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80s acts that were big in the 90s
A follow up to the 70's big in the 80s thread. The eighties were uncool for most of the nineties but here are some acts which started or had success in the 80s and did well in the 90s.
Madonna
U2
The Stone Roses
The Happy Mondays
Depeche Mode
REM
Nirvana
Celine Dion
Wet Wet Wet
Pet Shop Boys
Erasure
Iron Maiden
New Kids on the Block
Sarah McLachlan
KLF
Bryan Adams
Texas
Pulp
Guns n'roses
Michael Jackson (again)
Kylie Minogue
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Simply Red
I'm sure there are more.
Madonna
U2
The Stone Roses
The Happy Mondays
Depeche Mode
REM
Nirvana
Celine Dion
Wet Wet Wet
Pet Shop Boys
Erasure
Iron Maiden
New Kids on the Block
Sarah McLachlan
KLF
Bryan Adams
Texas
Pulp
Guns n'roses
Michael Jackson (again)
Kylie Minogue
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Simply Red
I'm sure there are more.
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Celine Dion (only known for french music in the 80's but by the 90's, she took on the inernational market by switching to english)
Prince
edit to add
Duran Duran..they had that hit ordinary world in the 90s
A-ha another group that just scraped into the 90s
another edit as hubby shouts Metallica
I'll throw in Metallica as a band who cover what the thread is about.
I beat you to it in the post above as my hubby was yelling Metallica from the kitchen
Wasn't that after she won Eurovision?
She won Eurovision in 1988 and released her first English album in 1990.
Also forgot to add Janet Jackson and Nine Inch Nails.