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Depeche Mode was formed in Basildon Essex in 1980 by Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke. Vince Clarke left the band after the release of their 1981 debut album and enjoyed further UK success with electronic pop ensembles Yazoo, the Assembly & then Erasure.
A good career move then, you might think. [...]

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This performance is taken from Peter Gabriel’s Secret World Live Tour in 1993 and features singer/songwriter Pauline Cole on backing vocals. Sledgehammer was a massive hit for Gabriel in 1986, one of three excellent singles to be taken from the album So.
Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer – Live 1993

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John Prine was ‘discovered’ by Kris Kristofferson on the Chicago folk scene and released his first album in 1971. The album called John Prine contained the song Sam Stone, which would become one of Prine’s signature songs.
The song is a painful reference to the phenomenon of morphine addiction among US war veterans as a result [...]

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Back in 1985 when Whitney Houston released her self titled debut album she took the popular music market by storm, creating the biggest selling debut album by a female artist, spawning the hits  You Give Good Love, HowWill I Know, Saving All My Love For You and The Greatest Love Of All.
The follow up in [...]

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Echo & The Bunnymen performing the beautiful single The Killing Moon at the Royal Albert Hall in 1983. This version was performed before the recording of the single and therefore there are some variations from the final lyrics of the song
Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon – Live 1983

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