Bands and musicians

"Everybody have fun tonight / Everybody Wang Chung tonight"Put that in your pointless lyrics book. Exactly what is Wang Chung? A dodgy 80s Miami Vice-lookalike duo best known for the above song in 1986. They recently tried to revive their ...

Warrant were one of the 80's big hair bands. They hit big with 'Heaven', 'Cherry Pie', and 'Down Boys'. I used to just love to sit in the car putting in my tape and doing a little jamming to it! ...

These guys has a single out called Shake Your Head - it was just fab and I would dance away to this if I heard it now. Luckily for us fans, Was (Not Was) are back, after a 15 year ...

One of the few artists to produce multiple humourous songs and still remain successful. Weird Al has parodied dozens of classic songs including "Eat It" (his version of Michael Jackson's "Beat It"), "Like a Surgeon" (his version of Madonna's "Like ...

Westlife were a record breaking Irish boy band that had seven number ones in a row, including the millenium number one "I Have a Dream / Seasons In The Sun". The band was made up of five lads from Dublin: ...

From the outset I should really be clear – I do not intend to write the ridiculous name of Wet Wet Wet every time I mention them, so from now on I shall only write Wet x3 – ok?Continuing on ...

After meeting each other at school in the seventies, George Michael (real name eorgios Kyriacos Panagiotou) and Andrew Ridgeley (real name Andrew Ridgeley) formed a band called Wham! and, still just teenagers, they released their first record “Wham Rap!” in ...

Whigfield's biggest hit was 90s electro-pop 'Saturday Night'. I remember everybody I worked with at the time absolutely loved this track - and would always dance around to it with great enthusiasm on any given night out. Myself? I, er... ...

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Whitesnake was another one of the late 80's "Big Hair" bands. They had some popular songs like "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love".Lead singer David Coverdale's fiancee Tawny Kitaen was in both of the band's videos. ...

Born in 1963 in New Jersey, Houston, Whitney was the daughter of gospel singer Cissy Houston, the cousin of 60s pop diva Dionne Warwick and the goddaughter of Aretha Franklin. So, clearly music was her destiny.She started off singing in ...

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, a multi-Grammy winning artist, a hot shot hollywood actor, the list gones on and on. Will Smith is a definite household name as he has shown that family-friendly, hip-hop makes great sounding pop music.His ...

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Winger was a rock band that became popular in the late 80's with hits like 'Miles Away' and 'Seventeen'. Lead Singer Kip Winger was really good looking and wore an open shirt showing off his chest! ...

After the aftermath of the Beatles, came Wings. A heaven sent 70s 'souper group' led by Paul and Linda McCartney and sidekick Denny Laine, formerly of The Moody Blues. Very poppy and very popular, especially with those not quite old enough ...

The year is 1972 and I'm getting my weekly fix of Top of the Pops - puberty looms like a nemesis with a flick-knife! Before me stands this bearded freak with wild hair, looking like Captain Caveman with badly applied ...

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