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1986

Primal Scream toured throughout 1986

The band toured throughout 1986, and Gillespie became disenchanted with the quality of their performances. He said that there “was always something missing, musically or in attitude.” They switched to McGee’s newly set-up Warner Bros. subsidiary Elevation Records . Before the band entered Rockfield Studios in Wales to record their…
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Suicide Commando Van Roy began experimenting with electronic music back in 1986. Two

Van Roy began experimenting with electronic music back in 1986. Two years later, he released his first tape under the moniker Suicide Commando, and his track appeared on the vinyl compilation Electronic . He continued to release more tapes until he was signed by the rising German label Off Beat.…
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Duran Duran Andy Taylor led the remaining members to believe he would return to

Andy Taylor led the remaining members to believe he would return to work on a new Duran Duran album, even as he was signing a solo recording contract in Los Angeles with MCA Records , eventually releasing a solo album in 1986 called Thunder . The band resorted to legal…
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Pop Will Eat Itself Crabb, Mole and Mansell recruited Richard March and changed their

Crabb, Mole and Mansell recruited Richard March and changed their band name to Wild and Wandering, derived from a Wasted Youth album, before eventually becoming Pop Will Eat Itself in 1986. The new name was taken from a quotation in an NME article on Jamie Wednesday by David Quantick .

Depeche Mode Stripped

In the United States, the band’s music appealed primarily to an alternative audience who were disenchanted with the predominance of “soft rock and ‘disco hell’” on the radio. This view of the band was in sharp contrast to how the band was perceived in Europe, despite the increasingly dark and…
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Pop Will Eat Itself In 1986, the band released the “Poppies Say Grrr!” single, which

In 1986, the band released the “Poppies Say Grrr!” single, which became Single of the Week in the NME and was played by Janice Long on BBC Radio 1 and in the Midlands by John Slater on BRMB . The single was sold in a brown paper bag and was…
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1985

Oct

Depeche Mode The Singles 81→85

In October 1985, Mute released a compilation, The Singles 81→85 ( Catching Up with Depeche Mode in the US), which included the two new non-album hit singles ” Shake the Disease ” and ” It’s Called a Heart “, with the US version also including their B-sides (“Fly on the…
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Sep

Happy Mondays Their first release was the “Forty Five EP”, often called the

Their first release was the “Forty Five EP”, often called the “Delightful EP” after its first track. It was released on Factory Records in September 1985. Their first album, Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) , was released in 1987 and was…
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Jul 13

U2 In March 1985, a Rolling Stone cover story called U2 the “Band of the

In March 1985, a Rolling Stone cover story called U2 the “Band of the ’80s”, saying that “for a growing number of rock & roll fans, U2 … has become the band that matters most, maybe even the only band that matters”. On 13 July 1985, the group performed at…
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Jul 13

Duran Duran As a follow-up to the Christmas 1984 Band Aid single, Duran Duran

As a follow-up to the Christmas 1984 Band Aid single, Duran Duran performed in front of 90,000 people (and an estimated 1.5 billion TV viewers) at the Live Aid charity concert at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, on 13 July 1985 while their Bond song held the…
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