After the punk movement ended, Gillespie became disenchanted with mainstream new wave music . He met another schoolfriend who shared his outlook, Jim Beattie, and they recorded “elemental noise tapes”, in which Gillespie would bang two dustbin lids together and Beattie played fuzz-guitar. They soon moved on to the Velvet…
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The band were firm favourites of John Peel and recorded four sessions for his BBC Radio 1 show. “Love on the Terraces” also reached number 38 in the 1982 Festive Fifty .
This resulted in the 1982 live album Still Life (American Concert 1981) which reached No. 4 in the UK and No. 5 in the US,
The first stable line-up of the group consisted of Nicholas Bullen on bass and lead vocals, Simon Oppenheimer on guitars, and Miles Ratledge on drums, and lasted from December 1981 to January 1982.
In December 1981, the Clash released ” This Is Radio Clash ” as a single; it charted at number 47 in the UK Singles Chart.
The video was heavily edited for MTV. The album also included ” Tel Aviv “, a track with lyrics Simon Le Bon wrote in 1980 after working on a kibbutz in Israel . The song was later reworked into a Middle Eastern-influenced instrumental before appearing on the album. The album…
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New Order’s first commercial release was the single ” Ceremony “, backed with “In a Lonely Place”. These two songs were written in the weeks before Curtis took his own life. With the release of their debut album, Movement , in November 1981, New Order initially started on a similar…
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In November 1981, Adam and the Ants released the parent album Prince Charming which spent three weeks at number 2. A third single from the album, ” Ant Rap ” reached No. 3 in January 1982. The band was one of the most successful single acts in the UK in…
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November 1981 saw the release of their first single, a cover version of Ralph McTell ‘s ” Streets of London “. The single peaked at No. 48 in the UK Singles Chart and spent five weeks in the listings. The profanity -laden B-side of the single, ” So What “,…
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