Classic Rock Special Legends of the ’80s – 2nd Edition 2020
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Welcome at Classic Rock Special Legends of the ’80s Magazine 2nd Edition 2020
When i was nine years old when the 70s became the 80s. It was a golden age for pop music. The first no. I single of the new decade was from some hot new band called Pink Floyd. They had a song with a disco beat, a chorus guaranteed to be sung in playgrounds across the country, and a video that showed school kids being turned into minced meat. Welcome to the 80s!
We got an education alright, whether we needed it or not. Every week, the charts were full of bands that looked and sounded different -a calvacade of weirdos with great tunes. Madness, the Specials, The Jam, Ian Oury & The Blockheads, The Police, Adam & The Ants and more. I sometimes think it was the greatest time in history to be a music fan because not only did we have a genuinely exciting new music scene, we had all that old shit to discover too!
Personally, everything changed for me in 1983, when I was 12. David Bowie released Let’s Dance. My older sister had a boyfriend who was a Bowie fanatic. She brought home the Changes albums, then Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane and Low. And when we’d exhausted those, we moved on to related stuff too: Mott The Hoople’s Greatest Hits, Lou Reed’s Traneformer. By the time I had my own money, I’d go to Glasgow and blow it all in the Virgin Megastore, coming home with Heroes and Raw Power, and new stuff that couldn’t have been made without those records: Bauhaus, the Bunnymen, Flesh For Lulu, The Sisters of Mercy. I joined a band. Our guitarist started out playing Big Country licks, and then discovered some guy called Hendrix. The drummer was a Bonham nut. We hung around with goths, mods, punks and metalheads -it was us against the rest of a world that had gone Stock-Aitken-and-Waterman mad.
Heavy metal had been reinvigorated by punk. Iron Maiden and Motorhead took that energy
and injected it into old school rock to make something more streetwise and exciting -and then thrash metal took the marriage to its logical conclusion. Van Halen inspired a new generation of LA rock bands who liked Dave Lee Roth’s showmanship and Eddie’s guitar pyrotechnics. The new pop production methods infected everyone from the giants of AOR to Bon Jovi, as rock musicians beavered away in the studio to create, in DefLeppard’s memorable phrase, “the rock Thriller”.
Ironically ‘the rock Thriller had already been made in year one of the decade: AC/DC’s Back In Black, the 2nd best-selling album of all time. And that is where our story begins …
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