A key presence in the synth pop movement of the early '80s, Naked Eyes formed in Britain in 1981. Comprised of former schoolmates Pete Byrne (vocals) and Rob Fisher (keyboards), the duo debuted in March 1983 with the LP 'Burning Bridges', reissued in the U.S. a month later (minus several tracks) as a self-titled effort. The lead single, a majestic cover of the Burt Bacharach-Hal David perennial "Always Something There to Remind Me," emerged as a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, reaching the U.S. Top Ten on the strength of its video, which received heavy airplay on the fledgling MTV network. The American follow-up, "Promises, Promises" (not the Bacharach/David composition), was also a major hit, and Naked Eyes' future looked bright; however, 1984's 'Fuel for the Fire' fared poorly, its lone single "(What) In the Name of Love" barely scraping into the Top 40. The duo disbanded soon after, and in 1988 Fisher resurfaced as one half of the pop duo Climie Fisher. He died August 25, 1999, of complications following stomach surgery. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]
James "Midge" Ure OBE is a Scottish singer-songwriter and record producer. His stage name, Midge, is a phonetic reversal of Jim. Ure enjoyed particular success in the 1970s and 1980s in bands including Slik, Thin Lizzy, Rich Kids, Visage, and as the second frontman of Ultravox. In 1984, he co-wrote and produced the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", which has sold 3.7 million copies in the UK. The song is the second-highest-selling single in UK chart history. Ure co-organised Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8 with Bob Geldof. He acts as a trustee for the charity and also serves as an ambassador for Save the Children.
Ure is the producer and writer of several other synth-pop and new wave hit singles of the 1980s, including "Fade to Grey" (1980) by Visage and the Ultravox signature songs "Vienna" (1980), "Hymn" (1983) and "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" (1984). He achieved his first UK top 10 solo hit in 1982 with "No Regrets". In 1985, his solo debut studio album 'The Gift' reached number two in the UK Albums Chart and yielded the UK Singles Chart number-one single "If I Was". He also co-wrote Phil Lynott's "Yellow Pearl", which served as the theme of Top of the Pops for much of the 1980s. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
By appealing to fans of '80s dance-pop as well as post-punk and new wave, the Thompson Twins were one of the more popular synth pop groups of the early MTV era, scoring a handful of hits in the early to mid-'80s. Neither a duo nor related, but rather named after characters in the Tintin cartoon, the band enjoyed international success with songs like "Hold Me Now," "Lay Your Hands on Me," and "King for a Day" -all U.S. Top Ten hits. After the group disbanded in 1993, lead singer Tom Bailey retired the material until 2014, when he began performing their hits on the nostalgia circuit and on tour in support of his 2018 solo debut.
A native of Halifax, Yorkshire, England, Bailey was already learning to play the piano at the age of two and later harbored dreams of becoming a classical pianist. Inspired by musicians such as Can, Frank Zappa, and Hawkwind, he took classes in guitar and clarinet as well as piano in college; he also became a music instructor at Brook Comprehensive School, Sheffield.
In 1977, Bailey met Joe Leeway, a fledgling actor. The pair hit it off, yet Leeway wasn't part of the original incarnation of the Thompson Twins, which featured Bailey (vocals, keyboards), guitarist Pete Dodd, guitarist John Roog, and drummer Chris Bell. During the late '70s and early '80s, the band released a handful of independent singles and became fixtures on the burgeoning New Romantic scene in London before signing with Arista in 1981. That year, they released their debut album, 'A Product Of...' Not long after its arrival, Bailey added his girlfriend Alannah Currie (percussion, saxophone, vocals), Joe Leeway (percussion, vocal), and former Soft Boys bassist Matthew Seligman to the group. Thompson Twins recorded one album in this seven-piece incarnation, 1982's 'Set', which was issued in America as 'In the Name of Love'. The record didn't do well, and following its release, the group was trimmed to a trio -Bailey, Currie, and Leeway. The revamped Thompson Twins released 'Quick Step & Side Kick' in 1983, and the album became a major hit in the U.K., climbing all the way to number two, as the singles "Love on Your Side" and "We Are Detective" reached the Top Ten. In America, the record was released under the truncated title 'Side Kicks' and earned a cult following.
The Thompson Twins had their American commercial breakthrough in 1984 with 'Into the Gap'. "Hold Me Now," the first single from the album, became a bigger hit in the U.S. than it did in the U.K., peaking at number three; it reached number four in England. 'Into the Gap' also featured the hits "Doctor Doctor" and "You Take Me Up," and the Thompson Twins quickly followed the record in 1985 with 'Here's to Future Days'. "Lay Your Hands on Me" became an American Top Ten hit, as did "King for a Day."
Leeway left the group in 1986, and the Thompson Twins remained a duo, releasing 'Close to the Bone' the following year. It peaked at number 90 in the U.K., also charting in a handful of other countries including Canada and Norway, but not in the U.S. Bailey and Currie made their romance public in 1988, when the couple had a child, and that same year, they released the remix album 'The Best of Thompson Twins: Greatest Mixes'. 'Big Trash', the band's 1989 debut for Warner, produced the minor U.S. hit "Sugar Daddy," but it was overlooked in England. In 1989, Bailey also produced the Debbie Harry solo album 'Def, Dumb & Blonde'. It included the hit single "I Want That Man," which he had co-written with Currie. He returned to produce 1990's 'Well, Did You Evah!' for Harry. The Thompson Twins then released their final LP, the club-inspired 'Queer', in 1991. Though the album failed to chart, the single "Come Inside" hit the Top Ten of the U.S. dance chart and topped the dance chart in the U.K., also reaching number 56 on the U.K. Top 75. That year, Bailey and Currie got married in Las Vegas, and in 1992, they moved the family to New Zealand.
Reflecting a greater focus on electronic music including ambient techno, the couple went on to record as Babble, releasing two albums under the moniker, 1994's 'The Stone' and 1996's 'Ether', both via Reprise, and both to little notice. Bailey continued to find occasional studio work with other artists, including co-producing 'Mix', the 1999 debut LP from Stellar. It reached number one in New Zealand and went on to win Best Album at the 2000 New Zealand Music Awards. Around that time, Bailey started the dub-oriented project International Observer. Its self-released debut album, 2000's 'Seen', was made in collaboration with visual artist Rakai Karaitiana. 'Seen' was reissued by Different Drummer a year later. In 2003, Bailey and Currie divorced.
By then operating as a solo project for Bailey, International Observer continued to release albums into the next decade, with its fifth LP, 'Touched', arriving in August 2014. That same month, Bailey performed Thompson Twins songs live for the first time since the '80s at the Rewind Festival at Temple Island Meadows. The warm reception led to further performances of Thompson Twins hits on tours of the U.K., Japan, and North America. In 2016, he released his first solo single under his own name. "Come So Far" became the final track of his full-length solo debut, 2018's 'Science Fiction', a pop album inspired by touring again with his '80s music. That year, he played a mix of solo material and Thompson Twins hits to large theaters, arenas, and amphitheaters in the U.S. and U.K. while on tour with Culture Club. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]
Farmacia de Guardia was a Spanish rock band in the 80's from the city of Murcia.
They recorded their first demo in the first months of 1982 at Audiofilm Studios in Madrid. This demo was re-released years later by Subterfuge Records on the CD-EP 'TNT Punk Pop', which opens with “Cazadora de Cuero” (the story of a rocker who turns to punk influenced by the death of Sid Vicious, composed by the three J's of Murcian rock: J. Albarracín, J. Cassinello and J. Reyes).
In 1982 they won the first edition of the “Murcia Joven” contest, sharing the prize with Acequia. As a consequence, they recorded four songs in Valencia that were released on their first album, including “Cazadora de Cuero” and “Bronca Callejera”; this record was distributed by Dos Rombos. In 1987 'Veneno Rojo' was released, with a new and definitive version of “Cazadora de Cuero” and other new songs such as “Paseando al Perro” and “Club de John”. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
La Banda Sin Futuro
was a Spanish pop band from the late 70s, the first band founded by Poch, in 1979, previous to Ejecutivos Agresivos and Derribos Arias. The line-up was: Poch (guitar, vocals), Alejo Alberdi (guitar, backing vocals) and Manuel Moreno -Paúl- (drums, backing vocals). The bass players were Antonio Tarín and Pepo.
Sindicato Malone was a Spanish pop group from the time of the "movida madrileña". They initially emerged as a project of Alberto Haro from Glutamato Ye-Yé, along with those part of the “hornadas irritantes” gang. They stood out because of the carefree and irony they displayed in the lyrics of their songs.
The group was basically formed by Luis Jovellar (singer), Fernando Caballero and Alberto Haro Ibars. With the EP 'Sólo Por Robar...' (1982) they managed to enter “Los 40 Principales” (the Spanish Top 40). Later they released a single, another EP and the LP 'Antes Morir Que Perder La Vida', split between a mystical side and a playful side, before disappearing. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
Glutamato Ye-Ye were formed in 1979 by Ramón Recio and Iñaki Fernández (born May 29, 1961, in Bilbao), joined by Manuel “Patacho” Recio and Alberto Haro. Quite a few people passed through the group, being the stable members Ramón Recio (lyrics), Iñaki Fernández (vocals), Patacho (guitar), Eugenio Haro (guitar), Jacinto Golderos (bass) and Carlos Durante (drums).
After playing in many clubs in Madrid they signed with the Spansuls label in 1981 and recorded their first LP. Due to the fact that Iñaki had to do his military service, it was only a mini-LP ('Zoraida'). In addition Spansuls sold one of his songs to the DRO label ("Corazón Loco"); what would have been pnk-001 became dro-005. In 1982 Ramón founded the Goldstein label, which gave the group stability to play in the trendiest venues and record songs like “Comamos Cereales”.
When Pancoca, Goldstein's distributor, went bankrupt, the label disappeared as well, but Glutamato Ye-Ye landed at Ariola, a major label. In 1984 they recorded what is a classic of the band, “Todos Los Negritos Tienen Hambre y Frío”. It became very popular and sold many copies, but it cost them their dismissal from the label. A year later they recorded 'Guapamente', which got them nominated for Eurovision singing “Alicia”.
In 1986 the band disbanded; in 1987 they reunited to give a farewell concert. From then on their members moved on to other groups or performed solo. Sometimes they reunited to record compilations or to pay tribute to deceased colleagues such as Ramón Recio, Alberto and Eugenio Haro. [SOURCE: LAST.FM]
No artist of the rock & roll era compares to singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Prince. He was the rare combination of a visionary pop conceptualist and master musician who could capture the sounds he imagined. This quality fueled his remarkable success throughout the 1980s, a decade in which he authored a string of nine gold, platinum, or multi-platinum albums that included '1999' (1982), 'Purple Rain' (1984), and 'Sign 'o' the Times' (1987). Ideas came to Prince so quickly that they couldn't be contained on his own records. He masterminded albums by The Time and Sheila E. and gave away hit songs to The Bangles and Sheena Easton, shaping the sound of popular music in the process. There wasn't an area of pop music in the '80s that didn't bear his influence: it could be heard in freaky funk and R&B slow jams, in electro-techno and neo-psychedelic rock, and at the top of the pop charts. Prince's reign continued into the early '90s, a time which found him swap long-time partners The Revolution for the jazz-funk New Power Generation, his band on eighth Top Ten album 'Diamonds and Pearls' (1991). By the middle of the decade, he'd entered a cold war with his record company. Once he was emancipated from his contract, he seized the opportunity to release as much music as he could record, and again took aim at mainstream, returning to the Top Ten with 'Musicology' (2004) and to number one with '3121' (2006). The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee produced new music at a furious pace in his last decade, up through the simultaneous Top Ten entries 'PlectrumElectrum' and 'Art Official Age' (2014). That's what made his death in 2016 such a shock. His music was ceaselessly, endlessly alive and full of possibility.
Music ran in Prince's blood. The son of a jazz pianist and singer, Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 7, 1958. Prince taught himself how to play music at an early age and his first original songs arrived not much later. Music remained a mainstay after his parents' divorce, a period where he bounced between both households. For a while, Prince stayed with his neighbors the Andersons, whose son Andre would later adopt the stage name Andre Cymone. The pair became friends and then collaborators, forming a covers band called Grand Central with Morris Day while the three attended high school together.
Prince and Cymone's first big break arrived when Pepe Willie, the husband of Prince's cousin, brought the duo into the funk band 94 East. Prince played guitar on a few tracks on a 94 East demo and co-wrote "Just Another Sucker" with Willie, a song composed in 1977. By that point, the teenage Prince had already signed to Warner Bros. on the strength of a demo he recorded with producer Chris Moon. He headed to the Record Plant in Sausalito, California to record his debut 'For You', which appeared in 1978. Prince played every instrument and sang every note on 'For You', an audacious move for a debut. The album made some inroads on R&B radio, with its first single "Soft and Wet" reaching 12. It was quickly eclipsed by "I Wanna Be Your Lover," the first single from 1979's 'Prince'. "I Wanna Be Your Lover" reached number one R&B and nearly cracked Billboard's Top Ten, peaking at 11. "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" gave him another significant R&B hit in early 1980, reaching number 13 on the Billboard charts, but Prince guaranteed that he wouldn't be pigeonholed as a soul act by embracing rock, pop, and new wave on 1980's 'Dirty Mind'.
'Dirty Mind' was Prince's first masterpiece, a one-man tour de force of sex and music; it was hard funk with catchy Beatlesque melodies, sweet soul ballads, and rocking guitar pop all at once. It didn't perform as well as 'Prince' on the R&B charts, but "Uptown" peaked at number five on both the Billboard Dance and R&B charts. Prince doubled down on risque rock & funk on 1981's 'Controversy'. Pop hits eluded him this time around, but "Controversy" and "Let's Work" made the Billboard R&B chart, which wasn't the only time Prince visited these particular charts in 1981. He masterminded the eponymous debut album by The Time, a Minneapolis funk band featuring his old friend Morris Day. All this buzz led The Rolling Stones to hire Prince as an opener for part of their 1981 tour, running into audiences that were unwilling to embrace his genre-bending music. He'd soon find wider acceptance for his music with '1999'.
A tightly constructed double album, '1999' served as futuristic funk-pop that showcased the extent of his range. Released in October 1982, '1999' generated three massive hits: its title track topped out at 12 but it was a staple on the fledgling MTV, while "Little Red Corvette" and "Delirious" were Top Ten hits, peaking at six and eight respectively. '1999' is also where Prince unveiled his backing band The Revolution, showcasing the group in the album's music videos and featuring them on the record's supporting tour; several members also played on '1999'. Afterwards, guitarist Dez Dickerson departed and The Revolution's classic lineup of guitarist Wendy Melvoin, keyboardist Lisa Coleman, keyboardist Matt Fink, bassist Brown Mark, and drummer Bobby Z solidified. This incarnation of The Revolution was showcased on "Purple Rain", the film Prince released in July 1984.
A mythologized version of his own back story largely shot in his home city of Minneapolis, "Purple Rain" made Prince a superstar. Preceded by the stark, startling funk of "When Doves Cry," Prince's first number one single, "Purple Rain" became a blockbuster, its theatrical success feeding the popularity of its soundtrack and vice-versa. For a brief period, Prince had the number one single, album, and film in the United States, a remarkable achievement. The album's subsequent singles almost all went Top Ten: "Let's Go Crazy" also went to number one, while "Purple Rain" peaked at two and "I Would Die 4 U" reached number eight ("Take Me with U," released at the end of the album's cycle, went no further than 25.) With fame came controversy: Tipper Gore formed the Parents Music Resource Center after discovering her 11-year-old daughter listening to "Darling Nikki," a sexually charged song from "Purple Rain".
His stardom secured, Prince took an abrupt left turn in 1985 with 'Around the World in a Day', an excursion into psychedelic pop not too far removed from the Paisley Underground movement in Los Angeles; indeed, he'd give The Bangles, one of the bands at the core of the trend, "Manic Monday," which went to number two in 1986. Thanks to "Raspberry Beret," 'Around the World in a Day' was also a hit, albeit one that paled in comparison to 'Purple Rain'; it sold two million copies and generated only one other Top 40 hit in "Pop Life." Prince quickly followed it with 'Parade', which was the soundtrack to his second film, "Under the Cherry Moon". Directed by Prince, the film flopped, but the eclectic 'Parade' was another hit album, producing the number one smash "Kiss."
Prince disbanded The Revolution after the supporting tour for 'Parade', an excerpt of which was featured on 'Sign 'o' the Times', the sprawling double-album he released in March 1987. Assembled from the remnants of several incomplete projects, 'Sign 'o' the Times' was hailed as one of Prince's best albums, showcasing the full scope of his talents. It also produced three Top Ten hits in "Sign 'o' the Times," "U Got the Look," and "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man." Prince planned to release a collection of hard funk called 'The Black Album' in November 1987 but he pulled the record at the last minute believing the album was too dark and immoral; it would be released in a limited run in 1994.
Prince quickly recorded 'Lovesexy', an album intended as a bright riposte to the darkness of the scrapped 'The Black Album'. 'Lovesexy' became his first album not to reach the Top Ten since 'Controversy' and only generated one Top 40 single in "Alphabet St." Prince rebounded swiftly with 'Batman', an album inspired by Tim Burton's 1989 silver screen adaptation of the caped crusader. A blend of sound collage and medley, "Batdance" became Prince's first number one single since "Kiss," with "Partyman" reaching 18 later that year. Prince returned to the big screen in 1990 with "Graffiti Bridge", another film he directed himself. Its accompanying album was Prince's third double-album in seven years, cobbled together from strays from the past decade and new songs, such as its lone Top Ten single "Thieves in the Temple."
With 1991's 'Diamonds and Pearls', Prince debuted the New Power Generation, a versatile band of professionals specializing in R&B and funk. The streamlined soul of 'Diamonds and Pearls' gave Prince his biggest non-Batman hit since 'Around the World in a Day', with the slinky "Cream" becoming his last number one hit and the ballad "Diamonds and Pearls" reaching number three. The following year, Prince released his 14th album, titling it after a cryptic logo that allegedly combined the symbols for male and female. This graphic would soon be dubbed the "Love Symbol" and the album of the same name found Prince grappling with hip-hop on "My Name Is Prince" but it was the shimmering pop of "7" that gave him another Top Ten hit; fittingly, it peaked at seven on Billboard. In 1993, Prince released his first greatest-hits collection, 'The Hits'; it was accompanied by an edition that also rounded up many of his B-sides from the 1980s.
Prince changed his name to the Love Symbol in 1993 as a protest against his label Warner Bros., who would not release new recordings from the musician as often as he desired. As the Love Symbol was unpronounceable, Prince was called "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince" (or "The Artist") during this feud with Warner, which lasted until 2000, at which time his publishing contract with Warner/Chappell expired. After releasing "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" on his NPG Records in 1994 -it became his last Top Ten hit, reaching number three- Prince attempted to speed through his recording contract with Warner during the mid-'90s, beginning with 1994's 'Come'. Bearing "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," 'The Gold Experience' arrived in 1995, with the postscript 'Chaos and Disorder' closing out the contract in the summer of 1996. Prince celebrated the end of his tenure at Warner by releasing the triple-CD set 'Emancipation' on his own NPG in November of 1996.
Greeted by warm reviews and initially strong sales -the triple-disc set would be certified double platinum due to its size- 'Emancipation' didn't generate any hit singles. Abundance soon became a calling card for Prince. Just over a year after 'Emancipation', he released another triple-disc set named 'Crystal Ball'. Collecting unreleased material recorded over the years, 'Crystal Ball' was accompanied by a bonus acoustic album called 'The Truth'; it would receive its own independent release in 2021. Soon, the market was flooded with new Prince material. 'Newpower Soul', an album billed to New Power Generation but effectively a new Prince album, appeared in June 1998, Warner released a disc of outtakes called 'The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale' in the summer of 1999, and Prince signed with Arista for 'Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic', a star-studded wannabe blockbuster that performed modestly upon its November 1999 release.
Prince spent the first few years of the 2000s indulging in his love of jazz fusion on a series of records released on NPG, the first being 2001's 'The Rainbow Children', an album that referred to his recent conversion to the Jehovah's Witnesses. Prince returned to pop and R&B in 2004 -and to major labels- with 'Musicology', an album that brought him back into the Top Ten, while also garnering him a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 2005; it'd be certified double platinum by the RIAA. He consolidated his commercial comeback with '3121', which hit number one on the album charts soon after its release in March 2006. 'Planet Earth' followed in 2007, featuring contributions from his old Revolution bandmates Wendy & Lisa. In the U.K., copies were cover-mounted on the July 15 edition of The Mail on Sunday, provoking Columbia -the worldwide distributor for the release- to refuse distribution throughout the U.K. In the U.S., the album was issued on July 24, debuting at number three.
'LotusFlow3r', a three-disc set, arrived in 2009, featuring a trio of distinct albums: 'LotusFlow3r' itself (a guitar showcase), 'MPLSound' (a throwback to his '80s funk output), and 'Elixer' (a smooth contemporary R&B album featuring the breathy vocals of Bria Valente). Despite only being available online and through one big-box retailer, the set debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart. A year later, another throwback-flavored effort, '20Ten', became his second U.K. newspaper giveaway. No official online edition of the album was made available.
From mid-2010 to the end of 2012, Prince toured throughout Europe, America, Europe again, Canada, and Australia. In 2013, he released several singles, starting with "Screwdriver" and continuing with "Breakfast Can Wait" in the summer of that year. Early in 2014, he made a cameo appearance on the Zooey Deschanel sitcom "The New Girl", appearing in the episode that aired following the Super Bowl. All this activity was a prelude to the spring announcement that Prince had re-signed to Warner Bros., the label he had feuded with 20 years prior. As part of the deal, he wound up receiving ownership of his master recordings, and the label planned a reissue campaign that would begin with an expanded release of 'Purple Rain' roughly timed to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
First came two new albums: 'Art Official Age' and 'PlectrumElectrum', the latter credited to 3rdEyeGirl, the all-female power trio that was his new-millennial backing band. Both records came out on the same day in September 2014. Almost a year to the day, he released 'HITnRUN: Phase One', with contributions from Lianne La Havas, Judith Hill, and Rita Ora. A sequel, 'HITnRUN: Phase Two', was released online in December 2015, with a physical release following in January 2016. Also in early 2016, Prince set out on a rare solo tour, a run of shows he called "Piano and a Microphone." The tour was cut short in April due to sickness, however, and Prince flew home to Minneapolis. On April 21, 2016, police were called to Paisley Park where they found Prince unresponsive; he died that day at the age of 57.
On June 2, 2016, Prince's death was ruled by the Anoka County's Midwest Medical Examiner's Office to be the result of an accidental overdose of fentanyl. His premature death and incredible achievements prompted an outpouring of emotion from fans, friends, influences, and professional associates. On the following week's Billboard charts, he occupied four of the Top Ten album positions and four of the top singles positions. As the particulars of his estate were sorted out by the courts -the singer didn't leave a will, which complicated matters- his Paisley Park complex was opened to the public in the autumn of 2016. That holiday season, NPG and Warner released '4Ever', a double-disc hits collection that contained the unreleased 1982 outtake "Moonbeam Levels." Upon its November 22, 2016 release, it debuted at 35 on Billboard's Top 200. The long-promised expanded reissue of 'Purple Rain' appeared in June of 2017, featuring a disc's worth of previously unreleased music from Prince's vaults. 'Anthology: 1995-2010', a double-disc compilation of highlights from Prince's latter-day recordings, appeared in August 2018 in conjunction with the digital re-release of his post-Warner catalog; it was part of a deal with Sony Legacy, which also masterminded physical reissues of these latter-day records in the subsequent years.
The archival 'Piano & A Microphone 1983' appeared in September 2018; it debuted at 11 in the U.S. and 12 in the U.K. The next major reissue was 'Originals', a collection of Prince's original versions of 15 songs he gave to other artists. Featuring his versions of "Manic Monday," "Nothing Compares 2 You," "Jungle Love," and "The Glamorous Life," 'Originals' arrived in June of 2019; it debuted at 15 in the U.S. and 21 in the U.K. A deluxe edition of '1999' -containing two discs of unreleased material from Prince's vault, a live show from 1982, and a disc of single variations- appeared later that November. In May 2020, Sony reissued all of the 2002 albums released under the "One Nite Alone" moniker as the box 'Up All Nite with Prince: The One Nite Alone Collection'. This set was overshadowed by the September release of a Super Deluxe edition of 'Sign 'o' the Times', which expanded the original double album with a wealth of unreleased studio recordings and live material.
'Welcome 2 America', the first completed, unreleased album culled from Prince's vaults, appeared in July 2021. The album was recorded in March 2010 prior to his Welcome 2 America Tour and featured bassist Tal Wilkenfeld and drummer Chris Coleman. It debuted at number four upon its release. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC]
Ciudad Jardin was a Spanish pop band from Madrid, founded by Rodrigo De Lorenzo and Eugenio Haro Ibars (Alberto Haro's brother) in 1982. Rodrigo was guitarist from Ella y los Neumáticos and Eugenio played also guitar in Glutamato Ye-Ye.
They recorded an LP for Producciones Goldstein but when their distributor, Pancoca, went bankrupt the album got lost (it was finally edited in 1999 by Subterfuge Records). Finally they signed to Fonomusic and released their first LP 'Falso' (1985).
They got some success with "Emmanuelle Negra en el Valle de los Zombies", from their first album 'Falso', and with "Su Casa Es Suya", from the Mini-LP 'Dame Calidad' (1986). Line-up: Rodrigo de Lorenzo (guitar, vocals), Eugenio Haro (guitar, bass), Julián Hidalgo (drums). In 1987 Francisco Musulén (keyboards) and Luis Elices (guitar) joined the band.
Buenas Vibraciones was a strange and multitudinous band from Madrid formed by people like Patacho, Iñaki and Ramón Recio from Glutamato Ye-Ye; Poch (Derribos Arias), Pepe Aura, Fernando Caballero, Luís Jovellar (Sindicato Malone) or Ulises Montero. Together they recorded 'Paris Le Trip' (1983), their first album, psychedelic, crazed and self-defined as “zarzuela rock”. Corrosive and dilettantes, most of its members belonged to the "Hornadas Irritantes", and their humor is seen as something incomprehensible and unconnected.
Later in 1990, 'Volumen II', with the incorporation of José María Granados, the band gains in imaginative songs, lucid and humor, less dispersed and more skillful. In this recording they also count with Angel Altolaguirre, Pepa Ripoll and Tony Luz, and they reach their best moment, without forgetting the experimentation and the madness, they decide to make “songs”, mostly interpreted by José María Granados and infected with his heterodox sense of pop. As a promotional single for the album they choose 'En el Salón/Intenta Recordar'.
Both 'Volumen II' and 'Paris Le Trip', were recovered on a compact disc released in 1999 by Subterfuge, from their series "Canciones Desde La Tumba".
Buenas Vibraciones songs appear in several compilations; "No Tienes Ni Idea' in 'El Chico Más Pálido de la Playa de Gros' (Gasa, 1991), "A Reloj Parado" in 'Indisciplina. La Fábrica Magnética Collection 1988-92' (La Fábrica Magnética, 1992), "Colegas del Universo" in 'Corazón Loco. 40 Joyas Inencontrables del Pop Español' (Lollipop, 1996), "El Secuestro" in 'Grabaciones Encontradas 2' (Locomotive Records, 1997), "Colegas del Universo' and "Surfin Bowl" in 'Producciones Goldstein' (Subterfuge Records, 1997) or "Intenta Recordar" and "Esto Nunca Fue Mejor' in 'Hornadas Irritantes' (Lemuria Music, 2011). [SOURCE: GRUPOS NACIONALES NUEVA OLA 80]
