This personnel change took place during the recording of their third album, Pyromania , which was released on 20 January 1983 and also produced by Lange.
The band also recorded and then performed its first hip-hop track, ” Cooky Puss “, based on a prank call by the group to a Carvel Ice Cream franchise in 1983. It was a part of the new lineup’s first EP, also called Cooky Puss , which was the first…
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the latter becoming Mute labelmates in 1983
The members of the Sugarcubes had formerly been in a variety of Icelandic bands. Björk Guðmundsdóttir had the longest career out of any of the members; she had recorded an album when she was 11 . In her late teens, she joined the Icelandic post-punk band Tappi Tíkarrass , who…
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Buck-Tick was formed in Gunma Prefecture in 1983. Hisashi Imai had the original idea for the band, despite not being able to play any instruments at the time. He recruited his friend, Yutaka Higuchi , and the two of them began to practice—Imai on guitar and Higuchi on bass. Then,…
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At the beginning of 1983, Jerry Augustyniak joined the band as their permanent drummer. The Maniacs met Augustyniak when they played in Buffalo, New York , where he was in a punk band named the Stains. Between March and July, the band recorded songs for a second record, Secrets of…
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Throwing Muses were formed in 1983 by Kristin Hersh and her half-sister Tanya Donelly , who were both attending Rogers High School . They initially called themselves “Kristin Hersh and the Muses”, in which they were accompanied by bass player Elaine Adamedes and drummer Becca Blumen, who later were replaced…
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Dean Garcia, half Hawaiian and half Irish, had played in some small bands when he auditioned for Eurythmics . The English-born Toni Halliday met Dave Stewart of Eurythmics after he had read a rock magazine interview with her in which she praised his pre-Eurythmics band, The Tourists . Halliday and…
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Now promoted as a dance album, Rio was re-released in the US in November and began to climb the American charts six months after its European success. MTV placed “Hungry Like the Wolf” and several other Duran Duran videos into heavy rotation, pushing the single and album into the US…
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War ‘ s lead single, ” New Year’s Day “, was released in January 1983. It reached number 10 in the UK and became the group’s first hit outside Europe; in the US, it received extensive radio coverage and peaked at number 53. Resolving their doubts of the October period,…
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