratt.

* Videogames and Art Andy Clarke and Grethe Mitchell ( eds )

1 ( special edition on videogames and art ) Andy Clarke and Grethe Mitchell ( eds )

* Vince Clarke of Erasure found Andy Bell in 1985.

* Thirteen ( with Andy Clarke, in # 1289-1299, 2002 ) collected as Th1rt3en ( tpb, 96 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-904265-36-7 )