"his musical life from childhood until his twenty-fourth birthday. Life as a pop star, he insisted, was hardly worth writing about. Joe Jackson (musician) David Ian ""Joe"" Jackson (born 11 August 1954) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. After years of studying music and playing clubs, Jackson's first release, ""Is She Really Going Out with Him?"" became a hit in 1979. This was followed by a number of new wave singles before he moved to more jazz-inflected pop music and had a Top 10 hit in 1982 with ""Steppin' Out"". He has also composed classical music. He has recorded 19"
"other artists including Alexis Korner, Long John Baldry, and Duster Bennett in the late 1960s, and with Bryan Ferry, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and Elton John in the 1970s. Her other project work the following decade encompassed Vivian Stanshall, Kevin Coyne, John Cale, Daevid Allen, Tom Robinson and Whitesnake. Her work continued into the early 1990s with Squeeze and Jorge Ben Jor. Barry St. John Elizabeth Thompson (born c.1943), who recorded as Barry St. John, is a Scottish female singer who had a No. 47 hit in the UK Singles Chart in December 1965 with ""Come Away Melinda"". It"
"jazz and established himself as a mainstream hitmaker across Europe with ""I Thought It Was You"" (1978) and ""You Bet Your Love"" (1979), which peaked, respectively, at No. 15 and No. 18 on the UK Singles Chart, and ""Tell Everybody"" (1979), which peaked at No. 22 on the Belgian Flemish Singles Chart. Thanks to these singles, his albums ""Sunlight"" (1978) and ""Feets, Don't Fail Me Now"" (1979) earned good popular success, especially in Europe. The first album had its best performance peaking on UK Albums Chart at No. 26, and the second peaked on the ""VG"" Norwegian Albums Chart at"
"""Is It True?"" was composed by noted British songwriting team Ken Lewis and John Carter, who were also members of UK hitmakers the Ivy League. Lee was popular in the UK from early in her career. She performed on television in the UK in 1959, before she had achieved much pop recognition in the United States. Her first hit single in the UK was ""Sweet Nothin's"", which reached No.4 on the UK singles chart in the spring of 1960. She subsequently had a UK hit (in 1961) with ""Let's Jump the Broomstick"", a rockabilly number recorded in 1959, which had"
"Kim Wilde Kim Wilde (born Kim Smith; 18 November 1960) is an English pop singer, author, DJ and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with her debut single ""Kids in America"", which reached number two in the UK. In 1983, she received the Brit Award for Best British Female solo artist. In 1986, she had a UK number two hit with her version of the Supremes' song ""You Keep Me Hangin' On"", which also went on to be a major US hit, topping the charts there in 1987. Between 1981 and 1996, she had 25 singles"
"1979 with it being released on 12 February 1980. The first single was ""Hidin' from Love"" in 1980 (#43 on the Billboard dance charts) which was followed up by ""Give Me Your Love"" and ""Remember"". Although the album never received any US notoriety on its debut, it was the door opener that led to getting radio play, tours, management, agents and the music business in general, interested in the 20-year-old songwriter. The first tour was across Canada playing clubs and colleges. It was during this time that Adams developed the songs for the US breakthrough album ""You Want It You"
"in 1983. Her first commercial success came in early 1988, when she supplied the vocals on Coldcut's ""Doctorin' the House"". She soon launched a solo career on Big Life records, a label set up by her husband Jazz Summers, releasing her debut single, ""The Only Way Is Up"", in the summer of 1988. It went on to spend five weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart, eventually becoming the second biggest selling UK single of the year. Suddenly one of Britain's biggest pop acts, her follow-up ""Stand Up for Your Love Rights"" was another big hit (UK number"
"countries. However, unlike its predecessor, ""Is She Really Going Out With Him?"" it failed to make an impact. It was followed in the U.K. by ""One More Time,"" another ""Look Sharp!"" single. ""Sunday Papers"" has generally received positive feedback from critics. ""AllMusic""'s Tom Maginnis stated that the song ""proved that the success of the novelty hit ”Is She Really Going Out With Him” was not a fluke,"" and went on to say that ""[a]s engaging as Jackson’s lyrics are, the music refuses to be overlooked as the rhythm section of Graham Maby (bass) and Dave Houghton (drums) groove with a"
"chart success, totalling five Top Ten hits between 1977 and 1982. One of them, ""Use It Up and Wear It Out"", reached number one in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in 1980. The UK follow-up single, ""If You're Lookin' for a Way Out"" had Lillian Lopez on lead vocals; the single reaching no. 6 in 1980 and spending a total of fifteen weeks in the UK chart. Odyssey thus became the third US act of the year (after Fern Kinney and M.A.S.H.) to reach number one in the UK despite not charting in their home country. Their later"
"(November 1979), were top 20 hits; ""Falling in Love with Only You"" reached No. 20 in April 1979. while her next two singles were strongly influenced by the popular disco style of music at the time.""Goosebumps"", which reached No. 3 in September 1979, and ""He's My Number One"", which peaked at No. 4 in February 1980. ""Goosebumps"" achieved sales of more than 60,000. Allen toured Australia backed by The Hot Band, which was composed of Max Chazan on guitar (Rubes), Greg Cook on guitar (ex-Cam-Pact, The Mixtures, Ram Band, Mondo Rock), Bruce Haymes on organ (Rubes, Richard Clapton Band), Michael"
"she met record manager and business promoter Charles Huggins after a performance at the Apollo Theater in 1974. They married in 1975. In 1975 Moore signed with Buddah Records and released the critically successful R&B album, ""Peach Melba"", which included the minor hit, ""I Am His Lady"". The following year she scored her first significant hit with the Van McCoy-penned ""This Is It"", which reached the Billboard Hot 100, the top-20 position on the R&B chart, and top-10 in the UK, becoming her biggest success in that country. 'This is It' also became the number 1 disco track in the"
"(1979), Barbra Streisand's ""The Main Event"" (1979), Dan Hartman's ""Instant Replay"" (1978). The biggest hit by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, best known as a new wave band, was ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"" (1978), featuring a strong disco sound. Even mainstream rock artists adopted elements of disco. Progressive rock group Pink Floyd used disco-like drums and guitar in their song ""Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2"" (1979), which became their only number-one single in both the US and UK. The Eagles referenced disco with ""One of These Nights"" (1975) and ""Disco Strangler"" (1979), Paul McCartney & Wings"
"the band started performing as Ian Dury & the Blockheads, when the band signed on for the Stiff ""Live Stiffs Tour"" alongside Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric and Larry Wallis. The tour was a success, and Stiff launched a concerted Ian Dury marketing campaign, resulting in the Top Ten hit ""What a Waste"", and the hit single ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"", which reached No. 1 in the UK at the beginning of 1979, selling just short of a million copies. Again, ""Hit Me"" was not included on the original release of the subsequent album"
"Top Ten UK and US hit ""Come and Stay With Me"", which became Faithfull's biggest UK hit, peaking at #4 in 1965. That same year, Cher covered the song on her solo debut album ""All I Really Want to Do"". It would be three more years before Jackie DeShannon would record the song for herself, on her 'Laurel Canyon' album in 1968. She also appeared on the television show ""Ready Steady Go!"" Moving to New York City, DeShannon co-wrote with Randy Newman, producing such songs as ""She Don't Understand Him Like I Do"" and ""Did He Call Today Mama?"", as"
"and issued in the UK as 12"" singles which boosted the group's popularity on the dance floors around the UK. ""Disco Inferno"" was an underground club hit in the United States and the United Kingdom, most notable for the piercing solos from trumpeter Jon Faddis, Michael Brecker and David Sanborn on tenor and alto sax. The band proved more popular in the United Kingdom, where they scored three chart singles including the disco hit ""Turn the Music Up!"" (released in the UK on 10 March 1979), which reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart and ran for nine weeks,"
"Judie Tzuke Judie Tzuke (born Judie Myers, 3 April 1956) is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known for her 1979 hit ""Stay with Me till Dawn"", which reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart. Tzuke's family relocated from Poland to England in the 1920s, and changed their surname from Tzuke to Myers. Her mother, Jean Silverside, was a television actress, and her father, Sefton Myers, was a successful property developer who also managed artists and singers—most notably Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice during the writing of ""Jesus Christ Superstar"". When Tzuke embarked on her singing career, she"
"the UK Single Charts, becoming Stiff Records' biggest-selling single. A very limited 12"" pressing was also released. Although the song is seen as specifically a Blockheads song, the B-side, ""Wake Up and Make Love with Me"", was taken from Dury's ""New Boots and Panties!!"" album. First released as the Stiff Records 7"" single BUY 38, ""Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick""/""There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards"" was Number One in the UK Singles Chart in January 1979 and is the band's most successful single. It also was named the best single of 1979 in the Pazz & Jop poll."
"became a hit, reaching No. 5 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot Dance Club Play chart, and No. 45 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1979. Despite their success in the US, however, they never toured there. At home, their next single was ""Mr. Groovy"", which did not chart; it was quickly followed with ""Dance Yourself Dizzy"", which became their biggest UK hit, peaking at No. 2 on the UK chart in 1980. The song also reached No. 26 on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart. Their next single, ""Substitute"", peaked at No. 8 in the UK in the summer"
"Top Ten success, the subsequent ""(Bringing Out) The Girl in Me"" marking her final Hot 100 appearance with a #73 peak. ""Lead Me On"" is a re-packaged and slightly remixed version of the previous European LP with the addition of a new song, the disco-styled ""Hideaway"". The songs ""Lead Me On"" and ""Hideaway"" were extended for a promotional 12-inch record. 1969: 1971: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1986: Maxine Nightingale Maxine Nightingale (born 2 November 1952) is a British R&B and soul music singer. She is best known for her hits in the 1970s, with the million seller"
"debut album ""Look Sharp!"" A mix of rock, melodic jazz, and new wave, it mined a vein similar to that of contemporaries Elvis Costello and Graham Parker. The album enjoyed wide critical success: in 2013 ""Rolling Stone"" magazine named ""Look Sharp!"" number 98 in a list of the 100 best debut albums of all time. Some commercial success also followed, as the debut single ""Is She Really Going Out with Him?"" reached the top 40 in 5 countries, and no. 9 in Canada. The Joe Jackson Band released ""I'm the Man"" in 1979. The album followed a similar musical pattern,"
"""Is It True"" was released in England and later in the US, and it became a hit and a gold record. ""What'd I Say"" became another hit throughout Europe but was never released in the US. Most had equal success with other artists for whom he produced chart-topping albums and singles between 1964 and 1969, notably Donovan with ""Sunshine Superman"", ""Mellow Yellow"", ""Jennifer Juniper"", and ""Hurdy Gurdy Man"", and Lulu's hits ""To Sir, with Love"", ""The Boat That I Row"", ""Boom Bang-a-Bang"" (which finished equal first in the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest), ""Me the Peaceful Heart"", and ""I'm a Tiger""."
"hits such as ""Kung Fu Fighting"" (1974) with Carl Douglas and ""I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance)"" with Tina Charles, while his own Biddu Orchestra records also appeared in the charts. ""Kung Fu Fighting"" in particular sold eleven million records worldwide. Other British soul acts working with Biddu at the time included the Outriders and Jimmy James. Maxine Nightingale had an international smash in late 1975 and early 1976 with ""Right Back Where We Started From"". The Real Thing, who were the most successful black rock/soul act in England during the 1970s, had major success with"
"True Steppers True Steppers were an English UK garage production duo, consisting of Jonny Lisners and Andy Lysandrou . They had success with Dane Bowers on ""Buggin"", which reached #6 in the UK Singles Chart in April 2000. Their biggest selling record came in August 2000, when True Steppers collaborated with Dane Bowers and Victoria Beckham on ""Out of Your Mind"". There was a wave of publicity for this single and Victoria involved her husband, David Beckham, for the in-store record signings. There was a chart battle with Spiller and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, whose summer dance track ""Groovejet (If This Ain't"
"Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose"", the ballad ""It Don't Hurt Now"", and the mid-tempo classic ""When Somebody Loves You Back"". That double platinum number-one R&B triumph was followed up in the year 1979 by two successes, the albums ""Teddy"" (which stayed at number 1 on the Billboard R&B chart for 8 weeks and was named the 2nd biggest R&B album of the year), and the live release ""Live Coast to Coast"". Hits off ""Teddy"" included the classics ""Come Go With Me,"" the legendary erotic ballad ""Turn Off the Lights,"" and the uptempo album cut ""Do Me."" With his sex"
"""New Boots and Panties!!"" which, although it did not include the single, achieved platinum status. In October 1977 Dury and his band started performing as Ian Dury & the Blockheads, when the band signed on for the Stiff ""Live Stiffs Tour"" alongside Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric, and Larry Wallis. The tour was a success, and Stiff launched a concerted Ian Dury marketing campaign, resulting in the Top Ten hit ""What a Waste"", and the hit single ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"", which reached No. 1 in the UK at the beginning of 1979, selling"
"Falling in Love,"" ""Round and Round"" and ""Set Me Free"". Brought up in Handsworth and educated in Ladywood, she was spotted by a talent scout singing for a jazz-funk band in.1983. By the end of the 1980s she was established as the most successful Black British female artist of all time, and the first to have six consecutive Top 20 hits. Success in the United States followed with her single ""Ain't Nobody"" spending five weeks at number 1 in the US dance charts in 1994. Also brought up in Handsworth was Ruby Turner, the granddaughter of a noted Jamaican Gospel"
"Graham Lyle Graham Hamilton Lyle (born 11 March 1944, Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. Between 1970 and 1997, he co-wrote 18 British Top 40 hits, 8 ""Billboard"" Hot 100 entries, 4 US Country No.1s and 1 US Adult Contemporary No.1, as well as 3 Australian chart-toppers. His songwriting collaborators have included Terry Britten, Albert Hammond, Troy Seals, Jim Diamond and his long-time performing partner, Benny Gallagher. His most famous composition is Tina Turner's 1984 US chart-topper and international smash, ""What's Love Got to Do with It?"", which reached No.1 in the US, Canada and Australia"
"hit on the UK Singles Chart in December 1987 into January 1988. Alongside similar releases by artists such as Bomb the Bass and S'Express, ""House Arrest"" is considered a pioneering example of British house music. It has since been licensed to numerous compilation albums. In 1989, Ruth Joy (real name Ruth Joy Oram) launched a solo career, releasing the single ""Don't Push It"" (UK #66) (backed with ""Gimme Your Love"") on MCA Records. Both tracks were produced by Mantronik. She followed it up with the single ""Soul Power"", and in 1991 she released the Carl McIntosh-produced (of the band Loose"
"from the University of Wolverhampton in recognition of her services to the music industry. Jaki Graham Jacqueline Maureen Graham (born 15 September 1956) is a British singer-songwriter. Following her hit version of ""Could It Be I'm Falling in Love"" with David Grant in 1985, Graham scored a further five UK Top 20 hits over a two-year period. In 1994, her cover version of Chaka Khan's hit ""Ain't Nobody"" reached number one on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Dance Chart. Graham was born in Birmingham to Jamaican immigrants. In 1983 after recording a session for a jazz funk band called ‘Medium Heat Wave’,"
"released in 1978. Her only notable success, ""Stay with Me Till Dawn"", was released in 1979. The song, which was co-written with Mike Paxman, became a Top 20 hit in the UK in the summer of 1979 and a Top 10 hit in Australia and was featured on Tzuke's 1979 debut album, ""Welcome to the Cruise"", which was also a Top 20 hit. In 2002, ""Stay With Me Till Dawn"" was chosen by the British public in a poll of the 50 Best British Songs 1952–2002 (ranking at number 39). The song was also sampled by Mylo in the song"
"appeared under their new name. The group regularly toured Britain, Europe and the United States from 1970 to 1975, and were among the top-grossing live acts in that period; in 1974 their touring also encompassed Australia, New Zealand and Japan. They toured the United States and Canada in 1975. Among their most successful songs were ""Had Me a Real Good Time"", their breakthrough UK hit ""Stay with Me"", ""Cindy Incidentally"" and ""Pool Hall Richard"". As Rod Stewart's solo career became more successful than that of the group, the band became overshadowed by their lead singer. A disillusioned Ronnie Lane left"
"years earlier. Throughout the rest of the 1970s, Moore struggled to match the success of ""This Is It"" with minor R&B/dance hits. However, her hit 'Pick me up I'll dance' released in May 1979 produced by McFadden & Whitehead and released on Epic Records did have considerable UK disco success, reaching UK chart position 48, along with a further hit that same year, also produced by McFadden & Whitehead with a cover version of the Bee Gees' hit ""You Stepped Into My Life"", which reached the top 20 on the R&B charts and 47 on the Billboard Hot 100. In"
"Maxine Nightingale Maxine Nightingale (born 2 November 1952) is a British R&B and soul music singer. She is best known for her hits in the 1970s, with the million seller ""Right Back Where We Started From"" (1975, UK & 1976, U.S.), ""Love Hit Me"" (1977), and ""Lead Me On"" (1979). One of the three children of Guyanese-born comedian Benny Nightingale and his wife Iris (they also had daughter Rosalind and son Glen), Maxine Nightingale first vocalized with her school band. At thirteen, she and a friend visited a neighborhood house where the band Unisound was rehearsing. They asked her to"