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With their first two albums, 1981's Too Fast For Love and 1983's Shout At The Devil, the Los Angeles glam-metal band Motely Crue had become one of the most popular acts in metal circles. Although Shout At The Devil had sold millions of copies and even spawned several videos that received heavy airplay on MTV, radio play was still practically non-existant.

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With their clean-cut look and frothy pop melodies, Haircut 100 became major sensations in the UK when their debut album Pelican West was released in late 1981. The album wouldn't hit the States until the following summer and although they wouldn't create quite the stir they had in England, their lone US Top 40 hit would become one of the more unusual and memorable hits of the early '80s.

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The Southern California band Pablo Cruise epitomized the laid-back, soft pop of the mid- to late-'70s typified by acts like Player, Firefall and Ambrosia. Like those bands, Pablo Cruise included members who had a long list of credits, including former members of the bands Stoneground and It's A Beautiful Day.

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Following nearly fifteen years of major commercial success despite being an enormously popular live draw, the J. Geils Band broke through in a major way with the release of their album Freeze-Frame in late 1981. By tempering their blues and R&B-based sound in a more pop-friendly direction, the group saw the album and lead single "Centerfold" become #1 smashes, as well as subsequent singles "Freeze-Frame" and "Angel In Blue" become US Top 40 hits.

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Producer and composer Jim Steinman first crossed paths with singer Marvin Lee Aday, better known as Meat Loaf, when the latter was in the cast of an off-Broadway musical penned by the former. Several years later, the two formed a creative team as Steinman wrote and produced Meat Loaf's phenomenally successful Bat Out Of Hell debut/ Released in 1978, that album spawned a trio of US Top 40 singles and was one of the best-selling albums of the '70s.

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Born in Heidelberg, West Germany, Jackson Browne moved with his family to Los Angeles as a child and was already playing in folk clubs as a teen. He would briefly become a member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, have his songs recorded by folk legends like Tom Rush and rock acts including The Byrds and Linda Ronstandt.

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Although he hailed from Baltimore, singer/songwriter Greg Kihn found his way to San Francisco in the mid-70s, becoming a part of that city's rich pop music history. Strongly influenced by '60s guitar pop, Kihn became a successful local act during the late '70s with his band, embraced by fans for his straight-forward style of power pop.

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Jersey-born singer/songwriter Benny Mardones holds the rare distinction of being a one-hit wonder who twice had a US Top 40 hit with the same song. Mardones managed to place his song "Into The Night" into the Top 40 nearly a decade apart. Although it would be his only hit song, there are few listeners to radio during the '80s to whom the song is unfamiliar.

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Scottish singer/songwriter Ali Thomson came from a family familiar with music stardom as older brother Doug was the bassist for the band Supertramp. At the height of that band's popularity, following their smash album Breakfast In America, Thomson secured a record deal with A&M Records, Supertramp's label.

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UK bassist Martin Briley spent the first half of the '70s in several band, none of them having more than fringe followings among music fans. By the latter half of the decade, he had established himself as a session player including work with noted rocker Ian Hunter as well as pursuing a solo career with his debut album in 1981.

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Beginning in 1977, singer Amy Grant had become arguably the most popular act in Contemporary Christian music with a string of smash albums, including a pair that topped that genre's album chart. So it was quite a surprise when the singer, whose previous material had been more gospel-oriented, took a pop direction, adding more electric guitar and keyboards, for her 1984 album Straight Ahead.

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Guitarist Billy Squier saw nearly a decade's worth of failed musical endeavors finally pay off with the release of his second solo album, Don't Say No, in 1981. The album went Top Ten and spawned several radio hits including the Top Twenty pop chart single "The Stroke," making him one of the year's breakthrough acts. Squier consolidated his pop-tinged, melodic hard rock success with that album's follow-up, Emotions In Motion.

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With their 1982 debut Shuttered Room, British quintet The Fixx made a name for themselves with new wave fans in the US, benefiting from support for their videos on MTV, with their stylish and slightly headier brand of synth-rock. Although the album wasn't a major commercial success, the group did manage to crack the Hot 100 singles chart with "Stand Or Fall" and always received airplay with the song "Red Skies."

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The band Blondie had emerged from the fertile New York punk scene of the '70s to become one of the most popular acts of the decade's end. With their eclectic style and the comely visual image of lead singe Debbie Harry, their fortunes carried over into the '80s. By the time the group was readying their album The Hunter for its 1982 release, they had already notched three #1 hits, all stylistically different, in the new decade with "Call Me," "The Tide Is High," and "Rapture."

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