Wham!

Wham! was a British pop duo formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. They were briefly known in the United States as Wham! U.K. due to a naming conflict with another band.


George and Andrew met at school in Watford, England, and performed in a band called Executive before changing their name and signing to Innervision records. George took on the majority of roles and tasks within the band - composer, singer and occasional instrumentalist - but the contribution of Andrew as George's confidante, audience, inspiration and spokesman was crucial to the band's initial success. Still teenagers, they promoted themselves as hedonistic youngsters, proud to live a carefree life without work or commitment. This was reflective in their earliest singles.

Wham - Careless Whisper

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Starship

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the LSD-influenced psychedelic rock movement. The band's August, 1969 performance at Woodstock is widely considered one of rock's most memorable moments.


Various successor incarnations of the band have performed under different names, reflecting changing times and performer lineups, known as Jefferson Starship, and later simply Starship.

jefferson starship - sara

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Tiffany Renee Darwish

Tiffany Renee Darwish (born October 2, 1971 in Norwalk, California; sometimes mistakenly reported as being born in Oklahoma, where she has some relatives), better known in the music world as Tiffany, is an American singer who had a number of teen pop hits during the late 1980s.


Tiffany grew up in Norwalk with parents James Robert Darwish (of part Lebanese/Syrian descent) and Janie Wilson (of mostly Irish and some distant Cherokee descent). Her parents divorced when she was very young. When Tiffany was four years old, she learned the words to the song Delta Dawn, and she started singing it often.

Deborah Ann Gibson

Deborah Ann Gibson (usually called Debbie Gibson early in her career, and born August 31, 1970), is an American singer who was initially a teen idol appearing repeatedly on the cover of such teen magazines as Tiger Beat.


In contrast to the prevalence of the name "Debbie" in her teen-idol phase, she showed a preference for "Deborah" even then, and her fans had, before the release of Naked, signalled a departure from that image by using this name to refer to her.

Debbie Gibson - Lost In Your Eyes (Video)

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The Bangles was one of the new generation of independent all-women bands that followed The Go-Go's in the early 1980s. The band was formed in Los Angeles in 1981 as The Supersonic Bangs, later shortened to The Bangs. They were forced to change their name to The Bangles when a band from New Jersey, also named The Bangs, threatened to sue.


The original lineup was Susanna Hoffs (guitar, vocals), Debbi Peterson (drums, vocals, bass), and Vicki Peterson (guitar, vocals, bass); this lineup made one 45, "Getting out of Hand" b/w "Call on Me". Annette Zilinskas took over bass duties in 1982 and also played harmonica. This lineup put out an extended play disc titled The Bangles that same year. Zilinskas left in 1983 and was replaced with Michael Steele, formerly of The Runaways.

The Bangles Eternal Flame

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The Bangles - Manic Monday

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