Originally Posted by
Doghouse Riley:
“Trawling through some old YouTube videos I came across this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IasCZL072fQ
As one contributor on the attached comments page said; "and some think Lady Gaga was original."
It's been available for six years, but it surprised me that it had nearly 2M hits. So they must have been popular, but I don't remember them.”
Missing Persons! I thought they were great. I was living in Los Angeles around this time and they were pretty big there, their music was always on the radio and they were all over MTV. I had their album 'Spring Sessions M' which had 3 great tracks on it:- 'Words', 'Walking in LA' and 'Destination Unknown'. I think they kind of faded into obscurity a bit after that though. Although years later their guitar player Warren Cuccurullo re-emerged as Andy Taylor's replacement in Duran Duran. I don't think he's still with them these days though.
Another group who were big over there around the same period but are pretty much considered 'one hit wonder's' here were Berlin. (All this was about three years before 'Take My Breath Away'). They had a brilliant album around 1983 called Pleasure Victim. Best track, probably 'Sex....(I'm A...)',
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpYNwFGaMik 'Masquerade'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azr2ooLlfzQ was good too. Oh, and 'The Metro' also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgERvAcay7g
They were considered very 'new wave' and were popular too. I saw them live at the Greek Theatre in LA, (quite a big outdoor venue, around 5,000 capacity), in summer 1984.
Another group who were considered 'new wave' and were always on MTV (with 'Saved By Zero', 'Red Skies', One Thing Leads to Another', etc) were The Fixx. Who are all English I think, but to my knowledge they never had a hit single here.