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As how a brick and mortar shop makes its presence in a certain location, your site will also represent you in the web. Just be careful to choose the products. For a brick and mortar shop, prospects may need to stop by to see the products and services they think they need. There are usually not many shops that offer the same products and services in the area.

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1982 was a banner year for synthesizer acts and New Wave bands on the US pop charts. Acts like Human League, Men At Work, and The Go-Gos led the way of newcomers, but one band owed their place in pop culture history, in part, due to the lead singer's unusual hair style. That would be the Liverpool quartet A Flock Of Seagulls and the waterfall coiff of singer Mike Score.

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In 1981, Phil Collins successfully launched a solo career parallel to his role as the lead singer of Genesis. Face Value saw him actually surpass the commercial fortunes of the band with the album reaching the Top Ten and it's first single, the horn-driven "I Missed Again," climbing to #19.

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Born in Argentina and raised in the UK, singer/songwriter Chris DeBurgh had reached superstar status in much of Europe and South America when he released his album The Gataway in May of 1983. However, during a career that had already spanned nearly ten years, he had been ignored in the US and UK. Produced by Rupert Hine (The Fixx, Howard Jones), The Getaway featured a heavier reliance on keyboards and, as keyboard-dominate acts were prospering, it proved to break DeBurgh in both the US and England.

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Few acts in the history of pop music have been as beloved and as reviled as the brother and sister duo of Richard and Karen Carpenter. There was no denying the success of The Carpenters, who initially scored their first major hit in 1970 when they topped the charts with "(They Long To Be) Close To You." During the next six years, the pair would sell millions of albums and place fifteen songs into the US Top 40, including eleven Top Ten hits.

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Jefferson Starship was a band in transition in 1984. Far removed from their glories as Jefferson Airplane, one founding member - singer Marty Balin - had already left the fold and guitarist Paul Kantner would soon do the same. The group's album sales had been declining for half a decade and they were still more than a year from their successful reinvention as the more pop-oriented Starship.

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With the acclaim she won at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1972, keyboardist/singer Patrice Rushen became an in-demand session player for much of the '70s, performing with jazz stalwarts like Jean-Luc Ponty, Lee Ritenour, and Stanley Turrentine. She also released several albums of her own which featured Rushen's brand of jazz, R&B, and funk.

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Shortly after the dawn of the '80s, it appeared that the best days for the band Kansas were behind the group. After becoming favorites on rock radio during the '70s for their distinctive style of progressive rock and notching hits with songs like "Carry On My Wayward Son," "Point Of Know Return," and "Dust In The Wind," the band was splintering.

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Hard-rock guitarist Billy Squier seemed to be an overnight success story with his 1981 breakthrough album Don't Say No, but he had actually spent nearly a decade struggling as a musician. He had been a member of the Boston-based band Piper during the mid-'70s, who had released a pair of albums on Capitol Records to relatively little interest. When Piper broke up, Squier opted for a solo career, issuing Tale Of The Tape in 1980 with minimal success.

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Boston's J. Geils Band already had a lengthy resume to their credits by the time the calender turned on the '80s. Their potent mix of blues-based rock and R&B had made the band a popular live draw throughtout the '70s, but ten albums since their formation in 1967 had produced only a handful of US Top 40 hits, none of them reaching the Top Ten.

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Icicle Works was one of a number of bands to emerge from Liverpool during the early '80s and find success. Led by singer/guitarist Ian McNabb, they would continue releasing albums into the '90s, there one and only hit in the States would come with the song "Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly)" in 1984.

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Australia's Little River Band could lay claim to being one of that country's most successful exports on the American charts in the late '70s and early '80s. From their Top 40 debut with "It's A Long Way There" in 1976, they group had matched that success with ten more singles by early 1983. However, coming off their biggest studio album, 1981's Time Exposure, and a gold-selling Greatest Hits collection from the following year, Little River Band lost their original lead singer, Glenn Shorrock, to a solo career.

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British singer Alison Moyet began her career in the duo Yazoo, which was eventually shortened to Yaz, with Vince Clarke. Clarke would have ties to two prominent '80s acts as he was previously a member of Depeche Mode and, after Yaz disbanded, he went on to Erasure. Although Yaz was highly successful in the UK, they remained a cult act in the US but one more fondly remembered than many of their contemporaries.

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Like most of their glam-rock contemporaries, the quartet Slade racked up numerous hits in their UK homeland while barely making a dent with listeners in the States. Despite topping the British singles charts with five songs during the '70s, they were only able to notch a handful of minor hits in the US - none of which cracked the Top 40 - during the early half of the decade.

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Featuring the three Farriss brothers and led by lead singer Michael Hutchence, Australian export INXS became one of the most popular acts in the US (and the world) in the late '80s. For all of their success during that period - which included more than half a dozen Top Ten hits - INXS had a difficult time breaking onto American radio.

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