In the early 1980s, the death of Sid Vicious (of the Sex Pistols) and the alleged selling-out of bands like The Clash and The Jam led to still-frequent cries that punk is dead. Hardcore punk diversified into Gothic rock, including Siouxsie & the Banshees and The Cure, and New Wave bands like Adam & the Ants. The rebellious punk aesthetic was adopted by a group of independent record labels and bands playing distinct and uncompromising alternative rock arose. By the end of the 1980s, alternative rock in the United Kingdom had split into multiple genres, including dream pop, twee pop, shoegazing and space rock. Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Sid Vicious in a 1978 Mugshot, when he was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. ... The Jam was an early British punk band primarily active in the late 1970s. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Hardcore punk (or hardcore) is an intensified version of punk rock usually characterized by short, loud, and often angry songs with exceptionally fast tempos and chord changes. ... This article is about notable bands within the goth scene. ... Siouxsie and the Banshees are a British gothic rock band. ... Disintegration album cover) This article is about The Cure, the rock band. ... The New Wave is a movement in American, Australian and British popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, growing out of the New York City musical scene centred around the club CBGB. The term itself is a source of much confusion. ... Adam & the Ants were a rock and roll group during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... The concept of an independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of one of the major record labels, which are generally defined to be the handful of media corporations which have recently dominated the recorded music industry in the West. ... The term alternative rock or alternative music1 was coined in the early 1980s to describe bands which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... Dream pop is a type of alternative rock that originated in the early 1980s when bands like the Cocteau Twins began twisting New Wave melodies into sonic, echoing textures and mumbled vocals. ... Twee (or Twee pop) is a type of indie rock that is known for simple, sweet melodies and lyrics, often with jangling guitars. ... Shoegazing is a style of music that emerged in Britain in the late 1980s. ... For space rocks, see asteroid. ...

During the mid to late 1980s, techno and house music, originally developed in Detroit and Chicago, respectively, influenced many British musicians and DJs (see History of house music). By the end the 1980s, a uniquely British spin on house music, known as "acid house" had emerged as a result of the underground party scene based around, amongst others, the so-called "Orbital" raves near the M25 motorway of London. Early pioneers of this sound were the Manchester-based 808 State and A Guy Called Gerald, Sheffield-based LFO and London-based Orbital. It was in the early 1990s after the so-called "Summer of Love" in the late 1980s that the concept of an outdoor rave began. In part as a reaction to the aggressive anti-rave policy of the government, during this time the music become harder and darker and eventually led to forms such as hardcore techno and, later in the decade, drum and bass. 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Club scene and dance culture

At the beginning of the 80s, major cities like London housed clubs playing hip hop, electro and rare groove, while a few clubs catered to Northern Soul, based off American soul music. Late in the decade, the house and rave scene dominated British dance culture. American house hit the British charts in 1986, but club DJs were often unwilling to play the music. Those that did, like Colin Faver and Mike Pickering, found a hostile audience. At the time, Paul Oakenfold, Nicky Holloway, Johnnie Walker and Danny Rampling, all British DJs, were vactioning in Ibiza, an island near Spain, where an Italian DJ named Alfredo was spinning a variety of Italian disco, industrial, soul and alternative tracks, and the drug Ecstacy was gaining popularity. The Ibizan DJs returned to the UK and founded clubs, beginning with Rampling's Shoom, Oakenfold's Spectrum and Holloway's The Trip. These clubs quickly became phenomenally popular, and modern British dance culture was born. In 1989, several promoters realized that space was too limited for clubs to contain all the people that wanted to attend, and they instead founded outdoor raves like Sunrise and Energy. These raves were full of up to 20,000 people and spawned fantastic stories in the tabloid press and among local residents, concerning violence and drug use. Some of the stories were definitely true, as Ecstacy was becoming the drug of choice for the rave scene. At this same time, acid house and rave music had entered the British pop charts, led by Orbital, 808 State, Nightmares on Wax and LFO. Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban African American youth in New York and has since spread around the world. ... Electro (also known as electro funk) is an electronic style of hip hop directly influenced by Kraftwerk and funk records (unlike earlier rap records that were closer to disco). ... Rare groove, a term coined by KISS-FM DJ Norman Jay in 1985, originally referred to relatively obscure funk tracks from the 1970s. ... Northern Soul is a style of music with associated dance styles and fashions that developed in the north of England in the late 1960s. ... For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Paul Oakenfold on the cover of his album Paul Oakenfold (born August 30, 1963 in Britain) is a record producer and one of the best-known DJs worldwide. ... Radio DJ Johnnie Walker born in Birmingham on 30th March 1945, Johnnies broadcasting career began in 1965 on Pirate Radio Station, Radio Caroline. ... Eivissa, Cala de sa Galera, with the Puig Nunó in the background Eivissa or Ibiza is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea, and belonging to Spain. ... The Kingdom of Spain or Spain (Spanish and Galician: Reino de España or España; Catalan: Regne dEspanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma) is a country located in the southwest of Europe. ... MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), most commonly known today by the street name ecstasy, is a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family whose primary effect is to stimulate the brain to rapidly secrete large amounts of serotonin, causing a general sense of openness, empathy, energy, euphoria, and well-being. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term orbital has several meanings: in physics and chemistry it is used to describe an atomic electron configuration, see also molecular orbital and atomic orbital. ... 808 State are an English electronic music outfit formed in 1988 in Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine. ... LFO (Low Frequency Oscillation) is an English techno group on the Warp Records label. ...

British soul

Soul music developed in the United States in the 1960s when singers like Ben E. King and Sam Cooke created a secular version of gospel music that owed a debt to R&B. Though there were some British soul singers in the 60s and 70s, they found little success. Perhaps the most characteristic quality of British soul is its influence from reggae and other Caribbean influences, a result of the large Jamaican population in the UK that was never present in the States. Though the 70s saw some British soul acts like Hot Chocolate ("You Sexy Thing", 1975) and Hi-Tension (Hi-Tension, 1978) achieved mainstream renown, British soul did not come into its own until the 80s. The early 80s saw the first major British soul acts, including Sade ("The Sweetest Taboo", "Smooth Operator"), Loose Ends ("Hanging on a String"), Imagination ("Just an Illusion") and Billy Ocean. For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... Ben E. King is the stage name of Benjamin Earl Nelson (born in 1938), an American soul and pop singer. ... Sam Cooke Sam Cooke (January 22, 1931 - December 11, 1964) was a massively popular gospel music and R&B singer, born Sam Cook in Clarksdale, Mississippi. ... Gospel music may refer either to the religious music that first came out of African-American churches in the 1930s or, more loosely, to both black gospel music and to the religious music composed and sung by white southern Christian artists. ... Reggae is an African Caribbean style of music developed on the island of Jamaica and is closely linked to the religion Rastafarianism, though not universally popular among its members. ... Hot Chocolate was a British band of the 1960s and 1970s formed by Errol Brown (a Briton born in Jamaica). ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Events January January 1 - The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. ... Sade can mean: Sade (movie) starring French actor Daniel Auteuil. ... Billy Ocean (born Leslie Charles January 21, 1950) is a UK-based popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues tinged international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. ...

Perhaps the most influential soul band of the 80s, however, was Style Council, formed by Paul Weller of punk rock band The Jam. Style Council were eclectic and innovative, drawing on numerous influences to combine with Wellers' sociopolitical lyrics. The Style Council was formed by ex-Jam singer and guitarist Paul Weller with keyboardist Mick Talbot in 1983. ... Paul Weller as seen on the cover of his 1998 solo greatest hits album Modern Classics. ... The Jam was an early British punk band primarily active in the late 1970s. ...

Later in the decade, newer British soul artists found yet more mainstream success, including Lisa Stansfield and Soul II Soul, while pop-oriented bands produced soul-inflected records. Late 80s pop-soul bands included Eurythmics ("Missionary Man"), Wham! ("Club Tropicana"), Culture Club ("Church of the Poison Mind") and Simply Red ("Holding Back the Years"). Lisa Stansfield (born April 11, 1966) is a British singer from Rochdale, England, the former frontwoman for the Blue Zone. ... Soul II Soul are a dance/funk/soul act who emerged at the end of the 80s in London in the United Kingdom, founded by Jazzie B and featuring a changing roster of other musicians, including, notably, Nellee Hooper and Caron Wheeler. ... Eurythmics (often incorrectly referred to as The Eurythmics) are a seminal British synth pop duo consisting of Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart. ... Wham! can mean one of two things: Wham!, a 1980s British pop duo formed by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. ... Culture Club were a pop and New Romantic band primarily active in the 1980s. ... Simply Red is a British band currently composed of Mick Hucknall (lead singer) and various backing musicians. ...

Indian music

With the success of Alaap's 1979 Teri Chunni de Sitare, numerous bands sprang up playing traditional and pop bhangra. Apna Sangeet, Chirag Pehchan, Sangeeta and DCS were among the most popular artists of the period. By 1982, bhangra was the most popular music among British Asians. 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... DCS can mean: a distributed control system an illness related to pressure changes: decompression sickness a digital coded squelch in arms trade it means direct commercial sales in model railroading, the Digital Command System by MTH Electric Trains a Document Control System This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January-February January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British...

Bhangra raves were popular in the mid-1980s, when Asian teens would dance all day (not at night) while DJs like X-Executive Sounds and Hustlers Convention played bhangra alongside hip hop, soul and other genres. Multitone Records began released remix albums, and bhangra picked up influences from hip hop and soul music. Other forms of Indian music, including Aki Nawaz's punk sounds, Sheila Chandra's pop, hip hop artists like Joi Bangla and Osmani Sounds, and Najma Akhtar's ghazal/jazz fusion Qareeb arose in the 80s. This set the stage for Bally Sagoo's Wham Bam (1990), a popular album of remixes meant for dancing. Artists like Malkit Singh and Achanak emerged, just as touring brought bhangra to Indian communities in Toronto, Los Angeles, Vancouver and New York City. This article is about a form of party. ... Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ... Hip hop music is a style of popular music. ... For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... In poetry (and as the lyrics in songs), the ghazal is a poetic form consisting of couplets which share a rhyme and a refrain. ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... -1... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... }|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Official Flag]]|Coat Image=[[Image:{{{Coat Image}}}|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Coat of Arms]]}} {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Diversity Our Strength {{Canadian City/Location Image is:{{{Location Image Type}}}|[[Image:{{{Location Image}}}|thumbnail|250px|City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Location. ... Griffith Observatory and the Downtown Los Angeles skyline. ... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: By sea, land and air we prosper City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Location. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...

Alternative rock

Punk rock had flourished in Britain in the late 1970s, but was soon destroyed by a combination of factors including mainstream popularity that defied punk's original anti-establishment energy, infighting between and among bands and a wave of deaths and departures of key figures. In punk rock's wake came a variety of genres that took elements of punk rock in new directions. New Wave was especially popular in the UK, but other genres were popular underground, fomenting the alternative rock boom of the 1980s. The New Wave is a movement in American, Australian and British popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, growing out of the New York City musical scene centred around the club CBGB. The term itself is a source of much confusion. ... The term alternative rock or alternative music1 was coined in the early 1980s to describe bands which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ...

The Smiths emerged as perhaps the most important of the 80s alternative rock bands. The Manchester-born band played guitar-based pop that recalled the best of the 1960s rock scene, especially the songwriting of Ray Davies and John Lennon. Though they had only two Top Ten hits, Johnny Marr's innovative guitar work helped inspire the ringing sounds of jangle pop and other trends, while Morrissey's clever lyricism earned him a legion of fans. This article is about the English rock band, for other uses of Smith or Smiths, see Smith The Smiths were a hugely influential British rock group and indie music pioneers. ... Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher, 1964) is a British guitarist, keyboardist, harmonica player and singer, best known as the man behind the music of The Smiths (q. ... Jangle pop was an American musical genre that arose in the middle of the 1960s, combining angular, chiming guitars and power pop structures. ... Steven Morrissey Steven Patrick Morrissey, (born May 22, 1959 in Manchester in England) dropped his forenames to become Morrissey, the lead singer of the seminal UK indie band, The Smiths. ...

Folk-rock and punk fusions

By the start of the 80s, folk-rock had lost virtually all mainstream appeal, but continued to evolve in new directions underground. The middle of the decade saw two enormously influential performers bring folk fusions back to pop audiences. Billy Bragg's guitar and earthy voice, and The Pogues' fusion of punk rock with Irish traditional music became popular symbols of the post-punk era. The Oyster Band and Dick Gaughan also emerged with limited mainstream appeal but tremendous innovations in folk-rock fusions. In the 1980s, Irish folk music had an impact on stars like U2, The Levellers and Sinéad O'Connor. Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957), known as Billy Bragg, has been described as being amongst the best known and best loved popular musicians, with a career spanning 20 years. ... The Pogues were a popular Irish folk/punk band of the 1980s. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic that is currently politically divided into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. ... Post punk generally refers to the particularly fertile and creative period following the initial UK punk rock explosion, roughly spanning 1978-1982. ... Dick Gaughan is a Scottish singer-songwriter. ... U2 U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals and guitar, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar and pianos, vocals, and bass, Adam Clayton on bass and guitar, and Larry Mullen on drums. ... See Levellers (disambiguation) for alternative meanings. ... Sinéad OConnor (born December 8, 1966) is an Irish pop singer and songwriter. ...

Gothic rock and other alternative trends

Gothic rock came into its own in the late 80s alternative scene, led by the most popular band of the genre, The Cure. The Cure drew on dark and gloomy predecessors to compose punk-inspired songs with intense energy beneath the calm of poetic lyrics and droning soundscapes. Though The Cure achieved little mainstream success, the band inspired some very popular late 80s groups like The Mission and The Sisters of Mercy. Early in the 80s, Joy Division rivalled The Cure in popularity and innovation, with a more pop-oriented sound. Lead singer Ian Curtis, however, committed suicide and the band continued in a more dance-oriented direction as New Order, bringing elements of Gothic alternative rock to the burgeoning house music scene. This article is about notable bands within the goth scene. ... Disintegration album cover) This article is about The Cure, the rock band. ... The Mission, known as The Mission UK in the United States because of a naming clash with a Philadelphia R&B band, is a Gothic rock band formed in 1986 by Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams (both of The Sisters of Mercy), soon adding Mick Brown (of Red Lorry Yellow... For the religious organisation of this name, see Sisters of Mercy. ... Joy Division was a post punk band formed in 1977 in Manchester, England. ... Ian Curtis performing Ian Kevin Curtis (July 15, 1956 - May 18, 1980) was an English singer and songwriter, born in Stretford, England. ... New Order are an English indie rock band that formed in 1980 from Joy Division following the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis. ...

The Jesus and Mary Chain also found a legion of devoted fans in the 80s, combining distortion and airy harmonies with psychedelic drones inspired by American proto-punk icons The Velvet Underground. The band XTC was unusual among British alternative rock bands in that they found far more fame in the United States than in their homeland, where the lush, psychedelic soundscapes of their later albums, such as 1987's Skylarking, inspired the next decades indie rock and power pop. The Soft Boys similarly found more American fame than British, but also launched the solo career of Robyn Hitchcock, who found a cult following in England after 1988's Globe of Frogs. Bands like the Housemartins played late in the 80s, making a more sophisticated and accessible version of The Smiths' alternative rock. 1989 promo shot for the album Automatic The Jesus and Mary Chain were a British Indie rock band that revolved around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim Reid and William Reid. ... In everyday speech, to distort something is to force it out of its natural shape. ... The Velvet Underground and Nico (from left to right: John Cale, Nico, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker) The Velvet Underground (Affectionately known as The Velvets, or V.U. for short) was an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s. ... For the drug, see Ecstasy. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Power pop is a long-standing musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop music. ... The Soft Boys were an influential neo-psychedelic rock and roll band from Cambridge, England, formed in 1976 as Dennis and the Experts. ... Robyn Hitchcock (born March 3, 1953) is a rock and roll singer-songwriter and psych folk artist -- drawing upon the tradition of his openly admitted inspiration, Syd Barrett. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Housemartins were a British indie rock band that was active in the 1980s. ...

Madchester and shoegazing

The diverse sounds of 80s alternative rock laid the groundwork for an explosion of new genres in the early 90s, which in turn inspired the chart-topping Britpop revolution. The most influential band of the early 80s fusion of British alternative rock styles was Stone Roses, who played a sort of updated psychedelic rock with the energy and enthusiasm of their alternative forebears. Inspired by the Stone Roses, bands like the Happy Mondays, The Charlatans and Inspiral Carpets, mostly Manchester-based, reinvented psychedelic dance music in a modernized form called Madchester. Shaun Ryder of the Happy Mondays proved most influential among the Madchester bands; his typically British cryptic lyrics were mixed with dance-oriented music that saw rising fame and seemed likely to dominate 90s pop. Britpop is a British alternative rock movement from the middle 90s, characterised with the appearance of bands who borrowed many influences from 60s and 70s while creating big and catchy hooks, as well as the glamour of earlier pop stardom and the sense that they were creating the soundtrack to... The classic line-up at the time of Spike Island The Stone Roses were one of the most influential bands to come out of Britain during the late 1980s and early 90s. ... The Happy Mondays were a rock and roll band formed in Manchester, England in 1985. ... The Charlatans (known in the United States as The Charlatans UK) is a British band. ... The Inspiral Carpets are a band from Oldham in Greater Manchester formed in 1986. ... This article is about the city in England. ... Madchester refers to a period during the late 1980s and early 1990s when Manchester was the focus for a lot of the new musical talent hitting the UK indie music scene. ... Shaun Ryder is a British rock and roll singer from Manchester, who became famous in the Madchester era band Happy Mondays. ...

In spite of predictions, Madchester was unable to flourish. The Stone Roses were stuck with a lawsuit that took two years to resolve, while Shaun Ryder's drug problems caused the Happy Mondays to run out of steam. Instead, shoegazing bands inspired by the shimmering, distant and dissonant vocals of My Bloody Valentine (1987, Isn't Anything). This new scene was called shoegazing, after the bands' tendencies to hold low-energy performances, head bowed low and staring at their shoes as they played. My Bloody Valentine saw some mainstream success in the late 80s, and inspired a wave of imitators like Ride, Lush and the Boo Radleys. Shoegazing is a style of music that emerged in Britain in the late 1980s. ... Clockwise from bottom left: Colm OCiosoig, Bilinda Butcher, Kevin Shields, Debbie Googe My Bloody Valentine were an Irish/British shoegazing rock band. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shoegazing is a style of music that emerged in Britain in the late 1980s. ... By ride you may mean: Amusement ride Ride_(band) ride cymbal This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Miki Berenyi Emma Anderson Phil King Chris Acland Lush was a British shoegazing band, formed in 1988 by Steve Rippon, Emma Anderson, Meriel Barham, Chris Acland and Miki Berenyi (see 1988 in music). ... The Boo Radleys were a British guitar band of the 1990s who made experimental indie music, and were briefly associated with the Britpop movement. ...