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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Mason released his second solo album, Profiles , in August 1985.
In June 1985, Jagger teamed up with David Bowie for ” Dancing in the Street “, which was recorded for the Live Aid charity movement. This was one of Jagger’s first solo performances, and the song reached No. 1 in the UK, and No. 7 in the US.
On 17 March, they played the Festival Chateau Rock ’85 at the Estadio Olímpico Chateau Carreras in front of a claimed audience of fifteen thousand. However, Córdoba media outlets claim that, “only half the number of people actually showed up” and that Soda were “hardly noticed because their first record…
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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 .
In 1985, the band released their first studio album, featuring “Death Row” material and the lineup of Liebling on vocals, Griffin on guitar, Swaney on bass, and Rose on drums. Initially self-titled, the album was often referred to as Relentless due to it being renamed when it was reissued by…
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In 1985, Soda Stereo visited Los Angeles California for a press tour and was interviewed by Miguel Banojian, a U.S. journalist with a degree from UCLA , who was also the first Hispanic rock concert promoter in Los Angeles, and was scheduling Hispanic music concerts around Hollywood in clubs like…
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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 .
Later on the same year Mr. Banojian repeated the show at the same theater with a second sold out show.