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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The band’s responsibilities were split evenly between Tsoi and Rybin. Tsoi was in charge of the creative component, writing music and lyrics, while Rybin did all the administrative work, such as organizing concerts, rehearsals and recording sessions. In March 1983, a serious conflict broke out between them, the culmination of…
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INXS undertook their first US performance in San Diego in March 1983 to a crowd of 24 patrons.
Adamson continued collaborating with Visage, and also began to work with Shelley, the Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds . Jackson later played with the Chameleons , Swing Out Sister and the Durutti Column . Formula continued as a member of Visage and joined Ludus , and…
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Released on April 27, 1983, Whammy! reached number 29 on the Billboard 200 chart. ” Legal Tender ” reached the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as well as the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Singles chart alongside ” Whammy Kiss ” and ” Song for a Future Generation “. For the…
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Jaz Coleman decided to move to Iceland with guitarist Kenneth ‘Geordie’ Walker , with the ambition of resurrecting the Icelandic rock scene. While there, Coleman and Þeyr, with the exception of Magnússon, formed a new band originally called Iceland , but later named Niceland by Guðlaugur Óttarsson. After rehearsing for…
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‘Til Tuesday first gained fame six months after its formation when it won Boston ‘s WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble in 1983. Their original composition ” Love in a Vacuum ” (credited to all members of the group) received a fair amount of airplay on the station, and the group…
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During this interim period, the band released the single ” This Is Not a Love Song ” in 1983, the song’s lyric lampooning the anger of some fans and music press over the band’s movement towards a more commercial style. The song’s title was inspired by a line in the…
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The Smiths signed with the American record label Sire Records in late 1983, after its owner, Seymour Stein , agreed to buy Marr an electric guitar, as Marr had heard Stein had for Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones . Marr bought a 1960 Gibson ES-355 at a shop on…
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