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in the early years of the decade, with British bands enjoying more success in America than they had since the height of the Beatles' popularity in the 1960s. However, by the end of the decade a fragmentation has been observed, with many new forms of music and sub-cultures, including
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which launched in 1981. British artists, unlike many of their American counterparts, had learned how to use the music video early on. Several British acts signed to independent labels were able to outmarket and outsell American artists that were signed with major labels.
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Madness managed to sustain a career that could still chart into the second half of the 1980s, but the 2-tone movement faded early in the decade, and would have a longer term effect through American bands of the third wave of ska. The more reggae based music of
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By the mid-1970s, the demand among the relatively large Asian populations of many major British cities for familiar live music to entertain at weddings and other cultural occasions led to a flourishing Asian dance band scene, particularly
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created an overwhelmingly loud "wash of sound" that obscured vocals and melodies with long, droning riffs, distortion, and feedback. Shoegazing bands dominated the British music press at the end of the decade along with the drug-fuelled
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for control of their own music and relying on local scenes or national sub-cultures to provide an audience. Having enjoyed some success a number of indie acts were able to move into the mainstream, including early indie bands
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Gothic rock, often shortened to goth, developed out of the post-punk scene in the early 1980s. It combines dark, often keyboard-heavy music with introspective and depressing lyrics. Notable early gothic rock bands include
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Hot 100 in the summer of 1982. In 1983, 30% of the record sales were from British acts. Eighteen of the top 40 and six of the top 10 singles on 18 July were by British artists. Overall record sales rose by 10% from 1982.
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were a major part of a growing youth culture. Multitone Records began to release remix albums, and bhangra picked up influences from hip hop and soul, producing groups like X-executive Sounds and Hustlers convention.
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issue. In April 1984, 40 of the top 100 singles were from British acts while 8 of the top 10 singles in a May 1985 survey were of British origin. In 1984, a majority of acts that signed to independent labels such as
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with synthesisers and electro beats and was a surprise hit to those outside of the scene. It opened the door for a flood of Asian recording artists in the UK including Apna Sangeet, Chirag Pehchan, Sangeeta and
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that achieved mainstream popularity in the mid to late 1980s. In the early 1980s hi energy disco had become popular in the gay scene of American cities like New York and San Francisco with acts like
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The Second British Invasion consisted of acts that came mainly out of the synthpop and new wave genres. These acts received exposure in the United States on the cable music channel
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allowed them to continue to chart into the twentieth century, enjoying four number ones in the UK, the last of these in 1994. In the late 1980s, London also developed an early
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respectively. The second generation of British post-punk bands that broke through in the early 1980s, in, tended to move away from dark sonic landscapes. Some, such as
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continued to develop separately, there was a considerable crossover between rock and more commercial popular music, with a large number of more "serious" bands, like
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in their repertoire, but instead usually performed their own compositions, often following the form of punk rock, using additional folk instrumentation, including,
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were mining various rock influences becoming an alternative to the Second Invasion. MTV continued its heavy rotation of videos by Second Invasion acts until 1987.
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reached the British top 10. Many metal artists, including Def Leppard, benefited from the exposure they received on MTV and became the inspiration for American
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gathered them nine top ten hits and two number ones until they broke up in 1986. In the second half of the 1980s, British pop music was dominated by
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fusion of Najma Akhtar. The decade also saw the first record with clear South Asian influences since the 1960s to enter the British charts, when
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label was formed in 1987, producing a mix of hip hop and funk beat flavoured jazz stylings that put traditional jazz elements over modern beats.
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The British charts at the opening of the 1980s contained the usual mix of imports, novelty acts, oddities (including rock 'n' roll revivalist
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scene was partly a response to this, and marked a shift away from the major music labels and towards the importance of local scenes like
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After the lean years of the 1970s, there was something of a British jazz revival based in London's Soho in the 1980s. Initially this
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scene was led by DJs like Paul Murphy, but it soon expanded to support live bands and to start its own record labels. The
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revival associated with 2 Tone records was a remarkable commercial success in the early years of the 1980s. Bands like
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movement of the late 1980s. Named for the bandmembers' tendency to stare at their feet onstage, shoegazing acts like
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For the first time since the 1960s, there were also significant acts who specialised in soul. Former Wham! singer
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that originated in Chicago, Illinois, US, in the early 1980s. House music was strongly influenced by elements of
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and numerous publications that grew in popularity in the 1980s, gaining notoriety by being associated by several
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By the mid-1980s, bhangra was the most popular music among British Asians and a youth scene of daytime bhangra
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Other acts and styles developed from the hip hop scene, resulting in new genres to describe them – for example
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became the first record from the genre to reach the number one spot in the UK Singles Chart in January 1987.
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Grindcore, or simply grind, emerged during the mid-1980s as an extreme music genre characterised by heavily
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in North America and Australia and by many bands in continental central and eastern Europe. Unlike earlier
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and high-pitched screams. It drew inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including
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in the 1980s. It achieved some mainstream success in the 1980s and, particularly as the subgenre of
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movements, incorporating different sources of inspiration from subgenres and what is now classed as
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or delay-enhanced vocals. In the early 1980s, a UK house scene developed in cities such as London,
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D. Hesmondhaigh, "Indie: the institutional political and aesthetics of a popular music genre" in
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and featured an early appearance from MC Kermit, who later went on to form the Wilson produced
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music (often with electronic instrumentation), as well as a more specific, derivative genre of
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all enjoyed chart success, with Madness and The Specials managing number ones. The Specials' "
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Having emerged from the post-punk and reggae scenes in the West Midlands in the 1970s, the
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Caribbean popular music: an encyclopedia of reggae, mento, ska, rock steady, and dancehall
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and particularly violin. Other bands adopted some traditional forms of music, including
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as the moment the Second British Invasion kicked off. They were followed by bands like
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at parties and club nights, In this period some pop records dabbled with rap – such as
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scene. Napalm Death inspired other British grindcore groups in the 1980s, among them
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sound, while others moved into gothic rock or became early examples of indie rock.
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This article is about British popular music of the 1980s. For classical music, see
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and among the commercially most successful acts associated with the movement were
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championed the gay underground sound and began publishing a weekly Hi-NRG Chart.
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in the U.S.), was a scene that emerged from post-punk and new wave eschewing the
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One of the earliest and most influential UK house and techno record labels was
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played soul music and had hit songs. Soul II Soul's breakthrough R&B hits "
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Watch How the People Dancing: Unity Sounds from the London Dancehall 1986-1989
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A British hip hop scene emerged in the early 1980s, largely based on American
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Hi-NRG also entered the mainstream with hits in the UK singles chart, such as
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became increasingly popular, largely influenced from the electronic music of
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stations. The first UK record label devoted to releasing UK hip hop acts was
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and electric folk groups, folk punk groups tend to include relatively little
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New Romantic music emerged in London nightclubs including Billy's and the
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Soul's Revival: White Soul, Nostalgia and the Culturally Constructed Past
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scenes in the 1980s, and became the predominant type of music played in
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Other forms of alternative rock developed in the UK during the 1980s.
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The advent of MTV and cable video helped spur what has been seen as a
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in Southwark (London), Heaven, Future, Spectrum and Purple Raines in
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Some of the most successful post punk bands in the 1970s, such as
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jazz and fusion musicians, including members of the jazz groups
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from which he gained a number one in the singles charts with "
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With considerable boost from MTV airplay during July 1982,
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wrapped their pop melodies in walls of guitar noise, while
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The end of the century party: youth and pop towards 2000
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image and topped the UK charts in 1979 with the single "
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Other 1980s forms of British Indian music included the
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revival was by the appearance of a new generation of
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and interest had been maintained by figures such as
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Index

Classical music of the United Kingdom
1980s in music in the UK
Number-one singles
Number-one albums
Best-selling singles
Best-selling albums
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1970s
1990s
post-punk
new wave
world music
Jamaican
Indian music
electronic music
synthpop
heavy metal music
The Police
UB40
Second British Invasion
hip hop

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