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As the response to the trivia issue “That which was the very first act ever played on MTV?” Buggles guaranteed their put in place pop music background. Vocalist and bassist Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoff Downes shaped the electro-pop duo in Britain in 1979 after conference two years preceding as …

Known to the entire world as the fresh wave one-hit question M, Robin Scott scored among the 1st commercially effective electro-pop/dance singles with 1979’s worldwide number 1 smash “Pop Muzik.” Scott went to Croydon Art University in the past due ’60s, where his classmates included Malcolm McLaren, and started performing …

Alan Ward had originally been the singer with punk hopefuls Bastard, which also contained in its rates long term Damned guitarist Brian Wayne. After the music group break up Ward assumed the pseudonym of Elton Motello, alternating between Britain and Belgium, where he previously built up organizations touring with Bastard. …

The Soaring Lizards are remembered by most listeners as new wave one-hit wonders because of their deliberately eccentric cover of Barrett Strong’s “Cash,” which became a surprise chart success in 1979. However the Soaring Lizards were actually the brainchild of David Cunningham, a well-respected avant-garde composer, maker, and visual designer, …

Using their satirically based comedy skit on Irish radio station 98FM, the Toll Trolls were popular in 2007 to make fun of other radio personalities and Irish celebrities. The character types M and 50 “live” under a toll bridge around the M50 (therefore their titles), a significant highway around Dublin.