You know this? You as a fan of the great 80s artists hesitated at the time to go to that one concert of your favorite performer. Afterwards it turned out to be the last concert. No chance to see him or her perform live. Check out this Top 10 of 80s artists who are still performing, and don’t miss the chance to see them live. Enjoy real music and relive the real feeling of the 80s. In this overview (in random order) we go back to the time of tight jeans, use of excessive hairspray and music television. There are many artists from the 80s who continue to enjoy only the money they make from the m ..read more

The mighty performance by Prince and his band the Revolution in 1985 in New York’s Carrier Dome—the March 30…it really made many hearts skip a beat. What an energy and experience there was in those days on stage. It was that good that Grammy-nominated recording engineer Chris James reconstructed entirely the original video and audio source material. The quality is sublime now. The first preview track that has been released is the show opener Let’s Go Crazy. Check out the video below. On June 3rd 2022 the limited run Collector’s Edition will be available. It is a big box set full of LPs, CD, Bl ..read more

Do you remember what happened on November 9, 1989? We look back at a historic 80s moment: the fall of the Berlin Wall. There was a musical touch to this. On New Year’s Eve 1989, a few weeks after the fall of the wall, Knight Rider actor David Hasselhoff seizes the moment to break through as an international singer. Germany was Looking For Freedom In an aerial platform near the Berlin Wall, he sang his hit Looking For Freedom. It is the English translation of the German hit Auf Der Strasse Nach Süden. Germans thought this song was the anthem of ‘the fall’ and think his performance is fantastic ..read more

How popular was Alice Cooper in the 80s, or was it the 70s? Either way, the shock rocker hit back relentlessly after his career went down the drain. How was Cooper able to regain his 70s popularity in the decade that followed? Right, by popping up with Poison! Cooper fell from grace when he went solo in 1975. Okay, he had a single top 10 listing in 1977 with You And Me. In Canada and Australia he was still in the picture for a while. Until record company Warner Bros. dropped him in 1984. His two solo albums sold rather poorly. Epic situation In 1988 something wonderful happened for Alice Coope ..read more

Let me be clear, this Volvo 262 in the photo did NOT belong to David Bowie. He did drive one, a tasteful black coupe with a big bold V6 engine. Delightfully loud roaring and just as stylish as his clothes. This Volvo may not have been Bowie’s, but you should still read on. Who doesn’t want to be able to say that their car belonged to a famous star? It’s much nicer to talk about it at a party, then you really make the most of your anecdote. For example, David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo and even the Pope have sold their beautiful cars in the past. One of those cars would be yours right now… Davi ..read more

How do you make money fast in just two steps? Step one is to become a world artist with big hits, step two is to sell all your music rights and recordings of those hits. 72-year-old Bruce Springsteen has been in the business for 50 years. With the sales, he recently made a whopping 500 million dollars. Billboard reported that Sony Music, not Universal, has taken over The Boss’ music catalog. This makes him more money than Bob Dylan at the time, who sold his work to Universal for 354 million dollars. Bruce Springsteen’s music catalog is ‘bulging’ Springsteen’s catalog consists of over 300 songs ..read more

The pop group Bronski Beat has lost its co-founder Steve Bronski. He has passed away at the age of 61. Singer Jimmy Sommerville: “Sad to hear. He was a talented and very musical man. Working with him on so many songs, and the song that changed our lives, was tremendous fun.” The group became known in the early 1980s with the synthpop hits Smalltown Boy, Why? and a cover of Donna Summer’s song I Feel Love. Bronski Beat’s debut song Smalltown Boy is about a young gay man who switches the narrow-mindedness of a small town for the freedom of the big city. In 1984, Bronski told the music magazine M ..read more

A very cool new album is on its way! At least, that’s what we expect, since it’s going to be work from UK 80s band Tears for Fears. It took 17 years, though. ‘The Tipping Point’ will be released on February 25, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith announced via Instagram. The title track can already be heard via YouTube. According to Pitchfork, the album ‘The Tipping Point’ was supposed to be released in 2017, but now it’s happening early next year. “Before everything went in the right way with this album, everything went completely wrong first”, says Orzabal. “It took years, but when we put our hea ..read more

They are certainly not allergic to it, the former band members of Pink Floyd. Since the band broke up they have been only too happy to play the big hits. After Roger Waters left the group, David Gilmour, Richard Wright or Nick Mason still played the hit songs. Pink Floyd’s masterpiece ‘Echoes. Echoes’ is avoided, however. For David Gilmour, it is too painful to play this masterpiece in his solo sets. It is one of the best songs ever made and the apex of progressive rock, therefore extraordinary that he does not want to perform it. The song evokes too many painful memories for composer Richard ..read more

Elton John clearly emphasizes that Freddie Mercury was an exceptional human being. He received an incredible parting gift after Mercury’s death, thirty years ago. The Queen frontman had purchased this on his deathbed from an auction house. On Christmas Day, mutual friend Tony King showed up at Elton’s doorstep. That was a month after Mercury’s death on November 24, 1991. “He had something with him in a pillowcase. It was a watercolour painting by Henry Scott Tuke. That’s an impressionist whose work I collected. He specialized in male nudes.” Accompanying the painting is a little handwritten me ..read more