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106 relations: A Flock of Seagulls, ABC (band), Actor, Adam and the Ants, Androgyny, Annie Lennox, Art rock, Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie song), Billy Currie, Birmingham, Blitz Kids, Bow Wow Wow, Boy George, Brian Eno, Cabaret, Charles Edward Stuart, Classix Nouveaux, Cloakroom, Constructivism (art), Covent Garden, Culture Club, David Ball (musician), David Bowie, David Sylvian, Dean Street, Disc jockey, Disco, Do They Know It's Christmas?, Duran Duran, Electronic music, Eye liner, Fashion, Fop, Gargoyle Club, Gary Numan, Gender bender, Glam rock, Great Queen Street, Heartland rock, Hurst Street, I-D, Incroyables and Merveilleuses, Indie rock, Japan (band), Jim Fouratt, Kahn & Bell, Kraftwerk, Krautrock, Leigh Bowery, Lipstick, ..., List of New Romantics, Live Aid, London, Lovers rock, Malcolm McLaren, Marc Bolan, Marilyn (singer), Martin Degville, Melody Maker, Mick Jagger, Midge Ure, Motown, MTV, Mullet (haircut), New Pop, New Right, New wave music, Newsweek, Orlando (band), Peter York, Philadelphia soul, Pierrot, Poet shirt, Pop music, Progressive rock, Puritans, Quiff, Rhythm section, Rock music, Rolling Stone, Romanticism, Romo, Roots rock, Roxy Music, Rusty Egan, Sade (singer), Second British Invasion, Soft Cell, Spandau Ballet, Steve Strange, Synth-pop, Synthesizer, Thatcherism, The Face (magazine), The Smiths, The Sunday Times, The War Song, The Wild Boys (song), Tubeway Army, Two-tone (music genre), UK Singles Chart, Ultravox, United Kingdom, Visage (band), Vivienne Westwood, Yellow Magic Orchestra. Expand index (56 more) »
A Flock of Seagulls
A Flock of Seagulls are an English new wave and synth-pop band originally formed in 1980 in Liverpool by Michael "Mike" Score (keyboards, vocals) and his brother Alister "Ali" James Score (drums), with their most famous line-up consisting of the Score brothers along with Francis Lee "Frank" Maudsley (bass) and Paul Reynolds (guitar).
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ABC (band)
ABC are an English pop band that formed in Sheffield in 1980.
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Actor
An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.
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Adam and the Ants
Adam and the Ants were an English rock band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Androgyny
Androgyny is the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics.
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Annie Lennox
Ann "Annie" Lennox, OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer, songwriter, political activist and philanthropist.
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Art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.
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Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie song)
"Ashes to Ashes" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie.
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Billy Currie
William Lee "Billy" Currie (born 1 April 1950, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England) is an English violist, violinist, pianist, keyboardist, and songwriter.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Blitz Kids
The Blitz Kids were a group of young people who frequented the weekly Blitz club-night in Covent Garden, London in 1979-80, and are credited with launching the New Romantic subcultural movement.
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Bow Wow Wow
Bow Wow Wow are an English new wave band, created by manager Malcolm McLaren in 1980.
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Boy George
Boy George (born George Alan O'Dowd; 14 June 1961) is an English singer, songwriter, DJ and fashion designer.
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Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI (born Brian Peter George Eno; 15 May 1948) is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist.
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Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.
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Charles Edward Stuart
Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart (31 December 1720 – 31 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart, grandson of James II and VII and after 1766 the Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain.
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Classix Nouveaux
Classix Nouveaux is an English new wave band.
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Cloakroom
A cloakroom, or sometimes coatroom, is a room for people to hang their cloaks or other outerwear when they enter a building.
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Constructivism (art)
Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1913 by Vladimir Tatlin.
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Covent Garden
Covent Garden is a district in Greater London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between Charing Cross Road and Drury Lane.
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Culture Club
Culture Club are an English new wave band that formed in London in 1981.
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David Ball (musician)
David James Ball (born 3 May 1959) is an English producer and electronic musician, who has played in bands such as Soft Cell and The Grid, and collaborated with other producers including Ingo Vauk and Chris Braide.
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David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.
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David Sylvian
David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, 23 February 1958) is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan.
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Dean Street
Dean Street is a street in Soho, central London, running from Oxford Street south to Shaftesbury Avenue.
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Disc jockey
A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.
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Disco
Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.
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Do They Know It's Christmas?
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in reaction to television reports of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia.
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Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978.
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Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.
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Eye liner
Eye liner or eyeliner is a cosmetic used to define the eyes.
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Fashion
Fashion is a popular style, especially in clothing, footwear, lifestyle products, accessories, makeup, hairstyle and body.
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Fop
Fop became a pejorative term for a foolish man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England.
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Gargoyle Club
The Gargoyle was a private members' club (dodging alcohol laws that pubs had to observe) on the upper floors of 69 Dean Street, Soho, London (at the corner with Meard Street), founded on 16 January 1925 by the aristocratic socialite David Tennant, son of the Scottish 1st Baron Glenconner.
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Gary Numan
Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer.
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Gender bender
A gender bender (LGBT slang: one who genderfucks) is a person who disrupts, or "bends", expected gender roles.
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Glam rock
Glam rock is a style of rock that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter.
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Great Queen Street
Great Queen Street is a street in the West End of central London in England.
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Heartland rock
Heartland rock is a genre of rock music that is exemplified by singer-songwriters Tom Petty, Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp.
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Hurst Street
Hurst Street is the main street of the Birmingham Gay Village and is located along the edge of the Chinese Quarter of Birmingham, England.
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I-D
i-D is a British bimonthly magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture.
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Incroyables and Merveilleuses
The Incroyables ("incredibles") and their female counterparts, the Merveilleuses ("marvelous women", roughly equivalent to "fabulous divas"), were members of a fashionable aristocratic subculture in Paris during the French Directory (1795–1799).
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Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.
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Japan (band)
Japan were an English band formed in 1974 in Catford, South London by David Sylvian (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Steve Jansen (drums), Richard Barbieri (keyboards) and Mick Karn (bass guitar).
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Jim Fouratt
Jim Fouratt (23 June 1945?-) is active in the entertainment industry and gay rights.
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Kahn & Bell
Kahn & Bell was a fashion label and boutique founded by Jane Kahn and Patti Bell in Hurst Street, Birmingham, England in 1976.
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Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk ("power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.
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Krautrock
Krautrock (also called " ", cosmic music") is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s.
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Leigh Bowery
Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 – 31 December 1994) was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, and fashion designer.
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Lipstick
Lipstick is a cosmetic product containing pigments, oils, waxes, and emollients that apply color, texture, and protection to the lips.
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List of New Romantics
This is a list of artists and people who were either part of or linked to the New Romantic scene of the late 1970s and early 80s.
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Live Aid
Live Aid was a dual-venue benefit concert held on 13 July 1985, and an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Lovers rock
Lovers rock is a style of reggae music noted for its romantic sound and content.
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Malcolm McLaren
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English impresario, visual artist, performer, musician, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way.
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Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, and poet.
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Marilyn (singer)
Peter Robinson (born Kingston, Jamaica, 3 November 1962), better known as Marilyn, is a British/Jamaican pop singer and songwriter.
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Martin Degville
Martin Degville is (born 27 January 1961Strong, Martin C. (1999) The Great Alternative & Indie Discography, Canongate,, p. 564-5 in Walsall) is the lead singer and co-songwriter of the UK pop band, Sigue Sigue Sputnik – which had a worldwide hit single in 1986 with "Love Missile F1-11" – and six other EMI single releases.
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Melody Maker
Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943), known professionally as Mick Jagger, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor who gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.
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Midge Ure
James "Midge" Ure (born 10 October 1953) is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter and producer.
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Motown
Motown is an American record company.
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MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.
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Mullet (haircut)
The mullet is a hairstyle that is short at the front and sides, and long in the back.
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New Pop
New Pop was a British-centric pop music movement consisting of ambitious, DIY-minded artists who achieved commercial success in the early 1980s through sources such as MTV.
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New Right
New Right is used in several countries as a descriptive term for various policies or groups that are right-wing.
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New wave music
New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.
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Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.
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Orlando (band)
Orlando were an English Romo band of the 1990s.
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Peter York
Peter York (born Peter Wallis; 1944) is a British management consultant, author and broadcaster best known for writing Harpers & Queen's The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook with Ann Barr.
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Philadelphia soul
Philadelphia soul, sometimes called Philly soul, the Philadelphia sound, or TSOP, is a genre of late 1960s–1970s soul music characterized by funk influences and lush instrumental arrangements, often featuring sweeping strings and piercing horns.
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Pierrot
Pierrot is a stock character of pantomime and commedia dell'arte whose origins are in the late seventeenth-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne; the name is a diminutive of Pierre (Peter), via the suffix -ot. His character in contemporary popular culture—in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall—is that of the sad clown, pining for love of Columbine, who usually breaks his heart and leaves him for Harlequin.
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Poet shirt
A poet shirt (also known as a poet blouse or pirate shirt) is a type of shirt made as a loose-fitting blouse with full bishop sleeves, usually decorated with large frills on the front and on the cuffs.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.
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Progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.
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Puritans
The Puritans were English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.
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Quiff
The quiff is a hairstyle that combines the 1950s pompadour hairstyle, the 1950s flattop, and sometimes a mohawk.
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Rhythm section
A rhythm section (also called a backup band) is a group of musicians within a music ensemble or band who provide the underlying rhythm, harmony and pulse of the accompaniment, providing a rhythmic and harmonic reference and "beat" for the rest of the band.
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Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Romo
Romantic Modernism, more commonly known as Romo, was a musical and nightclubbing movement, of glam/style pop lineage, in the UK circa 1995–1997, centred on the twin homes of Camden-based clubnight Club Skinny and its West End clone Arcadia, as well as concerts by the chief associated bands.
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Roots rock
Roots rock is rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues and country music.
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Roxy Music
Roxy Music were an English rock band formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry, who became the band's lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson.
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Rusty Egan
Rusty Egan (born 19 September 1957 in London) is the former drummer for the British new wave band Rich Kids.
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Sade (singer)
Helen Folasade Adu CBE (Fọláṣadé Adú; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade, is a British Nigerian singer and songwriter.
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Second British Invasion
The Second British Invasion refers to music acts from the United Kingdom that became popular in the United States from the middle of 1982 into late 1986, primarily due to the cable music channel MTV.
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Soft Cell
Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s, consisting of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball.
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Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet are an English band formed in Islington, London in 1979.
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Steve Strange
Steven John Harrington (28 May 1959 – 12 February 2015), better known by his stage name Steve Strange, was a Welsh pop singer.
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Synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.
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Thatcherism
Thatcherism describes the conviction, economic, social and political style of the British Conservative Party politician Margaret Thatcher, who was leader of her party from 1975 to 1990.
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The Face (magazine)
The Face was a British music, fashion and culture monthly magazine published from 1980 to 2004 and launched in May 1980 in London by Nick Logan, the British journalist who had previously been editor of New Musical Express and Smash Hits.
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The Smiths
The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.
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The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.
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The War Song
"The War Song" is a 1984 song by the British band Culture Club which features background vocals by Clare Torry.
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The Wild Boys (song)
"The Wild Boys" is the twelfth single by the English new wave band Duran Duran, released on 26 October 1984 in the United Kingdom and on 3 November 1984 in the United States.
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Tubeway Army
Tubeway Army were a London-based new wave and electronic band led by lead singer Gary Numan.
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Two-tone (music genre)
Two-tone (or 2 tone) is a genre of British music that fuses traditional ska with musical elements of punk rock.
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UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.
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Ultravox
Ultravox (earlier stylized as Ultravox!) were a British new wave band, formed in London in 1973 as Tiger Lily.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Visage (band)
Visage were a British synthpop band, formed in London in 1978.
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Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Isabel Westwood (née Swire; born 8 April 1941) is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.
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Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).
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