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Act Members Notable 1980’s Songs Notable Facts
Guns n’ Roses* Axl Rose, Saul “Slash”
Hudson, Izzy Stradlin,
Steven Adler, Duff McKagan
“Paradise City,” “Sweet Child
o’ Mine,” “Welcome to the
Jungle”Guns n’ Roses’ 1993 album
The Spaghetti Incident?consists
of covers of the band’s favorite
punk songs.Hall & Oates “Kiss on My List,”
“Maneater,” “Out of Touch”
By 1984, Daryl Hall and John
Oates had eclipsed the Everly
Brothers as the most
successful duo in rock history.Heart Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson,
Mark Andes, Denny
Carmassi, Howard Leese
“All I Wanna Do Is Make
Love to You,” “Never,”
“These Dreams”Nancy Wilson is married to
the journalist, author, and
filmmaker Cameron Crowe.Don Henley “The Boys of Summer,”
“Dirty Laundry,” “The End
of the Innocence”
Along with fellow members of
the Eagles, Henley was
inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.Bruce Hornsby & the
Range
Bruce Hornsby, David
Mansfield, George Marinelli,
John Molo, Joe Puerta“Mandolin Rain,” “The
Valley Road,” “The Way It Is”During the 1990’s Hornsby
occasionally played keyboards
on tour with the Grateful
Dead.Whitney Houston* “How Will I Know,” “I
Wanna Dance with
Somebody (Who Loves
Me),” “Saving All My Love
for You”
Houston’s 1985 hit “The
Greatest Love of All” was
originally a hit for George
Benson and the theme song
to the Muhammed Ali biopic
The Greatestin 1977.The Human League Philip Oakey, Joanne
Catherall, Suzanne Sulley
“Don’t You Want Me,”
“(Keep Feeling)
Fascination,” “Human”Before breaking through in
the United States, the Human
League had enjoyed a string
of hits, including “Boys and
Girls” and “Love Action,” in
England.Billy Idol “Dancing with Myself,”
“Rebel Yell,” “White
Wedding”
Idol was the lead singer of the
English punk band
Generation X.INXS Michael Hutchence, Garry
Beers, Andy Farris, Jon
Farris, Tim Farris, Rick
Pengilly
“Devil Inside,” “Need You
Tonight,” “New Sensation”The cue-card-tossing sequence
of INXS’s 1987 video “Need
You Tonight/Mediate” was a
take-off on “Subterranean
Homesick Blues,” the opening
sequence ofDon’t Look Back, a
documentary about Bob
Dylan released in 1965.Janet Jackson “Control,” “Miss You Much,”
“Nasty”
Jackson acted in the television
situation comediesGood Times
andDiff’rent Strokesfrom 1977
to 1982.