INXS toured North America, Europe, and New Zealand from November 1985 to February 1986.
Soda’s second album Nada personal was edited in October 1985. During the summer the group toured Argentina, playing in Mar de Plata , Villa Gesell , and Pinamar , and ending the tour at the Festival De la Falda in Córdoba , which featured Andres Calamaro and Charly García on…
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Listen Like Thieves was released in October 1985 to critical approval, reaching No. 3 on the Australian charts and No. 11 on the US charts.
In October 1985, Mute released a compilation, The Singles 81→85 ( Catching Up with Depeche Mode in the US), which included the two new non-album hit singles ” Shake the Disease ” and ” It’s Called a Heart “, with the US version also including their B-sides (“Fly on the…
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The single was also a top 20 hit in Canada and reached No. 2 in Australia (September 1985), but only reached No. 51 on the UK charts.
In August 1985, INXS toured ahead of the release of Listen Like Thieves , touring South America before returning to Melbourne to play for Prince Charles and Princess Diana of Wales at a concert. The concert was filmed and later released on a home video entitled Living INXS ; an…
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They toured Canada in July and August 1985, and Europe in October of that year, including the Netherlands, England (including one concert at London’s Hammersmith Palais ), Ireland, Scotland, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and West Germany. On October 2, 1985, the group played a concert in Bochum , West Germany, for…
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As a follow-up to the Christmas 1984 Band Aid single, Duran Duran performed in front of 90,000 people (and an estimated 1.5 billion TV viewers) at the Live Aid charity concert at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, on 13 July 1985 while their Bond song held the…
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In March 1985, a Rolling Stone cover story called U2 the “Band of the ’80s”, saying that “for a growing number of rock & roll fans, U2 … has become the band that matters most, maybe even the only band that matters”. On 13 July 1985, the group performed at…
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The band performed five songs for the July 1985 Oz for Africa concert, in conjunction with the Live Aid benefit.