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DOWNLOAD Music Videos INSTRUCTIONS
2007-04-06 12:47:00
This page shows you how to and view the Music Videos through your own system. It’s much faster than using YouTube or others to view Music Videos . Step 1 Go to http://applian.com/flvplayer/?src=VideoDo wnloadPlay and download Free FLV Player. This player is the BEST FLV Player I have come across. It’s fast and effective. It’s highly recommended to get the FLV Player before you download any Music
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Bronski Beat
2007-04-01 06:41:00
Bronski Beat was a popular British synth pop trio of the 1980s. At the height of its popularity, the band consisted of distinctive singer Jimmy Somerville (born in Glasgow, Scotland on 22 June 1961), backed by Steve Bronski (born Steven Forrest, 7 February 1960, in Scunthorpe, England) and Larry Steinbachek (born Lawrence Cole 6 May 1960 in London), both of whom played keyboards and percussion.

Blondie
2007-03-31 22:32:00
Blondie is an American rock band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The band was a pioneer in the early American punk rock and New Wave scenes. Its first two albums contained strong elements of these genres, and although successful in Australia and the United Kingdom, Blondie was regarded as an underground band in the United States until the release of a third album in
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Antrax
2007-03-31 21:48:00
Anthrax is an American, New York City-based Thrash Metal band, who released their first full-length album in 1984. Anthrax was one of the most popular bands of the 1980s thrash metal scene and are notable for combining metal with rap and hardcore music early on. They are generally classified as one of the "big four" of thrash metal alongside Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer. They have made

Frankie Goes To Hollywood
2007-03-31 10:32:00
Frankie Goes to Hollywood (FGTH) was one of the most controversial and commercially successful UK new wave acts of the early 1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by vocalist Holly Johnson, supported by Paul Rutherford (backing vocals), Peter Gill (drums), Mark O'Toole (bass) and Brian Nash (guitar). The group's debut single "Relax" was famously banned by the BBC while at number six in the
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Men At Work
2007-03-31 10:00:00
Men at Work were an Australian reggae-influenced rock band of the early 1980s. After Little River Band, and before INXS, Men at Work were Australia's most successful international rock export, and are still the only Australian artists with No.1 singles and albums in both America and United Kingdom. The Men at Work story starts with Scottish born and raised singer Colin Hay. His father ran a

Kool and The Gang
2007-03-31 09:09:00
Kool & the Gang is a highly successful American R&B/soul/funk/disco group. They originally formed in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964. They went through several musical phases in their career. They started out as practitioners of R&B and funk, eventually went through a phase where they were a smooth disco ensemble, and wound up the successful period of their career recording tunes that were a
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Alphaville
2007-03-30 14:32:00
Alphaville is a German synthpop/-rock music group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold (real name Hartwig Schierbaum, born May 26, 1954 in Herford), Bernhard Lloyd (real name Bernhard Gößling, born June 6, 1960 in Enger, Bielefeld) and Frank Mertens (real name Frank Sorgatz, born October 26, 1961 in Enger, Bielefeld). The band was at first named Forever
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Billy Idol
2007-03-30 04:00:00
Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad, 30 November 1955 in Middlesex) is an English rock musician. He first came to attention in the punk rock era, then embarked on a successful solo career, aided by a series of stylish music videos, making him one of the first MTV stars. He has continued to make music, but has yet to recapture the levels of fame he enjoyed in the 1980s. The name Billy
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David Bowie
2007-03-29 11:51:00
David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock and roll, and frequently re-inventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s. Bowie has taken cues from a wide
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T'Pau - The Essential 80s Rock
2007-03-29 04:19:00
T'Pau was a late-1980s rock group led by singer Carol Decker. They had a string of Top 40 hits in the UK, and several hits in the United States and Europe. T'Pau formed in 1986 and took their name from a Star Trek character. Their debut single and first hit was the 1987 release Heart and Soul. Initially a flop in the UK, it first became a hit in the U.S. Billboard charts, reaching #4, after
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UB40
2007-03-29 03:02:00
The band was named after the paper form issued by the UK government's Department of Health and Social Security at the time of the band's formation for claiming unemployment benefit (UB40 = Unemployment Benefit, Form 40). The band members began as mates who knew each other from various colleges and schools across Birmingham. Before any of them could play their instruments, Ali Campbell and Brian

The Go Gos
2007-03-29 02:24:00
The Go-Go's are an all-female American rock and roll group formed in 1978. They made rock history as the first all-woman band that wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard charts with a number-one album. Stylistically, their energetic music spanned pop-punk, surf, new wave, and rock. They rose to fame in the early-1980s and their unlikely break-thru success
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Rick Astley
2007-03-29 01:58:00
Richard Paul Astley (born February 6, 1966) is an English dance-pop singer, songwriter and musician. He was born in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire, England. In 1985, Astley was playing the club circuit as a singer with a soul band named FBI, when he was seen by the record producer Pete Waterman and persuaded to come to London to work at the PWL recording studio. Under the tutelage of
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Heart - The Essential 80s Rock
2007-03-29 00:56:00
Heart is an American rock band which came out of Newport High School in Bellevue, Washington. Going through several line-up changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. The group's music during the 1970s was influenced by hard rock groups like Led Zeppelin, and folk music. In the 1980s, they became a mainstream rock act, before dropping out of the public
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Dexy's Midnight Runners
2007-03-29 00:23:00
Dexys Midnight Runners – the name usually spelled without an apostrophe – are a British pop group with soul influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. They are best known for their hit "Come on Eileen". Kevin Rowland (vocals, guitar) and Kevin "Al" Archer (vocals, guitar) founded the band in 1978 in Birmingham, England, naming the band after Dexedrine, a brand of

Madness
2007-03-28 19:54:00
Madness are an English pop ska band that formed in 1976. A prominent band of the 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s, Madness achieved most of its success in the 1980s, spending more weeks in the UK chart than any other group. The band was formed in London in 1976 by Mike Barson (Monsieur Barso) on keyboards and vocals, Chris Foreman (Chrissy Boy) on guitar and 'Lee Thompson (Kix) on saxophone
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WHAM
2007-03-28 18:30:00
Wham! (often written WHAM!) was a band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. They were briefly known in the United States as Wham! UK due to a naming conflict with another band.Michael and Ridgeley met at Bushey Meads School in Watford, England. At first, they performed in a short-lived band called The Executive. They then changed their name and signed with Innervision Records.
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Spandau Ballet
2007-03-27 23:43:00
Spandau Ballet were a popular English band in the 1980s. Initially inspired by a mixture of funk and synthpop, the genre-defining New Romantic group eventually mellowed into a mainstream pop act. As with their rivals Duran Duran they 'broke America', albeit briefly. Guitarist and songwriter Gary Kemp and his younger brother, bassist Martin Kemp, formed the band in 1979 with drummer John Keeble,
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Thompson Twins
2007-03-27 19:38:00
The Thom pson Twins were an English New Wave/pop band normally associated with the 1980s. The band formed in April 1977, and disbanded in May 1993. Massively popular in the mid-1980s, the band scored a string of hits in the UK, broke into the USA and Canada and enjoyed huge popularity around the globe. Total worldwide record sales are estimated at 50 million. The band was named after the two

a-ha
2007-03-27 18:53:00
a-ha is a Grammy Award-nominated band from Norway. They are the best selling Norwegian band around the world with a total of 79 million copies sold. They were most popular in the UK, Australia, Eastern Europe and the USA during the 1980s, but continued to be globally successful in the 1990s and 2000s. The trio, composed of lead vocalist Morten Harket, guitarist Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (Pål Waaktaar

Adam Ant
2007-03-27 18:16:00
Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard) is an English pop star, lead singer of 1980s New Wave/post-punk group Adam & the Ants and later a solo artist. He is also a film actor, having appeared in two dozen films or television episodes between 1985 and 1999. Goddard, born in Marylebone, London on November 3, 1954, was an only child. His first school was Robinsfield Primary where he created a
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Bobby Brown
2007-03-27 17:43:00
Robert Beresford "Bobby " Brown (born February 5, 1969 in Roxbury, Massachusetts) is an American Grammy Award-winning R&B singer and dancer. Brown began his career with the popular boy band New Edition in 1980 and was later ousted from the group due to behavioural problems. He embarked on a solo career in 1986 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits. Brown is the husband of R&B singer Whitney
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Bananarama
2007-03-27 16:35:00
Bananarama are an English girl group who had several hit pop and new wave songs in the 1980s. They have had ten singles in the top-ten of the UK singles chart to date, as well as three U.S. top-ten hits, one of which hit number one. Some of their biggest international hits include "Cruel Summer", "Venus", "Love in the First Degree" and "I Heard a Rumour". They are known for their unique vocal
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Bon Jovi - Essential 80s Rock
2007-03-26 19:42:00
Bon Jovi is a Hard rock band originating from New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s as a hair band. Jon Bon Jovi began to play piano and guitar at thirteen, taking lessons from his neighbour, Al Perinello. At that same age, Bon Jovi founded his first band, called Raze. Jon enrolled in an all-boys Catholic
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