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34 unusual facts about 1985 in music


Al Greenwood

Greenwood would go on to play keyboards on one-time Rainbow (and future Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force) frontman Joe Lynn Turner's 1985 debut solo album, Rescue You.

Ballads of Love

Ballads of Love is a 10-track collection of previously recorded songs by Bobby Vinton; it was released in 1985 by Heartland Music, which had previously released The Best of Bobby Vinton that same year.

Beyond Appearances

Beyond Appearances is the thirteenth studio album by Santana, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

Brother Where You Bound

Brother Where You Bound is the eighth studio album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

Craig Goldy

Performing on Giuffria's self-titled debut album, released in 1984, Goldy is heard on the band's biggest hit, "Call to the Heart," which hit #15 on the Billboard charts in early 1985.

Emmis Communications

WQHT-FM provoked a controversy in January 2005, a month after the Asian tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, by playing the Tsunami song entitled "USA for Indonesia", a parody sung to the 1985 tune "We Are the World." Listeners, politicians and civil rights groups protested in front of the station.

Energetic Disassembly

Energetic Disassembly is the debut album by progressive metal band Watchtower, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

Everybody Wants to Run the World

"Everybody Wants to Run the World" is a re-recording of the song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", originally written by Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley and Chris Hughes of the British band Tears for Fears and featured on the band's 1985 second LP Songs from the Big Chair.

Everytime You Go Away

"Everytime You Go Away" is a song written by Daryl Hall and covered by Paul Young in 1985.

Garista

Subsequently it was re-released by the music label Singing Ringing, again in audio cassette format (UK, 1985), and then by Charrm in audio cassette, 12 inch vinyl and CD formats (UK, 1990).

Get Out of My Room

Get Out of My Room is an album and short-form video featuring comedians Cheech & Chong, released in 1985.

Gypsies in the Palace

It was first released on his 1985 album Last Mango in Paris and was his first of three charting singles off that album.

Hooked on High Heels

It was released in 1985 (see 1985 in music), and is the first not to feature the original line-up.

I Wonder If I Take You Home

"I Wonder If I Take You Home" is a song recorded in 1984 and released as a single in April 1985 by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam with Full Force.

Innocence Is No Excuse

Innocence Is No Excuse is the seventh studio album by heavy metal band Saxon released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

Je marche seul

"Je marche seul" ("I Walk Alone") is the name of a 1985 song recorded by the French singer and songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman.

Jo the Waiter

"Jo the Waiter" is one of Numan’s few acoustic guitar tracks, others being "The Monday Troop" and "Crime of Passion" (also written and recorded in 1978 but unreleased until 1985).

Just Like Real Life

Just Like Real Life is the third and final studio album by the Christian rock band Prodigal, released in 1985.

Live Tour 85

Live Tour 85 is the first live album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1985 on Philips Records.

Love Chaser

The song was written by vocalist Joey Tempest in 1985, and was first played on a tour in Sweden the same year, before it was recorded and included on the Final Countdown album in 1986.

Musea

It was founded in 1985 by Bernard Gueffier and Francis Grosse, along with a small team of friends - Daniel Adt, Alain Juliac, Alain Robert, Thierry Sportouche, Jean-Claude Granjeon, Pascal Ferry, Thierry Moreau and François Arnold.

Neu! 4

It was recorded and mixed between October 1985 and April 1986 at Grundfunk Studio, Düsseldorf, Germany, Dinerland-Lilienthal Studio, Düsseldorf, Germany, and Michael Rother Studio, Forst, Germany.

Pictures in the Dark

"Pictures in the Dark" is a song by Mike Oldfield released as a single mainly in Europe in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music

This version was originally on the now out-of-print 1985 Ritual: Land's End compilation cassette on Touch, and is now available on the :zoviet*france: CD Collusion.

Recorded in 1984 and 1985, it was first released in 1985 by the band's label Singing Ringing in collaboration with Red Rhino in double cassette format.

Red Eye Records

Red Eye Records is a Sydney-based Australian independent record label started in 1985 by graphic designer John Foy.

Running the Endless Mile

However, an earlier soundtrack hit, Parr's #1 hit of the previous summer "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" from the film of the same title (and also on the Atlantic label) was not included on this album, which may have limited its sales (the album failed to crack the Top 200 in the U.S.).

Sam Cooke discography

The most notable of these compilations are the 2003 anthology, Portrait of a Legend: 1951-1964 and Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, a 2005 reissue (remixed, and with improved sound) of the title concert, first released in 1985.

Scacchi e tarocchi

Scacchi e tarocchi is an album by the Italian singer-songwriter Francesco De Gregori, released in 1985.

Soldiers Under Command

Soldiers Under Command is the second release, and first full-length studio album from Christian metal band Stryper, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

The Summer Collection: Greatest Hits

It also released this compilation album in 1985, containing seven of her original disco hits from Casablanca, plus three songs from the aforementioned Mercury Records album.

The Summer Collection is a compilation album by Donna Summer released in 1985 by Mercury Records.

What You Give Is What You Get

It was released as the third and final single from the group's 1985 studio album Invasion of Your Privacy.

You Got It All

"You Got It All" was the fourth single released by the 1980s dance-pop band, The Jets, from their commercially successful debut 1985 album, The Jets.