80s Music

Basia rose to fame as a singer in the British trio Matt Bianco. By 1986, she and her bandmate Danny White left the group to focus on her solo career and enjoyed international success between 1987 and 1995, especially in

Level 42 took its name from the Douglas Adams book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which 42 is the answer to “the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.” In 1985, their sixth album marked a transition

The fifth studio album by Leslie Sebastian Charles, also know as Billy Ocean, had 4 songs on our chart which featured his first major single Caribbean Queen. But it was the title track from that record that would go on

Corey Hart has sold over 16 million records worldwide thanks to nine consecutive Billboard Top 40 hits, while scoring 32 Top 40 singles in his native Canada. Corey’s video for his debut single Sunglasses at Night became a staple on

Released in 1985 as the debut single from their second album “Welcome to the Real World,” Mr. Mister co-wrote this song with lyricist John Lang, who was inspired by a book from Lebanese poet-philosopher Kahlil Gibran. The record shares an

Born in Sydney, Australia, Rick Springfield started his career in the teen-idol band Zoot before embarking on a successful solo career in 1972. He then turned acting and played Dr. Noah Drake on the soap opera “General Hospital” in the

Dionne Warwick’s Heartbreaker album was largely written and produced by Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees. It would go on to sell millions worldwide reaching the top five in Norway, Sweden, the UK, and in the Netherlands. Here in the

Formed in England in 1967, the Climax Blues Band’s biggest hit on the Adult Contemporary chart reached #20 in 1980 with a message of pure love about a woman who enters a man’s life and changes his world for the

Vonda Shepard is perhaps best known for her starring role as a fictionalized version of herself on the hit TV series “Ally McBeal” that ran for five seasons starting in 1997. Vonda recorded five soundtrack albums as well as the

Simon Climie wrote some pretty big hits in the 80’s including George Michael and Aretha Franklin’s I Knew You Were Waiting and My Heart Can’t Tell You No by Rod Stewart. Rob Fisher was the keyboardist for the group Naked Eyes.