1984 saw the release of Aural Sculpture which consolidated the band's success in Europe and established them in Oceania.

The band's debut gig in March 1984 was supporting The Saints and The Triffids at the Old Civic Theatre in Perth.

This is in addition to the compilations released during the band's lifetime ( Hatful of Hollow, 1984 ; The World Won't Listen, 1987 ; and Louder Than Bombs, 1987 ).

In the 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, Spontaneous Human Combustion is included as the cause of death of one of the band's numerous former drummers.

", finally came out in January 1984, however the band's line-up had disintegrated a couple of months earlier.

By the early 80s, the Kinks revived their commercial fortunes considerably by adopting a much more mainstream arena rock style ; and the band's four remaining studio albums for Arista — Low Budget ( 1979 ), Give the People What They Want ( 1981 ), State of Confusion ( 1983 ) and Word of Mouth ( 1984 )— showcased a decidedly canny and opportunistic approach.

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.

The band's first album with this lineup, Learning to Crawl, was released during January 1984.

Consequently, his manager at the time, Larry Dorr, negotiated a licensing deal between himself and Bobby Colomby in 1984 for rights to tour using the band's name.

Released in September 1984, The Warning featured more progressive elements than the band's debut.

Dating to 1984, this provided an interesting insight into the band's earliest work and " rougher " sound.

Percussionist and singer Mino Cinélu replaced Rossy in the spring of 1984 and appeared on the band's video release Live in Japan ( reissued on DVD in 2007 ).

As a testament to the band's popularity at the time, a US Gallup poll in 1984 saw Def Leppard voted as favourite rock band over peers such as The Rolling Stones, AC / DC, and Journey.

On 31 December 1984, drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm in a car crash on the A57 in the hills outside the band's home city Sheffield, when his Corvette swerved off the road on a sharp bend and went through a drystone wall.

In 1984, the company name was parodied in the rockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap ( whose soundtrack album was distributed by Polydor ), where ' Polymer Records ' was the band's record company.

The 1984 single " It's My Life " was also re-released, and this time became the band's highest charting single in their native country, reaching number 13 on the UK Singles Chart.

Y & T's sixth studio album, In Rock We Trust, released in 1984, became the band's highest charting and selling album, reaching No. 46 on the Billboard 200.

The band's second album, Reckoning, followed in 1984.

His dissatisfaction ( and Coverdale's eagerness to revamp the band's line-up and lower the average age to help crack the US market ) smoothed the way for the reformation of Deep Purple Mk II in 1984.

Towards the end of 1984, a " greatest hits " compilation spanning the band's 1980s output was released entitled The Collection.

The band's self-titled debut album, produced by Tom Treumuth, was released in June, 1984.

International fame came for Twisted Sister when the band's third LP, Stay Hungry, hit the stores on May 10, 1984.

Lee Mavers joined in 1984 as rhythm guitarist, eventually gaining songwriting prominence and emerging as the band's enduring figurehead.

By late 1984, Models relocated to Sydney and Duffield – with his crucial influence on the band's sound – was forced out by Murphy under acrimonious circumstances to be replaced by Roger Mason ( ex-James Freud's Berlin ) on keyboards and James Valentine on saxophone.

Within eight years of the breakup, the band's three founding members – Joey, Johnny, and Dee Dee – had all died.

When his manager informed him that a band by the name of " Bastard " would never get a slot on " Top of the Pops ", Lemmy changed the band's name to " Motörhead " – the title of the last song he had written for Hawkwind.

The band's original intention with Fingerprince was to release it as the very first " three-sided " album – they had found a way to simulate a third side by arranging the grooves on one side of the vinyl album to play a completely different program of tracks depending on which series of grooves the needle was dropped on.

) Another strong influence on the band's final sound was Zolar X, a theatrical glitter rock band popular in the Los Angeles area circa 1972 – 1980.

The band's popularity in the United States began to wane in 1956 – 57 as sexier, wilder acts such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard began to dominate the record charts ( although Haley's cover version of Little Richard's " Rip It Up "-which was released in direct competition-actually outsold the original ).

It was followed by a second compilation, The World Won't Listen – the title was Morrissey's comment on his frustration with the band's lack of mainstream recognition, although the album reached number two in the charts – and the single " Sheila Take a Bow ", the band's second ( and last during the band's lifetime ) UK top-10 hit.

The band's " non-rhythm-and-blues, whiter-than-white fusion of 1960s rock and postpunk was a repudiation of contemporary dance pop " – the style popular in the early 1980s.

The band's compositions are heavily influenced by classical music in addition to jazz and – at least in their early years – hard rock.

A & M Records, the band's record company, promoted the 2007 – 2008 reunion tour as the 30th anniversary of the band's formation, and of the release of their first single for A & M, " Roxanne ".

The " Fifth Beatle " claims started appearing in the press immediately upon the band's sensational rise to global fame in 1963 – 1964 as the most famous quartet in pop culture.

" The band's fourth album Blood Fire Death was released in 1988 and includes two early examples of Viking metal – the songs " A Fine Day to Die " and " Blood Fire Death ".

In the summer of 1996, Overkill appeared on Volume 2 of Century Media's " Legends Of Metal – A Tribute To Judas Priest " compilation, to which they contributed ' Tyrant ', heavily adapted to the band's own style.

PiL's seventh studio album, 9 – so called as it was the band's ninth official album release, including the two live albums – appeared in early 1989 and featured the single " Disappointed ".

The new band toured extensively and appeared at the highly publicized " Holiday Rock Festival " in San Francisco on December 25 – 26, 1968, but soon fell afoul of Stills and Young, who took legal action to prevent Martin from using the band's name.

Before the band's 1973 – 74 world tour, Hayward wrote a song called " Island " with the intention of including it on a potential follow-up album, which the Moodies recorded in 1973 before ultimately going their separate ways.

Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 ( with the current line up solidifying in 1985 ), the band's four members — Trey Anastasio ( guitars, lead vocals ), Mike Gordon ( bass, vocals ), Jon Fishman ( drums, percussion, vocals ), and Page McConnell ( keyboards, vocals )— performed together for over 20 years before breaking up in August 2004.

A legal dispute with Rough Trade had delayed the album by almost seven months ( it had been completed in November 1985 ), and Marr was beginning to feel the stress of the band's exhausting touring and recording schedule.

In 1985, the new line-up of Smith, Tolhurst, Gallup, Thompson, and Williams released The Head on the Door, an album that managed to bind together the optimistic and pessimistic aspects of the band's music between which they had previously shifted.

The band's efforts paid off in 1985, when fourteen-year-old Selena recorded her first album for a record company.

That lineup released the band's first album, We Care a Lot, in 1985.

-the First 20 Hits, also hit number one and went triple platinum, featuring all the band's singles released from 1985 to 1992.

To commemorate the event, the compilation The Pink Opaque ( 1985 ) was released as a way of introducing the new, broader audience to the band's back catalogue.

Arcadia were the pop group formed in 1985 by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran, during a break in that band's schedule.

Today, after the band's demise in 1985, and the death of Rio Reiser in 1996, Ton Steine Scherben have retained a cult following and popularity in the related scenes.

After a period of being managed by Claudia Roth ( later to become co-chairwoman of the German Green Party ), they disbanded in 1985 when the band's debt became unbearable and because they thought that everything that could be said was said.

The band's 1985 hit " Summertime Girls ", off their seventh studio album Down for the Count, became the band's highest charting hit to date, reaching No. 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 17 on the U. S. mainstream rock charts.

In January 1985, the band's sixth and final album In the Long Grass was released, although delayed by the band's involvement with Band Aid ( on which they all played ); and, the band performed at Live Aid's charity performance.

It was subsequently included on the band's debut album Amore ( 1983 ) and an extended version of the song was included on their second album Nervous Night ( 1985 ).

Posthumous releases include 3½ ; The Lost Tapes 1985 – 1988, a collection of unreleased studio sessions including cuts produced by Vitus Matare ( of L. A. s Paisley Underground heroes The Last and later Trotsky Icepick ,) and The Day Before Wine and Roses, a live radio performance recorded just prior to the release of the band's first album.

The drummer until 1985 was Trini Trimpop, who became the band's manager when Wölli joined.

A May 2008 profile in the Daily Mail newspaper detailed how Chimes, a teetotal vegetarian, having been cured of serious arm pain on his first show in 1985 with Black Sabbath by the band's personal chiropractor, eventually turned to that occupation himself.

However, by the time the band finished the record in early 1985, Turner had left the group, citing his distaste with the rest of the band's heavy metal leanings.

From 1985 until 1988 Sjoerd van Bommel is the band's drummer.

In 1985 Dead Can Dance released Spleen and Ideal, which initiated the band's ' medieval European sound.

After a handful of singles, Colourbox's first full-length studio album-also self-titled-followed in August 1985, which further refined the band's diverse palette, mixing sample-splattered power-punk instrumentals with elegiac piano pieces (" Just Give ' em Whiskey " and " Sleepwalker " respectively ), commercial pop (" The Moon Is Blue " and " Suspicion ") and more reggae and soul covers ( U-Roy's " Say You " and The Supremes ' " You Keep Me Hanging On ").

" Flower " has been released as bonus track on the CD reissue of the band's 1985 album Bad Moon Rising.