Kiss ended the decade with the October 1989 release Hot in the Shade . Although the album failed to achieve Platinum status, it spawned the hit ballad ” Forever “, co-written by Michael Bolton . Peaking at No. 8 in the US, it was the group’s highest-charting single since “Beth”…
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In 1989 Kenji Ueda , bassist for Kenzi & the Trips, left the band with former Kenzi’s drummer Shinichiro Sato and invited the Coin Locker Babies vocalist Sawao Yamanaka to form a new band. Yoshiaki Manabe , the guitarist of the hair metal band Persia, joined them. The Pillows were…
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Matchbook (August 1989)
Their debut album Been There, Seen That, Done That was, released on Virgin Records later in the year. One of the singles from this album, “Forget Georgia,” was later covered by Canadian singer Emm Gryner on her 2005 album Songs of Love and Death. In August 1989, the band attracted…
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Despite not wanting to be in the band anymore, Dee Dee (who was sober by this point) was present for the world tour for Brain Drain and played his last show with the Ramones on July 5, 1989, at One Step Beyond in Santa Clara . He was replaced by…
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” Telephone Booth ” (June 1989)
10,000 Maniacs’ next album, 1989’s Blind Man’s Zoo , hit No. 13 and went gold, further increasing the group’s following. In May 1989, the British music magazine NME reported that 10,000 Maniacs had won the songwriter category prize at the New York Music Awards. In 1990, with the help of…
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Although it received mixed reviews upon its release in May 1989, the album included the band’s highest-charting hit in the US, ” Pet Sematary “.
In April 1989, the band released its debut extended play 1,000 Hours .
Smile was released in February 1989 and managed to pick up several ‘single of the week’ accolades from national newspapers as well as airplay on indie radio shows such as ‘Bommen’ despite little or no marketing. Following the band’s appearance at the Hultsfred Festival in August 1989, The Wannadies signed…
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