"Holly Johnson William Holly Johnson (born William Johnson, 9 February 1960), known professionally as Holly Johnson, is an English artist, musician, and writer, best known as the lead vocalist of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, who achieved huge commercial success in the mid-1980s. Prior to that, in the late 1970s he was a bassist for the band Big in Japan. In 1989, Johnson's debut solo album, ""Blast"", reached number one in the UK albums chart. Two singles from the album – ""Love Train"" and ""Americanos"" – reached the top 5 of the UK Singles Chart. In the 1990s he also embarked"
"from the 1970s punk scene on Merseyside, finding initial fame with St. Helen's band The Spitfire Boys. The Spitfire Boys released a single ""British Refugees/Mein Kampf"". He later teamed up with Johnson in a new band which went on to dominate the UK Singles Chart in 1984. He frequented and performed at the Seven Dials Jazz Club in London. Rutherford joined Frankie Goes to Hollywood in 1980. He sang backing vocals to Holly Johnson and also danced and provided some keyboard parts to the band's recordings. The band ended three years later and Rutherford attempted a solo career which was"
"Kelly Johnson (guitarist) Bernadette Jean ""Kelly"" Johnson (20 June 1958 – 15 July 2007) was an English guitarist, widely known in the UK in the early 1980s as the lead guitarist of the all-female British heavy metal band Girlschool. Johnson started playing piano after her father when five years old and switched to guitar at twelve. She attended Edmonton County School in Edmonton, which is in North London, and part of the London Borough of Enfield, where she discovered rock music and played bass and piano in school bands. She went back to guitar and was already writing and playing"
"up in 1978, but reunited for three Peel sessions in early 1979. The group comprised several now well-known artists, such as Holly Johnson, who later was the frontman of Frankie Goes To Hollywood; Bill Drummond, later member of The KLF; Ian Broudie, known for his Britpop/alternative band The Lightning Seeds; and Budgie, drummer in Siouxsie and the Banshees. After Big In Japan split up, Casey formed Pink Military, who recorded the album ""Do Animals Believe in God?"". She formed Pink Industry, a synthpop band, at the end of 1981. Pink Industry was formed with her fellow Big In Japan bandmate,"
"Anohni Anohni (styled as ANOHNI; born Antony Hegarty, October 24, 1971) is an English-born singer, composer, and visual artist. She was formerly known as Antony, the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons. Anohni was born in Chichester, England. Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1981. In 1990, she moved to Manhattan, New York to study at the Experimental Theater Wing at New York University, where she founded the performance art collective Blacklips with Johanna Constantine. She started her musical career performing with an ensemble of NYC musicians as Antony and the Johnsons. Their"
"Rocket 88 (band) Rocket 88 is the name of a United Kingdom-based boogie-woogie band formed in the late 1970s by Ian ""Stu"" Stewart, Charlie Watts, Alexis Korner and Dick Morrissey. The band is named after the 1948 Pete Johnson instrumental ""Rocket 88 Boogie"" and is also the title of their 1981 live album, recorded by the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. The first known use of the phrase ""Rocket 88"" was for the Oldsmobile Rocket 88 car introduced by General Motors in 1949. The continuation of an ad hoc band formed by Stewart, Watts and Bob Hall, George Green, Colin Smith,"
"was Martha Johnson, who sang lead on the majority of the group's songs, including their biggest hit, 1980's ""Echo Beach"". Ladly played with the band from 1978 to 1980 and sang lead vocals on the group's seventh single, ""Was Ezo"", which she co-composed. Ladly left the band in August 1980 for an art scholarship. She subsequently relocated to the United Kingdom. During her time in England, while pursuing her twin interests in music and visual art, Ladly became friends with a number of popular British musical acts. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark credits Ladly for suggesting the titles of their"
"Halo James Halo James were a British pop group active from 1988 to 1991. They are best known for their hit single, ""Could Have Told You So"", which reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart in 1990. Halo James formed in London. Named after the main character from the comic strip ""The Ballad of Halo Jones"", the band were fronted by session musician/vocalist Christian James (born 21 December 1965) and included Ray St. John (guitar, bass, songwriting; formerly of Latin soul band Pride) and Neil Palmer (keyboards; formerly of short-lived synth-rock act Atomage and dance duo Two People) among"
"You Really Want To Hurt Me"", ""Time (Clock of the Heart)"" and ""Karma Chameleon"". As well as Boy George having his own UK number one with his cover of Bread's ""Everything I Own"", he is considered a major icon of this era. Liverpool band Frankie Goes to Hollywood's initially controversial dance-pop gave them three consecutive UK number ones in 1984, until they faded away in the mid-1980s. Dead or Alive, also from Liverpool, was another popular dance pop band in the mid-1980s. It was fronted by lead singer Pete Burns. Probably the most successful British pop band of the era"
"in Germany and is the pianist for singer Xavier Naidoo. Halo James Halo James were a British pop group active from 1988 to 1991. They are best known for their hit single, ""Could Have Told You So"", which reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart in 1990. Halo James formed in London. Named after the main character from the comic strip ""The Ballad of Halo Jones"", the band were fronted by session musician/vocalist Christian James (born 21 December 1965) and included Ray St. John (guitar, bass, songwriting; formerly of Latin soul band Pride) and Neil Palmer (keyboards; formerly of"
"keyboardist, David C. Lewis, as well as an additional singer Royce Jones. In April 1980 Warner Bros. released ""One Eighty"", which produced two of the year's biggest hits. The first, ""Biggest Part of Me"", reached number three for three weeks on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and crossed over to the soul chart, where it peaked at number thirty-five. The second, another blue-eyed soul hit, ""You're the Only Woman (You & I)"", reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. ""One Eighty"" earned the band three Grammy nominations, including Best Pop Vocal Group. A headlining world tour followed. For the Japanese"
"Records label (SD 19293). Ian Stewart wrote the sleeve notes on the back cover of the album, giving not a brief history of both the band, boogie-woogie, and rock and roll. Rocket 88 (band) Rocket 88 is the name of a United Kingdom-based boogie-woogie band formed in the late 1970s by Ian ""Stu"" Stewart, Charlie Watts, Alexis Korner and Dick Morrissey. The band is named after the 1948 Pete Johnson instrumental ""Rocket 88 Boogie"" and is also the title of their 1981 live album, recorded by the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. The first known use of the phrase ""Rocket 88"""
"and more accessible albums. Compared to the success of 1986's ""The Colour of Spring"", it was a commercial disappointment. Talk Talk, led by singer Mark Hollis, formed in England in the early 1980s. From the start, Hollis cited jazz and impressionist artists like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Béla Bartók and Claude Debussy as major influences. But Talk Talk's first two albums, ""The Party's Over"" (1982) and ""It's My Life"" (1984), did not readily reflect such influences; critics compared the band to contemporary new wave groups, especially Duran Duran. Hollis partly attributes the shortcomings of their early music to a financial"
"title ""Blast"" came from The Vorticists. In a 2014 interview with The Arts Desk, Johnson spoke of his reaction to the success of ""Blast"" following the stressful nature of his court case with record label ZTT: All tracks written by Johnson except ""Atomic City"" (Johnson, Dan Hartman). Blast (album) Blast is the debut solo album by the British musician Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It was released in 1989 and reached No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart and sold over 300,000 copies making it platinum. The album stayed on the charts for 17 weeks. The album features"
"Blast (album) Blast is the debut solo album by the British musician Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It was released in 1989 and reached No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart and sold over 300,000 copies making it platinum. The album stayed on the charts for 17 weeks. The album features the hits ""Love Train"", ""Americanos"", ""Atomic City"" and ""Heavens Here"". The album was re-released in November 2009 and again in November 2010. As part of the early 2011 fan questions, Johnson marked ""Love Will Come"" and ""Heaven's Here"" as his favourite tracks from the album. The album's"
"gold plated machine heads and DiMarzio pickups and an Ibanez Destroyer-II. She used Marshall 50 and 100 amplifiers and no pedals or effects. During her time staying in Los Angeles, she used instead a tiger striped Aria RS guitar, which she continued to use in the 1990s along with a Gibson SG. Kelly Johnson (guitarist) Bernadette Jean ""Kelly"" Johnson (20 June 1958 – 15 July 2007) was an English guitarist, widely known in the UK in the early 1980s as the lead guitarist of the all-female British heavy metal band Girlschool. Johnson started playing piano after her father when five"
"Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon were an American vocal soul group, prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Originally known simply as The Bandwagon, they were formed in 1967 and featured Artie Fullilove, Billy Bradley, Terry Lewis and lead singer Johnny Johnson (born Johnny Mathis, 20 July 1942, Florida, raised in Rochester, New York). They had their first major UK hit in October 1968 with ""Breakin' Down the Walls of Heartache"", written and produced by Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, on the Direction label, part of CBS, which reached number 4 on the UK"
"Blue Zone (band) Blue Zone (known as Blue Zone UK in the United States due to a naming dispute there) were a 1980s British band. The group consisted of Lisa Stansfield (lead vocals), Ian Devaney (trombone, keyboards, guitar, backing vocals) and Andy Morris (trumpet, flugelhorn, electronic keyboards, backing vocals). After the singles ""On Fire"", ""Thinking About His Baby"" (released in 1987), ""Jackie"" and album ""Big Thing"" (released in 1988), the trio and label Arista decided to focus on Stansfield's solo career. Morris would co-write and co-produce the first three Stansfield albums before departing the trio. Devaney and Stansfield would eventually"
"drummer Malcolm Travis, guitarist Rich Gilbert, and bass player Rolfe Anderson. These seven became the original lineup of HSR, with Anderson being replaced on bass by Chris Maclachlan in 1980. Bangor was the main lead singer, though Lamot, Davis, and Cameron each sometimes sang lead. They named the band after the groundbreaking, and now classic, Masters and Johnson best-seller. After Maclachlan joined the band, they recorded two full-length albums, ""Fig. 14"" (1980) and ""In a Roman Mood"" (1981), as well as 1981's ""Pound"" EP. Their tune ""Jackie Onassis"", from ""Fig. 14"", got airplay beyond college radio, while other songs, such"
"Tim Hart's departure from the band in 1980, Johnson became the sole guitarist and a more prominent member, taking on a central role for the albums ""Back in Line"" (1986) and ""Tempted and Tried"" (1989). Owing to health reasons, he left Steeleye Span in 2000, but returned the following year to record ""Present--The Very Best of Steeleye Span"". However, his remaining health issues prevented him from touring, so he was replaced by Ken Nicol. Nevertheless, he continues to be involved with the band, contributing songwriting and vocals to their studio albums, most recently ""Wintersmith"" in 2013. Johnson is a qualified"
"Soulstream released September 1999. Holly truly captures the disco vibes that are currently storming the charts and the dancefloors."""" In the Italian Rockol of 19 August 1999, an article based on ""Soulstream"" stated """"Holly Johnson, former lead singer of Frankie Goes To Hollywood, the English group of ""alternative dance"" well known in the eighties, is ready to get back on track. Ten years on from the album ""Blast"", Holly - who years ago had made it known to have contracted the AIDS virus - has indeed prepared his first single in five years, ""Disco Heaven"", which will be in stores"
"Century Fox . Songs charted from unsolicited airplay from World Series in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Whiskey Falls Whiskey Falls was an American country music group composed of Seven Williams (lead vocals, guitar), Wally Brandt (guitar, vocals) Damon Johnson (guitar, vocals), and Buck Johnson (lead vocals, mandolin, guitar, keyboards). Seven Williams & Wally Brandt were once members of Atlantic Records Recording Artist, ""Seven and the Sun"", while Damon Johnson was once the frontman of the Southern rock band Brother Cane and a guitarist for shock rocker Alice Cooper. The band's lead singer is Seven Williams (born Keith Volpone). Whiskey Falls'"
"succession of other Liverpool groups. He played with and produced in the Pete Burns band Nightmares in Wax, recording one single ""Black Leather"", and worked with Factory Records to produce the single ""We Love The Moon"" and the album, ""The Project"" with The Royal Family and the Poor. In 1980, Reynolds formed a new band, Frankie Goes To Hollywood with Holly Johnson, BF Tin and Steve Lovell. The name is a matter of contention; Johnson wanted to call the band Hollycost, Reynolds disagreed, Johnson responded ""we could call it anything""; his eyes then drifted to a poster on the wall"
"Holly Knight Holly Knight is an American songwriter, musician and singer. She was a member of the 1980s pop rock groups Spider and Device, and wrote or co-wrote several hit singles for other artists, such as ""Rag Doll"", ""Obsession"", ""Love Is a Battlefield"", ""The Best"", ""Invincible"", ""Better Be Good To Me"", ""The Warrior"", and ""Change"". In 2013, she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has won thirteen ASCAP Awards and three Grammy Awards, and has written hits for some of the most successful artists in music. Knight was born in New York City. She started playing classical"
"Whiskey Falls Whiskey Falls was an American country music group composed of Seven Williams (lead vocals, guitar), Wally Brandt (guitar, vocals) Damon Johnson (guitar, vocals), and Buck Johnson (lead vocals, mandolin, guitar, keyboards). Seven Williams & Wally Brandt were once members of Atlantic Records Recording Artist, ""Seven and the Sun"", while Damon Johnson was once the frontman of the Southern rock band Brother Cane and a guitarist for shock rocker Alice Cooper. The band's lead singer is Seven Williams (born Keith Volpone). Whiskey Falls' other three members, Wally Brandt, Buck Johnson, and Damon Johnson (the latter two are no relation),"
"specialising in lap steel guitars. Hurrah! Hurrah! were a British jangle pop band formed in the early 1980s and active until 1991. Two band members traded off lead vocals on track-by-track basis, giving the band two distinctly different sounds. Formed in the early 1980s and originally known as the Green-Eyed Children, Hurrah! initially consisted of Paul Handyside (born 28 September 1960, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; guitar/vocals), David 'Taffy' Hughes (b. 16 March 1961, Southmoor, Northumberland; guitar/vocals), David Porthouse (b. 17 August 1961, Gateshead;(bass), and Mark Sim (drums). Sim was soon replaced by Damien Mahoney. When Mahoney left in 1986 to join the police"
"Culture Club Culture Club are an English new wave band that formed in London in 1981. The band comprises Boy George (lead vocals), Roy Hay (guitar and keyboards), Mikey Craig (bass guitar) and Jon Moss (drums and percussion). They are considered one of the most representative and influential groups of the 1980s. Led by singer and frontman Boy George, whose androgynous style of dressing caught the attention of the public and the media in the early 1980s, the band have sold more than 150 million records worldwide, including over 6 million BPI certified records sold in the UK and over"
"Hurrah! Hurrah! were a British jangle pop band formed in the early 1980s and active until 1991. Two band members traded off lead vocals on track-by-track basis, giving the band two distinctly different sounds. Formed in the early 1980s and originally known as the Green-Eyed Children, Hurrah! initially consisted of Paul Handyside (born 28 September 1960, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; guitar/vocals), David 'Taffy' Hughes (b. 16 March 1961, Southmoor, Northumberland; guitar/vocals), David Porthouse (b. 17 August 1961, Gateshead;(bass), and Mark Sim (drums). Sim was soon replaced by Damien Mahoney. When Mahoney left in 1986 to join the police force, after exhaustive auditions, the"
"The Young & Moody Band The Young & Moody Band was a UK blues rock band from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, headed by Status Quo co-writer Bob Young and Whitesnake guitarist Micky Moody. The band started under the name ""Young & Moody"", releasing a self-titled album on Magnet Records in 1977. Later they changed their name to ""The Young & Moody Band"". Their 1981 single ""Don't Do That"" also featured Lemmy from Motörhead, Cozy Powell and The Nolans and charted at #63 on the UK Singles Chart. Their follow-up single, 'These Eyes', was used in a U.K."
"lyrics were written mostly by Ginn, and like other punk bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Black Flag voiced an anti-authoritarian and nonconformist message, in songs punctuated with descriptions of social isolation, neurosis, poverty, and paranoia. These themes were explored further when Henry Rollins joined the band as lead singer in 1981. Most of the band's material was released on Ginn's independent record label SST Records. Over the course of the 1980s, Black Flag's sound, as well as their notoriety, evolved in ways that both embraced and alienated much of their early audience. As well as being central"
"The Siddeleys The Siddeleys were a London-based indie pop band, active during the late 1980s. Although they were relatively short-lived, they were influential. The band formed in 1986, comprising female singer Johnny Johnson, Andrew Brown (bass), Allan Kingdom (guitar), and Phil Goodman (drums). Andy Wake signed the band to his Medium Cool label on the strength of one of their three demo tapes, releasing their first single, ""What Went Wrong This Time?"" in 1987, described by The Legend in ""NME"" as ""A gentle teasing lament with cool female vocals and a lilting backing which trickles around the back of the"
"members. The new line-up recorded the 1980 release ""Ready an' Willing"" (1980), which was a breakthrough hit for the band reaching the UK Top 10 and becoming their first entry into the U.S. Top 100. The single ""Fool for Your Loving"", which the band originally wrote for B.B. King, made No. 13 in the UK single charts and No. 53 in the US, and the title track also hit No. 43 in the UK charts. The Ready an' Willing tour included the Saturday night headline appearance at the 1980 Reading Festival, the highlights of which were broadcast by BBC Radio"
"Former members are Paul Van Remortel, Eddy Godlewski, Kevin (James) LaBrie, Paul Marangoni, Phil Naro, Andy Curran, and Dave Ketchum. The band was named after the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum (1851–1993) in London. Coney Hatch Coney Hatch is a Canadian hard rock band who released three albums in the 1980s. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the band consisted of lead vocalist and guitarist Carl Dixon, vocalist and bassist Andy Curran, guitarist Steve Shelski and drummer Dave 'Thumper' Ketchum. The band was known for its ear-damagingly loud live shows. Coney Hatch formed in 1981, and began performing and developing original material. The"