The name of the band was taken from a sci-fi board game called Star Force. One empire was called The Human League. The group was formerly called The Future.
They use build protective cages around themselves...
In 1985 The Go West singer Peter Cox bought his then girlfriend a brand new blue 190E Mercedes Benz for £30,000. It was his biggest splash.
Go West's most famous hit “King of the Wishful Thinking”...
There's only one cover on their debut LP: Elvis Presley's career-reviving hit "Suspicious Minds," first released in 1969. David Steele claimed the legend appeared to him in a dream and told him to record...
There was no Johnny in Johnny Hates Jazz; this English pop group was named for a jazz-hating mutual friend of the three original members, Calvin Hayes, Mike Nocito and frontman Clark Datchler. Ironically...
Male model, songwriter, and musician who gained fame for appearing in a 1985 Launderette television commercial for Levi's Jeans, which was founded by Levi Strauss. The ad was named one of the 100 Greatest...
A friend had to stop Jason choking on his tongue when he collapsed at a Sydney deli in 1995, just months after his Drug-fueled seizure at Kate Moss's 21st birthday party in LA.
Nik Kershaw made millions of pounds from just four of his songs from the 1980s and 90s. Hits which include 'The Riddle', 'Wouldn't it be Good' and 'I Won't Let the Sun go Down on Me'. Also he received...
There hit “Broken wings” was inspired by a book John Lang read called The Broken Wings, written by the Lebanese poet-philosopher Kahlil Gibran. It’s a story of a love that is doomed by...
Her song “like toy soldiers” is about drug addiction and how drugs can control you like children control their toys, in an interview that aired on VH1, Martika said that she wrote this song...
The boy meets girl duo George and Shannon wrote Whitney Houston's hits "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)." They got the idea for this song when they were at a Whitney Houston...