I keep getting Emails from people asking me to re-upload the links and music etc. I think people are just getting to those particular pages so are not reading the reason for the dead links.
So I am putting this in place so hopefully people will read it and stop Emailing me about it.
The reason the links are dead is that my account with Media Fire has been closed with all 11,000 files lost. That is why you can not download the things and No I can not re-upload them.
Eventually I will start doing that again when I have found something suitable. In the meantime this blog will be information only blog.
Thank you all
Michaael
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'Giving You The Best That I Got' is the third album by the American R&B/soul singer Anita Baker. It was Baker's first and only number one album in the US, and was certified triple platinum in 1989 by the RIAA.
The title track was released as the first single from the album and became Baker's highest charting single in the US, peaking at nimber 3 on the Billboard 100, while making it to number 53 on the UK Singles Chart.
Tracklisting: 01 - Priceless 02 - Lead Me Into Love 03 - Giving You the Best That I Got 04 - Good Love 05 - Rules 06 - Good Enough 07 - Just Because 08 - You Belong To Me
'Who's That Girl?' is a song recorded by British pop duo Eurythmics. It was written by Eurythmics members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart and produced by Stewart.
'Who's That Girl?' was the first single released in the UK from Eurythmics' third album Touch and the second single from the album in the United States.
The track is a heavily-synthesized ballad in which Lennox takes the role of a suspicious girlfriend demanding to know who the various women are with whom she has seen her lover associating. The song became Eurythmics' third Top 10 single in the UK singles chart, peaking at number three. In the United States, 'Who's That Girl?' was released as the follow-up to the Top 10 'Here Comes the Rain Again' and it climbed to number twenty-one on the Billboard Hot 100.
The music video became a heavily-played clip on MTV and further showcased Lennox's gender-bending image. In it she appears as a nightclub singer performing the song (complete with 1960s-era blonde flip wig) and also as a man who is a member of the audience. Stewart appears in the video, flirting and carousing with various women. Although they became romantically linked years later, Stewart's future wife, Siobhan Fahey, appears as one of the women and the other two members of Bananarama also make cameo appearances.
Other "girls" include Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston of Bucks Fizz, Kiki Dee, Hazel O'Connor, Kate Garner of Haysi Fantayzee, Thereza Bazar of Dollar and Marilyn. Ironically Jacquie O'Sullivan appears in the video — she would, four years later, become Fahey's replacement as a member of Bananarama.
In the end of the clip, the female-Lennox is shown kissing the male-Lennox.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Live Version You Take Some Lentils and You Take some Rice - B-Side ABC (Freeform) - B-side
Architecture & Morality is the third album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1981. It is the group's most commercially and critically successful album, selling over 3 million copies.
Released just eighteen months after their debut album, it demonstrated both OMD's continuing musical maturity and advancement of their style. According to the album's credits, the album title was suggested to the band by Martha Ladly, formerly of Martha and the Muffins, after the 1977 book Morality and Architecture by David Watkin.
Musically, the album was notable for making liberal use of the mellotron, a mechanical tape-replay keyboard more commonly associated in Britain with progressive rock bands of the early 1970s than with the synthpop of the 1980s.
The artwork was produced by Peter Saville and Brett Wickens. Architecture & Morality was released several times with varying artwork, most notably in yellow, blue and grey but even green versions are available. The original cover from 1981 is light yellow/orange in a die-cut sleeve.
The tenth through sixteenth tracks of the remastered album are bonus tracks and were B-sides from the album's three singles, except 'Gravity Never Failed' which was out-take from the album sessions, originally intended to have been a single A-side, but not released until 1988, as the B-side of 'Dreaming'.
Remixes of 'The Romance Of The Telescope' and 'Of All The Things We've Made' appeared on OMD's next album, Dazzle Ships, which was released in 1983. 'Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans)' is often simply referred as 'Maid of Orleans', released as a single with the title 'Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)'.
Tracklisting: 01 - The New Stone Age 02 - She's Leaving 03 - Souvenir 04 - Sealand 05 - Joan of Arc 06 - Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans) 07 - Architecture and Morality 08 - Georgia 09 - The Beginning and the End
Bonus Tracks: 10 - Extended Souvenir 11 - Motion and Heart (Amazon version) 12 - Sacred Heart 13 - The Romance of the Telescope (Unfinished) 14 - Navigation 15 - Of All the Things We've Made 16 - Gravity Never Failed
'Leave in Silence' is the sixth UK single by Depeche Mode originally released on August 16, 1982. It is the first Depeche Mode single in the UK with the "Bong" label, which is still used to this day. It is also the first Depeche Mode song to have more than one remix of itself.
"Leave in Silence" appears in three versions. The single version is the A Broken Frame version with the small interlude at the end removed. There is also a longer version, and a quieter version, which is an almost a cappella version of the song, except that most of the small samples are still there. The "Longer" version of "Leave in Silence" replaces the "Album" version on the American version of A Broken Frame.
The b-side is "Excerpt From: My Secret Garden", which is an instrumental version of "My Secret Garden", which along with "Leave in Silence" eventually appear on A Broken Frame a little more than a month later. "Further Excerpts From: My Secret Garden" is a longer version which appears as a bonus track on some versions of A Broken Frame.
The video for "Leave in Silence" is directed by Julien Temple, and features the band (which, by this time, included Alan Wilder) breaking things and talking to each other while wearing face paint. The band did not include the video on the Some Great Videos VHS compilation album.
In February 2006, "Leave in Silence" was sung by Martin Gore to a Paris audience, and the song remained in the setlist for the rest of the tour. It is the first time a song from A Broken Frame was played live in almost two decades, when "Leave in Silence" was played during the Black Celebration Tour in 1986.
Click the link below to download the following: The Tube - Live Performance Single Version Reaps Rewired Mix Excerts From My Secret Garden - B-Side
Physical is an album by the Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, released in 1981.
It was certified double platinum, peaking at Nnumber 6 on the Billboard albums chart. This was also Newton-John's first and only album to chart R&B, peaking at Noumber 32. With country music completely overlooked for this album, this unsurprisingly became Newton-John's first studio album not to chart country since her 1971 debut, If Not for You.
In the UK the album made it to number 11 in the Album Charts.
Physical is the best selling album by a female Australian singer, selling 10,000,000 copies worldwide.
The title track was Newton-John's biggest pop single ever spending 10 weeks atop Billboard's Hot 100. Physical tied Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life as the then longest running Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 by a female artist. (Whitney Houston broke the record when I Will Always Love You spent 14 weeks atop the Hot 100). Physical also peaked at Number 29 AC and Number 28 R&B (her only entry on the R&B singles chart). The album also yielded the singles Make A Move On Me and Landslide.
Ttracklisting: 01 - Landslide 02 - Stranger's Touch 03 - Make a Move on Me 04 - Falling 05 - Love Make Me Strong 06 - Physical 07 - Silvery Rain 08 - Carried Away 09 - Recovery 10 - The Promise (The Dolphin Song)
'The Meaning of Love' is the fifth UK single by Depeche Mode originally released on April 26, 1982.
The single version of 'The Meaning of Love' is the same as the album version from A Broken Frame, the album the song later appears on. The 'Fairly Odd Mix' of 'The Meaning of Love' breaks into a weird techno ditty after the second chorus.
The B-side is 'Oberkorn (It's a Small Town)', an atmospheric instrumental written by Martin Gore as an intro for the A Broken Frame Tour, in the town of Oberkorn, Luxembourg. A longer version called the "Development Mix" has an ambient intro before having the same song as the original, and afterwards having a new arrangement of music.
The video for 'The Meaning of Love' is the second video with Alan Wilder, although he did not contribute to the song. The director is Julien Temple. The video was not put on the Some Great Videos VHS compilation because it was not well liked by the band.
The single was not released in the United States, but the 12" 'Fairly Odd Mix' of the song features on the B-side of the 'See You' US 12" single.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Oberkorn (It's a Small Town) - B-Side Oberkorn (It's a Small Town) - Demo Version Oberkorn (It's A Small Town) - Reaps Slow Blow Mix
'Pretend' is a popular song, written in 1952 by Lew Douglas, Cliff Parman, and Frank Levere.
The best-known recording, by Nat King Cole was released by Capitol Records. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on January 31, 1953 and lasted 20 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 3. The recording by Ralph Marterie was released by Mercury Records. It reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on February 7, 1953 at number 16, its only week on the chart.
The recording by Eileen Barton was released by Coral Records. It reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on March 7, 1953 at number 18, its only week on the chart.
On the Cash Box charts, where all versions of the song were combined, the song reached a peak of number 5 in 1953.
The song was subsequently recorded by Tab Smith, reaching number 89 on the Billboard chart in 1957, and by Carl Mann, reaching number 57 on Billboard and number 56 on Cash Box in 1959.
The version that I know the most is the one done by Alvin Stardust. Alvin Stardust's cover version was a popular hit in the United Kingdom in 1981, when it reached number four in the UK singles chart. This cover was largely based on Carl Mann's 1959-version of this song.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Goose Bumps - B-Side
'Under Pressure' is a 1981 song recorded by Queen and David Bowie. It marked Bowie's first released collaboration with another recording artist as a performer, and is featured on Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. The song reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart. It was also number 31 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s.
Bowie had originally come to the studios in order to sing backing vocals on another Queen song, 'Cool Cat,' which would end up being edited out since he wasn't satisfied with them. Once he got there, they worked together for a while and wrote the song.
Queen had been working on the song under the title 'Feel Like' but were not yet satisfied with the result. The final version that became 'Under Pressure' evolved from a jam session the band had with Bowie at his studio in Montreux, Switzerland, therefore it was credited as co-written by the five musicians. According to Queen bassist John Deacon (as quoted in a French magazine in 1984), however, the song's primary musical songwriter was Freddie Mercury — though all contributed to the arrangement. The earlier, embryonic version of the song without Bowie 'Feel Like' is widely available in bootleg form.
There has been some confusion about who created the song's famous bassline. John Deacon said (in Japanese magazine Musiclife in 1982, and in the previously mentioned French magazine) that David Bowie had created it. In more recent interviews, Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor have credited the bass riff to Deacon; Bowie also said on his website that the bassline was already written before he became involved. The September 2005 edition of online music magazine Stylus singled out the bassline as the best in popular music history.
Roger Taylor was frequently rumored to be the song's chief writer. However, it appears that he served more as an intermediary for Mercury and Bowie, being friends with both men. Taylor was involved in the production of the track and did some preliminary mixes with Bowie in New York, but Bowie was dissatisfied with these results and wanted to re-record everything (as claimed by May on a November 1982 interview for IM&RW magazine). In the end, the final mix was done with the involvement of Mercury and recording engineer Mack, 'Under Pressure' from Bowie and Taylor (according to Brian May in the same 1982 interview).
Although very much a joint project, only Queen incorporated the song into their live shows at the time. Bowie chose not to perform the song before an audience until the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, when he and Annie Lennox sang it as a duet (backed by the surviving Queen members). However, since Mercury's death and the Outside tour in 1995, Bowie has performed the song at virtually every one of his live shows, with bassist Gail Ann Dorsey taking Mercury's vocal part. The song also appeared in setlists from A Reality Tour mounted by Bowie in 2004, when he frequently would dedicate it to Freddie Mercury. Queen + Paul Rodgers have recently performed the song as well. While Bowie was never present for a live performance of the song with Mercury, Roger Taylor instead filled for back-up vocals usually in unison with Mercury as Mercury would take over most of Bowie's parts.
The song's bassline was sampled by rapper Vanilla Ice for his 1990 single 'Ice Ice Baby'. Freddie Mercury and David Bowie did not receive credit or royalties for the sample. In a 1990 interview, Vanilla Ice said the two melodies were slightly different because he had added an additional note. In later interviews, Vanilla Ice readily admitted he sampled the song and claimed his 1990 statement was a joke; others, however, suggested he had been serious. He later paid Mercury and Bowie, who have since been given songwriting credit for the sample.
In 2010, Irish singing duo Jedward recorded a mashup of 'Under Pressure' and 'Ice Ice Baby' as their debut single. 'Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)' was released in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2010 via download and as a physical single on February 15, 2010
Click the link below to download the following: Video Live Performance - Wembley 1986 David Bowie and Annie Lennox Performance at Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert Single Version Rah Mix - Re-issue release Soul Brother - Original B-Side Bohemian Rhapsody - Re-Issue B-Side Feel Like - Demo Song That Would Evolve Into Under Pressure
7 is the third album from the British ska/pop band Madness. Released in October 1981, it reached number 5 in the UK album chart. All but one track was recorded at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas in the summer of 1981, the exception being Grey Day which was recorded in London earlier in the year.
There were several different versions of the album released throughout the world. Some territories removed the not so tourist-friendly 'A Day On The Town' while others replaced it with 'Never Ask Twice aka Aeroplane / Airplane', which was issued on the 'Shut Up' 12" in the UK.
In Belgium 'Never Ask Twice' was issued on a one sided 7" single with initial copies of the album. France renamed 'A Day On The Town' as 'A Place In The City'. Australia added 'It Must Be Love' as the first track on side one, while Japan added 'In The City'.
Later vinyl pressings featured different mixes of some tracks (most notably 'Mrs Hutchinson' and 'A Day On The Town'). When first issued on CD in 1989 these were the mixes used, and have been ever since.
Tracklisting: 01 - Cardiac Arrest 02 - Shut Up 03 - Sign of the Times 04 - Missing You 05 - Mrs. Hutchinson 06 - Tomorrow's Dream 07 - Grey Day 08 - Pac-A-Mac 09 - Promises Promises 10 - Benny Bullfrog 11 - When Dawn Arrives 12 - The Opium Eaters 13 - Day on the Town
Aneka (born Mary Sandeman, 20 November 1954) is a Scottish singer.
Sandeman recorded the song 'Japanese Boy' in 1981. Impressed with the results, her record company, Hansa decided to release it as a single with full promotion.
Arriving at the name 'Aneka' in a telephone directory, Sandeman fashioned a suitable image for the song. Released in the Summer of 1981, 'Japanese Boy' made an impressive leap in the charts and reached No.1 for one week in August. This also earned Aneka with the title of 'One Hit Wonder' as her followup singles failed to make much of an impression on the UK Singles Chart.
Click the link below to download the following: TV Performance Single Version Instrumental Edit Extended Version Ae Fond Kiss - B-Side
Landscape are a British band, best known for their 1981 hits, 'Einstein A Go-Go' and 'Norman Bates'.
Formed in 1974, they toured constantly during the mid to late 1970s, playing rock, punk and jazz venues and releasing two instrumental EPs on their own Event Horizon label.
They began experimenting with computer programmed music and electronic drums in the late 1970s making records in the emerging genres of electronic dance music and synthpop.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Extended Version New Religion - B-Side
'One of Us' from 1981 was the first single from Swedish pop group ABBA's final studio album The Visitors, their eighth for Polar, and their seventh for Epic and Atlantic. The song is also included on the ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits compilation.
'One of Us,' which had the working titles 'Number 1' and 'Mio Amore', was one of the last songs recorded for ABBA's 1981 album The Visitors.
It was one of only a handful of tracks that explored the darker territory of Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson's songwriting as the two men's divorces were beginning to influence their musical output. Indeed, the message of the song was about a woman trying to revive a dead relationship. Despite the somewhat depressing context and reservations by manager Stig Anderson, 'One of Us' was released as the 1st single from The Visitors, coupled with the non-album track 'Should I Laugh or Cry'.
Ulvaeus had favored releasing it as the 1st single from the new album and was vindicated when the majority of the record companies agreed with him. Indeed, it proved to be a wise move as it was ABBA's last number 1 single.
In the United Kingdom, this single was issued in a different sleeve. The official sleeve depicted the album cover photo, and was used in most countries. Epic Records wanted it different for the British release, and used separate photos of the group members together with a large ABBA logo. Agnetha and Frida appeared on the front cover, with Bjorn and Benny on the back. The photos were actually out-of-date, as Frida was depicted still with her frizzy perm, while Bjorn was beardless. A limited edition picture disc using very similar artwork was also issued, Epic Records again making up for their earlier poor presentation of ABBA singles up until mid-1979.
The B-side, 'Should I Laugh or Cry', included a spoken count-in (in Swedish) from Benny. This count-in appeared on UK and South African releases, but not internationally. The master tapes supplied to Epic contained the error, but were not picked up in time, and so appeared on the single release. In the early 2000s, Epic's rights to ABBA's music in the UK had long since expired. However, they still owned all the UK master tapes for the singles. These were then returned to Polar Music (itself owned by Universal Music) in Stockholm, who later issued the error count-in version as a "rarity" in The Complete Studio Recordings boxed set, thereby making it available to a worldwide audience (and on CD for the first time).
'One of Us' was ABBA's last major hit, and their last No. 1 single in many countries. It topped the charts in Ireland, Belgium, West Germany and the Netherlands, and reached the Top 3 in ABBA's native Sweden, Austria, Switzerland and the UK. It also hit the Top 10 in South Africa, Norway, Spain and France.
The track debuted at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart on December 12, 1981 and peaked at number 3 the following week, where it stayed for 3 weeks. At the time of the weekly charts publication at Christmas that year, there was a publishers strike. When sales figures were calculated following the strike, they showed that the song would have been the Christmas Number 1 single for 2 weeks. After 10 weeks in the charts, it exited on February 13, 1982.
When 'One of Us' was released as a single in the United States in February 1983, it proved to be ABBA's worst ever performing charting song in that territory, reaching a high of number 107, though it should be pointed out that the song was released over a year after its release elsewhere and ABBA had disbanded by this time. Nevertheless, 'One of Us' was ABBA's swansong in terms of their hit-making career.
The music video was shot in a studio with mirrors. The group has also started to give the impression that Agnetha is closer to Benny while Frida is closer to Björn as seen in video.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Instrumental Version Should I Laugh or Cry - B-Side (Count In Version) Should I Laugh or Cry - Without Count In Should I Laugh or Cry - Remix
'Up the Hill Backwards' is a song from David Bowie's 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). It was also issued as the fourth and final single from the album in March 1981.
The lyric is often seen as a commentary on the public coverage of his divorce from Angela Bowie, one of several tracks on the album that muse over the double-edged sword of celebrity. It has also been interpreted as facing up to crises in general. Like the previous single, 'Scary Monsters', the track featured co-producer Tony Visconti on acoustic guitar.
The B-side was 'Crystal Japan', an instrumental recorded in 1980 for a Japanese commercial for the sake Crystal Jun Rock, which also featured an appearance from Bowie. 'Teenage Wildlife' was originally slated as the B-side for 'Up the Hill Backwards' until Bowie found out the prices fans were paying for the import single of 'Crystal Japan', and insisted the track receive a UK release.
The uncommercial nature of 'Up the Hill Backwards', combined with the track having been available on the album for the past six months, saw the single stall at number 32 in the UK chart. The 12-inch single was distributed with a set of 36 stamps, designed by David Bowie himself. The stamps are photographs of Bowie in his Pierrot costume (as seen on the cover), colored crayon-like, in a variety of poses.
Click the link below to download the following: Single Version Cystal Japan - B-Side
Imagination formed in 1981 when the trio took a demo tape of a track called 'Body Talk' to producers Jolley & Swain.
It was released as a single in April 1981 under the group name Imagination, a name that the group chose as a tribute to John Lennon. The track reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1981, selling 250,000 copies in the UK and spending eighteen weeks in the Top 50.
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Flexipop magazine was famous for the re-emergence of the flexible music disc in the UK during the 1980s. Launched in 1980 by ex-Record Mirror journalists Barry Cain and Tim Lott, the magazine featured a flexidisc in each issue. The magazine lasted for two years. One of the most notable issues was the February 1981 disc featuring Adam and the Ants performing a version of the Village People hit "Y.M.C.A.", called "A.N.T.S.".
The magazine has maintained a memorable reputation among music collectors because of the flexidisc and the revival of interest in 1980s pop. Huw Collingbourne, a contributing writer to Flexipop, gave an interview to Stylus magazine about the publication in which he said, "Other music mags may have dabbled in flexis, but Flexipop! made a career of it. We had singles by the top bands of the day—everyone from The Jam to Depeche Mode. A really good flexi would make the magazine fly off the newsstands."
In 1981 Flexipop Magazine Issue Number 12 came with the free flexi disc that had 2 tracks on it.
The first track was by Soft Cell entitled .Metro MRX'. The second track was by B-Movie entitled 'Remembrance Day'.
'Ghost Town' is the title of a 1981 song by the British ska band, The Specials. The song is currently ranked as the 90th greatest song of all time, as well as the best song of 1981, by Acclaimed Music
The song was written in response to Margaret Thatcher's policies which the band believed would increase the large-scale unemployment already present in United Kingdom, particularly in Scotland and England's industrialised north and Midlands regions. This was highly relevant to The Specials as they formed and lived in Coventry and saw the effects of the policies first-hand, as their city experienced some of the UK's worst unemployment at levels of 20%. It was also the summer of large-scale riots in Brixton, London and Toxteth, Liverpool amongst others, where there was alleged heavy-handed police treatment of young black men.
Indeed the single was unusual in that it hit the top of the UK Top 40 at the exact time that riots occurred on the streets of Great Britain. The music thus reflected the social spirit of the country. The song spent three weeks at number one and ten weeks in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart overall. The track was recorded at the Woodbine Street Recording Studios in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
Despite being a song about Coventry, the band chose to film the video of themselves driving a Vauxhall Cresta around some empty London streets.
Ghost Town was at number one in the UK charts during the run-up to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer amid much royalty-inspired patriotic rejoicing. This ironic juxtaposition is similar to the notorious events of the Silver Jubilee of 1977 when the Sex Pistols version of 'God Save the Queen' was widely believed to have been the rightful number one during the week of celebrations despite being officially eclipsed by Rod Stewart.
The club referred to in the lines "All the clubs are being closed down" and "Too much fighting on the dance floor" was The Locarno - later Tiffanys - which was also the club setting the scene for the b-side song, 'Friday Night Saturday Morning'. It is now Coventry Central Library.
Click the link below to download the following: Video TOTP Performance Single Version Extended Version 1991 Dub Version Chimical Submission Mix Why - B-Side Friday Night, Saturday Morning - B-Side
In 1981, Carnes recorded the Jackie DeShannon and Donna Weiss song 'Bette Davis Eyes'. As the first single released from the album Mistaken Identity,
Carnes originally rejected 'Bette Davis Eyes,' on which Weiss (who composed the music) and DeShannon (who wrote the lyrics) had collaborated in 1974. Only after a new instrumental arrangement was done by Bill Cuomo did Carnes agree to record the song, which became a huge hit.
Bette Davis admitted to being a fan of the song and approached Carnes and the songwriters to thank them. Davis wrote to Carnes after the song was released and stated that she was very pleased with the song as it made her seem very up-to-date with her grandson. She had Carnes sing the song live for her at a tribute held just before her death.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Acoustic Version Miss You Tonight - B-Side
'Suffer the Children' is a song by the British band Tears for Fears. Written and sung by Roland Orzabal, it was the band's first release, recorded in Bath, England shortly after the 1981 breakup of Orzabal and Curt Smith's previous band Graduate. The song would eventually be re-recorded for inclusion on Tears for Fears' debut LP The Hurting.
The original 7" version of 'Suffer The Children' is distinct from the version found on The Hurting by the inclusion of an extra Curt Smith-sung lyric at the beginning of the song. The 12" single features both a remix and an instrumental version of the song.
'Wino' is a short, acoustic song that served as the b-side to 'Suffer The Children'. The style of the song, minus synthesizers or production of any sort, is uncharacteristic of the band's overall body of work. It remains unreleased on CD to this day.
In 1985, following up on the massive success of the band's second LP Songs from the Big Chair, Mercury Records reissued the single complete with a new picture sleeve. It barely missed the UK Top 50, stalling at number 52, after failing to chart altogether the first time around. This release featured the same formats and track listings as the original.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Remix Version Wino - B-Side
Dare (or Dare! in the U.S.) is the third studio album from British synthpop band The Human League.
The album was recorded between March and September 1981 and first released in the UK on 20 October 1981, then subsequently in the U.S. in mid-1982.
The style of the album is the result of the rapid evolution of The Human League from experimental avant-garde electronic group into a commercial pop group under Philip Oakey's creative direction following the departure of fellow founding members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh.
Dare became critically acclaimed and has proved to be a genre defining album, whose influence can be felt in many areas of pop music today. The album and its four singles were hugely successful commercially, with the album reaching number 1 in the UK and being certified Triple Platinum by the BPI.
Tracklisting: 01 - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of 02 - Open Your Heart 03 - The Sound of the Crowd 04 - Darkness 05 - Do or Die 06 - Get Carter 07 - I Am the Law 08 - Seconds 09 - Love Action (I Believe in Love) 10 - Don't You Want Me
'Flashback' was the 3rd single released from Imagination in November 1981. The single was relased from their successful album 'Body Talk'.
The single made it to number 16 in the UK Singles Chart.
Click the link below to downlad the following: Live Performance Single Version 12 inch Version Night Dubbing Version Special Night Clubbing Remix Burnin' Up - B-Side Burnin' Up - Live in the UK Performance Burnin' Up - Devotion's Stretch Radio
It is now the year 1981 and Adam Ant, of Adam and the Ants fame, introduce us to the sights and sounds of the year when The New Romantics became more than just a fad while Bucks Fizz won the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK.
Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer on 29th July at St Paul's Cathedral. 700 million television viewers watched around the world.
MTV went on the air. The first song to be played was Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star.
In the year following his murder, John Lennon continued to reign over the UK charts, holding three of the top four places in the January Top Ten.
Bob Marley died of cancer aged only 36 and Compact discs began to take on the might of cassette tape and vinyl.
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'Giving You The Best That I Got' is the third album by the American R&B/soul singer Anita Baker. It was Baker's first and only number one album in the US, and was certified triple platinum in 1989 by the RIAA.
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