Blue Öyster Cult re-united with Albert Bouchard for a California tour in February 1985, infamously known as the ‘Albert Returns’ Tour. This arrangement was only temporary and caused more tensions between the band and Bouchard, since he had thought he would be staying on permanently, which was not the case.…
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On 26 January 1985, Soda played the Rock in Bali festival in Argentine port city of Mar del Plata .
When originally released in 1985, the singles “What About Love” and “Never” did not chart, while “These Dreams” and “Nothin’ at All” only charted at 68 and 76 respectively.
— Peter Garrett quoted in The Big Australian Rock Book (1985) published by Rolling Stone Magazine, ed.:Ed St John, ISBN 0-9590615-0-9
Kato and Roeser met at Northwestern University in 1985. They formed Urge Overkill (getting the name from a phrase in the lyrics of the Parliament song ” Funkentelechy “) in Chicago in 1986, with drummer Pat Byrne, and released an EP , Strange, I… , on Ruthless Records . The…
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What many consider to be the prime songs of these recording sessions were released years later, in 1985, in an album called VU .
In January 1985, Midnight Oil performed Oils on the Water , a concert on Goat Island in Sydney Harbour to celebrate Triple J ‘s tenth birthday, before a select audience of fans who had won tickets in a radio competition. The concert was filmed, simulcast on ABC-TV and Triple J,…
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The band’s third album, Fables of the Reconstruction (1985), demonstrated a change in direction. Instead of Dixon and Easter, R.E.M. chose producer Joe Boyd , who had worked with Fairport Convention and Nick Drake , to record the album in London. The band members found the sessions unexpectedly difficult, and…
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In 1985, Polydor released the album VU , which collected unreleased recordings that might have constituted the band’s fourth album for MGM in 1969 but had never been released.
There were concerns about Diesel and Dust and Midnight Oil’s attempts to express indigenous issues to white urban audiences – namely, the question “who holds the power to tell whose history?” The lyrics of “The Dead Heart” tell the story of colonisation from an indigenous point of view but some…
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