For their fourth album, R.E.M. enlisted John Mellencamp ‘s producer Don Gehman . The album, entitled Lifes Rich Pageant (1986), brought Stipe’s vocals closer to the forefront of the music. In a 1986 interview with the Chicago Tribune , Peter Buck related, “Michael is getting better at what he’s doing,…
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The rest of the recordings, as well as some alternative takes and instrumental tracks were later bundled on Another View , an album released in 1986. After Reed’s departure, he later reworked a number of these songs for his solo records over the years: “Stephanie Says”, “Ocean”, “I Can’t Stand…
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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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When the band returned to the studio, Strickland had learned how to play the guitar in Wilson’s style and switched permanently to the new instrument, leaving session players to complete the rhythm section. The results were released on September 8, 1986, as Bouncing off the Satellites , a mixture of…
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More unreleased recordings of the band, some of them demos and unfinished tracks, were released in 1986 as Another View .
Mercury’s powerful, sustained note—”Aaaaaay-o”—during the call-and-response a cappella segment came to be known as “The Note Heard Round the World”. The band were revitalised by the response to Live Aid—a “shot in the arm” Roger Taylor called it—and the ensuing increase in record sales. In 1986 Mercury commented: “From our…
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In December 1985 the four-track EP Species Deceases produced with Francois Kevorkian was released by CBS/Columbia; it peaked at No. 1 on the Australian singles charts for six weeks. Species Deceases , featuring the track “Hercules”, featured a return to their pub rock sound with hard hitting firepower.
In December 1985, Ian Stewart died of a heart attack.
INXS toured North America, Europe, and New Zealand from November 1985 to February 1986.
Soda’s second album Nada personal was edited in October 1985. During the summer the group toured Argentina, playing in Mar de Plata , Villa Gesell , and Pinamar , and ending the tour at the Festival De la Falda in Córdoba , which featured Andres Calamaro and Charly García on…
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