The Payolas, under a variety of names including Payola$, was a New Wave band active in the Canadian music scene for a decade from the late 1970s. New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in American, Australian, British, Canadian and European popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Canadian music includes pop and folk genres; the latter includes forms derived from England, France (particularly in Quebec), Ireland, Scotland, and various Inuit and Indian ethnic groups. ...

The band's name was chosen to refer to the payola scandal in the United States in the early 1960s. It was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia and recorded mostly at Little Mountain Sound there. Through many lineup changes, its core members remained Paul Hyde and Bob Rock. Although the band always seemed poised for a big international breakthrough, it never quite broke out despite its artistic growth and popular success. It was, however, one of the most prominent and successful Canadian bands of the early 1980s. In the music industry, the illegal practice of record companies paying money for the broadcast of records on music radio is called payola, if the song is presented as being part of the normal days broadcast. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... Paul Hyde is a British-born Canadian musician and record producer. ... Bob Rock press photo Bob Rock is a Canadian musician, sound engineer, and record producer. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...

Rise

Hyde, a British emigrant, met Rock during high school in Langford B.C. They joined with others to form a pop-punk band in Vancouver where Rock had started his career as a recording engineer at Little Mountain Sound Studios. At their gigs and in local music stores they sold their singles "Money for Hype" and "China Boys." Spotted by A&M Records, four songs were reissued as Introducing Payola$ in 1980. The major-label EP included their signature “China Boys,” a rough version of “Rose” and the profanity-laden working class anthem “TNT.” A&M Records is a record label formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. ...

A&M’s gamble paid off, and the full-length follow up album In a Place Like This the following year was a critical success. It included remakes “Jukebox” and “Rose” -- as well as “China Boys” yet again -- as well as more proletarian laments like the title track and “Whiskey Boy.”

The next year saw drummer Chris Taylor added to the band lineup and began with the successful release of their album No Stranger to Danger. The LP included a bona fide hit in “Eyes of a Stranger,” which later earned the Juno for best single of the year, and other minor hits like “Romance.” Bob Rock’s recording work on the album also won him a Juno. Even the non-album B-side on the singles, “Soldier,” was a minor hit. Juno can refer to: Juno, the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Hera A guardian spirit for Roman women (equivalent of the male Genius) Jupiter IRBM rocket (Juno II) the Jupiter-C IRBM rocket (Juno or Juno I) the Juno Awards, a Canadian music award festival Juno Beach, one of...

However, the high-water mark was reached in 1983. The Payolas released Hammer on a Drum and its associated singles and videos to great commercial and popular acclaim. They seamlessly mixed social conscience, exemplified in the child abuse oriented “Where Is This Love” and nuclear nightmare “No Prisoners,” with socialite navel gazing, exemplified by “I’ll Find Another” and “Wild West.”

Two other landmarks were reached: a respectable duet with Carole Pope of Rough Trade in "Never Said I Loved You" and a rather depressing "Christmas Is Coming" which has since been anthologized on anti-Christmas releases. Carole Pope (born August 6, 1950 in Manchester, England) is a Canadian rock singer, whose provocative blend of hard-edged new wave rock with explicit homoerotic and BDSM-themed lyrics made her one of the first openly lesbian pop stars in the world. ... Rough Trade was a Canadian new wave rock band in the 1970s and 1980s. ...

Decline and metamorphosis

However, as they tried to break into the U.S. market, they had to deal with Dick Clark, longtime host of American Bandstand and formerly implicated in the 1960 scandal. After being hampered by their name in the American market, they tried to reinvent themselves: they hired David Foster as their producer, softened their formerly hard-edged tunes, and altered their name to Paul Hyde and the Payolas. Richard Wagstaff Clark (born November 30, 1929), more commonly known as Dick Clark, is an American television entertainer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... David Foster, OC, OBC , LL.D. born 1950 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is a multi Grammy Award winning musician, producer, and composer. ...

Here's the World for Ya was released in 1985, and its singles included “Stuck in the Rain,” “It Must Be Love” and “Here’s the World.” Although richly produced, the album failed to gain many new fans with their syrupy sound and apolitical lyrics. Furthermore, they lost many loyal fans who felt the band had turned its back on its hardcore playing and socially relevant writing. Nevertheless, they appeared together with their producer-pianist in the Northern Lights benefit for Ethiopia. Northern Lights was the name used by the supergroup of Canadian musicians who gathered in 1985 to record the single Tears Are Not Enough. Like Band Aid (who recorded Do They Know Its Christmas? in 1984) and USA For Africa (who recorded We Are The World a few weeks...

After a combination of events, including being dropped by A&M and artistic difference, the band broke up in 1986. However, the core members continued to work -- with the help of two former bandmates -- and released Under the Volcano in 1987 with their new label under the name Rock and Hyde. The album had two minor hits and videos in “Dirty Water” and “I Will”.

A&M tried to piggyback on this Capitol release by immediately offering a greatest hits package called Between A Rock & A Hyde Place, which despite its name only included songs they produced under the name Payolas. Another compilation was released in 2000 in Capitol's 20th Century Master Series, which also featured the Rock & Hyde track “Dirty Water.”

But even as the last gasp of the Payolas was heard, Rock and Hyde were pursuing other projects. The former produced heavy metal bands like Mötley Crüe and Metallica while running his eponymous band Rockhead. It has been suggested that metal music be merged into this article or section. ... Mötley Crüe (pronounced as mott-ley crew) is an American heavy metal/Glam Metal band whose members include Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, and Vince Neil. ... Metallica is an American heavy metal band formed in October 1981. ...

Paul Hyde returned to his working class roots and kept releasing music as a side career. His softer, folk-tinged solo efforts, such as Turtle Island in 1989 and The Big Book of Sad Songs, Vol. 1 in 2002 were artistically but not commercially successful. Some of his former bandmates and his own rapping son have appeared on various solo tracks. He promises a new Payola$ release in 2005 with his regular collaborator Bob Rock. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Discography

Since the band was most active in the mid-1980s as the change from LPs to CDs was occurring, most of its songs are unavailable on CD. “Eyes of a Stranger” and “Christmas Is Coming” appear on various CD anthologies, usually with an ‘80s, punk and/or holiday theme. A gramophone record, (also vinyl record, phonograph record or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ... Interference colors. ... 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. ...

Most album covers

• "Money for Hype" (single only), Payola$, N B Records, 1978
• "China Boys/Make Some Noise" (single only), Payola$, Slophouse Records, 1979
• Introducing Payola$, (four song EP) A&M, 1980
• In a Place Like This, Payola$, A&M, 1981
• No Stranger to Danger, Payola$, A&M, 1982
• Hammer on a Drum, Payola$, A&M, 1983
• Here's the World for Ya, Paul Hyde and the Payolas, A&M, 1985
• Between a Rock and a Hyde Place, most names greatest hits, A&M, 1987 (reissued 1993)
• Under the Volcano, Rock and Hyde, Capitol, 1987
• 20th Century Masters: The Payolas, all names greatest hits, Capitol, 2000.

External links

• Payolas at The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Payola$ at Canadian Bands
• Payola$ at Canoe
• Payolas at Launchcast
• Paul Hyde
• Bob Rock