80s in music

80s was great. 1980s saw the reinvention of Michael Jackson and Diana Ross, the superstardom of Prince and the emergence of Madonna, Whitney Houston, and Janet Jackson. Madonna was the most successful female artist of the decade. Whitney Houston became one of the best selling artist of the 1980s. New Wave, post-disco, Italo disco, Euro disco and dance-pop. Continuation of good rock music in the form of Hard rock and heavy/glam metal. Alternative rock was still underground. Musicians started adding disco-like beats, high-tech production, and elements of hip hop, soul and funk to rhythm and blues. The Hip hop genre had a strong influence in the late 1980s. Dance music records made using only electronic instruments. House music EDM which originated in the early 1980s. Techno was developed during the mid-1980s. Pop-influenced country music was the dominant style. The second generation of British post-punk of the early 1980s, including The Smiths, tended to move away from dark sonic landscapes. Bands like The Police and U2 became a world wide phenomena, filling out stadium rock venues all across the globe, even though they both had punk rock beginnings. U2 incorporated elements of religious imagery together with political commentary into their often anthemic music, and by the late 1980s had become one of the biggest bands in the world. MTV made New Wave popular. A Flock of Seagulls, Duran Duran, Annie Lennox, Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" New Romanticism emerged as part of the new wave music movement towards the end of the 1970s. Influenced by David Bowie and Roxy Music, it developed glam rock fashions. New Romantic music often made extensive use of synthesisers. Adam and the Ants, Culture Club, Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran. Other new romantic artists included Classix Nouveaux, A Flock of Seagulls, Gary Numan, Japan, Landscape, Thompson Twins, Soft Cell, ABC, The Teardrop Explodes, Yazoo and Talk Talk. Gothic Rock, hard rock and metal scene of the 1980s included Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Poison, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Twisted Sister. In Pop we had Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, Frankie Goes to Hollywood's controversial dance-pop. Wham! with an unusual mix of disco, soul, ballads and even rap, who had eleven top ten hits in the UK, six of them number ones, between 1982 and 1986. George Michael released his debut solo album, Faith in 1987. Bonnie Tyler had major hits with "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Holding Out for a Hero". Paul McCartney, Elton John, Culture Club, The Fixx, Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, Kate Bush, Billy Idol, Paul Young, Elvis Costello, Simple Minds, Billy Ocean, Tears for Fears, UB40, Madness and Sade. Enya achieved a breakthrough in her career with the album Watermark which sold over eleven million copies worldwide and helped launch Enya's successful career as a leading new-age, Celtic, World singer. Synthpop emerged from new wave, producing a form of pop music that followed electronic rock pioneers in the 1970s like Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, and Tangerine Dream, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. The sounds of synthesizers came to dominate the pop music of the early 1980s as well as replacing disco in dance clubs in Europe. Other successful synthpop artists of this era included Pet Shop Boys, Alphaville, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, New Order, Gary Numan, The Human League, Thomas Dolby, Yazoo, Art of Noise, Heaven 17, A Flock of Seagulls, OMD, Japan, Thompson Twins, Visage, Ultravox, Kajagoogoo, Eurythmics, a-ha, Telex, Real Life, Erasure, Camouflage, London Boys, Modern Talking, Bananarama, Yellow Magic Orchestra. In the latter half of the 1980s, teen pop experienced its first wave, with bands and artists including Exposé, New Kids on the Block, Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, Erotic Exotic, New Edition, Stacey Q, The Bangles, Madonna, George Michael, Olivia Newton-John, Laura Branigan, Boy George and others becoming teen idols. Prominent American urban pop acts of the 1980s include Tina Turner, Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Donna Summer, Whitney Houston and Deniece Williams. African American artists like Lionel Richie and Prince went on to become some of the decade's biggest pop stars. Mid-1980s American pop singer Cyndi Lauper was considered the "Voice of the MTV Generation of '80s" and so different visual style that made the world for teens. Brit artits such as David Bowie and Paul McCartney. Many British pop bands also dominated the American charts in the early 1980s. Many of them became popular due to their constant exposure on MTV, these bands included Culture Club, Duran Duran, and Wham!. Hard rock/metal scene was in a transitional phase, with many veteran bands such as Aerosmith, Kiss, AC/DC, and Black Sabbath disbanding or changing members. Ozzy Osbourne. Van Halen. Aerosmith's peers Alice Cooper and Heart. The first half of the 1980s was dominated by the New Wave of British Metal scene, which replaced '70s metal sounds with a faster style characterized by soaring vocals that included Motorhead, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Saxon. Aggressive Metal subgenres: thrash metal broke into the mainstream with bands such as Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Anthrax, and Megadeth, with other styles like death metal and black metal remaining subcultural phenomena. Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Randy Rhoads and Yngwie Malmsteen. Early American alternative bands such as R.E.M., The Hits, The Feelies, and Violent Femmes combined punk influences with folk music and mainstream music influences. By the late 1980s, the American alternative scene was dominated by styles ranging from quirky alternative pop (They Might Be Giants and Camper Van Beethoven), to noise rock (Big Black, Swans) to industrial rock (Ministry, Nine Inch Nails) and to early Grunge (Mudhoney, Nirvana). Boston's the Pixies and Los Angeles' Jane's Addiction. American Alternative Rock bands of 1980s included Hüsker Dü, The Replacements, Minutemen, R.E.M., Dinosaur Jr., Pixies, and Sonic Youth which were popular. Hardcore punk flourished throughout the early to mid-1980s, with bands leading the genre such as Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Suicidal Tendencies, D.O.A., and Dead Kennedys