List of Second British Invasion artists

The following is a list of groups and artists associated with the Second British Invasion music phenomenon, that occurred during the early and mid-1980s and was associated with MTV, including new wave music.

Contents
Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• ABC ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Adam and the Ants ^[5]
• After the Fire ^[3]
• The Alarm ^[5]

B

• Bananarama ^[5]
• Belouis Some ^[6]
• Big Country ^{[5] [7]}
• Bow Wow Wow ^{[3] [4]}
• The Buggles

C

• Elvis Costello ^{[5] [8]}
• Culture Club ^{[1] [2] [3] [7] [9] [10]}
• The Cure ^[11]
• Cutting Crew

D

• Dead or Alive
• Def Leppard ^[5]
• Depeche Mode ^{[4] [5]}
• Dexys Midnight Runners ^[3]
• Dire Straits
• Thomas Dolby ^[9]
• Duran Duran ^{[1] [2] [3] [5] [7] [9]}

E

• The English Beat ^[3]
• Eurythmics ^{[1] [3] [5] [10]}

F

• Fastway ^[5]
• A Flock of Seagulls ^{[1] [5]}
• The Fixx ^{[3] [5]}
• Frankie Goes to Hollywood ^{[8] [12]}

G

• Eddy Grant ^[1]

H

• Haircut One Hundred ^[2]
• Heaven 17 ^[5]
• The Human League ^{[1] [4] [5] [7] [9]}

I

• Billy Idol ^{[3] [5]}
• Iron Maiden ^[5]

J

• Joe Jackson ^[8]
• Howard Jones ^{[5] [7] [8]}
• Joy Division ^[4]
• Judas Priest ^[4]

K

• Kajagoogoo ^[5]
• Nik Kershaw

L

• Nick Lowe ^{[5] [13]}

M

• Madness ^{[1] [5]}
• Modern English ^[3]
• Alison Moyet

N

• Naked Eyes ^[5]
• New Order
• Gary Numan ^[5]

O

• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark ^{[14] [15]}

P

• John Parr
• Pet Shop Boys ^[10]
• The Police ^{[5] [8]}
• The Pretenders ^{[5] [8]}

S

• Simple Minds
• Soft Cell ^{[2] [4]}
• Spandau Ballet ^{[5] [7] [4]}
• The Specials ^[4]
• Squeeze ^[5]
• The Style Council ^[7]

T

• Talk Talk ^[8]
• Tears for Fears ^[10]
• Thompson Twins ^{[1] [3] [4] [5] [7] [9]}

U

• Ultravox ^{[4] [5]}

V

• Visage ^[4]

W

• Wang Chung
• Wham! ^{[1] [5] [8] [9] [10]}

Y

• Paul Young ^{[1] [7]}

See also

• Second British Invasion
• List of British Invasion artists

References

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2. Fletcher, Tony (2013). Perfect Circle: The Story of REM. Omnibus Press. ISBN   978-0-8571-2853-9. By the time Murmur was released, the American chart was aflow with the likes of Soft Cell, Duran Duran, Culture Club, Haircut 100 and ABC: the fabled Second British Invasion.
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5. Kaye, Roger (31 October 1984). "Culture Club, Duran Duran, Police lead second invasion". Pittsburgh Press . Retrieved 25 August 2014.
6. "Morales Takes Charge; Vicious Rolls With Loleatta". Billboard . Vol. 106, no. 31. 30 July 1994. p. 27. ISSN   0006-2510.
7. Booth, Cathy (8 June 1984). "The second British invasion: How It Really Happened". The Prescott Courier . United Press International . Retrieved 25 August 2014.
8. Chiu, David (4 July 2013). "A look back at 1983: The year of the second British Invasion". CBS News . Retrieved 8 February 2017.
9. Frith, Simon; Goodwin, Andrew; Grossberg, Lawrence (1993). Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader. London: Routledge. p. 41. ISBN   0-415-09431-3.
10. Sujansky, Joanne; Ferri-Reed, Jan (2009). Keeping The Millennials: Why Companies Are Losing Billions in Turnover to This Generation- and What to Do About It . John Wiley & Sons. p.  66. ISBN   978-0-4704-3851-0.
11. "'The Cure wasn't a band...it was a family,' Cure co-founder on the perils of stardom".
12. Chiu, David (10 July 2015). "Goodbye Is Forever: Duran Duran, Live Aid & the End of the Second British Invasion". Medium . Retrieved 15 January 2017.
13. Dougherty, Steve (26 August 2011). "The Rocker Who Aged Gracefully". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 25 August 2014.
14. Riccio, Richard (23 August 1991). "Sugar Is Sprinkled with Gems". St. Petersburg Times . p. 94 (Audio Files, p. 21). Retrieved 15 July 2022.
15. Charry, Eric (2020). A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B through the Early 1990s. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 159–160. ISBN   978-0819578952.

Further reading

• Denisoff, R. Serge (1997). Tarnished Gold: The Record Industry Revisted (3rd ed.). Transaction Publishers. p. 441. ISBN   0-8873-8068-9.