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4 days ago · This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1980. Specific locations [ edit] 1980 in British music. 1980 in Norwegian music. Specific genres [ edit] 1980 in country music. 1980 in heavy metal music. 1980 in hip hop music. 1980 in jazz. Events [ edit] January–March [ edit] January 1.
5 days ago · Punk was an influence in the 1980s on new wave, post-punk and eventually alternative rock . From the 1990s, alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop, and indie rock. Further fusion subgenres have since emerged, including pop-punk, electronic rock, rap rock, and rap metal.
4 days ago · Music. Duran Duran (top), Michael Jackson (bottom left) and Madonna (bottom right) were among the best-selling musical talents of the decade, all considered some of the most globally popular and culturally significant pop and R&B talents of the 1980s, pictured here in 1983, 1988 and 1985 respectively.
6 days ago · 1980s: Chicago house, acid house and deep house. Detroit and techno. UK: Acid house, rave culture and the Second Summer of Love. Chicago's second wave: Hip house and ghetto house. New York and New Jersey: Garage house and the "Jersey sound" Ibiza. Other regional scenes. The Montreal Scene. South Africa. 1990s. 2000s. 2010s. 2020s. See also.
4 days ago · Published popular music. All I Ask of You" w.m. Andrew Lloyd Webber "Crush On You" w.m. Jerry Knight & Aaron Zigman "I Used To Be An Animal, But I'm Alright Now" w.m. Eric Burdon "The Lady in Red" w.m. Chris de Burgh "True Colors" Cyndi Lauper; Montego Bay Amazulu – a minor hit in the U.S. in September. Classical music
5 days ago · Pop-punk emerged in the late 1970s with groups such as the Ramones, the Undertones, and the Buzzcocks setting the genre's groundwork. 1980s punk bands like Bad Religion, Descendents and the Misfits, while not necessarily pop-punk in and of themselves, were influential to pop-punk, and it expanded in the late 1980s and early 1990s by a host of ba...
3 days ago · Madonna (born August 16, 1958, Bay City, Michigan, U.S.) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur whose immense popularity in the 1980s and ’90s allowed her to achieve levels of power and control that were nearly unprecedented for a woman in the entertainment industry.
