In July 1983 the trio made their debut at the Discothèque Airport in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Belgrano, Buenos Aires . The band reminisced on this show:
On the subsequent 1983 War Tour of Europe, the US and Japan, the band played progressively larger venues, moving from clubs to halls to arenas. Bono attempted to engage the growing audiences with theatrical, often dangerous antics, climbing scaffolding and lighting rigs and jumping into the audience. The sight of…
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The single “The One Thing” brought them their first Top 30 hit in United States peaking at No. 30 on 28 May 1983,
New Order’s second LP, Power, Corruption & Lies , was released in May 1983.
The band spent the next year as tax exiles , writing songs at a château in France where The Tube with Jools Holland filmed a documentary with the band in May 1983 before they flew to Montserrat and then Sydney to record and mix their third album. During the summer,…
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Marr and Rourke visited London to hand a cassette of their recordings to Geoff Travis of the independent record label Rough Trade Records . Travis agreed to cut their song ” Hand in Glove ” as a single. For the cover, Morrissey insisted on a homoerotic photograph by Jim French…
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INXS played alongside many of their contemporaries on New Wave Day in May 1983 at the US Festival in Devore, San Bernardino , California.
Despite their exposure on national radio, success was not forthcoming and, apart from Cocker, most of the core line-up left for university. Soon, a new set of musicians were gathered: Simon Hinkler (who later joined the Mission ), David Hinkler, Wayne Furniss (who switched to guitar after playing drums in…
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INXS undertook their first US performance in San Diego in March 1983 to a crowd of 24 patrons.
The Pyromania tour began in England at the Marquee Club on Wardour Street, Soho, London in February 1983.