On November 13, 1982, the Beastie Boys played Philip Pucci’s birthday for the purposes of his short concert film Beastie . Pucci held the concert in Bard College ‘s Preston Drama Dance Department Theatre. This performance marked the Beastie Boys’ first on-screen appearance in a published motion picture. Pucci’s concept…
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Around this time Nick Jones joined as percussionist.
Their next release was “Rainy Day” in 1982.
Soon after recording sessions had finished, band members started work on outside projects. Beers, Jon and Andrew Farriss played on Clapton’s solo album, The Great Escape . Hutchence recorded “Speed Kills”, written by Don Walker of Cold Chisel for the soundtrack of the film Freedom directed by Scott Hicks .…
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In mid-1982, INXS began recording at Rhinoceros Studios with Opitz.
Nick Jones joined in 1982 playing percussion (later to be replaced by Mikey Craighead), adding another dimension to the proceedings. The band then went to NYC to record another single at PlazaSound on the seventh floor of Radio City .
Their Australian breakthrough and first international recognition came in 1982, with the release of 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 , which included the singles ” Power and the Passion ” and ” Read About It “. The album peaked at No. 3 and “Power and…
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Unaware of the popularity of “Shoot You Down” in the United States, the band and Oily were busy pushing their third seven-inch, “Palace Filled With Love” (1982). This is when the Radio 1 sessions began. John Peel and David Kid Jensen (and lastly Peter Powell ) were playing the tunes…
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Despite the album’s unimpressive sales figures (it only peaked at number 26 in the UK and 38 in the US), the band’s video for ” Bringin’ On the Heartbreak ” became one of the first metal videos played on MTV in 1982, bringing the band increased visibility in the US.
After the punk movement ended, Gillespie became disenchanted with mainstream new wave music . He met another schoolfriend who shared his outlook, Jim Beattie, and they recorded “elemental noise tapes”, in which Gillespie would bang two dustbin lids together and Beattie played fuzz-guitar. They soon moved on to the Velvet…
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