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A list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1980, by location, genre, topic and month. Includes the deaths of Bon Scott, Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly, the release of Permanent Waves and The Wall, and the first Tbilisi Rock Festival.
- 1980 in Country Music
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- Biz Markie, ‘Just a Friend’ Lighters up for the late, great Biz Markie, one of the most beloved music heroes of the Eighties or any other decade. The Diabolical One.
- Nena, ’99 Luftballons’ A German girl sings about nuclear apocalypse in a perky New Wave bop about the end of the world. Yet it’s also a doomy teen romance, at a time when half the hits on the radio were about the end of the world.
- My Bloody Valentine, ‘Feed Me With Your Kiss’ The dawn of the shoegaze era. My Bloody Valentine give an early taste of their power on their debut album, Isn’t Anything: Irish guitar madman Kevin Shields’ tremolo overdrive and feedback-loop noise, Belinda Butcher’s breathy vocals, awesome power-klutz drumming.
- Bobby Brown, ‘My Prerogative’ The sound of New Jack Swing. Bobby Brown dishes the dirt on celebrity gossip, as the young Harlem prodigy Teddy Riley soups up a beat that would rule the radio for the next few years.
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- Hall and Oates, ‘Voices’ Ever savvy about the marketplace, H&O left their Philly soul and folkie periods in the dust and went all New Wave. The makeover forced the duo to tighten up and sharpen their hooks.
- The Cramps, ‘Songs the Lord Taught Us’ “I cut your head off and put in my TV set/I use your eyeballs for dials,” Lux Interior proposed on “TV Set,” which opened the Cramps debut.
- Rod Stewart, ‘Foolish Behaviour’ Stewart was at the height of his Hollywood excess when he made the wonderfully trashy Foolish Behaviour. As he confessed, “Too much partying, too much booze, and a few too many dabs of recreational cocaine might have had something to do with it.”
- Jim Carroll, ‘Catholic Boy’ Has any punk rocker ever killed off as many memorable characters in one song as Jim Carroll did in “People Who Died”? No way.
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