Perfect Crime (We All Hurt Inside)

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Lonely Boy

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This Is Love

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King Chicago (New Vers.)

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Will You Be There?

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Another Man

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Rainy Day In London

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Screams And Whispers

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Too Young

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Voices

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Under The White Bible Law (Long Vers.)

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Telephone Mama (Extd.)

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The Only Answer

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Les Yeux De Laura

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Jenny

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Sweet German Girl

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Kennen Sie Köln?

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Stairway To Heaven

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Let It All Out!

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Spacer

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Boys And Girls

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The Right Time

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Flaming Sword

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Time Is Mine

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Weird self made video with Maruschka Detmers I suppose.

Smallville

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Close Cover

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Additional information on 22.03.2013: The music project Minimalistix released a good trance version of this track and had a small hit in the UK at #12.

Talk To Me (I Can Hear You Now)

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One Black Friday

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Mockers were Andrew Fagan (vocals), Geoff Hayden (bass, vocals), Brett Adams (guitar, vocals) & Tim Wedde (keyboards).

Discography:

Good Old Days / Murder In Manners St. (Single, Aug. 1980)

Trendy Lefties (EP, July 1981)

Woke Up Today (Single, June 1982)

Cleopatra / After The Rain (Single, July 1983)

Alvison Park (Single, Sept. 1983)

Swear It's True (Single, March 1984)

Swear It's True (LP, April 1984)

Caught In The Act (Live) (LP, June 1984)

Good Old Days (Single, July 1984)

Forever Tuesday Morning (Single, Nov. 1984)

One Black Friday (Single, July 1985)

Culprit And The King (LP, Sept. 1985)

Seven Years Not Wasted (Single, Sept. 1985)

Another Boring Day In The Amazon (Single, Dec. 1985)

A Winter's Tale (Single, May 1986)

The First Five Years (Compilation) (LP, Aug. 1986)

Far From The Madding Crowd (Single, Feb. 1987)

Emperor's New Clothes (LP, March 1987?)

"New Zealand's Mockers are masters of the craft of producing concise, distintive Antipodean pop music.
Since their inception as skinny-legged schoolboys some six years ago, Mockers had produced a collection of songs instantly recognizable by a melodic freshness and clarity of lyrical vision.
1981-1984 saw the band release a string of now collectors-item singles, and in May of 1984 their debut album "Swear It's True" entered the national charts at #10, peaked at#4 and went Gold in just 31 days. It has now achieved Platinum status.
This was followed by two television specials and a live album "Caught In The Act" which also went Gold, with the single "Forever Tuesday Morning" reaching #2 on the national charts.
In 1985 the Australian recorded album "Culprit And The King" was released in New Zealand. Once again the album went Gold, and the singles "One Black Friday", "Seven Years Not Wasted" and "Another Boring Day In The Amazon" all achieved chart success.
Also in 1985 the eccentric and decidedly flamboyant Fagan won the prestigious Top Male Vocalist Of The Year Award in the annual New Zealand Music Awards.
Behind the scences 1986 was an important year for the band both collectively and individually as they wrote and arranged numerous songs and explored other creative outlets.
Wedde and Adams were in demand for both studio and live work, while Fagan landed the cameo role of Samuel in the nationwide theatre production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pirates Of Penzance" working alongside such international talents as Hermans Hermit's Peter Noone.
The multi-talented Fagan also wrote a new collection of poetry titled "Salt Rhythms" and sailed his lime-green six metre yacht "Swirly World" across 1.400 miles of open ocean on a solo voyage.
In August 1986 the retrospective album "Mockers - The First Five Years" was released - a mixed collection of their most successful and most obscure songs.
September 1986 is to be recalled only in sadness by the tragic death of their long-standing drummer Steve Thorpe.
At the end of 1986 Mockers returned to the studio to record their third album at Auckland's Mandrill Studios with Producer Peter Dawkins (Dragon, Misex, Sharon O'Neill & Australian Crawl). The first single "Far From The Madding Crowd" is due for release in February 1987, with the album, titled "Emperor's New Clothes", due for release shortly afterwards.
Throughout the past six years Mockers have defined and set the standard for music that can best be described as intelligent, original pop music of the Pacific.
MOCKERS ... FROM THE PACIFIC ... INTERNATIONALLY BOUND."
(RCA promo sheet from the beginning of 1987; no author was mentioned)

Last but not least the band changed its name to "After The Rain" (this additional information was provided by Paul - Ex-pat Kiwi living in Australia)

Ich Bin Verrückt Nach Dir

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The band were Kornelia Scholz (vocals), Richard Herberger ( keyboards, vocals), Robert Foster (certainly not Forster of The Go-Betweens) (guitar), Jochen Bien (bass) and Matthias Kutschke (drums). Jawoll formed 1981 in Kassel and had some NDW (New German Wave) hits here in Germany: "Taxi" (#14, 1982), "Rendezvous" (#49, 1983) and the song I choose (#33 airplay charts, 1984 and #2 in "ZDF-Hitparade"). The single is yet another JCP-single (#7 in the "Song of the Week"-section). The band split in 1986, Robert Foster went to Canada and performed with Jann Arden and Kornelia Scholz died unfortunately in the late 80s.
You can find more information (but only in German language) on the NDW-site "Ich Will Spaß"

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Kelvyn Hallifax was born on 22.06.1952 in Croydon, Surrey/England. His hobbies are fashion and art. He started his musical career with the groups "Window" (London) and "Electrafive" (New York). For his first solo album "Days Of Europa" he had written nearly all words and music by himself and played guitars and keyboards. On the drums you can hear Curt Cress (Alphaville, Al Corley, Richard Sanderson, Cosa Rosa & Daniel John Ohm). The pictures shows the promo video for "White Boy In Europe" (recorded for the TV-show "Musikladen Eurotops"). Two later members of The Jeremy Days joined the video shoot: Jörn-Christof Heilbut (left side) & Stefan Rager (right side).

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"Back to the acoustic adventure!" was the motto of Panama Cut. Band members were Connie Göckel (Ex-Prima Klima) and U.W.A. Heyder (Ex-1. Futorologischer Congress). This debut single was produced by Hans Behrendt (Ex-Ideal). They released at least one other single in 1985: "More, More, More". If you like Vitamin Z I'm sure you'll like these guys as well.

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In Tua Nua were a seven-piece Dublin based group, who used traditional instruments such as uilleann pipes and fiddle on their contemporary rock songs. "All I Wanted" was their only hit single (reached #69 in the UK-Charts). Other releases by In Tua Nua: "Seven Into The Sea" (1986), "Don't Fear Me Now (Kiss You Once More)" (1988), "Wheel Of Evil" (1988) (all singles) and "Vaudeville" (1987) & "The Long Acre" (1988) (both LPs).

This songs for the October-riddle-winner Dennis.

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Here's the b-side for Cory. The picture is taken from the legendary DEBÜT-series (DEBUT for the UK-market): DEBÜT #8. For any further informations see the a-side. 

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After a long time, now the sixth JCP-Single: A homage to the brilliant movie "Casablanca" (starring Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman). You can hear the propellers roaring, play it again Sam: "As Time Goes By" and some parts of the German synchronisation of the movie. The band sounded a little bit like Cosa Rosa or Ulla Meinecke. Daago only (?) released yet another single in 1985: "Traumspiele".  

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Markus Fräger, ex-leader of The Ace Cats, made in 1990 (okay, it's not a real 80ies song) his first and only solo longplayer: "Hooked On Love" (#4 in my LP-Charts). Singles from this LP were "So Bizarre" (1990; only #24 in my Single-Charts) "Hooked On Love" (1990) and "Dis-Connected" (1991). In 1992 a final single called "Sorrow's Just A State Of Mind" was released. 

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Gazebo is Paul Mazzolini, a son of an Italian diplomat and an American female singer, who had three hits nearly all over Europe: "Masterpiece" (1982), "I Like Chopin" (1983) and "Lunatic" (1983); all from his self titled debut album. In the following years he couldn't succeed anymore. His albums, f.e. "Telephone Mama" (1984), "Univision" (1986) and "The Rainbow Tales" (1989), all failed. I chose one track of these albums which in fact are as good as his hits. "Pain" is also a must for all "Star Trek"-Fans of the first "Enterprise". Download the track and you will know what I mean.  

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Two Of Us were James Herter and Thomas Dörr from Reutlingen. They met in the early 80ies while recording Hubert Kah tracks. They first formed the NDW (new German wave) band Kiz and have a #3 hit in early 1983 with "Die Sennerin Vom Königssee". From 1985 till 1988 they released songs - based on the English language - for the international market: "Blue Night Shadow" (06/1985, #6*), "Two Of Us" (11/1985, #15*), "Generation Swing" (02/1986, #18*), "Love Is So Sensible" (11/1986, #23*), "Break It Out", (06/1987, #17*), "My Inner Voices" (05/1988, #20*). "Blue Night Shadow" was also a top 10 hit in Germany.

* highest position in my Single-Charts

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State Of The Art, mainly the brothers Stephan & Georg Koch, were from Germany. They released three brilliant singles: "Love Remains A Rebel" (05/1987; #10*), "Love Will Keep Us Together" (05/1988; #25*) and "Shout And Run" (01/1989; #20*). But no LP. What a shame! - Does someone have further facts?

* highest position in my Single-Charts

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Additional information 20.08.2013: The band later called themself 2nd Secret Affair and re-recorded this song as an album track.

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(Withdrawn for legal reasons)

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Don't know much about this French duo (Jacques Le Honsec & Marie-Anna Kliska). They released at least one other Single: "Les Yeux De Laura" (1986). It sound a little bit like a French hommage to Visage ("Fade To Grey"). The back side of the single contains the lyrics. So here's the refrain:

"Omaha Beach Un Soir D'Été

Omaha Beach Ils Sont Arrivés

Omaha Beach Au Jour Dit Day"

Finally this single went to #3 in my Single-Charts.

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