In 1985, the group re-formed as a ” beat combo ” (a joking reference to early 1960s beat music ), with greater use of electronic musical instruments . Wire announced that they would perform none of their older material, hiring Ex-Lion Tamers (a Wire cover band from Hoboken, New Jersey…
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In 1985, Something to Believe In , their first LP with Link Records, was released. They toured and opened for The Clash and James Brown and eventually headlined at various New York clubs including NYC’s The Ritz, Irving Plaza and Long Island’s now defunct Club Malibu.
The band rehearsed at the Conner family’s video rental store and recorded their demo tape Other Worlds in the summer of 1985 with Steve Fisk at Creative Fire recording studio in Ellensburg. It was initially distributed by the independent label K Records . Other Worlds then got a wider release…
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Beyond this European success, the song also reached No. 13 on the US charts in mid-1985, the first appearance of a DM single on the Billboard Hot 100 , and was a Top 20 hit in Canada.
The band’s third album, Fables of the Reconstruction (1985), demonstrated a change in direction. Instead of Dixon and Easter, R.E.M. chose producer Joe Boyd , who had worked with Fairport Convention and Nick Drake , to record the album in London. The band members found the sessions unexpectedly difficult, and…
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In 1985, Soda Stereo visited Los Angeles California for a press tour and was interviewed by Miguel Banojian, a U.S. journalist with a degree from UCLA , who was also the first Hispanic rock concert promoter in Los Angeles, and was scheduling Hispanic music concerts around Hollywood in clubs like…
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Tom Larkin and Jon Toogood formed Exit in 1985 in Wellington with various short-term fellow school members. Larkin and Toogood had met at Wellington High School , and shared an interest in heavy metal. They were generally found in the school’s music room, as Toogood later recalled, “That’s where we…
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After the departure of Race and Lane, the remaining members moved to West Berlin, Germany in 1985
On the afternoon of 31 December 1984, drummer Rick Allen was involved in a car accident on the A57 road in the countryside a few miles west of Sheffield. While trying to pass another car at a high speed, he lost control of his Corvette C4 , which hit a…
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Soda Stereo presented their debut album at El Teatro Astros on 14 December 1984, their first show at the venue. The TVs there were turned on and out of sync with each other to the theme of “Sobredosis de TV” (TV Overdose), creating a captivating visual effect.