Home 80’s pop

Riffs, Rants and Rumors: Boxing The English Beat With Dave Wakeling

posted: June 20, 2012

The late ˜70s and early ˜80s were a boom time for bands blending New Wave’s urgency and energy with the Jamaican rhythms of ska and reggae. The biggest-selling exponents of that musical merger were The…
read more…

Sound And Vision: Reunited Bands Try To Make Lightning Strike Twice

posted: May 6, 2011

For the love of money. According to Sting, when I interviewed him in 1996, there’s no other reason to bring a band back from the dead. Yet one must assume that Sting”who’s had a gold…
read more…