List of Second British Invasion artists From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The following is a list of groups and artists associated with the Second British Invasion music phenomenon, that occurred during the early and mid-1980s and was associated with MTV, including new wave music. More information Contents ... Contents Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Close A ABC[1][2][3][4] Adam and the Ants[5] After the Fire[3] The Alarm[5] B Bananarama[5] Belouis Some[6] Big Country[5][7] Bow Wow Wow[3][4] The Buggles C Elvis Costello[5][8] Culture Club[1][2][3][7][9][10] The Cure[11] Cutting Crew D Dead or Alive Def Leppard[5] Depeche Mode[4][5] Dexys Midnight Runners[3] Dire Straits Thomas Dolby[9] Duran Duran[1][2][3][5][7][9] E The English Beat[3] Eurythmics[1][3][5][10] F Fastway[5] A Flock of Seagulls[1][5] The Fixx[3][5] Frankie Goes to Hollywood[8][12] G Eddy Grant[1] H Haircut One Hundred[2] Heaven 17[5] The Human League[1][4][5][7][9] I Billy Idol[3][5] Iron Maiden[5] J Joe Jackson[8] Howard Jones[5][7][8] Joy Division[4] Judas Priest[4] K Kajagoogoo[5] Nik Kershaw L Nick Lowe[5][13] M Madness[1][5] Modern English[3] Alison Moyet N Naked Eyes[5] New Order Gary Numan[5] O Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark[14][15] P John Parr Pet Shop Boys[10] The Police[5][8] The Pretenders[5][8] S Simple Minds Soft Cell[2][4] Spandau Ballet[5][7][4] The Specials[4] Squeeze[5] The Style Council[7] T Talk Talk[8] Tears for Fears[10] Thompson Twins[1][3][4][5][7][9] T'Pau U Ultravox[4][5] V Visage[4] W Wang Chung Wham![1][5][8][9][10] Y Paul Young[1][7] See also Second British Invasion List of British Invasion artists References [1]Reynolds, Simon (2005). Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984. Faber and Faber. pp. 340, 342–3. ISBN 0-571-21570-X. [2]Fletcher, Tony (2013). Perfect Circle: The Story of REM. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-8571-2853-9. By the time Murmur was released, the American chart was aflow with the likes of Soft Cell, Duran Duran, Culture Club, Haircut 100 and ABC: the fabled Second British Invasion. [3]Graff, Gary (28 August 1986). "The Second British Invasion: New wave now an old ripple". Spokane Chronicle. Retrieved 25 August 2014. [4]Puterbaugh, Parke (10 November 1983). "Anglomania: The Second British Invasion". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 8 February 2017. [5]Kaye, Roger (31 October 1984). "Culture Club, Duran Duran, Police lead second invasion". Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved 25 August 2014. [6]"Morales Takes Charge; Vicious Rolls With Loleatta". Billboard. Vol. 106, no. 31. 30 July 1994. p. 27. ISSN 0006-2510. [7]Booth, Cathy (8 June 1984). "The second British invasion: How It Really Happened". The Prescott Courier. United Press International. Retrieved 25 August 2014. [8]Chiu, David (4 July 2013). "A look back at 1983: The year of the second British Invasion". CBS News. Retrieved 8 February 2017. [9]Frith, Simon; Goodwin, Andrew; Grossberg, Lawrence (1993). Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader. London: Routledge. p. 41. ISBN 0-415-09431-3. [10]Sujansky, Joanne; Ferri-Reed, Jan (2009). Keeping The Millennials: Why Companies Are Losing Billions in Turnover to This Generation- and What to Do About It. John Wiley & Sons. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-4704-3851-0. [11]"'The Cure wasn't a band...it was a family,' Cure co-founder on the perils of stardom". [12]Chiu, David (10 July 2015). "Goodbye Is Forever: Duran Duran, Live Aid & the End of the Second British Invasion". Medium. Retrieved 15 January 2017. [13]Dougherty, Steve (26 August 2011). "The Rocker Who Aged Gracefully". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 25 August 2014. [14]Riccio, Richard (23 August 1991). "Sugar Is Sprinkled with Gems". St. Petersburg Times. p. 94 (Audio Files, p. 21). Retrieved 15 July 2022. [15]Charry, Eric (2020). A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B through the Early 1990s. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 159–160. ISBN 978-0819578952. Further reading Denisoff, R. Serge (1997). Tarnished Gold: The Record Industry Revisted (3rd ed.). Transaction Publishers. p. 441. ISBN 0-8873-8068-9. Related Articles