Ready an’ Willing was Whitesnake’s third studio album, released on the 31st May 1980 and peaked at #6 on the UK Albums Chart, it was also the band’s first to chart outside of the UK reaching #32 in Norway and #90 in the US. It featured two of the band’s UK single-hits from that year: … Read more
Foolish Behaviour is Rod Stewart’s tenth studio album, released on 21 November 1980 on the Riva label in the United Kingdom (RVLP 11) and on Warner Bros. Records in both The United States (HS 3485) and Germany (WB 56 865). The tracks were recorded at The Record Plant Studios and Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles … Read more
Hi Infidelity is the ninth studio album by REO Speedwagon, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). It went on to become the biggest selling rock LP of 1981, eventually selling over ten million copies. Six songs from this album hit Billboard charts, including “Keep on Loving You” which was the band’s first Number 1 … Read more
The Black Album was the fourth album by the Damned, and the first to feature Paul Gray on bass guitar. It was released in 3 November 1980 on Chiswick as a double album, with “Curtain Call” filling the whole of side 3, and a selection of live tracks recorded at Shepperton Studios for Damned fan … Read more
Seventeen Seconds is the second studio album by English alternative rock band The Cure, recorded at Morgan Studio and released on 22 April 1980 by Fiction Records. Seventeen Seconds established the group’s gothic rock sound that would continue until 1982’s Pornography. It is the only Cure album to feature keyboardist Matthieu Hartley. Inspiration was very … Read more
The Jazz Singer is an album by Neil Diamond from 1980, which served as the soundtrack album to the 1980 remake of the film The Jazz Singer. The soundtrack was released in November 1980 originally on Capitol Records, instead of his then-usual Columbia Records, because the film was produced by EMI Films, owned by the … Read more