Bill Wyman's supergroup...Willie and the Poor boys...Charlie Watts. Andy Fairwhether-Low, Kenny Jones, etc
Brwosing through this thread I'm reminded why as someone who grew up during the eighties I instantly became a fan of the music of the sixties and the seventies and never really connected with the stuff that was on vogue when I was a teenager.. Nonetheless, there are some gems to be found. Especially, in countries like Spain or Argentina that after long years of suffering from (military) regimes regained democracy in the eighties and as a consecuence experienced a cultural explosion. There is a strange dark urgency something hidden in those songs that I trace back to the experience that freedom of art is not a God given fact, but has to be won. Here is an example from Spain
Argentina (of course this song is not really forgotten in Argentina, It was one of Charly's biggest hits, but outside of South America nobody really knows Charly anyway. So, here we go)
General Public "Tenderness" - a minor 1984 hit around the world from the members of The Beat Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger.
Speaking of.... Back when my wife and I were working at a DC record store, we played Ranking Rogers solo album a lot!
"Long White Car" - a number 55 UK 1986 hit by the great Glasgow band "Hipsway". The guitarist Johnny McElhone was also in Altered Images and Texas, The eponymous album is brilliant as well
From Australia "Change in mood" reached number 10 in the Australian charts in 1983, Nice synth action....
Modern English - "Hands across the Sea", a number 91 US "hit" in 1984. I think this is a better song than their more well known single "I Melt with You":
Yes! Co-written by Kiss-108's Lisa Lipps! (Boston) Peaked at #33 in October of 1981. "Amy Vining likes to blab, Richard Simmons helps fight flab!" Indeed, you have General Hospital to thank for unleashing Richard Simmons on an unsuspecting (and unprepared) world! At the time, this was why I thought that rap was but a fad, soon to pass, so easily it slipped into self parody. I wwas proven wrong the following summer, when "The Message" was released, forever changing the game. Here is that gem, certainly not forgotten!
"Faded away" probably isn't the best choice of words, but not touring for the latter part of their career and then more or less breaking up certainly hasn't kept them in the public eye. Love them to death, but Andy's idiosyncratic nature prevented them from being bigger than they were, and I would imagine from being remembered by anyone outside the greying fanbase.
