The Beastie Boys released their first album, Licensed to Ill , on November 15, 1986. It was favorably reviewed by Rolling Stone . Licensed to Ill became one of the best-selling rap albums of the 1980s and the first rap album to go number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart,…
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Shortly after this record was released, lead guitarist Greg Lisher joined the group. The band recorded a set of songs with an expanded version of the lineup that recorded the debut, with Lisher playing lead on some songs. Guess departed shortly thereafter, leaving Lowery and Molla briefly to take turns…
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Later that summer, New Order headlined a line-up that included the Smiths , the Fall , and A Certain Ratio during the Festival of the Tenth Summer at Manchester’s G-Mex .
Kelly Jones and Stuart Cable lived on the same street in the Welsh village of Cwmaman . Jones heard Cable played drums so asked if he wanted to jam together. After some time practising in Jones’ father’s garage, Nicholas Geake joined in on guitar. Later, Jones invited Paul Rosser and…
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The 1986 album also marked the arrival of Swiss drummer Thomas Wydler , a member of Die Haut
Just before the release of Psychic… , and with new bassist Terence Smart in tow (the first of many through 1986), the band commenced their first nationwide tour. It was on this outing that they truly established a national presence, starting at Touch and Go’s early headquarters in Detroit before…
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The band’s second album, II & III , was culled from both recording sessions, and released in early 1986. Segel played mandolin and sitar in addition to violin, and Molla played pedal steel guitar on some tracks. The album featured a noticeably expanded sound, with influences of country music and…
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Midnight Oil spent several months in 1986 on the Blackfella/Whitefella tour of outback Australia with indigenous groups Warumpi Band and Gondwanaland , playing to remote Aboriginal communities and seeing first hand the seriousness of the issues in health and living standards. The tour was criticised by some journalists for being…
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Evan Dando , Ben Deily and Jesse Peretz formed the Lemonheads as teenagers at the Commonwealth School in Boston . The band was originally called the Whelps, until inspiration came from a brand of candy , which Dando noted was “sweet on the inside and sour on the outside.” The…
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The band garnered an increased following due to a second 1986 album release, Your Funeral, My Trial